The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 17, 1930, Page 3

LT LTS LTI (LU DU LT it TR N TR A nuiiTiim v T g -3 E 3 E} : El ; g g = z % £ £ E 3 £ E 5 £ £ g | PALACE STARTING TONIGHT S O TR TR AN ALL TAIKIE COMEDY PROGRAM 2 Hours and 20 Minutes of Laughs YOU’LL FIND TONIGHT LAST TIMES “ As American as the Star Spangled Banner . . . as domestic as corned beef and cabbage . . . as funny a: a college boy without a raccoon coat! with CONRAD NAGEL BESSIE LOVE LEILA HYAMS STRICTLY A FAMILY AFFAIR Flapper Daughters Can Even Bring Their Parents in Fact A SHOW FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY— AND A LAUGH FOR ALL SOMETHING ELSE TO LAUGH AT— LAUREL and HARDY “THE HOOSEGOW” All Talking Comedy METROTONE NEWS OPENS THE SHOW 10c, 25¢, 50c, Loges 75¢ - Save the Difference and Come Again WATCH FOR—— “The Wagon Master” Illl\il||lll||IHll|||||l|||||||ll|||||||||||||m||||||Illlllllllllll_llllllllllllllllllflllllfi WHERE SOUND SOUNDS BEST TWO DAYS ONLY--SU! “THE DUMMY” IT’S SURE GREAT AND HOW! THE TINIEST OF STARS SEGAR ELLIS VITAPHONE SOON— IN THE HEADLINES” A WARNER’S VITAPHONE PICTURE YOU AIN'T SEE NOTHING YET THE SHOW THAT ROCKED BROADWAY —~COLISEUM DAY and MONDAY--7:30 and 9:30 THE SCREEN CHILD SENSATION $1,000,000 KID ANNA GREY VITAPHON e When after DAVEY LEE ‘SONNY BOY’ they talk about it you will be sorry you missed it WHERE SOUND SOUNDS BEST { SUCH STARS AS ED. EVERETT HORTON BETTY BRONSON SONNY BOY THE WONDER CHILD OF “THE SINGING FOOL” HIS FIRST STARRING PRODUCTION Attractions At Theatres " “SONNY BOY” IS AT COLISEUM TOMORROW oS- Manager Tuckett of thc Coliseum Theatre announces that Sunday is the opening date for * | first starring vehicle for fou: old Davey Lee, who won this honor through his marvelous per- formance in support of Al Jolson in “The Singing Fool.” Davey’s part in “Sonny Boy” has nothing of the tragic character of ithe role he had in the Jolson play.{ | He is shown as the child of tempo- rarily battling ‘parents, and to keep the child’s father from taking Son-| ny Boy with him, his mother pldns; with her sister to kidnap him. Itl‘ is by his winsome and ingenious | doings that things are l’inally: straightened out. Davey Lee is supported by Ed- ward Everett Horton, Betty Bron- son, Gertrude Olmsted, John 'T. Murray, Edmund Breese, Lucy Beaumont and Jed Prouty. The story was written by Leon Zuardo. C. Graham Baker did the scenario. Archie L. Mayo directed. " The inimitable charm of Davey Lee is not to be explained, it is as| inexplicable as genius always is, but there are a thousand little, odd, whimsical, elfin, unstudied ways he has, of waving his tiny hands, roll- ing his big eyes, and getting his ’ | both exceptionally well cast, while . | Bessie Love fairly runs away with be interested in the love of a very charming young couple and maybe, too, shed a tear or heave a sigh, at seme little bit of poignant human interest. It's the story of the average life of the cliff dwellers of modern cities, their joys, roman- ces, ideals and loves. Conrad Nagel, who has to his credit many hits on the talking screen, plays the young millionaire who marries his pretty stenograph- er. Leila Hyams is the bride. Edythe Chapman and James Neill carry away the honors for character de- lineation. Robert Ober and Paul Kruger are the part of the flapper sister, who, despite a millionaire in the family, still clings to her iceman sweet- heart and her eight-dollar dresses. ——,—— g2 | “THE DUMMY” NOW | HEARD AT COLISEUM The most delightful mixture of comedy and melodrama to come from the screen since the advent of talking pictures was shown at the Coliseum theatre last night when Paramount’s new all-talking ‘ pic- “The Dummy” is delightful be- cause, whereas most of the talking dramas that have so far appeared upon the Screen with any success have aped the stage play tech- nique, “The Dummy” is really and truly a motion pleture that talks. The action is the action of motion pictures, unlimited in scope, fast and concrete. And the voice record- ing is the equal, if not the super- for, of any that has been done thus far, idiminutive body into unexpected shapes, that sel the audiences intc | peals of laughter—the mellow, and| heart-warming laughter that comes | from the heart. - PR “THE IDLE RICH” | OPENS PALACE TONIGHT | Flat dwellers in the wilderness of a great city, romance that’s justl as sweet among the clanging of§ trolley cars as amid the green nelds‘ The story deals with a gang of kidnapers and an office boy who, succeeds *in outwitting them by| playing deaf and dumb. An excellent cast, including Ruth Chatterton, Frederick March, John Cromwell, Fred Kohler, Jack Oakie and ZaSu Pitts, prove equally cap- able before camera and microphone. ISLAND, TEACHER 1 MARRIED IN JUNEAU| Miss Dorothy B, Fay, Douglas ture, “The Dummy,” opened its, two-day engagement there. i HHIIIH"l'IIIlIlll"flmlflmHIHIIHIIIHIIIIHHHNIIIIIIIIllImlllmllmllllll“"fllllllIIIIIIIIMIIIIIlllllllllllllllllllllllllfll@lnllmflmfl 1l ‘encefi laugh a great deal, perhaps’here recently from the States. of an idyllic garden, comedy that is as subtle as the spirit of the city itself, all these are woven into{grade teacher, and Dr. Morris Phil-| the talking screén's latest cross-|lips were married in Juneau last! section of life, “The Idle Rich,”inight in the mgnse of the Trinity! taken from the famous stage play,|Cathedral by Dean C. E. Rice. “White Collars,” which opens to-| The bride has been teaching in night at the Palace. . the Douglas Schools for the past There's no moral—nothing to]|year and is known on both sides teach—it’s just built to make audi-|of the Channel. Dr. Phillips came | | | i | | By ROBBIN COONS HOLLYWOOD, May 16. — The |movies take a lot of kidding for “exaggeration” in striving for nov- |elty and dramatic effects. But sometimes the last laugh — even though 1t be a hollow omne, as in |this case—is withe the screen. About two years ago @& movie | went out from Hollywood, its theme |the roftenness of conditions in some American prisons. The movie depicted a prison fire |in which' the hero, a convict un- | justly sentenced, I assume, as movie |convict heroes usually are, was chained to his bed. The movie hero, of course, escaped. But prison boards in various parts of the couhtry vigorously pro- tested the picture; saying it was exaggerated and untrue. They wrote {C. B. DeMille, who produced it, 'and (in DeMille’s words, “tried to crucify me, pillory me, for daring |to make that plcture.” | “The Godless Girl” ran its course unmolested: because DeMille, he sented here some months ago and now revived with a new cast, marked a turning point for three— Mary Astor, Gavin Gordon and Gordon Davis. Largest Electric Sign Is Completed in N. Y. NEW YORK, May 17.—The larg- est electric sign on New York's White Way has been completed. It is also the largest electrical sign in the world. Seven stories high, one full block long, it stands on top of the new Hollyweod Theatre, Broadway at Fifty-second Street. Twenty thousand lamps — 11.'». tons of steel—a third of a mile of ladders and walkways—five lines of lettering eight feet high, ad- justed to flash four complete an- nouncements every half minute— such is this sign. It takes sixtecn! working-hours to change all the lettering. A special t,ransiurmerl operates it. | ——— 15ay8, was forearmed with facts and instances of conditions worse than those he depicted. Just Just Russell Mack two years ago “dis- covered” Frances Upton on Broad- way, placing her In a musical comedy he was producing. = Flo Ziegfeld saw the show and dangled a “Follies” contact before the young comedienne, who naturally snapped at it. Mack had to fill the sack he was left holding. Two years later, which is now, Frances came to Hollywood to give the screen her role in the micro- phoned “Whoopee,” which Ziegfeld came west to look after. ‘The screen, it developed, didn’t need Frances for that part because following' ‘its usual procedure, n] changed the script and the charac- ter became 'romantic instead of comic, Mack, now a movie direcwr,‘ heard about it and got Frances back, to play opposite Eddie Quil- lun under his own direction. Now she’s under contract to Mack's studio, : Lucky Connection with the stage pro- duction “Among the Married,” pre- i BARRYMORE HEIR W SCRUTINIZED E Ausociated Press Photo .Newest member of .the stag d screen family, Dolores Ethel, is examined by her fath. ohn ryMmore, and mother, the former Dolores Coatello of the screen. The little girl was born in Los Angeles Both ‘Amertéan and Canadian | several weeks ago. forms at The Empire. NEW WASH DRESSES In Dainty Voiles, Pique, Broadcloth and Prints—Sizes 16 to 46 $2.50 to $4.50 Triangle Buikiiyng—Temporay Location PHONE 101