The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 26, 1929, Page 3

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, IHURSDAY DEC. 26, 1929. R PALACE! Dalton & Pitshmann E Tonight—Last Times News in Sound ODDITY “Czarina’s Secret” A Great Event in Technicolor REGINALD DENNY In His FIRST ALL TALKIE “One H ystericul Night” “The Delicatessen Kid” BENNY RUBIN Singing and Talking Act in a 10-25-50—Loges T5¢ COMING Ken Maynard: in “The Canyo of Adventure” Also THE DANCING ROONYES | | FRIDAY ELKS Christmas TREE FREE FOR THE KID- DIES—12 and Under AU O T L G e e e T T T e e T e T T T L T R T T T T T UL O LI Attractions At Theatres | -3 | o & | CLARA BOW FEATURED | IN COLISEUM TALKIE —— e Rigorous tests for her vocal qua}-“ ities were given to Clara Bow be- fore it was announced that the “It” | girl Bad a perfect voice for the au- dible screen. After the tests were made work| was started on her first all-talking production, “The Wild Party,” which opened at the Coliseum last night. In this picture, which deals with the loves and caprices of flaming youth, Miss Bow is required to develop an “Americanese” infection and manner in her speech, and she does the near-slang dialog with a discerning intelligence which will be a pleasant experience for the mil- lions who have seen her in films| but who have never heard her voice | heretofore. e % ”~ | REGINALD DENNY 1 IS NOW AT PALACE | Py Reginald Denny, appearing as “Napoleon” at a fancy dress ball, is “framed” as a real nut by persons wishing to steal his $3,000,000 in- heritance. When word gets around that he really thinks he is “Napol- eon,” the opthers present, also rep- resenting famous characters from history, band against him and pre- cipitate a series of hilarious esca- pades. There, in a sentence, you have the striking situation that is pro- ductive of prolonged howls of laughter in “One Hysterical Night,” Universal all-talking comedy star- ring Denny, showing at the Pal- ‘fice tonight for the last time. ’I’ “CLOSE HARMONY” IS “ COMING TO COLISEUM il L P Y LT O Bright, bumorous, tuneful music - | | | =/ |||'IIIINIIII|Ifllllllmllll[llllfllfllHIIII“"IHIII"IHI"IIlI"IIIlli!mlHlllll!||IIIlOlIIIlllll}ml]llllllm!l‘mlm!l"l"lml!flll 1) I|IIIIIIEI|IIIIIIIINIILI IIlllllEIHlllIlllmllIII“IHHIllmlll!lllll' {Lanterns, Flashlights Guide lsung for many years and dating| |his appearance sometime duringthe w (tion temporarily. Paramont all-talking film of stage and back-stage life in a deluxe cinema palace which comes to the Coliseum Sunday. Buddy Rogers and Nancy Carroll have the leading roles in the play o and they are ably supported by By C. BUTTERFIELD Jack Oakie and Richard “Skeets” Radio Editor Gallagher, vodvil headliners and AP Penae A Harry Green, another favorite of CHICAGO, Dez. 26.—When man jdevised the light socket receiver he took upon himself the solution of a 1 problem of his own making. the conquering of “man- made” static. While man has not made much |progress in the drive against at- mospheric static, he thinks he can the variety stage. Nancy Carroll sings one of the numbcrs. “Go Places and Do | Things.” Buddy also sings a song, “All A-Twitler,” and Oakie and Gallagher have a harmony comedy song, rendered in the Van and Schenk manner, “She's So, I Dun- no” ‘There is a band number, the | ; old but st red hot jazz tune,|Master something he has created “Twelfth Street Rag” in which ' himself. Buddy plays several instruments of | ' Man-made” different in “tempo” his band. ¢ erated in the air, from the clicks, is static, considerably from that gen- gets its name "TKEN MAYNARD AT PALACE TOMORROW dist bances produced by [1] e — —£% ‘ming pads, eclectric iceboxes, au- One of the most romantic and ;matie telephones, light™ sockets, | picturesque as _\v_c‘l as the fastest| 3ocrbells and 50 and one other elec- most thrilling pictures Ken|ine shorteuts to labor saving. Muyx{ar(l has ever made is hxs lat: Probably the greatest offender is & T}he : Oanyon of Ad\e.nure‘fl the motor, which takes many guis- which is schcd‘ulcii for the Palace {es in household appliances. It is Theatre on Friday. P jused to drive vacuum cleaners, oil Maynard is fast developing, if h"\hemm's wa is not already one of the most POP- | whatnot. Most of the trouble comes ular Western on the SCreen|pom the sparking brushes, whose ta. w_d“j‘" 3 B)s an ]’3 and 'chmm‘“ml blue discharge registers via the re- trick riding, coupled with a WiR-}eeiyer a5 a continuous series of ning personality and real acting|y. . 1ike clicks. ability have won him an enviable position among the screen notables and in this latest epic, “The Can yon of Adventur which tells of the old California during the days of the Spanish dons and grandees, he has won still more plmldlts. e MURDER SI¥, THEN SUICIDES Any electrical device 1whenever a confact is as turning on off [LL‘mplCttb the i Natural with the AC receive! | connected directly to the huu_m {lighting circuit, disturbances will register easier than with the bat- 'tery set. Not only are clicks and |crashes that develop within the house translated into sound, but ! similar interference will come ir:.vm |outside sources. Even automobiles made, such of a light, —One Son Escapes | | have been tried out. One consists {of two heavy duty condensers, with WALNUT COVE, norun carolina, |the center point grounded, to be {Dec. 26. — Suddenly going i |C .D. Lawson, aged 43 w his'power to the receiver. |wife and six children. After laying| Another contains choke colls in [them out for burlal he went into|addition to the condensers to give| the woods near his home and sui- 'gmflter filtering action. Its pur- cided with a shotgun. {pose is to block interference from In the home were found the motors and the like, and is pl |bodies of his wife, aged 38 years, 'eithrr in the set power line or con- Marie aged 17, James aged 7, Ray- | nected to the apparatus causing the | {mond aged 5, Mary Lou, four ¢youple | months. The mother and oldest daughter |porovimately 99 per cont of the were both shot in the chest by the|gigurpances. However, the filter- same gun as used by the father ;g getion is not complete, although {to take his own life. James, Ray- toqts in the average household) {mond and Mary Lou were be‘“e“\show them to be of value in muf-) to death by a blunt instrument. | fling and reducing noises. Neighbors ' found 'the bodtes Of{ As more of the novelty of owning | {Garrle, aged 14, and Maribelle, aged‘a recelver without batteries “to| {10, in the tobacco barn, a quarter gk i fool with” wears off, 2t & B away‘ CIVM:: 1ie home"pmbflbly will demand click-free re- AR e S {ception. It will then be up to the Arthur, aged 19 years, was vis-| : & r n- iting his uncle a few miles nway‘:"L mnnu{actu ‘:r wrflct’z’;fl““lm; ’:’_“im' and was the only member to es-|SCrtion of a molse Just as |Year’s Hoover Plans Affect Whole World As Well as the U. S. (Continued from Page One) CELEBRATE IN turned the investigations into these PUINT BARHuw‘problems over to others, but he has {kept in constant touch with their lwork. A promise during his campaign that legislation would be enacted to inaugurate farm relief and limited tariff revision caused an extra ses- |sion of Congress to be called within | a few weeks after the new adminis- | {tration came into power. Half of that program, the cre- ation.of a Federal Farm Board, has been accomplished. The other half, tariff revision, remains after a tur- bulent course in the Senate. It was Mr. Hoover's relations with that branch of Congress during the nearly 10 months he has been in office that furnished some of his most conspicuous trials. A coalition of Democrats and In-| dependent Republicans twice ran, counter to his wishes by inserting | Residents to Christ- mas Entertainment POINT BARROW, Alaska, Dec. 26—Resembling a huge nest of fireflies Christmas Day noon, lan- terns and flashlights guided the| residents in this section to the Christmas program. There was only the faintest of pink in the sky, the only indication of daylight. Last night a dance was given, revived by old Eskimo songs un- back to before the coming of the whites. The weather was stormy all\ day and the temperature was 30 grees below zero which was un— precedented. Despite the scarcity of furs the spirits of the residents in this section was not dampened. S, MOOSE CHRISTMAS TREE IS TONIGHT The annual Christmas entertain- ment of the Moose Lodge will be held in Moose Hall tonight at 7:30 o'clock for the children of the members of the order. There will be cinging and recitations by the children and Santa Claus will make Administration’s farm relief bill, but | ithe President ultimately got the\ legislation he desired through the strong support of the House of ch—‘r resentatives. When the tariff bill came to the. Senate, the coalition again inserted Ithe debenture plan and also dif-| fered with Mr. Héover by seeking to terminate the arrangement by which the President now may raise or lower tariff rates up to 50 pet‘ cent upon recommendation of me tariff commission. The President has made less th:m a dozen speeches during the year' five of them away from Washing- ton. evening. Mrs. George Grigg, who has charge of the entertainment, prom- ises a delightful program and all Moose and their children are ex- pected to attend. - e — MRS. OAKES ILL AT THE HOTELS Gastineau Clara H. Dickinson, W. P. Tobey, | J. P. Boyd, O. Wright, John Har-: ris, H. Haynes, R. S. Howell, Roberts, M. G. Clause, Jack Bacaf!,: John Mann, Bill McGee, Leslie, Mrs. Glenn Oakes, the Governor’s | Cashen, James J. Heins. | Secretary, is confined to her home Alaskan ! today with a severe cold. Miss Heath is filling her business ‘posi- | Hil u H. Lewis, Roy Rowland, Fred , Flemmon Dent, Ford But- lc" e, - are part of the entertainment and the plot ol “Close Hsrmony" uml Zynda Louis R. Delebecque, Theapa Lee, E. H. Sherman, Lottie M. Gaffy. Try the Flve o'Clock Dinner Specials at Mabry’s. —adv. the crashes and | the misccllaneous noises and other | motors, | shing machines, and! that sparks with faulty ignition systems wul register as they pass the house. B V. | Engineers have tackled the prob-| 1 4 lem by developing electric fil- Fath.er GO(‘,S _Insang Klus‘ ters. In the Leslie F. Muter labor- | I Wife and Six Chlldren latories as well as elsewhere, two |types of interference eliminators sane, | connected across the line furnishing | Such devices are designed to cover | the listener | |cape death. He was prostrated‘pm‘am in set design as the circuit | Iwhen he learned of the tragedy. itself. R e e I J Antl-Nmse Drwe Soeks to Oust “Man-Made Stattc ” Foe of Radw {LWAYS THE FIRST—WITH THE BE The “IT” Girl Invites You to TONIGHT Oh! You Westers{-i souwu‘m” Flzm[r’c YSTEM E‘ Must Come and See—Hear and Enjoy CLARA BOW IN HER FIRST ALL.-TALKING COMING SUNDAY | HOV. INPUT & 70/ MFD. _— ‘IIOV. OQUTPUTY | ene pictured in the center. used. The By ROBBIN COONS HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 26—Stray bit |players picked up from here and |there about Hollywood for minor Jm‘es in certain movies, are always |wise if they continue their former a oczupations, however humble. Similar bits may not come their {wey for months, and perhaps never |again. Oscar Smith, ne {a studio lot, did r when a director ga to stutter in talkies for the comedy \effects, and although he now has |an actor’s contract on days when he's not acting any prop boy may "c’ a “shine” at his same old him a chance ‘.:’ 2 Nestor Aber, high school adoles- cent,, makes a decided personal hit in his role as Buddy Rogers” pesti- ferous kid brother in “Halfway to Heaven"—but after school hours almost any day patrons of a cer- tain steak house may buy a paper from him at the door—and perhans |be greeted with a snorted “Horses!” |if they try to kid him too much. | “Horses!” is the boy's principal retort to all Buddy's big-brotherly {upbraidings in the talkie. This; |rather elegant way of expressing many things may make Nestor fa- | mous in a measure, and again it | {may not. But he's still a newsie and schoolboy. The Newsboy Actor A younger lad with the awe- in- spiring name of Larry Hickenlooper, delivers papers to the various of-| |increase his earning by enacting' {for a time his real life part in i “Show Girl of Hollywood.” { Any inclination on Larry’s part |to become temperamental as a re- sult, however, should be forestalled |by the remindér of his immediate predecessor's fate. The former studio paper boy, se- lected for bits in several pictures, !became so unruly in consequence that he not only was omitted from future casts but was barred from the studio and could not even con- |tinue vending his papers! - [the export debenture plan in the| One Out of Many For one Davey Lee who can tod- |dle through an Al Jolson's arms in- S THRIFTY GUY 1S JUST HOBBLING ALONG ON Hi3 CRUTCHES TO SAVE SHOE LEATHER»ABSURD,YOU SAY 3 (CONDENSER " FILTER ) (CO’VDENSEQ CHOKE Noises generated by household electrical devices have brought a {ained drive to conquer them with filtering devices Hollywood (ight kol |fices of another studio, and he will | HHowv. INPU HEAVY | DUTY ol | CHOKES | / T0v2 MFD |Tll 11OV. = ouTPUT! i ER similar to ihe diagrams give the circuits generally N -! Senators fairly new in their jaba! :but intent on getting some action {on the tariff. This legislation, al- | {ways the main point of difference | between ‘the old political p: d still is in the m: h a long controversy in prospec one on | which the Democrats will go to the Jouett Shouse, who took over di- | rection of National Den atic af- ‘to fame, there are hundreds of kids fairs early in 1929, with headquar- | who make but tiny dents in the ters in Washingten, made this clear movies’ marble hall of fame—and in a stalement issued at the e1 the wiser among them know it and of the special session of Congre keep their heads. and in which he laid blame for t e - ~ fallure of Congress to act on the \jp R, Gorg Perhaps to console the homesick- doorstep of the President | Mary Jarene ness of its several stars imported Prepare for Contest mas arrival, and 1 Gor| from Broadway for the talkies, one BOth parties are preparing for|geing nice Lieut. Gorga aftor the impending contest for the sup- |the Alaska Road Commission. port of the voters. Claudius H. Hus- | s studio has labeled its “street those of Times Square distr Be that as it may, one heartless ton, @ Dusiness execufive "1‘ T “"“: I " wag suggests that when some of MOSt new chairman of the Re- their talkies are released the :nm'f publican National Committ GION TO HAVE nostalgic twinklers will be perma- ©PC th the a- MEETING TONIGHT nal Commit- | nently restored to Mazda Lane and t© pining in vain for another dip into tees. the gcld pots of Sun-arc Land. Mr. Shouse, who was appointed by | American Legion will be held at APl John J. Raskob, chairman of the |8 ©'clock tonight at the Dugout, PECULIAR 1929 Democratic National Committee, has |10 Was aun’mmrwl today by Claud been exceedingly active both In co- | Felgesen, Post Commander. An important meeting of the " o s + A good attendance is desired, POLITICS LOOM :’fif:afr‘]“’ih:“(’/,‘m:::fiz’;‘;l{’ i Helgesen said, for there will be a FOR NEXT YEAR and also in issuing prepared state- | discussion of plans for the com- {ing year: ments to the country on passing political events. -, | - e e H ATTENTION SHIPPERS The Motorship NORCO will sail 'Irom Seattle for Juneau December measure was before Congress. The XMAS BABY G'RL e o 30th. ig] reservations see old guard Republicans finally sur- rendered to the coalition on the TO MRS. GORGAS Local Agent Femmer or Telephone 114, tarift bill, finding themselves hope- | lessly outhumbered. | An eight-pound baby girl w B ©ut' of that: situation sprang up born here at 7:15 o'clock yesterd Send the Christmas edition 'a "Yaung Bloc” of admxmstratlon mnrmng to Lleut and Mrs, Phll-, I‘ho Emph‘e outside (Continued from Page One) ‘New Yorkers Thrill to Operetta \ " AsF rltzz Scheff Warbles A gam YOO8 By DEMING SEYMO! (A. P. Feature Service Writer) 26 NEW YORK, Dec. 26.—A prime donna of a generation ago and a | white haired man who has spent | 'his lifetime Teviving old opeerttas have got New Yorkers enthusiastic this winter about classics of the musical stage which haven't been |sung here in 15 years or more. |* When ‘Milton " Aborn, whose 43 vears of light opera trouping have brought him seldom to Eroadway, Yzlxure‘d ‘recently to offer New a group of Victor Herbert re- | vivals, he was Surprised to find (how many theatre-goers were eager to hear ‘again the operettas of 15 land 25 years ago. | | And when Pritzi Schew came| out of obseurity to sing her old role of Fifi in “Mademoisellc Mo- | diste,” she found herself the toast of the town again as she had been on Christmas night in 1905 when e for the! t operetta, | with that great Herbert melady.‘ “Kiss Me Again.” Miss Scheff, -triumphant in her new hour of ‘glory, has gone On] tour in' “Mademoiselle Modiste,” with the cheers of a second gen- eration of townsmen rin her wake, and Aborn’s audi s have | lifted such a' clamor for other { half-forgotten light opera Herbert eycle is being fo! such other operettas as ry Widow,” “Rebin Houd Chocolate Soldier” and “The Prince of Pilsen.” There is scarcely a town of size | [ in the United Btates to which Abarni He found Elsie Jaris when she Melropo‘lnn Dillingham lured her has not taken his light opera troupe was 15. Marguerite Clark, later | laway to sing light operas of the| in the last 40 years. He was 19,/of movie eminence, started in his|newly risen Victor Herbert, and for and Selling spool cotton, when B.[chorus, and Raymond Hiteheock |10 years she was an eminent star. F. Kefth Sthrted the first vaude- sanz for him in “Pinafore.” He| The last 15 years she has sung ville th®atre, in Baston. |discovered Marie Dressler; and|in vaudeville and motion picture Aborn formed his own mmpany\Mflrlo Chamlee, Jeanne Gordon and |houses, and enacted stage roles, of 2ctors, out favorite operettas|others who later went to the Metro- | New York had all but fargo:.:en down so they could be played in politan. her. Now it is hearing talk that, an hour, and induced Keith to in-| Frizi Scheff came from Vienna in |later, she is to be a prima donna sert them in his variety programs.)1901 to cing grand opera at the [in a new show. prima donna of a generation ago, have stirred Broadway this winter | with revivals of operettas. Coliseum —This 1009 “The Wild Party” PICTURE AFTER THE SHOW Try one of our DELICIOUS SANDWICHES A Dish of Smith’s Ice Cream country. | or a Hot or Cold Drink Juneau Ice Cream Parlors | NEXT TO PIGGLY WIGGLY g —adv. | of | | = ,, heel design, in its ST ALWAYS 2 SHOWS 7:15—9:30 TONIGHT All Talkie Vext Week “KING of KINGS” s CO()h’i.fi(s a te;z-foot custard g How the custard in that pie would separate because you couldn’t control the heat! And roasting coffee in bulk presents similar difficulties. Hills however, by roasting r coffee a few pounds at a time by their continuous process — Con= trolled Roasting — produce a matchless, uniform flavor. Ne bulk-roasting method can insure such goodness. HILLS BROS COFFEE Fresh from the orig ‘ inal vacuum Egsily :};fl.& wuh Milton Aborn (left), cld time producer, and Fritzi Scheff, famed beauty of texture, in charmingly propo | bility! Offered in a ating range of Frendi- inspired shades.