The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 27, 1931, Page 3

) THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY JAN. 27, 1931. TUES- WEDNES- DAY DAY NG SO CAPTIVATING HAS COME TO THE TALK- ING SCREEN The Most Tuneful Talkie Yet! DA Manann :_ Get really for your happiestp experience of the talking films. Imagine a village in France after the Armistice with merry Marion Davies surrounded by a lot of doughe boys hungry for fun. What with songs and laughs and heart-trobs and thrills you'll wish this musical comedy romance might never end! MARION DAVIES production A Robert Z. Leonard production with Lawrence Gray, Cliff Edwards and Benny Rubin T - AI.LTAI.KING oTURS NEWS COMEDY 0000 Serbian Flag Lodge No. 208 S. N. F. L. Sava’s Day Celebration Moose Hall TONIGHT PROGRAM AT 7:45 P. M. FOLLOWED BY REFRESHMENTS AND DANCE Gentlemen $1.00 Ladies and Children Free Only Slavic People Are Invited to Attend I day, GAPITOL OFFERS MARION DAVIES ] PR {Clever Comedy with Pret- ty Songs Begins Show- ing This Evening | | “Marianne,” Marion Davies’ all- talking picture, which Metro-Gold- wyn-Mayer is presenting, will be shown tonight and tomorrow night at the Capitol Theatre. Miss Davies {voice is extremely pleasant and na- |tural. Playing a French girl in the i.fllc:uro, it is necessary for her to {use her gift of mimicry to simu- late an accent. She does this with excellent comedy results. “ One of the difficult vocal feats which Miss Davies performs is the {singing of a song in both French ,and in English. When singing it in English, she imitates a heavy | French accent and this perform- |ance of hers has been declared one s of the most laughable feats yet lperformed in talking motion pic- | tures. | War Without Fighting | “Marianne” may best scribed as a war picture without lany fighting. The action takes place |shortly after the signing of the| Armisticc when a battalion of | American soldiers are billeted ‘in | Marianne's village. Her love affair {with one of the doughboys, which ‘begins with an altercation over a lpet pig belonging to Marianne's |adopted family of war orphans, runs‘ lightly and laughably along, until the time that Andre, her |old sweetheart, returns blinded from a German prison camp. The American boy immediately relinquishes all his rights to Mari- anne. There is the ordeal of part- ing for the two lovers, but then | Andre sacrifices himself for Mari- |anne, joins a monastic order, and| leaves her free to join her Ameri- |ean suitor in this country. | Many Comedy Incidents | As embellishments to this plot |there are many comedy incidents 'and many specialty ! songs. Lawrence Gray has been given |the male lead in this comedy dra- ma. It marks his singing debut on the screen. < Others in the cast are Cliff (Uke- |lele Tke) Edwards, Emil Chautard, | Robert Edeson, George Baxter and | Benny Rubin. - 'NEW TRAFFIC SIGNS PLACED A1 CORNERS At many street intersections to- Chief of Police George Get- chell supervised the posting of traf- | fic signs. They give notice which |of two intersecting streets is a | through thoroughfare, on which the | motorist has the right of way, and | which is the cross street on which the motorist is supposed to come | to a stop, or at least to drive very | slowly. | e | ANNUAL CONGREGATIONAL 1 MEETING OF LUTHERANS TOMORROW AT CHURCH The members of the Resurrection’ |Lutheran Church will hold their [annual meeting tomorrow evening|== |in the new addition to the church. |A congregational dinner will be served at 6:30 o'clock after which the annual meeting will be called to order by the pastor. Reports will be given by the officers of thej | various organizations, three coun- }cilmen will be elected to serve on the church council and plans for the coming year will be made. After, the business meeting a social time ‘will be enjoyed. - e BANKER GOING TO SEATTLE E. A. Rasmuson, of Skagway, |president of the Bank of Alaska | Corporation, . which operates a |chain of banks in the Territory, is greeting friends in Juneau while the steamship Princess Norah is |in port. He ‘is destined for Seattle jon business. | { — FIRE ALARM CALLS 1-3 Third and Pranklin, 1-4 Frcnt and Franklin, +1-5 Front, near Ferry Way. 1-6 Front, near Gross. Apts. 1-7 Front, opp. City Whart. 1-8 Pront, near Saw Mill. 1-9 Pront at A. J. Office. 2-1 Willoughby at Totem Gro- cery. 5 2-3 Willoughby, opp. Cash Cole’s Barn. 2-4 Front and Seward. 2-5 Front and Main. -6 Second and Main. Pifth and Seward. Fifth and Goid. Fifth and East, 0000000000000 IN ‘MARIANNE" be de-|ast “BEAUTY SHOP" ay dances and| M uynzt sto llzs‘ ‘GAMEU KIRBY' Little Sar. (OMES TONIGHT [ TOCOLISEUM Musu of Opeutta Quahtv 1 Is Feature of Ro- mantic Offering Music of operetta quality is ar‘ anding feature of “Cameo " Fox Movietone romantic (Inm”t v&hxch will be seen the C()hsnum theatre. y of composers and SIS the original songs ‘Myrtle CA,MK' (for this production; including Wal- i ter Donaldson and E Leslie, Myrtle Clark, who was born in gq B g Boston, began her career as an Geg ;i ; operetta prima donna and then, «“Romance,” changed her mind to become a dra- son and Leslie, matic tress. popularity. Thos who have heard St ng leading roles in “The j; say it far surpasses Donaldson's Swan” and other musical “My Blue H popular a year then went to Duluth, Minn., ago. “Romance” ung in “Cameo stock troupe. Now she IS Kirby” by the co-stars, J. Harold ing, opposite Frank Craven in Murray and Norma Terris, recent That's Gratitude.” Broadway musical stage favorites. She is an outdoor sport enthus! - Ballad and Spiritual and an expert at boat ri | Donaldson and Leslie also con- She is a single, and doesn’t w: ributed “After a Million Dreams,” ~) in the theatre as a '\ b’lllad and “Home is Heaven,” a OF PLAYERS IN hon Dx'vam.s" and also sings the spiritual with George MacFarlanc, a negro spiritual chorus and the Fox Movietone quartet, Brady and Strauss contributed “Tankard and Bowl,” a rousing drinking song which is sung by Murray and the Fox-Movietone male quartet and chorus, and a {comedy song, “I'm a Peaceful Man,” Musical Comedy to Be Giv- which is Stepin Fetchit's vocal en by Elks Next week |contribution to “Cameo Kirby."” Instrumental Prelude | Has Strong Plot | In addition to the seven songs, |there is an instrumental prelude Rehearsals for “The Beauty written by Donaldson and three Shop,” the musical comedy, to be'dance numbers written by George given under auspices of the Ju- Lipschultz, Fox Movietone musical neau Elks Lodge at the Coliseum director, and renowned violinist. theatre next Monday and Tues-| All the songs and instrumental ay, are progressing with unexpect- music fit naturally into the pro- ed success under direction of C. H. duction, g enhancing its ro- Lewis. At the Sunday rehearsal mantic moments and adding im- many of the players we: O T urably to “Cameo Kirby's” en- tume, and pictures were taken of tertainment value. Irving Cummings several groups. | directed Has Absorbing Plot Unlike most musical comedies “The Beauty Shop” has an absorb- ing plot and as a straight comedy TERRIFIC BEATING it would be more interesting than| most plays of the sort | BOSTON, Mass., Jan. 21. Exn e The first act op: in a New Sha Boston heavyweight, York beauty shop, run by Dr. Ar- night gave Dick Daniels, of Minne butus Budd, who, plagued by his'apolis, a terrific beating during creditors, is in despair when a ten rounds. cablegram comes from Corsica tell- ing of an inheritance. The big scenes of the play are| shown in Corsica, where Dr. Budd| on and after this date, January is practically forced to the point o6 1931, the barber shop formerly of marrying Corsica’s homr:liesc‘kn“wn as the LADY BARBER daughter to save himself from the|SHOP is owned by Robert Light Black Hand. However, the ugly'of Latouche, Alaska, and will be duckling is made beautiful, rc[usesloppmged by him. Robert Light him and marries a village yokel.|will be responsible for any debts The innkeeper gives Dr. Budd a contracted from this date only. fortune for making his daughter —adv. ROBERT LIGHT. beautiful and the play ends hap- B pily with the entire cast singing a ] ELuTTniCAL WORK Broadway song. Call Schombel Telephone 4502 .- DANlELS 1S GlVEN e NOTICE , has gained great | nllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII'IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIII|IlIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIn 7:30 WHERE SOUND SOUNDS BEST 9:30 MARDI GRAS _ Colorful old MASQUED REVELRY of the New Orleans in the Crinoline Days Creole girls, gay steamboat TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY with its fascinating, seductive gamblers, aristocratic plant- ers and lovely ladies ... di- rectedbyIrvingCummings «e. from the celebrated play by Booth Tarking- ton and Harry Leon Wilsonand featuring J. HAROLD MURRAY and NORMA TERRIS in the sing- ing, talking ADDED ATTRACTIONS VITAPHONE ACTS CARTOON FOX MOVIETONEWS WZ\I('H—THI‘,Y ARE COMING— “Golden Calf’——*“Trooper Three” ‘“IlllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlHIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIII|I||IIIIIII|||IIIIIIIIIII|||IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII"' ‘Old Papers for sale at Empire Office MONDAY TUESDAY fllI||IIIIIIIIIIIII|I|INIIIIIIIIII|||||II|IIIIIIllllllllIIl|IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllllmlllmllIIlIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIII|IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIB “YOU GOTTA SEE” “YOU GOTTA HEAR” THAT REAL LIVE SHOW “THE BEAUTY 0p” The Best, Most Musical, Funniest, Most Elaborate and Extravagant Musical Comedy Ever Staged Here Coliseum Theatre Feb. 2nd and 3rd Under Auspices, B. P. O. Elks No. 420 iy Prices 75 cents, $1.00, $1.50