The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 12, 1931, Page 3

R e PSS ALWAYS FIRST—And Where Sound Sounds Best M COLISEUM s PETIT JURY IS IMPANELED FOR CURRENT TERM Arid Waste of Death Valley Strange Locc_zt'i'on for Rest and Publicity TONIGHT 9:30 Disappearing Act Hailed as Best Means of Reac¢hing Tront P. A b o) g 2 S g YOUTH—LOVE—ROMANCE—MUSIC: MEDY Fade-Out Brings Furore From Los Angeles to New Yoil: | 100 Per Cent Talking .\‘luxic(al Com(;((])y Sought Means to Succor Broadway Producer, Which Paded as ie 1/ as “ 4 Trial Term of Court Opens | THE BIG PARTY” “Located” Living in Comfort Am _Th9mas Pleads Not * E ‘ with SUE CAROL, DIXIE LEE, Walter Catlett, Gul]ty to Murder { A s | Whispering Jack Smith—and many others Thirfy-ceven members of i s . ¢ ¢ y FOR ADDED ENJOYMENTS—Vitaphone Act, b S, chot ere roitGl T 3 Talking Comedy, Fox Movietonews | sworn in this morning before Judm‘f ornin STARTING TUESDAY—“SEVEN FACES” in W. Harding in the FY tract and she is paying it herself.| et court, and four others SOt Lan, Sy Sliey = o e {e o | “Mus expected to report from Sk CHTIOH QOOTEIY BT T1RQ! She thinks the movie opportunity} e title of this stage play, b¥|on the return trip of the o S'(‘X‘I'F’Tm\ L’L‘l'ilm*b i is worth the price. {the way, is to be changed for movk: Queen. 'LOVELORN YOUTH **“*Sorn "o reax Last Times TONIGHT By ROBBIN COONS _|throaty “feminine baritone,” in | HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 12— It ;| Gcorge White's Scandals, and in costing June MacCloy $200 8 Week|coveral of New York's smartest to be in pictures. | clubs. i Every week that amount is taken| po. first out of her pay envelope and sent!pouglas Fairbanks in “Reaching to New York to be turned over 0! so: the Moon,” and her next, for Billy Rose, Broadway producer and{yer own company, will be in “June husband of Fannie Brice—the Pric® | nroon» with Jack Oakie of her freedom from a stage con-| picture role is wit} the aph gway | steamor | B Lo She jer “long term” contract| ¢ 4 3 g slcsu:;dhere “gnh it ro. | Purposes because it is feared Ii| The-work of the trial term was W LSE o ey s | VIl suggest a musical rather than|jmmediately started. A jury was oy ? ~|a straight dramatic comedy. They're | this afternoon being selectad to try BORN TO PERKINS Cards have been received in Ju- months. | afraid of musical i S ) SR | sical pictures in thesc One week before her first “option | nars yoy time arrives she will collect a full|™ 5,4 ‘Willie John, Hoonah In n, charg- ) ed with assault with intent to com- § 3 _ % v & 1 S : that & . ~ 4 s week’s salary for the the full sum of $5,000 being paid up. Prefers The Movies Miss MacCloy, a rather tall, slim and strikingly pretty blonde, was singing in a New York club when a Broadway columnist suggested she try the movies. A short subject she made won her a contract offer. A prior contract with Rose fo his production “Sweet and Low” in- tervened, but she agreed to buy 1o cff, even though under thece con- diticns she is making a little le: than she weuld have had she re- mained on the stage. That’s how eager she was to come to pictu She has sung, in her pleasant WATCH for the Re-Opening Date OF Palace Theatre THIS WEEK Prettiest Theatre in Al_a‘ska " Contest for new name will be open to all until , opening day. Pedestal One-Day ALARM CLOCKS in PASTEL COLORS The Latest Stem shat-off Convex Glass §150 each Juneau Drug Company Free Delivery ~ Phone 33 first time,| recalls the delighted 'awe with which Hcllywood received a great Broadway producer of mus- ical comedies last year, he having graciously cast his lot with the| | talkies. That was an event! " Then, the other day, we saw his {picture, this “super special” he| |made as his first contribution to| | the screen, New York, we read, saw| iit too and accorded it the honor of) |a new “box office low” for the zh:-‘ |ater. The producer has left Hollywcod | |now and is back on Broadway. | So change the movie tides. | - e — | vIKING vulGEs !‘Thnnc: Severin Swanson, Caroline ‘ngd. Mrs. O. Torkalsen, Mrs. Johu |'T. Welen, Carrie G. Whipple and wILL BE HEARD { A. Zenger, of Juneau. { Mrs. John Campbell, Hugo Stoll, 'and J. N. Wahl, of Petersburg; NEXTSATURDAY - | of sit G. A. Coletie, Ray James, Jr wa. mit rape. Petit Jurors Impaneled Jurors to arrive from Skagway are: Howard Ashley, Mrs. John Keller, Catherine Nye and Charle: Stadleman. Jurors impanneled on he petit jury were: W. W. Batchellor, Mrs. Anita Garnick, J. B. Godfrey, Gertrude Helgeson, R. R. Hermann, Mild R. Hermann, Ambrose Hile, M E. L. Gruber, G. Krauce, W. K. Keller, Mrs. W. C. Maeser. John M. Morrison, George E. Nel- son, G. W. Nostrand, E. F. Roden- berg, Daniel Ross, W. A. Sherman, Harry Sperling, are of Juneau; Alex Sturrock and Mabel Sturro a; Ed Andrews, Harold Ga Flora Kirkham, A. Shudshift E eth C. Sey, of Douglas; and Walter Williams of Kake. Indictments Returned eral secret indiciments were ireturned this morning by the Fed- cral grand jury. Bench warrants Thirty strong Viking voices liftad | Were issued on Lhem._ Later two of it aons. the defendants, Daniel Stanworth | Thirty men, organized into the|l4 OF 15 years of age, and John Holler, local transfer man, were ar- largest and best voeal musical or- ganization in the terrifory of Alas- | rested. . |ka, singing lilting Scandinav The former was charged with re- | melodies. ‘ This will be a part of the musi- jcal offering in Juneau, next Satu ;day, when the Normanna Male Chorus of Ketchikan arrives here. They will sing in the Coliseum |theatre and one of the largest audiences ever gathered in Ju- neau for a musical entertainment is expected will take advantage of this unusual opportunity. Olsen and Swanson The chorus has been brought to | Juneau through the efforts of ai : group of Scandinavlans of this city, | Indian prizefighter, here on May | headed by Einar Olsen and Severin 11, 1930, in the City Cafe. Erm‘\'n ! Swanson. Following engagement of died as the result of a knife the chorus here it will give a pro-|Wound alleged to have been in- gram—its third annual concert—in | flicted by Thomas. 1Petersbux'g, The latter is represented by | The chorus has arranged to bring|George B. Grigsby, prominent Ket- lalong its honorary members, Miss chikan attorney, who arrived hers {Lilly Berglund, planist, and Miss Florence Tobin, violinist, who willy ‘appear as soloists. Edwin Sande, ‘regular member of the organization. |will be presented as tenor soloist. Sande Is Great Tenor Edwin Sande is considered Alas- |ka's greatest tenor by residents of | Ketchikan. His rich, expressive {voice will be heard for the first {time in Juneau next Saturday; !Normanna Chorus of Ket-| chikan Will Be Accom- panied by Soloists in a dwelling and also, larceny in ore. Holler is charged with em- lement by bailee, for alleged i misappropriation of persenal prop- lerty owned by Tom Pacator. Thomas Enters Plea After ‘a demurrer and motion against the indictment had betn |over-ruled by Judge Harding thls morning, Dave Thomas, local In- dian, entered a plea of not guilty |cused of having killed Luke Brown, filed a general demurrer against the indictment and a motion to guash the bill, both of which were over- ruled. - FATHER HUBBARD . . HERE FOR WEEK |ident of the Alaska district, Na- . | tional Federation of Music Clubs. - 4 Rl has for several years been a !nade;'Padre Of_ Glac'le!'s WI“ VISl' Jesuit Missions on Lower Yukon _ {in the musical circles of Ketchi- ‘kan. She is a member -of the Community Orchestra of Ketchi- | kan. Mrs. Lilly Berglund is a well- known piano teacher in Ketchikan land has appeared several times as |scloist for the Normanna Chorus in Ketchikan and Petersburg. —e—— BUYS KIPLING'S SIGNATURE Father Bernard R. Hubbard, “Padre of the Glaciers,” arrived in Juneau yesterday, a passenger on the steamship Queen. He will re- main in this city until next Sun- day, when he will take the steam- ship Farragut for the Westward. This winter, traveling by dog sled, he will visit all the Jesuit missions on the Lower Yukon, and will also go as far north as Kotzebue. | | LONDON, Jan. 12. — An_auto- ! graphed copy oi Kipling's “Reces- ! sional” published 33 years ago real- !ized $3,150 at an auction, purchas-| Next summer he will resume his ed by Gabriel Wells, New York. jresearch work in connection with . Another autographed . manuseript, {glaciers and extinct volcanoes in the “Last Cantey” bfought $425. jAlaska. | ceiving stolen property, with larceny | |to the charge of murder. He is ac-| Sunday to conduct the defense. He DEATH VALLEY RAILROAD IMELODY DRAMA WINS SUCCESS I {Shop Girl's Romance Re- veals Every Stratum of New York Life With the alternative of marriage to a youngster as poor 2s he f, jor a life of ease as a millionaire’s favorite, which should she choose? Which choice would any lovely lass | of spirit make? You, of course, know which you would take—but that isn’t nect | sarily the th selected by “Kitty in “The Big Part, the Fox mov- ietone. musical production which opened last night at the Coliseum | Theatre and will be shown for the |last times tonight. " Shop Girl's Romance { In this amusing and tuneful s of a shop g romance, Dir ) John Blystone has cleverly woven | his narrative threads into a fast moving background of cafes, shops, night clubs and apartments, rep- resenting every stratum of New | York life and has done it in ime\nmr that makes the film fre- quently hilarious and always enter- taining. Sue Carol, Dixie Lee and ‘Walter Catlett enact the leading roles of the picture, and all three give ex- | Judels supplies a large share of the comedy. Other Members of Cast ard Keene, Frank Albertson, Dor- othy Brown, Ilka Chase, Elizabeth | Patterson and other screen and tins that further delight their fol- lowers The songs, written by Kernell and Thompson, Hanley and McCarthy and Nelson and Pease, ape all of the type folks find them- selves whistling as they leave the theatre. It's a musical Movietone melody~ drama. Tomorrow night, “Seven Faces will be presented at the Coliseum. This all-talking Movietone stars Paul Munn and features Marguer- lite Churchill and Lester Lonergan. e CHANGE POSTAL TIPPING MADRID, Jan. 12.—Another old Spanish custom has gone with a Government ruling abolishing the | tip to postmen. Instead of tipping the mailmen at the door, tips will be collected from senders of letters ning Jahuary 1. old Ppgpers at ‘I'ne Empire. * - Roosevelt Ficld, @ L The ship hit a fence on the outskirts of the field when the was. eut out. Pilot Eric Lane-Burs- ‘The wreck of the $25,000 plane owned by Miss Margary Durant, daughter of W. C. Durant, au- umb’flo manufacturer, on Auto Magnate’s i)aughtef -5 in lem and James Dalton were the other passengers beside Miss Du- rant. None were hurt, I A AT COLISEUM: af cellent performances, while Charles| “Whispering” Jack Smith, Rich-| stage celebrities have characteriza-| and disburbed to carriers, begin-| 1 | | | i FURNACE CREEK . WASHINGTON, GRIFFITH FARNUM, | | LOS ANGELES, Cal, Jan. ll)—; l_'"lE s‘l’OnlEs It’s getting to be a great game OF — here, justto disappear for a whil | If you are in need of a rest, 100 |and a ¢ t deal of publicity, just vanish into the desert. A couple of ea go Aimee McPherson did it. | w she turned up again she i he had been kidnapped and § % : i xcitement was even wilder, b 3 when her kidnapping story tottered under the bombardment of skeptics and there were strong in- dications that her disappearance for love alone” the author- who had directed the search | for her and hunted the kidnappers | | were peeved. Men in public office don't like| f{to be used in that way. The law | objects strongly to being used cither for publicity purpeses or as {a blind for any other purpose. But recently California has fall- cn just as bad for another trick n said | then But w | ities | | | ng A Good disappe e. TAMARA _GEVA When a gentleman named Ralph | Farnum, who earns his bread and| Into the movies from a convent {butter by managing stage ana came red-haired, dark-eyed little | screen stars, decided to put his| Roberta Gale. name on the front page and give| BOrn in Pittsburgh, she has lived { his wife a little scare into the bar-|Mest of her life in Miami, Fla, he got himself “lost” in Whi she attended public schools Valley. and later a convent, specializ | “Ralph Farnum lost in Death|in music and dramatics. | Valley” was one screaming head-| Maybe it was some fairy god- line. | mother who placed the mother of And the account went on to la-|2 film executive in the audience at | ment, “Determined to escape the @ liftle musical play in which Ro- blare of Broadway, Ralph G. Far-|berta appeared. At any rate, voice num, theatrical producer, sought|and screen tests w arranged for solitude in the perilous alkali des-|her and a featured player's con- |ert wastes of Death Valley, and|tract was the result. his bones may now lie there bleach- | i G ling under the pitiless sun.” IFORMER JUNEAU While. these shivery lines were| being written Mr. Farnum was TEACHER CHOSEN peaceably living h a tribe of| FOR STANFORD U Plute Indians. He eating three meals a day and lying on a nice ol soft blanket in an Indian hut, am-|, S ®aih Créveling, . Englah e ', teacher in the Whitefish, Montana, | Ply shaded from the “pitiless sun.” |, cop o ; e ¢ Vs | gh school, has received a certifi | Farnum wandered alone into| o o0 b o Tat nford Uni- | Death Valley, riding a burro, leud-}‘}ers“y for n;" c;)mi'lv HiTSs §Dg Geipthier . carrying camplng) o, Cpnere vicrvm-w}f; e | equipment. His wife, the (m‘mcr}"_'um the 'n;“: uf‘l.he bt l'lmh i Maybelle Griffith, accompanied him | 2% 509 s Welpr o as far as Coffin Creek and (h('nlLm RRoe. F turned back. { In the women's graduate division, | in which there are approximately | Later one of the burros Farnum | thirty-five places for assignment, | had taken with him into Death Val- | seléction is made upon the basis of |ley was discovered in an emaciated | high scholastic attainment, person- | condition near Furnace Creck. Sher- |al qualifications and fitness for the l‘m Goper, of Death Valley Junc-|work to be undertaken. i tion, was worried. He telegraphed| The total number of women at- |Los Angeles, asking that city to|tending the university is limited to | notify New York authorities five hundred acording to the termJ One editor chartered an airplane|of . the Founding Grant of th to search Death Valley. Posses|ingtitution. Of these, four hundred | under the direction of Sheriff Goper | sixty-five are in the upper and rode exhaustively through the re-ilower divisions of under-graduate gion. And all the time—the story'work. | 1asted for three days—nobodycould| Miss Creveling was graduated | find Mrs. Farnum. If she was WOI-| from the Great Falls high school |ried when she read of her hus-|ang received her B. A. degree from | band’s desire to eseape the frantic|tns wMontana State University at life of Broadway and seek Deace|mpjecoula, She taught here for two among the desert mountains, shelyears being considered an unusual- gave no sign. 5 ly fine teacher and well skilled in When Farnum was “located” and| geveloping individual pupil growti. told of the scare he had created| S a0 R by his disappearance, he appeared| mpederal hunters have killed 200 surprised. He said he knew Death|yionc in Utah in the last 15 yeeis. Valley well and was sta g with e s the Indians because he liked them.| *California gasoline tax collections But it was reported that there|totaled $10,608,517 in the third | had been a “tiff” between the two|quarter of this year. d that the disappearance had | —————— been calculated to scare her into| Daily Empire Want Ads Pay. |a reconeiliation. A trip into Death —— = — | Valley ought to be enough to scare | anyone. | Back in the days of the covered-| | wagon, in 1850, a party of emi-| lgrants, California bound, per {from thirst in the arid wastes | Death Valley. | | This strange land, about 276 feet ‘beluw sea level, is so hot during | most Summers that even the liz- {ards‘@nd Horned toads are unable | to exisf-there and have to depart I'for other habitations. i In 1925 less than half an inch of rain fell in the Death Valley sink, which is the lowest dry land lin the Western Hemisphere. It is about 50 miles long and between 20 and 25 miles wide. All in all, it is not a nice place to get lost in, and hardly a nice| | place to disappear in voluntarily. ) But every man to his taste. l TRIES SUICIDE Disappointed in Love Ket- chikan Indian Tries to Take His Own Life John Marsden, 19-year-old Indian, is in a Ketchikan hospital suffering from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, acording to official advices received here today by United States Mar- shal Albert White. Disappointed in a love affair, the youth is said to have attempted to commit suicide. Marsden was Dpicked up on a street corner near the Ingersoll Hotel after he fired the 'shot. He was unable to talk at the time, but letters found on his person 'in- dicated the shooting was done by . himself because of unrequited love. Physicians say he has & good chance to recover. neau announcing the birth of a baby girl to Lieut. and Mrs. L. W. Perkins, at Staten Island, on December 16. This is the second daughter born to the couple. Lieut. Perkins and his charming wife are well known in Juneau where they resided while he was in command of the Coast Guard cutter Unalga. The baby has been named Sue Denice Perkins. NOTICE TO MASONS A stated communication of Gas- tineaux Lodge No. 124 F. & A. M. will be held in the Odd Fellows' Hall, Douglas, Tuesday evening, January 13th at eight o'clock. In- stallation of officers will be hem. Visiting brothers are cordially in- vited. Special ferry leaves Juneau at 7:15. By order of the Wor~ shipful Master. WM. R. SPAIN, —adv. Secretary. “Tomorrow’s Styles Today SPECIAL HAT SALE arting Tuesday, January 13th ALL WINTER FELT AND VELVET HATS $3.00 each or 2 for $5.00 Sale Prices Strictly Cas —_———,—— Assortment of Party Frocks Arriving on Alameda Juneau’s Own Store A CHANCE TO SAVE MONEY! SUITS and OVERCOATS AT BIG REDUCTIONS Sale Ends January 15th H.S. 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