The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 27, 1932, Page 3

T CAPITOL TONIGHT With Norman Foster, June Clyde, ZaSu Pitts Also—~LAUREL and HARDY in “One Good Turn” { (‘HI[\»A NITE———— PREV IFV\—] —\ M TO\ICHT—"THE I)E ADL A'F" Also the 1932 SHARKEY-SCHMELING Champion- ship Fight—15 Rounds ? ALASKA NEWS | On the return voyage of the| steamship Tupper from the Kus- kokwim River to Seattle recently the steamer, when about 252 miles | off Cape Flattery, "almost cut a large whal¢ in two.” The impact captain’s Virgil familars as Kutner, known to “Dynamite Bill,” his | has which flap like a bird’s and which | can riseé straight up and descend | straight down, the Times says. craft. With two wings on each| side of the machine, cross wings/ are eliminated. | James Moses, Indian, is believed | to have been drowned in Carrol | Inlet near California Point nos| far from Ketchikan. He disap- peared unnoticed from the fishing boat Norma, Capt. Mathew Faw- cett while the seine craft was running slow in the !nlflt prepar- ing to make a set. man upposed to have fdllen ofi\ the vessel. His absence was noted | shortly after he had been seen to| go to the rear of the hoat | i Elaborate plans are being made | at Stewart, B. C., for the recep- tion and entertainment there next month of the officers and crew of the British warship Delhi. i Dr. and Mrs. Ted W. Benson of | Petersburg are the parents of twin | sons, born recently at the Peters- | burg hospital. Roy Anderson, editor and part| owner of the Ketchikan Chronicle, | and Miss Aleta McDaniel were re- cently married in Delta, Colo., the home of the bride. Mrs. Anderson |i was a’ public school tedcher in Ket- chikan the past two years. in the EMPIRE are STRONGLY SUCCESSFUL They ring the bell every time. If you want to buy Ketchikan's daily newspaper, the| Chronicle, observed July 19, the thirteenth anniversary of its exis-| tence, A. C. Crawford, assistant agent| of the Northland Transportation ! Company at Ketchikan, launched | there the othér day a plessure i ing, ra- g?;?‘g?rgbuck).;:ltngu sall sail boat, sloop-rigged, that he PR tomo- | Pullt himself. The trial spin was pianos, nhouses, guiom a complete success. biles, if you want to ex- change a fur scarf for an oil painting, if you want a job, or desire some one to work for the Want Ads in George Marks Wells, 54, mining man, who come to Southeast Al- aska in 1902, died at Ketchikan. you, By order of the Ketchikan City The Empire will hit the Council, the Chief of Police is gong for you the first | endéavoring to coléct business house licenses. Some of the mer- time. Old papers for sale at Emylre Office. Lace trimmed . . shadow proof . . in white, peach and pink . . all'sizes . . . S pecial} | erator. {from {with her family when she was a | with the great crustacean was suf-|small child, and literally grew up| | ficient to scatter things from the |under the shadow of a movie cam- | cabin to the - forecastle |era. | revolution. {that FOSTER-CLYDE PLAY BILLED AT CAPITOL AGAIN Steady Company ents Zasu Pitts in Good Featured Role y,” starring Nor- mean Foster and June Clyde and featuring ZaSu Pitts, and “One Good Turn,” |Oliver Hardy in the leading roles, | will be presented again tonight ul the Capitol Theatre. In “Steady Company,” Miss Pitts | plays the part of a telephone op- Her talent for moton pic- ture acting was discovered by Mary Pickford. Saw Screen Possibilities Miss Pickford was certain that she saw tremendous screen possi- bxlmes in a wide-eyed, gawky girl who came to her for a part in “The Little Princess,” some years ago. Miss Pitts had gone to California her native Parsons, Kansas, Her modest but well-earned suc- !cess in the Pickford pictures and her subsequent ascension to fame, {made Hollywood say “her trgic face invented an airplane, the wings of lis funny.” 0ld Saying Proved True In “One Good Turn,” the old A“Chmflg"isayln" that “if you play with fire, | Kutner is de"l“ewyou re sure to get burned” to have received a patent on the‘ed true. is prov- In an early sequence of the pic- ture a tent in which Laurel and |Hardy are supposed to live catches | fire. 'While they were ende'wonng {to put out the fire sparks flew into their clothing and both Stan and Oliver were rewarded with nice, |little blisters. WEAKEST LINK IN RAILWAY 13 RUSSIA'S GUARD Paradoxical Fact Consid- ered in Light of Recent Events rage One) (Commuen e somewhat iricon- how much more is to us, disadvantageous it would be as an instrument for an invading force in a hostile country. single track venient “Japan tried to take once when the Allies intervened there right after the Bolshevik But her troops nearly froze to death because there was no adequate ftransportation. Be- fore the Japanese plan on getting far again they had better recall that experience. “No, I' think we'll let that sin- |gle track stay for awhile” chants are in arrears. through ne- glect for three years. Members of the City Council and representatives' of the Cham- ber of Commerce and other civic and social organizations of Ketchi- | kan, will meét August 1 to devise plans for providing work for the unempioyed. At a meeting of members of the Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce O. M. Carter, W. E. Brown, K. L Steberg, W. C. Arnold, J. E. John- son, W. C. Dibrell and Dr. H 8. Hall were elected directors for the ensuing year. They will choose the officers. {HINTS ARE GIVEN TO HOUSEKEEPERS To rémove coffee stains, cover | the spot with the yolK of an egg to ich has been added an equal mouht of carbon tetrachloride. The mixture should be well stirred | before using. After the spot has sodked a few minutes, wash out ! the mixture with warm water and, | while' still moist, fron on the wrong side of the cloth. A colander, turned upside down | over meat in a frying pan, allows| the steam’ to escape and at the | same time prevents the fat from spattering on the stove. If fried foods are placed on soft paper when taken out of hot fat, most of the excess grease will be absorbed. Mildéw stains may be removed frofi cloth after washing in the customary manner and immersing in h}'a‘mgen peroxide or in a solu- tion of chiorinated lime while still damp. Then expose the spot to the sun’s rays. If the materia to bé bleached is colored, a test on a scrap piece or on the selvedge should be made to determine whether or not the dye is affected. with Stan Laurel and | \ Siberia ]Dramas F cature Th@atre ]En{terttamm@nfl:s GERMANY’S PRIDE WAR 0 that ‘he the 15 rounds, New York regulerly late compile this week at the C: Max Schmeling is shown' herc v will be previewed at 1 o'cleck fonight and shown \ SCREENMISS BANKHEAD in hostile array. fought azainst Jack Every one of Sharkey in | Capitol Theatre. | , Previews 1 I Here's something hot. The Shar- key - Schmeling battle recently fought in Madison Square Bowl jin New York will be reproduced in motion pictures at the Capitol Theatre at a preview at 1 o'clock fonight and shown at regular p: formances late this week blow in every one of the of the fight will be cl picted on the screen Person 10 see these picture to take the op! as to which entitled They can see and. judg r themselves | The pictures show Sharkey |quently backing up as he is x ed by the Flying Dutchman, key's black eye is plainly vi |Spectators can almost see it swell. In awarding the world's pionship to Sharkey, maybe R Gunboat Smith was right. May he wasn't. Persons who view pIctures can tell. de- will not have anybody 1o else ‘nl else | the 1 Is Their Task: By ROBBIN COONS HOLLYWOOD, Cal, July Film fame, ever dying faster than it is born lives on in strange pls ab In a film oratory where {they test devel- oping process there are blrlpS jof film contain: ing long closeups of a fair maiden § with flowing black liresses and a j | praintive smile. |Her face is known to’ all the lab- | oratory ~workers. But asked who she is, none can NORMA SHEARER tell. ten | “she came out here about [ycars ago and never did anything. Nobody knows her name.” Unknown, but day after day, through years, her smile is revealed |in the dim interior of the lab- oratory. They don’t need new film {for such tests. And by now. {so many years, they scarcely notl |that girl's face. still, if .my |consolation to the girl who "“never |did anything,” her smile has -be= |come an infinitesimal cog in:the complicated industry that repulsed | her. Fascinating Work | In many respects the laboratory, wseldom noted by studio visitors, is the most fascinating section of the' film plant. Here it is' that the mov- ies' industrial side is foremost. Its| {purpose is to turn out film, per-| shoes or buttorls or pins. Within its walls is the high ro-, mance of machinery, of smoothly| humming motors and mysterious chemicals at work, paling the fic- tional heart-throbs of actors and the synthetic adventures of movie heroes To -the workers there it i a matter of small concern thats on 'those endless strips of celluloid they | control are pictured tales that will stir the dreams, the mirth, the pity of millions. Their job is to produce a roll of Sharkey and Se Recent Championship Fight . | the celluloid when it afler fected film, as a’ factory pr vvmces} himelin g’s A. M. at C(lplt()ll |40 days after his death; under the | |a woman to quit participating in| “DUDE RANCH” WL In the States, these complete| pictures of the Sharkey-Schmeling ht were and are being shown | separate special attractions by themselves for high admission | prices. Regular Picture Program | At the Capitol they will be fea- | 1 with the regular motion pic ture program for the regular pri of admission. The Dead- Jones. In Deadline,” Jones assumes a| ® that is quite foreign to any-| ¢ he has done before and in it her demonstrates his ability an actor | Hollywood there is a cowboys’ | club called “The Waddies,” at| ich congregate all the old-timers of range and screen. Buck is ac- | tive in the affairs of this organiza- | tion and goes out of his way to provide work in his pictures for as| many of these old hands of the | ¢ trail as he is ablo to p]acn i be.* ttle There’s F ascination in Wovw ‘Labs;’Producing Flawless Film It Is a Hard One film that will be without mechan- ical flaw, that reveal to best | advantage whatever is captured on | comes to them What the cam- | no concern of | | | | | | | | from the cameras. | captures is | theirs, ‘ ‘ iy \ | See Only the ¥ilm Filin printers in the eerie dim- | | ness of a room in which tiny bulbs | 'break the dar only with a| \!a!m reddish glow sit hour by hour, | funder their eyes passing the fervent | |love passages of Clark Gable and Norma Sh r, of the comic pathos lof Marie Dressler; at noon they eémerge into the dazzling outer | World, only to return again to the inner darkness until eévening. Their eyes see film, not the players on it. | Modern improvements have| “cleaned up” the film developing process considerably, speeded it, but | have made it none the less amaz- ing. Nor have they taken it all out of the dark rooms of old. { —— e —— YOU RUB NOSES | " INNEW DANCE } [ 27—The four ng the “Bos- | 400" this say teachers | {of the light fantastic, if they fol- {low the trend at Cambridge, New | |Haven and Princeton. | Miss Lucille stodaard. chairman | A NEW YCRK, .mxlhon will be of the dancing tea ' congress | now in session, € d today | Ithe “Boston 400 a conservative | |fox trot. | Some hints for the well-versed 1d be pressed |dancer of 1932 { Parners’ noses sh i together. The man’s hand should | ‘be’ dreped over the nape of the| girl's neck. The girl's body should ’be swung away from her partner like a scarf in- @ stiff wind. If} \the Partners want to talk they just | take a walk in slow time.” ! P BRING LUCK IN EVEN NUMBERS, SAYS Mll)\l(.Hl JACK OAKIE in Forty Is Favonte Numeral| of Star of “Tarnish- | By BYRON PRICE Tallulah Bankhead, If anyohe thinks repeal who returned | of it from an eight-year uvmm»h on the' Eighteenth' Améndment can be ef-| f.ondon sta tar .,‘, Clive fected qirickly or eas ily, he should Brook in T ‘A‘N Lady," her|read the record of that . Saturd first moving picture, believes im- night prohibition debate with which plicity in numbers—and with, ac-'the Senate wound up its sessions. cording to her,.good reason Here was a visible, tangible dem- “Tarnished Lady” will be shown'onstration of & the constitution- for the last times tonight at the amending processes of government Coliseum. Theatre. jat work over the wording of a Miss Bankhead sets great store very short paragraph it was pro- the number ‘40" which, she'posed to write into the supreme ts out, has significance in sup- j3w of the land. stitions, traditions and laws! | With what result? Early Diluvial Rair dissloskd: Shat tevers The early diluvial rains lasted 40 oun jdea’ what words days and 40 nights; Jonah gave empioyed, and when adjournment the inhabitants of Nineveh 40 days ;prived the advocates of a in which to consider his prophecy appeared a little further and repent; in Magna Charta it is The debate had his should be dy ' anything, than they were in l'zl‘ provided that a widow shall re- beginning. main in her husband's mainhouse Yet - before the machinery of ratification can begin to function, conquerer no man was suffered to' . two-thirds of the Senate and two- remain in England above 40 days|nirgs of ithe House must agree, "“II“:“I‘:\'““"‘Q‘: é::r:::m\{"ximgkuu( |not only on a change, but on the fiead observes It took 4D days o)l o e oM °£_'hf_t Ui get started on the London stage; CLEAR-CUT? HARDLY 40 days to complete her first Am- As matters stand now, what is erican picture, “Tarnished Lady;”|¢1q jsque that is thrown over into she believes 40 years a good age for |y,. congressional campaigns? Instead of a simple, direct ques- tion which he can answer yes or |no, the voter finds a great var- |iety of proposals prominently on | parade. Here are just a few: The submission plank by the Republican National PREVIEW, COLISEUM veution. In “Dude Ranth,” which will ‘,eA The repeal subinission piank re- previewed at 1 o'clock tonight and Jjécted by thé Republican Conven- ctive work, and, playing golf, she carrier out her. fondness for the number by shoutnig “Forty!” Con- the Coliseum Theatre, a novel com- ‘minority. X edy idea is the basis of the theme,| The repeal submission plank re The story is based on the hum- | jécted by hte Democrats. €rous The Lone Rider of| The repeal plank adopted by the the Mojave,” by Milton Krims, ex- Democrats, |newspaper reporter and actor. | The Glass substitute for the It deals with the happénings at | Eighteenth Amendment. a big ritzy hotel in the Rockies| The Bingham substitute for the when a group of actors are hired | Glass substitute: by the proprietor to furnish hts‘ The Wagner proposal just to say | unsuspecting guests with scenes cf | “the Eighteenth Amendment is re- real Western bravado, daring and |pealed.” sharp-shooting Is' the saloon to be barred and The includes Jack Oakie,|if so how? Are liquor shipments Eh rt Erwin, Eugene Pallette, Mitzi |to be permitted across dry states, en, June Collyer, Charles Sellon, | from one wet state to another? ("uo' Weston, George Webb, Guy How far can and should the Fed- Ohvor and Jdmes Crane. 'eral governm('nt go in pm'm ing COLISEUM YOUR PAL—IT’S 2—for—1 TALLULAH BANKHEAD——CLIVE “TARNISHED LADY” adopted | own regular tomorrow mnight at|tion, but supported by a strong‘ LAST TIME TONIGHT PAL NITE BROOK in PREV lLW-—-] A M— “DUDE RANCH” P pOLITICS at Rd?[dom | the dry states from wet neighbqrs? hundred and thirty-five bers of the House and 30 nw'mbt rs of the Senate are to ,be ted. Every candidate can take his own view. Wheén the election r, each successful candidate come to Washington with what he calls “d mandate” from his constituents to support the particular form of change he ad- vocated during the campaign, #f he favored any change at all. Figure fof yourself how long it | Will take to get these hundreds of mandates melted’ down into ons textual formula on which two- thirds can agree. will | | | JUST A GEGINNING | And that will be only the he- |ginning! The real decision’ Wheth- |er the Eighteenth Amendment {to stand or fall, will be rendered later—probably much ldter—out .in the States. Three-quartérs of them {must agree, after ‘two-thirds jof {Congress has agreed. Apparently, whatever conventions may do, and whatever the people themselves may desire, this attempt to take prohfbition out of the Constitution 'is only in its infan- cy. is - e P otk 1l AT THE HOTELS 0| RS RN Gastineaun Mrs. Thomas Stroebe, Dupont; | Keldon J. Adams, Z. Svenson, Se- attle; George Hermann, Juneau. Alaskan T. M. Cleghorn, Oscar Anderson, Juneau; A, H, Knutson, Duluth, Minn,; J. B. Ward, Haines; James 'Lovery, Fairbanks; R. Dimetto, Los | Bay. 3 Zynda E. Cunningham, Seattle. - eee B. P. 0. ELKS Regular meéeting tonight. Ballot- (ing for Candidates. Election of 10{{1091’5, M. H. SIDES, —adv. Secretary. S ee- John W. 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