The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 6, 1931, Page 3

JERITZAISTO REVIVE “BOCCACCIO” ON BROADWAY Metrepolitan Opera House in New York. NEW YORK, Jan. 6—Boccacclo | is coming back to Broadway in the personable person of Maria Jerii- za. ‘The blond Viennese prima donna will be seen in the title role of Franz von Suppe’s Viennese oper- | etta, “Boccaccio,” when it | vived by the Motropolitan opera. Furthermore, the pro to be given a nd opera manner by the introduction of new recita- tives by Artur Bodanzky, ductor, and a Viennes the spoken dialog which ence has shown cannot be h: throughout the large auditorium of | the Metropolitan. . | The role of Boccaccio, written in 1879 by Von Suppe out of incidents in the famous “Decameron,” is a rich one for Mme. Jeritza. She al- ready has . demonstrated, as Oc- tavian in “Der Rosenka " that THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, JAN. 6, 1931. student with and a flirtation isabella, wife of a cooper The final scene is the betrothal y of Pietro and Fiemetta. Boe- | ‘ accio is asked to provide a com- )y lelays the engagement for adventures y and compiles by offering Pie- recent amatory adventure. The prince avi e up Fiametta in this bit of lite blackmail MAPPERS SET RECORD FOR AERIAL SURVEY | OF FLOODED REGIONS| | — | MEMPHIS, Tenn., Jan. 6.—Aerial . raphers eclipsed their fond- ! est dreams in mapping a portion of the mighty Mississippi. | They alloted themselves fiva| months to snap pictu of 8900} square miles of the river and its| alluvial va At the end of| |one month they had photographed 8470 square m! | Where they pected to spend | re winter at the immen able to map an a miles daily, cove cn exceptionally good days near 1,500 s¢ re miles. The W was done under con- tract by the Curtis: ight flying servi for governm engin: who are using the acrial photo- | graphs to make a monster detail| map to aid in flood control work. | In the two seasons a complete portrait of the river and wvial valley from Cape Girar- deau, Mo, to a point 638 miles ;couth of Memphis has been provid- ed by the surveyors. The entire map being pre] % ‘by army engineers as a project of | | the Mississippi flood control com- | | | Wa;sllin;-;-lo;l Girl Sings Her Own Theme Song Kathryn M. MecCaffrey, of Wash- ington, a stenographer in the Gov- ernment Printing Office, poses at her piano for a photograph shortly before leaving to enjoy a trip to Paris as the “Typical Washington Girl.” As the outstandin fifiure in the day’s news topics, Kathryn was given an elaborata send-off at Union Station. 516 MISSOURI WILL UNDERGO mission will cover mnot only " Memphis district but the Vi Maria Jeritz, Viennese prima donna, is shown here dressed for the Lbyurgh title role of the operetia “Beceaccio,” which is to be revived at the| T I she wears well the £ [ river. yeung gallant. The A predec in I art 15 Which Fritzi Scheff, separa revival. The with £ formance was in 1880, anothe ing at in 1888 with D2 Wolf the cast and the last was in 1919, The scene is Florence of thé Re ssance period. An opening chc us of begga tradespeople an students reve: t and poet, has MT. by his ridicule of the mpty , who vow to ave in the The mean distance between neb-|tion, hat is, universes of stars like News adopted the Milky Way, is e Mt. Wilson as- | gj oecaccio meanwhile has fallen ulae, t in love with Fiametta, daughter of a grocer and actua Dr. Ed to-date chart on th complete and New Orleans areas. purpose is to provi a large scale flood region of t aerial work this involved the takin te pictures, was ca our planes equipped for a constant altitude of of 14 Hopper in feet and with enough fuel to retches. air for eight-hour - e ee iSpace Prett)/ Empty— Stars”Are Far Apart ). 6.—How WILSON, Cal, Jan is space? Here is one iwin Hubb! an up- season imated by FINAL TESTS * Question of Profitable Pro-| duction Will Be Deter- mined Soon ied out PRINCE RUPERT, C.—With turning on recently of the 100- pilot mill and the arrival from Kimberley of Stan Gray for the e of ma adjustment general tuning up, the Biz property at Stewart has passed into the final stage of. its development, the results of which an- | will determine whether or not the le prod Prince Ruper nt position at the there is a large yry zone of upwards ore is capable of prc declares the The pi the daughter of the Duke of Tus- tronomer, at nearly 2,000,000 light of 200 feet in which low gold val- cany, who is about to reclaim I and m h Palermo. Pietro is a lukewarm suitor, w! tenth A\ They are not distributed regular- | almost the v, however, some being about one- is of this distance apart. \ \ NN 1es are found. Thi ds entire stringers some of | S onally high s with conside free gold. A lem is thus c of the der ; is most unsatisfactory. 1 with this condition the man- agement, which is in the hands of |the Consolidated Mining and Smelt- ing Company, had only two choices -either to drop the property or to | install a pilot mill to enable a mora {complete test to be made. Havingi jexpended a very large amount on | development, it was only natural |that the latter course should he |adopted. The values, while high in |spots are in the aggregate unde: 0od to be very low and the oper jon of the mill will determine ther or not they are commer- cial. It seems to be generally ac- ted that, in order to make a I able operation, rining have to be carried on on a la e basis. A high grade system similar to that in r may have to be introdu s, while not yet determine zeologically possible. Some years | ago an eminent geologist contend- ed that there was a possibility of the Premier zone swinging and fol- lowing on under the Big Missouri. FINLAND PUSHES NEW ROAD NORTH TO ARCTIC OCEAN PETSAMO FJORD, Finland, Jan. 6.—Tourists scon may come here by auto—almost 350 miles north of the northernmost tip of Iceland. When a 150-mile road is com- pleted from here to Kyra, connect- |ing there with a network of high- | ways, Finland will claim to be the first civilized country to extend roads continuously to the Arctic. The road leads to a harbor which |is free of ice at all times, giving Finland a gateway for shippin \ |Starting well above the Arctic cle, the highway traverses unculti- {vated tracts of Lapland, spanning terrain that varies from steep hills to flat marshes. The project was begun in 1916, when Russia controlled the prov- |ince of Uleaborg, which the road spans to obtain a free waterway passage and avoid the German blockade of the Baltic. HOPPERS TURN TO SOUTH GUINEA, Portuguese Afri Fleeing the chemical war w against them in Northern Af billions of grasshoppers have vaded this colony and inflicted calculable damage to the crops. Tk governor radioed for tanks, flame- | throwers and gas to deal with the pests. ———————— l Play Ingoor Golr av The Alaskan “CAPITOL FIXES SHIP'S SCHEDULE GORGEOUS PLAY DAZILES SCREEN AT COLISEUM Spectacular Operatic Scenes Shown in ‘Mar- ried in Hollywood' h its opening scenes laid in na, intermediate an an liner headed for America and 1 scenes in the film col in “Married in Hol od,” will be presented Coliseum tonight, is the first ome to the t L duced with hness not surpassed by any r screen effort. { of the high lights of the ion, directed by Marcel Sil- is an opera staged in Vienna.| ee and hear the ¢ rected by the famo | m: Arthur Kay. On t 60 vocalists and 40 | In addition to this there is a ¢ cf 20 and for this particular scene | ‘n replica of the Vienna opera was | designed and constructed by le-‘ 1 Darling, art director for Fox| one. | Sen of Royalty i philandering son of royalty, nce Nicholai,” young, handsome, lished and brilliant, is the role| ayed by J. Harold Murray in| “Married in Hollywood.” | “Prince Nicholai” attends the op-| era in Vienna on a night when the| jstar is i1l and her understudy,| Mary Lou Hopkins,” an American | 1 from Kalamazoo, Mich., sings | role. Norma Terrls plays this |role and the Prince is intriguod | with He sends his adjutant to| | practically command her to take |supper with him but she refuses | He consoles himself with a wom- | |an who occupied the adjoining box | land with whom he flirted. he | | comes to meet Mary Lou in and | !a romance develops. On the eve of |their betrothal a volution occurs ikn‘l royalty is wipcd out. 1 | trained | ingagemen: Is Broken But before the revolution, 1!1" Prince’s mother had arranged with | an adjutant to have a i to Mary Lou breaking the engage- | ment She flees to America and |the Prince follows in the ste of another ship. Joe Glitner, playe |by Walter Catlett, a movie produ |hears Mary Lou sing on shipk {and sees stellar qualities in her. | He takes her to Hollywood under |another name and she becomes H In her big production: ent out for foreign e one-time Prince is in the| roup. | | In a strange way tney come to- | |gether again and are “Married in | wood.” Tall and Han Murray, long a B cal comedy favorite, is consideree an ideal choice for tlie role of “Prince Nicholai.” Tall, handsomg and possessing an erect, military carriage his presence is further en- hanced by a superb baritone voice. Besides Murray, Walter Cartlett and Norma Terris the truly all- ctar supporting c includes Irene Palasty, Tom Patricola, John Gar- rick, Douglas Gilmore, Gloria Grey, Evelyn Hall and Lennox Pawle. DEDICATION OF | note s Northland Arranges Her| Voyage to Accommo- date Ports to South For the convenience of persons| living in Ketchikan, Wrangell and Petersburg wishing to attend the dedication of the Capitol Building in Juneau the Northland Trans-| portation Company has announced | a schedule for its motorship North- land that will afford them quick traveling facilities to and from this city. The Northland will leave Ketchi- kan Thursday, January 29, call at way ports and arrive here either late Priday night, January 30, or early Sunday morning, January 31, the day of the dedication. The ves-: sel will remain in Juneau the day and night of Satur January 31. She will sail south Sunday morning. Pebruary 1. All passenger accomodations of | the craft are expected to be taken by delegates to the dedicatory exer- cises, Seward will be represented at the ceremonies, according to advices re- ceived here. Seward Chamber of Commerce has named its vice-| president,/C. M. Brosius, as its offi- | cial delegate. Other residents of; |the city to the westward, are ex- pected to be present. e VICTORIES HELP FENCING ESTORIL, Portugal—Fencing in| Portugal has been so popularized by Portuguese victories at Olympic| and other international contests that each club has now its “salle d'armes,” J.HAROLD MURRAY NORMA TERRI¢ Where Sound Sounds Best OF COURSE COLISEUM STARTING TONIGHT 2—SHOWS—2 7:30—9:30 | The Show Everyone’s Been Waiting For AND HOW! Hasicby OSCAR STRAUS, compannr of* The Chocalate Soldier Sittle Stans R e e Nell 0Day Nell O'Da aged 19, is a Texas girl who went to Hollywood and made good in New York. Miss O'Day. is pretty, blond and diminutive, which made her a logi- cal person to be tossed through alr by six young men during a thrilling dance. The young dance and her six men went into vaude- ville, which eventually landed her on the west coast. The troupe was signed to do the dance in the movie “King of Jaz Joe Cook saw them and brought them back to New York to appear in “Fine and Dandy.” Now Mi O'Day not only dances but she also sings and plays the ingenue role. - R Daily Empire want Ads Pay. Answering that Ques What Shall We Do T Evening? 3ring HER to the Mid- get Indoor Golf Course— where all the young crowd is to be found. Fun and keen competi- tion—and with a prize list for various events which makes the win- ning worth while. Keep up your putting and short-shot game. Our course is true and ac- curate. JUNEAU MIDGET COURSE Entire Second Floor Goldstein Building LITTLE STORIES [ Why not make the New Year Brighter, Happier and Easier for the Housewife? 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