The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 24, 1931, Page 3

THE. DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, DEC. 24, 1931 “From Hogan’s Alley, She Crashed Into British Society” Based on the play by Edward Childs Carpenter A MARION DAVIES production Also Selected Short Subjects and “SILVER NITE” NOTICE—Owing to Friday being Christmas Day we will not have a Midnight Matinee, but will have an After-Dance Special Saturday night at 1:15—showing DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS CAPITOL A MetrqGoldiwyn-Mayer ALLTA directed by with RALPH FORBES, C. AUBREY FRIDAY SATURDAY LKING SMITH ROBERT Z. LEONARD in “REACHING FOR THE MOON” LAST TIMES TONIGHT——*WHITE SHOULDERS” COLISEUM | Capitol - — HULT AND ASTUHR and even how to conduct its| 4 cuisine. | PLAY FOR LAST TIMES TONIGHT *“Bachelor Ea—(her," with Marion Davies, Be- gins Tomorrow “White Shoulders,” - with Jack Holt, Mary Astor and Ricardo Cor« tez in the leading roles, will be shown for the last times tonight at the Capitol theatre. “The Bachelor Father, ’starring Marion Davies, will headline the new program to be given tomorrow night and to be repeated Saturday night. There will be no midnight mati-~ nee Friday might, but at 1 o'clock Saturday night, as an after-dance special, there will be a preview matinee of “Reaching for the Moon,” featuring Douglas Fair- banks. This photoplay will begin showing Sunday. Tonight “Silver Night” Tonight.is “Silver Night.” A piece of table silverware will be given every woman attending either of the regular performances. At 1 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, a Christmas tree party, with Santa Claus present, will be held in the hte Mickey Mouse Club. theatre for. members of There will be gifts for all Mickey and | Minnie Mousers. In “White Shoulders” one of the incidental attractions is how to furnish a penthouse, how to drape These eerie-like abodes so popu- larized in recent months have been the subjeot of great curiosity. “White Shoulders” takes something from all the most extravagant, elaborate and exclusive penthouses in Gotham. It is a replica of a real sky-scraping apartment belong- ing to a New York millionaire. Ate Eight Dinners When “The Bachelor Father” was filmed at the Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer studio the players had to eat dinner eight times a day before the hilarious dining room scenes} were completed, a task pmbably;““ss' b as annoying to the stomach as|lOMOITOW 1 ght going without the proverbial |theatre. s “three squares.” Rex Leqse in the A steam table was maintained {Which Will headline on the set with a chef presiding ot the Saturday ai over cooked delicacies tempting 1;).2"51 o e hungry souls, but appallingly un- |Saturday "}“h_" Wwill be the sl savory after several dinners had |Of the preview ma been served. in rapid succession to Friday night. {the players, who were obiiged to| Arliss was only six ye {“Utah Kid" Will Be Friday Night “Old’ English,” will be show | noon m Robert Z. Leonard directed the| comedy hit from the Belasco stage | play by Bdward Childs Carpenter which enjoyed a nine months’ run on Broadway last season. ran around the block of his tic costume made by hi from the stage. INDIA PLENTY WOMEN IN Began Forty Years Ago BOMBAY¥-—There are just 10,856,~ 952 more women than men in In- dia, according which make the total population 352,986,867. Hindus number 238, 330912; Moslems 77,843928; Sikhs, 4,306,442 and Christians 5,961,794 lin a rousing melodrama then |ing British provinces, ¢: from the Sea.” Tt w that young actor. “old English,” in old pafi-a at The Emplre. ! which COLISEUM HAS GEORGE ARLISS IN ‘LD ENGLISH' viewed at Matinee e new bill performances e at 1o'clock of in London, dressed up in a fantas- ter. His purpose was to startle his neigh- ite |DOTS. Even then his mimetic am- Ralj Forbes - plays opposite | Ralih play = bition was at fever heat. After Miss Davies. that spurt, nothing could keep him More than 40 years ago he se- to new smcmics‘c‘"ed a silent supernumerary part alled as the begin- ning of a wemarkable career for appearing on the Coliseum screen, was one of his greatest stage suc- cesses. In the filming of “The Utah Kid,” Tiffany started a private lit- tle war of its own. It had an | “enemy” and entrenchments, plenty of rifles and ammunition, a few | dozen revolvres, a white flag, 'r everything.! | Robbers’ Roost Attacked Pye-| The situation arose at the climax |of the picture, where the embattled | ruffians of Robbers' Roost, a little ‘I( y of brigands and outlaws high | up in the almost inaccessible moun- £ vere surprised in broad day- a posse from the town be- /ing been led to the secret by a riderless horse of tains, the hero. Then the war began in earnest! For the posse camped behind boul- ders and rocks, and the outlaws were penned in their main cabin. At least five or six dozen extras took part in the miniature mass cre, and the audible screen records noise like the Battle of Verdun! atinee ubject age |eat with seeming relish and appe- whennhe m;dc ll“c; first public ap- | " porothy Sebastian,” Thomas San- tite. {pearance: He did not come ON"|yop; walter Miller, Boris Karloff (before the footlights. He merely and other well known players ap- pear with Lease in “The Utah Kid." home — et St. Louis Airport Rated High ST. LOUIS.—The highest possible rating by the United States De- partment of Commerce has been issued to Lambert-St. Louis muni- cipal airport. It is the A-T-A rat- ing given the airport last spring. The T symbol refers to landing area field conditions and the two A’s to equipment. e Daily Empire Want Ads Pay. tour- ‘Saved he is TERHUNE 1870 LEAVE SHORTLY FOR TRIP EAST ington to Present Re- port to Secretary To present the annual report and recommendations of the Alaska Game Commission to the Secretary of Agriculture, H. W. Terhune, Executive Secretary of the Com- mission, will leave here Sunday for Washington, D. O, for an in- definite stay, it was announced today. Originally, it had not been plan- ed for him to make the trip this year, but instructions were received from the department early this week for him to proceed east at onee. Mr. Terhune will also attend hearings of the Senate Committee on Wild Life Conservation of which Senator Frederick Walcott, who with other members of the Committee, visited Alaska last sum= mer and made an investigation of wild life conditions. ® ® o we can gi ur inting ,:hut mt:‘aé:rz tic touch so poj present day 'aafimtu, TOMORROW NIGHT CHRISTMAS | | THURSDAY and FRIDAY | The Management Wishes a Merry | Christmas to the Public of Juneau. THE COLISEUM takes pleasure in presenting as its Xmas program— 'What a Grand Old Sinner He Was George Arliss and John Galsworthy! The finest actor and the most celebrated playwright combine to create a screen masterpiece! Selected Shorts MIDNIGHT MATINEE FRIDAY “UTAH KID” American Beauty Parlor Mrs. Jack Wilson Telephone 397 BLACK CAT CANDY SHOPPE HENRY L. BAHRT, Prop. Dinner from 5:30 fo 7 pm. |sip business, that still may be so. DANCE Auspices L. 0. 0. Moose No. 700 MOOSE HALL COME ONE, COME ALL . . .. Have a REAL GOOD TIME Admission $1.00 Ladies Free The Moose Lodge, No. 700, Wish You a Merry Christmas | METROPOLIS FAREWELLTO - ALLLIT P OLDLOGATION | —_— New York City'’s L;g},fing‘New York Morning Tele- System Is Most Elabor- graph Moves from Old ate, Far-Reachng Horse Car Barns i NEW YORK, Dec. 24.—The old |, NLEI.‘V] YF)RK,' Toeg! ZQI—Th‘e ‘mom- song said there was a broken heart \"f)g elogravi's el fo dts homp for every light on Broadway. ;;a?oqt??ers;‘ni;i:}gghorse o8 barn. Judgi - s > s dging by the tenor of the 895~ | "o i poper 1n its pre-tabloid heyday it was said, “The Morning Telegraph and a cigaret are a chorus girl's breakfast.” It once was the foremost theatrical publi- cation, it has seen its day of power in politics, and it still is a leading | If all New York's street lamps |Tacing sheet. | were lined along a straight high-| The paper was founded in 1836, way, spaced approximately as they |Such sentiment attaches to it that are on the city's thoroughfares, |newspaperdom sincerely hopes to the distance between here and San |see the celebration of its centen- | Prancisco would be brilliantly il- |nial in a bare five years. luminated. : It is almost an axiom that every ! newspaperman in New York works | ¥et it was only 179 years ago|on the Telegraph at some time in |that the common council, looking nis career. 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Its burner, a bare 46 years ago. {policy, at times, has been flamboy- | Later the street was to see one 1i t. ! too—t+ sign, a block long, with 19000 clec- | oo JiPne e ke iy tric light bulbs. That sign is not | — e — seen any more, but the lights of [New York are said to exceed 25,- TROUE - RO AIRCEINA 000,000 candlepower. | NAHUEL HUAPI, Argentina — It takes a lot of woe to castLaunching a national fishing in- a shadow across the Rialto mew“dustry»!or Argentina’s inland lakes, nights. {the ministry of agriculture has planted in lake Traful, near the Chilean border, 50,000 Atlantic A new process for making s:a::h‘salmon and river trout eggs. Sim- from sweet potato culls, of great ilar plantings have been made at importance to the agxiculnura.lfmher lakes. South, has been found by the U.| —_——————— |But let it be said that the city ‘has accomplished much toward | making sweetness and light prevail | over cardiac lacerations and dark- | ness. ———— e S. Department of Agriculture. 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