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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, FEB. 6, 1931. 'SOMETHING FOR "ZERO: TRY IT ON SPELLING BOOK | Boys and girisi Come close. iHere's something for nothing, if |youre any way smart at all. Every lone of you can get a free ticket| to the Charles “Buddy” Rogers’ ishow, “Safety in Numbers” by de-| tecting the mis-spelled word in the Coliseum Theatre’s advertisement on this page of today’s Empire and ng the advertisement with the elled word corrected to the 1 fice of the playhouse. | Easy? Tl say! The mis-spelled | (word is in that part of the adver- [tisement devoted to exploiting the !entertainment to be given at the 'theatre tonight and tomorrow inight. There are only about 42 ’\sords used for this particular pur- !pose. To get a free ticket any girl |can take time off from drying the ! dishes and any boy from chopping |the kindling to follow every word| to its lair in the dictionary. Do it. |Make Charles Tuckett of the Coli-| seum think all the boys and girls in Alaska have suddenly moved !into town. See if he cares. And hat {what do you care if he does? \ Romance! S N | “Safety in Numpvers,” the fea- 4 Red- a cast! {ture of the entertainment tonight land tomorrow night, is a fine show. il John Mack Brown Drama! V “Buddy” Rogers has a new sweet- % Dorothy Sebastian liheart of the screen in the produc- Rirardo Cortez A DRELIGHTFUL ENTERTAINMENT that is so different you’ll never forget it Here's | The ‘, “Untamed” ! . Star w2 Again! TALKING ¢ PICTURE Hits! F Tl “My LEARNS ABOUT WOMEN LOM 1EM HE SINGS Future ,Just Passed” “The Pic and others kup” TONIGHT ——— 7:30-9:30 KIDDIES NOTE: ONL SAFETY IN NUMBERS Some where in this ad is a misspelled word. from paper, bring to box office and receive a FREE NUMBERS.” YOU'VE NEVER SEEN BUDDY MAKE LOVE AND LAUGHS LIKE THIS OH, LOOK! NOAH’S LARK Funnest of Cartoons Vitaphone Acts News SATURDAY —— 7:30-9:30 Find the word, mark it, cut the ad TICKET for “SAFETY IN Ah Ha! At Last-—Stafting Sunday-“GOLD DIGGEERS OF BROADW AY” “ENUF SAID” tion. Benny Rubin The new film sweetheart is qu- Chff Edwards The “Untamed Star” in her S {xyn Crawford, bewitching brunette, Karl Dane finest offeéring—a romantic singing cutdeor Western smash! KRAZY KAT Another Cartoon IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIHlIlIIIIIIIHII!HIHI g | who recently graduated from stage | musical shows to the all-talking screen. But do not think that Miss Craw- ford has an easy time of it making the handsome “Buddy” fall for her charms in this tuneful romance- comedy. She has to battle the com- | petition of three heart-breaking blondes and another captivating |brunette before she can claim | “Buddy” as her own. The blondes \are Carol Lombard, Josephine Dunn and Virginia Bruce. The other wbrunetw is Geneva Mitchell. 5 LITTLE sTORIES lj[]AN GCRAWFORD L fittle <5’4 STARAT CAPITOL WORKED TO WIN f | Joan Crawford, star of Metro | |Goldwyn-Mayer’s “Montana Moon 3 :now at the Capitol Theatre, ha: |so often been identified with the LANGDON COMEDY “The Big Kick” CAPITQL FRI- DAY SATUR- DAY I:a a great story filled with ac- PIGGLY WIGGW ALL OVER THE WORLD Friendly Merchandising Never in all Juneau’s history has there been the opportunity to save as there is today. PIGGLY WIGGLY is showing the way to really good foods at shockingly low prices. A smile and a glad greeting meet you when you enter our store and every courtesy is extended you to make your visit both pleasant and profitable. Try It Today - Use This List as a Guide to Better Foods GRAPEFRUIT, 2 for . 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TANNETTE HANSHAW, Six years old and scared was Afim nette Hanshaw when she climbed \up on a chair and first sang in | public—coaxed with a stick of cnh \dy. i | True, she doesn’t have w'be coaxed to sing those husky blues over the Columbia system but the other terrors of her debut are there—cold hands, catch in the throat, quickened heart beat and “that empty feeling"—when she |dimples at the director and S | before the microphone. “It’s silly, I know,” she says, "bixt |T can't stop it.” Annette, a New York girl, has had a- suceessful business career, | too. tion, mirth and seven brand new songs. The plot rushes along at a galloping pace, bringing in ‘a great amount of snappy and amus- ing dialogue and many surprising situations. “Buddy” is the young I heir to millions who has been en- trusted by his uncle to the care of three Follies girls for the purpobe of having him wised up in the ways of the wily old world. But New York proves to be not one bit téo fast for this young musical-minded lad from the Middle West. ¥ The seven original songs in the picture include “My Future Just | Passed” and “The Pick Up.” The versatile “Buddy” sings each one of them. comedy are.“Noah’s Lark;” comedy cartoons, Vitaphone acts, and news reels. an| Added attractions to the feature| |admirers to learn that the wor which most aptly describes her i: “ambitious.” Miss Crawford was born with th double gifts of beauty and person {ality, in San Antonio, Texas. Sh never knew her father, whose nam was La Sueur, but she loved hes stepfather, Henry Cassin, who own ed a theatre in Lawton, Kansas. Her earliest recollections are ol Lawton, where she stood in th jwings with her father, so fascina |by the dancers, that she was ha ly conscious of imitating the movements with her feet, which ofterl weré bare. She met financial difficultie: early in life and she was a slavey in a private school in Kansas City, in order to earn her educa. {tion. Despite hard work, however, s never missed dancing at nights, and she was & popular partner later a all fraternity dances at Stevs College, Columbia, where she wait. ed on table to pay her way. Miss Crawford always was beautiful and alluring, and could dance as if she had fairy feet. But she also had 2 tremendous drive of ambition to Bucceed on her own hook. | She soon decided that she should become a professional dancer, so she left college. Her first job was dancer in the Friars Inn in Chicago. Then she danced in Oklahoma City, and De- troit. Attracted Shubert’s Notice | In the latter city she was no- ticed by J. J. Shubert, and was iven a position in “Innocent es,” then trying out. She wént %o New York with that show and was a notable success as a dancing chorus girl, playing in “The Pass- ing Show,” and at the Winter Gar- den. 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