The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 14, 1929, Page 3

U I T T ORI LTS Trixie Friganz Barney JMMMMWMMMWMWWMMWMMMM PICKETT’ TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY " ALL COMEDY WEEK Delicious, Pleasing, Charming, Chuckling, Comedy Show with Harrison Ford, George K. Arthur, [ T S =1 =1 a, John Miljan, Gilmore LAST TIMES TONIGHT That Sparkling Comedy “BARE KNEES” AND OUR GANG’S LATEST 10—25—40 | ||IIIIIIIIIlllIIllllIIHHIIIIlIIIIIIIIIII_IIIHIIIIIPLIIIlllljlIIlI[IIIIIHIIHIIHIIIIIIIH"' LU e L L R e T T T T Loges 50 cents Attractions At Theatres B S o AT, | “BARE KNEES” GOOD | COMEDY AT PALACE “Bare Knees, dedicated to the a comedy great drama American flapper is the feature mow at the ry foot of comedy action Palace. It opened to good busi-Imust show something that has not ness yesterday afternoon and two|heen done before and it is up to good houses last night. The or-ithe director to invent the. little chestra gaveé a half hour concert last night which was greatly en- joyed by the early comer: “Bare Knees"” the spirit of reckless, modern youth depicted in all of its colors in a sequence of scenes culminating in a climax that astonishes and deligh The flapper snapped her fingers at care until suddenly, without warning, she was brought face to face with the grim realities of life. The flapper is Virginia Lee Cor- bin, ably supported by Johnnie ‘Walker, Forrest Stanley, Jane Winton, Maude Fulton and Don. ald Keith, There is also an comedy that is a seream. B £ | “DRESS PARADE” NOW | | SHOWING AT COLISEUM | e R i The main fight sequen liam Boyd’'s star picture, Parade,” a splendid Pathe-DeMille Special, which was filmed at the U. S. Military Academy .at West Point, under the supervision of Donald Crisp, was photographed on the historical Revolutionary War Site, Fort Putnam. ‘The old Fort was constructed under the guidance of General Putnam, in 1777 and it seems na- tural that this place should be the site. where the various differenc between the Cadets are adjusted by force of arms, The fight was between William Boyd, the star of the picture and Hugh Allan, who is his rival in the suit of both for the hand of the Commandant’s daughter, played by Bessie Love. The cameras were all set and Oirector Crisp gave the word to “shoot.” After a number of feet of film was shot, Mr. Crisp called a halt and pro- ceeded to demonstrate how a real fight should be fought. Mr. Crisp wa3 an amateur boxer for many years and in his prime he knocked down Kid MecCoy in a friendly amateur fight. Under his guid- ance the fight of Boyd and Allan progressed according to Queens. bury rules. Bessie Love plays the feminine is role opposite William Boyd, in “Dress Parade,” which is at the Coliseum for the last time to- night. Others in the cast are Hugh Allan, Louis Natheaux, Clar- ence Geldert and Maurice Ryan. 25 :\‘ MARIE PREVOST AT ] | PALACE TOMORROW | 33 To direct screen comedies is the most serious business in the world. >'serious, unsmiling men.” “Our Gang”|g .| man Raymaker, |B. Mason Hopper, who directea | Marie Prevost, Harrison Ford and | {George K. Arthur in “Almost |Lady,” a Metropolitan picture at| the Palace Tuesday and Wednes-| i ymething serious to say the funny side of the | day, has concerning average comedy director is frightened sick long before he| takes the first sceme of his pic-| ture,” Hopper says, “and the rea- son is that comedies must never employ trite and old situations. side-splitting situations as he goes alor This calls for great mental tivity every minute of the working day, and it is little wonder that {directors of funny pictures are ac- r. Hopper gets plenty of time to laugh, but he hardly lever chuckles on hte set, since jthat would be laughing at his own humor, which isn’t polite or being done any more. “Almost a Lady,” is a picture that concerns two mis- taken identitie In the cast is However, M Barney Gilm who played with John T. Spickett 40 years ago. ;1 “THE GAY OLD BIRD"” IS | COMING TO COLISEUM | Warner Brothers' production of |“The Gay Old Bird,” starring Lou- ise Fazenda and directed by Her- based upon this situation: A rich uncle has never seen the nephew’'s wife and twins, but {promises one hundred thousand |dollars if, on his long-deferred visit, he finds a united and happy family. Now it happens that just before uncle's wire arrived, the wife had gone off to her mother’s in a tantrum, taking the twins ! with her. An officious friend promises to ifind a substitute wife, but discov- ering that none of his girl friends are eager for the job, he is com- pelled to impress Sissy, the house- maid, into service. When uncle and aunt arrive the maid is introduced as the dutiful wife and mother of the twins. The mix-up increases when another and another brace of twins is produced to add to the air of reality. In the midst of the commotion, the real wife comes back. She is forced to act as maid. The Irish chauffeur, who is in love with Sissy, misunderstands her motives and those of the boss and homi- cide seems imminent. Things are in a side-splitting tangle, when— But “The Gay Old Bird” is to be seen. Fazenda has neyer been so {outlandishly funny. It comes to the Coliseum Tues- day and Wednesday. ———-—— BOB TURNER'S £UTO SERVICE I fought the flu for six weeks but am now at your service agaln. Call 257, Stand at Arcade FRED PRICE | PASSES AWAY AT HOME HERE Wellknown Oldtimer Dies! After Short Illness— Once Had Fortune Alaska and Yukon employed for the Alaska | Fred Price, pioneer, a number of years by Road Commission s * general | foreman, passed away at his| home in the Seatter Tract short-; before 8 o'clock this morning| the result of a heart attack| \ J | ch began early last evening.| he body is at the Junean-Young! Mortuary. Funeral arrangements had not been made tcc but | services will be held this week | under the auspices of the Masons of which he was a member. M Price was also a member of the| Pioneg ‘ Mr. Price was born in Wim- oledon, England, and was 61] rs and 8 months old at nm; time of his death. He came to| Alaska in 1895. In 1898 he, made a fortune in mining in the | Daw ct and returned tn] England with his family for al vi Returning to the United!| States he located at Seattle where | he resided for some j . Invest- | ments he made proved d s ve at Nome. Since 1922 he| had been with the Alaska Road Cémmission in the Eagle District, | in the interior, and spent his winters in Juneaw. He had af wide acqus neceship through- out the interior and also in/ Southeastern Alaska. Mr. Price is survived by his and the following daugh-| W. R. Barnett of Ju-| Hazel Garner, of S 2mily Muller, of Hol- 1, and Mrs. Eleanor Sitka attle; lywood, ( Harris, of MRS. GOSS WILL ATTEND SESSION OF BEAUTICIANS Mary SNorris Goss, of Britt’s Pharmacy, cosmetic department, is leaving for Seattle on the Princess tonight to attend the annual | : Co ting of the A. Company to beautic A factory demonstration will be given with all the latest beauty ideas and a post graduate course of two weeks' inteusive training will be held. Mrs. Goss expects | to return to Juneau within two months, fiStatisliciar;sw(?fsingfl Music As - o | | Snoned The old Spanish town “Street of Springtime” is now plain trous | Spring Street, center of Los Angeles’ financial digtrict. ,The second and he returned to Alaska and|tall building on the left is the Los Angeles Stock Exchange. engaged in mining for 10 or 15|shows John Earl Jardine, the President By WELLAND R. GORDON (A. P. Correspondent) ANGELES, Jan. 14 who founded Log one of its streets. the poetic LOS iard gav Span- Angeles name of Calle de La [Primuwe " Toda “Street of s a busy canyon of sky of one of the fz the Springtime, it center ing financial districts in fhie @nited States, but plain Near the heart of 1 reet stands the new Los Augeles Stock Exchange building, housing the SuC or of an institution founded September 887 Exc volume of busir $242,000,000. ks of 1928 the 000,000 Last De the exchange few weeks ago a new m $65,000 and since been bid for the right to trade on the floor. On June 1 the post system of trading was inaugurated Spring mon ember $25,000. A mber paid for and June 4 the Los Angeles Curb Exchange opened, sponsored by the older institution The history of formal financial! trading in Los Angeles since the inauguration of the first stock ex-| While its sorrowing members change a chronicle of ups and|were holding the wake, a succes- s — | sor, fourth in line establish- jed as the Los Angeles Stock and | Bond Exchange. It apparently was i | American Prosperity Gauge i T \fJAGE:‘r (@) T.E e S e AMERICAN WORKINGMAN | . Qi1 "Wihupon bl - Fop,— bastifd o [Tommy Christain, Finds Jazz Index to’ Wealth” \ = 7 New York City—The statisti- /einn and economic expert, hunting for proofs of our nation’s pros- perity, might well turn from list- ing automobile owners to counting the dancing feet of America. This, is the suggestion of Tom- imy Christain, famous orchestra leader, “The popularity of jazz is today the best barometer of the pros- perity and well-being of America,” Christain declares. “Son and daughter, throughout the land, dance to jazz at least five evenings a week, And are mother and father Cafe. BOB TURNER. adv. ., ATTENTIO! For Carpenter Work of any kind—shop or city—Call Handy Andy, Phone 498. B iat home, worrying about who is | going to g[ay the piper, or the {landlord? t it, mother and father are dancing, too! “When a nation as a whole has for recreation, you may be ot so you can notice | Wh, 80, Tan'sa 02y ol fage — slandioghuly sure that its people are not wor- rying about food, clothing and shelter. “Students of economic condi- tions chart prosperity according to the number of automobile own- ers in & community. They logieal- ly reason that where there are many automobiles, there can be little lack of the necessities of life. “Well, Americans now have food, clothing, shelter and auto- § mobiles. The statisticians must use a finer medium for testing this new prosperity—and they can find no truer one than the extent to which we are free to indulge our play spirit. The measuring stick of this new leisure is the number of windows from which you can hear strains like those of the al- most madly popular ‘High Up On a Hill-Top,” which set every foot in the neighborhood to prancing. en a nation’s music is as full of joy as ‘High Up On a Hill- Top,’ one is safe to assume that that nation is one of satisfied pros- perous citizens,” §90,000 has |® TN VS ) | | | | Inset The original Stock and | ge existed about eight | mc in a e then having a | population of 50,000. The blow that i downs. [Bond Exceh ed it came when it lent the emnant of its reserve fund, $1,000, needy member accepting as collateral a bond issued by a civie on The bond proved W the borrower insolvent [and change died. | ' The L Angeles Mining and | Stock Exchange, second membe {of the family of tive whose young- €5t is the present institution, came in May, 1896, with an rmal opening. Its first ding took place in Au- I but less than a month later Exchange passed away, | final act being to sell its effects to political club ; In 1897 | Stock June, the Los Angeles change, un- the gravestones of prede reared its head an initial membership list of It began to weaken with the down of mining activity, in 899 was dissolved. and deterred two Mining by eS801S, witl THE slow Jand much social organization as anything. else,- a. weekly luncheon being “4ts principml activity. 1t died at one of these in June, 1905. The present Los Angeles Stock xchange, an unincorporated as- tion not for profit, came into existence December 7, 18 Angeles Oil Exchange, memberships sold | Los I first $50 | Gradually it absorbed smaller ex- | changes, changing its name to that for }it now b moved its quarters as it grew and today occupies its lown building with complete and modern trading equipment John Earl Jardine president . ABDICATION IS REPORTED PESHAWAR, India, Jan. 14.—1t (1 strongly rumored on the frontier !mat King Amanullah, of Afghani- stan, has abdicated in favor of his| elder brother, Prince Inayatullah, | and has left Kabul, the capital, by airplane for Kandah, TEACHER AT KASAAN DIES IN KETCHIKAN GLAD CAREER ENDS| } Word was received this morning at the office of L. D. Henderson, { Commissioner of Rducation, that Mrs. Millie D. Carr, teacher of the Kasaan Territorial school, died in the Ketchikan General hospital | vesterday of influenza. She had been ill for a very short time in Kasaan and thought herself well on the road to recovery when she |suffered a relapse and was taken |to the General Hospital at Ketchi- kan, The deceased had been employed | in the Territorial schools for a number of years and had taugit af Tenakee, Sanak and Kasaan. Commissioner = Henderson (wired to Miss Faye North Platte, Ne to take Saturday’'s Seattle for - the north Kasaan niay continue school Cypher was formerly en to teach in Sanak but heretofore she has not been able to reach Sanak has ot sting her from that Miss amer ed because of an indefinite boat schedule to that place. et ——— | SPECIAL SERVICES | There wiil be service every |evening this week, except Satur- day, at 7:30 o'clock in the Metho- dist church. A short gospel mes- sage by the Pastor will be given each evening. A cordial welcom:s is extended to the Public. l o Seattle Fur Exchange Will change has. arranged to hold au tion sales every ten day two weeks, ‘in add n to the regular | seheduled providing the HIGH PRICE FOR) FURS RESULTS IN FREQUENT SALES Have Sales Every Ten Days or Two Weeks SEATTLE, Jan, 14—Owing to the keen demand for fine furs and the high prices prevailing, and the good outlook Seattle Fur Ex present levels are maintained. The special frequent sales will start shortly after the. regular monthly auction which is to be held Janu ary 23.. If the demand and prices should weaken, furs will be held for regular monthly auctions Special sales dates will not be scheduled, but the best results tion and usual atte ers is assured 1 to obtain he co-opera- ndance of buy- rar Red fox, cross fox, blue fox and mink are fully 20 per cent. highe than last quotations. All furs are: in excellent demand at very high' prices with muskrats which move. the exception of are still hard to e ALASKA SCHOOL BULLETIN MAKES ITS APPEARANCE The WAlaska School publication issued Alaska Territorial Depariment of Education, L. D. Henderson, Com. | missioner of Education, has ma its first appearance in the New Year. It is published to promote the educational welfare of the children of Alaska and is sent to uperintendents, principals, teach- s, school boards and newspapers Bulletin, a| monthly by the e throughout Alaska The Januar sue contains a wealth of information relative to educational projects and problems; hort treati of interest to all citizens; a splendid picture of Gov. George A. Parks, of Alaska, accompanied by a short history of his Hfe; and a most interesting ar- ticle of high spots in Alaska’s edus cational history, entitled “Educa- tioh Under the Czs which is the first of a series of articles on the history of education in Alaska and which was compiled by L. D, Hendersoy, Commissioner of Edu- cation. AN OPPORTUNITY To reallze Big Profits on Small T ments. Buy oil leases ahead ol ihent.. +Sold -leases -a{|- manth ago for $1.00 an acre, now sellfilg “for $20.00. Same oppor- tuhity .awaits yoy, Act Quickly. Prices range from §1 to $3 an aere. Write me for particulars. J. G. Murback, 500 Waggoner Bldg., Wichita Falls, Texas. SWEDISH STEEL Straight Edge Razor Made in Eskilstuna, by C. V. Heljestrand. Positively gudranteed to be the finest steel or money back. There is no other in* the world like itz#and do not accept a substitute. Come in and see them. HELLAN’S PHARMACY Next to Valentine’s Phone 33 Free Delivery P e S <l B B o o e e Mrs. Elis Lindstrom | Winning Number- All-Electric Complete Radio Set George Bros. PHONES 92 and 95 Oh, Boy! It's Sure Some LEON DukWS presents D o B e ATTENSHUN ARMS! k,o U i Show!! T 7:30 2 SHOWS —=— 9:25 LAST TiMES TONIGHT WILLIAM BOYD with BESST “DRESS P { 5‘; 'AI)TT'” L N Pans L " BOBBY VERNON in “DUMMY LOVE” “Musical Bughouse Fables™ Coming HAROLD LLOYD in “Kid Brother” Moose iall TUESDAY Lindse s Orchesira Scandinavian-American Music Everybody Welcome COME—— B e ——— e Plumbing Supplies Repuir that leaky faucet. We have the necessary parts and the right priees. HARRIS Hardware Cec. Held 5427 Given by 1 OPEN EVENINGS R e