The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 12, 1931, Page 3

CAPITOL SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY MATINEE—Sunday—2 P. M. “HALLELUJAH, 'M A BUM!” He sang the hobo’s national anthem, he lived along the open road, but in his heart was a song of love. This picture is a tri- umph for the star— and a talkie with new laughs, new heart- throbs, a différent kind of romance. A HARRY POLLARD production with ESTHER RALSTON ROLAND YOUNG CLIFF EDWARDS ——NEWS—— ‘ r . ‘Second Hand Kisses” Comedy Coming * JOHN MACK BROWN in “BILLY THE KID”—Midnight Matinee Monday Night at 1 A. M. The Tailor Made Man It is the man with a custom-tailored suit that stands out in a crowd. The outstanding quality of custom-tailored suits or overcoats is the fact that they are made not for any man but for you alone. Result——a suit that combines good workmanship with your own personal desires in design and fabric. 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Information is that Metro-Gold- ‘wyn-Mayer, anxious to get away from typical musical comedy plots, selected an original story by Bess| Meredyth and Wells Root which centers about the question of di- vorce in an aristocratic Southern family. i This in no way deprives music 1lovers from hearing the Metropol tan Opera favorite sing, for e circrmstances of the plot are such as to contrive various episodes in which Tibbett sings a variety o. songs as a natural part of the pro- ceedings. Film Has Unusual Plot Tibbett will be seen as a prodi- gal son who has been roaming th: country with a band of “hobos. He stops off at his home to see his mother and for the first time | becomes acquainted with his broth- er's wife, Antonia.: Antonia 1§ mis- | erably unhappy with her tyrnnmcah husband and is about to elope with preserve the family integrity, bett succumbs to the charms of the bewitching Antonia and finds himself in a compromising situa- | tion. The unravellng of the itu- ation makes for ‘an extremely dra- ! matic screen pwr.. * 8 RADID SERVICE T0 ALASKA WILL START SHORTLY New Method of Communi- cation Promised in About One Month SEATTLE, Sept. 12—The United States Signal Corps expects to ka in full operation in about onc | month. 1 Dawson Olmstead, Signal Corps O« [ | city. The cableship Dellwood, now in Alaska waters, will be placed in a reserve status on October 31. ———————— ATTENTION MASONS 147, F. & A. M, at the Masonic Temple, Monday evening, Sept. 14. important business. By order of the W. M. J. W. LEIVERS, | Secretary. | children. imported Talent Lil Dagover, noted German stage and screen star, 2 4 reputed to have the most beautiful back in the is shown as she arrived in in American films. She left for Holly- wood nmmedmtely to begin work world, New York for appearances on ‘a motion _picture, '\ 1BAY numNcE OF OLD VIENNA! AT COLISEUM “Viennese N_ights" Beau- tifully Screened in Natural Colors e Zes Tonight, for one night only, the Coliseum Theatre presents ‘“1ne Third Alarm,” an exciting melo- drama of fire fighters splendidly acted and directed. Firemen, tneir loves, their lives, their heroics, ars depicted in the story. The all- star cast includes Anita Louise, Ho- bart Bosworth and Mary Doran. Light Opera Sunday Vienna, capital of romance, is brought to the memory of those who knew it in the days of its glory, and t» the imagination of thoce who know it only in song and story, by the gorgeous all na- tural color picture, “Viennese Nights,” which ‘comes to the Coli- seum for Sunday and Monday. BUREAU OPENS MANY SCHOOLS IN TERRITORY a former lover. In his attempt to Office of Indlan Affairs Tib- Opens 103 Schools Enrolling 4,500 Approxin |enrolled in 103 educational | plants {of all kinds in the Territory which were opened for the school year 1931-32 early this week by th Office of Indian Affairs. To direc! thess schools the services of 24 persons, including district superin: tendents, teachers, janitors and othe: miscellaneous empldyees, are re: quired. There are four new institution being erected but were not ready for opening last Tuesday when the Three of the | néw plants are regular schools and | the fourth is an industrial training |school which is located at Shoe- others began work. maker Bay. Five New Day Schools Ninety-nine day schools were op- have the new radio service to Alas- ened by the bureau employing 214 Five of them are new— This is according to Colk.Copper Center, Kalskak, Newhalen, Poist Lay and Tahana. Crossing. ficer in charge of the present sys- At Attu, Cheechingamute and Ek- tem, with his headquarters in this wak day schools have been estab- not yet open for teachers. lished but are attendance. For the first time in its history, the bureau this year will conduct !a school and orphanage for blind It is located at Tanana. There will be a Stated Communi- Miss Melba Call, widely known as Juneau Lodge No. the Eskimo Helen Keller, will havc charge of the school. The cost of school mamf,enance Work in the M. M. Degree. Other and operations last year was ap- All welcome. proximately $814,000. This year it is certain to exceed that figure. Employ Many People The total number of.persons em- Seldcm has $o eénthusiastic ap- ptoval been granted, as that which met this gorgeous creation of Sig- mund Romberg and Oscar Ham- fherstein, II. The theme is that of deathlessness of beauty. Elsa, daughter of a proud, but kindly old cobbler, proud because his bootmaking is for royalty, and ambitious that his one daughter ‘mérry wealth and position. Instead, she falls in love with Otto, a poor drummer, whose desire is to win Elsa and to write a symphony, dedicating it to her. Her father’s choice is Franz, a swaggering young Prussian officer. Forced to marry the latter, her heart is with Otto, who, in despair, goes to America with his waggish friend Gus, who later become a millionaire in no less than pickles. In middle age, Elsa, now a bar- oness, comes to America, meets Otto, a second fiddle in an orches- tra, plans to elope with him, but changes her mind when she finds he has a small son who needs him. ./Elsa’s granddaughter—{fifty years have passed since the opening of ‘the play—meets the grandson of ‘Otto who has compléted his delay- ed symphony. This is the barest butline of a story whicH is ‘suffus- ed with beauty, drama and a pas- ‘sionate tenderness.: No lover of great drama’ and great music should miss, “Viennese Nights.” ployed regularly by the bureau in the Territory is placed at 313, in- cluding, besides the teaching staff and . ‘attaches, the medical relief corps. In the latter’are seven full- time physicianis, three part time, 33 registered nurses, eight student nurses, one itinerant dentist, and 21 miscellaneous employess, in- cluding master and engineer of tie metical boat maintained on the interior waterways, practical nurses, first-aid man, cooks, janitors and hospital orderlies. There are six hospitals, includ- ing new ones at Kotzebue and Mountain Village. Emergency hos- pitals’ and clinics are in process of construction at Chitina and Yakutat. Medical centers, without e t 0 '3 s coffee TO BE SERVED AT MRS. HOOKER’S ‘COFFEE SHOPPE BOOTH Pies, Cakes, Sandwiches, Hot Dogs e ) Corner 4th and Franklin THE CHAS. W. CARTER MORTUARY “The Last Service Is the Greatest Tribute” Sts. Phone 136-2 W.—-——WJ[ regular hospital facilities, are main- tained at 20 stations scattered throughout thé Territory. 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