The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 26, 1931, Page 3

TR TSRO ey > [ |0/ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, JAN. 26, 1931, UNLAX — UNLAX — WE’S HERE! Sho! Sho! We’s on the Screen-— Flashing from the Heavens into Frenzied Life in Their First All-Talking Feature Motion Picture! IRENE RICH - SUE CAROL - CHARLES MORTON - RALF HAROLDE in a Supporting Cast of Stars yint SEE THEM! HEAR THEM! in a joyous, laugh-pack- ed, heart-stirring round-up of adventures on the radio Hot from a two weeks’ run at Seattle Orpheum Metrotone News -- “Krazy Kat Kartoon” -- Comedy CAPITOL Last Showings Tonight 7:30 9:30 7:30 9:30 THAT REAL LIVE SHOW Comedy Ever Staged Here MONDAY TUESDAY Feb. 2nd and Prices 75 cents, $1.00, $1.50 i chance lllI||I||lIIII|IIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIiIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIiIiIIlIIIIIII'llIII"IIIi'ilrlIIIIIIIIIIIIIII[IIIIIIIII'IIHIIIIIllIIII||IIIH||IIIIIIIIII’IIE “YOU GOTTA SEE” “YOU GOTTA HEAR?” “THE BEAUTY Under Auspices B. P. O. Elks . 420 The Best, Most Musical, Funniest, Most Elaborate and Extravagant Musical oliseum Theatre 0000000000 011 E MARION DAVIES B COMESTUESDAY IN ‘MARIANNE’ |Capitol Will Show Amos "%’ Andy Last Times at Shows Tonight | L Six new song hits from the pens {and pianos of popular cumpnsnrs' | make their debut for the talking {screen in “Marianne,” which opens | tomerrew night at the Capitol the- | atre. In this new Metro-Goldwyn-May~ |er musical talkie, in which Marion !Davies is starred, tuneful melodies play an important part, havin keen written as an integral par of the dialogue and plot motiva- tion. These numbers are “Just You—| | Me,” the love ballad, and i“Hang On To .’ written by Greer and Klag: ugar” and “Oo | La La La La!” by Turk and Ahlert| who also wrote the theme song,| “Marienne,” and “Blondy,”’ by Brown and Freed. Songs by Marion Davies Davies sings “Just You—- ch as well as Eng- Gray, who plays ite her, v it as his love in the tender moments of the “Marianne” also is sung Davies and Gray. CLff Ike) Edwards sings “Sll-y “Hang On to Me,” and/ and “Oo La La La La” to advantage in novelty v Miss In the picture Miss Davies plays part of a French peasant girl ho falls in love with an A. E. F. ghboy. She is willing to sac- her happiness when her form- r soldier-sweetheart returns blind- ed from the war. But why she does not have to is one of the dramatic incidents of the picture. Amos 'n’ Andy Tonight At the Capitol theatre tonight, atre-goers will have their last to see Amos 'n’ Andy in their. motion pictur Check and ! Double Check.” The production one of the most popular attractions| ever shown on the screen has at- the | tracted capacity crowds since its |opening. The 'n’ Andy built up through Lheir} radio broadcasts gained them mahy admirers in this section. The de- sire to see what their favorites really look like and the excellent comments on the show itseslf have brought record audiences to the Capitol Although Amos 'n’ Andy are the central figures in the feature com edy, they are supported by an ex- cellent cast including Irene Rich, Sue Carol, Charles Morton and | Ralf Harolde. | e —— | SIMMS RETURNS TO ALASEA L. R. Simms, secretary to Col. {O. F. Ohlson, manager of the Alas- {ka Railroad, is a passenger on the | steamship Northwestern which call- ‘ed here Saturday en route to Sew- ,ard. He is returning to Anchorage | | headquarters from/a business trip| Jto the States. § | LA T 3rd 0 AL A A LA AR A S [T (GOLISEUM HAS tremendous following Amos " | Charles F Eighty-eight | femix “The L { coguettish pounds of blonde age 21, was the hit of > Show” last year. Her ( eyes and her singing were unanimously lauded. Ruth Tester was born im Bran- ford, Conn., in the house where Nathan Hale lived. She went to Smith college and excelled in arts and the crew, but. it's said she had to sit in a high chair to row. In New York she won a place in the chorus of “Lollipop” and be- came understudy to the comedienne. She remained off the stage last| yearwo a ar in talkies. Although she is one of the town's most promising comediennes, her real| hope is to be another Paviowa. e ‘CAMEO KIRBY' | FOR TOMORROW “ v Sarah and Son” Will Be| Offered for Last Times This Evening A perfect picture of the most | colorful period’ of early American | is presented in ‘“Cameo Fox Movietone romantic! drama, which will show #o- | night and Wednesday night | at the Coliseum theatre The story of “Cameo Kirl written by Booth Tarkington and | {Harry Leon Wilson, is laid in the | 1850 era in New Orleans, Mississippi River steamboa on a plantation in a picturesque, Louisiana parish. | The Mississippi River center of activity in the {eerving as it did the main art iof travel between St. Louis and| |New Orleans. On the picturesque | lold paddle wheelers journeyed the ;gcntlcmm\ of the day. | Presence of these moneyed men| on the boats, led to professional gamblers also frequenting the craft. | Deccribed as Honest Gambler i “Cameo Kirby,” a fc crat reduced to near-povert, up gambling as the only pro: he knew. He was described as an “honest gambler.” The only time he did use his ex- pert kncwledge of cards in a man- mer not entirely according to Hoyle, was to outwit a crooked gambler | “Moreau” who was fast plucking a | “Col. Randall” of every cent he had | realized from sale of his tobacco c*op in New Orleans. Randall, plied with liquor, lost all sense of pro- portion, and finally in desperation, staked his plantation against the| money he had lost. | “Cameo” produced the best hand, and the plantgr turned over a deed to his property to him, leaving the stateroom. Before the gambler could return the deed to “Randall” the ruined man had committed sui- cide. Later “Moreau” shot “Kirby” and threw him off the boat, and went to claim the plantation for him- self. Absorbing, Stirring Drama How “Kirby” was rescued from almost certain death and later turned up to expose his crooked rival, provides one of the most ab- sorbing dramas ever brought to the audible screen. J. Harold Murray has the title role and is co-starred with Norma Terris, who plays “Adele Randall.” Douglas Gilmore is the rascally “Moreau,” while Robert Edeson is seen and heard as “Col Randall” Others prominent in the cast in- clude Stepin Fetchit, Myrna Loy, Morton, John Hyams, George MacFarlane and Mme. Daumery. Chatterton Cleses Tonight ‘At the Coliseum tonight “Sarah and Spn,” Timothy Shea's great best-scelling novel of mother-love, will be seen in its talking filmized version for the last times. Ruth Chaiterton, is in the cen- tral role of Sarah Storm, the im- poverished young wife-mother who stimulated by a burning ambition to raise herself from obscurily and to, regain the baby boy who had been spirited away from her by her worthless husband, finally achieves fame and glory as an operatic star and eventually is reunited with her Frederic March has the leading male role. Philippe de Lacy is the little boy, and Fuller Mellish, Jr, the villainous husband. - — Play Indoor Golf av Tr.e Alaskan Hotel, (adv.) ] TEXAS WOMAN SENTENCED TO DIE, GALLOWS If Execution Carried Out,| Will Be First of Kind in State SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Jan. 26— Mrs. Clara Uhr, aged 49, has been sentenced to death for the murder | of her husband, Daniel Uhr, an in- valid, while he slept. 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