The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 26, 1931, Page 3

19 CAPITOL SUNDAY and 'REACHING FOK THE MOON' BPEDE DANIELS WRITTEN AND DI EDOMUND GO NIT Wow! his plans, his million dollar holdings dangling ends while she led him on a wild chase across the Big Pond. A High Speed Romance of Today! WITH SHORT SUBJECTS They couldn't stop this gay devil- may-care king of finance. That is not until a certain girl came along and disrupted all showed him that he was not immune from women, and made him leave SUNDAY MATINEE—2 P. M. JOSEPH M.SCHENCR presents Dynamo! The fastest mov-' ing comedy-drama ever made with the world's breez- iest personality as a Wall Street wiz- ard “shooting the works” in twen- tieth century style. Mercuric Doug in modern | dress sizzles thru a three - mile -a - minute tornado of | action, fun, high jinks and ro- mances, | | | { [ IRECTED BY ULDING X at loose THIS PICTURE WILL BE SHOWN AT \CE SPECI TONIGHT—1:15 A. N AFTER DA AL | | | LAST TIMES TONIGHT | “BACHELOR FATHER”—also—SILVER NITE | | | ‘Watch for announcement of Acts and Picture for our NEW YEAR'S | NIGHT FROLIC—The first on - be the year after e in Juneau—WE ORIGINATE By HARRISON CARROLL HOLLYWOOD, Cal. — Universal will launch another foreign in Luigi Pirandello’s “Marriage In- terlude.” She is Tala Birell, blonde Vien- nese actress, who has been in Hollywood since last July getting | rid of an accent. Prior to this she had taken English speaking parts on the London stage, and for Brit- ish International pictures . Universal had her out here a foreossooos New Shipment MEN’S QUALITY Flannel Shirts $3.00 SABIN’S PUSS USSR American Beauty Parlor Mrs. Jack Wilson Telephone 397 | |Dickie, made a bee-line for the BLACK CAT NDY SHOPPE || HENRY L. BAHRT, Prop. Dinner from 5:30 to 7 pm. | . — | | year ago to make the German ver- sion of “The Command to Love.”| Carl Laemmle, jr., liked her work |so well that he offered to give| | her a contract as soon as she could | return to England and complete | engagements there. | Since her second arrival here, | the studio has conducted a Xk | urely search for the right ve It was content to wait until she could perfect her English. Edwin H. Knopf is writing the adapiation of the Pinandello play !And William Wyler will direct, His Wit Saved Day At one of the early rehearsals | for the local stage production of “Grand Hotel,” actor Ian Keith| failed to report at the appointed | time. When, 20 minutes later, he | still had not arrived, Director Fred | Keighley (pronounced Keeley) was looking dangerous. Just then Keith walked briskly on the bet. Keighley about it. | After a moment, {“What is this I'm getting?” inquired: “The Keighley cure?” | Latest Gossip To the horror of his fellow !writers on the R-K-O lot, Edgar Wallace wrote his first screen story | in one day. It is called “Control No. 2. Handing it in, Wallace remarked: “If you don’t like this| T'll do you another one tomorrow.” i So far, the English mystery ! writer has only one fault to find with Hollywood. An inveterate coffee-drinker, he finds the hotel can’t serve him when he gets up at 5 a. m. to start work. . .Douglas Fairbanks, Jr, had a narrow es- cape from injury when his car turned around three times on wet streets and mounted a bank. . .. Incidentally, Doug is trying his hand these days at short-story ,writing. A national magazine is negotiating for a series. . . .Dolores Del Rio has 300 different kinds of | perfume. . .. Tallulah Bankhead arrived in Hollywood with - 50| trunks. She has rented Bill Haines’ house, and has denied herself tem- porarily to interviewers. Her first picture does mnot start for six weeks. In the meanwhile, Para- mount has nine stories under con- sideration. . . . Monroe Owsley, now on his way to New York via the Canal, will return to Hollywood in | Feoruary. Buddy Rogers is another departure. He left for the East to organize his radio orchestra. started to tell him Keith smiled. he !If You Want To Start A | Riot, Yell Fire! | 'Adele Rogers Hyland was using |the telephone, when her young son, | hearth. “Get away from that fire, Dickie,” she cried, “you know bet- | appropriate settings Inext. itime to woo a girl. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, DEC. 26 MARION DAVIES WILL GIVE WAY T0 FAIRBANKS “Reaching for Moon” at Midnight Tonight and Tomorrow With “The Bachelor Father,” starring Marion Davies, showing at the Capitol theatre for the last times tonight, “Reaching For the Moon,” with Douglas Fairbanks, Bebe Daniels and Edward Everett Horton, in the leading roles, will headline the new program tomor- row, the first regular presentation being at the afternoon matinee. This program, however, will be the subject of the preivew and after- dance special matinee at 1 o'clock tonight. Tonight is “Silver Night.” Every woman attending either of the performances will receive a piece of table silverware. Last night, Christmas Night, was “Unemployed Night.” Persons out of work were admitted to the performances free of charge. Wears Advance Styles Just before starting work on “The Bachelor Father,” Miss Davies made a trip to Europe. She knew just what kind of clothes she wanted to wear in the film. Therefore when she came home it was not at all surprising that her luggage boasted a few extra trunks. For the r paused in Paris and purchased her wardrobe from ad- vance stlye models, instead of wait- ing to select them when she turned to Hollywood. Anticipates the Future The story of “Reaching for the Moon” is set in present-day New York, or rather, it anticipates the architecture, fashions and speech of two years hence. Skyscrapers, pent-houses, a palatial ocean liner and fashionable haunts abroad pro- vide the backgraunds. This dces not imply a fantastic riot of queer shapes and decora- tions. Modernistic furniture and in the best manner, beautiful and harmonious, have been designed and created by Edmund Goulding, director of the photoplay, and William Cameron Menzies, the supervising art direc- tor. The smart, ultra effect is exactly suited to the theme and the tempo of the picture. Styles of 2 Years Hence The gowns and extra habili- mer worn by Miss Daniels and the res of handpicked beatuties ash- ion craze will Fairbanks is back in modern clothes for the first time in ten years. Laughter is the prime in- gredient of the picture. As a stockbroker busy making millions, Fairbanks has never had Forgets Abaut Money But when he meets Bebe Daniels, who plays a society aviatrix, he forgets all about money and pur- sues her across the ocean to find that she is engaged to a titled Englishman. This doesn't stop him. Horton, playing the valet, recently in the service of a Grand Duke, in- structs Fairbanks in the art of making love, and the comedy be- comes uproarious. Hollywood, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is trying to borrow Nancy Carroll from Paramount to play the lead in “Red-Headed Woman.” Several obstacles will have to be overcome, however, Nancy is working in New York in “Wayward.” When I last saw her she told me she didn't want to return to Hollywood to make another picture unless her husband, Bolton Mallory, could go along, too. Another M. G. M. rumor is that Dorothy Jorndan will have the feminine role in “The Wet Parade.” As this production still is some time in the future, there is small chance of confirming the report. Walter Huston and Lewis Stone are the only two names definitely announced for the cast. Victor Fleming will direct. Did You Know That Dorothy Mackaill once led a number in a Parig revue? e—— UNCLE SAM’S GUESTS HAVE REGULAR XMAS FEED AND TRIMMINGS Uncle Sam’s boarders on Court- house Hill yesterday had no lack of Christmas cheer so far as the larder was concerned. Everything that is required in the way of food and fine cooking was theirs, prepared and served from the jail kitchen by Miss Minnie Field. On the menu was: combination salad, roast young turkey, cran- berry jelly, pickles, buns, mashed potatoes, creamed peas, ice cream, and cake, coffee, mixed nuts, can- dies and cakes, raisins and cigar- ettes and cigars. ——— KETCHIKAN MAN IS FINED HEAVILY ON BOOZE CHARGE Gunner Stenstrom, arrested at Ketchikan last Wednesday charged with possessing intoxicating liquor, pleaded guilty before United States Commissioner W. C. Arnold there and was fined $250 and sentenced | to serve six months in the Federal jail. Stenstrom had a five gallon |ter than to do that at Malibu!” ' Failing to find the right girl in keg of whiskey in his possession when arresled. Career of Robert Ames Colorful Even to Death * * * * Strange “Last Curtain” of Great Actor Mystified Friends and Admirers As Did the Many Erratic Actions of His Stormy Career. * * VwENNE SEcAl HELEN DaMesRT. JMURIEV OARES The finding of the lifeless body of Robert Ames, famous stage and screen star, in his New York hotel room under circumstances that led police to order an autopsy, marked the end of a brilliant career and a string of romances unparalleled outside of fiction. Four times married and divorced, Ames was recently reported engaged to Ina Claire, her- self a noted screen star and ex-wife of John Gilbert. His first marital venture was with Alice Gerry, of Fall River, Mass., who was the mother of his two children, Jane, now 20, and Robert, 22. Ames divorced Alice just one year before he made his first success playing with Ruth Chatterton in New York in 1916. His next marriage was to Frances Goodrich, who divorced him in 1923, to marry Hendrik Van Loon, noted historian and art critic. For his third plunge into matrimony, Ames chose Vivienne Segal, now a star in her own right, but again the barque of romance hit rough weather. His fourth and last wife was Muriel Oakes, member of a prominent New York family, with whom he eloped in 1927. A divorce action in Los Angeles last year wrote finis to that episode also. One of Ames's love affairs that did not get as far as the altar was that with Helen Lambert. Miss Lambert sued the actor for $200,000, alleging breach of promise, but later dropped the action. An examination by a representative of the Medi- cal Examiner’s office gave the cause of Ames’s death as a hemorrhage caused by kidney trouble, but the presence of a large quantity of whiskey and over 100 packets of sleeping powders in the actor's room gave rise to the police demand for a post-mortem. RAILROAD AREA HAS IMPORTANT MINERAL LANDS Geological Survey Issues Preliminary Report on Season’s Work (Continued from Page Two) many hundreds of either along the strike or in depth, never- theless they are characterized by the presence of free gold, and some exceedingly rich ore has been ex- tracted. Ap) y there has been me enrichment of the shallo tions of the veins, the apparent- ly mode: tent both horizon- tally and vertically of any single vein, the large variations in strike within short distances, and the presence of numerous forks and offshoots indicate that great cau- | tion should be exercised in plan- ining extensive developments, and | that the wise course in both pros- | pecting and mining will be to fol- low the ore shoots closely. several other properties. The lnrg-‘ Assays of samples taken from est lode mine in the railroad belt,|Some of the dikes in the Moose the Lucky Shot, has installed e Pass district show the presence of new 35-ton mill, and its owners 80ld in encouraging amounts, and plan to continue mining and mill-| it is possible that portions of some ing on a 12-month basis. Between Of these dikes may be rich enough 80 and 100 men were employed at |t justify mining. this mine during the summer. All| Nonmetallic Resources other operations in the district are|{ A study of nonmetallic resources on a much smaller scale. {other than coal in the oad belt In some of the veins mined and an examination of miscellan- there are two and in placesthree ' eous metallic prospects that did not generations of quartz of which the lie within the districts already de- carliest contains the least sul-|scribed were assigned to G. A. phides and gold and the latest con- | Waring. He examined a large num- tains the most. The early quartz|ber of prospects, including those is represented by breceias cemented | containing limestone, manganese, by later quartz and by segments of |and clays of various types, as well ‘veins that do not conform to the|as several metal-bearing lodes. trend of the later quartz. The per-|None of these are now producing, sistent hanging walls that are fol- |but as at any time there may be lowed in mining are later than the a demand for some of these ma- latest quartz in the veins, and|terials, it was desirable to learn there are numerous postmineral| the facts concern their distri- faults, which, however, have not bution and qualit proved a serious handicap in min-' Anthracite Field of Upper Matan- ing. ‘There is little evidence of no-| One of the prime purposes of the table enrichment and the closc;special appropriation for the study analogy between these veins and of the mineral resources of the those in certain California dis-|railroad belt was to determine the tricts, where mining has been car—“quality and amount of minable an- ried to depths of several thousand thracite in the upper Matanuska feet, gives great reason for hope!Valley. It was realized that the that the gold ore in the Willow|natural exposures of the coal for- Creek district extends to depths!mation are not sufficiently good to far below any that have far | furnish as complete information as been reached. There is a was desired, and thal eventually son for believing that the district core drilling might be necessary. contains many other valuable'However, a detailed surface exam- veins that have not yet been dis- ination was e 1 to determine covered. whether the heavy expense of core Girdwood and Moose Pass Districts| i fied. Accord- Although the lode prospects of |i organized, the Girdwood and Moose P dis- s in charge of tricts are scattered along a north- G. A. Waring south belt for a distance of some r. Richards 40 miles the character of the veins|during the later portion of the and the general conditions under summer. ale topographic which they occur are so similar map of the m: promising portion that the two areas may be consid-|of the anthracite field was made, ered together. Ralph Tuck has and a force of labore was em- made a special study of the ore de-|ployed to open up the coal ex- posits in the Moose Pass area, and | posures. Charles Park of those in the Gird-| As a result of tural studies wood area. In this disirict as a|beds have been traced on Anthra- whole there are many gold lode cite Ridge proper that indicate a prospects, ‘and in times past sev- tonnage of some half million tons eral properties have produced, al-|of anthracite, but the coal occurs though at present only a few are 'under such structural conditions yielding ore. Although the veins!and in such a topographic situation are small and none have yet been that in itself it does not constitute demonstrated to be continuous for a commercially feasible coal field. feet, the gec;logl;: was assqciated w 3]. | COLISEUM ‘THE UTAH Kln' %' PHIL.CO RADIO FOR HEADLINER is to be given away. Also a set of e | ‘Charlie Chan’ to Show at Chinaware and a set of Midnight and Sunday Performances \ | “The Utah Kid" will be shown tonight only at the Coliseum the- atre. “Charlie Chann Carries On” starring Warner Oland, will ure the new program tomorrow, the first regular presentation being at| the afternoon matinee. This new| program will be previewed at the! 1 o'clock matinee tonight ’ On the organ, Rex Parrott to-| night will give “Chloe,” a fox trot| played as an overture. Tomorrow his selection will be “Old Black | Joe.” i In “The Utah Kid," three of the most decidedly “he-men” in Holly- wood, whose reputations are based on their - perfect adaptability to action roles, have important parts. Names of Virile Trio The virile trio are Tom Santsehi, tfamous for ‘his Walter Miller, who has been kin of serial heroes for many S and Boris Karloff features are unive screen villainy. directs. Rex Lease and Dorothy tian have the leading r “Charlie Chan Carries On” has {what many regard as the best in-| terpeter of Oriental roles—Oland. Born in Umea, Sweden, Oland came to this country when a mere youngster and attended school in Boston, graduating from high tschool there and then receiving {his first theatrical training at or| Curry’s Dramatic School. Twenty Years On Stage | During the next 20 years he re-/ mained before the footlights, spec-| JOHN 'GARRICK MARGUERITE " CHURCHILL WARREN HYMER MARJORIE WHITE Don't tell your | friends which one | of these is the fighting ability; | iller: X REX LEASE Roarin’, West! Shootin’, the NOVELTY SHORTS TONIGHT SELECTED SHORTS SATURDAY ONLY in “THE UTAH KID”" Story of MIDNIGHT MATINEE TONIGHT ializing in Shakespearean and Ib-| sen roles. I His first picture role of import-|ponps OpEN 12:30 CHARLIE CHAN CARRIES ON SHOW 1:00 A. M. o 0 FLOOR Wl’ are sure we can ance was that of Charlie Yong in| "~ 3 il i Is West” with Norma Tnl-’ : madge in 1922 | cluding a part in his first talkie, | 5 | “The Jazz Singer,” and later vil-! | lainous Chinese roles “In Old Si\n‘TA KE P A RT I N Francisco,” “Chinatown Nights,” | “Wheel of Chance,” “The Myster-| | fous Dr. Fu Manchu” and T“LYULETIDE PARTY‘ Return of Dr. Fu Manchu” In | every screen role, however, no one | thought of casting him as anything Santa Claus Comes After! but @ villian of the deepest dye. Es 4 Only One Was Suitable Program and Distrib- A few months ago, Fox was! 5 s [searching everywhere for an ac-| utes Presents | tor to play the title-role in “Charlie T | | Chan Carries On,” based on Earl Pupils of Ann’s Catholic Derr Biggers' well-known mystery school gave their annual Christmas st More than 20 eminent|tree and corcert last W'czlms(la)" actors were tested for the role, but |afternoon in the Catholic Parish | none proved suitable until Oland's hall. Herbert McLean read the | test was screened. | pupils’ address. In this address| —— — the children expressed Tieir urat-‘ From geologic evidence, however, itude to their Bishop, their pas A there is a high degree of proba- their teachers, parents and friends; bility that related beds extend and extended Christmas greetings | southward from Anthracite Ridge and New Year good wishes to all, | beneath the gentler slopes that lie| Peace and Good Will | between that ridge and the Mamn-! The opening number, the Bethle- | uska river. In that area the coal hem scene, rendered in Tableau formation is in large part covered ' form by the Junior pupils, ex- by glacial deposits, but sufficiant | pressed Christmas spirit of peace structural observations on the coal and good will. formation were made to lndicam‘- - - the probability that the area con- tains reserves of coal that may run into many millions of tons. ‘Although no surface showings of commercially important anthracite were found in the southern area and although none of the field ob- servations there directly warrant the assumption that such coal as occurs is of anthracite grade nev- ertheless, as already stated, the thick anthracite beds of the north- ern part of the field may extend southward. Whether or not this is 50 can best be proved by quality drilling, and a drilling program to determine the thickness, attitude, quality and depth of the coal below the surface at the most favorable localities therefore seems warrant- ed. MISS FIELD GIVES CHRISTMAS PARTY FOR 18 CHILDREN Eighteen chiidren, werds of the Territory, who are under:the care, and observation of Miss Minnie | PField, had the finest Christmas| party yesterday; with a wonderful tree, a fine dinner, a picture show, and gave a program of their own | for' several guests who came to| wish them a Merry Christmas, and stayed to enjoy the fun. | Miss Field had arranged every- thing for just the old fashioned Christmas party that it was. And every child was made happy withr gifts, which included pmctics]lyl everything that a child could de- sire. A little playlet was given, eacn child gave a recitation, and several sang. Capt. and Mrs. R. B. Lcshc" aided Miss Field in giving the| party. Others who joined in either | as participants or in greeting the youngsters, included United State: Marshal and Mrs. Albert White, Mrs. Justin W. Harding, Miss Shaw and Miss Erb, teachers in the public school, Mrs. Bdna Haley, and J. G. Morrison. The Intermediate’s playlet, “A Sudden Cure,” was delightfully en- tertaining, and well enacted by Virginia Mullen, Dolores Smith, Evelyn McCormick, Anna Norton, Claudia Kearney and Caroline Mc- Allister. The Senior pupils gave an excel- lent rendering of an old legend: While all shepherd’s but one obey the angel’s invitation to come to Bethlehem, but one lad dutifully remains to tend his master’s sheep, and is grandly rewarded. An Elocution Program Those taking part in this elogu- tion number were: Jack Kearney, Robert Turner, Herbert McLean, Lee Smith, Billy Lowe, Mary L. Norton, Beatrice Mullen, Ruth Geyer, Yvonne Forrest and Anna M. Doogan. Two choruses, “Beautiful Words” and “The Christmas Spirit,” were riven by the Seniors. The Junior's son, “Santa’s Coming” was so ap- pealing that it hurried that much Jesired old man along, and he ar- rived just as the song was finished. Presents were distributed to the children. . Old papers at Tne Cmpire. 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