The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 27, 1929, Page 3

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 27, 1929. PICKETT’ PALACE LAST TWO ~ TIMES TONIGHT COLLEEN MOORE in “HER WILD OAT” Orchestra gives concert and plays for both shows COMING e e — BILLIE- Attractions At Theatres | direction of F. Harmon Weight, #| under the supervision of Hector, ' COLLEEN MOORE IN | COMEDY AT PALACE | i Colleen Moore in “Her Wild Oat” now at the Palace, gives one of the most delightful comedy productions she has been seen in and the many scenes and incidentals to the fea- ture are most capably handled by jogether in “American Beauty,” the the orchestra, giving a special score | jatest picture starring Billie Dove, by Maé Pauly. The picture opens on the Bowery in New York, and the “Good Old Summer Time,” the “Sidewalks of New York, “Sweet Rosie O'Grady,” and other old time selections are played. “Her Wild Oat” is all comedy. Colleen Moore is the owner of a lunch wagon that does business throughout the night. Then she wants to go to a “swell beach” and be “surrounded by a one-piece bath- jpg suit and a 35-piece orchestra,” as she says. She goes as a Duchess arriving in an airplane, and then there is more comedy of a new sort. Larry Kent is her leading man and the other members of the cast including Julanna Johnston, as the “wild night-life girl” are capably cast. The comedy is on for-the last two times tenight. ‘; “MIDNIGHT MADNESS” -J | IS NOW AT COLISEUM | — Demonstrating itself as screen entertainment plus “Midnight Mad- ness,” a De Mille melodramatic stu- dio production featuring Jacqueline Logan and Clive Brook, won high praise on its premier showing at the Coliseum Last Night. This is a powerful love romance which carries one from an ultra-modern city to the jungles of Africa. Every scene has a thrill of its own and when Miss Logan, rifle in hand, faces a ferocious lion, the audience is hushed and awed. This charm- ing young screen player vests her role of the wife who resents pov- erty only to discover that love in- variably asserts itself in every en- % | extra girl and did small bits in two vironment, with genuine artistry. | Mr. Brook as the hushand who wins ithe love of his rebellious wife af- ter trying ordeals, was as usual, | quite convineing. cast, including Walter McGrail, ! Louis Natheaux, Frank Hagney, players, was exceptionally fine. The Turnbull, was most praiseworthy. = SRR A e T S SR Y | BILLIE DOVE AT | I PALACE TOMORROW | [ i Three of First National's newest “discoveries” appear on the screer. which comes to the Palace Thurs- day for three days. The new finds are Yola d'Avril, Alice White and Loretta Young, and their entry into films is un- usual and interesting. Miss White for several years was a script clerk on numerous movie sets before her cinematic person-| ality was discovered. A leading part ! in First National’s “The Sea Tiger,” with Milton Sills won her a con- The supporting ' Virginia Sale and other capable! FEDERAL RESERVE CHECKS MARKET BY RESTRICTING USE OF CREDITS Douglas Z. Doty adapted from “Ad-| NEW YORK, Feb. 2/.--Startling tract. Loretta Young, youthful dancing But Nice” during the summer va- cation. Colleen Moore, star of the picture, saw her, recognized the value of her fresh beauty and naive personality and brought her to the attention of studio officials. i Miss -d’Avril, also a*dancer, ‘and a native of France, worked as an reel comedies for more than a year. ' She was chosen to play a bit in a| First National picture and per- formed so capably that she too‘ was offered an extended contract. o | “THE FIGHTING EAGLE" | COMING TO COLISEUM || The Court of Napoleon, Tallefi rand’s country estate, an Inn in the Pyrenees, the mountains of Andor-| ra, and Napoleon’s headquarters in' the field are among the interesting | and diversified settings for “The' Fighting Eagle,” Rod la.R,ocque‘n‘ new De Mille star picture which comes to the Coliseum tomorrow. ‘This is said to be a Donald Crisp production of the finest grade. ! “The Fighting Eagle,” which' student, played extra in “Naughty 8s its central theme the exploits of ing of Bona-!considerably in excess amount of currency in circula-|the grounds that the federal re- officer Phyllis Havre heads ! a daring young parte's army. | ventures of Gerard,” Conan Doyle's acceleration of s:ock market ace story of Napoleonic France, has'tivities during the past year, carry- jrection as incautious. brokers loans up to a volume!. tion, and lifting credit rates to the| highest level since 1921, has fina 1y provoked a scolding from the federal reserve board. The reserve board, in a state ment which, temporarily at les demoralized the “bull” forces of| the stock market, declared that while it does not set itself up a an arbiter of speculation, it con celved it to be its duty, in the in- f business welfare, to re- » use of federal re e v speculative purp f based upon federal re- > indices, would indicate the between the trends of| s, brokers’ loans mm} rates. Call money reached its peak levels over the| vear end, a seasonal development, to return to the mor- of recent years during | subsequent weeks, At the same |time Dbrokers’ loans and stock e to racord heights. all money renewal rate > about 7 per cent during in contrast to about 4 cent during that month of Commercial paper rates ran from 1 to 1% points above the pre- of the first industries to {show the effect of the high rates has been the building industry, which is largely financed throv mortgages. This has led one large realty company to take advantage) of the public favor for stocks by instituting a system of building financing through stock offerings.| Brokers' loans have been de fended in some quarters as a new | means of financing industry. The n ion’s experience with brok {loans, however, comparatively 1new, and conservative bankers re- | gard the headlong trend in this di- The action of the federal re- of the to-|serve board has been defended on an excellent supporting cast which' also includes in prominent roles Sam DeGrasse, Max Barwyn, Julia Faye, Sally Rand, Clarence Burton and Alphonse. Ethier. Battle Field Creek May Become Sewer KANSAS ITY, Feb. 27.—Town Fork, which figured in the history of the battle of Westport in the <t | | Civil War, has become a flood men- ace to hundreds of new homes along its course, and may be buried as a sewer. The little stream between the .., fields of the battle of the Big Blue 3 and the battle of Westport saw much of the bloodshed, October 22 and 23, 1864, which ended the ef- forts of the Confederate Army to gain a foothold in the West. Now city officials plan to make it a sewer for most of its length from the southwest corner of Kan- sas City to iie Blue River. 32 PIECE “YOUR ALASKA LAUNDRY SERVICE’ | Dry Cleanin?‘ v sy . ALASKA LAUNDRY In New Building on Shattack Way ‘THE LAUNDRY DOES IT BEST” “F.]thham Gold S Dot +— service weight, $1.95 Onyx Pointex, sheer chiffon, pure silk, $2.50 Arrowhead, service weight, $1.00 |ly groomed, are soft but strong, erve system was cr bilize business conditions hat congress did not contemplate its B use in ion. The federal nlike some of the central bank { Europe, are not permitted to ( ount loans sn security collateral - reserve b lllk\: ! CHICAGO, Feb, 27.—Lilllan Rus- | sell's hands were the soft and pam- |§ pered kind that characterize the' indolent waster, but they their owner, who was industrious | as well Amy Leslie, critic. Chicago hands but put the; the stage as well as lie declared she painted a muffin maker and pie baker, Miss Leslie has known most of the theatrical stars of the past four decades. “Sophie Tucker's hands, careful- to good use off S Miss Les- dimpled and pink, and never work outside the theatre,” Miss Leslie| says. “Calve, the op singer, had dark, small, nervous and expressive | hands, while Nellie Melba's hands were the large British type, normal‘ and efficient. Madame Melba was an Austalian | “Ethel Barrymore has emphatic | hands — not beautiful, but aristo- | cratic ‘and well cared for. Her| brother, John, has the same hand, | more muscular, and somewhat bet- | ter shaped. E. H. 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