The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 17, 1932, Page 3

SEREEEl 171 /T TONI THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1932. GHT VOTE EARLY ‘E/rt\qtgnment. VOTE THE STRAIGHT LAUGH TICKET! MARIE AND POLLY WIN BY A MILLION LAUGHS! NOTICE TO PARE WHAT THIS COUNTRY NEEDS IS A LOT OF LAUGHS! Patar. 4 4> 2 o What this country gets is a million of ’em in this comedy by the screen’s funniest pair! Marie runs for Mayor and how she cleans up the town. directed by CHARLES F. REISNER with ROSCO ATES g SILVER aMeto Goldigyn Mayer meroms. 4. SELECTED SHORT SUBJECTS “POLITICS” will be run at Mic NITE TONIGHT / Mouse Matinee Sat- urday, 1 P. M., so as to give adults a chance to epjoy this picture to the full ex- tent. THE Florence Shop Permanent Waving a Specialty Florence Holmquist, Prop. Phone 427 Triangle Bldg. | I | LUDWIG NELSON | JEWELER Watch Repairing Brunswick Agency FRONT STREET L | BEAUTY PARLORS RUTH HAYES DONALDINE Telephone 496 — Guaranteed SHEET METAL WORK PLUMBING GEO. ALFORS |l PHONE 564 ELECTRICAL REPATR WORK NO JOB TOO SMALL Capital Electric Co. R e | P e I L e uum—— Valdez will hold an election April 5 for the purpose of electing several councilmen to one-year Board for a three-year term. Aircraft was supplanted by dog team, when Aviator Oscar 'Win- chell of the Gillam Airways in a Swallow plane was forced down on the Copper River and North- western Railroad. He ‘was carry- ing a passenger, with an infected finger, destined to (Cordova for medical treatment. Afoot Winchell accompanied the alling man to Teikel Station, whence the latter took a dog team to Cordova. When Winchell returned to the plane he found it had been so badly buffeted by the wind that three of its wings were completely de- molished, and he could not fly it. Michael Norton is dead as the result of a snow slide at Kenne- cott. He had just come out of the tunnel of the Kennecott mine and had walked but a short distance when the slide of light dry snow icovered him. He was speedily tes- supposed death was due to shock. ( Thomas Dodd, formerly of Hyder, Anchorage and Fairbanks, died at Kanatak of a paralytic stroke. The Cordova bay recently was covered with ice swept in by th2 {winds from the Copper River flats and for a while it was almost im- [possible for small boats to navi- | gate. terms and a member of the School | in a storm near Teikel Station | cued, but life was extinct. It is| Wait and send the children on Saturday as only a limited number of chil- dhen’s tickets will be sold TONIGHT. ‘All-Alaska News | { The Toman canery, at Anchor- | age, in all probability, will not be | operated this year but arrange- ments may be entered into with neighboring and larger plants to can the Toman fish on a pro-share basis, says the Seldovia Herald. Oscar 8. Gill has heen elected Exalted Ruler of the Elks Lodge at ‘Anchorage; 8. W. Ostrander, Esteemed Leading Knight; A, £. Frodenberg, Esteemed Loyal Knight; F. E. LaRue, Esteemed Lecturing Knight; Lyle W. Larsen, Secretary; Henry S. Sogn, Treasurer; Cecil ‘Higgms‘ Tyler; J. T. Cunningham Trustee; Ray Mathewson, retir- | ing Exalted Ruler was chosen Dele- 'gate to the Grand Lodge, and {Frank M. Kelly, Past Exalted {Ruler, was named Alternate. Erection of ‘a public. hangar at Merrill Airport in Anchorage by the city Council is urged by the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce, Mrs. Herman A. LaZelle, wife io! the pioneer homesteader of the (Fairbanks region, died in Anchorage | hospital of heart disease. She had been ‘brought from Fairbanks to Anchorage by airplane for medical treatment a week before her death. Mr. LaZelle suffered a paralytic |stroke at Fairbanks several weeks ago and had preceded Mrs. LaZelle to the Anchorage hospital. His | condition is improving. | Equipment sufficient to put up a. pack of 15,000 cases of clams has arrived at Seldovia for the North IP&cific Packing Company, recently { THE ONLY WAY T'WIN ACAL, IS TO KEEP HER GUESSIN'/ POLLY AND HER PALS ’ DIDN’ DAWG I TRIED THAT ON ) DORIS, AN IT {WORK, ITL wporeiponeipontponipen—retd KOOI ITINC” WITH WEL///2 CAST YOUR BALLOT “POLITICS” WITH §DRE88LER IS AT ;BAPITUL TONIGHT | Mickey Mouse Band Plays i in Triangle Place Be- fore Performance Tonight the only woman ever to |run for mayor in Alaska will in- | augurate her campaign in Juneau. | Her initial rally will be held in | the Capitol theatre, and immediate- | Iy before the gathering in the play- hous a band will play stirring se- i lections in Triangle Place. TUn- | doubtedly her appearance will at- | tract a large throng, so persons ce- | siring to see and hear her should | be on hand early to gain admission. | Marie Dressler, famous comedienne, | is the aspirant for civic honors, and | her medium of reaching the public }is “Politics.” Her campaign mana- {ger is Polly Moran. In the cause | has been enlisted the Mickey Mouse Band, which will play between 7 and 7:30 o'clock in Triangle Place, Children Get Attention ric Paulson, manager of the | Capitol theatre, announces that | “Politics” will be presented at the " Mickey Mouse Club meeting mati- nee Saturday afternoon. He asks \parents to have their children at- {tend the Saturday afternoon per- formance rather than prior night performances, inasmuch as the the- atre’s night accommodations will be needed for adults. Tonight, for in- stance, only & limited number of tickets will be available to childrsen. ' Tonight is “Silver Night.”. Every | woman attending either perl‘orm-l ance will receive a piece of table silverware. Complete City Hall ! In “Politics” a complete city hall and an entire town street, one of the largest single exterior settings constructed since the coming of the talkies, were erected. \ This is the big city hall set, where the torchlight processions, rallies and other demonstrations a ged by Miss Dressler. | The construction of the huge set | was interesting. As an exterior | building had to be very solid— | s0 every wall was treated acous-, 1ly, and the sidewalks were laid lu too low freight plans to go to Northwest over foundations of porous mate- Alaska Railroad on structural a, thence ‘to Siberia and rial to absorb the bulk of the nmse‘t‘l“ Willlam McDonald e to the Orient. of footsteps. |tion Company, low bidder on the) Hilarious Sotry P d federal building at Fair-| Charles ®. Jannsen is now the The picture is a hilarious story.|b: wil Inot be able to pro sole owner of the Connolly-Janns:h sler as mayoralty candi-/with the work unless the Ala gold quartz mine at the head of nd Miss Moran as her cam- R d grants a s rate com- Snake River, near Nome. He will! paig nmanage > the Wo-|p with the 1t rate {operate the proverty next summer. { vote, expose the crooked 'of-|cording to adv received by the| dsaddy ficials and thelr gangst rbanks Chamber of Commerce.| For the first time in many years; call out all the women on strike; against their husbands when ‘the men try to organize, and generally raise the dickens. There are dra- matic scenes, too, Where Miss Dressler does some remarkable character acting. Directed By Riesner Charles F. Riesner directed the picture, in which a notable cast appears, including Roscoe Ates, Karen Morley, William Bakewell, John Miljan, Joan Marsh, Tom McGuire, Kane Richmond, and Mary Alden. | The story is an original by Zelda Sears and Malcolm Stuart Bolyan. It was adapted by 'Wells Root with dialogue by Robert E. Hopkins, organized by G. M. Chambers, merchant of that town, and H. H Malcom, who has been engaged in the salmon cannery business there. The plant's seasonal opera- tions will be from May 1:to July 1 and from August 10 until late in the fall. The clam cannery will| employ from 18 to 25 Inside work- | ers and from 50 to 65 diggers. | Michael Bayou, 43, was drowned in Seldovia Bay when he slipped| and fell off a small gasboat. James Kelly, 83, a resident' of Ninilchic for 256 years, died at his| home there. He first went to the Cook Inlet country in 1800 as a worker in the Alaska Packers Asso- ciation cannery at Kasilof. Drilling operations have been resumed by the Fairbanks Eplora- tion Company in the Chataniku district. A force of 40t050 men will soon be employed in the Chatanika camp. Gold quariz prospects are re- ipo;bed to have been found by Mar- tin Strand in the Strand and Hed quartz mine, 3¢ miles from Nome.| 1 Development of the peat ground near Fairbanks leased from. the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines by the Alaskal minded official is asked for. Aroun‘d-théWorld Flight Plans World Fli I 1 preparations for her 'round-the-world flight some time next month. Miss Burns will leave Scattle the early part of April for a flight she hopes will carry her completely around the gichbe, changing her former plans for a Seat- tle-Tokyo flight. She is shown here with her mascot, a toy cat, equip- ped for flying including a miniature regulation parachute, which will accompa her on her trip. | Peat Company is expi to be- iSmm:mV' ch had a permit that al- gin sho George ‘A, Lingo, presi- | low him to remain in the Uniced | dent of the Company, left Fair- | St only until March 6. He went o arrange for sale outlets, to Prince Rupert to arrange with i tates The United States consul there for |an extension of the permit. Simun- | ovich has crossed the United States Having made a mistake in fig- he Jatter organization has agked ' ptarmigan Delegate In Congress James Wick- limits of Hyder recently. The ersham to take up the matter i k was small. the authorities in Washington, D. C. Fairbanks lodge of Elks has elec- ted the following officers: Exaltet Signed by many residents of Ta-|Ruler , Herbert TFink, Esteemed kotna, Ophir and McGrath, in t Leading Knight, Art Brown; Upper Kuskokwim country, a peti- emed Loyal Knight, Charles O. tion has been presented to United |Fowler; Esteemed Lecturing Knight States Marshal Lynn Smith of Ralph Norris; Secretary, David ‘Ad- Fourth Division, with headquarte; |ler; ‘Treasurer, E. H. Stroecker; at Fairbanks, asking him to remove | Tyler, John Cunningham; Trustee from the Upper Kuskokwim district for thrée-year term, Frank Maple-/ United States Deputy Marshal ton; Representative to the Grand' Stanley J. Nichols, who is accused Lodge, Pat O'Connor; Alternate | of being “overbearing, self-import- |representative, Frank Mapleton. | ant and concelted.” A fair, broad- | Henry ‘W. Clark, assistant di-| rector of athletics at Harvard, in| Thousands of caribou were seen a recent letter to his mother, Mrs, on the lakes between Minchumina Georgla ©. Olark of Wrangell,| and Kantishna by Sam O. White, | writes that he will leave Boston | game warden, who recently return-|July 15 in charge of the group of | ed to Fairbanks from an airplane Harvard boys who will take part flight to those places. Many moose in the Olympic games at Los Ange- tracks were observed, but only two,les, in August. At the close of the moose were seen. jgames Mr. Clark will bring the {'boys up the coast for the southeat Mrs. Catherine S. Hornada and!Alaska tour. ‘They will return Louls Erickson were married at home on the C. P. R. lines through Nome. [Canad& - M. Sumunovich, a citizen of Ju-' FOOD SALE SATURDAY go-Slovakia was turned back intoj Remember the Martha Society’s Canada at Hyder by United Statesi!uod and tea towel sale Saturday Immigration Officer D. J. Mulcare,‘at the ‘Sanitary ‘Grocery. —ady. 'STREET SCENE' FAMOUS DRAMA T0 COME SOON Play to Preview at Capi- tol at 1 o'Clock To- morrow Night “Street Scene,” picturized from the famous Pulitzer Prize play by Elmer Rice, will be presented at the Capitol theatre at a preview at 1 o'clock tomorrow night and at regular performances Sunday. The stage play ran for 600 performances in New York, and was given two years through the principal cities of the Unitéd States. Not 'so much with the street, but more $o with the people whose lives radiate from its rusty brownstone houses, is the play concerned. Characters In Play A girl who knows her mother is unfaithful; an insepsitive, cruet father; a cynical old Jewish sociale ist trying to read a purpose into life, young love trying to rise above squalor and ‘misery, a lonesome woman, hungry for someone to talk to; an Italian couple, longong for the baby that they can’t have, the improvident. poor—these are the strings that King Vidor, director, By HARRISON CARROLL HOLLYWOOD, Cal, March 17— Now that Fox is concentrating its operation in ‘Westwood, more fllm people will be moving out of Holly- wood towards the beach. This westward trék has gome on steadily with the expansion of the | industry. Years ago the big stars lved downtown in Los Angeles, most of them in a rough square formed by Seventh and Ninth Streets and Figueroa and Hope. Mary Pickford was in the Sinnott ~Apartments, while D. W. Griffith and Henry B. | Walthall lived on Hope' Street. Ho- bart Bosworth and Raymond Hat- ton were others in this district. Harold Lloyd had aplace on Ho- over. And the Gish sisters had the film colony's first hill-top home. It was on Sixth Streét and was mueh remarked because of its 26- foot retaining wall In those days Ithe hangout of the film crowd was “The Pliyers' Club” on Hiil Street, between Second and Third. ‘Wallie Reid was president. Later on, when Paramount and Univetsal opened’ studios in Holly- wood, the western movement be- weaves together as the play re- gan. Jesse Lasky, Reginald Den- were seen . within thefs lentlessly moves toward the hysteri- | hey, ‘Théodore Roberts and Tully cal murder that neither ends the |Marshall all bullt homes on the play nor solves life's mystery. Vine Street hill. Gloria Swanson was at Wilcox and Yucca. Only One Set Gloria also was one of the first For the first time in screen his- {to joln the Beverly Hills Migra- tory, in “Street Scene” a picture |tion, though ‘Douglas = Fairbanks is shot in its entirety within ‘the |and Mary ‘Pickford actually started confines of a single set. Following'|it, Other -early Beverly: (Hills set- the stage outline, the entire action |tlers were Will Rogers and the takes place on ‘the street, mostly|Fred Niblos. lon the steps of the one house. The| Now, of weourse, Malibu is a camera doesn’t enter the house|popular location. Led by Anna Q. and there are no close-ups. 2 Nilsson, Marie Prevost, Alan Most of the original stage cast|Dwan, Ernest Torrence, Ronald were brought to Hollywood for the | Cdlman, Louise ‘Fazenda and Nefl picture. Beulah Bondi, David Lan- | Hamilton, the film ‘people have dau, Russel Hopton, Anha Kostant | built one of the most famous beach and Greta Granstedt are among the | colonies in the world. fatured players. And if ‘they move again, have to be: houseboats. vl Every Detial Recreated Every detail of a tenement block in New York’s West Sixties was re- created with the most complete au- W thenticity, the passers-by, street|Parker, will act in Paramount'’s noises, traffic, even to the nearby| ‘Sinner in ‘the Sun” And the elévated, where an actiial trainwas|funny thing is that Miriam Hop- built to create the noises that are |Kils, ‘Austin’s estranged wife, got amotig the undertones of the ple-fher the job . . Talk of rackets. ture. Capt. Richard Day and Williq| The Othér evefing Tos Angeles Pogany supervised the elaborate | adlo-ctr officers were sent after production details under the super- | W0 en who were selling motor- vision of King Vidor and Samuel ‘f"r“sn:“‘;mflgr weliomectn b b Goldwyn for this United Artists Bilakc Aflen ‘sill ‘have s & And So, Again, To Gossip Helen Collins, mniece of Austin | ploture. s R out as soon as he finishes ns‘t.?‘y Daily Empire Want Ads Pa; Brides.” = He's taking mightly, # 4 treatments pow . . Jack Oakle; and Sari Maritza still look at things through the same eyes. . . Al Rocket will stay at Fox for at least one more year. He's got ‘a {contract that says so. -And it's LET ME MAKE OVER | THAT DRESS | SEWING NEATLY DONE Satisfaction Guaranteed | 'OLIVE KESOVIA | Nextto Nugget Shop, Phone 3922 . p Holmes didn't land uu: Boxed v Som Saves Stationery SPECIAL 24 Sheets Paper 24 Envelopes 50 cents Variots Shapes Several Goloes “Tomorrow’s Styles Today” Juneau Drug | Co. 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