The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 7, 1932, Page 3

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE WLD\H;SDAY DEC. 7, 1932. CAPITOL | LAST TIMES TONIGHT Jungle Mystery Neo. 11 —China Nite— PREVIEW—1 A.M. TONIGHT “THE GREEKS HAD A WORD FOR THEM" Also Torchy Comedy — EUGENE BRIEUX, PLAYWRIGHT, IS DEAD IN FRANGE Diramm it Who Made, World Think Dies as Result of Pleurisy ASSOCIATED PRESS EUGENE BRIEUX Dec. T—Eugene Brieux, French playwright, aged 4 ye died here yesterday as a result of pleurisy. NICE, France, The fame of Eugene Priex as a| dramatist was spread around the world by “Damaged Goods,” which thrived on censorship and agitat- ed discussion. Briex was a social crusader. He fought slums and {Bsected morals. Although a bachelor until late in: life, protection of the family was the, Qasxs of his creed:, Faw denied tne greatness he achicved in the theatre. Many criticised his dramatic craftsman- ship as ill-suited to the drama. Others decried his messages as leading nowhere. Made World Think All, it would seem, acknowledged his forece, for their objections proved he made the world serious- ly think of what should be done about many evil things. Born in the old Temple district Paris, January 19, 1858, Briex CHRISTMAS GIFTS FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY Reasonable Prices VENETIAN SHOP MRS. GIOVANETTI SILVER Tableware for Xmas! Individual Fieces or Sets—at Prices with- in the reach of all With every purchase and all accounts paid Award Tickets are given on General Elec- tric Radio to be given away Christmas Eve at Elks’ Hall. }JUNGLE FILMS AREAT GAPITOL i"Okay Ame:i-c:" and Mys- | tery Play to Show Last Times Tonight ! “Okay America,” newspaper col- jumnist drama, and the eleventh| epxsade of “Jungle Mystery,” ad-| \vcnturuu\ serial photoplay, will be | {presented for the last times to- 1mgh‘ at the Capitol theatre. | In “Okay America,” Lew Ayres has the star role. ‘Prominent in nthc cast as a newspaperman is ‘Wal'er Catlett. Thirty “years on the stage preceded his screén de- |but. In 1920 he made his first |appearance on ‘the 'screen. He {looks like a newspaperman, yet | | “Okay America” is the only picture | {in /which he has ever been asked | ‘Lo play a representative of the press. The eleventh episode of }Mys:,ery" is replete with "Jungle thrills. {was the son of a carpenter. Wlthf the death of his parents when he) vas about 14, he left school and {pieced out his sketchy education (with much reading and diligent \study. Then he became an incon- sequential bank clerk. | ‘It was Brieux’s intention to be (his own teacher, following school |courses, but he surréndered in the 1iace of Greek grammer. He turned |10 books as his passionate pleasure |rather than a severe duty and {throughout his life reading and | reflecting were his principal occu- {pations. When young he did his 'reading at night on the sidewalk |benches, under lamp-posts to en-| |onomize his candles. Peddled His Plays At 17, Brieux became a play- wright overnight. Then a friend told of him “he peddled his plays about Paris for len years with but little success. He never forgot |that Emile Augier, whom he re- garded with awesome reverence, |returned his manuscript unopened. | Zola, the novelist, who later be- |came his friend, answered Brieux’s |plea for aid with: “Young man, poverty is an excellent wachex )To help. you would be Yo hurt you.” In after years when success had jcomé his way, Brieux never forgot ihis own hardships and the mem- ory of them made him kind to young writers, Brieux’s fame as a dramatist was consecrated by his election in {1910 to the Academie Francaise, | France's “Forty Immortals” of lit- erature. @n his address welcom- ing him there he was described as having championed sound morals {as against folly, and the family as 2gainst chaos.” He also was hon- ored with the decoration of Com- mander of the Legion of Honor. As a social crusader. Brieux ‘faught for the maintéhance of the jold and tested standards, but |cleansed and rejuvenated rather {than for the substitution of new ideas and new morals. I Made People Think | His was the “problem play,” serious and usually sad. He scorn- ed the happy ending. Seldom did he solve the problem for his au- |dience, but his critics conceded /he made people think. His defi- {niton of the dramatist’s role was |“to seduce the public by placing the ideas of the pholosopher with- |in its reach.” “Damaged Goods” (Les Avaries) |was not reckoned among his best plays by the French. For twenty years. Brieux produced a play a | year, always an event inthe French | theatre. He abandoned play writ- ing for care of the blind during | the war. New Christmas NECKWEAR GREAT VARIETY of PATTERNS H. S. Graves The €lothing Man | three e Walter Catlett is depicted here in his character of news: paperman in “Okay America,’ which shows for the last times trnight at the Capiu:l Theatre. 3 60LD DIGGERS IN COMPETITION In“The Greeks Had a Name For Them"”, which headlines new program tomorrow night at the Capitol theatre, Zoe Atkins, author of the play, raises the win- cow blinds on the boudoir of her “gold diggers”—the Greeks | called them hetaera — and shows| them squabbling among themselves, scheming to outwit one another, as well as the men they select as their victims. SALE COMING WITH HUSTON “Star Witness,” featuring “Chic” | Sale and Waller Huston, will be| shown tomorrow night at the Coli- seum theatre. | Sale enacis tne role of Grandpa Summerill, Lincoln Huston is the district attorney. Others in the cast are Frances Starr, Sally Blane, Grant Mitchell Eaward J. Nugent, Dicky Moore, aged five, Ralph Ince, Tom Dugan, Russell Hopton, Fletcher Norton, Robert Elliott, Guy. D’Ennery, George Ernst, aged nine, Donlin, Noel Madison Ed Deering and Nat Pendleton. ———————— the Man Who Knew Read the classified ams. the Mike | ‘SILENGE’ WITH | - MANY THRILLS ‘Cllve Brodk in Play that Will Show Last Times This Evening | | | | | Condemned to death, his last few hours on earth cooped up in a cell |eallows, shunned by his fellow men, when all that stands between him and freedom is a word, a word which he locks urely behind his tighly clenched teeth. | spending ' in the shadow of the' That is the suspenseful opening ! cene of “Silence,” rook, - Marjorie Rambeau, in which Clive Peggy Shannon and Charles Starrett have ! leading roles and shown {at the Coliseum theatre. And from the opening sequence‘ ln" Mn‘( Marcin play in filled wlth SUPGPE-TRes, COMMUNICATION JUNEAU, Alaska, Dec. 7. 1932— To the Editor: An Open Seascn on Waterfowl of Ninety Days:— Since the dry season of 1931, | which covered a large portion of the interior of the United States proper, there has been a curtail- ment in the length of the hunting | season on waterfowl in Alaska. During the open season of thiriy days in 1931 more Alaskan sports- men went hunting for ducks and gees2 at more frequent intervals and for longer hunting trips and probably more birds were killed {than in any year prior to that ‘tm\e. This year the open season was extended to sixty days. At the present time the Alaska Game Commission is in a quandry as to how it is going to bring about a change in the opening ot the waterfowl season in Southeast Alaska. It seems to have accepted the sixty-day season as permanent. It has always been one of the major compensations to those of |us who live in Alaska, that we live a freer, a less restricted life, by | virtue of our small population scattered over, this immense Ter- ritory, than people living in the | United States proper. If it be the | object of the Alaska Game Com- | mission to impose upon us- those regulations which are applicable’ to the densely populated areas of | the States; then we would | | better off if there were no Alaska' | Game Commission. As Alaskans sev it the’ Alaska Game Commis- | sion was created for the purpose |of preventing the extinction of lany and all forms of wild life in |any and all areas of Alaska, A ninety-day open season n waterfowl in the Territory of Al- ‘aska is ' practical. It gives the ;people in all areas of Alaska the | opportunity tn ‘hunt waterfowl | during the fall migration favor-! | ing no section. (8Bignad) DONALD F. FOSTER — Advertisements are your pocket: | book editorials. They interpret the' merchandise news, A Gift for Any Man! CHAIR ENSEMBLE $55.00 s Ebass. inofichaiaces Dad, husband or sweetheart will enthuse over this contribution to his comfort! The big, lux- urious chair is made for rest and relaxation. Handsolnely covered in drop ‘leaf end table and tapestry. Together with attractive pottery lamp. Juneau-Y oung Hardware Co. which will "be for the last times tonightJ By ROBBIN COONS HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Dec. 7. Pert ning to hit an effective stride her Cinderella march 'sew to recognition. ‘Without stage training, movie experience, she came to Hol- lywood with her mother from Bos- ton, her home city, and began a saucy rapping at the doors o casting directors’ offices. ‘Two of three years ago she had her first screen test, inspired by a lunch in a studio restaurant where she was seen by Carl Laemmle, The test never brought anything “It was too awful,” says Mary. Not long after that she obtained | a job in a dancing chorus at M- G-M. It was @ “break” most proved her undoing. “I couldn't dance a step, was the first of a lot of new girls to be. tried out,” she says. “Natur- ally, T wasn't so good. But I danc- ed for a while, until someone kind- 1y suggested I try for a place in the 'studio stock company. I did| and ‘got it.” In the dancing chorus at lhe same time was Ann Dvorak, who | hadn't beéen able to dance either| in when she began and Ann helped | Mary learn the steps. Ann's rise to fame, once it began, was swift- | er than Mary's has been, but Mary | (15 pushing along, taking whatever parts and even bits she can get, and lking it. In her first film parts, Mary be- gan stealing scenes, and recently there were those who . contended she all but stole “Down to Earth” fiom--Will Rogers, the star. One of her first bits—the young bride in the final sequence of “Grand | Hotel”—stood out so that she drew notices in a comparatively \insignificant role. { 'She bas had featured roles in ’severq}' films and played inconse- Jr.| that al-| and 1' he’ ) Mar('hmg Rq:{ht 4long A lack of acting experience didn't stop Mary Carlisle when she sought film success in Hollywocd. headed for bigger and better parts. from ob-| without | ¢ £ longer be left out for more train- (quental bits in many picmres—}mal\&elh, Bobbie Henning, Frank | little Mary Carlisle is begin- | |ial of which stars are made. }is to keep the pores closed, I find. LAST TIMES TONIGHT “PAL NITE" T0 INTRODUCE, NEW FEATURES ‘Pmductlon Is Already for Presentation Next Friday Night Forty black face minstrel artists, backed by an orchestra of 25 mu- sicians, are ready for the big show to be produced in the grade scheol auditorium next TFroday night. Many features will be introduced during the performance that have never before been seen in Juneau and indications are that a packed house will greet the young men of the Junior High School Club. Bill Friend and Clyde Bolyan are the end men and they are said to have a line of new jokes end patter talk that can't be beat. In the center of the big circle will be Ted Hunsbedt, and as in- | terlocutor, will keep things mov- ing in a fast manner. Gold Dust Twins The Gold Dust Twins will also: |appear in the persons of Bob Tur-'} ner and Ken Keller. Jack Kearney, foilowing in the footstep of his illustrious minstrel dad, will' in- troduce tap dancing The ebony quartette—Joe Ro- Clive Brook, Peggy Shannon PREVIEW TONIGHT—1 A.M. “SUICIDE FLEET” Weather Needs! WOOLEN HOSE 75¢to $1.25 She kept trying and now she’s WOOLEN GLOVES In Bright' Tones and Color Combinations 75¢ t0 $1.25 Foster and Brice Howard—will also appear and do some warbling. Curtains At 8 These are only a few of the good things . in store for the public when the curtain parts on the big first part of the show Friday night at 8 o’'clock. Miss Alice Palmer, producing her first theatrical event in Juneau. declares that the minstrel show ix* going: to be fast from start to finish and her boys are going to astonish the audience with their cleverness. [ e \ROBERT MIZE BACK FROM EVA CREEK Robert Mizz was an incoming passenger on the steamship North- western, which arrived in Jlneau this morning from the Westward. Since last April he has been con<|. nected with the Eva Greek Mine| & near Ferry. The property hag closed down for the winter, and | is not expected to resume opera- tions until next March, He plans to spend the winter at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Mize. ——————— Classified ads pay all of them training for the day when that one Big Chance would come. Her work in the Rogers picture | has brought the Big Chance clos- and the day is soon at hand\ when Mary Christie—f{ive feet One | inch tall, 100 pounds in weight, biond hair ahd blue eyes—will no | ing. For she is conceded the mater- My Beauty Hmt MARION VOLK A cube of ice is one of the most important items on my dressing table. Skins of extremely fair type, are injured by oily grime and smoky air, and the best protection The Forbidden Stitch - In China, more than a hundregd: years ago, it was ruled that a certain embroidery stitch—on aceount of it beauty and fineness—should be used on only Imperial Garments. After cleansing my face with cream T then massage ‘the skin with the cube of ice. This frig- Rlity closes the pores and gives the face an armor coating against dust in the air. —————— ATTENTION DE MOLAYS Regular meeting tonight at 7:30 o'clock, DAVID TEWKESBURY, —adv. Seribe. In our collection we have many piecea of em- broidery more than a hun- dred years old and showing. 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