The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 3, 1931, Page 3

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE MONDAY AUGUST 3 1931. JOANCRAWFORD HAS TRIUMPH IN GANGSTERPLAY Is CAPITOL TONIGHT—CRASH THROUGH WITH JOAN CRAWFORD in:her most dramatic romance “DANCE FOOLS DANCE” A TRUE story of gangland . . . of rackets . .. news- papers . . . molls.. . . and a ROMANCE that survived machine-gun bullets! “Dance Fools Dance” Feature Attraction at Capitol Gangsters’ bullets mix with high cociety in “Dance Fools, Dance,” Joan Crawford’s starring vehicle which opened yesterday at . the Capitol theatre, The story, with a Chicago locale, principally concerns the under- world and newspaper life of the | metropolis. It is an original by If you can’'t stand excitement STAY AWAY from this sensational CHICAGO GANGSTERS expose . . . the most DARING picture of all time! NEWS Chas. Chase Comedy CARTOON rAmzmm Rouverol with screen con- tinuity by Richard Schayer. Harry Beaumont directed. Vail Opposite Star Lester Vail is Miss Crawford’s ---=3 |leading man and the supporting COMING—*‘Last Parade,” “3 French Girls,” “Men of the North,” “Cracked Nuts” | | > cast includes 'Cliff Edwards, Wil- liam Bakewell, William Holden, Clark Gable, Earl Foxe, Purnell B. Pratt, Hale Hamilton, Natalie Moorhead, Joan Marsh and Rus- sell Hopton. Perhaps outstanding in the spee- tacular episodes is a nocturnal lin- gerie swimming party staged dur- ing a gay yachting cruise. In this scores of dazzling damsels dive overboard with their boy friends. ‘Another. glittering scene is the night club dance number intrig- uingly executed by Miss Craw- ford, costumed in a clinging silver creation. The story, despite lavish touches, is intensely dramatic, the plot mot- ivated by murder. It is a daring theme from the society angle and a still more daring one from the viewpoint of exposing crime and racketeering. There is a wealth of newspaper atmosphere, realis- tically supplied. Has Effective Role Miss Crawford plays the part of a society girl, reduced to poverty, who turns to newspaper work for | a livelihood. gangster killers of another report- \er, she discovers her own brother to have been involved in the bru- tal crime. The climax comes when |she decides to give her brother up. The settings add vastly to the Ask for Demonstration |realism. The costumes by Gilbert Adrian are splendid, Miss Crawford McCAUL MOTOR 0. | ” . ANNOUNCING DODGE BROTHERS NEW SIX FREE WHEELI ' EASY SHIFT TRANSMISSION Dodge Coupe $1190.00 Delivered BUNEUBQBUBUBUBUIR | in the plctu:e Kaufmann’s Cafe (Formerly MABRY’S CAFE opposite Gordon’s) WILL OPEN FOR BUSINESS TUESDAY (Tomorrow) MORNING At6 A. M. SPECIAL OPENING DINNER €21 WILL BE SERVED, STARTING AT 4 0’CLOCK The best of everything on the market will be; included with this SPECIAL OPENING DINNER Kaufmann’s Ca R. T. ‘BOB” KAUFMANN Proprietor and Chef wi# 4 PHONES 83 OR 85 ! % “Thg Store That Pleases” THE SANITARY GROCERY In her hunt for the | AllAla Miss Wilma Murphy and Ralph| E. Hardy, popular young couple of Anchorage, were recently married there. ) | Damage to a bridge has put thcl Livengood tram out of ecommission, | and repairs will not be made, Major |i Commission, announced at Fair- banks. Restoration of the tram| would cut too seriously into funds needed for the Olnes-Livefigood road, he declared. Recent rains in the Fairbanks section have helped garden truck. Cabbages, turnips, tomatoes, cauli-| flower, cedery, carrots, head lettuce and strawberries are local products on the market there. The potato crop is backward. Theadore Goring, pioneer of| Alaska and of Yukon Territory, recently died at Fairbanks. Sawing has been discontinued by the Independent Lumber Com- pany’s mill at Pairbanks because of a lack of logs. The Chena River is too low to float the 5000 logs that are ready to come down it. Only about 3,000 logs have been delivered to the mill this seaSon, Quills of a porcupine that Had been run over by a McKinley Park motor truck puctured two balloon inner tubes so full of holes they were not worth fixing. hunters in not having reducing = the Predatory animal McKinley Park are much success in number of wolves. Quite a business in souvenir salmon has been developed by B. D. Blackwood of Ketchikan. He sells souvenir canned salmon to tourists. More than 300 visitors this season have bought the can- ined salmon, which was either taken by them or sent by him to their designated friends. His sou- venirs have gone to almost all parts of the world. His store is a place of interest to travelers when- ever a steamship is in port. A, E. Karnes, superintendent of schools in Ketchikan, was re- elected director for Alaska of the National Educational Assoclation at its recent convention: in Leos ! Angeles. Accidental discharge of a ¥ifle |hanging on a wall at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Heine smqum ‘Wasila,’ north: of’‘Anchorage, wounded their little daughter. The came out near the left knee, bu'] did not touch any bones. i . Nine separate parties, all under the Geological Survey, are making an investigation of mineral deposits in the Alaska Railroad zone, in accordance with the terms of an appropriation provided by the last Congress. In compliance with the request of mining interests in the Fair- banks distriet, Col. O. F. Ohlson, manager -of the Alaska Rallroad, will leave bridges and culverts in place on the Chatnika ~branch line when its rails are removed. Fred Burling, known as Svlnsm. of Chitina, s reported to be the heir to considerable money left by an uncle, who recently died in Sweden at the age of 91. Kishiro Izawa, Japanese canpery worker at Cordova, committed sui-/ cide by drowning in a creek xfiur‘ Shepard Point, aceording to the verdict of the coroner's. jury. Miss Marie Banks, who for two years had charge of the home ec- onomics department of the Fair- banks high _school, will not pe back next fall, having decided to take graduate work at the Uni- versity of Oklahoma. Her place BALLBAND WORK SHOES With the Jong-wearing MISHKO SOLE H. 8. Graves The Clothing Man bullet entered near the thigh and | land who afterwards ka News will be taken by Miss Laura Lee| |of Los Angeles. Five miles of ditch and a one- mile pipe line from Bear Creek to Fairbanks Creek have been com- ph‘ted by Fairbanks Gold Dredg- ing Company in much more , yardage than here- tofore because of the installation of a new auxiliary plant for sup- plying power in digging. Ralph Clarkson recently, captured ia live grizzly bear north of Cordova and had caged the animal for shipment to a zoo. The bear broke from his prison and blazed a’ fast trail for parts. unknown. Ira Weesner intends to establish! {fast weekly or bi-weekly dog team service between Nenana and Tan- ana this coming winter. Passen- gers and freight will The service is to start about Nov- ember 1. Fairbanks will lengthen Weeks' Aviation Field. Sometimes avi- ators barely escape striking trees taking off. A poem of 73 stanzas, descrip- tive of the recent Alaska tour of the Los Angeles Chamber of Com- merce, written by Stella M. Cham- bers, one of the excursionists, who signs herself “The Rhyming Ram- bler,” was printed in The An- chorage Times. Eleven of the stanzas are devoted to Juneau. The poem, set in small type, took two columns of the Anchorage news- paper. To educate the people to the merits of the white king salmon, the Seattle Chamber of Commerce is urged by the Wrangell Cham- ber of Commerce to undertake a national advertising campaign: The white salmon is a better fish to eat than the red Kking, declared Alaska Senator Charles Benja- min of Wrangell, although the red king sells for a higher price. Great sympathy for old persons is expressed by Col. O. F. Ohlson, manager of the Alaska Railroad, who recently issued an order| against the employment of men more than 50 years of age. the Fairbanks News-Miner he is quoted as saying persons physical- | ly fit will be employed irrespective of age, and that since the issuance of the order, 114 Alaskans over 50 have been employed. The rail-| road employs a total of 1360 per- sons. A service from Fairbanks to Val-| dez to connect with southbound steamers has been announced by | Robert Kelly, owner of the newly formed Golden North Stage Line. His company is the only one of- fering direct passenger service be- tween Fairbanks and Valdez. The regular schedule will call for two days' travel, with an overnight stop at Paxson Lodge. Julius Kendi of the Old Crown Anglican Mission was ordained an Episcopal priest at the Moosehide Church near Dawson by Bishop Stringer. The new priest will be in charge of Old Crow and Ram- part House missions. Donald MacDonald, locating en- gineer for the Alaska Road Com- mission and originator of the idea of the International Highway, re- cently visited Dawson. He is spend- ing the summer making extended reconnissance of the various ap- lproaches to the Sixtymile ridge, which it is assumed will be the route of the proposed highway to Dawson. Thousands of caribou, young and old, last week were traveling over the bills on the left limit of the Klondike River and in the Klondike Valley. Motorists from Dawson drove up Hunker Creek and up the Klondike to get pictures of Lhe animals. They were swimmlng across the Yukon River above Dawson. A brown bear, estimated to weigh 600 pounds was seen just outside | the city limits of Dawson by Stan- ley Reid, radio man, the latter being in an automobile. He did not molest the animal. 8. A. Hemple, 62 who participated | in the rush to the Klondike in 1898 engaged in the mercantile and banking busi- ness in Valdez, died recently in Scattle. He is survived by Mrs. Hemple. . Pursuant to the wish 'of the late Charles G. Wulff, former resident of Valdez, who died at San Diego, | Per Cal, in August 1030, his widow recently journeyed to Valdez and | scattered his ashes on the waters of Valdez Bay. . Mysteriously missing since Aug- ust, 1930, while en route from Ta- cotna to McGrath in his small gasboat, the body of F. C. H. Spen- cer, pioneer Alaskan, was found on @ river bar, about 30 miles from McGrath, recently. The body was discovered by natives. The cause of death is unknown. Production at the Lucky Shot Mine on Craigie Creek, in the Wil- the Fairb:\nks\‘ Malcom Elliott, of the Alaska Road {district. Two dredges are handling |§ be carried. | By | Mov 1eland-Bound \ } N: Pauling Moore, 17-year-old Haw risburg, Pa., girl with her dog, “Lindy,” gave New York this part- ‘ing smile as she left for the fa- |mous einema community of Uni- versal City, Calif. Pauline rep- resents the only 1931 “find” of Carl Laemmle, Jr., film producer.’' Miss Moore graduated only last month from a junior college, her theatrical career being inaugurated in a class play. She can cook, too. MAE MURRAY SUING COUNT FOR DIVORCE {Hollywood Sur prised at Abrupt End, Supposed- ly Happy Romance LOS ANGELES, Cal Aug. 3.—| lVl.xe Murray, blonde aotress, last| Saturday sued for divorce from Prince N'Dvani. She said in the |complaint, that he beat her on the face, arms and body ,n the presence of a servant, threatened to shoot her, and chased her with {a revolver. The abrupt ly happy romance Hollywood. The couple | Friday. end to a supposed- surprised all last separated only ‘IDW Creek district, north of An- chorage, continues steadily with a crew of more than 70 men em- ployed. Mining and milling opera- ticns are progressing hatisfactorily land the activities of the company | have given impetus to development | in other sections of the camp. The |Lucky Shot operations are the unust extensive of any in the dis- |trict at the present time, and are {on an all-year basis. | Five holes, uuch 1,000 feet in depth, will be drilled immediately by the Lynch Brothers, on the sul- phur deposits of Paul Buckley, in the Unalaska area, reports Mr. | Buckley, who, with Mrs. Buckley, recently left Alaska for the States after a visit of several weeks to the properties. Bellingham and Tacoma people are interested in the project. 8. 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BE HEARD LAST TIMES TONIGHT ‘The Dancers’ Will Be At-| traction Tomorrow at Coliseum “Song O' My Heart,” starring John McCormack, the worlds| greatest lyric tenor, will be seen and heard for the last times to-| night at the Coliseum theatre. “The Dancers,” featuring Lois Mo- \ ran and Phillips Holmes, will be! the attraction tomorrow night. In “Song O' My Heart,” McCor- mack gives a fine demonstration of the art of singing. He sings with , spontaneity and express-| SS. It is an illuminating| lesson to listen to the great singer render 11 song numbers, four of them in foreign language, in this audible picture. There is never a' forcing of a vocal tone, no exag- geration of manner, no overcolor- | ing of sentiment and no straining Pretty Postmistress ! One of the scenes shows a most | attractive village post-mistress. The colleen is none other than Gwen | McCormack, daughter of the great singer, whose little girl ambition to appear in pictures was grati- fied when Frank Borzage, the di- rector, gave her the opportunity to do the “bit.” “The Dancers” is the Movietone version of the famous stage play of the same name by Sir Gerald | du Maurier and Viola Tree. Its English locale and treatment is evident from the faot that Sir Du| Maurier himself played the role of | “Tony” in the original London| stage presentation. | Story of the Play The story deals with the ro- mapce of a young English couple who plighted their love as children | in the gypsy fashion, vowing to| take no other in life until they| were wad. “Diana,” heroine of this sweet love story, portrayed by Lois Moran. 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