The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 7, 1931, Page 3

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 1931 A Million in LAUGHS! starring the perfect comedy NEWS COMEDY CARTOON o ARE they a scream! Just wait ’till you glimpse Marie Dressler and Polly Moran as the boarding house gals who clean up in Wall Street. They put on the ritz as only THEY can! Then comes the crash! It’s a riot! Get ready to enjoy the biggest laugh you've ever had in a motion picture theatre. (osmopolitan [roduction MAYOR WALKER, WISE CRACKER, HAS NEW FIGHT INew “Headache” Waits| Chief Executive at City Hall (Continued from Page One) 19 PENNOCK TAKES KINKS FROM ARM place where he was born June 1881. Father Was Irish | His father was Willam H. Wal-| ker, an Irish immigrant and a| { prosperous lumber dealer who for a time was a Tammany member of the state assembly. Jim went to parochial school and was admitted to the bar in 1912 It was not until he entered poli- tics that he became “Jimmy.” His wife still calls him “Jim.” His political life began in 1910, when he was sent to the state as- sembly as a fayorite of Charles'F. Murphy, Tammany boss. Five years later he was in the state senate and scon he became leader of his party there. He was in the legislature 35 ears before he succeeded the ser- ious John F. Hylan as mayor in 1926. \ r ' | Associated Press Photo Herb Pennock, New York Yankee southpaw, is working hard at the St. Petersburg, Fla., training camp to.get in shape to hold the leads those Yankee sluggers figure to pound x4 for their hurler this year. Is First-Nighter Broadway Xnows Walker as a first-nighter in the theatre, as a ringside visitor (in his more rcbust rights), as a supper clubman and as a baseball fan. He wears his top hat in the jaunty Broadway, rather than a | sncbbish Park avenue manner. | Spats and canes he has by the dozen. One tailor makes all his clothes —wafst 20 inches, chest 36 inches. He never wears cuffs on his trous- ers, which must hang straight in front without the sign of a wrin- kle. He took 25 suits to Europe. On a seven-day trip to New Or- leans he took 21 shirts, six pairs of shoes and seven hats, including | three derbies. | He has sunned himself in Flo¥i- da, California and Bermuda, been THEY’LL PATROL BRAVES’ OUTFIELD' | London, Paris, Dublin, Berlin, and Rome and Venice. Is Not Wealthy Chided for his chronic lateness to appointments, he once said: “It |1s more important to make the time count than to count the time.” | There is no public evidence that ‘Walker has piled up any wealth. He is supposed to have saved little, if any of his salary. ‘When it was increased from $25,- 000 to $40,000 a year, he announced that' the $15,000 raise would be di- vided among charities. Associated Press Photo GOLISEUM WILL SHOW TONIGHF ‘DANGE OF LIFE’ {Romantic Love Story of Backstage Is Theme of Glittering Play “The Dance of Life,” all-talking motion picture, will be shown at | the Coliseum theatre tonight and tomorrow night. It has every- thing that makes for thrilling, | eripping entertainment—a roman- |tic love story of backstage life, !bur]esque sequences, daneing,” a | gorgeous “Follies” revue, singing, | music, dialogue, color. It is a Para- { mount production made from the markably successful stage play, “Burlesque.” Hal Skelly, who originated the role of Skid in the stage produc- tion, continues in this part in the motion picture production. Nancy Carroll, red-headed beauty, has the other featured role. The cast includes such stage and sereen favorites as Dorothy Revier, Ralph Theador, Charles D. Brown, Al St John and May Boley. Sound and Color “The Dance of Life” combines the two latest achievements of the screen, sound and color, A spec- tacular revue scene, with lavish costumes, brilllant settings and beautiful girls, is shown entirely in color by the Technicolor pro- heard throughout the action. The story takes one behind the scenes in a burlesque theatre and follows the love affair of two in- | teresting performers throughout a series of events which takes onc of them to the Broadway ecircuit and the big revues. Six original song hits were written for the preducticn and many old-time and Ipopul:w songs are heard through- out the picture. New lances Seen New dances, originated by lead- ing dance masters are seen in “The Dance of Life.” Two great directors of stage and screen pro- ductions, John Cromwell and Ed- ward Sutherland, collaborated f this picture. Twelve women of generously am- le proportions, not onc of them weighing less than 180 pounds, got their “break” on the screen when “The Dance of Life” was produced The Amazon chorus appears in an opening sequence of the picture. Fred Datig, casting director. says that to find these women wa the most difficult assignment he has ever had. Mother and Daughters rdona Bennett and her daugl.- ter, Miss La Reno, were the first two to be signed. Miss Benneit has been on the stage since she was three years old. Miss La Renv, for the past three years, has been a member of the chorus in a Los Angeles burlesque show. Cora Beach Shumway was the prima donna with Eva Tanguay in “Sambo Girl” in 1909. One of the largest and, hence, one of the most statuesque ladies in the group is Charlotte Ogden with years of experience as a New York show girl behind her. Kay Deslys, an “end” girl of the line, has been in the show business 20 years. Europe contributed Magda Blom, once a well-known classical dancer of the Swedish stage. .- — AT THE HOTELS Gastineau Sam Baker, Bert Thayer, K. O. Scribner, Baxter Felch, Seattle; George Jones, Honah; I. G. Ander- san, Spokane; C. Wright and W. B. Little, Ketchikan; Mrs. H. Suther- land ard son, Bellingham; J. T. Tenneson, Tenakee, Alaskan Art Hedman, Taku; Thomas Par- ezanier, attle; John Keagy, Blaine, Wiish. Zynda Mr. and Mrs. George H. Miller, Bureau of Mines; G. T. Wilson, Bremeston; Hope Markoe, San Francisco. feted, wined and dined in Havana,|{ This trio of outfielders, photographed In spring training in Fiorida, fs expected to be in the Boston Braves’ lineup when the 1931 playing geason opens. Left to right: Wesley Schulmerich, formerly with Lcs Angeles, Walter Berger, a regular last year, and Robert Worthington from Rochester. He has been offered much more i lucrative positions in ‘private busi- ness. Money, for him, seems to be important only in the spending. M'DERMOTT TO CORDOVA FAVOR ADS IN TEXTBOOKS "‘FOB THOSE WHO CARE” H. W. McDermott, well known in| NASHViz.E, Tenn. — “Proper{ A marvelous Oriental wrinkle re- Juneau as a hotel man, is a pas-|and instructive” advertisements in|meover.~“Won-Sue-Fun” (return of senger on the steamship Yukon,| Tennessee free textbooks for school | youth) perfect skin cleanser, rejuv- which called here today. He is on | children is recomended by 2 com- | enator powder base. No other cream his way to Cordova to be manager | mission created by the State Leg-|required.$1.00 and $3.50. Dr. Doelker, of the Windsor Hotel there. jis_lat.ure to study the book problem. Hellenthal Building, Red Sox’s Manager Associated Press Photo Shano Collins, manager of the Boston Red Sox, photographed in Florida, where his team is in train- Ing. Collins formerly was a F Sox player, cess, and sound and dialogue are| ‘CAUGHT SHORT’ HEADS GAPITOL BILL TONIGHT {Hilarious Comedy Has Two Stars in Marie Dressler and Polly Moran “Caught Short,” Eddie Cantor's { collection of witticisms anent the |recent stock market crash, fur- ' nished the inspiration for the new | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer all-talking (comedy of the same title which |will open at the Capitol Theatre | tonight, with Marle Dressler and ‘Polly Moran in co-starring roles (and Anita Page, Charles Morton, T. Roy Marnes; Edward Dillon,| | Alice Moe, Gwen Lee, Lee Kohl- {mar and Great Granstédt support- ing. Charles F. Riesner directed the| comedy with Willard Mack respon- | sible for dialogue and continuily.| ! Boarding House Keepers | Miss Moran and Miss Dressler have the roles of New York City | bearding-house landladies to whom first unexpected profit and sub- | sequently disaster when the inevi- table Wall Street catastrophe oc- curs. two ladies from their Washington | Square habits of cooking and house | cleaning to a perlod of suddenly acquired luxury in a fashionable | Atlantic City hostelry makes up their outstanding coc-starring ve- hicle. An Interesting item in connec- |tion with the hotel location is the fact that it took three days to film a sequence laid in one of the large freight elevators. According |to the script, Miss Dressler and | Miss Moran have just received | the news of the stock market | crash and the total loss of their ! | investments. Place of Privacy | Seeking a place of privacy in | which they may console each other they enter the freight elevator. As hotel atmosphere was essen- tial, the setting could not be built at the studio and sound cam- | | eras, trucks, lights, etc., were ship- ped to one of the largest Califor-| |nia resort hotels. Here the work |of filming the scene was held up| |inasmuch as the hotel was unable | ;‘m grant MGM a monopoly of the elevator which was needed for the transfer of foods and other articles| 1to upper floors. Had to Move Frequently Consequently just about the time! | when Riesner was ready to shoot |the elevator scene it would be re- | juired by the hotel and Miss Dressler and Miss Moran would ! have to move out. All told it took exactly three days to com- plete the sequence. Two songs will be heard in “Caught Short,” a burlesque num- ber sung and danced by Mi Dressler, called “I'm Spanish Now” | and “Somebody” which Charles Morton sings to Anita Page. SPRUCE MILLS AT KETCHIKAN 'BEGIN SAWING Teacher Announces En-| gagement at Dinner to 13 Guests KETCHIKAN.—After having been | closed during the winter, the plan- ing mill and the saw mill of the Spruce Lumber Mills have resumed operations. Seventy men are at work on a five-day schedule, The box factory is expected tq open later with a limited crew. Miss Thelma Thompson, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew ‘Thompson, of this city, and Clar- ence Croy, of Anacortes, Wash., who has been employed on the Lighthouse tender Cedar, were mar- mier here recently. ‘They wili make their home in Anacortes. At a dinner which Mrs. Eva Elliott, teacher, gave to 13 women guests, she announced her engage- ment to Allan Miller, president of the Alaska Investment Company. The wedding will take place in June. Mrs. Dwight A. Chase, contralto, prominent in musical affairs, has been elected delegate of the fed- erated musical organizations of the city to the convention of the Na- tional Federation of Music Clubs to be held in San Francisco June 20 to June 27. Mrs. William L. Paul was chosen alternate. Three deaths occurred recently in one day. James Wiley, pioneer Alaskan; Daniel McTague, 9 years old, and the 13 months-old baby of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Brown, passed away within a few hours of one another. Citizenship papers have been granted by United States Judge Justin W. Harding, holding a spe- cial term of court here, to Rig Sidney Bance, Sigure Agusta Nel- son, Peder John Odegaard, Hans | | | the lure of stock speculation brings wasecs e | | oIy CARROLL [ Peder Lena Strandal, Ole Iverson Garso, Charles H. Young, Alvin Nilsen and Arne Heggem. Mrs. | woman, who died of a bullet wound | her newly-installed machinery func- {in her heart, inflicted with a 45 caliber Colt Army her own life, a coroner’s jury de- cided. Domestic trouble and liquor caused despondency. Tuesday Wednesday ALL TALKING ALL SINGING ALL DANCING Scenes in Technicolor ANCY OF 'COURSE—AT COLISEUM LISTENS TO MACHINERY E. M. Murphy, Mechanical Sup- erintendent of the Alaska Steam- ship Company, is a passenger on the steamship Alaska. He is mak- ing the trip to satisfy himself that U. 8. TO BUY CZARS' BOOKS Hansen, Iver Rudd, Mrs. WASHINGTON—The Library of Congress has decided to buy 1,600 books which belonged to the former royal family of Russia. - TWO LEAVE HOSPITAL Mrs. Franz Klitza and son, born March 26, left St. Ann's Hospital today. . The Klitza home is at Thane. 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