The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 20, 1930, Page 3

f f | PHOTOPHONE < i Talking Reporter | “Dead Shot Dick” A Comedy Novelty FLEETLOADS y OF LAUGHS, SONGS AND GIRLS! RADIO PICTURES’ spectacular comedy of the fleet staged in stag- gering magnificence —-— Y/ HIT TH v 4 JACK OAKIE { POLLY WALKER and hundreds of singers, i dancers and beauti- ! ful girls 75¢, Loges $1.00 i COMING— “HIS CAPTIVE " WOMAN” WATCH FOR HELL’S HEROES Attractions At Theatres L “HIT THE DECK” IS FEATURE AT PALACE e SRS B‘crie, fantastic spring steps . . . primitive “snake's hips” . . . low- 1y buck and wing . . . jazz gymnas- tic . . . in fact the entire routine of the terpsichorean art has its in- ni in Radio Pictures’ “Hit the D:fi(,” now showing at the Pal- acq Pearl Eaton, RKO dance di- reclor, is largely responsible. ight different sequences placed at vantage points of the film, rates “HM the Deck” as the dance novel- ty of the season. £ Thé first dance stars Polly Walk- er, the nimble Follies beauty, in the “coffee shop” scene. Miss Walker also sings “Looloo,” supported by a dancing and singing chorus of 16 sailors. Jack Oakie is at his best in the next number, “Sez You, Sez Me,” in a street number with eight pretty girls. The elaborate “Shore Leave"” number follows, utilizing 24 girls, 24 'men and all the principals. hen there’s “Hallelujah,” a se- quénce dealing with a Negro spiri- tualist meeting. Eighteen Negro gu?s and eight men participate in “Snake’s Hips,” a number with a cheral background of 100 Negro voices. f ERAE L L1 SR 1 “INNOCENTS OF PARIS” | | SHOWING, COLISEUM | The star of “Innocents of Pari now showing at the Coliseum, is Eufope’s reigning king of song and pantomime, - Maurice Chevalier, a§ veritable giant of the entertain- ment profession, a young man who emerged from the World War to become the personification of the joyous rebirth that followed the halocaust. To see and hear him is to love him. He “gets” you and holds you. The locale of the picture is Paris. Chevalier plays a happy-go-lucky Uy art peddler in the most pic- tumsque district of Paris, the Flea Md4Afket, that colorful intensely in- tenssting mart where the sea of I nity seethes and swirls, sing- ingmts joys and courageously drown- ing®its woes. sets gre big and have pro- THE DAILY ALASKA EIELSONTRAGEDY duction value. The Flea Market is faithfully reproduced and is quite as interesting on the screen as it R. H. Geoghegan, of Fairbanks, and he, familiar with the Russian lan- guage, reproduced the drawing. He would be_ in thev original. Other | retained the Russian notations, but settings in the picture are of n‘s H UWN DN M P also translated and wrote them in fashionable Pa an theatre, a col- English. He sent his copy to the orful night club and a gun-smith’s | Mapped defails of the scene in| the North Polar Seca of the fatal| Mrs. C. H. White of Seattle, wife accident suffered by the American{0f Capt. C. H. White, steamboat liers, C. B. Eielson and E. " spec is a house guest at the ‘ Borland in November, 1929, while |home 1 of Mr. and Mrs. T. W they were attempting a flight from White.. Mrs. C. H. White will be Nome to the ice-bound trading|joined in Juneau by her husband schooner Nanuk, has been received [August 30. Capt. C. H. White” and Chevalier has used most successfully before his myriad listeners on the continent. There are seven songs in all: “Louise” is sung twice. PRETTY FLIER |by Alaska Museum here. TheT. W. White, who is a guard at the i elaborate sketch, drafted on a!Federal jail in Juneau, are brothers. large sheet of blue-tinted pape David Ramsay, after an absence ows not only the exact place of ¢l @ year and a half, has returned the tragic crash, but also thelto the employment of J. B. Burford places where the aviator's bodies|2nd Company. He has charge of were found and where pieces of the |its typewriier repair department. | D. C. McKechnie, of the Cana-| Consolidated Mining Com- ill-fated airplane and its contents| | were recovered. }&Iznn {Mrs J. Clark Wing Super- 'tabhshed in the store of J. B. Burford and Company in the Val- icntinc Building on Seward Street. |The aerial headquarters are charge of Mrs. J. Clark Wing. The comely young woman knowsto scale his sketches and measurements on! Roy E. Johnson and Christopher 'the ground of the disaster. In April' Aven of Excursion Inlet and L. this year, while returning to Rus-'Ulgaard of Hawk Inlet, are staying inlsia on the relief steamship Stavro-|at the Gastineau | pol, he drew and completed a map| e 3o, o e g | 3 3 His work has been veri-| Nearly 37,000 combines were ex- her business. She is the wife of | fied by J. Slepnev, commander of | ported in 1929. Pilot Wing of the Airways and has|the rescue party. | PP MG L A She came here early this month, inotations in Russian, wis sent to!fyimers own their farms making the trip from Seattle to! e v : | Juneau by plane in one day. Her | connection with the company won't | hurt its business. i he seaplane Skagway, with Pilot I/Robert E. Ellis and Mechanic :Chandl(‘r Hicks, and passengers {Lyle Davis and George Franklin, |} left here for Wrangell this noon.| | It is expected to come back to Ju- neau this evening. The Seaplane Wrangell, with Pilot | Wing, which flew to Ketchikan a) |few days ago, is still there. Its re-| turn to Juneau dependent on | \the return of the seaplane Sitk from Seattle, where it has been op- By Copyright, 1930, Premier Syndicate, Inc. HOLLYWOOD, Cal. Fairbanks, Jr., will not play the|picture. HARRISON similar contract. | With matters thus ata deadlock, | | Fox appealed to Miss Dresser, and Douglas | she conceded a point for the single CARROLL I is uvenile lead in “Lightnin’.” By this time, though, First Na- [erating for some time. To explain why necessitates a|tional had come to the opinion that | A Stimson plane, with Mr. and |little trip behind the scenes in|ga juvenile lead in a Rogers picture |Mrs. Gilbert Skinner and guest|Hollywood. |is not of enough importance for a | of theiis, flew here from Ketchi- Out here, the word “billing” ifi“}].’lle' whom they are building to- {kan yesterday. It returned there{an all-important one. It refers to|wards stardom. {last evening. the manner in which the player's| so, it's all off, and somebody - name is featured in advertising a|else will get the role. Silly, isn't| picture. All of the important stars|ito But how important in Holly- ARGENTINE BOXER have clauses in their contracts pro- | wood! : o tecting them on this point. And it 5o happens that Douglas Faizbanks, KNOCKS OUT NEGRO THIS OAKIE FELLOW Jr’s “billing” clause conflicted i NEW YORK CITY, N. Y., August |with Fox’s promotion plans. Clara Bow had a birthday on| |20.—Justo Saurez, Argentine light-| In a Will Rogers picture, of|July 29 and they gave her a party | weight last night knocked out Bruce | course, his name overshadows alljon the set. One of the chief | Flowers, negro, in the sixth of a |others, but that was all right. Doug |adornments was a big birthday |scheduled 10-round go. {Jrs contract reads that he shail |cake. As they were giving a piece to| Clara, Jack Oakie wandered in. “Ah, ah, Clara,” he admonished, “you can't eat your cake and have not receive worse than second bill- ing. When arrangements had been completed to borrow Doug. Jr. from Re- |F National, however, it was dis- —adv. |covered that Louise Drt r had a scheduled 10-round bout. ANNUAL MOOSE DANCE Labor Day, September -1st. serve the date. 548 Alaska Museum, and the Rev. Fa- shop. . R E c E I v E D H \ther A. P. Kashevaroff has placed |" 1' The songs which Chevalier sin; |1t among the archives. It is avai in English were written especially lable for inspection by interested “m- him by Richard A. Whiting nnd‘\ Bt persons. | Leo Robin. “Louise” the theme song, 1 - ’is an integral part of the plot and‘Russ.lan S ke t Ch Of Fatal o X the others are used to develop the| Disaster Is Now at WHO'S WHO character of the peddler singer of Alask M : the streets and cafes. The three avha useum I AND WHERE PFrench songs are those which |® ol vises New Aernal During the progress of the res-|Pany, is in Juneau on a brief busi- H o cue search from February 5 to Feb- ness trip. He went today to look at eaaquarters Tuary 22, this year, by a Soviet|ground in the Taku district. He is Russian expedition, a student of the ed at Gastineau Hotel. I Uptown offices of the Alaska |chipbuilding department of the Len-| Herbert Lawson of Hoonah is Washington Airways have been es- |ingrad Polytechnic Institute madeinmum the gue! at the Alaskan. many hours of flying to her cre | A copy of the map, with all its| Ajmost 85 per cent of Wisconsin every branch of the air ,service. wandered out on stage 2 at ner m came along and hung real apples on the limbs. The real| kick was a sign addressed to ex-| tr “Don’t eat the apples. They have been treated.” Hats the ad ch in rector, How's this: “George M. Carle- i ring ad.oldl’ AFh: Jackie, offering a little too fat, a little top| | ton, thin shc toc “After a strenuous scason seek- ing, T am not taking a much, needed vacation. — George M. Carleton, the Lambs, New York.” ANOTHER AIR EPIC Befor leased, ssed Bill's flying Warners have {now, Lucien Hubbard, their scen- ario editor, is in Washington seek- Government co-operation in a |biz special that Warners plan for next ye idca to Federal officials, the pic- | ture will be made with Government This| ing Mayer. Wellman is to direct the Warner ‘x:u‘-cpic. and it’s safe to say he will | endeaver to top “Hell's Angels” September 3, 4, 5, 6, 1930 NINTH ANNUAL FAIR—Bigger and Bettgr Than Ever. Best time to } visit Juneau. See your steamship agent for round trip rate to Jumeau. Due to the arrangements for the most comprehensive exhibition of Alaskan products ever shown at the Fair, the management has decid- ed to eut down the number of booths at the coming Fair to' use the space ‘for exhibits. This will also increase the value of the spaces rent- ed. There are a few booths left and the management requests that those interested in concessions make their applications for booths a- soon as possible. South,éd#tern Alaska Fair Association Y, AUGUST 20, 1930 apple-orchard set for “Children of putting young, a re mention of another air pic-| Then some of the critics re- ked that the Caddo film sur- the usual thing, as other produceisi ve hired their own planes, {lieve there was one exception, when Ramon Novarro made Fleet” APPLESAUCE Brothers and found the building given over to an They were bringing in| s, and dozens of workmen | artificial leaves on Then the property depart- DESRVES RESULTS | off to George M. .Carleton, aracter man, for his clever the Standard Casting Di- A little too| a little too tall, a little too ‘old.” little “Hell's Angels” was re-| William Wellman swore at| “Wings.” been trying to promote a story ever since. At last succumbed. Even! ear. If they can sell the dirigibles, balloons, in fact would be a departure from I he- “The Fly- for Metro - Goldwyn- Bill was an American ace in the | war, you know. JACKIE REMINISCS Jackie Coogan, now grown and making his audible debut as| Tom Sawyer, tells how he first met Charlie Chaplin. | One night he was called on the | stage of a Los Angeles vaudeville house by Annette Kellerman to do some imitations. Chaplin witnessed WHERE SOUND SOUNDS BEST TONIGHT—7:30 and 9:30 tall the performance from the third row. After the show, he sought Jackie's parents and asked to Introducing!—America’s. New Thrilll— speak to the boy. Jackie, then four and a half years old, was asleep in an over I‘IA URICE CHEVALIER stuffed chair. Coogan woke son and introduced him to Chs lin. “Hello, Mr. Chaplin” said : a hand, Then he p promptly fell asleep again. \ Chaplin laughed and asked if the boy could be re-awakened. When Jackie got his eyes open, Chaplin sat beside him and talked for sev- eral minutes. At the end of the conversation he made the request “INNOCENTS OF PARIS” for the services of the boy in a i picture. Thus, Jackie became “The Kid.” 'l = SINGING! DANCING! ENTHUSING! BETTY AT COLUMBIA |l Having returned €rom Aiaska DON’T MISS — “Louise”—“On Top of the with “The Silver Horde” company Evelyn Brent tells me she is going over to Columbia to make “Ma- donna of the Streets.” This is the story that Harry Cohn bought from Edwin Carewe. Year ago, Eddie made it as a silent film starring Alla Nazimova. Before that it was| a story called “The Ragged Mes-| senger.” The production gets under| way soon, and will be one of the| important pictures on Columbia’s new program. World Alone”—*“It’s a Habit of Mine” FOX MOVIETONE NEWS—VITAPHONE AND PARAMOUNT ACTS. s burned down and were not reluilt. Twenty-nine mills remalin, gnd two of these, the largest tn thé state, have recently been purchased by an English ‘company. IRISH MILLING DECLINES; ERIN BUYS FOREIGN FLOUR DO YOU KNOW : That Sue Carol spoke only (;m‘-‘ DUBLIN, Aug. 19.—The Irish man and French until she was siX |milling trade has sufered a serious years old and that she still speaks decline, and the Free State is now i both of these languages fluently?|¢orceq to depend mainly on im- NOTIOE £ Xi : s ported flour. ik crf;l‘]‘i‘;g" g ’;‘:‘S‘:‘Wy’:’“‘\ lne| Seven years ago there were 42| 'The Public Library will'be closed flour mills workimg in the State play with the Chicago Bears, pro-' iills workig in the State |Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursdsy lElevun closed down, two others|on account of redecoration:. . adv. fessional team, this year. THE MOST ' COMPLETE co OFr We suggest you make your selection early. The charge will not appear on your statement until prosenflrmrenfyrmsenSlyrmmenllye LLECTION Christmas reeting ] Cards WE HAVE EVER SHOWN ? IS NOW READY i i January 1st, 1931 The Empire