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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, FEB. 26, 1932. { T SALAsKAS FINEST ertainment D ‘DAYBREAK' IS HEADLINER ON CAPITOL'SBILL “Free Soul,” Sheaxer and| Lionel Barrymore, Shows at 1 A.M. “Daybreak,” with Ramon Novarro | and Helen Chandler in the leading | roles, will begin showing tonight | at the Capitol theatre. ! | “A Free Soul”. starring Lionel Barrymore and Norma Shearer, which will be presented at regular | performances Sunday, will be pre- viewed at 1 o'clock tonight. } Tonight is “Silverware Night.” | Every woman attending either of the regular performances Wwill be| | given a piece of table silverware. “Daybreak” is a tale about a gay love adventure. The picture starts on a note of gayest comedy and| swings through the entire gamut] of emotions. It is carried to the) very gates of tragedy in fact. Accustomed To Congquests i Lt. Willi Kasda, the suitor, en-| |acted by Navorro, has become s0 | accustomed to - conquests, that hc“ has come ‘to think of love as only a game, as something which can i never be serious. But Laura, por- trayed by Miss Chandler, comes into his life and his whole philoso- phy is upset. | ‘Changed from a sweet girl into \s. sophisticated woman by her ex-! | perience with - Novarro, Miss ‘Chmd'er provides the culminating | point for later scenes in the pic- | ture which touch a very high point of fine drama: “A Free Soul” In “A Free Soul,” high society {and the underworld, the sordidness | of Chinatown dens and the be: of Yosemite Valley are contrasted — |in a spectacluar series of dramatic happenings. EXTRA Y The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pro- | WORK IN ‘D[SllONOR’ duction is based on the celebrated | novel of Adel Rogers St. Johns. et | Miss Shearer plays the daughter an exira girl Inlof a brilant though drunken lawyer. | ored,” co-starring Victor McLaglan % and Marlene Dietrich, which wi| __ Ultra Modern Teachings be previewed at 1 o'clock tomorrow | The ultra-modern teachings of night at the Coliseum theatre, and the father give }_wg an {‘;mn :5 which will be shown there regularly | feminine “freedom” that in the end Sunday, earned her da check | Sends the structure of life crashing without lifting a hand or making a | #bout her ears. Torn 2!‘1\\'0,“1" n[u; move of any kind. She agreed that |love of @ gambler and a soclety it was the easiest day’s work of her | an, her happiness is finally saved Her when, in a dramatic appearance life. Her part in onorad” was ap] ; that of an acoident victim, She was before a jury, her father, played carried out of a bullding to a wait- by Barrymore, bares his own sins ing ambulance. Back and forth, ‘w save hia-child.; . Gl back and forth she went, througn| [For his work in this play, Barry- ihe several rehearsals and “takes» more was awarded by the American oo Academy of Dramatic Art the cup | American’ stock cars finished for 1931 | —_——— one, two, and three in an 800-mile, | two day race in South America. FRIDAY—SATURDAY “Love goes with music and magl nights . . . " Ramon OVARRO HELEN CHANDLER JEAN HERSHOLT C. AUBREY SMITH directed by JACQUES FEYDER neruas ALSO SHORT SUBJECTS “SILVER NITE” MIDVIGHT SHOW TO\IG"T 1T A M NORMA SHEARER in FREE SOUL” Ruth Mayhew, Paramount’s production, s | Seattie lold papers for saie at The Empire. | earlv in March. His two young com- Without laughter in the heart there can be no true happiness. That is the theme of “Laughter,” the absorbing drama of youth-in-the-metropolis, which will be presented at the Coliseum Theatre in the near In the above scene from “Laughter” are shown four of the leading members of the cast. left to right they are Diane EMis, Frederic March, Glenn Anders and Nancy Carroll, the star of the play. | future. ‘GLAGIER PRIEST' TELLS PLANS TO SEATTLE PRESS | Fothics Hiard To-Sehed: uled to Arrive in Ju- neau March 13 Father Bernard k. Hubbard, the “Padre of the Glaciers” is expected to leave Seattle March 8 on the teamship Admiral Evans, for his th trip of glacier and volcanic exploration in Al a. He will be in Juneau March 13. Tn Seattle, where d his ure on ently r 2 m the papers. “I'm back North,” he as saying .in the Seattle Times of February 14. “That's the place for me. T want to get at this vol Shishaldin, which erupted the other day. Ah! there'll b2 material for study!” Chishelm to Go Again ‘He is making amrangements for equipment and dog teams from and plans sail North going to For Waterless Cooking This new line of UTENSILS will retain all the natural’ flavor and cook all foods delic- iously tender. SAVES FUEL Visit our store and we will gladly tell you about the features of this line. HARRIS Father Theatres to Give Preview i One of the Laughable Incidents of “Laughter panions on his next tortuous trip into the glacier valleys and vol- canic country of the Alaska Penn- insula have already gone up to Anchorage, Alaska, getting ready,| and waiting for Father Hubbard to| say the word. They are Keneth Chisholm, 20-year-old football star of Santa Clara University, where Hubbard is head of the geology department, and Jack Mor- | ton, 18-year-old son of an Anchor- age attorney. “Chishol mhas been on other of the priest's famed expeditions into the smokelands, but the March | ey ations, expected in scientific circles to reveal more valuable data, will be young Morton's first ex- perience, Two Old Dogs Obtained ““The boys are getting our dogs together,’ Father Hubbard said. ‘I’ Just rmed that they were lucky| enough to get two of our old half- wolf, half-Malaumte leaders [\)"ihh that will help Katmal, & fine Husky, and ie—not a blond, Father Hub- :|SUFFECOOLS HERE ; Matinees Tomght, RAILWAY BRAMA’ ENDS COLISEUM RUN TONIGH “Virtuous ST: Shows at| I A. M. and Regu- | larly: Tomorrow 'With: “Other Men's Women,” star- ring Mary Astor and Grant W\Lh-‘ | ers, showing for the last times to- night, at the Coliseum theatve, | “The Virtuous Sin,” & \n‘h!‘ Walter Huston and Kay Fran- eis, will headline the new progrm‘ tomorrow, the first regular prés-| entation of which will be at the| afternoon matinee. gram will be previewed‘at 1 o'cloek | tonight. Tonight is “Pal Night” at Coliseum theatre. Two persons will {be admitted on one' ticket. Rex Parrott will' play selections | on the organ at all performances. “Other Men’s Women” is a rail road romance. One of the spectac- ular sequences is the wreck of a {train. the | the | Hobo Has Ride Imagine the embarrassment of | the luckless hobo who boarded the From | wamer Brothers special freight | (train- out of the Mexican border | town of Jacumba, during the fllm-“ ing of “Other Men's Women.” he' train wasn't going anywhere | and the hobo was presumably an- | xlous to get out of town on account | |of the excessive heat of the South- | erny California interior. For eight | hours the freight was shunted back and-forth over the chartered tracks | while the tramp tried to figure out | ather Hubbard ‘thinks’ he is 43 |Wwhat madness had suddenly over- years old. He has piercing dark |taken the Southern Pacific. What brown eyes, twinkling most of Lhe{he didn't know was that the train time. When he got back to civili-|Was on an-. abandoned picce of zation last year he had lost twenty- |track in the Cariso gorge and that sht pounds. But 1t's the Iife for |it was actually flirting with death. n said, hard as it is. Angry And ‘It's all for science, the famous| <when the son of rest fins glacier padre declared. ‘And I'm|camped from the rods as ds | bezinning to think Tim getting Vol- | threatened, and took time out from on f |the sidelines to give vent to his “He rubbed his jaw. lopinion” of railroaders, his wrath I just had a wisdom t00th{gsyddenly changed toa: nent and pulled he said ‘and I know ll‘"‘];{{ as he saw the trs which was a little Aniakchak in “C“o“"”]had been his home for the night, | o, oo sE coast with gathering speed to the adge of the pi pitous canyon and plunge dazzingly into the still dark | depths below, leaving only grinding | cameras and W y members of the and crew of “Other Men's| on the Bering Sea and sceénic views of ska and the Aleutians taken from an ariplane during the ex- plorer’s 4,000-mile trip which ended in near tragedy when the plane turned over on landing in the ak basin.” reference the Se-, Amazea ENROUTE TO HOME | , ‘but a black Mal sent from Hc , to Anchorage by and will be ready wWhen her Hubbard gets there to d sleds into the treacherous te: he plans to explore. 1l mush with a dog team ough the VAHey of Ten Thous- and Smokes,’ the Priest said, we will take the dogs to the ':m of Katmai crater. Heat May Evaporate Lake j “Father Hubbard said he expect- | ed to be able to prove that thereis! no lake in wintertime at the bot tom of the 3,700-foot crater. Th heat of the smoking mounta ‘ evaporates it, he believes. Neither of these explorations has ever been accomplished.” | Father Hubbard delivered his lec- | ture on “Aniakchak, the Moon Crater, Explodes,” sponsored by the | Knights of Columbus, in the Eagles Auditorium. Respecting the lec- ture, the Seattle Post-Intelligencre said: | “He showed 9,000 feet' of some | of the most unusual film ever sho by a movie camera. The pictures| reveal his party struggling through the gas and smoke of Aniakchak | when the volcano was a virtual Dante’s inferno. They show a 1,600- mile dog mush down the Yukon which Father Hubbard has de- scribed in the current issue of| the Saturday Evening Post. Crack-up Of Plane “They show the crack-up of a [ | | plane on the Yukon, Eskimo life [ “Tomerro DECIDEDLY DIFFERENT ew Direct from New York for the JUNIOR PROM = | Gastin |from Tenakee on the Zapora where | . s Cagney, J.| |ers. Frank Suffecool, registered at the| having arrived Mrs, , are Hotel Mr. and Women” behind. | Mary Astor plays the ty feminine role in “Other Men's | spent the past five | omicn and James PN e |Farrell MacDonald, Fred much improved in 'Joan Blondell and Walter They will return to their i * home leaving on tho|i fhe supporting cast: Rl L Wellman directed Strong Fascinating Romance Sy Lot By “The Virtuous Sin' 'involves the JOHNSON GOING' TO ATTEND FRIGIDAIRE MEETING, SEATTLE ‘W. P. Johnson, dm!“r in General Motors products, is leaving on the | Princess Norah tonight on a busi- ness trip to Seattle and Portland. While in Seattle he will attend a regional meeting of Frigidaire deal- M. weeks | health. Suffecool S Kohler, | Long are | William beautiful girl, who with a husband in the ranks, becomes m(ulufiwdl with a ‘general. Briefly, the situation is this: Miss Pranicis as the lovely Russian girl is persuaded to marry a young medical = student, Kenneth Mac- Kenna, who'is called to duty in the front lines. Knowing his country would be served better in his lab- oratory than in the field, Miss ‘Francis goes to the general, Huston, to ask for exemption of her hus- band. Huston, a hard military ma- chine, curtly refuses, Sentenced To Be Executed In the course of events the gen- eral sentences MacKenna to be executed, and Miss Francis goes o ‘him to bargain for her husband’s Iffe. Miss Francis and Huston re- alize they are in love. Later, Huston, learns the reason for her visit, and thinking it all a plot to save her husband, flatly refuses to release him. However, Huston's | love for Miss Francis prompts him to save her husband's life, who senses the real love between them. Th the end the true lovers aré united. Mr. Johnoson expects to return to Juneau in about three weeks. COLISEUM SUNDAY and MONDAY vicTon McLAGLEN MARLENE DI ETRICH w’s Styles Today” Frocks a leading | COLISEU LAST TIMES TONIGHT AND IT'S PAL NITE | [ { Strangest Love | Triangle Fate | Ever Drew! Isa womans love-: sfronger than any man’s friendship Canif separate menwhohave been lifelong friends 7. . C. it break This new pro- | | OTHER MEN'S | : W[)MEN SATURDAY ONLY MATINEE AT 2:30 Dietator! Com- mander of a mil- lion men, the wo- man who holds his heart in her hands. Which dic- tates the terms of this love surrend- er? + |SUNDAY — MARL FNI‘ DIE' TRICH and VIC McLAGLEN 1 “DISHONORED” MIDNIGHT MATINEE TONIGHT — “The Virtuous Sin” |STYLE SHOP HAS MODERNISTIC ART Embelllishments in the nature of modernistic decorations and | pictures of prominent motion pic- | ture actors and actresses add to the attractive appearance of the interior of the Hollywood Style Shop at Main and Front Streets. Panels of modernistic paintings, the work of Louis Liston, are em- blamatical of the fishing industry, the shipping business and of air- plane activities. The paintings also include silhouettes of feminine fig- ures, The pictures of cinema perform- 's are in the fitting room. 1e walls of the shop have been ratly improving their appearance Liston recently reeeived from the secretary to Presi- jent Hoover expressing thanks for a linoleum art block that Mr. Liston sent to the President as a Christmas card. The block con- a |sisted of an 8-inch square of lin- oleum decorated with Christmas conceptions. Mr. H. Coleman, owner of the Style Shop, left Juneau last night on the motorship Northland for connection with his store there. O s The 1932 Silver Skates carnival at St. Louis was held on an indoor | rink hecause of lack of iL‘c outdoors. COLISEUM SUNDAY and MONDAY 8 vicron MclAG MARLENE DIETRIC Dish a Garamount Picture' SCOUTS WILL HAVE COURSE IN FIRST AID Miller Offers Special In- struction to Local Troops —Many Enroll Twenty-two boys have signed up to take advantage of the course n first aid, being offered to Scouts next weck by George Miller, Senior Foreman Miner of the Federal Bu- reau of Mines, it was annouuced today. Through the courtesy of Mr. Mil- ler this special course is being of- fered to any member of Juneau Troops who will attend the classes next Monday to Friday inclusive from 6 p. m., to 7:15 p. m, in the City Hall. This is the first time such an offer has been made exclusively to the local Scouts. Any boys who strange, fascinating romance of aiKPtclukan to attend to business in have mnot already signed up for the instructions and who wish to 'attend the classes for the five Inights is asked to be at the City Hall Council Chambers at 6 p. m Monday where he may be listed be- |fore the course begins: Following is a list of those who |are now registered: Troop 611: Walter Scott, Georzge | Folta, Tom Stewart, Frank Metz- | gar, Bud Lindstrom, Kenneth Kel- ler and Donald Ulrich. | Troop 613: Wayne Olson, Jack Kearney, Bert Berthold, Joe Me- |Lean, Bill Lowe, LeRoy West, Prank Behrends, Jack Schaefer, |Joe Smith, Brice Howard, Harry | Sturrock, Jack Stanyar, Kenneth |Lee, and Ralph Bardi. —————— Alabama’s intramural sports pro- gram includes 11 events. POLITICAL NOTICE It seems the popular custom this year for musicians to enter politics, especially ¢ Jr., the leader of Alaska’s ity politics. Earl Hunter, most popular and best dance band, the “Serenaders,” flatly refuses to enter the race for Mayor of Juneau after reading the re- ports from Seattle on Vie's standing in the recent el- ection. But here is what Mr. Hunter and the Ser- enaders and the Elks’ Dance Committee will do this Saturday night: We want you on the SPOT Saturday night. be later awarded the new Radio Set. Also free ticket You may $90.00 General Electric s to all who attend. DANCE to a LUCKY SPOT at the BEST SPOT in' JUNEAU THE BELKS BALE ROOM — Saturday Night PLYMOUTH THRIFT MODELS HARDWARE CO. at Sensationally Low Prices Plymouth Thrift Sedan—$495— Two Door Plymouth Thrift Sedan—$575— FRONT STREET Four Door Juneauw’s Own Store