The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 18, 1932, Page 3

3 SALa rtainment Account of so many requests we will show again TONIGHT ONLY the greatst of all newspaper stories “F RON T PAGE” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE THURSDAY FEB |8 1932. skA's FINEST Theatres Will Change Programsv Sjtgong Dramas Ar@ Bifll@d T@Highj@ “FRONT PAGE” TOMORROW—BY EXTRA SPECIAL BOOKING “MOTHER’S MILLIONS"—/ Radio Crooner, in Person IS OFFERED BY so ALMA GRANT, SILVER NITE—Friday and Saturday “Mother’s Wflions Will| Headline New Program SATURDAY NIGHT— T I QU L G LT T L TR T T T Tomorrow Night Father and Son Night i | | | | “Tue Front Page,” mnewspaper epic of the screen, will be shown to- AROUND N.Y, | WITH GAINES Writer Finds Out that Stage. Star Is Now Real Pie Maker " By WILLIAM GAINES NEW YORK, Feb. 18.7Rcmem~ ber Emily Ann Wellman? She was a stage star years ago. Well, she's now known as “the -apple pie maker of Stamford.” Her | pies are famous over the Connecti- | cut countryside, and beyond. She prefers to be known simply as Mrs. Richard Gordon, wife of the player who is Sherlock Holmes in those radio addresses. ‘The other afternoon she attended a bridge party, where most The game at her table was interrupted while she produced a photograph of her husband and showed it about. Not once did she refer to her own successes on the stage—which, you may think, is rather unusual for an ex-actress. She seems wholly con- | tent to rest upon her new laurels @as a culinary artist. If the show world's spotlight is thrown upon| her family, she wants her husband to bask in it alone. “I carry a picture of him wher- ever I go,” she said. Acrobat's Heaven 4 Acrobats come back from Holly THEO. S. PEDERSON ALASEA HOME DECORATOR Estimates Furnished Free General Painting Contractor Shop Phone 354 Res. Phone 402 Shop at Third and Seward YOU SAVE in many ways when you buy a FORD ASK JUNEAU MOTORS Foot of Main Street night = at the (Capitol theatre. “Mother’s Millions,” will feature the program to be presented to- morrow night. “The Front Page,” which was given last Sunday and Monday, will be repeated tonight because of the numerous requests that it be offered again. These requests have come not only from persons who \xaod stage show engagements with the tidings that they have found a { heaven out there. Acts of the sort that have been opening vaudeville bills for years while cold audiences were finding their seats, and suffering walk-outs |when they were last on the pro- gram, currently are a rage in the movie colony. Or at least, so go|were unable to see the play at its the reports. previous performances but also Broadwayites smirkingly say xL's}fmm patrons who witnessed it be- | because there is only one time in , and who wish to view it a |the theatre when. & Hollywood | second time. “screen mugger’ 'doesn’t feel called Has Notable Cast upon to act superior—when he's| “The Front Page” is a thrilling watching an acrobat, he doesn't|drama based on the activities of argue with himself, “I can jump | apermen. Tts notable cast further than he can.” | inc s Adolphe Menjou, Edward Visiting Hollywooders retort that |Everett Horton, Pat O'Brien and {the acrobats are the only good |Mary Brian. things Broadway has left to ofiu-——-f “Mother’s Millions” shows youth and that's just because there is not ‘ in revolt; sons and daughters ot much use for somersaults and |the rich endeavoring to map their balancing men in the movies. |own life courses in the midst of | the parasites, syncopants, money Slow Motion. Pictures |lenders and fortune hunters which What a shame some movie com- |beset the path of every child of | pany hasn't got a fresh talkie ver- |fortune. Written For May Robson “Mother's Millions” is a play by Howard McKent Barnes written |especially for May Robson, in ups, the producers must be kicking [which she appears supported by a |themselves for missing such a glo- |splendi dcast consisting of James rious market chance. | Hall, Frances Dade, Lawrence Grey. | Fifi Dorsay used to be a stenog- | Elinor Flynn, Lillian Harmer and |rapher in Montreal. Edmund Breese. Toy counters supposed to appeal — ol to children continue to carry ‘enour;h chance games to stock a‘TELEvlsluN FAN ’fll‘sb ~-class gambling house. There | are dozens of variations of the old | Gesture” With Far all thes sion of “The Shanghai ready for the market. Eastern affairs offering | opportunities for ad sing tie- { wheel and dice games to catch the youngster's eyes. One of the prettiest debutantes Even Lock Stolen On N. D. Jail Door LINTON, N. D, Feb. 18—Even | the lock has been stolen from the Linton jail. Two weeks ago the only inmate | escaped. A new padlock was placed on the cell door. Then someons: broke in, to flee with the new locki| |and wearing apparel the priSoner | had left behind. INSURANCE Allen Shattuck, Inc. Established 1898 | Susie Hopkins | The brothers Jay, Isidore and Ju- | o i {lius Witmark started in thepubish- Has Lot to Learn When jing business with a toy printing | 5 press gven to Jay by @ teacher in| Beginning to Delve the public school he attended here. | 3 | The boys began by printing a| ll'llO Ne“ Fleld batch of New Year's cards, which | 0 . they sold for 435, 'With. this money| , BY C E. BUTTEEHIELD | they bought a bigger press. A cou- NEW YORK, Feb. 18—The tele- [Ple of years ago the Witmarks sold | o "o, "o’ delves nto the high { shate burmess_ witlch had grown to frequencies to learn for himself | Wrge . pEOpOVRE. . _{the possibilities of picture recep- | Rex Beach's middle mame sy, ‘on those channels has a lot Ellingwood. (g Gene Raymond, @ native of this| “po; o0 thing, high frequency or c‘ty b o enda Raymondlm"a short wave rececivers do not | Guion. The actor borrowed the| g ,otion quite as smoothly as does name of Gene from a character he a. broadcast set. “Touchy” is the portrazed. U Wie soge. right word to use. Purely fromn the standpoint of the amateur investigator, a numh ber of checkups made with the high frequency receiver show it is prac- tieal in the hands of the compara- tive novice. It tunes fairly easily, oscillates satisfactorily and gives adequate amplification. These tests were conducted on the contention that AC operation was the only one to be considered. This method of power supply was found entirely feasible, with the surprising fact that the line noises picked up on the broadcast set were entirely absent. The set was almost as-silent' in its operation as is the case with batteries. ‘Tuning has w0 o earefully .done. That part of the circuit was se- lected with the idea in mind that sharpness would be reduced by a combination of & series and a shunt condenser. Still it is easy to slip over a signal. The range covered was from seven meters down, the lower limit depending upon the characteristies of the coils used. In one checkup the receiver was operated two hours straight on one signal, cofing from a transmitter about 14 miles away, without.a bit of variation due either to fading or to the crankiness of the set itself. To produce sufficient signal strength, the circuit was a super- regenerator, with the oscillator or variation frequency slightly above 100 kilocycles. Run as a straight regenerative circuit, no signals could be copied, while at the same time oscillation was uncontrollable. Tuned radio trequency was tried, ‘| but found to be ineffective at seven meters. Engineers say that the only way to build up amplification is to use the superhetrodyne circuit in addition to the superregenerator so that the signal frequency can be changed to one which can be am- plified. The tuning coil was in two sec- tions, three turns each of No. 14 wire, each turn spaced about a quarter of an inch. The coil cir- cumference was one inch. One coil was placed in the grid circuit and the other in the plate of the de- tector, magnetically coupled to- Juneau, Alaska CAPITOL AGAIN ; HAS NEW ISSUE Worried By Great Wealth |back to the narrow path a way- {|ward son of wealth are j | Millions” ‘ finally returns to OLYMPIC MERMAIDS IN “PALMY DAYS” Three possible Olympic . Games contenders, each a champion mer- | maid, will be seen 'in *Palmy | Days,” Eddie Cantor’s second star- rin icture for Samuel Goldwyn, when that picture opens at the Capitol theatre. { The three are Olive Hatch, Sou- | thern California 100-yard cham- | pion; Georgia Coleman, national | diving champion, and D Poynton, runner-up to Miss man. Miss Hatch took part i women's national championsh | lays during scenes in “Palmy Uaya 54 She got her daily practice in the> swimming pool erected especially for a sequence of the picture. “Palmy Days” will be previewed | at midnight Saturday night, and will be shown at regular perform- ances Sunday, beginning at the afternoon’ matinee. ring ‘MAN TO MAN' IS HEADLINER | AT COLISEUM | Phillips Holmes Grant Mll—f chell and Lucille | Powers Lead r for | clety | father Must a son inev:iaply the sins of his father? Will s always brand a boy whose is a jail-bird? These questions were answered in “Man to Man,” the Warner Bros. and Vitaphone production which | features Grant Mitchell, Phillips| Holmes and Lucille Powers, and | which will begin showing tonight lat the Coliscum theatre. | | witchell, the well known stage | star, as John Bolton, village bar- | serves a long prison wm(’ncc* for murder which he committed | when on was a baby. Has To Leave College Many years later, while the boy | |is in college, the father is released | |from jail for good behavior. When | the lad’s college chums discover | this, he is compelled to leave the campus and face life in his own home town. Phillips Holmes ad- mirably enacts the son. { 3 story of his fight to over- | > the mark upon him and his brave battle to gain his| lost devotion make “Man to| of a deep and compelling in-v‘ How fo find’ a hwsbAnd fer a girl worth millicns and how to bring some of “Mother’s | < man” the problems solved in coming to the Capitol to- merrow night. Included in the cast are James Hall and Frances Dade, above, whose love for each other I their difficul- 2y, below, who an orderly life. a Alan Dwan Directed Dwan directed fram Joseph Packso en tion of Ben Ames Williams' nal story, which appeared in leading magazine. George Martin Alan Man" at last composes ties and Lawrenc TODAY AND COLISEUM “oiorsow PAL NITE TONIGHT—Showing ACCUSED OF CRIME COULD HE BE A THIEF? Was the curse of prison, handed down from his father, to come to him? And her future? Could she face it with 4« man wanted by the law . . . the son of a murderer? WARNER IROS- I'rue.nt Story by Ben Ames Williams GRANT MITCHIL M PHILLIPS HIO LUCILLE PC GEORGE MATR Soul-searching story of ¢ criminal father, a bewildered son and e weetheart! PAL NITE TONIGHT EVERY THURSDAY | 2 Adults and 2 Students . FRIDAY 2 Children Russel Simpson, Bill | horseshoes, favorite pastime of Banker, Dwight Frye and others every small town, was revived in are in the cast. | Hollywoood during the filming and The grand old game of pitching | recording of “Man to Man.' tis Harlan, QUICK AGTION IN BROADEAST NEW YORK, Feb. 18—Out in a Chicago studio, the villian chocked the heroine, with one brief minute left for her expiration or rescue. She gasped and screamed into the microphone. A radio network picked up her sounds of and carried them to the far r of the land. In the Manhattan office of the broadeasting ' company & telephone rang. ‘A stern voiced man said he represented a society which pro- tects children from abuse. Some are given temporary shelter under! its roof. “That wqoman’s screams frightening our little ones, dered the voice. “We wani order the program halted diately.” ‘What the public probably will want to know ic¢ why the gentle-| man complaining did not t oif! the radio. And so do we. Never- theless the obliging radio man glanced at the clock. It showed the program had a bare 30 seconds to run, “Yes, sir,” he said, things immediately.” And the radio episode went right off the air, as per schedule. are thun= ou to imme- “W VA 77 7 il Copr., 1032, The American Tobacco Co. “LUCKIES are CHIP OFF THE OLD BLOCK Cash in on Poppa's famous name? Not Dovglas Fairbanks, Jr.! For months he labored as a five- dollar-a-day “extra.” Then he crashed into a part like a brick through o plate-glass window. Doug boxes like a pro, and we don't mean a palooka . . . he has muscles like a wrestler. When undressing, he hangs his clothes on the chandelier. The box offices D DANES LAUD MOTOR SHIPS COPENHAGEN —The Scandinayv- ian Shipping Gazette, surveying the marine industry, points out that of 73 vessels laid up in Dan- ish ports, not one is a motor ship, a fact which t#is country, the cradle of motor-driven liners, takes as proving this type more econ- omicel than steam. like his latest FIRST NATIONAL PICTURE, “UNION DEPOT.“ Doug has stuck to LUCKIES four years, but didn't stick the mokers of LUCKIES anything for his kind words. “You're a brick, Doug.” “It's my standby” “LUCKIES are my standby. I buy them exclusively. I’'ve tried practically all brands but LUCKY STRIKES are kind to my throat. And that new improved Cellophane wrapper that opens with a flip of the finger is a ten strike.” O 72 /; toasted Your Throat Protection= fl. 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