The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 4, 1930, Page 3

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, "—mmomm ALACE LAST TIME TONIGHT Enjoy a Hearty ? | 3 Laugh and Hear Good Music 100% | Song! s Music! | Dialog! || Radio Pictures’ s first gorgeous romantic drama ) BETTY COMPSON Ned Sparks—Jack Oakie / Joseph Cawthorn f Gus Arnheim’s Band Cimini Singers 109 Dancing Beauties \()l ND C ()\lFl)\ 10—..7—.70 Loges 75¢ Coming “COME ACROSS’ A Talkie WATCH FOR “Trial of Mary vl Dugan with NORMA SHEARER S % Attractions At Theatres “THUNDERBOLT” OPENS | AT COLISEUM TONIGHT [ s Front pagés of the dally news- papers provide endless stories for| motion pietures according to Charles Furthmann, Hoilywcod au- | thor and adapntor of many screen | plays. His latest story, the Josef von Sternberg production, “Thun-| derbelt,” starring George Bancroft, which will show &t the Coliseum | tonight, works a series of these front page events into a gripping, dramatic story. of the underworld of New York's Harlem. “One of the biggest motion pic- ture successes of 1928,” Furthmann says, “was first written on the pages of Chicago newspapers. The plot of ‘Thunderbolt, written by | Jules Furthmann and myself, had a similar origin. A newspaper story of an adventuress who posed as an angel-faced innocent and duped a smart man of the world gave us a start. “Every personality in ‘Thunder- bolt, with the exception of inci-| dental players, has stalked across the front pages of American news- papers in the last three years. Great drama and melodrama is constantly in the making and only adaptation is required to transform it into a screen scerario, a play or a novel.” “Thunderbolt,” is an all-talking drama, brings together again the two men responsible for the out- standing -screen -success, “Under- world,” Von Sternberg, the director, and George Bancroft, the star. It is Bancroft’s second all-talking pie- ture, the first having been the re- cent hit, “The Wolf of Wall Street.” In “Thunderbolt,” Bancroft is sup- ported by Richard Arlen and Fay Wray. ;A ""“STREET GIRL" IS AT | i PALACE LAST TIMES | 5 Betty Compson’s talent with the violin is one of the intercsting fea- tures of the all-talking, all-musi- cal Radio Picture, “Street Girl,” the feature attraction which ends 2 run foday at the Palace. 1t is worthy of note that it was § | Island district. her ability as a violinist which launched Miss Compson on a theat- rical career when she was a school girl in Salt Lake City, Utah. Supporting Miss" Compson i “Street Girl,” a tuneful romance of New York's “Little Hungary,” are John Harron, Jack Oakie, Ned | Sparks, Joseph Cawthorn, Ivan Lebedeff and Guy Bucc The many (‘nl“ll’\.nm” featur {of “Street Girl” include the tun ful rendition of Gus Arnh Co- coanut Grove Ambassadorsi the vocal numbers of Raymond Maurel,| operatic baritone; bers of Doris Eaton, musical com- edy star, and a Hollywood beauty chorus; and four original songs by Oscar Levant and Sydney Clare, fa- mous Broadway song, writing team. | | ) I “COME COMING ACROSS” IS TO PALACE | “A cross section of modern life expesed to view in “Come Across’ ! k Universal talking p.oduc“on| which will open at the Palace The- | atre Wednesday. | | | Its action moves from a notorious - |undcmox.d night club with its' |music, singing and dancing, to a |mansion in a fashionable Long Its plol depicts |the adventures of a wealthy girl | who leaves her sheltered existence |to expose herself to the worst dan- |gers of the underworld. | Litta Basquette plays Mary Hous- | ton, the society girl of the story, {who is not satisfied with the life of |her rich set. She wants to find out about life, she wants to learn| /how the other half lives. The story "then starts, HEALTH S0 BAD " SOLD BUSINESS | “sargon. did so much for me| |after 15 years suffering that I fee!| |1like going from house to house and | | telling everyhody about it. | HOFMAN T. W. | “I suffered with gall jtrouble, my digestion went ‘all to pieces,’ and I was weak and nervous, |lost weight rapidly and finally ha.d !LO sell my business. Sargon bmu"ht ()I'l’ R/’ ST 41‘ 11 [ I“S l) “{L |back 'my appetite, my digestion is | erlfect. and my gall bladder never | bothers me any more. |member when I've felt as good as !I do now! Sargon entirely of constipation.”—T. W, ; Hofman, 763 San Julian St, Los ! Angeles. { | Butler-Mauro Drug Co., Agents. i —adv. EMERALDS ONCE LIQUID IN OLD alds can be bought in New York, London or Paris more cheapely {than in Colombia where they are mined, erican Institute of | Metallurgical Engineers. The only emerald mine operatmg in Colombia is described in this | ‘report by Charles Mentzel and C.| |Kendnck MacFadden. The report says the mining methods are sim- ilar to those of the Spaniards hun- dreds of years ago. Hillsides are washed down with water in great, v-shaped cuts, ex- {posing formations of shales, in |which' the emeralds are found in | small pockets. Seemingly earth quake faults fractured these shales time and again many mlmons of years ago. In some way not yet fully deter- mined, through cracks in certain limited areas, the emerald sub- stance welled up in liquid form from deep below the surface. With it sometimes came plenty of chromium oxide, giving the stones a deep green color, that now sells in New York for a top price of $3,000 a carat. — - NEW CATHOLIC BISHOPS SELECTED FOR CANADA VICTORIA, B. C, March 4— Monsignor James Charles McGui- gan, Vicar General of Edmonton, has been appointed Archbishop of Regina; Monsignor Dennis O’Con- nor, Vicar General of London, On- tario, has been made Biship of Peterborough; Father Gerald Mur- ray Redemptorist Father of Toron- !t0, 15 made Bishop of Victoria. - e Dell E, Sherini, Jeueau’s pmans ) uner. Hotel Gastineau. —ady. the dance num-;‘ % bladder | I can't re-| Pills rid me COLOMBIA MINE | NEW YORK, March 4—Emer-/ says a report to the Am-| Mining find' DRAMATIC DYNAMITE! ~C STARTING TUESDAY WHERE SOUND SOUNDS BEST Westerd) SOUND | { Bolt From the Blue GEORGE BANCROFT in the 100 Per Cent 4 I Talking Production with Fay Wray and Richard Arlen ----- AND FOR ADDED ENJOYMENT 100 Per Cent Talking ( “AN EVERY DAY OCCURENC w‘ ! THE GARDEN OF EATIN { with the The Comings-----“F RO/[”\ RIVER,” “\OTH \G BUT THE TRUTH” | | Above is the first dr | showing one of the man myst | five miles. | | | 4] CHICAGO, March 4.—Youngsters get nothing but irank comments on their potential abilities when Cy- | |rena Van Gordon tests their incli- | nations toward music. Miss Van Gordon, one of the Chi cago Civic Opera company's star: does not hesitate to tell fond par ents that their chfldreu would be| | perfect “duds” as Besieged by parents \\.ho feel cer-| tain that John or Nancy is a gen-| ius because he or she can carry a| tune at the age of two, Miss Van |Gordon frequently takes time out to ‘apply her own test of determin-| ing musical ability in children. | Often, when the test has endcd,‘ she returns the hopeful to parental | arms with pointed words of dis-| illusionment, ‘ “Because Junior may sit rapt] during a symphony concert at Ue) age of three may indicate he is a budding musical genius,” says Mis: lVa'x Gordon, “but it also may mc:n ing published in America ¢ shelled Paris in 1918 from a distar The drawing was prepared by H. W. Miller, who was chief engince IF CHILL IS MUSICAL * Cyrena Van Gordon, Chicago Civic Opera Company star, | testing the voice of a friend’s child. RO hich the w of his ery zuns e of s w bo of the “Big Bertha.” Its turret is mounted on jcamp, ‘among strange ~characters i charge wheels embracing several rm&:g:\.gnt:;::hs&w_mn imen since have celebrated in stary by IR 2 S ___ |and song, might be deemed suffi- : ~ lclent to glve any man a “poker VT face.” = Yet Ned Sparks got his famous ‘DUD |“dead pan” in a quest for some-! T R R G R G S that he is amused by the long hair of the virtuoso.” However, she is ready to give en- couragement if, the child can tell| s |which of a series of notes is higher or lower than others. If he shows me understanding of harmony, 1 and rhythm, she says, time money spefit in training him he concert or opera stage might t be wasted, “If, on the other hand,” she adds, he shows a preference for disson- an | for |ance over harmony, or cannot rec- gnize differences in rhythm, it is fairly evident thet he lacks musi- cal discrimination.” ——— NOTICE Tv SKIPPERS The cept freight after 1:30 p. m. on |sailing date. —adv. —————— A THRILLER . Watch for the greased pig race at the Roller Rink: adv. LISEUM ~ 2—SHOWS ’ 30—9:30 B e e e e Electric SYSTEM STARTING TUESDAY Hear Him Talk Again Bancroft’s Smashing Comedy Gleasons 1 R e e i By ROBBIN COONS HOLLYWOOD, March 4. knew well “the lady that's known a He‘Bntnh Nobles Fnrm 15,000 Acres in Alberta! !es Lou” original of .the famous |verse — buxom Lou, pretty in her I » i 1) {way, big-hearted, fierce when! MONTREAL, " March 4—About, 15,000 acres of land in Alberta are | |aroused, mysterious Lou whose last | s 5 . s i farmed by titled members of the name no one knew. | He was a “dress suit” in a Daw- | | son City saloon, juggling trays of | feudal castles for frame houses on the prairie. ‘]lqllol‘ to tables where rough gold: s » | rushers reveled in primitive trontlerl The lst includes the Duke of | Butherland, the Earl of Minto, | enterment. British nobility who have forsaken | ERBOLT” Talking Drama!- FOX MOVIETONEWS See and Hear the World in Action 3,005 acres arc owned or leased by the Prince of Wales, proprietor of the famous E. P. ranch. p Barons Joseph and Andre Csa- vossy, young Hungarian noblemen, own 1,600 acres. BIG VAN IS AGAIN ON SEWARD STREET Big Van, the Gun Man, ls bwk ogain to his old location at 211 Seward Street, with a bigger and better store, he declares, as he has consolidated his former branch on Front Street with the stock he had in his ¢ld location on Seward Street, and is now there “with bells en” Blg Van also has installed the latest in shoe repair machinery end is ready for any kind of a job Lord Cheylesmore, Lord Rodney and | He saw men weep when Vivian, {the Earl of Egmont. Of the total, . and is u | shown “MARGNITA” will not ac- e |dancer did his act. He knew Kate .‘Hc(‘kwell too, then the toast of the! igold country. Snow to Footlights To have been a lad in the Alaska of heavy artillery in the U. S. Army during [ecld rush, to have lived the fron- v ed as one of the illustrations ftier life it demanded, to have ok. tice the long, lean barrel |[fought for a living in a gold-mad | thing new in comedy., When he jleft Alaska by the way of the stage, and landed on Broadwdy Yyears later after barnstorming America iin stock, he realized he needed that “something new” to register a real hit. He knew that thou- !sands of comedians were cracking Jjokes and laughing heartily at their own wit So his “comething new” was to {erack jokes ind crack not n smile The f.rs’ night he trled the ..um |he was a sensation. \1BA(-1‘bcen a boom to Sparks, because of ‘ i ANOTHER BOUT, BUT NOT EASY Pm‘adclphia Negro Re-| mains.in Fight Long- cr than Others PHILADELFPHIA, Penn., 4—Primo Carnera, Giant last night knocked out Roy “Ace” funny in many silent pictures, but Clark, Philadelphia negro, in the in speaking his lines he invariably sixth round of a scheduled round hout. | The “dead pan,” incidentally, Clark won the distinction of being [seems to have become a part of his the first of Primo’s foemen to stand |real-life make-up 8s well as his up beyond the second round. \ screen characters. If he ever mxiles The fight was Carnera’s eighth he must do it in seeret, ¢traight knockout since he began! his American ring career. Musical Generals | | The fight was even until it| Music seems to be taking the mlci |ended. |of the tail wagging the dog*in the| : RPTERED 55 T N N talkies, and the studio” music de- PRESSURE TESTS CEMENT partments consequently are becom- | ling highly organized. WASHINGTON—A crushing, One studio has an “exccutive in | strength of 3,000 pounds a square charge of all musical setivities,” a | inch in standard eylinders must hc"musical director-in-chief, ’'and a! shown by concrete at the end of ‘musical director” to boot. The| 28 days to qualify for highway us: allnmzrs funetion, incidentally, is {in the majority of cities surveyed |merely to conduct the orchestra. Catholie church. The devotions' |will be held at 7 o'clock in the :chapr\l of the hospital, except Wednesdays and Pridays as special |Lenten devetions at 7:30 o'clock on |these nights in the church, are to (be held. During Lent daily mass |is held at 8 o'clock. Tomorrow, | Ash "Wednesday, blessing and dis- tribution of the ashes will be ob- o scrved at 8 o'clock. ——On a bright, cloudless day. |® a photographer- entered the ® ecnvelope of the néw Navy dirigible, ZR-4, to make pic- tures. He didn't make them ® because he found rain and fog inside. ‘The big ship, under con- ® struction in Akron, makes e iis own weather. . ° . 3 . |® AKRON, Ohio, March 4. e . . . e . e Talkies have | Itallan, |his style of comedy. He has been | 10- lis @ panic. ! ;lhc “golden-haired contralto,” sang | |sentimental songs, and go wild| |When Freddie Brown, ace clog| ell as being “gun and gun sup= hmdquarters {F Canadian Ace to Span Ocean 'Errot Boyd, Canadian flier, in his plane following the anne that he will attempt a fillht from Toronto, England, making one stop at Harbor war flier will use the monoplane Columbia in w and Levine made the perilous crossi: a, to Grace, oundland. 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