The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 20, 1929, Page 3

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE MO D\Y MAY 20 POLLY AND HER PALS HIS SuE TWENTY CLERICAL COLLAR, WILL PREVENT FOLKS EROM DISCOVERING THAT 1 {LooK LIKE ASHUR LURL PERKINS, WITHOUT MY MOLSTACHE: ! 1D ND AT THE RATE MY | W= BRISTLES 15 BLOSSOMING OLD SELF IN A OUGHTTA BE MY 1929. LAWK-A-MASSY!! HANTS! SPIRITS! HEY NEEWA ME COLLAR By CLIFF STERRE’I'I‘ ] GIMME A HAND WILL YEZ MY “GPECS 1S KETCHED ONTO, (e STeoe¥r.ca. A £ H’ COME COLISEUM | 7:25—TONIGHT——9:25 BLITTON- g | “THE WINNING OF BARBARA WORTH” From the Famous Novel by Harold Bell Wright | with RONALD COLMAN and VILMA BANKY e/ PICKETT"® PALAC] SYNOPSIS: Lucy lo(ks Henry Deacon, chief of police, into a closet, takes his auto and starts | TONIGHT for the desert to find Jerry Ogden, her fiancee, accused of “ATT murdering his father. Lucy is JETTA (’OUDAL waging a game fight against in serious odds to prove Jerry in- nocent and is anxious to warn him of the charge before he is arrested. Pecbles, follows her to Torrid- ity, ghost town in Skull Valley. Harassed by the blistering heat, Peebles searches the town for | the vpair but fails to find a trace of them. | “WHITE GOLD” M-G-M NEWS opens the show The comedy is Stan Laurel and Sam Hardy in ) “FROM SOUP TO NUTS” Chapter 19 | IN THE DESERT TOMB | It was close on four o'clock. Lucy ‘I reasoned, had got here about Inoon. She had found Jerry and ithoy had left together at once along the main road, and by this time were probably approaching Palace Orchestra Plays Both< Shows COMING TUESDAY “THREE RING MARRIAGE” A Circus Picture | Shinbone Canyon on the west. An- !other couple of hours should see them back in San Felipe. Instead of following them I would Her uncle, John |c | spe | pared for | ha GMMMHEUKLEW Charles G.Booth ]and the last word seemed to be “Place.” I also made out a “J” and “L,” and a “D.” The rest of |it sudd y flashed upon me. Joe Lundy’s Place"—that was it. “*Joe Lundy's Place’,” I shouted. | “Joe Lundy—that woman in black | —the woman Andrew gave the | check to!” It couldn’t be coincidence, of The woman in black was d been the wife of a man who had kept this resort 30 years ago! And Andrew Ogden had given her a check for $1,000! But why? And why had the Peterson become the staid and re- able Andrew Ogden? And why had Dillon blackmailed him? Sick of mystery and bewilder- ment, I entered the resort, pre- anything now. It must been a pretentious place in its day. A dance floor occupied the middle of the building. At the up- per end was a small stage. Along one side ran a bar. A stair led to a wide gallery which ran around the hall. Doors and booths flanked the gallery. NN RO R AR Attractions At Theaires ‘\' “WINNING OF BARBARA | | WORTH” AT COLISEUM o 5 A western story by Harold Bell Wright, “Winning of Barbam‘ Worth,” is screened at the Coli-| seum, opening yesterday and on for | the last two times tonight. This colorful feature is interpreted by a| splendid cast headed by Ronald| Colman and Vilma Banky. As extra features a “talkie act” | entitled “Amateur Night,” was pre sented on the Movietone and the | news were also talkies. " WESTERN FEATURE i NOW AT PALACE || Lucy and Jerry—head together—racing toward the open desert! A drama Lhat swer‘n: with 1rre sistible power from the picturesque remain overnight in Torridity and | dance halls of Mexico, to the bar- improve my opportunity by nosing | ren plains of the western sheep around Andrew’s old haunts. Evi- country—involving a beautiful danc- dence of some sort was in my mind, ing girl, a rich young sheep herd—_hut of what nature and how I was | er and the “other man.” o find it, I hadn't the slightest | The story of a beautiful woman jdea. If I had known I wouldn't | who loved life—two men who loved have planned so casually! her—and one who hated—played: The sun was waning, but the| out with graphic realism on the arid street was still as hot as a boiler plains of the great West. pit and I looked about for a tem- | Here in a nutshell is revealed the porary garage. The wide-open | theme of Jetta Goudal's new star doors of a livery stable hinted of picture, “White Gold,” which open- cooler regions beyond and I drove ed at the Palace yesterday. through them into the building. | Kenneth Thompson and George Stopping the engine, I tackled a | Bancroft are featured in support pile of sandwiches and a bag of | of the star. The supporting cast fruit. Refreshed, I went out again. includes George Nichols, Robert| I had gone some 50 yards or so Perry and Clyde Cook. The Palace when I began to wonder if I were orchestra plays for this feature. completely alone as I had sup- e o e e % posed. The odd feeling grew upon | “FRENDEBLOIN" 1S ‘x’;xe and I wished I had brought a | COMING, COLISEUM || 9 «a . FEVOLVeEr. “Tenderloin,” a Vitaphone talkie,| Stopping in front of a sort of is a drama of the New York under-, dance hall, saloon, and hotel, I con- world, in which the bew.gchmg‘cluded that it ‘was a good place to Dolores Costelio, dancing girl of a begin my investigations. Most of Broken bottles littered the sandy floor; tables and chairs lay in con- fusion. I thought of the boisterous 'ra0b that once had rollicked through the place. I heard the whirr of the roulette wheels, the click of poker chips, the rattle of the dice, the clink of glasses, the shrill glee of the women, and the swish of mill- ing bodies. And I thought of Alex Peterson swaggering, no, stalking among a pay-night crowd, his gold- mounted guns on his hips. In the dining room cheap cutlery and heavy crockery lay on the tables. . Cues stood in their racks and lay athwart the poolroom tables. In the card room the rou- lette wheel waited. I spun it. Poker [chipswaxds. Upstairs in the bed- !ronms were pillows and blankets. A flimsy red dress hung in a closet . and slippers to match. Names were scrawled on the walls. And so it had stood for 30 years. And yet, this wholesale abandon- ment to the contrary, I hadn’t been ablg to rid myself of the feeling Bowery cafe, finds herself struggung‘the name on the building was oblit- to escape the toils of a band of‘erated It consisted of three words | that I was not as completely alone |as I seemed. Coming behind the crooks to which the man she loves s belongs. :_ Melodrama—gripping action and swift suspense—characterize the plot of “Tenderloin,” which is an E. T. Lowe, Jr., adaptation of a Melville Crosman story. - Michael Curtiz di- rected. Dolores Costello is star- red in a cast which features Con- rad Nagel and includes Mitchell Lewis, John Miljan, Fred Kelcey, Georgia Stone, Dan Wolheim, Pat Hartigan and others. Dolores Costello in “Tenderloin,” a Warner Bros. production, comes to the Coliseum tomorrow for a four-day run. 3 | CIRCUS FEATURE | COMING TO PALACE M :!Ma.rmu Neilan, famous movie director, became an animal train- er during the filming of “Three Ring Marriage,” the First National ‘Tuesday. Picture attraction at the Palace Mary Astor and Lloyd Hughes featured in the circus romance, were supported not only by all the animals of the menagerie, but by all the performers and side show freaks of the Al G. Barnes circus. during the war.” why give for what the S | | t) right at your own doeor history of social uplift gift be a generous one. “Sure PIll Give, I Never Miss the Army, I'll never forget what the Salvation Army did This is the exclamation that greets the Army canvassers everywhere, as they approach the citizens of Juneau. But Army did during the war? Do you know that the same Army, the same service, in the same spirit is laboring in Juneau? The Army is not making their appeal on its magnificent in the past. No! No! It is by what it is doing today. Then let your —— e swashbuckling Alex | bar where I had not yet been, I in the shadowy passage be- tween the bar and the wall, and almost went headlong. I picked up the bundle and found f staring at Jerry's white flan- amazement turned to dismay. Bel! in Jerry's innocence was as firmly fixed in my mind as was my certainty of Dillon’s guilt. But I also knew what conclusion Dea- con’s tenacious mind would have drawn if he instead of I had found the bundle! Undeniably they were His initials, worked by were inside the collar of the sweater. A pocket contained a packet of his favorite cigarettes. It was cvident that the flannels had been planted. And by Dillon, I supposed. Dillon, then, had been in Torridity within the past 40 hou For all I knew to the con- trary, he was here now. ‘The thought excited me and when the graveyard quietness of the resort was suddenly punctuat- 1 by the throb of an automobile »gine, Dillon’s name sprang, burn- iny to my lips. Was I coming to grips with him again? Why hadn’t I brought a revolver! As I sprang, electrified, to my feet, a sage green rcadster flew past the open door and my conclusions collapsed. The sor’ was Jerry's, and Lucy and the I stumbled outside. The road bound for the open desert, I supposed, the Devil's Mouth. “Lucy!” I roared. “Lucy! Jerry! Stop there! Whmc are you going? Lucy! Je They did not hear me Shouting their names, I tore down the street. Still the did not hear me, and the roadster passed entirely beyond the range tripped over a bundle of soft stuff | boy were in it, their heads together. | ster was 100 yards down the street, ‘ and, e. Plunging into the livery ble, I climbed unsteadily into the car, determined to catch th if I burned out the engine. The sun had gone to my head and my heart, not as good as it used to be, was T mercifully against my low of water revived ted the engine. The with a springless | 1, thud, that sent me tumbling | n out again. The tires were flat. They had b cut by some one. ank limply onto the running board. You can hardly blame me for harboring the thought that Jerry and Lucy had seen me after| all. But T didn’t harbor it long. | I knew my Lucy Letter than that. (And Jerry was a fine manly young fellow with the instincts of a gen-| tleman and a deep affection for me. No, they had neither seen nor heard me just now, or, incredi- | ble as it seemed, when I first had come into town. But where had they been that the blaring of my | car horn had not reached them? The Two Brothers Mine? Likely enough. And where were they off | to now? San Felipe! On Lucy’s ac-| count Jerry had insisted on the longer route across the valley in- stead of the shorter and more dangerous Pitchfork Canyon. They | would be in San Felipe before mid- y night. Yes, I knew my Luey! But not so well as I thought, was to turn out. (Copyright, 1929, Wm. Morrow Co,) | Is somcone else in Torridity? Who cut the tires on Peebles’ car? Tomorrow's chapter reveals new intrigue, mystery. D ATTENTION! | For Carpenver Work of any kind | —shop or city—Call Handy Andy. | it of myPhone 498. Come in and “Our Doorstep Is Worn GET A CORONA FOR GRADUATION The Ideal Gift for College try them out J. B. Burford & Co. by Satisfied Customers” Fos GENERAL Rental payments SOLD and RENTED* | later cleaner purchases. Alaska Electric Light & Power Co. Juneau Phone 6 Electric Vacuum Cleaners | ROY AL HOOVER BEEVAC AND | ELECTRIC | can be applied on ‘Douglas Phone 18 i | statute books are blank as far as/ MOVIETONE NEWS See It and Hear It IRISH O BY SOUND IN TALKIES! 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