The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 26, 1930, Page 3

CAN W1 VE TRUSTED? AND HOW'! SUNDAY SO EASY TO LAUGH WHEN YOU SEE AND HEAR THIS 100 PER CENT ALL OF COUR THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1930. ——IT'S AT WHERE SOUND SOUNDS BEST COLISEUM Wester: SOUND TALKING LAUGH SEN! Jeclric SYSTEM &; ATION SHOWS- 7:30 and 9:30 IOWS——2 MONDAY DOUGLAS McLEAN, MARIE PREVOST, JOHNNY ARTHUR in "DIVORCE MADE EASY” DON'T MISS HEARING MARIE SING “SO SWEET” IEYER Cowboy & EVANS and Girl Vitaphone Act EXTRA SANDERSON & CRUMIT Vitaphone Act EXTRA “XTRA EXTR THE FIRST AND:ONLY PICTURES OF “JUNEAU’S $40,000 FIRE” HIS OPERATIO 100 Per Cent Talking Comedy SATURDAY ONLY---“THE FARMER’S DAUGHTER” Attractions At Theatres FS e SRR e |- DOUGLAS “MACLEAN 1S AT COLISEUM SUNDAY £ A famous orchestra of the West Ceast, Earl Burtnett's Los Angeles Blltmore Orchestra, has a promi- neént part in the night club se- quences of Douglas MacLean’s star- ring picture, “Divorcer Made Easy” || which comes to the Coliseum Sun- day. The Burnett paunu features “So Syeet” theme song of the produc- tign, which was written by Sterling Sherwin, author of “Melancholy Mama.” The song is played as a dance number and is also sung by Burtnett's trio and by Marie Pre- vost, feminine lead in the film. “Divorce Made Easy,” is one of jail hospital after the court had denied his third plea for release under bond. He is under sentence of ene to 50 years in the State’s prison for‘wn |son. the greatest smash-hit panics of the notable MacLean career. Writ- ten and acted in the familiar par- lor, bedroom and bath manner but with a multitude of refreshing new gags, it received immediate acclaim from critics who previewed it on te West Coast after it was com- pleted at the Hollywood studios of Al Christie, impressario of cinema buffoonery. Besides Miss Prevost in support of MacLean are Johnny Arthur, Dot Farley, Frances Lee, and Jack Duffy. It is one of the most cap- able comedy casts ever gathered in support of MacLean for a Para- mount release. Every member is a veteran of farce comedy and all are admirably fitted for the new requirements of the audible screen. R | MUSICAL COMEDY IS | AT PALACE TONIGHT | sl A musical revue without a sin- gle feature was staged at First Na- tional-Vitaphone studios for “Broad- way Babies,” the Alice White stel- lar vehicle, which Mervyn LeRoy directed. “Broadway Babies,” is a story of theatrical life, and the revue is shown in its entirety on the screen, with singing, talking, dancing and sound effects. Miss White sings four songs during the revue, and leads several dancing numbers. The revue was staged in a real theatre, with a real audience as spectators, a chorus of fifty experi- enced dancing girls and a thirty- piece orchestra. Several sets of scenery were built especially for the picture, and more than fifty costumes were made for the principals and chorus. A crew of fifteen back-stage carpenters, electricians and scene shifters was required just for the picture itself, in addition to the scores of regular motion picture electricians, camera- men and technical men. Charles Delaney plays opposite the star, and Marion Byron and Sally Eilers play two of the dancing girls. Fred Kohler, Bodil Rosing, Louis Natheaux, Maurice Black, FAMILY CONSOLES RICH PRISONER [ r —_— Alexander Pantages, (in bed) wealthy showman, was visited by his |wife and children, Rodney, Lloyd criminal attack. | —(Associated Press Photo. and Carmen, in the Los Angeles Tom Dugan and many others are5 included in the big cast. “Broadway Babies” is one of the most spectacular pictures ever made 'at the big First National-Vitaphone Studios. It will be shown at the Palace starting tonight. FOX COMEDY IS AT COLISEUM TONIGHT 3 =t There* have been bathing beauty contests galore staged in various }pans of the country, but the most unusual one ever held was in the little town of Santa Cruz in North- ern California, during the progress of a county fair. | Despite the fact that the contest was just one sequence of “The Farmer's Daughter,” Fox comedy drama featuring Marjorie Beebe, the fact remains that it was extra- ordinary. The contest revealed more unique shapes, more funny contours of face land form and the most diversified hitherto have been photographed, to {say nothing of the strange assort- ment of bathing suits, Arthur Rosson, director, scoured jthe country side for his “types” 1and his work was well done. “The Farmer’s Daughter” is based on an original story evolved to fit Miss Beebe's especial and distinc- tive talents as a screen comic. An exceptional supporting cast is seen, including Warren Burke, Arthur Stone, Lincoln Steadman, Harry ! Dunkinson and Sam DeGrasse. The {picture is at the Coliseum tonight only. i e A little more than 99.9 per cent of !the country’s 1929 production of sulphur came from Texas. — -t —— Georgia has increased its aspara- gus production five-fold since 1920 and now ranks fourth among the ‘States in this crop. e e Dell E. Snermi, saneaus mens aggregation of underpinnings that | uner. Hotel Gastineau. —~2dv . BETTER HOMES WEEK STARTS HERE MONDAY Gov. George Parks to Give| Opening Address Over | Station KIFU Better Homes Week, nation-wide movement of which President Her- bert Hoover is Honorary Chairman, will be inaugurated here Monday by an evening broadcast over Sta- tion KFIU of the Alaska Electric Light and Power Company, it was| announced today by Mrs. Marie| Skuse, local chairman. This will be the first of a series of broadcasts to be given on four consecutive days next week. All of them will go on the air at 7 p.m. and be concluded about 8 p.m. Gov. George A. Parks officially will open the movement here by giving the opening address over KFIU. Included on the program are: reading by Miss Muriel Jar- man; violin solo by Mrs. Dufresne, accompanied by Mrs. Sperling; “Music in the Home,” an address by Rev. Harry R. Allen; trio, Mrs. Dufresne, violin, Miss Jones, cello, and Mrs. Sperling, piano; vocal duet, Mrs. Norton and Mrs. Jar- man, accompanied by Mrs. Kraus “Better Homes Through Legisla-| tion,” Mrs. Hermann. | The reading by Miss Jarman will be: “When I Come Home,” written by Leslie Coulson, killed in action October 7, 1916, in the World War. In addition the above announced program there will be several musi- cal numbers played from phono- graph records, ~ | ritory. HEART ATTACK CAUSES DEATH OF V. K. Wo0DS | V. K. Woods, tendent for Spokane-Siems Com- pany, road censtruction contractors, | dropped dead about 1 o'clock today on the stairway in the Triangle Building. His body was found by Dr. H. C. DeVighne almost im- mediately after he had been strick- en. Death resulted, Dr. DeVighne said, from heart failure. | The body was taken at once to the Carter Mortuary where it will be held until next week for ship ment to Spokane, Mr. Woods's | home. It will be taken south by I. G. Anderson, member of the Spokane-Siems Company, who 1s here on business. | Mr. Woods haa represented the | company in Alaska for the past five years, succeeding Mr. Ander- He was in general charge of all the company’'s work in the Ter- He is survived by a widow |and two children, a son and daugh- 'have been revealed. Four bersons | |ter who are attending high school were arrested and a large quan- |in Spokane. He was about 48 years aity of contraband, furs, game meat of age. Death came suddenly. Apparently | Mr. Woods was in the best of health this morning. He had at- Alaska Superint | A SCOOP FOX MOVIETONE NEWS PHIL. BAKER “IN SPAIN” Vitaphone Act Soon--Chinatown Nights, Gold Diggers of Broadway tended a meeting of construction' men earlier in the day in the office of the United States Bureau of Public Roads where bids were op-| ened on a Ketchikan job. Afters| ward he was around town, visiting the Elks Club, his rooms at the Gastineau Hotel and other places.| At the time of his death he was on his way to the apartments of| L. W. Turoff, engineer of thej| Bureau of Public Roads to see Mr:| Turoff “Mr. Woods was a high class/ man, a competent and efficient road man, and a valuable employes | of the company,” Mi Anderson | said tc “He has rupr(-senled‘ iL in Alaska very capably and it will be hard to fill his place.” BIG SMUGGLING PLANTREVEALED | In a raid by representatives of four Federal bureaus on Sitklan, Island in Lincoln Channel in the southern end of the Division yes-| terday, headquarters of a big smug- gling operations was declared to! and liquor was seized. Reports on the raid we: here today by United shal Albert White from Deputy W. ‘This is one of the new stroll- ers which reverse, as shown in the small pic Cap Variety — and Fair Prices, Too! Mothers tell us they like to buy a baby carriage here becausé we haw such a wide variety and our prices a styles of carriages in the new display at our store, in a wide choice of colors. We are glad to show them and recommend them to mothers because they are made by Heywood-Wakefield — nationally known for fine baby carriages. You will quickly see, too, that our usual fair prices prevail, Juneau-Young ture. re always so fair. You will find all | Hardware Co. holm engineer. H. Caswell who took pdrt in the raid. Other Federal agencies co- operating were: United States Coast Guard through the cutter Cygan, the Alaska Game Commission and the Prohibition Unit. Those arrested were: Arthur Gambel, Jack Lambert, Tom Brown and Mrs. A. R. Herman, all de- clared to be &liens. Deputy Cas- well reported that about $1500 Worth. of iMegally taken furs, wirle, | beer and whiskey, parts of a still, cighteen guns, deer meat, beaver meat, three cases of canned game | meat, and a cooker in full pro-| cess of canning were seized. In his report, Deputy Caswell said: | “We know they have been running things over the border for years. Consider this the biggest raid pull- ed off in years.” > NEW COTTON PARACHUTE WILL STAND HEAVY PULL| STOCKHOLM, Sweden, April 24.' —A new parachute, made entirely ! of cotton, has been tried success- fully in Sweden. It is strong enough to withstand a pull of 220 pounds at a descend- ing speed' of 248 miles an hour. | The device is equipped with both manual and automatic opening de- vices, each separated from the oth- er, It is called the “Robur” and its inventor is 8. 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