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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, AUG. 5, 1929. [tcrmme whether panhandle wheat must traverse 433 miles over Rock Island lines to Kansas City, or 845 miles on the Katy. The contested property is valued at $3,250,000. e \“ “STARK MAD” CO! AS VITAPHON | < “Stark Mad,” Warner Bros. lat- | est speeial production comes to the coliseum tomorrow for a ay run L The piece recounts the blo NOW REOPENED Seene of Rivalry for Centuries Hanchuria COLISEUM TONIGHT 00 P. M. Curtain 8:00 P. M. |Paris Police Learn = | Tourists’ Language‘. | PARIS, Aug o5—Five hundred| policemen now speak some| Doors open I forcign language and one of them - — 5 gorlln 1 captiv | Engtion i ! MARYE BURNS la temporary madman, closing c English is the most g(-ncmlly‘ | erst doors and vanishing floors—the | by s 1% & ¢ 4} | spoken. There are many who knowl {laughs in'the terrors of the timor- | N : & b | SN nough of seyerdl WHEUEs 10 MR- Alaska’s Nightingale IN CONCERT Ballads, Classics, Popular Songs rdling, ‘rib-tickling adventur: a group of well-meaning people who oin the search for a young hunter al American jun- Shivers come in the form New Seats downstairs and in loges, new furnishings, really a new theatre and more yet to be added. You'll hardly know the place. BIG REOPENING BILL Fleming. vk Mad” | swer questions by tourists and there | |1 » creepiest mystery play ever {are quite a few with a very thor-| COLLEEN leeraenid: “Thiy S4Bk dnaRicies Bt Fll jough knowledge of several lan- E er, Louise Fazenda, J {guages, sufficient to handle the| MOORE bokoil e nad ““‘_“IB‘“I e frequent police cases involving high- | 5 3 althall, ne “almore, Claude Gillingwater, An- B, Saniied JarclEnNs, (W ; forues “OH, KAY J P 3 the little French they knew. Movie Program Until Curtain Comedy. All of these policemen wear arm- (M@ e e e ’"“:vl%ij]fl,‘s"ms‘h ke bands announcing in a phrase what | s, :: A T Y i | foreign languages the bearer speaks. | (arized by Harvey Gates and s ki ® |rected by Lloyd Bacon. % 7 | | S e Youd have a time |cooking a ten-foot MARYE BURNS WILL APPEAR bhbdart HERE TORIGHT i ‘ | Hilarious Latest News Weekly and Gump Comedy added Admission—$1.00; Gallery, 75 cents STARTING TOMORROW “STARK MAD” A 10090 All-Talking Vitaphone Picture With H. B. WARNER, LOUISE FAZENDA and CLAUDE GILLINGWATER and An All-Talking Mack Sennett Comedy " MOVIETONE NEWS AND VAUDEVILLE ACT 2 shows—7:15 and 9:15 Adm.—Kiddies a dime any- time; youths 20c¢; adults 50c, Loges 60 cents Circus Coming Alaska’s Nightingale Will TUESDAY Give Concert at Coli- KEN MAYNARD seum Theatre in g “THE WAGO night at 8 o'clock, at th How the custard in that pie would separate because you couldn’t control the heat! And roasting coffee in bulk.| presents similar difficulties. | Hills Bros., however, by roasting their coffee a few pounds at a time by their continuous process — Con- trolled Roasting — produce a matchless, uniform flavor. No bulk-roasting method can insure such goodness. {HILLS BROS the inhabitants enmeshed by the p esent Sino-Russian dispute are these patrons of the D Bl e et ~l*hog dog man” at Kyakhts, on the Siberian-Chinese border. At lower left is the junction at Chang- SHOW” § ngale, Wil lapbéari: chun of the Chinese Eastern and Southern Manchurian railways, the'readls which figure largely in the iy abrangbn CORBSELT WithiME At lower right is a view of Harbin, metropslis of North ManéHuria. Story for a small town | Fern Vance, accompanist The! e S - = circus program arranged, will delight the| BY ‘\\1‘1,1,{;\3! R. KUHNS IM:\nchurm and a lease on Kwan-"o cece-0000000 ALWAYS amoking in ‘the audience as every mumber is onei . __(A. P. Featare Writer) |tung province, with railroad rights,|® balcony—the old gang was all there last night. [trul(l)h'. - CANNING SUPPLIES FRUIT JARS—AIl Kinds—Also Extra LIDS, RUBBERS and JELLY GLASSES STEAM PRESSURE COOKERS HAND SEAMING MACHINES PRESERVING KETTLES PAROWAX See Our Window Display — . 3 o |that is apr to those W YORK, Aug huria, | g0 25 A ° ° |ail mustcal tastes. “For the | ppe Russians built the Chinesefa . fol- |csnter of the current dispute be- g tern rallway from Manchull foll @ — - . on Soviet Russia and nationalist |y qdivostok, as the far eastern di-|® CALNEVA, Lake Tahoe, o ) ° re ° RENO IS RIVALED BY LAKE RETREAT (from Mignon) Thomas Rabey jon of the trans-Siberian rail-{® Aug. 5—A divorce law per- ad. | mitting applicants to receive In 1924 Russia effected an agree-|® @ decree after a 90 days' m-nt with the Chinese authorities|® residence has benefitted - |for joint Sino-Russian administra-|® more than Reno, the mecca or Perfect Stensen | BT o x v St of the mismated The Longest and Shortest D: x 5 This agreement is the center of|®. _ On the borderline of Cali- A T Pitbsier-Malls » thar jears, until China fornia and Nevada, Calneva The Blue Danube e were not allowed to'.. summer divorce colony swells | » country of the Manchus! into the hundreds. The re- Andothen sort is only 30 miles from wild gin-: the courthouse of Reno and ! as long as the temporary residents stay on the Ne- vada side of the line they may idle their summer days away on the shores of Lake Tahoe. Through the center of din- ing hall and ball room there is a red cement line indi- cating the State line. Yeux The Russian y I Attractions inal vacuum pac 12 present difficulty JEasty, oopes. wily ; justified in seizl d, claiming Russia violated this coment in several ways. Russia this charge. JIEVE 5 G L TN Katy and Rock Island { Spar for Short Line" — ° BEAVER, Ckla., Aug. 5—Two of | e outhwest’s 1 powerful rail-!e are battlir for control of e miles of track in Oklahoma’s ¢ panhandle. |® thousands | he Beaver, Meade and Engle-ie d Railroad is the subject of thisle © ¢ @ ¢ 6 o 0 0 0 0 0 @ between Rock Island| - terests ang the Missouri-Kansas- | purchase the road. The Oklahoma Texas line. Located in Texas Coun- (line had agreed to accept the Rock | which produced 12,000,000 bush- |Itland offer when the Katy ob- iels of high proteln wheat last year, |jected and hiked the Rock Island eenth century (the short line affords strategic|bid. Palace. Summer and You Mongolian Genghis Khan with connection with marketing ccnters,‘ Disposal of the shori line, which Mae Pauly’s orchestra trio, as- —_—————— ms of a world empire, brought | A protest by “Katy” officials fol-!rests with the Interstate Commerce sisted by Carol Beery Davis at the FOUR OLD MAJOR LINES der his sway. 1 lowed , the Rock Island’s offer to ' Ccmmission in Washington, will de-~ pipe organ, which has been placed LOSE TO 1 andson of Genghis, | - 3 gt - T 3 in perfect shape, gave a splendid t khan to rule over concert number and the four played nearly all of the score for the fea- Arr. by Lieblir PALACE REOPENS WITH Poh! Lil' Honey GOOD COMEDY FEATURE Dorothy H. Rad - Mammy's Prayer lRESULTS] The one big thing we are interested in when you come here to buy printing is not primarily how big the order, but— how canwedothejob to insure you maxi- mum satisfaction. ‘Weknow thatif B i for mote print- ing of the same kind. After being ciosed for 10 days, ; iford d, Chinese emigrants the Palace rcopened last night and |Lil' Tyke or ford | into Manchuria with the result that| everything was pronounced “O.K." Dedicated to Mis 90 per cent of the population to- by the large audiences, including| The Composer at the n day is the Moore comedy “Oh, { The ainder are descendant Kay | Alone (from the White Eagle) lof the original Manchu and Tun- The Palace is like a new theatre, | ml gus trit The northern cities cleaned and painted from stage to|Lover Come Back top row in the balcony, new Moon) down stairs and in the loges, new |Silver Moon (My Ma d) carpets, draperies, new lighting, an Rombers (¢ cven more changes will be mad 2 in Mosco when additional furnishings arrive, All For You Martin Harbin a It was a big night for everybody I Did Not Know Vanderpool | phe: and all were pleased with the New The Heart Call Juneau Young Hardware Co. “If I's Hardware We Have It” Old Papers for sale at Empire Office Ty e e e T v [} H ly Russian atm elected g ost of Asia. JOWA SITE. TN e For 400 years the power of the 5 rapid trend away from farming,|,.. .. s G ture and several special numbers sbnufacbarlig, r 4.1 1% cading :\nd"? iatic ru]r}:s was sufficient to pre- for the comedy and weekly. The!miping and a great increase in i} TONE. ARE- MESRIIC WovemSES orchestra railing has been lowered |numper of employees in eight mmr;hdrcp_ean_ Russians o Siberia. | to regulation theatre style, which indqustries has developed in the| BFg|n11111g \v}rh the seventeenth! makes a most pleasing effect. last eight years, according to Dl,.:cf-d-ury. the history of Man("k.mria' The feature is Colleen Moore in Dale Yoder of the University of 'S filled with accounts of militery | “Oh, Kay” and mirth fairly shook | Jowa. |clashes between Russian and Clu-‘ VI . ] the Palace 4nd proved that the| More than 2,300,000 have left the| along the Amur river, the Never More Strikingly Beautiful! comedy is one of the funniest to|four industries, says Dr. Yod orthern boundary of Manchuria. | have been seen here for some time,|since 1920, while gains shown by, RUussia acquired the maritime and after watching the six reels, the |other industries are: building, 500,-| Provinces and Viadivostok, which audiences went home still chuck-|000; auto selling, and servicing,|8ave her actess to the Pacitic. Rus- | ling. i75gv000; hotel work, 500,000; tel ”'mn far eastern policy gained stead-i ‘While the lion's share of the hon- | phone companies, 78,000; public|ily in strength and aggressiveness. | ors go to Miss Moore, her splendid |school teaching, 135.000; insurance,| The treaty of Shimonoseki be. supporting cast deserves a share of |100,000; barbers and beauty par- tween Japan and China gave Rus- | praise. Alan Hale, as the detectivz|lors, 200,000; secondary schools, | sia a chance to obtain an important | Lawrence Gray, as the romantic | 2,100,000. 'rallway concession across morthern | lead, and Ford Sterling as the pscu- ! e e o BT % do-butler were admirably cast as | were Cldude Gillingwater and Jul-| FILM COUPLE ANNQUNCE TROTH 5—A| Daytime Frocks Happy Home Dresses nese Colorful Prints in a Score of Smart Dressy Styles. The COLORS are in the New Half-Shades— Pastel—Delicate—Lovely! The modern trend has ushered in an entirel new family of tones and shades in the FAST DYES — the fresh ocean blues and landscape greens—the golden chromy yellows. They add new loveliness to all printed fabrics. There is a complete and entrancing range for you to choose from. ... And How They Are Trimmed The dainty bindings—clever imported but- tons—the Kleen Kool organdies — the lovely frills. and pleatings — the skirt godets and flares—the. contrasting belt slides—everything ‘ o - . about these ‘dresses is so consistent with what sl 0 : ; e is STYLISH, MODISH and LOVELY that : you'll be charmed and in love with them at first sight. Special Consideration Has Been Given anne Johnston. George Marion, | Jr,, adds to the general merriment | with a set of titles not only scream- ingly funny, but always following the story, and never dragged in to| force a laugh. | i This complete bill is on again tonight. | £ ; | CONCERT GIVEN AT | COLISEUM TONIGHT || £ az | Marye Burns will appear in con- cert at the Coliseum tonight, no- | tice of which appears elsewhere. | CIRCUS FEATURE IS COMING TO PALACE “The Wagon ‘Show,” Ken May- nard's latest feature produced by Charles R. Rogers for First Na- tional Pictures, comes to the Pal- Job Printing The models for the larger women. ace Tuesday with Tarzan the won- der horse, and a strong cast sup- porting the Western star. Marion Douglas is playing the g leading feminine role. Maurice Costello, idol of motion’ picture fans many years ago, plays another im- portant part, and the rest of the cast includes Paul Weigel, Fred Malatesta, Charles Ellis and George Davis, the premier circus clown of Europe recently brought to this country. “The Wagon Show” is a story of a small circus touring the west in the early days. It was written m e 2 3 uydt::“sugn:;: clgmspfx?d . . dAasociated Press Photo Beebe an Sue Carol and Nick Stuart, film players of Hollywood, have ra- tribulations of a traveling troups| ... oy their intention to wed but have set no date for the cero-uony. during the early West. l The designers of these smart frocks have not allowed the grace and line to be absorbed by the larger sizes—the style is retained in every size from 16 to 52. Values Unmatchable at This Low Price! $1.35 T LT L L L L L L L L T L T L e e T T e T L T AT “MAKE US PROVE IT” » “THE EMPIRE” TELEPHONE 374 SEATTLE PRICES -’