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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY DEC. 27, 1932 CAPITOL TUESDAY WEDNESDAY -4 7 ain’t this You bet it is... it's the year's screen scream— AND HOWI GEORGE SIDNEY CHARLIE A UNIVERSAL PICTURE. Presented by Carl Lagmmle. NCTICE — This picture will be shown at the matinee Wednesday afterncen. WE HAVE IT at the Right Prico Harris Hardware Co. Lower Front Street —_———————— JUNEAU SAMPLE SHOP The Little Store with the BIG VALUES : | ! | x | I [ | f l Manhattan SHIRTS $1.65 H.S. GRAVES The Clothing Man Radio Award NumBers Theatres Will Present New Attmctzons Tomght NEW HEADLINER *“Cohens and_EeHys in Hol- lywood” Star Murray and Sidney “The Cohens and Kellys in Hol- lywood,” rollicking farce with Irish Charlie Murray and Jeyish George Sidney in the leading roles, will headline the new program tonight at the Capitol Theatre. lightful comedy will also be shown regularly tomorrow night and will be the attraction at the Christmas | matinee to be given tomorrow afternoon by Rice and Ahlers for ¢ | children of Gastineau Channel. The play takes Murray and Sid- ney, with their wives and children and their genial, friendly feud to the very citidals of Hollywood, where fame, temperament and van- hy lay them low. Kellys Are Sucpessful cess in Hollywood, daughter, played by June Clyde, a screen Star. Kelly immediately snubs the unfortunate Cohen, and Kelly's daughter gives the cold shoulder to Cohen’s son, her former fiance. with Kelly's is Cohen’s son. Then suddenly, as talking pic- tures dump the industry on its ear, out go the Kellys and in come the Cohens and their son, a com- peser, on the wave of the lavish | musicales. Kelly has a Rolls-Royce; | 50 Cohen buys an Hispano-Suiza. Strang,e Yet Alluring comedy; two old friends, cau The de- First the Kelly family finds sue- | Norman Foster, a finished player,| That is the spirit back of lheir in the film. At Capitol On | Next Thursday| and Scenes are of British Locales One of Edgar Wallace's pet thrillers, “The Feathered Serpent,”| has been transferred to the screen | by Columbia Pictures. Under the| title “The Menace,” it will b2 pre- sented at the Capitol theatre next ‘Thursday. With the exception of the two leading women, “The Menace” has an all-English cast. Betty Davis and Natalia Moorhead are the two | American girls, who, incidentally, | have English roles. The native Englishmen cast are H. B. Warner, Walter Brown, Craufurd Kent, Murray Kimbell, Charles Gerrard and Hal- liwell Hobbes. The play has a British locale. Roy William Neill directed the new Columbia drama. in the in a maelstrom of emotions that are strange and yet alluring to them, each trying to outdo the other, out-snoot the other and both sadly puzzled by the estrangs- ment. ’ Sidney, Murray, Fostér and Miss Clyde are most capably supported by Emma Dunn, Esther Howarg, Eilzen Percy, Dorothy Christy, Luis Alberni, John Roche and Robert Creig, not to overlook Tom Mix, Lew Ayres, Sidney Fox, Boris Karlo and Genevieve Tobin, who co-op- erated by playing memorable bits John Francis Dillon directed. | | | ! In attempting to knock a por- jcupine out of a tree with the 'buLt of a shotgun at Point White- {shed, near Cordova, Ernest Souza, fisherman, was wounded when the | weapon discharged. His left hip |and the lower part of his abdo- men were riddled with shot. {will recover. | Four cases of infantile paralysis |—two adults and two children— were under quarantine at Cor- dova early this month, Dr. W. H. |Chase, Health Officer, reported. He made his report public to quiet |rumors of more numerous cases. | So many persons at Wrangell |were il with 'flu that the disease approached epidemic proportions. Because of sickness of teachers and | students, the high school (closed two days. | was As a result of desp snow auto- mobiles are out of commission for ! the winter at Valdez. | Ketchikan has a musical prod- igy. Howard Stepp, 4-year-old son of M. L. Stepp of the Customs Service and Mrs. Stepp, reads both | fected at Fairbanks. treble and base, and can trans- pose and . play on the piano . -a melody after hearing it once, hav-|has been furnished by .the De- ing accomplished . this feat with| He | |claims and other debts, the fish- All-Alaska News | | | { | | S on the piano tunes he heard over the radio. In a late issue of “Junior Bulletin,” musical publication is- sued at Port Huron, Mich., his picture was printed and a sketch of his accomplishments recited. To satisfy Canadian government ing boat Ada, No. 11, was sold at auction at Prince Rupert, B. C., for $3,000 to John Olausen, Prince Rupert fish packer. Mayor Roderick Davis of Metla- katla, boat builder, offers to give a “Davis-built speed boat” to the Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce to be used as part of any Alaskan exhibit that may be made at Chi- cago Exposition next year. Ketchikan’s Chamber - of Com- merce has adopted the resolution originating with the Juneau Cham- ber of Commerce asking Delegate to Congress James Wickersham to move for immediate repeal by Con- gress of the Alaska Bone Dry Law. Installation of a beacon lght to guide aviators will soon be af- The light will be put upon the top .of the new Federal Building. Equipment | partment of Commerce and costs T B s 73 SRS e WITH ROMANGE IN COMING SHOW Play Is Mystery Thriller|:. B e T ¥ - “Girls ‘About Town™ Will Be Presented Thurs- day at Coliseum Comedy and drama, romance and pathos are the elements which get a thorough workout in the hands of a largs cast in “Girls About Town,” Paramount’s play which will be presented at the Coliseum Theatre Thursday night. The story is an original by Zoe Akins, The Americans have a word for | what the central characters of “Girls About Town” do. It is “gold- digging.” Kay Francis and Lilyan Tashman play these parts as brun- etle &nd blond dazzlers who prey upon the easy spenders who come to the big city for business and Linax' Watkins ‘seems to need a little ehcouragement forsome- thing disagreeable in “Cheat- ers at Play,” new Fox picture, pleasure. and Ralph Morgan is right Gold-Encrusted Industrialist there tc give it to her. The Eugene Pallette is one of these— photoplay will begin showing a gold-encrusted industrialist, lJaden| tonight at the Coliseum The- with lucre, who barges into the big' atre. town and runs against the siren- —— esque witchery of Kay and Lilyan. ’ Pallette has brought with him Joel J A GK M c u R D McCrea, young and good-looking member of his firm. Kay falls for McCrea, and presently falls decply in love with him. In Love with Mon Lilyan gets to work on the doughty Pallette, and falls deeply in Jove with his money. Compli- cations arise which are both hu- morous and dramatic in their ef- Machines an d Several fect: Pallette’s wife, Lucile Webster Gleason, arrives on the scene; Kay Months bupphes Are is discovered to have a husband- Taken to Island skeleton in the closet; McCrea learns' of the girls’ trickery. Bul gRETEHIRKAN — To recover gold it all comes out to & happy and gng piatinum from the black sands| serene finish, in which, no one o Chirikof Island, which is south- ets Bt west of Kodiak Island, is the mis- Others who contribute to the sion of an expedition headed general interest arc Allen Dinebart,’ j.ox nveCord. Robert McWade, Judith Wood, " ppne MeCord party and supplies, George Barbier, Lucille Browne, gooprding to reports made to the! Adrienne Ames, Anderson Lawler, getchikan Chronicle by Capt. Elias Claire Dodd, Patricia Caron and pos of the Bureau of Fisheries Loulss" Beavacs. | craft Penguin, left Seattle on the Dorothy some time ago and is sup- Ketchikan by the City Council to posed to be at Chirikof Island now. meet requests made by the Fishing The supposition is that the Dor- Vessel Owners’ Association, repre- othy took the outside passage to senting halibut boats, and the Al- her destination. aska Trollers’ Association, repre- Capt. O. D. Hvatum, owner of senting salmon craft. the Dorothy, is in command of the “ jcraft. The vessel is chartered by Russell. Harris, who was a mes- MeCord, who is declared to e |senger in the United States Signal fihanced by Charles Frye of the |Corps office at Petersburg, recent- Frye-Bruhn Company. Last July, ly passed the operator's examina- MecCord took several tons of me tion at Chilkoot Barracks, enlist- Chirikof Island black sand to Se- ed in the Corps and has been attle for tests. transferred to. Anchorage. As the results of the tests hc is reported to have arranged v..',h Cordova had a cash balance of A, L. Howard, formerly chief mat-| $8,700, November 1, according to allurglst of the Kennecott copper the report of the treasurer to the mine, to have charge of a crew of Council. ten men besides the ship’s crew to e work the sands. Deputy Marshil Nels Sorby, who Two Amalgamating Machines has been stationed at Chitina for Two amalgamating machines several years, has ftendered his were purchased and taken along resignation and he will be succeed- and several months' upplies, it is €d by Deputy Marshil H. M. Con- gaiq, rad, of Latouche. | The Chirikof Gold-Platinum Com- pany was organized with Jack Mec- | Cord, President; R. C. Torrey, Vice- President; J. W. Mackett, Seere-| tary; and Dr. J. H. Finley of Seat- tle, Treasurer. e |GOLD WATCH AWARDED 'TO' REV. R. K. FOGEL . Officers elected for 1933 by the Ketchikan Chapter of the Eastern Star are Mrs. R. G. Hall, worthy Matron; Charles Hattick, Worthy Patron; Mrs. J. H. Rolie, Associate Matron; E. L. S8ampson, Associate Patroh; Mrs, Stuart Russell, Secs retary; Mrs. E. L. Sampson, Treass by, cAPITOL uFFERsfMenace to Be |LAUGHS MINGLE tdvice Wanted (OMEDY BLENDS o FARCE FORITS WITH THRILLS N GGLISEUM PLAY, Cheatels at Play Features New Program Tonight at the Coliseum | Thrills on the high seas and . adventurs ashore, a romance be- tween a youthful thief and a so- ciety heiress, and the whole blend- |ed with hilarious comedy is the | entertainment, of . “Cheaters at | Play,” the Fox film which makes | its debut on the screen of the Coli- eum Theatre tonight. | The story, taken from one of Louis Josephi Vance's best selle: deals with the efforts of various international crooks to steal the famous Hapsburg emeralds. The | owner, a wealthy society woman, is i | | ibrlnging them back from Europe| | with her, and twice they are stolen aboard the ship. Both times they | are recovered through the astute- ness of a jeweler who in his young- ‘ex days was himself a master-thief; |and who knows the tricks of the | trade. | Flies frem Ship When one of the crooks per- :uade; the society woman to let her mece fly ashore with him in the | ship’s mail-plans and bring the | emeralds with her, a rival thief aboard the vessel communicates with his associates ashore, p2d on arrival, and doomed to demh when they make an unsuc- cessful attempt to escape. The Jeweler, however, gets on the trai as soon as the steamer docks, and his efforts bring about a thrilling climax. | Cast Is Strong With Thomas Meighan and Char- | lotte Greenwood heading the cast as the jeweler and the society wo- man, and William Bakewell. and | Barbara Weeks in the romantic 10.;5, the picture is further en- hanced by James Kirkwood, Linda Watkins, Ralph Morgan, Olin How- | land, William Pawley and Ande:s Van Haden in important parts. MiSS BARRAGAR, ELROY NINNIS, WED IN SOUTH Popular Young Couple of Juneau Married on Monday Mr. and Mrs, James E. Barragar announcz the marriage of their | deughter Elizabeth Jane to Elroy | Ninnis by the Rev. Rogers, of the | Episcopal Church, at Everett, Wash, on December 26. Beth of the contracting parties ; are wellknown in Juneau. Th2 bride |, grsduated from the Juneau High School" last June and is one. of the popul\r .young ladies of the eity. | She went south in, September and | has been attending the University. of Oregon at Eugene, where she was pledged to Kappa Kappa Gam- ma Sorority Mr, Ninnis is with, the Juneau Motor Gompany and is also & popu- | s almost half, was obtained by Mr. The] Gross in Juneau. Iw youngsters are cleverly kid-| | “@oblin’s Frolic” by Kerth. He {zecently composed the music for | “Robin Redbreast,” the words which | . |are by Mrs. A. Reinert of Ketchi-| More floats are expected to be kan. When 2% years old he played provided in Thomas Basin at HER NAME IS PATRICIA, NOT GLORIA of erection and maintenance will be defrayed by the city. M lr‘ lhfie‘ You may think this girl is Gloria lwamon, bul she s Patricia Farley, a comparative newcomer to films who looks much mu Gloria, (Associated Press Photo) urer; Mrs. Wm. Brown, Conduct- ress; Mrs. W. A. Bates, Associate Conductress; ' H. C. Nunan, Trus- tee. Marjorie E. Caddy and B. F. Williams were recently married at Whiteéhorse, Y. T., where they will make their home. l Robert Scott /Wilson, 63, steward on the steamboat Keno, died in the hospital at Whitehorse, Y. T. ‘MAX SMITH H FROM CALIFORNIA To join' Mrs. Smith and her son Jack Kirmse, Max H. Smith arrived in Juneau on the Admiral Evans) Friday night. Smith went South from Skagway!, last fall, M&. Mh has been in | Los Angeles with Dan Kirmse. The Smiths, who have operaud’ ;Kl.rmse's jewelry and gift shop in have recently opened a shop inj . Juneau in Winter and Pond's. They| are. making their home in Juneau at.the Blomgren Apartments. e 'mm GIVEN 70 BOY | » - DOUGLAS Douglas «I-l, mvl a ter born yt "mc 8t Ann's H‘l-; pital. m uqy welghs eight and one-quarter pounds, Dr. W. J&! Pigg was the attending physician. | Capt. Douglas, formerly of the: Dnited Stdtés Nayy, is employed, by the Alaska Jumeau Gold Muh ing Company. SEE the Dollar Table at the Nug: get Shop. You'll be surprised. adv. - Inix.ym { 1 | lap young man of Juneau. To Rev. R. K. Fogel of Ioonah, wdeceording to advices, the newly- was awarded the gold, diamond-set weds are planning a . honeymoon wabeh offered by the Wright|Ip to Calilornia. Shoppe of which Paul Bloedhorn is Ratt o o ] proprietor. The Rev. Mr. Fogel's ATTENTION MOOSE nufnber was 2206. The award was| Moose Christmas Tree tonight mofle last evening at the Coliseum|at 8 o'clock. For families of Lodge Theatre. | members. —adv. Crfier and Texan Bride Skagway for a pumber of years,| ¥ 3 are James Goodwin Hall, war hero d the famous Lxlayeeh rille and official of the anti- (I “The Cru- # and his bride, the former Valliant Burnett, daughter of Burk Mexas cattle king, herself one of the m ‘women in the | State. They were quietl; mmed in ch York recently. Mfl.i rly married to Gu; A i they were iv COLISEUM TUESDAY—WEDNESDAY donor was mistakenly printed O. Whyte. Pioneers Are Thoughtful Through Superintendent Kettle= |son, residents of the Pioneers® Hnmc thank all contributors to the Chn:tmns Fund. The telegram | dated Christmas Day from the upermtendem to Mr. Gross fol- i | ‘ | ) In the list of contributors print- ed in The Empire last Saturday,' the name of 8. Zynda was inad- | vertently omitted. Mr. Zynda, pro- prietor of the Zynda Hotel, and himself a pioneer of Juneau, has never failed to give to the Christ- mas fund for the old-time Alas~ kans. He donated $3 this year. The printed list of contributors also contained an error relative to A. Whyte, public school emp!oye=' He gave $5, and the name of the PAL NITE 2-for-1 “ worth of love! With a xrut cast mclndm: Thomas Meighan, Charlotte Greenwood, | erously contributed to their Christ- Through Superintend- | ty-five cents is the amount re- dollars and seventy-five cents com- Children Go to School Pioneers’ Home at Sitka, according' tleson, Superintendent, to W. D.' Riding to and from school in & ‘ in Southeast Alaska, who person- it is an economy move for pupils playhous:s solicited contributions. closed one of the 'schools in a every one of the 103 old-timers. | company to carry the children to The schools save about $5,000 & e oenturies ago. | G They pass up a million dollars William Blakewell, Barbara Weeks—SELECTED SHORTS ‘Pioneers of the Home request mas happiness their hearty ap- ent of Sitka Home ceived by each of the 103 Pioneers. prised the sum collected as a cash’ { . In Taxis to Save Taxes Gross, proprietor of the Coliseum taxicab would be considered a lux- jally and through his representa- of this Cleveland suburb. ‘Elghl dollars and twenty-five cents sparsely built up section of the Almost Half Raised Here and from school each day at 10 year by the move, according te The discovery of silk is ascribea Smith Electric Co. ; 1 EVER - ELECTRICAL worth of loot for a million dollars me to extend to all wh - Oldtimers prress Thanks o haiis lpreclauon Eight dollars and twen- Eight hundred and forty-nine Merry Christmas.” : Christmas gift for residents in the {to a telegram from Theodore Ket-, ROCKY RIVER, Ohio, Dec. 27— chain of motion picture theatres ury by most. school children, but tives in all towns in which he has To save money school officials is the amount that was given to suburb, and engaged a taxicab Of the total collectad, $41250, or cents each. Clerk-Treasurer Fred Fenker. to a Chinese queen who lived 47 Gastineau Building ! |Leader Dept. Store fi . GEORGE BROTHERS [ ST “MAKE' NEXT CHRISTMAS “MERRIER e to ‘accumurate the funds you will need/ You &n do it eatily ing twelve months, - weekly ‘Opofill of an Interest | ‘during the com« « For instance, on‘Y $1.00 in ing , Account at this m &A.dsslfq .00 stmas yur. n er deposity %" larger fund., Start lodiy—opon an accoune ot this bank "'M regularly —and make next Dmlfl. First National Bank OF JUNEAU - - SAVE A LITTLE EVERY WEEK ALWAYS FRESH FRUITS and VEGE TABLES : CALIFORNIA GROCERY Prompt Delivery