The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 1, 1930, Page 3

Bl PN s Entire Change TONIGHT METROTONE NEWS MOVIETONE ACT R > [T It Gives You A Brand OUR PROGRAMS IIIIIIIHIIIIIlIIlIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIiIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIiIH!IIIIIIIIIIHIIIIMHIIHIIHIHIIMIg PALACE- PG NS OO . . S DU - S RISSS ST 1 PSS S AP SIC USRI ANOTHER BIG PICTURE 100 PER CENT TALKING \ew Perspective On Life! Makes You Feel The Real Joys of Living. Always Good——Ofter Great———Never a Doubt 10, 25, 50 cents—Loges, 75 cents Watch for “DYNAMITE” T Jones Evyes British Amateur Golf Title AT Bobby Jones, Captain of America’s Walker Cup Team, is pointing for the British amateur title, the only major championship he hasn’t won. for championships. By DILLON GRAHAM ATLANTA, Ga., May 1.—Bobby Jones, who has won nine national golf tournaments States and Great Britain in the last seven years, has set sail on his fourth trip to England and the start of the most ambitious schedule he has faced since 1926. The Atlanta amateur is pointing for the British amateur—the only major crown he has not won. Be- fore he enters this tournament, Bobby will lead the American team in the Walker Cup matches with the strong British team at Sand- wich. After the cup mafches, May 15 end 16, and the British amateur at St. Andrews May 26 to 31, Bobby will seek his third British open title—at Hoylake June 16 to 21. He won the tournament in 1926 and successfully defended his cham- pionship on his last trip abroad in 1927. ‘There also is a possibility that he may ramble over to Ger- many and take a shot at the Ger- man open. Less than two weeks after he re- turns to his native shores, Jones will re-enter the golfing wars at Interlachen in Minneapolis, meet- ing an array of challengers July 10 tc 12 for the United Stales open title he won last year. He. plans to go direct from shipboard to Min- neapolis for practice. Then follows the TUnited States amateur championships at the Mer- fon Cricket Club in Philadelphia, slarting September 22, Bobby's fourth big titular eompetition of the season. He hopes to be the first ‘American to win this title|five v in the United| He may play in Germany before returning to the United States |feminine lead. | |times. He won in 1924, 1025, 1927 |and 1928, but lost in the first round in 1929 to Johnny Goodman, Oma- ha youngster. Mrs. Robert Tyre Jones, Jr., will accompanying her golfing husband on his campaign in Britain, their two children, Clara Malone, 5, and Robert Tyre III, 3, will re- main at home with their grand- parents. ‘With the Jones party will be Bob- 1by’s Boswell, O. B. Keeler of At- lanta, who has foliowed the emper- cr of the links 80,007 miles to tournaments in the past 14 years. | dition during the winter by strenu- ous indoor exercises and is about |five pounds lighter than at the start of his 1928 and 1929 cam- paigns. His weight is about 172 pounds. Jones left Atlanta April 24, and sailed with the Walker Cup team on the Mauretania. Here's Bobby's list of American and British national championships since he won his first national copen at the age of 21: 1923—U. 8. Open at Inwood. 1924—U. 8. Amateur at Merion. mont. 1926—British Open at St. Annes. 1926—U. 8. Open at Scioto. 1927—British Open at St. An- drews. 1927—U. S. Amateur at Mini- kahda. 1928—U. S. Amateur at Brae Burn. 1929—U. S. Open at Winged Foot. but | Bobby kept himself in good con- | 1925—U. S. Amateur at Oak-| Attractions At Theatres | | £% RICHARD BARTHELMESS OPENS PALACE TONIGHT | Bl —_— | Following ciose upon the heels |of the tremendous success of ‘Weary River” and “Drag,” comes “Young Nowheres,” the newest First | National and Vitaphone starring proddction for Richard Barthel- mess. It opens at the Palace Theatre tonight. Barthelmess proved a sensation in his first audible production, “Weary River,” which is still break- {ing records throughout the coun- ltry; then he followed that with “Drag,” which proved highly popu- lar with press and public. - “Young Nowheres” is entirely in dialogue. Frank Lloyd, who directed the first two Barthelmess talkies, wielded the meaaphorical mega- 1phone on “Young Nowheres.” Because of her lovely work in “Out of the Ruins,” Marion Nixon was awarded the role of the girl in “Young Nowhergs,” one of the | most coveted roles of the year. Bert |Roach and Anders Rendolph play important roles. The story was adapted to the screen by Bradley | | | i ANOTHER BIG PICTURE 3 death and what happens _after- Entire Change TONIGHT SPORTING YOUTH COMEDY AT e King from the short story by I. A R. Wylie. | Chinatown Nights,” at the seum for the last times ton: reveals secrets, millions of visitqrs to the large cities of the United | States seck in the “planned” sight- | seeing tours of the luring China- town districts, the secret passages, the sacred] joss houses and the hidden meet- ing places of the powerful tong | leaders, play an important part in| the picture. Florence Vidor—scintillating, cap- tivating, lovely— as the smart so ciety woman who falls in love with | the brutal white boss of sinister Chinatown. Florence Vidor—sloven- | ly, depraved, reduced to a creature of the gutters—as the woman who | finds her love a futile and un-| wanted thing. | One of the largest sets ever con- structed for a moving picture shows the. famed haunts of the terror-| driving tongmen—the Chinese the- | ater of New York’s Chinatown; the | “Bloody Angle” at Doyers and Pell streets, New York, where many tong battles have been fought, and other scenes familiar to those whose cur\»} osity has led them to walk on these narrow, mysterious paths. . The oriental mask stripped from |the guns, the knives and hatchets | of the tongs. All the wonders and | terrors of America’s Orient uncov- | ered for the first time. T “DYNAMITE” 1S SOON COMING TO PALACE i (&2 Once called py critics the i-1 zarre Cecil B. DeMille,” it appears | |that the producer-director is about (ea The opium dens, | | at Washington, D. C. | the daughter of Mrs. Ruth Hanna | her Harbingers of the 1930 poppy sale are o be found in this typical scene at U. S. Veterans’ Hospital No. 81, New York City, where di bled service men are busily making poppies in preparation for the poppy sale that is held during the week of Memorial Day to raise funds for relief work. A part of the proceeds from the sale the V. F. W. National Home for Widows and Orphans of fx-Service Men in Michigan, IIL (Above, left to right) Charles Trunkes, Julius Williamson and Miss Nan L. Meek, occupational therapy aide. (Internations Newsreol) , About to Enjoy Canter On Capital Bridle Path ]| The United States is the leading | — Katrina McCormick, with her horse “Baby,” enjoying a morning ride Katrina is MecCormick, the Republican nom- daughter harsewomen. | inee for the Illinois Senate seat. The noted woman politician and| are accomplished | (International Newsreel® ter: | to reclaim that title in “Dynamite,’ | |which comes soon to the Palace|" |theatre. It is his first talking pic- | | ture. | | 1t is his first pictrue in four| |years to present girls, gowns, and | gayety of the frivolous sort, al-| though his early reputation was “Dynamite” is sald to have food | for the eye in two particular se- | jquences one at a country club, the| jother in the home of Cynthia, the | The country club sequence finds Kay Johnson and: Julia Faye racing in the sensational | new “aero-wheels” to determine {whether Miss Johnson shall pay 1$100,000 or $200,000 for Miss Faye's {husband, Conrad Nagel! To provide the dramatic leaven-| 1 t t Follies, Butler, who wrote the story, also. The song hits: were provided The Process Server,” The third short number and was written by Willlam K. Wells, thor fo George White's “Scandals” for many years and writer of scores of vaudeville acts, as well as the dialog in the Fix Movietone F a is made with this type of material. |single by Stepin Fetchit, in which he does a dance of the old planta- as well as ion days. All of the blackouts, he story of the Fox Movietone were directed by hose Kings of “Tin Pan MR RS S O David by Alley,” Conrad, Mitchell and Gottler. Ola papers for sale at The Em- pire office. \ing for this highly modern situa- tion, De Mille shows Charles Bick- ford being condemned to death and, |later, a marriage of Bickford to Miss Johnson on the eve of his execution. How Bickford escapes ward, at a party in Cynthia's home and in the coal mine of which the lead is gang boss, completes the dramatic framework of Jeanie Mac- Pherson’s latest original. " FOX FOLLIES AT COLISEUM, SUNDAY a— il The comedy element of the Wil- j{liam Fox Movietone Follies of 1929, aside from that which arises from situations in the story which is interwoven into the gigantic pro- duction, is well taken care of in three blackouts, in two of which Stepin Fetchit, premier negro come- dian, appears. The Follies is com- ing to the Caliseum Sunday. “The first one, called “Daniel Boone,” is an all-negro number, the cast including Stepin Fetchit, An- nabelle Lee, George Reed and John Lester Johnson. Johnson is the former heavyweight prizefighter, the only man who ever knocked out Jack Dempsey. He registered a “K. 0.” on the Manassa Mauler when Dempsey was just starting his rise to the heavyweight champion- ship. The second bhctoun* is called | That’s Us f MOST folks, when they decide to have a piece of printing donewant it at once. Weare well equipped to give prompt service on your work. Furthermore, it will not look like a hurry up job, since our ability to handle rush work enables us to give it the same careful attention that is given less hurried work. au- | FIND RECORDS ONCE USED I BY CONFEDERATE COMMAND | 1—Lay- ers of book labels removed from an |old set of U. S. Supreme Court re- ports in the War Department law library have disclosed that the set | was once used in the headquarters of the confederacy at Richmond. | The book is autographed by Juda P. Benjamin, attorney general of ! the confederacy who, after his es- cape to England, became a queen’s | WASHINGTON, May ] | counsel of note. | Another rare volume, a copy of the first civil code for the territory of Orleans, was rescued from the basement of the state war and | navy building and is now in the | war department law library. e — TRAVELING MAN HERE | W. D. Chaberlain, with the Com- mercial Tmporting Company, was an arrival on the Northland today on his way to the Westward. This |is his first trip to Alaska in nine o1 ten years. | - e, se0e 0 s 00000000 . . . BUS 5SS ABROAD ol ° . ©ec0o0eecoevs o0 Polish- rubber. industry is making rapid strides. Exports in 1929 in- creased nearly 3,000 per cent in value over 1928. source of Grecian imports. | Two French firms make powdered |silk from silk and rayon waste. It lis as fluffy as velvet and used for fine tapestry wall paper and other fancy decorative effects. A total of 771,610 pounds of but- ter was imported by the United States from Denmark in 1929. STARTS TOMORROW 25 Per Cent to 50 Per : Cent Discount on Excepting merchandise priced Where Sound Sounds Best COLISEUM Il 2 SHOWS 7:30-9:30 2 SHOWS 7:30-9 ; LAS lecfric TivE { SYSTEM TONIGHT “CHINATOWN NIGHTS FROM THE STORY “TONG WAR” STARTING FRIDAY 29 RUTH CHATTERTON FREDRIC MARCH JOHN CROMWELL JACK OAKIE Coming — FOX FOLLIES—Oh. Boy! 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