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O S W WERERE R RE O RN AVEATRE AR FRE THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1930. WHERE SOUND SOUNDS BEST 2-SHOWS -2 7:30 and 9:30 Mondoy Sunday AND IT’S ONE MORE OF OUR PARADE OF HITS ~COLISEUM~- PSSP E S RS S 4 8 4 SSSssaassssssscassases BROADWAY’S DAZZLE BROUGHT TO YOU IN THE SCREEN’S FIRST FOLLIES-—-100 PER CENT ALL SINGING - DANCIN(. - TALKING MUSICAL COMEDY PRS0y P TN SRS YOU’LL SEE AND HEAR THE SONG HITS———— “That’s You Baby” “The Breakaway” “Walkin® With Susie” “Big City Blues” “Pearl of Old Japan” in Technicolor Wester; _SOUND | \VII.I.IAM FOX ONE, TURDAY—THE LAST TIMES That Marvelous Mystery Sensation “BLHIND TI[ AT CU RTAI “ON WITH THE SHOW” 100 Per Cent Talking—Singing—Dancing—Color “Tomorrow’s Styles Today” romi“a hmle 4 A.A with the rose line The exclusive Duette Heel adds smartness to smart legs. Subtle shades that com~ plement and ‘compliment the nataral skintones. tJ¢%s the sheerness that makes the shade* Juneau’s Own Store ' ——————————————————————————— | Attractions At Theatres ‘" FOX FOLLIES AT COLISEUM, Fol- um The William Fox Mov. lies of 1929 opens at the tomorrow night. This production which talked about for months a has aroused more cur motion picture world tha vious all-talking perfo; said to be all and mc been claimed for it. It presents for the f a motion picture s musical revue, cons challenge of Hollyw way'’s supremacy. There are eleven elaborately staged numbers in addition to a “backstage” story, skillfully inter- woven, which keep terest at the boiling point and provides the best opportunity to date at inimitable comedian, Stepin Fetchit, has had to display his talent | Several g bers already have been heard over the radio, and un- doubtedly will beco | throughout the country. 'include “Th You, Baby,” Breakaway,” “Walkin' With Susie,” “Big City Blues” and “Pearl of old ‘Japan.” | A stagg one which in the 1 has rst time on zigantic g array of principals includes Sue Carol, Lola Lane, Sharon Lynn, Dixie Lee, David _Rollins, John Breeden, Stepin Fet- chit, David Percy and Frank Rich- ardson. Con Conrad, Sidney D. Mitchell and Archie Gottler, cele- brated song writers, are responsi- ble for the words and music. The direction was by David Butler and Marcel Silver. Gottler, with Fan- chon and Marco, staged the en- sembles. Wwilllam K. Wells did the dialog. t— 0 “DYNAMITE” OPENING | AT PALACE TONIGHT | & — “Dynamite,” Cecil B. De Mille'’s ‘0ld Papers for sale at Empire Offic | fifty-fifth production, marks a re- turn for the producer to the exotic Juxurious sets and gowns which @ made his reputation in such pic- 1: ures as ‘“Manslaughter,” “Mn)z ¢+ |tic galety of a » |scenes of intense drama > popular hits! ‘They | “The| SUE CARC SHARON BREEDED} VID PERCY, LINS, FR SON, STEL H SYSTEM e e ettt with )L, LOLA LANE, LYNN, JOHN MXIE LEE, DA- DAVID ROL- ANK RICHARD- ’IN FETCHIT EAR IT lies — E IT Sunday WHERE SOUND SOUNDS BEST 2- SHOWS -2 7:30 and 9:30 Monday Row Seat for the Fox Movietone Fol- The First Follies of the Films -AND HOW! YOU'LL SEE AND HEAR—— VITAPHONE ACTS FOX MOVIETONEWS The World at Large in Sound and Action WILLIAM FOX Every Seat in the Theatre Is a Front _MOVIETONE and Female,” Your Wife?” The new picture will play at the Palace Theatre, start-| ing Saturday . “Dynamite,” a Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer talking picture, abounds| with entertaining situations. Its | {central sequence is a marriage of a society girl to a coal miner on the eve of the latter’s execution) for murder. It swings from the hec-| “wild party,” to in the depths of a coal mine. Its race of ten pretty girls in the foreign novelty, aero-wheels, is said to be one of the most striking sequences ever put into a motion picture. Ten of Hollywood's prettiest roll head-over-heels in the huge loops to which their feet are fastened. INot the least interesting feature of this particular sequence is that” it is the first scene ever taken where characters talk upside down! Famous people of stage and screen are equally divided in fhe cast of this first De Mille produc- tion for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Charles Bickford and Kay John- son have been the beau and belle of New York’s Broadway for years; while Conrad Nagel and Julia Faye jneed no introduction to picturego- ers. Other players in the produc- ,tion include Joel McCrea, Muriel | McCormac, Robert Edeson, Tyler Brooke, Leslie Fenton, Barton Hep- burn and Ernest Hilliard. [ e——————E [ “BEHIND THE CURTAIN” | SHOWING AT COLISEUM | T SN L Strikingly beautiful sceni ts” of the desert, accompanied by the characteristic sounds accompanying a caravan, the singing of @ Arab camel drivers to barbaric native in- struments around their camp-fires, the squealing and grunting of the camels and the chater of the turb- aned assemblage, are presented in the all-talking Fox Movietone spe- |cial “Behind That Curtain” now being seen and heard at the Coli- seum tonight. Irving Cummings, one of the “ace” directors of the Fox Films| Corporation, is responsible for the alluring effects. To get them he |took a large caravan down into | Death Valley, 242 feet below sea| level. The remarkable results warranted and “Why Change! is declared to be one of the most !novel talking pictures of the year. Warner Baxter, Lois Moran and Gilbert Emery play the leading roles, Philip Strange, Eric Durant, Claude King, Peter Gawthorne, Finch Smiles, John Rogers, Monta- gue Shaw, Boris Karloff, and Jam- iel Hassen have the chief svpport- ing parts. o | WHO'S WHO AND WHERE o~ Mrs. Martin Conway of Skagway, was an arrival on the Admiral iRogers for a visit with friends in Juneau. Traveling men arriving on the Admiral Rogers included J. J. Meherin and Sam Guyot both local brokers. Three round trip aboard the Admiral R present voyage. They Marjorie Neff, with the Southern Pacific Railroad offices in San Francisco; and Mrs, and Mrs. Jack Dunphey. Mr. Dunphey is an engineer in Los 2ngeles. Peter Leopold, Hood Bay Can- ning Company engineer, is return- ing to the States on the Admiral Rogers. tourists are s on the Quick Shipment to Alaska Write or wire your or- der - it will be shipped on the first boat. Our com- plete lumber service takes care of every detail. Far- rell Lumber is your as- surance of Speed, Quality and Satisfaction, IMUCH INTEREST IN GARDENING Biggest Attendance of Year, at May Meeting of Ju- neau Garden Club One of the largest attendances of the year featured the May meeting of the Juneau Garden Club at the American Legion Dugout last night when the program for the year was outlined and various commit- tees reported substantial progress made in work already launched. From reports received it was ap- parent that there will be a ma- private gardens in this year. The Junior Department, a branch of the Club, has s work on plans for a comm garden for children which is ex ed to be popular. The Club, itself, endeavors to improve one piece of the city new ity public property each year. The Go:g Mah rm’ i ing - Fine Finish Lumber - These Are Qur Specialties. Just send us your specifications « we make all shipping arrangemeats. | | talking presentation of Earl Derr Biggers' Scotland Yard story, one of the “best sellers” of the seasom, 3 g P v the trying expedition for this alle| Westlake and Prospect Farrell Lumber Co. IS DISPLAYED terial increase in the number of | tarted | | project for this summer, it was an- nounged, will be the beautification DI the hillside slope between Cal- houn Avenue and Dixon Street op- posite Governor's Mansion. Representatives of the American Legion post and the Legion Auxili- ary attending the meeting yesterday announced that the Dugout grounds this year will be beautified by these | organizations, under the direction of the Garden Club. Work will be launched at an early date. Last year the Dugout lot twas planted and cared for by the Club. —r-——— Phil E. Baer of Paris, Tex. has been United States Marshal under four of the last five Presidents. 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