The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 28, 1931, Page 3

{ :30—9:30 METRO-GOLDWY T d it I WATCH FOR “The Big House” “Raffles” “SLip from Shanghai” AT G MUSICAL ROMANCE THE GOLDEN VOICE OF THE SILVER SCREEN. A GREATER HIS FIRST ALL-TALK- Phone 144 SUNDAY MATINEE—2 P. M. " NOVARE N-MAYER’S NOVARRO IN s a ; THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, FEB. 28, 1931. A ER s CAPITOL, s AR 7:30—9:30 fisa, 0 SUNDAY MONDAY 7:30--9:30 ING AND SINGING PICTURE A SOON “Half Shot at CHEVALIER TO BE AT COLISEUM IN Sunrise” “Trespasser” “Their Own Desire” ] IS ACQUITTED OF German Dancer Acclaimed “Liberator” of Art MURDER CHARGE, SECOND TRIAL “Red Lilac” Freed by Jury/| in Buffalo of Death. of Artist’'s Wife BUFFALO, N. Y., Feb. 28—Lile | Jimerson, Indian woman, tried| twice for the murder of Clotilde | Marchand a year ago, has been | acquitted. The jury brought in a verdict after being locked up over-| night. “ The State contended the woman, | known as “Red Lilac” of the Cay-| uga tribe, instigated the murder of | Mrs. Marchand so she would be | more free to carry on admitted intimaey with Henri Marchand, ar- tist and husband of the slain woman. The defense contended the In- dian woman knew nothing of the crime and others had motives equal- | ly. strong, who desired the death | of Mrs. Marchand. | { | | | | CAPITOL LAST TIMES TONIGHT 7:30 | 9:30! Talks and Sings. See and Hear WILLIAM HAINES 'ANITA PAGE FRED NIBLO asien $OBERT MONTGOMERY LIONEL BARRYMORE KARL DANE CECIL B. DEMILLE) The modern dance is given new interpretation by Mary Wigman, to his present success as a bilin- the German dancer who does not The dance, she contends, is an art NEW YORK, Feb. 23.—Seldom has a foreign artist come over the horizon to arouse so much critical| discussion as Mary Wigman, tho German dancer, in her first visit to this country. Reeognized as a leader of the ‘ modern dance, Miss Wigman has freed her art from its dependence upon music. It is on this theory .that she has built her school—that the dance is an art in itself, and should not be mercly a physical interpretation of music. As a student of Dalcroze and Rudclph von Laban, she subjected herself to absolute body discipline for four years. Because of this mastery of her body, she can exe- cute dance movements which have been constant problems to other dancers for years. One of the features of several of her dances comes when she spins around like a whirling dervish for seven minutes without Few dancers can do this for more than three minutes. She has created about 100 solo dances and 50 group dances. She has never been marricd. —— e, DANCE TONIGHT With the SERENADERS at the ELKS’ HALL. a pause. ‘depend on music in many dances. in itself. { BODYGUARD GF CAPONE TO BE SENTTO TALY “Mops” Volpe Is Ordered Deported — Unlaw- | fully in America WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 28— | Secretary to Labor Doak has ord- ered the deportation of Tony | “Mops” Volpe, bodyguard of Al ECapone. Chicago gangster. The deportation is ordered be- cause Volpe is an alien and is un- =lawfully in the United States. This was determined after preliminary findings by the Immigration au- | thorities. Volpe's counsel appealed to the courts and Labor Department. Volpe will be sent to Italy. ———————— —adv. Daity mupire Want Ads Pay. IR RO @ |lung, almost killed him and even BIG POND SUNDAY “Border Romance” Will e | Feature Attraction at Theatre Tonight “Border Romance” will be shown | tonight only at the Coliseum } Big Pond,” Paramoun jcomedy-drama with music come |to the Coureum theatre tomerrow ! night. . The star is Maurice Chevalier, former Idol of Paris, but now new Idol of America. He plays the| |part of an ambitious Frenchmar who makes good in an American | |chewing gum factory. Tha lead- ing lady is Claudette Colherf, tne! American stage and screer favor-| itc. She plays the vole of an American daughter of wealth who | meets Chevalier while traveling m| Miss Colbert was horn in| d lived there unti! her| early te:ns when .le cam: to New‘ York. | “The Pig Fend” was 4 Hobart Eeit'ey, who directec | Lady Lies” and “Roadhouse Nights.” | Author of Play | The original play upon which the | picture is based was wrilten by |George Middleton and A. E.| Thomas. The screen centinuity |is the product of Robert Presnell and Garrett Fort. The dialvgue was written by Preston Sturges. ‘ “It's an Il wind . ... " Most people will admit that the |Grest War was a terrible cvent, yet it was a ptece of shrapnel | which, indirectly was responsibl: |for the success of Chevalier as #n international favorite in talking | motion pictures. | The shrapnel, lodging in his right iarber he recovered from the dan- ger of immediate death, the doc- |tors told him that he might never ' sing again. Prisoner of Germans But the same plece of shrapnel caused him to be taken prisoner by | the German troops and it was dur- | . {ing his 26 months as a prisoner, 1in a German camp that he learned | the English language from a fellow | | prisoner, thereby paving the way |gual star of both the stage and screen. In spite of the gloomy predictions of the doctors Chevalier recovered completely from the effects of his weund. After the war he sang his way to music hall stardom in Europe and then into international fame by way ‘of the audible screen. The American mispronunciation of his name worries Chevalier, es- pecially since he saw an authentic press report to. the effect that a woman in Chicago filed suit for di- vorce, declaring in her complaint that she quarreled with her hus- band over the pronunciation of “Chevalier.” Campaign of Education The famous French song and dance hero of Paramount films, thinks that it is high time an edu- | cational campaign be started to prevent any possible repetition of incidents” similar to the Chicago one. And so he okayed the following phonetic pronunciation of his last name: “Shev-al-yay"—with a slight ae- cent on the “al” Added attractions at the Coliseum theatre Sunday will be “He Loved the Ladies,” “Glacier Secrets,” “The Talkies,” and Paramount News. ————— DANCE TONIGHT With the SERENADERS at the ELKS' HALL. —adv. | i | __SATURDAY ONLY— “Border Romance” On Their Way—‘The Indians Are Coming’ NOW—SEE CHEVALIER” COLISEUM There’s one trick about love making I forgot to show you and it’s the best of all. YOU'LL with CLAUDETTE COLBERT BE SEE IT THIS TIME MAURICE CHEVALIER in “The Big Pond” ADDED ENJOYMENT “He Loved the Ladies™ “Glacier Secrets” “The Talkies” Paramount News” e e o the- | f ater. | “The NEW YORK, Feb. 24—At last we find a woman whose career was begun by marriage rather than ended by it. She is Lily Pons, the slender 26-year-old girl who recently made a sensational debut {in the Metropolitan Opera House. Her husband, who has been both |a lawyer and a newspaper owner in Prance, discovered his young wife's beautiful voice a few months jafter their marriage in Cannes. Lily’s husband was big enough to be generous when he recognized his wife's exceptional voice. He was big enough to take her to a teach- er. The teacher was enthusiastic. “It is an opera voice,” he said. M. Mesretz spoke firmly. ‘If it's a perfect voice, it must be trained,” he said; “if it'’s only a good voice, no.” ‘The teacher then confidently de- clared it was a perfect voice. Lily was 21. Years of hard work fol- lowed. Lily tried hard to put on weight. Who ever heard of a thin opera singer? She is probably the only opera singer who has been to doectors about putting on weight. 8he made her debut in Milhaus, in French Alsace. After that she sang in the provinces. There was no call from the Paris opera stage. She had made public appearances in Paris as a pianist and as an actress in ingenue roles. She was always fond of music. At 16 she had won first prize at the Paris| Conservatorie. singer Paris didn’t want her. Bhe had been singing for five years. One night, still singing in the provinces, where oftentimes the audience will rise and show you how it should be done, Lily was heard by Mme. Gay and her hus- band, Zenatello. Marie Gay was an opera singer long ago. At once she wrote to her old friend Gatti- But as an opera} Galli-Cureci. Rosa FoNsEVTE Diva’s Career Began with Marriage An Adoring Husband Discovered the Beautiful Voice of His Young Bride, Lily Pons, Ignored by Paris Opera Stage. The Met. Hails Her as First Real Coloratura Sensation Since erezia Borir. Casazza telling him about Lily. Last March the great conductor heard Lily sing. A few weeks ago Lily was a sen- sation in the role of Lucia in the Metropolitan Opera House. Lily is the first real coioratura [sensation since Amelia Galli-Curci. Only three other singers in the ‘past dozen years have received ac- claim from a music-wise metro- politan audience. They were Lu- | eretia Bori, Rosa Ponselle and Mar- 'ia Jeritza. | These four women are about as different as possible in appearance, nationality, and temperament. Lily’s imother was Italian, her father was (a French musician. Bori is Spanish, | Ponselle, ‘Ttalian-American and Jer- itza, Austrian. Born and Ponselle are not mar- ried. Jeritza is, in private life, the| Baroness de Popper and with her| {husband the famous diva spends| most of her time in the home in| Vienna. . Her husband is a banker. | Rosa Ponselle is still single. She | |occupies her time, when not sing- ing, in bieycling to keep down her | weight, taking care of pet kittens and entertaining her father and | mother. It was 13 years o that Rosa| {cavorted in the e Melone in New Haven, Conn. She was the ipet of Yale students. The proprie-| tor realized that she had a voice.| So he sent her to teachers in the {college town. Shortly after he went. to war. For two years he stayed in France. When he came| back Rosa was a prima donna. .- — MEETING MONDAY | A regular meeting of the Juneau | Business and Professional Woman’s | Margaret Sanger, birth zontrol, cenate judiciary sub-committee with a delegation to urge the adoption of a bill authorizing dissemination of birth control information. Urges Birth Control Associated Press Photo appeared /Club will be held Monday night at| for the winter due to 7 pm. in Miss Todd's Studio. adv | climate, advocate of before a the mild CAPITOL SUNDAY HAS NOVARRO IN ‘DEVIL MAY CARE' “Free and Easy” with Kea- ton Shows for Last Times Tonight “Free and Easy,” with Buster l%euwn 1ialnd a galxy of ather screen stars will be shown at the Caj Theatre for the last times ton;‘hwt. “Devil May Care,” starring Ramon |Novarro will be presented at the Capitol for the first time at the matinee tomorrow _afternoon. “Devil May Care” is an all-talk- ing musical romance with a score by Herbert Stothart, lyrics by Clif- ford Grey, and an elaborate tech- nicolor sequence. ‘The picture, to the screen by Richard Schayer, from the French drama, “La Bataille des I_)ames"‘ is laid in the historic pe- riod of Napoleon's exile, and con- cerns the adventures of one Are- mand, played by Mr, Novarre, who, as a lieutenant of the deposed em- peror, has an exciting time kee) out of the hands of Royalists, and at the same time winning one of the most beautiful feminine mem- bers of the group. adant adapf Catchy Tunecful Songs The songs in “Devil-May-Care” are unusually beautiful, semi-classical air but :w v‘c:u v swing. “Charming,” the principal _song, has proved very popular, Two jother romantic songs, “If He Cared” -and “The Shepard's Sere- nade,” are high class musical com=- edy offerings. “Pompadour" and “Bon Jour, Louie” are rollicking comedy ballads, and “March of the Old Guard” is a military song sung by Nov chorus. 4 i ViR Director Sidney Franklin chose | Novarro's supporting cast with an eye on the musical phage of the | production. Darothy Jordan, for- merly of “Garriek Galeties,” “Twin- | kle, 1’I‘vlvmkle," and oth:'-. |musical comedies, has th feminine role. Marion Hln'u.e h.d:..l;o !well-known “blues” singer, has the prominent role of Countess Louise, Others in the cast include John Miljan, William Humphrey, George Davis and Clifford Bruce. Photography Is Artistio “Devil-May-Care” proves itself distinctive not only in its musical secore but in artistic photography. Virtually perfect results were ob-- islowly maved in front of the ranks. . The use of light and shadow 18 |expertly employed in a scene im which Armand is to be shot at |dawn but makes his escape over a stone wall. However, most cam~ |ment has been in connection -np' |& scene filmed in technicolor which a group of Albertina M; glrls execute a Napoleonic ballet in a repreduction of the gardens at Versailles. The costumes, the impressionistic angles from which the scene was “shot” the sudden " |shooting up of & myriad of foun~ BARRAGAR RETURNS FROM TRIP SOUTH| i James A. Barragar, Jr, returned the Capitol will be ion the Northland after a two don in “The Shrimp.” |tains, and the effect of the |ing, make this scene one of great’ beauty. Laugdon in “The Shrimp” The added attraction Sunday at He | months' pleasure trip in the States @ dog’s life in the first reel |during which time he visited for the comedy. | five weeks in California, in Los he also leads a dog's life, but in Angeles, Hollywood and elsewhere. stead of being bullied, and te He said there are the usual num- and tormented, he bullies and’ ber of men out of employment in es and torments those who California as thousands go there done so to him. In the second ———t— Old papers at The Empive