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THE DAILY ALASKA BVIPIRE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22 TONiGHT 7:30-9:30 GCAPITOL TONIGHT 7:30-9:30 She Stalked Her Man Like a J ungle Tiger! the Scuth American jungles to the gilded| haunts of New York society. with ROBERT MONTGOMERY A ERNEST TORRENCE JACK CONWAY Production NEWS Collegian Comedy—“ON THE SIDE LINE” Coming “She’s My W eakness” “Brothers” UNIFORM FLAVOR IN COFFEE DEPENDS UPON THE ROASTING Hills Bros. Insure Uniformity by Their Patented, Con- tinuous Process Coffee experts agree that blend alone, regardless of quality, will not produce a perfect gup of coffee. In the roasting of the blend lies thc ~mrot of perfect flavor. common method of roasting co‘}'w in bulk fall ort in develop- ing flavor, b not possible to roast e izing th of e 0 is patented a (untmnmls process of\ roasting coffee a little at a time, Control is the watchword of this | ss. The quantity of coffee | passing into the roaster does not | vary. The speed of operation and temperature remain the same with | the result that Hills Bros. Coffee is absolutely umfnrm This process, | htungly called “Controlled Roast- s a flavor in the cup that coffee has. Hills Bros. Coffee never ;:'oeil stale” because it is packed in| vacuum cans. Ordinary cans, e\en’ if air-tight, do not keep coffee fresh | because air, which destroys the | flavor of coffee, is inside. By the| vacuum process, air is taken out of | the can and kept out. Hills Bros. | Coffee is sold everywhere by gro- | cers. Ask for it by name and look | for the Arab—the trade-mark—on | the can. Hills Bros. Coffee, Inc., San| Francisco, California. cmax HONEYMOON HALTED TO GET 600D SUN TAN Joan Crawford at Capitol 1 “Untamed” Has to Be Jungle Girl Halting a honeymoon :n order et an extra good tan is some- new in experiences, but Joan Crawford did it. While lark- ing in New York after her wed-! ding to Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Joan re eceived a wire from the Mctro - iwyn - Mayer studios, “Better come hoxm or your will bleach out And Iorlh\mh packed bags and husband. For her impersonation in “Untamed”, which is being shown at the Capi- Miss very, very brown, the kind of |tan a girl would get who followed| r father through a tropic wild- As New York theatres and shops weren’t helping that tan, Joan hot-footed it back to the white| sands of the Pacific, and the sun of California in mid-July. In “Untamed” Miss Crawford’s | singing voice is heard to advant- age in two selections. of these is “The Jungle composed by Naclo Herb |and Arthur Freed. The number, “That Wonderful thing Called Love,” was writted by Joe Goodwin lmd Lou Alter. YOUR ALASKA LAUNDRY Tel. 15 We call for and deliver “Tomorrow’s Styles Today FROCKS For Commencement Showing the last word in Pastel Shades just received from the New York Market Priced $14.75 to $21.50 Sizes 14 to 20 years “Juneau’s Own Store” tan| Crawford | The first | used to | gaze at of you, CHICAGO.—Ladies, you go to the movies just to his Grecian profile. Many even if you won't admit it, used to swoon at the idea of even meeting | this super-being, this demi-god who could make his love scenes so con- vincing that one could hear little h go pit-a-pat. And now if ¥ still like him you may have a chance to buy him. Francis X. Bushman, for- mer movie idol, has tumbled from his pedestal of fame and riches nd may put himself on the mar- ket to be purchased by a woman of means. For still handsome | Frank, who is so hard up that he is even braving the terrors of Chi- cago to act in stock there, is fed lup with love marriages. He has made two, and neither of them | took, despite the second one being cited as the romance that was to end all romance for others. It certainly did for Bushman, for his marriage to Beverly Bayne was not a success. Despite all the glam- or and publicity attendant on it, it failed just as had his first mar- 3 to the woman who b him | children. And so, few can; lame Bushman for trying to mix | mammen with his next matri-| { monial venture. ! Francis X BUSHMAN' Romance-Thrills Bushman is 47 years old and | has crowded a couple of life times of romance, thrills and vicissi-| tudes into his existence. He has| climbed the golden ladder of fame | {twice, and twice he h tumbled | \Lo the inky pit of failure, despair and poverty that sprawls gaping {at the bottom rung. Perhaps if he decides to allow some wealthy woman to endow him, he may be| What Pnce for Handsome Husband Buffeted By Flckle Fortune, Francxs X. Bushman, One-tlme Great Lover of the Stage, Offers Himself As a Husband to the Highest Bidder MRS JosEPHINE K BusHMAN 1931. QUILLAN COMES | 70 COLISEUM IN - NIGHT WORK” ‘Comedy to Be Presented| Tonight Has Support- ing Cast of 27 Boasting a large supporting cast in importance and number, Eddie Quillan will be seen on the screen at the Coliseum Theatre tonight in “Nnght Work.” Twenty-seven ers appear with this young production. ted by Russell Mack from 1 story by Walter De- ht Work” presents Quil- e of those sympathetic ers so well suited to As an assistant in a department holds a unique side- ‘fired man.” He all occasions when a dis- customer demands that one be fired for one reason and another. 'As if this were not encugh to make things miserable inadv tly annexes a four- 3 1d at an expense of $10 a and from then on | things go m bad to worse, But, luck and a beautiful young nurse, y Sally Starr, help ut the situation with hilarious r Frances Up- i ten - contribut many laughs as { Eddi co-conspirator. | Others in the cast of 27 are -Jnhn T. Murray, George Duryea, °n Bard, Robert McWade, Doug- L’l:r Scott, Addie McFhail, Ruth Hiatt, Kit Guard, Georgia Caine, George Billings, Charles Clary, Tom Dugan, Arthur Hoyt, Billie Benneti, Tempe Pigott, Ruth | Lycns, Nora Lane, Arthur Love- ! joy, Marjorie ‘“Ba Kane, Jack Mack, Marian Ballou, James Don- lin, Martha Mattax and Harry able to clutch at the straws of | fame once more. But he would {no doubt attract a very different | audience. For judging by his; whole-hearted endorsement of the gigolo, he may become the ma‘ of all the women who include the} gigolo among their household pets. | And as anyone who goes round in | social circles here and on the con-| tinent knows, their number is con- siderable—quite sufficien to make a new fan army for Bushman. If Bushman ever runs the adver- | |tisement as he framed it, therec| should be plenty of response, if not | a rush of appli ion He terms| himself as ex-millionaire, athletic, gives weight and height, describes | his health as perfect and his ap pearance as intact. His ta: he says, or perhaps warns, are e ensive, his bridge he describe: fairly good and he terms himself ! sportsman by preference, actor by ! cluded: necessity. None of which reads|causeway Seldovia, very much like the blurbs that the| from the Third Division road ublicity writers used to put out|fund; $3,000 for a hydroplar about him in the good old days.| mooring port at Cordova, from the Lived High | same source; for the relief of When Bushman was at the pin-| Walter Kotoff, $52; improvement nacle of his fame in the years 1916 | of water transportation on ti to 1918, he lived high and luxuri-|rditarod river, $10,000; Se ously. The finest apartments in|peninsula shipping subsidy $10, the best hotels, regal suites on|repair and maintenance of t palatial steamships, private railroad | phone lines on Seward Peninsula, cars, all these were routine affairs|g5000; purchase of living quarters for the Bushman entourage. Hu\;m. the Ruby school te automobile knocked filmdom for |§250; radio subsidy for north of a goal. It was lavender and his|the Gulf of Alaska, $5,000; radio chauffeur and footman were at-|subsidy south of the Guif of Alas- tired in lavender liveries to tone|jg $5000; and a Senate bill # V{'“: the enormous car. Romance,|$7000 for repair and maintenance riches, man’s three R's and he made v,hc‘nam and Unalaklect. most of them. He and his co-star,| Two measures =or the regulation Beverly Bayne, were the primeof motor vehicular traffic were heart palpitaters of the movie| passed. One authorizes munici- world and public. But after ms‘pamies to regulate traffic, licens first wife, Josephone K. Bushman | grivers and fix reasonable divorced him in 1918 and his sub-{charged by taxicab operators sequent marriage to Beverly, his' The second is for the regulation fame began to decline. Movie fans(of traffic over highways outside of that period wanted the nice,iof municipalities. It puts a $10 virtuous good chaps that the mov-|jjcense fee on trucks and motcr- ies featured and villains were not|cycles; removes the speed in vogue. But later Bushman be- | magimum except on curves wh gan to ascend the ladder again and |4 20-mile ' speed s fixed; requires from 1921 to 1924 made quite a|the Treasurer to furnish each mo- comeback. In the latter year, while| torist with two license pla [he was in Italy, Beverly Bayne|ang provides that' no licen divorced him and another perfect ghan pe required of motorists pos romance went on the rocks. Since|cescing licenses from any of il thgn he has spent his own money | giates and Canadian provinces trying to produce his own pictures. 1 But the tide of success had turned!tign of from him. Defends Gigolo That Bushman has learned to| | interpret life | | | i |House deS(‘d Appropria- tion Bills for an Ag- gregate of $78 002 (Continued from Page One) ncluding 1 approp: ed bills ca of $78,002 y trustees 'for incorporated towns of the second class was also passed. Mr. Jonn$ton, with consent of in ultra-modernithe House, withdrew a bill intro- % | duced by him to appropriat !to pay transportation for veterans where necessary to get them to institutions in which hospitaliza- tion was authorized by the al Government. A measure |Mr. Winn and Mr. Boyle to ap- propriate $1940.86 to Juncau for |tuition for out-of-town pupils as withdrawn by them. DANCE NOTICE Dance Parish Hall April 24th, 9:30 pm. Good music. Refresh- /ments. Public cordially invited. —adv. WOOD HEMLOCK FOR KITCHEN RANGES FOR HEATERS FOR FIREPLACES $4.50 Load In 8, 12, 14, 16 or 24-inch lengths CHESTER BARNESON Telephone 039, lnlong, 1 short Economy Cash Store First and Main |terms is evidenced by his defense jof the gigolo. Bushman thinks that most useful being sadly ma- ligned and declares that if he some elderly, perhaps plain woman, well, he’s a regular boy-scout when {corns such a motive as far as his own-self is concerned. For he to offer the right woman, provid- ed that she can support him in the style to which he used to be ae- customed. ibrlngs happiness and glamor to| it comes to good deeds. But he | | feels that he has much, very much | | | { ‘ has resigned as United St renown, these were Bush-|of the telephone line between Ta- lmit | A Dbill to provide for the elec-| fllllfllllIIIIIlIlIIlllIIIIIIIIIIllllllllllllllillllllllIIIIIIIIIIII | HOUSE SPEEDS P.ESIGNATI(]N | UP ACTION ON IS PRESENTED FINANCE BILLS AND AGCEPTED ) SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, | Bowen. e 'ROX AND MOODY PUT UP DWELLING IN DAY Erection of a dwelling place in one day—that's the achievement of the Juneau building trades as exemplified by Rox and Moody, ’r(‘ncml contractors. 'The struct- |ure was put up for Michael whose family numbers s, al Fourth and Ha April 22 ormer Postmaster Arthur Fisk Streets. “Construction of homes while you wait, and you don't have to wait long,” is our motto, said Lece Rox, senior member of the con- traclinp firm. --e Old papers at the Emplre icner after Federal called into & hasty co an zalleged sho accounts, Hi been accepted have been made but ation (‘m)lmu(“h No the IIIiIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII|lIIIIlIIIIIIllHlIlIIIIIIIIIIIIINlIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllllIIIIlIIIIIIIllllIIIllllllllIIll"llIIIIIIIIllllIIIIIIIIII[IIIIIHIllllllIllllllllllllllllllllll AGAIN AT COLISEUM :30 — 9:30 — Thurs. Another Comedy Sensation AND HOW! Pathe ® Picture, 2 Big VITAPHONE ACTS Fox Movietonews PR AH! HA! Spring Is Here Home gardners and farmers are now buying garden tools. Wheelbarrows, Rakes, Hoes, Forks, Spades, Shovels, Garden Hose, Fertil- izers, Insecticides, Pruning Shears, Garden Seeds. A good variety to pick from. We have Haines Alaska Seed Potatoes We are in line to give you quick service and stand back of our goods. Harris Hardware Company PHONE 121 Next to Connors omee|Old Papers for salé at Empire Office The Alaska Book Company (Associated with J B. Burford & Co.) Closing Out all Retail Stock at prices in many instances below actual cost This is a very unusual opportunity to obtain latest editions of THE BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE LIBRARY OF POPULAR SCIENCE BLACKSTONE LAW LIBRARY COMPTON’S PICTURED KNOWLEDGE (Especially valuable to law students) GREGG SHORTHAND TEXTS MECHANICAL & TECHNICAL TEXTS COMMERCIAL LAW at material saving—in many instances more than one-third off regular price. used Encyclopedias at $9.50. cents up. ( NEW INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLO- PEDIA NEW WORLD'S HISTORY HENDERSON-PLAY-STUDY DESKS MERIDIAN MOVABLE GLOBES DICTIONARIES—AII Sizes. NEW ACCOUNTING TEXTS — Tax, Etc. Auditing, Income '] One or two Also a number of School Books, Children’s Books, from 25 Some late FICTION NUMBERS to go at 95 cents, regular $2.50. In closing the retail stock of the Alaska Book Company Mr. Dean will hereafter devote his efforts to the representation of the John W. Graham Company (School Supplies and ief&,ts) as well as continue to represent THE INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTANTS SOCIETY— THE GROLIER SOCIETY AND THE BLACKSTONE LAW INSTITUTE. P00 A

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