The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 2, 1932, Page 3

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1932 — S ALASKAS FINEST rtainment LAST TIMES TONIGHT MARION DAVIES in “Five and Ten” CHINA NIGHT MIDNIGHT SHOW TONIGHT—1 A. M. By HARRISON CARROLL HOLLYWOOD, Cal, March 2.— Likely novels are grabbed off by Hollywood while they're still proofs. Through such a deal Metro-Gold- wyn-Mayer is able to announce the purchase of Clarence Budding- ton Kelland’s “Footlights” just as the first chapter of the serial makes its appearance in a national magazine. . “Footlights” is intended for Bus- ter Keaton, and probably will be his next picture. This makes two stories on tap, “The TUnexpected Husband” having been announced several days ago. In the Kelland film, Buster plays o 3 “Tomorrow’s Styles Today” s S | our BLOUSES and SWEATERS for both school and of- fice wear. In a very pleasing assortment. $2.25 to $6.95 It you want the lat- est in the DRUG LINE See Us First Juneau Drug Co. “There Is No Substitute for QUALITY” DONALDINE BFAUTY PARLORS Telephone 496 RUTH HAYES TONIGHT ENDS RUN AT CAPITOL “Spirit of Notre Dame” at 1 A. M. Tonight and Tomorrow With ‘“Five and Ten,” starring Marion Davies, showing for thelast times tonight at the Capitol thea- tre, “The Spirit of Notre Dame,” football classic, featuring Lew Ayres and a galaxy of notable gridiron varriors, will headline the new program tomorrow. This new pro- gram will be previewed at 1 o'clock tenight. Tonight is “Chinaware Night.” |Every woman attending either of tonight's performances will receive a piece of table chinaware. ‘When “Five and Ten" was being filmed, Miss Davies suffered @ sprained ankle: The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer stas experineed a severe wrench to her right ankle while playing tennis one morning but ‘appeared for work on time ‘after having the in- jury bound up by a surgeon. Limp Is Noticed It was not until late in the after- noon when she began to limp that Director Robert Z. Leonard learned of the mishap and postponed fur- ther work on “Five and Ten” for the day. In “The Spirit of Notre Dame” {the famous silk pants of the Notre Dame football players are worn by the gridiron warriors the picture. Famous Feotball Players Besides Ayres, the cast includes Frank Carideo, all-American quar- terback for two seasons; Don Mil- ler, Elmer Layden, James Crowley and Harry Stuhldreher, “the four horsemen”; +Adam Walsh, John, O'Brien, John Law, Moon Mullins and Buck O'Connor, famous Notre Dame football stars. in a college profesor who inherits a Over Ability of College At “EIVE AND TEN” |Meteoric Rise of Steve Hamas Fans Argument hletes as Boxers He is shown left as he appeared while a Penn State athlete. in the Loughran-Hamas battle. Is “yes” Inset shows final knockdewn By LOREN DISNEY cceiated Press Sports Writer) |fighters to the top.” NEW YORK, March 2—Nothing| As a clincher Brown cites'a long surprises Broadway more than the|list of college athletic stars who sight of a slick, smooth collegian |failed to set the boxing world on pelung out one of the boys reared | fire. His list includes such former in the smell of blood, sweat and|gridiron stars as Monty Munn of resin. On fight circles on the main | Nehraska, Tiny stem college boys are regarded |yen Sully Montgomery of Cemtr: chiefly as “mugs in coon- skin|andq George Trafton of NotreDame. coats.” Young Steve Hamas, as’ a conse- has carried most of the great Good In Proportion HAMAS KOs LOUGHRAN IN, 2ND ROUND Steve Hamas, who recently startled the boxing wcrld by a lwa;mnrlll knockout of Tommy Loughran, has revived the question: “Do college boys make good professicnal fighters?” In Hamas's case, the answer At right is how he looks today. THEATRE CHAINS - DISINTEGRATING | | Roebuck of Hfi.s-s {Boom-Day Orgy Now Pass- | ing — Day for Inde- BAXTER PLAY | TO GIVE WAY T0 ‘Laughter’” Will Be Shown at 1 A. M. Tonight and Tomorrow “Doctor’s ‘Wives,” with Warner! Baxter and Joan Bennett in the leading roles be shown for the! last times tonight at the Coliseum theatre. “Laughter,” starring Nancy | Carroll, will be presented at regu-; lar performances tomorrow night | and will be previewed at the 1| o'clock ‘matinee tonight. J Baxter As Eminent Surgeon 1 In “Doctor’s Wives,” Baxter play the role of an emingnt young Nevw York surgeon. Miss Bennett is the object, of Warner’s afffections and | the “doctor’s wife” of the picture. Frank Borzage directed “Laughter” is a vehicle which gives full opportunity to Miss Car- roll for a display of her emotional capabilities. ( Plays ExFollies Girl { ‘Throughout the action of the play Miss Carroll sweeps along in the portrayal of an ex-Follies girl who, as the wife in a mismated mar-| riage, tries to be loyal—and is, but who always seems to be victimized by the irony of ecircumstances. its money i) el back. With chain eration by studios, however, the theatres which they owned took' a loss in operation and the studio on the picture. If the loss at a thousand houses was but $100 al week, the total was $100,000. And a flop picture created a far greater Ioss than this. You can lose $1,000 to $5000 a week on any good- sized theatre without any trouble.” Continuing the discussion of what he termed the fallacy of elaborate theatres, Mr. Lesser pointed out that patrons are in a hurry to get. out when th show is| to a box office and they are in a; op-| 'WARNER BAXTER ' JOAN BENNETT COLISEUM-—LAST TIMES Midnight Preview — “LAUGHTER” “PAL NIGHT” Thursday and Friday Each kiddie attending the Coliseum Saturday Matinee or Evening will receive A BAR OF CANDY. Kin Of Washington [$:¢ ot ¢ 5 1 force him out Monoply Fails I'ne monopolization of picture= making and exhibiting by big busi- been a failure and the undoubtedly get cut (as soon as they can and take their {10ss,” Mr. Lesser stated. | lines independents with and no financial pa: the making inroads into lished bus] of the {This is and will {true of motion pic day is rapidly ar rains and iniativs ba | he estah- fellows rticularly and the ing when their GRAND PRIZE REBEKAHS CARD PARTY Perseverance Lodge No. 2 A Re- | bek: will hold a card party Wed- |nesday night at the I. O. O. F. ‘Ha!I. Both bridge and whist will be played and games start promptly at 8 pm. Good prizes and lunch- eon, Admission fifty cents. This is the fourth and last of the present |series and GRAND PRIZES WILL BE AWARDED. You are invited. Associated Press Photo Mary George Washington s a iollateral ‘descendant of the first President. Her father is a Flagstaff, Ariz., merchant. She is a student at Arizona State Teachers’ college at Flagstaff and president of her ciass, h- for the de luxe neighborhood borhood houses. There were other | | | evils to chain three of which are definitely accep- fortune, backs a Broadway show, gets mixed up with a jewel rob- bery and undergoes an amusing series of misadventures. Lawrence ‘Johnson already is at work on the screen treatment and | Bdward Sedgwick will direct the picture as the first assignment under his new contract. Larry Meingarten will supervise. | quence, has the boys cons! bly Iidbbergasted. The former Penn! State all-around athlete re ( moved into the top flight of heavy- weights with a two-round knockout of Tommy Loughran, the mo: adept boxer among the big feilows and long a New York favorite Hamas' sensational performance, | coupled with the fact that in his short professional carcer of 27 fights he has won 24 by knockouts, has set going full blast the arg ment as to whether a college foot- | ball player ever makes a good) fighter. He Knew it Couldn’'t Be True You should get a chuckle from Warner Baxter's story about the |actor ‘who called his wife on the dear,” ‘he sald, Tm ging two guests home in din- ner. Is it okay?” “Why, wes, dear,”. replied .the feminine voice at the other end of the wire. The actor slammed down the phone. *“Can you beat it!" he exclaimed. “The wrong number again.” Debate Staged | Wherever managers gather to take the weight off their feet the | “angles” are being - discussed.. In- jdeed, two of the boys, Lou Brown and Jimmy Bronson, who once shared the managership of i Add | Exum Warren, North Carolina £0ot- | ball player who turned to the rinz, have been propected in the fore- ground to present both sides of the matter. Brown expresses belief that the |collegian’s charices are very sl {indeed. Bronson, in charge of box- ing for the A. E. F. during thg world ‘war, can't see it that way at all. “In the first place,” Brown says; “the collegian is from 22 to 25 year: i And to Stop Gossip | Jim Tully’s new novel will be called “Laughter in Hell.” He’s written a 30,000 word outline of it . From what I hear, the Lupe Valez-Randdlph Scott ro- mance isn't as cold as some people think. .Victor McLaglen has ithe most amazing estate. He's in- stalled a complete operating room, |old when he finishes school and surgical equipment and all . .|{takes up boxing professionally. Saw Ivor Novello escorting Billie |That means he is too old to ac- Burke onto ‘the “Grand Hotel” set|quire the instinctive coordination at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Novello’s |required of every boxer. Besides, he comedy, “The Truth Game,” is Bob|develcps a ‘certain ‘muscle on the ‘Montgomery's ‘new picture . . .|gridiron to the exclusion of others, ‘The premiere of George Arliss’|which handicaps him if he takesl picture, “The Man who Played|up boxing.” God,” failed to develop any rumors Collegians Too Smart of new romances. Bette Davis was| Brown also comes forth with an with Irwin Gelsey again, likewise{idea which many profess Vivienne Osborne and Ivan Lebe- |less would find startling; deff and Austin Parker and Thel- |average college football player “is ma Todd. Am I wrong or isitoo intelligent to make a good, Thelma a little plumper these|fighter.” | days? Saw Vilma Banky| “The college athlete will turn to ] and Rod La Rocque again. They've [the profession for which he pre-| come out Tretirement to attend|pared in school when he finds box-| several openings of late. ‘Gene ing too rough to be worth the Dennis, the mental marvel, watched |stake,” Brown says. “He realizes as | the crowds come in. Says she gets|non-college boys do ‘mot that the ta kick out of it. odds are overwhelmingly against| thim, and he is liable to end up al battered wreck. Bob is Modest A group of us, Robert Montgom-| “He is smart enough to get out ery included, were talking aboul{of the game before it's too late, but | an unpleasant Hollywood person-|this same smartness deprives him | ality. Bob was the only one with a | kind word for him. “What's the matter?” someone asked, “Jackie Cooper says what ing good, the driving force which | | good, | college boy to persevere. He has|ing the day for the independent in of the supreme necessity for maxk-|climbed down from When Bronson moved to the cen- ter of the stage to voice a goed word for the college product, his chief objection to Brown's argu- t was the citing of failures: ery year around 10,000 boys start boxing, either as professionals or as amateurs, with prospects of becoming so, and if out of all of these bo one becomes a really good fighter that is a good aver- age. pendents Looming HOLLYOOWD Cal, March 1.— With some of the largest theatre chains in the country either being turned back to their former own- sold to independent operators nothing-down-pay-me-some- basis, Hollywood is viewing the disintegration of one of the most spectacular creations of ‘the } boom-day orgy with something “Now anybody can mame three|akin to satisfaction. good boxers—don't forget Hamas—| The actual makers of motion pic- who have d oped out of the 50 |tures never looked upon the acqui- collegians who have become pro-|sition of thousands of theatres fessional boxers. with any degree of enthusiasm. The “If three men out of 50 canmake |situation was forced upon them by | how many fine fighters do|men thirsting for personal power you think the colleges would gon-\and glory and by financial inter- tribute annually if 10,000 college [csts that suddenly found themsevles athletes each year turned to Ppro-|in the show business with no know- fessional ing? Woudn't they|ledge of its operation. make your 1 to 10,000 look sick? Now these theatres are being un- “Take the matter of coordination. | loaded literally by the thousands The prime requisites of a football jand behind their transfer is a player are speed, stamina, pe story of financial tragedy. courage, agility, ability to think| While ‘the failure of chain op- fast in an emergency and perfect|eration is tragic because of the brain control over muscles. Those | money involved, it is creating a are just the qualities that every|situation which is being taken ad- manager hopes to find a fighter;|vantage of by individuals. ‘Out of “Now consider the talent of a|ijt, say those who know, is emerg- on time been doing thta for years, studying ubjects laid out for him, and he masters them or leaves college. He New Road for Industry learns self discipline. The road for the industry to he can quit and go into follow in the future was sketched . but he considers that, too, [and the reason for chain failure is before he decides to enter the ring, |Fevealed by .Sol Lesser, one the nd he brings a trained mind tothe |founders of the West Coast chain problem, And if he decides to enter | Which sold ifs 175 theatres @t the| you can depend on him for more | Deight of the boom at peflk prices. serseverance than the boy without |Mr. Tesser is now, an independent college education who can al- |Producer and is recognized as one drive a truck. cf the astute showmen of the And if & boy in perfect. condi- ) €oast, his muscles trained to ob “This wholesale unloading had mind, and with abilty to ta to come,” Mr. Lesser declared. “At truction drilled in him, is too | the time these huge chains were ive prices were paid all branches of the business. ins old to shift from college sports at |bullt up, exce 2, then what right had Bob Fitz- | for buildin; : simmons, at 26, to start to learn|{On top of this was added a good- to fight. will figure fixed arbitrarily at 36, Bob won the heavyweight | three times the previous year's championship, and he had not been | €4TNing, an earning C_waciw not training through the years the very | Guplicated before or since, as the same muscles that could be used sales were all made during the later in fighting.” boom years. Whether the boys settled any-| “With the breaking of the boom, thing or not, one thing is agreed the bankers discovered two things by all hands. Either would love to|—that it was impossible to earn have a Steve Hamas, whether he|on the fictitious values carried lands and leaseholds. | hury to get out when the show is OPeration. Managers were changed over. Thus, all the money spent on |from week to week and there was Javish lobbies is wasted after the DN© personal touch with the comm- first visit. The ideal theatre from WNIty necessary to successful op- the public standpoint Is one seat- | €¥ation; individual effort was frown- ebout 400 patrons comfortably and |€d UPOD, all idéas having to eman- one which is adequetly heated 8te from a central office; adver- | and ventilated and containing , Sing and exploitation were stand- every safety feature. |ardized; and most important, there Small City Problem ‘were no outstanding showmen to attract the public. In some cities The theatre problem is now that where the local owner stayed on of nelghborhood communities and after selling out to the chains he small tities. During the ‘spending gttracted his old clientele for a orgy, if the chains could not buy time, But friction with the home a house in & community at any office over operation which might | price they built one of 3500 seats costing $300,000. This house was rarely filled and the community would have been satisfied with a 600-seat theatre which would have | cost abotit $40,000 arid which would | have cost proportionately to op-| erate. These smaller “houses, prop- | etly “handled even by the chains, | would have stood a chance of | making money, Mr. Lesser be-| lieves, but there never was a chance be peculiar to that particular town |} Tavitations Letterheads Folders ¢ 8 &l tements n atruck or|On the books and that it took stepped from a professor's echair.| individual showmanship to run e — | theatres. Mass operation of houses will never work. There were no he thinks about people.” “Yeah?" flipped Bob. “If I had Jackie Cooper’s standing in this business, I would t00,” Wallace Mourned All over Hollywood you hear| expressions ‘of “shock and regret over the death of Edgar Wallace, the novelist. M. Wallace made good in Holly- wood, as he did at everything else the turned his hand to. From tn¢ time of his arrival on December 1 he had written six film stories, like COFFEE The United States Government Tea Examiners recently tested all kinds of tea in all kinds of packages—and then said this. ted by Radio. They are “The Beast,” “Soul Hunters” and “The Man ‘Without ‘a Face.” The amazing facility of the Eng- lish writer already had become a legend in Hollywood. For example, a reporter called Wallace recently, asking for an interview. When he arrived 20 minutes later a 1,000~ word article was completed and waiting for him. Did Yeu Know ALWAYS FRESH SEALED IN VACUUM 66'1'“! packed in high vacuum . . would naturally be thebestmethod. §'%) Schilling is the vacuum packed tea —the only fresh tea you can buy. large sums of money to take the theatres off the bankers' hands {and no one had the inclination to put up any, even if they had it. So the chains are being un-< loaded with no cash down, a losd being written off by the banks, and an agreement to pay for the houses some time out of profits.” Built Lavishly Another element contributing to the downfall of the national chains. declared Mr. Lesser, was the type of house built. Not satisfied with buying at top figures, they bullt palaces in which a changdelier cost as much as a small théatre would during normal times. After one visit of curiosity, the public had no further interest in the lavish |fumlxh1n¢s and went to them only )l! the picture was worth seeing. “Then banker operation of both studios and theatres created a vicious circle,” Mr. Lesser contin- ued. “In the old days if a picture was a failure it was sold to some 16,000 exhibitors and they absorbed the loss and, while the studio That Walter Byron's real name | made nothing on the film, it was is Walter Butler? !reasonable to assume it would get ‘F'LOUR. specially milled from the heart of se- lected wheat; MILK, double portion, which Builds bone ‘and ‘muscle: SUGAR; BUTTER, yeast and salt make better bread when pure rich all their food values are sealed within the super- loaves, buns and rolls from PEERLESS OVENS. AT ALL GROCERS ASK FOR IT BY NAME LESS BAKERY g,Rirs