The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 5, 1932, Page 3

THE CAPITOL LAST TIMES TONIGHT STAR um ) CHESTER MORRIS wirn ALISON LOYD ALSO—LAUREL HARDY in “THE MUSIC BOX” PREVIEW TONIGHT 1 A. M. “OKAY AMERICA” —COMING— “Wet Parade” — “Letty Lynton”— “The Greeks Had a Name for Them” FRIENDLY FIVE SHOES All Styles $5.00 TWO MILLION MEN ARE WEARING THEM H. S. Graves The Clothing Man A ELECTRIC CIGAR LIGHTER Attachable to amy lamp socket Made in America $1.00 each Aluska Electric Light & Power Co. Edison Mazda Lainps Every Electric Appliance We Sell is Made in Amerien i “MUSIC BOX" IS? Tense Drama and Hllanous Comedy to Show Last Times' Tonight | { | | .“Corsalr" starring Chester Mor- rfs, and “The Music Box" with| Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in| the principal roles, will be shown| the last times tonight at the Cap—i itol theatre. In “Corsair” the supporting cast includes four beautiful women. They are Theélma Todd, Gay Sea- | brook, Addie McPhail and Mayo | Methot. { Theme of Photoplay The story of “Corsair” concerns an all-American football halfback | who starts his business career ml Wall Street only to encounter the | ruthlessness of a powerful finan- cier. In order to circumvent the! | multi - millionaire, the erstwhile | football player turns hi-jacker up—! on the high seas and thus not only | krings the financier to his knees, |but wins the arrogant daughter. | How To Reduce Weight | During the filming of “The Mu- | sic Box” Laurel and Hardy dis- (covered a sure-fire way to reduce {their weights. In the course of| the picture, the two comedians traversed more than 600 steps or\ an un-hill concrete stairway, car- J)mg an_upright piano crated in' | regular piano.box. Each lost in ‘Lhe nexghbmhood of 10 pounds. MINSTREL SHOW WILL BE GIVEN ON NEXT FRIDAY 35 Members of Boys’ Glee Club of High «School Stage Production { i Burnt cork will prevail in the big assembly hall in the public scnool next Friday afternoon and {evening when the Boys' Glee Club' (4 Jignt many secrets of New York's |57 will give an old-time and present- |time Minstrel show. The matinee is for the students but the public 5 also welcomed and the night performance is for the general | public. | | There are 35 boys in the glee (club taking part, in this first min- Istrel show ever given by the Ju-| |neau High School organization. | | The show opens in the regular first part manner with the circle,' endmen and interlocutor. The olio will consist of dance numbers, etc.| Miss Alice G. Palmer, director |of art and vocal instruction, has !charge of the production and if bhard work, both by director and the boys count for anything, the| minstrel show is going to be a| ibig treat worthy of liberal pat-; HAAS | Famous Candies | The Cash Bazaar Open Evenings _1 A DOLLAR now gives you the lnxnljy of luxury within reach! It costs only 8$1.00 yet it is just as beautiful as the larger package for which so many pay $2. And- it cen: the same de- er fragranced ith rare flowers from SHARI thrift size face powder of Il Chester Morris, as depicted above, is net a yachtsman bent on pleasure. He is a hi-jacker, who peunces on rum runners and despoils them of their il- licit liquor cargoes. He has the leading role in “Corsair,” which will be presented the last times tonight at the Capi- tol Theatre. AYRES STARS IN ‘OKAY AMERICA’ New Program o Poviin at 1 and Shows Tomor- row at Capitol “Okey America” with Lew Ayres ir the leading role, and the elev- enth episode of “Jungle Mystery,” se:ml phowp]ay will headline the ew gram to be previewed at x oclock tonight and shown regu- larly tomorrow night at the Capi- (tol theatre. “Okay America” gives the inside |details of the professional life of! a New York columnist, revealing the secret of how he secures much of the news which proves so dis- turbing to many of his readers. Broadcasts Over Radio Ayres is see breadcaster who thus supplements | his work as a columnist and brings right life. The picture reaches a high pitch | of excitement when Ayres in the| character of Larry Wayne, runs afoul of New York gangsters, and daringly broadeasts news concern- | ing them which even the police have beéen unable to unearth. Solves Kidnaping Case He solves a mysterious kidnaping case, but in doing so brings about a situation which supplies a climax unusual power. The supporting cast includes Maureen O'Sullivan, Walter Cat-:m‘ lett, Allan Dinehart, Margaret Lindsey, George Dow Clark, and Marjorie Gateson. Tay Garnett directed. Eilig gty Wk, CARD PARTY TUESDAY The last of Grand prizes awarded. Everybody invited. —adv. | evening. Refreshments. 50 cents. — e Advertisements are your pocket- book editorials. They interpret the merchand).se news. W eather Needs! . . WOOLEN HOSE 75¢10 §1,25 WOOLEN GLOVES In Bright Tones and Color Combinations 75c¢ to $1.25 n as a regular radio| | who the series of card; | parties by the Catholic Ladies will ‘be given at Parish Hall Tuesday “GORSAIR” WITH Sea Marauder YELLOW TICKET', SHOWS TONIGHT : FOR LAST TIMES Fine Cast, and Lavish Sets Mark Coliseum Play With a brilliant cast, headed by | Elissa Landi, Lionel Barrymore and Laurence Olivier, a romantic story | and lavish sets, “The Yellow Tick~ |et” will be shown for the last | times tonight at the Coliseum the- tre. The dramaiic plot, which was | adapted for the screen from Mich- | ael Morton's stage play by Jules Jerry J Furtham and Guy Bolton, evolves jabout a sensitive Russian girl, who {through circumstances beyond her { contrel, finds it necessary to match | her wits against those of the in- sidious head of the Czar's Secret Police, {the safety of her suitor I stakes of the struggle. “ Has To Kill Him as the |the relentless police official only | 1(0 be then faced with graver prob-| lems that lead to .a most startling denouement. The role of the girl is enacted by Miss Landi. Barrymore appears as the cruel ' |and scheming police head. Stage Favorite in Cast | Oliver, who only recenfly came!' to the screen from the London and Broadway stagesenacts the romantic male lead. Other favorites in the cast are Walter Byron, Rita LaRoy, Sarah Padden, Arnold Korff, Marcia Auer, Edwin Maxwell Karloff. 'SILENCE' HAS . STRONG THEME Play Will Prevnew at | To- | night and Show Tomor- row at Coliseum “Silence,” with Clive Brook, Peg- Shannon and Marjorie Rambeau i» the leading roles, will be pre- wed tonight and shown tomer- | {row night at the Coliscum thea- itre, “Silence” is the story of a man's |betrayal of the woman he loves, and his final awakening to a greater love when his daughter is imperiled by the misdeeds of “his own past: Brook is seen as a likable, weak and handsome crook whose love brings heart-break to the woman loves him. Twenty years elapse between the early and fi- action of the story. Brook meets his dpughter, grown to young womanhood, engaged to be married. Her father's past threat- ens her ‘happiness ‘and Brook, awakes at last to his own worth- lessness, sacrifices himself to save her. Peggy ‘Shannon, flaming-haired beauty, is seen in two roles, that 10‘ the wife and daughter of Brook. Miss Rambeau, well-known and popular actress, has the other leading feminine role. “Silence” a few seasons ago, was one of Broadway's hits. ¢ Romantic Plot with her own romance and | In the end she is forced to kul‘ and Boris | Ot s DATLY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, DEC. 5, 1932. N ——— e * James Pearl was at church, on an island in the r near Fairbanks was ed by fire. All the contents welling . were lost, leaving h only the clothes he wore time. The blaze started from near a wood pile, | de: |et ih him wi 8t the { emb v elim within Dee: , 9, after having through deep snow to 10 feet of the summit of Mountain at Ketchikan, re- frained from going' any farther because his mother had sald to him before he léft home, “Don't you go clear to the top.” His com- panions, Gordon Peterson, 11; Wil- son Bell, 12; Donald Payne, 12, and Douglas Payne, 14 scaled the summit, | | | | by night from Nome to was made by a.Pacific n Airways plane piloted by ones. The passengers were Rev. Francis Menager, S. J,, sup- for general of Catholic Missions in Central and Northwest Alaska, and Andrew Nerland, dredgemaster {of the Hammon Consolidated .Gold Fields of Nome. There was bright moonlight, and Pilot Jones said |the flight was made just as easily i“s it would have been made in 'day time. Fl Fairbaj Ameri | With five passengers a plane of ithe Wien Airways of Alaska, pilot- yed by Noel Wien, set a new record ‘lm the flight between Fairbanks and Nome making the distance tin 3 hours and 47 minutes, being 110 minutes lower than the previous :wcord Persons who live at the Cleary Hill Alaska Mines Company site (in the Fairbanks distriet, will not see the sun again until February [unless they go elswhere. The sun is so low on the horizon that its rays do not réach the mine. | Rt. Rev. John B. Bentley, suff- |ragan Episcopal Bishop of 'Alaska ‘p'ans to travel by sled and dog iteam from Fairbanks to the upper Tanana country, swing from there m Eagle, go down the Yukon to Circle and then return to Fair- |banks. It will be a trip of several hundred miles. "‘When Right Rev. Peter T. Rowe, | Episcopal bishop of Alaska, was | lin Ketchikan recently he adminis- | tared confirmation to six girls. He was guest of hondrat a din- ner given by the Ladies Guild of St. Elizabeth’s Church in the Par- ish Hall. Seventy were present. ' When the Roosevelt administra- All-Alaska News | construction and maintenance of land army bases at Fairbanks, con- |reduction of base ore from points tion begins to put the “new deal” into effect, the Fairbanks Cham- ber ©of ©ommerce announces that| it is on record for transfer of the Alaska Road Commission and the Alaska Railroad from the Imer‘xor, to the War Department, reduced rates on the Alaska Railroad, re- peal of the Alaska bone dry law, abolition of - the Algska Gome Commission with its powers to be transferred to the Territorial government, further annual aid for airports, establishmént of naval struction of the International kighway from Hazelton, B. C, to Fairbanks, erection of coal bunkers | at Seward, establishment of a small smelter .on Cook Inlet for along the ‘Alaska Railroad and construction of roads in the rail- road zong to, enable miners to get ! ore ito the railroad and thence to) the smelter. “Czar” for Radio {o: radio broadcasting stations, at-f Broadcasting in U. S. Considered ST. LOUIS, Dec. 5.—Operators | tending a meeting of the Nationall Association of Broadcasters in St. Louis, decided to consider appoint- | ment of a “czar” to supervise the | industry Discussion of the possibility of: appointing a directing head for the | industry followed an address by | Harold A. Lafount, acting chair- man of the Federal Radio Com- | misslon, in which he warned that many radio stations are over-com- | excessive and uninteresticg adver- tising.” mercialized and “operating mainly | | for the profits they gain through| | || CAPITALELECTRIC | COLISEUM LAST TIMES TON!GH'I' ELISSA LANDI LIONEL BARRYMORE PREVIEW TONIGHT—1 A. M. “SILENCE” | KOLSTER RADIOS | Electrical Appliances, Repairs - Ice deltvered; i5 $4 a ton at Fairbanks; $2:50, half a ton. Operations of the year on Bear Creek in the Kusko= kwim district were “highly suc- cessful,”. Manager J. W. Crowdy reports. At the annual election of the Anchorage Chamber of Comimerce, Harry Morton was$ re-elected presi- | dent for his third successive term; Territorial Senator Robert S. Brag-{ aw was chosen secretary. Resolu- tlons were adoptéd by the Chamber praising the radio service of the Signal Corps. At the '‘anhual meeting in Fair- banks of stockholders of the Mount McKinley Tourist and Transpor- tation Compnay, James L. Galen | was re-elected president; A. E. Lathrop, vice-president, and John H. Kelly, secretary. These officers with Robert . E. Sheldon and George A. Lingo constitute the board of directors. 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