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I e SR SN HAE AR TONIGHT COLISEUM . “The Only ;- Way”® A United Artist's Picture Featuring | | MARTIN HARVEY A star who ranks in per- . THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE; MONDAY, AUG. 12, 1929. : o ’Hefé’s a/Chor'us Girl Bride Who Has - Upset All the Traditions of Broadway ANOTHER GOOD COMEDY AT PALACE LAST 2 TIMES TONIGHT earts To Hearts With Mary Astor, Lloyd Hughes, Louise Fazenda and Thelma Todd Extra Comedy and News sonal magnetism with such ‘notables as Forbes-Robert- completes this bill Adm.—Kiddies a dime any- time; Youths 20c; Adults 50 cents; Loges 60 cents Mae Pauly’s Orchestra plays for both shows Smoking in Balcony Coming Tuesday PHYLLIS HAVER and HARRISON FORD in “NO CONTROL” It’s Another Comedy ! 3 TR R e | Attractions l At Theatres NOVEL PLOT IN PALAC EFEATURE A novel plot idea and new stm-s;}‘ twists combine with an aggregation | of favorite soreen players to ac-| count for the excellent entertain- | ment value of First National's live-| ly comedy-drama offering at the| Palace Theatre, “Heart to Heart.”| Mary Astor, Lloyd Hughes and!ancient cati Louise Fazenda cnact the featured roles. There are some excellent supporting players, too; notably ! Thelma Todd, Lucien Littlefield, | Raymond McKeen and Virginia| Gray. Miss Todd is First Nation- | al's -promising new, blond and| pulchritudinous ingenue lead. “Heart to Heart” is a film of- fering for the whole family to en- joy, for it is packed with clean fun, | appealing love interest, no little drama and pathos. And sophisti-’ cates will get a chuckle from its! delicious satire. " DICKENS STORY IS | NOW AT COLISEUM | It i ‘twenty-six years ago since| Sir John Martin Harvey made his appearance on the stage In the role | of Sidney Carton, the pathetic hero | of “The Only Way,~ a dramatic| version of Charles Dickens’ im-| mortal story, “A Tale of Two Cities,” at the Coliseum tonight. Ever since, this character has| been his finest' role and his last words at the foot of the guillotine | are famed to the whole nation. | “The Only Way,” is recommend- ed by competent critics and photo- play experts to the attention of not only the enthusiastic picture- goer, but all who are interested in! art, literature, and the Dickens’ classics. ‘TCOMEDY TEAM AT | PALACE TOMORROW || Sercenland’s newest eomedy team, Harrison Ford and Phyllis Haver, aré' again featured together in “No Control,” at the Palace tomor- Tow, Thelr joint work in “The Nervous Wreck” established them in the| firmament of great screen teams. Their present vehicle 1s-rife with htimorous’ situations with the bulk of the story laid atound a broad-| A race track and | | ithere they were marrie 3 | spirit of their generation, the ne P Y Dorothy Sutton Legg, the beautiful Kansas Citv girl, whose midnight elopement caused On the surface the marriage of George Legg, II, to Dorothy Sutton | might have b construed in th or But as sev million readers dipped further in the story, several most surpris facts came to light. | The elopement of George Legg.| II, and Miss Sutton, was onc of | those spur-of-the-moment affair ‘5,0 incredible to the elder genera- " |tion and so natural to youthful| high spirits. It happened this way: M Sutton, who came from K sas y ‘and whose Broadwa, pearances have included Three Mu ' was playing in “The New Moo pepular operetta with the inv and Compar desire to see her one evening. He breezed up to the Theat: nd found Dorothy a breath of intermission air stage door. The con brief, but caloric. “Let ried.” “All right. “I can't cut the perform till the show breaks.” “O. No sooner had the curtain fallen than Dorothy and George and a g friend of Dorothy's and Geol boy friend, James T. Soutter—: a social r¢ er entry—piled into! George's readster and began burn- | ing up the dirt between New York | and Rye. There they roused the| town clerk, pot a license and dash- | ed off to the mayor's home. Am}J | Characteristic of the impetuous lyweds did not sneak off into a cf ner there to t the blessing in fear trembling. No. they proceeded directly to the elab orate Legg summer home at Edga town, Mass. There they were re- ¢éived with complete cordiality by Legg’s mother, his father, H. Ber-' tram Legg, being absent abroad. The dowagetr Mrs. Legg, the' bridegroom’s grandmother, bred i the old tradition, is said to ha scanned the Social Register in v in a search for her new grand parental , "' - 49 the perturbation of her husband’s very aristos cratic grandmother. ' MARRIED IN LEGISLATIVE HALLS were the first persons to wed in the Dr. ©. A. Hubbs and Inez Roberts, both of Santa Associared Press Photy mumci caly assembly chamber in Sacramento. he ceremony was held recently. aid-o By ROBBIN COONS | HOLLYWOOD, August 12—The! | “You've gotta | st to keep | applies nowhere | g Hollyw s, wh those who pause in the ace to nurse a welied compla- 1t head are in danger of being| overtaken by the :ompetitive thous- ands pressing be- hind. " more y Hollywood (ights s i dreds of boys did, he says. Wound- od’s ac- (. . . unds army. Lied about his age, as hun- ed? The question causes an invol- untary frown, a fleeting expression of impatient distaste. . . “The war so long ago . . . nobody talks about it any more,” he shrugs has- tily. (But you know he was.) He likes all forms of sports, and therefore, would like t0' remain in California. . . He wants to be a success in talkies; is to make two under his present contract. . . But he has stage contracts in New York this winter . hopes to return afterward—"if I succeed.” son and Richard Mansfield IN SOUND VAN and SCHENK You’'vé Heard Them Before A New Act and a Good One MOVIETONE NEWS It Speaks for Itself . Prices—10-20-60-Loges 75c Tomorrow | AL JOLSON ; m “THE SINGING FOOL” At the Coliseum T Tomorrow l SINGING FOOL The cool, comforting flavor of WRIGLEY’S Spearmint is a lasting pleasure. 1t cleanses the mouth after eating—gives a clean taste and sweet breath. 1t is refreshing and digestion aiding. bUCKS, HENS; “TAKE ee | How Many Ways Your Newspaper Serves - You Every Day Wheti you want to know the local news, where do you go? : TO YOUR DAILY NEWSPAPER When you want to know the National and daily ~ § news, where do you go? TO YOUR DAILY NEWSPAPER b oz When you want to know who won the baseball game, where do you go? TO YOUR DAILY NEWSPAPER When you want to know how your stock invest- ment is, where do you go? TO YOUR DAILY NEWSPAPER When you want to know what the stores are offering’ in new merchanise, where do you go? & TO YOUR DAILY NEWSPAPER [} When you want to know Whag t,lic a,‘t_ffactiiing l are at your favorite theatre, where do you go? 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He : TO YOUR DAILY NEWSPAPER O R e M w1 |lshed the consolation that Dorothy singing, dancing, | National lot in Burbank, a - lot eadquarters ? ‘ 5 e production are Temm Wil<| e " 15 shallow-pated, serfect speech, ighounding with beautiful girls “in I grasping, son, Jack Duffy, E. J. Rateliffe, T.|sop; jjjiterate hoofer, but 'a_gradu- | f :‘:‘““d‘? #nd tep Steers. .. |ate of the Univerdity of Missouri! | T“THE SINGING FOOL" L Thse dre but a few ways in which yout for ‘ NEWSPAPER is of service to you. You can FISHERMEN'S has L_ufly, Study, | apbreviated costumes of the chorus. STUDY, becomea|gally, a little brown-haired girl movie watchword. Singers take voice | wijth personality, waited on a drug ‘’land a girl of marked artistic and! H i lessons, dancers learn new steps,'store 1unch-counter two blocks ', .- ST 4 o ok gt . # | COLISEUM, TUESDAY | musical attainments. _ store 1 h e : 1 .| She hadn't the faintest intention | vocal ins away. That's a long walk on a| , thlnk Of fhany more rlght 0! and. “Seems' 'like I've got to' speak |of giving up her stage carcer to| And Dennis ¥ hot day. But Sally was so sweet MEDICAL p right up in meetin’ about my| ‘Singing Fool'" says Al Jolson. “Yes,‘v sir—I've simply got to talk about it, even me as shouldn't, as the oid ladies used to say. “This is just onhe of those times when I've got t0 repeat—you ain't seen nothing yét, positively nothing yet, till you have attended a performance of “The Singing Fool.” 3 “It's so real it's to be uncanny. I'was so overpowered, true as I tell -you,-- that - it - seemed a big dream, from which I must awake, finding just me’and my shadow. Warner Bros., ‘have given me ‘a great cast, too. I even have two leading ladies—talking ladies at that—Miss Bronson and Miss Dunn! And Lloyd Bacon to direct! Il stake my last red the public’s going to like it, too!” bask in the lap of lixury, but would | pony up with her pay envelope; into the weekly domestic “kitty.” She didn't even know the bride-| groom's name was in tne Social Register until after the ceremony.| Besides her stage work she i studying singing with Paul Alt-| house, famous operatic tenor, and} her spare time—of which there| isn't an acre—is-devoted to an art course at Columbia University. - + ATTENTION MASONS ! A stated communication of Mt. | Juneau Lodge, No. 147, F. & A, M., will be held in the Masonic Temple at 7:30 o'clock Monday evening. Work in the E. A. De- gree. Visiting Brethren cordially invited. By order of the W. M. ‘“The Singing Fool’ ‘opens at the Coliseum tomorrow. : CHAS. E. NAGHEL, 2iegfeld’s “Three M here to star in the & version of his lier success, “The Vagabond - Kin apparently also believes in the maxim. | a skilled fencer, romantic plays has practiced the ience, he has{ placed himself und: the tutelage| of Fred Cavens, fencing instructor| to numerous si And 2t King's} request, Cav is beginning him | in the fundamentals of the sport.| “It is so easy to grow stale, and there are so many fine points to be Jearned,” quoth Dennis. Personal Lithe, lean, agile, this “most ro- mantic figure of the musical stage” has the typical British reserve, ac- centuated—he is far from garrulous. In 1914, when 16, he left the Lon-; Secretary. |don stage to enlist in the English 'Specials at Mabry’s. i | the and personable that for a while a regular noontime procession left beauty-surfeited studio pre- cincts to lunch at, the “distant” drug store. Then Sally quit to work elsewhere. “I wonder what's become of Sal- 1y?” sang the F. N, boys, and start- ed eating at the studio again. The drug store’s thriving trade dropped away. Then the manager *sought and found a “double” for Sally—a little gitl who startingly resembles the departed idol. Now the boys are going back again. - P —— We maxe ana sc: 8n kivds of fur garments. Goldstein’s Em- oorfum. —adv, - » Dinner LUDWIG NELSON | | Jeweler ‘ { SUPPLIES Expert wateh and jewelry re- ‘pairing. for Brunswick Portable Chbinet Panatrope | Phonbgraphs, Records and Try the Fve o'Clock e ~a4v. | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE costs sey- eral hundred dollars daily to produce. You pur- chase it at a nominal price. The advertising in it makes this possible.: 1}\hé more advertisiig we carry, the larger and better the paper will be- come.. Make it your daily business to buy thru newspaper advertising’ and tell the merchant that you do so.