The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 16, 1930, Page 3

i PALACE TONIGHT v FULL SOUND And Talking Program \PHOTOPHONE METROTONE NEWS VINCENT LUPEZ ina PIANOLOGUE THE DANCING ROONEY Feature Attraction “THE . LAST W ARNING” with LAURA LA PLANTE and JOHN BOLES This IS Entertainment 10 Loges T5c¢c COMING BILLIE DOVE in “CAREERS” WATCH FOR “OUR DANCING DAUGHTERS” Attractions At Theatres +e “LAST WARN ° . AT PALACE TONIGHT e S0 ec0ce0en o0 , Patrons at the Palace Theatre fare getting a complete assortment yof thrills and exciting moments ! during the showing of “The Last :Wamimz," a mystery melodrama with ‘dialogue and sound effects. It 'is another Paul Leni-Laura La Plante picture, sponsored by Uni- versal. “The Last Warning,” is a screen adaptation of the play of that name by Thomas F. Fallon, which :was based on the Wadsworth Camp ‘novel. As a talking picture it re- tains all the chill values of the play, with its eerie noises, screams, fright-fraught dialogue and general Inoise and excitement. Miss La Plante has a good screen voice and should be as popular in the new . style of screen entertainment, as ishe was in the silent drama. \ The cast includes Montagu Love, Roy D'Arcy, Margaret Livingston, ! John Boles, Bert Roach, Burr Mc- +Intosh and a scon\z of other play- ‘ers well known to picture fans. jesececosssscccse e “THE ARGYLE CASE” k3 e SHOWING, COLISEUM e eceeess s o i | ,of screen and stage, made his local idebut last night at the Coliseam ‘in his first talkie, “The WArgyle Case,” Warner Bros. latest all talk- ing Vitaphone production. The audience vociferously indicat- ted their approval of the star as ! Alexander Kayton, master-detective, i whose duty it is to locate the mur| | derer of the wealthy John Argyle. Mr Meighan’s voice is pleasing and well modulated augmenting | greatly the magnetic power of his presence. «“The Argyle Case” Wwas adapted ifor the screen by Henry Thew, from {the celebrated stage success of Har- iriet Ford and Harvey J. O'Hig- igins. The supporting cast is es-| \pecially good—H. B. Warner pre- -sents with his usual restrained sub- tlety a suave rascal whose favorite | .vnflme is the passing of counter- feit bills; Lila Lee is the foster- daughter of the murdered man, swho, while suspected by the detec- ftive, wins his love; ZaSu Jitts is {marvelous in the role of a logua- Lious landlady; others in the cast are John Darrow, Bert-Roach, Wils bur Mack, Douglas Gerrary, Alona parlowe and J. Quinn. Howard | NS ERS Thomas Meighan manly favorite | Only foreign stars are substituted. SEYMOUR (A. P. Staff Writer) NEW YORK, June 16.—Americar.- | made movies are talking to the | {world in a dozen languages and dia- | lects. The babel of tongues which de- {scended upon the motion picture in- | dustry with the coming of the talk- |ies, is being regimented. ‘, At production centers in New | York and Hollywood pictures are ’bclng turned out with dialog which {can be understood in Stockholm, | Tokyo or Buenos Aires. | Maurice Chevalier and Cldudette | Colbert made an English version of “The Big Pond” at the Paramount ‘slu(nos at Astoria, L. I. | Then, in front of the same sets land the same camera, they enacted {the play again in French, with !their American supporting cast re- !placed by French players. { Vilma Banky and Edward G. Robinson, made an American pic- jture, “A Lady to Love” at the | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios in Hollywood. Then they rested and rehearsed for a week, and did the story again in German. | Thus, the transition from 'silence !to speech is being accomplished by |the American motion picture indus- American film stars re-make talkies in foreign languages after Among stars who have done this Maurice Chevalier and Claudette Colbert. the English versions are completed. are, left to right, Dolores Del Rio, Rio, Lupe Velez, and others verse | try without the loss of foreign mar- | kets. When it became apparent that American dialog made a picture thoroughly unsuitable for foreign | showing, efforts were made to pick | |out the most important parts of the dialog, translate them into | printed subtitles subtitles on the lower the secreen. Thi so because words are spoken on the screen six times as rapidly as they can be read. Another system was to fit sub- titles into the, picture in the fore- ign language, but leave the Ameri- can dialog audible. A third plan, tors behind the scenes reproduce the dialog in their own language, following as closely as possible the quarter of lip movement of the characters on | the screen, was hooted by several German audienc Most produce! have decided that the only way to make pictures for the fo n market is to_use actors who actually speak the language of | the country where the film is to be show: Thus Chevalier, actors like Miss Banky, Robinson, Dolores Del and ‘'show these | was unsatisfactory—the more | having foreign nc»! /in two or more tongues leom as the most valuable screen stars. | Paramount began making short| pictures in foreign languages last | | April. Some were made in Swedish, | French, Czecho-Slovakian, and three Spanish dialects—Castillian (the court language of Spain), Mexican |and Argentinian. Even Esperanto | was employed in one picture. guage productions are still utterly | inadequate to meet demands. 1 From the actor’s standpoint, if he | has a reasonably good speaking ac- \qn.um.mw with three or four lan- | quages, it is not difficult to make versions of a picture in each lan- guage, Robinson says. | The Northwestern left for the ‘mmn at 9:30 p.m. with,the fol- | {lowing from Juneau: M. G. Metcalf, Frank Armstrong, |H. Rattray, M. P. Randolph, Mr and Mrs. Halfton Burgh, Theopa M. Lee, Miss B. M. Craven and seven steerage for Seattle; Mrs. John Mills, John Mills, Gordon Mills and one steerage for Ketchi- | kan; Mrs. Edwin Hofstad and 'Ef- ‘wm Hofstad, for Wrangell; - ‘IL\m F. Schnabel and Fred Walle- son for Sitka. Bretherton has outdone himself in| this production. | “The Argyle Case” is quite {most absorbing mystery story presented 'in the new medium. ® 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 e BILLIE DOVE IS . COMI! TO PALACE ® 0 00 000 00 00 a0 Late Paris models stunning gowns in the newest mode — are worn by Billie Dove in her new starring * feature, “Careers,” pro- duced by First National-Vitaphone and showing at the Palace Theatre soon. In addition to Miss Dove two members of her cast, Carmel Myers and Thelma Todd, are also seen in gorgeous creations of the dressmak- ed. ,{Capone’ Brother Is Sentenced to 3 Years, Penitentiary CHICAGO, Iil, June 16.—Ralph J. Capone, brother of “Scarface” Al Capone, has been sentenced to {three years in the Federal Peni- |tentiary at Leavenworth and fined 1$10,000. ‘He was convicted on a |charge of defrauding the Govern- ment by filing false income tdx returns. decide.to bava a piece of pfinmldm:wanchuon“ Wearewell togive pmmp:mvfignnymrw«k " Furthermore, it will not look lhnmwcb-mm b abily to bandle rush wosk 3 enablu ua $0.give: it the | the | yet er’s art. John Francis Dillon direct- | By DOROTHY HERZOG Copyright, 1930, Premier Syndicate, Inc. HCLLYWOOD, June 16.--Al Jol- son has finished his current and last outloud for Warner Bros, “Big Boy.” He and Mrs. Jolson plan to depart the colony in a few days enroute to New York and thence to Europe. Al has signed to make his next vocalloid with United Ar- tists, but this film doesn’'t go into production before November. So eastward ho for the Jolsons. The Warner lot won't seem the same without Al around. Was it two years ago—or more—that he went to work for that company in “The Jazz Singer”? There was more than money staked in “The Jazz Singer.” And then—zowie! Over the t smashed this first big talky. Panic and delirium in the industry. The outlouds were no longer a farce. Hollywood readjusted its box of- fice perspective. Sound stages shot yp. Sound equipment was import- ed. Millions of dollars in con- structing the new method of pic- ture producing. Many producers grumbled loudly and died hard. They looked at the talkies as a fad. A darn, expensive fad. Al Jolson, regardless of what he may or may not do in pictures now, goes down in the historical annals of the celluloid industry as the star pioneer whose dynamic name and personality launched the new type entertainment. Listens Familiar— This one smacks of wear but the chap who relayed it to me con- tends it actually happened. It con- cerns Bill (Director) Beaudine who, together with some friends, jour- neyed forth into the stream coun- try to snag the darting trout. The day ended with nary atrout to his credit. Bill started home, discon- solate. The family expected trout. He detoured from the main road to Noah Begry's trout ranch. By gum, the family would have trout! Bill filled his creel to the lid with a glittering mess of ten inch trout raised by the Beery experts. Home. Exulation. The family showered him with compliments, Shameless- ly, Beaudine accepted them. All as beautiful, until the cook paus- cd from cleaning the fish to poke her head into the living-room and blast: 1 “Mrs. Beaudine, what do I QD i with the tin tags they got in their | mouths?” Ah, Bill, that you, good husband, end good father that you are, should penetrate such a cunning trick upon your ftrusting family. Weep, sinner, weep . . . "Tother eve, I dropped into a nearby theatre to see “Fighting Blood,” directed by D. W. Grif- fith. It was a one (maybe a two) reeler. It was produced at least fifteen or more years. Long, cooey, saccharine sub-title that almost al- ternated with the action of the picture itself. Said action was the old familiar stuff that thrilled youthful picture audiences in those days. Indians. An attack. The hero rushing for ®ncle Sam's cay- alry. Saved at the crueial moment. Cheers! Heavens, what a breathless dis- tance pletures have come since then. It was good, though. To see Fobert Harron on the screen. Bob- by Harron, who died when such a lad, whoe pieture future would have glittered. When Griffith first started producing on -his own, he co-featured Harron' with a femin- ine player, but Harron passed on. Richard Barthelmess, unknown, stepped into his shoes. Richard has realized tht future that Harron, too, would have realized. One of the tragedies of the tragic inside stories of the motion picture, Bob- by Harron. Said to be a rare sight im Holly- wood: Bessie Love buying pota- toes. No argument. Winnie Lightner has leased (Pathe) Boyd's home in Hollywood. By the bye, didst know ‘Miss Light- ner is married? She is. And has a two-year-old baby boy. Whom she named after her favorite mo- tion picture star, Richard Barthel- mess. Hear tell 'tis quite possible that Dolores Costello (Mrs. John Bar- rymore) will not make any more pictures. I understand she has cmnpleted her Warner contract. What with being the mother of Despite this activity foreign lan-| THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, JUNE 16, |930 American Films Talk to the World : In All Tongues of F oretgn Nations BEBE DANIELS AND BEN LYONS {Filmdom’s Blggest Wedding Takes Place in Los Angeles { LOS ANGELES, Cal, June 16— !l' be Daniels, movie actress and Ben Lyons, also a screen actor, |dom’s biggest June wedding. It is the first venture of married life for | ))\ th, Two hundred picture stars at- tended the wedding. bridesmaids were Marion s, Lila Lee, Betty Compson, le Rogers St. Johns, Constance \imadge, Diana Fitzmaurice, Mar- (ie Mosquini and Mae Sunday. | TLouella O. Parsons, motion pic- |ture editor, Hal Howe was Ben Lyon's best man The ushers were Henry Hobart, George Fitzmaurice, Sam Hardy, | Skeets Gallagher, Dr. Harry Mar- tin and Wallace Davis. veral weeks ago June 14 was elected as the wedding date be- |cause it was the first day the two principals would be free from mak- ing pictures. MOVIE ACTRESS IS NEAR DEATH! Claire Wlndsor Aboard | Yacht Which Is Sunk 1 in Collision | Dav [a NEW YORK, June 16.—One sail- as drowned and ten persons injured, including Claire Windsor, |movie actress, when two yachts, one owned by Phillip Plant, prom- |inent Broadway figure, collided | last night three miles off Green-| wich, Conn. | The Plant yacht, the Loleta, on |which Miss Windsor was a guest, |was struck amidships by the Chang ‘Wang No. 3, and went down rap- idly. Miss Windsor and the other oc- jor w |cupants, with the exception of the | sailor, were rescued. NIGHTMANAGER OF RESTAURANT IS SHOT, KILLED |cne other Murder in Chi- cago Eating Place CHICAGO, 1ll, June 16—An- other North Clark Street restau- rant, the Villa Rica, saw murder done when two men, probably| robbers, slew Christ Petras, night manager. Twenty persons witnessed the shooting. Witnesses said the two men entered the restaurant and engaged Petras in conversation over a cigar counter. The talk may have been personal or may have been a demand for receipts. Suddenly, Petras drew his gun and fired twice but missed. from his pocket and shot Petras down. The two unknown men escaped. Locks Torn from Tank, Prisoners Make Escape FRESNO, Cal, June 16.—Tearing locks from the door of the felony tank, then digging through heavy brick of the outside walls, nine FRENCH FLANNEL SHIRTS Blue, Tan, Grey and Green $2.50 Dolo-junior, Mrs. Barrymore prob- ably finds her time pretty well taken up. ‘Well, T'll be seeing you. e Karretts for sick and sour stom- ach, Juneau Drug Co., Agents. adv H. . GRAVES The Clothing Man MAN AND WIFE June|| |Were magried here Saturday in mm-‘ was matron of honor. | Twenty Diners Witness An—Z One of the men snapped his gun | * Assoclated Press Photo Dorothy Dwan, motion plcture actress and widow of Larry Semon, flm comedlan, filed application for w~edding llcense with Paul N. Boggs, Jr. soh of oll executive. The wedding date was not an- aounced. men, all accused of felonies, caped from the Fresno County jai sometime during the night. LIU HUAN YEN | CANTON, China, Huan Yen, Governor of Kwang: Province, He was shot in the back. The assassin, |group offered him $10,000 and th uank of Colonel to kill the Go\-, |ernor. e — Try the Five o'Clock Dinner (Speflals at Mabry's. —adv Juneau Drug Co. away. | “Tomorrow’s Styles Today” ‘ W hite Uniforms Shown in both the nurses uniform and the waitress model. j Sizes 16 to 44. | 1 | trucks go any place any A tank for Diessl Oll a tink foe crude oil save biirtier trouble. PHONE 16, NIGHT 5103 | RELIABLE TRANSFER FOR GUARANTEED HEATING and PLUMBING SEE A. J. Hawver FRONT STREET Next to Nifty Shoppe Telephone 379 Contraets Solicited Any Place in Alaska es- il ASSASSINATED June 16.—Liu was assassinated yester- |day while dining in the Asia Hotel. who was a body- guard, was captured. He said the| Commander of the Kwangsi rebel Mosquito Dope. Keeps mosquitoes —adv. m.mx WHERE SOUND SOUNDS BEST Tonight T Last | =5 COLISEUM . 9:30 A \ Tonight THOMAS | ‘IEIGHA\ | “THE ARGYLE CASE” {| His First 100 Per Cent Talking Role—He is superb_and the feature is a thrilling mystery ADDED FEATURES—Harry Tate in “Sell- {| ing a Car” and Mal Hallet and his orchestra Coming Soon—WILL ROGERS, “THEY HAD TO SEE PARIS” ¥EDERAL EMPLOYES Virginia, Dr. Hugo Eckener's fav- LURED BY GLIDING | dred site for the American tremi- nal of his propose trans- WASHINGTON, June 14. — The | dirigible line. lure of gliding has marked a vxc-( ‘The enthusiasts were f d tory with federal employes. A group of 30 persons at the bu- | reau of standards has combined | to purchase one of the motorless| Dairy cows increased 1,000 in four craft. years in Idaho, according the They will fly at Hybla Valley, in | United States extension service. into glider divisions of the Stand- ards flying club. S From the moment our driver picks up your laundry, until it is returned to you, sweet-smelling and clean, it is handled quickly but with the utmost care. Each family’s laundry is washed by gent- ly sousing in soft, sudsy ‘water and then thoroughly rinsed several times. After d | ing, it is starched when necessary, care- | fully hand-ironed and promptly returned all | ready to be worn, PHONE 15 ALASKA LAUNDRY | (‘LLANII\/(, and I’RF.SSH\(, —_———— | LITTLE CLARICE has apparently mistaken her fellow passenger for the zebra Mummie pro- mised to show her at the Zoo. And the gentle soul to the left is likewise a bit disturbed by the above display of poor taste in hosiery. Small wonder the fellow buries his head ostrich-like behind a paper. Even the wariest of us seem somehow to go astray in our choice of hosiery. That is, unless we have learned what so many others have, that Holeproof Hosiery is always in good taste. Holeproof colours and patterns are smart and dis- tinctive. 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