The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 30, 1929, Page 3

PALACE Tonight—Last Times CARTOON NEWS In Sound “HOTSY TOTSY” A Dancing Act “Scandal” 10-25-50-Loges Coming Attraction ‘Syncopation’ “The Drag” with BARTHELMESS ] 9 “Prisoners’ with CORRINE GRIFFITH Uncle Tom’s Cabin seeing if you enjoy your eye and ear entertainment sliced thick and richly spread with zestful peppy relish. “SCANDAL" AT PALACE | | | LAST TIMES TONIGHT “Scandal,” a Universal pic | which opened yesterday at the Pa ace Theatre, is a triangle story, but lone with an unusually deep emo- |tional interest. It is on for the |last two times tonight. | Laura La Plante, who stars in |this production, gives one of the most convincing portrayals of her |entire career with a sinc. y in the |intense moments which carries the | picture far above the realms of or- |dinary drama. he plot, taken from a story by | Adela Rogers St. Johns, concerns |a modern entanglement wherein a I‘mm'nui woman, through the un- ed attentions of an erstwhile is placed in a position where ¢ either forfeit her honer or his life. John Boles, as the former lover, seen for the first time in the story of his screen career in a role which might have been entire sympathetic but for delica It is to Mr. Boles' crec cquittal” last ni as recelved with applause. Huntly Gordon also is perfectly He is ideal as the husband |who loves his wife far too much to fsuspect her clandestine affairs and iWes!ey Ruggles, who is respon: | for the direction of this picture ha shown the same good judgment i he selection of the remainder he excellent cast in this picture. t “THE KING OF KINGS” COMING TO COLISEUM ‘r | | | “The premier showing of Cecil B. DeMille’s “The King of Kings” wiil take place at the Coliscum T day. This wonderful filmiza |of the life of Ct |ergies of the Do M {for a year. It included the acting' THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MOND AY, DEC. 30, 19 2 9 Koyal Wedding in St. Paul’s Rome Will Unite Ruling Houses { aal P R K RO el Crown [ S of g erest (o Mar Ce follo Queen of Italy. nter—the reception roem of owing the wedding, in the Church of St. Paul. ce Tlumbert ¢ the w Lower—Princess M _—— (XCENES reminiscent of the| splendor of European royalty |in the courtship of this pleasant and |t of pre-war days will mark the | democratic royal couple, and negoti- | something too All the world has been i the Quirnal Palace, where the public rece 1 Ir ho receatly t to Pulicess m will be held e Jose of Belgium, the future iied his eans ternational Newsreel erested | thing of the sad sidc of life, at. \nd of the | | I | | the United Sta est Always —OF" COURSE AT— OLISEUM TUESDAY-——WEDNT Pathe Presents’) CECIL B. DeMILLES CHARLES 0000y POGERS . LY CARROLL \ 7 Guranount ALLTALKING Qicture eries has L fortheoming wedding of the Crownlations between the representatives | beset crewned b Prince Humberto of Italy and Marie | of the two countries were carried on | present when an Jose, daughter of the King and|for some time until their efforts attempt on the lif Queen of the Belgians. It is a mar-|were crowned with success. For |husband at the t riage that will unite two of the few |all this, it is said, that as far as the |ment was . remaining ruling houses left in|two young people are concerned, [A magnificont trou that it is a love match rather than | pr d for M |of hundreds of fine players and the | | construction of tremendous sets of | Bible scenes such as have never bo- | cen attempted. or the first time a picture pr: parts of the Territ . | work during the summe: | bresent he is attached t le office of the bu dy may ext month. “HE| AFTER THE SHOW e, :m,l! Try one of our DELICIOUS SANDWICH L PR A Dish of Smith’s Ice Cream All in Sound come 1 At Theatres g, |tian era were made in the picture. Jeanie McPherson with her adap- tation and Mr. De Mille with his | directing genius are said by all the | reviewers to have made the history | live and to have surpassed in V.en—: derness, humanity and gripping dramatic power any previous hand- | ling of the great theme. The cast is said to bz one of the most im- posing ever seen in a picture pro- duction. ——— “CLOSE HARMONY IS TALKIE AT COLISEUM || “Close Harmony” proved to be aptly named at the Coliseum The- | ater last night when Buddy Rogers | and Nancy Carroll, popular screen lovers, appeared in a peppy, Liul‘ Paramount production in which the | “réd hot” music of the jazz age| formed the medium for a fine| presentation of their musical and | dramatic talents. The play, an adaptation from the original story of the same name by Elsie Janis and Gene Markey, is a portrayal of the lives and loves of those who gain a livelihood be- hind the footlights on the vodvil stage of the big cinema palaces. | Buddy is the ambitious leader of 8 jazz orchestra and Nancy is the headline song and dance girl of the theatre, where Buddy and his! musicians get their chance. Menace and comedy alike are furnished by Jack Oakie and Richard “Skeets” Gallagher as a song and dance team, and by Harry Green as the high-pressure manager of the the ater. The general tone of the picture is that of sparkling, tuneful music and | poeppy dancing blended with throb- bing romance . Its soungd reproduc- tion is “lispless” and comes nearer to absolute perfection than anything yet heard from the silver screen. “Close Harmony” then, is worth QAR OO Sordlry i i | | i | i | al elaborate: | picture, it is worthy of ’lha{ 10,000 objects or pertaining to the primitive C! for and us | | Airport Management Needs Good Executivei WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—A high | order of executive abpility, plus a basic knowledge of aviatioh, is ne- | cessary for proper airport manage- ment, says a bulletin by the de- partment of commerce. “There is no consideration more vital than safety,” the bulletin sald in discussing municipal air- ports, “and there is no better guar- | antee of safety than good manage- | ment. Federal regulations, local | field rules, and local ordinances must be enforced so that a maxi- mum of safety can be expected by those flying and by the ground| public at and in the vicinity of the | | city has an investment which must be protected. There are revenues, such as han r' tals, landing fees, concession rent: etc., to be collected. There are also intangible returns from a mu- nicipal airport and the taxpayers| who have made the airport possible have a right to expect these.” Wife for One Day ‘ Costs Man Just $850 Los ANGEL;Z_S—.—SQC, 30.—A wife for a day for $850: That is what it cost him to be married to Mrs. June | Europe since the debacle of the war, | and so a notable gathering of kings|a ma and ex-kings will assemble in the share a Rome, the residence of the Italian rulers and the future Quirinal in home of the Belgian Princess, Baird May Soon Try Television Broadcast on American Station - » LOUD SPEAKERL: X SYNCHRONIZING CONTROLS TELEVISOR. e of community of inter hobbies, both having a lik outdoor life and athletics, The young princess knows some- 3 ELEVISION - IMAGE savenience, for they |lead and | Paris ding for |cent evening frocks g couturiers of Brussel Sports clothes and 1 re a featnre of the outfit. International Newseel Scene in the Baird television laboratori lower cemier is the motor, By C. E. BUTTERFIELD Radio Editor (Asociated Press Feature Service NEW YORK, Dec. 30.— 1on clewly is breaking down the bar- riers that continue to keep it in the laboratory stage. Such is the impression ol at the Baird Television lab which have been establish: ories in New the thin metal scanni the lower right is 2 newly developed automatic syn:hro ng mechan |a sig picture. It consists of a small iron wheel {containing as many sprockets as |there are holes in the scanning disk. | At each side of the wheel is an |electro magnet, which makes con- |tact with the sprockets and which jaccalcrates or slows down the mo- {tor. The speed correcting sigral |which actually is a part of the taken cut of the received ‘MARGNITA ARR!VES FROM SITKA; TRIP REPORTED STORMY| The Margnita arrived in Juneau at 1:45 o'clock this afternoon from Sitka and way ports with the fol- lowing passengers for Juncau: From Sftka—Oscar Oshorn. | 4| | i | {nor will return to Juneau about |middle of | TO RETURN SHORTLY| [ pire office. < o ‘; or a Hot or Cold Drink COV. PARKS EXPECTED | Juneau Ice Cream Parlors NEXT TO PIGGLY WIGGLY GAINS IN BEET SUGAR| s of- of- ugar beet ch a good 15 to be no need o | import during 1930. Refining | produced 5,000,000 pr ds of the " | white sugar, whereas the alax consumpt. IrOW- season hat { - o> world's largest china manu- | Old papers 1or sutz at ‘L'ne Em- | faci g plants are at East Liver- CAPITAL DEBS GLOBE TROTTERS Calendars H. S. GRAVES The Clothing Man TR O FARM FOR ORPHAN BOYS INDEPENDENCE, Mo.—8Seif-d>- pendent orphan boys between the ages of 6 and 16 operate a 370-ac:a (farm near here. Maj. Andrew {Dunn, a Missouri cattleman, b2 | queathed the farm. | - | FRENCH COST OF LIVING U2 PARIS.—Living costs six times mcre than it did in 1914, figures is- sued by the French government | show, Retail prices are 612 per Associated Press Photo Elizabeth Chilton (right) and her sister, Ann Chilton, are equally | at home in Romey London and Washington, where Elizabeth mads her debut several years ago. Ann returns from Rome to be a capital DeMasters, according to a cross- |complaint, filed by Rudolph Stahl, | mechanic, against an annulment ac- tion filed by his “expensive” wife. Mrs. De Masters-Stahl sought the |annulment on the grounds that che | was already married to another man at the time she married Stahl. The mechanic told Judge Edward W. Eng that he married her, believing that she was single, and that he had loaned her $850. They lived together {but one day, he said, when she told ! him that she was married to another and they were forced to separate. Judge Eng granted Mrs. De Mas- ters-Stahl's annulment. Alimeny? No, Onl Freedom, Says Wife SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 30.—“Ali- mony? Not at all! I want only my | freedom.” So stated Mrs. Myrtle McCort, 24, in asking for a divorce from Charles McCort. Mrs. McCort's sister, Miss Lillian Miles, 18, with whom she lived, tes- tified that McCort struck his wife in the presence of friends. Superior Judge J. J. Van Nostrand |If} |granted the divorce. From Port Althorp—E. O. son, From Chichagof—Ru From Tenakee—Wm. / Wiley, Rado Pikovich, / dre, Joe Berbarie, Ed M Sullivan, John Olaff, M f From Hoonah—M: Child, Mrs. Chas. Netjay 1 Yerk a sa step toward m: \cible home reception of p radio. How soon the obj: an accomplished fact can termined only by the future In the local development part of whieh resembles a {various types of television |eras” and receivers have been set |up and tests are being made by the use of wires connecting the units. In 2ll of the tests both voice and Dpicture of “the speaker are fed into the receiver over sep- arate channels. The work is in charge of an Eng- {lish staff sent from the John L. |Baird laboratories in Lond and |this side of the Atlantic, Captain is headed by Capt. William J. Jar- Jarrard indicated, to make possible i rard. S |for broadeasting of radio pietures MR. HARDY ARE WED Synchronization of Lr:\nsmi:te“'fur home reception in America. Ul- N oy el and receiver, so that the scanning timately it is hoped to use the| The marrigge of Miss Hilda Ny- disk of the latter will maintain the broadcast channeis, which at pres- |strom to Mr. N. O. Hardy, b same speed as the transmi has |ent are restricted to television be- 'mer residents of June: been one of the serious obstacles |tween the hours of 1 and 6 a.m. |in seattle last month to reliable television. Various m Television broadcasts are now | letters just received ods have been proposed, ing being made in-Germany by Baird, |their friends. Folowin the use of spacial motors. iund negotiations have been com-|mony, Mr. and Mrs. Har Baird, who‘rgnve nis first tele- |pleted with the British Broadcast- | S8an Francisco for a sho vision demonstration before mem-f;ng company for such transmissions| Both are very well & bars of the Royal institution injin England. having resided in the city London early in 1926, tackled the! - e - ' jeral years. Miss Nystrom ! problem by developing a devig mi New and select e of Christmas |living in Seattle for the ‘W:It‘fl,‘l the speed of the motor wiil)rards at The Empire, Jyeaxs and M, &rdy as wardem of - ' picture, is fed directly to the mag- debutante, / nates. ¥ Jcent above 1914's. i . . ° . PG SR . Premier of France and His New Cabinet of very thin metal having 30 ,holes running in a spiral around , the outer edge. This disk turns in frent of the neon lamp, which fluc- tuates in step with the received current, and builds what the eye accepts as a moving picture. The disk is no thicker than cardboard An all-electric television receiver powered from the AC lines, is part of the equipment. It also con- tains the automatic synchronizer. Laboratories weré established op 25% Discount Mrs. Willie Johnson, Catherine| Johnson, David Charles | From Funter Bay—Geo. T ing, Mr. and Mrs. C! Ot {Mrs. Nick Juckich and child | Purser Robert Coughlin reports a | stormy trip with much snow. | MISS NYSTROM AND on all Toys and - Novelties in Stock Sardrn WHIIIIIHWHHHHIHHH@!I!!HIII LU UL T T YT T T T T T T - | > Premier Andre Tardieu of France with his newly formed cabinet in first group picture. Left to right, front row, M. Cheron, Lucien Hubert, M. Tardieu, | Serot, M. Pernot, M. Manaut, M. Deligne, M. * Aristide Briand, M. Leygues, and M. Loucheur. | M. Rollin, M. Poncet, M. Heraud, M, Maginat, Middle row, left to right, M. Laurent-Eynac, M. Mal- Plietri, M. Champeticr de Ribes, % iarme, M. Marraud, M. Hennessy, l. Ohlfi!d. Babety, M. Flandin, and M. Gallet. Back row,