The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 12, 1932, Page 3

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, SEPT. 12, 1932. Tense Dramas Feature Programs At Both Juneau Theatres CINEMA STARS MURRA Clisser Letneir WICKEDR LGAPITOE AS GREAT A ROMANCE | “TIP OFF” IS BILLED Daggers in Their Glances BY COLISEUM THEATRE| AS WAS EVER LIVED As Great a Story as Was Ever 79 Told!... ME EI.IOII Fannie Hurst’s “Humor. esque” of the Talkies . .. hfi,fi Soul of the City and Its | People in a Tender and Tumultuous Rhapsody of | Great Human_Emotion! IRENE DUNNE RICARDO CORTEZ GREGORY RATOFF RKO RADIO PICTURE e SELECT SHORTS PREVIEW TONIGHT 1AM “AROUND THE CORNER” with SIDNEY and MUKRAY —~COMING FEATURES— “Night World” — “Beasts of the City” — Tom Mix in “My Pal, the King” — “Dcomed Battalion” LUDWIG NELSON JEWELER Watch Repairing Brunswick Agency FRONT STREET | JUNEAU-YOUNG Funeral Parlors Licensed Funeral Directors and Embalmers | Night Phone 1861 Day Phone 12 ‘Asbestos, while not absolutely fireproof, will resist a heat of 950 degrees. ® | They took their automobile with PROFIT BY THEIR Dunn End Run To- night at Capitol Although Ricardo Cortez is gen- erally considered one of thescreen's “discoveries,” he is in reality a product of the stage. | Cortez, who portrays a doctor in RKO Radio 'Pictures’ drama of heart throbs, “Symphony of Six Million,” which shows the last times tonight at the Capitol | theatre, progressed as far as New York's Broadway when the films reached out to cut short his foot- light career. In Hollyweod, he swept to fame with such sensa- tional speed that his stage past was obscured by the color of his cinema ‘career. | Didn't Fear ‘Dialogue The stage background stood Cor- tez in good stead when the screen | cagh off the shackles of sflence‘; however. Because of his early| training, dialogue held no terror | for him. ! In “Symphony of Six Million,” | Cortez is co-featured with Irens Dunne, another product of the New York stage. Miss Dunne starred in opera and musical comedy before she entered the films where she has proved her- self a dramatic actress of (irst rank. Fanny Hurst’s Story The picture which presents these two favorites in a heart-gripping romance js based upon a story, by Fannie Hurst. For its back- ground, it has the richly colorful] Ghetto of New York.. I ntheme, it treats with the problems of 2 boy from the Ghetto who de- velops into a great surgeon to find that he cannot serve iwo masters—his people and himself. The supporting cast includes \Anna Appel, star of the Yiddish | Art theatre; Gregory Ratoff, Noel Madison, and Lita Chevret. 'Gregory La Cava directed. e a— DR. AND MRS. DEVIGHNE LEAVE FOR TRIP TO EAST Enroute south for a trip as far East as Boston, Dr. and Mrs. H. C. DeVighne left here this morning on the steamer Aleatian for Seattle. | them and will motor across coun- try. They expect ta return home {in about six weeks. ——a——— LEAVES FOR SEATTLE Mrs. S. Hellenthal and daughter ileft yesterday on the steamship Princess Louise for Victoria. Frye-Bruhn Company PACKERS—FRESH MEATS, FISH AND POULTRY Frye’s Deliclous Hams and Bacon Three Deliveries Daily Phone 38 ALASKA MEAT CO. QUALITY AND SERVIGE TO YOUR, L! Meadowbrook Butter PHONE 39 Deliveries—10:80, 2:30, 4:89 NG Austin Fresh Tamales ‘ Your Alaska, Laundry ’p TELEPHONE 15 DUPONT DUCO for Furniture, Woodwork, Floors, Walls, Juneau Paint Store Second Street, Near Main Autos BAILEY’S SPECIAL Every Night from 8 P. M. CHICKEN and e AILEY’S CAFE NOODLES THE uomuovmsfim HOTELS THE GASTINEAU of Every Gang Plank STAGE TRAINING Ricardo Cortez and Irene" | young § itk Here are Charlie Murray, lett, and George Sidney, right, in & scene in the hilarious comedy, “Around the Corner,” which will be previcwed at 1 o’clock tonight and shown regularly tomorrow night at the Capitol Theatre. OREGON DOCTOR IS VISITING IN HOONAH; | OTHER TIMELY NOTES HOONAH, Alaska, Sept. 11. — (Special Correspondence.) — Dr. Lioyd M. Day, of Eugene, Ore., who arrived by boat in Hoonah Wed- nesday afternoon for a brief stay, visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Olson.. Mrs. Olson and Mr. Day - were former acquaint- ances in Oregon. Miss Turner and 2. companion nurse accompaniad Mr. Day on his trip through Southeast Alaska and the party left Saturday morning for Juneau on their return trip south. | Robert Greenwald and family arrived in Hoonah Wednesday from their ranch in Epassakai. They will live in their winter home in Hoonah during e school tenm. () Rev. and Mrs. R. K. Fogel/ of ! the Presbyterian Mission will leave | the first of this week for Juneau on their boat the A. L. Lindsley to attend the Fall meeting of the Presbytery of Southeast Alaska. Funeral services for Ben Metz, who died Thursday, were held at; the home Saturday morning with the Rev. R. K. Fogel in charge. The deceased had been an invalid for a rumber of years, The freighter ‘Zapora arrived in the Hoonah harbor Thursday af- ternoon. Capt. Curry stated that the boat would sail for Juneau be- fore heading for Chichagof on this trip. Mr. Mills of Seattle, offic- ial of the company, was making the round trip on the Zapora. Funeral services for Lillian fle Wringer-Washer s Verso L i See this splendid washer to- day. : ¥ . N R e e g | Charles, 14 year old .native girl were held September 3 from the Greek Orthodox Church with Rev. Amatoff officiating, The deceased was the daughter of Mrs. Annie Charles. The government - schoal . library was opened to the public Satur- day evening in the school eudi- torfium. Moving pictures will be held Wednesday evening of this week in. the auditorium with Mr. C. E. Black in charge. Mrs. T. 1. Lavrischeff is to have charge of the school dance given next Sat- urday evening. MOUNTAIN CLIMBERS LEAVE FOR HOMES All members of the mountain- tlimbing ‘party that tried in vain to scale Mount Fairweather and Mount Crillon this summer left the base camp at Cenotaph Island, 'in Lituya Bay last Friday on the powerboat Yakobi, Capt. Thomas Smith. They brought to Juneau all their equipment. They left on the steamship Princess Louise Sun- day for their homes in the States. H. Bradford Washburn, Jr,, a stu- dent at Harvard University, leader of the party, passed through Ju- neau a week ago on” his le 1o Cambridge, Mass. Members of the larty who left on the Princess Louise are: SIDNEY CO-STAR IN GAY COMEDY ““Around the Corner” Pre- views at | and Shows at Capitol Tuesday In “Around the Corner,” which will be previewed at 1 o'clock to- !mgm and presented regularly to- morrow night at the Capitol thea~ tre, Charlie Murray and George {Bidney, two old cronies, the one ia policeman and the other a pawn- broker, batle through seven reels | of clever comedy. Things . begm 10 move when Policeman O'Grady Pawnbroker Kaplan become foster fathers of a foundling. When the little girl grows up, the two old {riends almost come to blows about the choice of per husband.| Widely Different Choices Kaplan picks Moe Levine, an in- | surance agent, and. O'Grady pictsi Callahan, a prize-fighter. = Rosie| 1the girl keeps the two hanging on| juntil the prince of her -dreams comes along in the person of Tom- my Sinclair. How matters are amicably set- tled for all concerned and how |Rosle marries the man of her |dreams, supply the rest of the actisn for this uproarious farce, Both Good Actors | The two inimitable comedians ! —Murray and Sidney — not only‘ contribute laugh after laugh, but glve characterizations that denote acting of high calibre, Joan Peers is a pretty and engaging Rosie and Lamy Kent gives a good account of himself| as her favorad suitor, Tommy Sin- olair, ‘Charles Delaney and Jess De Vorska, who play Callahan and Levine, add their quota of the, Bert Gleason directed. ! lively and | i | | Mass.; Richard L. Riley, of Plains- field, N. J, all Harvard students,| and Robert S. Monahan, of Paw-! tucket, R. I, a graduate of Dart-| mouth College in 1929, of the Yale $chool of Forestry in 1931 and an employee of the United States For- est Service in, Idaho and New Mexico in the last year. —————— Joseph Johnson, an Indian of Wrangell, entered St. Ann's hos- 3 DEGIDE FATE OF WCKED'S' STAR Drama Mrith-‘Eiissa. Landi + to Be Presented Last Times Tonight For jurors’ fees,' a new high rate was established during the! production of its Fox Fim “Wick~ ed,” sterring Blissa Landi and Victor McLaglen, which will be| Phown for. the last times tonight ‘at the Coliseum theatre. Likewlse & new standard for screen jurors was set with an even dozen of famous stage and screen players enacting the roles lof jurors. Debating as to the guilt or in- nocence of Miss Landi, on ‘trial for an attempt to kill a detective; while she was protecting and con- ¢ealing her husband ‘from the of- ficers of the law, the jurors who ot in g, doplded. the fate.'of the young - wife were: List. of Distinguished. Jurors Oscar Apfe], . famous for years or. the screen as a director and $tar, John Elliott and Spike Ran- kin, mated as two of the screen’s leading character players; Claire MacDowell, who has mothered ev- ery famous screen star; Eddie (Phillips who was featured in the Collegian series; Geneva Mitchell former Ziegfeld Follies star; Har- | Ty Dunkinson of Mack Bennett !/ comedy : fame; Clarence Wilson, | the sheriff in “The Front Page” {Tom MoGuire who played char. acter leads in many of F. W.| Murnau's screen prdouctions; Eva Dennison, former stock star; Ed-; ward Eberle and Joe (Fox) Brown. All Have Lines to Speak In “Wicked,” However, every: juror has lines %o speak and they! are of vital importance, | In addition to the jury men- tioned it is apropos to write that the judge, who charged them on their legal points of the case was Frank MoGlynn who starred for several years: in..the stage pro- duction of “Abraham Lincoln.” | Una Merkel, Alan Dinshart and Theodore Von Eltz head the; supporting cast. of “Wicked,” whicl. " Allan Dwan directed. | - - eee - — OFF FOR SOUTH ger. south. on; the Princess Louise and expects to be visiting for the Robert H. Bates, of Philadelphia; pital for treatment to an injured!next three months in the Paeific ] Walter A. Everett, of Arlington, foot. Northwest. “The Tip Off" with Eddie Quil- dan, Robert Armstrong and Ginger Rogers in leading roles, will be previewed at 1 a. m. tonight and shown regularly tomorrow night at the Coliseum theatre. The play combines drama, comedy and ac-| tion. . Quillan s east as a young ra- dio repair man whose sole ambi- tion is to be a great singer. That is, uniil he meets the girl. He coesn't know that she is in the toils of 'a‘' notorlous and jealous underworld character, but it does-| lan. Ficlor Mol eiglen LAST TIMES TONIGHT PREVIEW TONIGHT TWO—FOR—ONE “THE TIP OFF” EDDIE QUILLAN 1 OLYMPIC ROOMS. | Mrs. P. Hayden. 't make, much difference to Quil- |. CALIFORNIA GROCERY Fresh F rults and Vegetables PHONE 478 THE CHAS. W. CARTER MORTUARY “The Last Service Is the Greatest Tribute” - Corner 4th and Franklin Sts. Phone 186-2 Special, $2.50 oy A In the New Fall Colors weaters . 1o A T | VVim sings it better than the Boswells ? ' Every Menday and Thursday night . . . Connie, Vet = =~ and Martha;:in:that bubbling. Boswell rhythm . . . as irresistible as 01 Man Rivuh himself! And while you listen, light up a ChmrfioldEnw their fresh fragrance, their mildness and better taste, They're mild i/, and. yet they Satigfy. 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