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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, FEB. 23, CAPITOL LAST TIMES TONIGHT “Oncein a Lifetime” IDNEY FOX JACK OAKIE—S COMING FEATURES “Diveree in the Family” “Downstairs” “Blondic ¢of the Follies” “Age cI Censent” “Mcst Dangercus Game” S | I z z 1 i L RROADWAY STAR HAS HARD TIME IN HOLLYWOOD s VU SIS SRS Sy TAKE OFF ON MOVIES ENDS RUN TONIGHT at “Cnce in_a Lifetime™ Capitol Is Hilarious Sa- tire on Ho“ywood Local theatregoers who have seen “Once in a Lifetime,” Universal's hilarious satire on Hollywood film production which is now playing for the last times tonight at th Capitol Thea have learned a great deal about the secrets the motion picture studios in motion picture capital. the This startling funny screen play i not only invades the secred pr‘» cincts of the sound stag the production of a pi takes the audience into the pro- vate offices of the executives, where the allegedly fantastic bus- iness policies of the film moguls are held up to biting ridicule. { The settings of “Onc: time” are no less fantastic than in a Life-| WESTERN { | | "XTQ B A 1933 IGNERS "HOW SPRING STYLES 'NEW ROLE FOR FAIRBANKS, JR. SHOWN TONIGHT ‘“l Like Your Nerve” ' at Coliseum Pictures Popu- | lar Star as Hero ‘ the Pirst | comes to tonight no! only notable from the I |1t the second starring icle | |for Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., —but for the reason that it offers lum |a role quite different from any he, ;)ms previously portrayed. The pc\n |is a dashing combination of Rob‘u |Food and D'Artignan. | 1t shows him, with courage giv- en him by a crystal gazer, change from a bespectacled young sap, into a dashing hero rushing to| Central America and once there,| proceeding to scale walls, capsize! guards, crash gates, confront aug-| ust dignitaries in their = secret haunts, all for the love of a young “I Like Your Nerve,” National picture which | the _ Coliseum Theatre is ve “I LIKE YOUR NERVE” gives DOUG JR. and LORETTA YOUNG the most adorable love team on the serecn. BALLARD FOUND Ead Seriows Coug NOTGUILTYBY. mn?{ef‘"‘mc.i??mfl KETCHIKAN JUR =X . Creemulsion com- ps known to modern -dawe Powerful 58, wuh Nonxfl:vfidm #m&anumwfll 'uowhwlangm not» by Creomulsi Taxxcab Dnvel Freed off [ Blame for Accidental Killing of Child Robert Ballard, taxicab driver of Ketchikan who was recently indict- el ed for manslaughter for the acei- Under Conllact for Six Months, Now Playing the action, picturing the studio| offices with just enough exagger- ation to make them ridiculous and SECOfld Lead altogether laughable. Everyt hmm. including both furnishings and, By ROBBIN COONS architecture, is wultra-modern to| HOLLYWOCD, Cal, Feb. 23.— tne Iast degree. Not all Broadway players of Mur- iel Kirkiand's standing can be treated the way Miss Kirkland The story concerns itself' princi-|{ pally with a trio of small-time vaudeville actors who enter the motion * Some of the frocks which will be worn at the series of style shows in San Francisco sponsored by Pacific Coast manufacturers and whoiesalers include a melon red satin lace evening gown worn by Betty Norton (left). Appliqued net is a feature of the girlish evening frock worn by Elsa Walbridge (second from left) while Beryl Plath shows a gay, colorful sports suit of Roman stripe boucle ‘skirt with tie to match and a white vestee. Martha Guyre (right) is wearing house pajamas of yellow linena with brass buttons. Madeline Spieler (inset) has on a gold and brown straw fabric Mitzi sailor. (Asso- _ciated Press Photos) ]Here s a Glass House You Can Lwo In lady whom he has passed and de- dental killing of a young lad, was | termined to possess. | yesterday found not guilty by a} --1 lee your Nerve" reveals new. Jury in the United States District, hhm lady in question is lovely Lor- today by United States Ma.rshafi.l etta Young, at her lovliest. Others Albert White. in the cast are Claude Allister, . Ballard was driver of a cab own Andre Cheron, Henry Kolker, Ed- €d by J. V. Hickey. A coroner mund Breon, Boris Karloff and jury found that its brakes ws.ral Luis Alberni. William McGann di- defective and declared they were rected. known to the driver to have beent ‘ONE SKOVELFUL 0!‘ OUR COAL has, and still discuss the mov- les impersonally. Her experience here has not been one to inspire cheers for the town or its wa A young actress who has had two hits on Broadway —in “Strictly Dishonorable” and “The Greeks Had a Word for It"—surely is entitled MURELKIRKSAND to expect better of Hollywood than she has had. Miss Kirkland, a raled among the: leading young stage mames of today, has been here under contract for nearly six months. She received much of her dramatic training in Stuart Wal- Cincinnati Stock Company, from which have come many of wood's present ligt includ- the director himself. None of app: ntly has meant anything to Hollywood. New York girl, FINAIIY GETS A ROLE Only now is she playing her first creen role. It's a second lead in hn Gilbert’s final starring pic- ture, “Rivets. Curiously, the as- signment came after the studio had passed her option. It was she who volunteered- this information, usually an embarrass- ing admission because it connotes failure, at least in one studio's opinion. Miss Kirkland, however, it not inclined to take that opin- ion, even if it should be more di- rectly expressed too seriously. “I came to Hollywood to find out whether I am for pictures or not,” she said. ‘“Sothe people are, and some aren’t—regardless of = stage ability.” SHE WON'T GIVE UP Free of a contract, she plans to remain two months longer “to see what happens.” It would not be surprising if much did happen. She has had geveral fests for parts, but tests are far from infallible. Studios at first showed little inTerest in Helen Hayes, for instance, or in Ruth Chatterton. Miss Kirkland is small, with ex- pressive brown eyes and dark red hair. She is more aftractive than pretty. Yet cn the stage—I trust report, mever having seen her— she appears beautiful. It may, be that she can be made to appear picture industry on the crest of the wave of confusion attending the advent of the talk- ing picture. with the “dumb” mem- ber of the trio finally hailed as the genius of Hollywood. This role is played by Jack Oakie, and oth- er members of the cast of “Once in a Lifetime” are Sidney Fox, Aline MacMahon, Russell Hopton,| ZaSu Pitts, Louise Fazenda, Ons- low Stevens and Gregory Ratoff. | Russell Mack directed the pic- ture. beautiful on the screen too. Her case reminds of a recent ob- | servation of the same Stuart Wal- | ker who once directed Miss Kirl land. He was discussing movie needs in general when he remark- | ed pertinently. “The time hascome ! to spend time and effort photo- graphing actresses, and to sto] | trying to make actresses of girls | who lmppen to phomgraph oo CAED OF THANKS We wish to thank our score of friends for the kind sympathy pressed during - our ment, the death of our loved one, and for the beautiful floral offer- | ings at the funeral services. | JOHN DOTSON, i ALVIN DOTSON, MR. AND MRS. WALTER| BUTTS. adv. > CHICKEN DINNER TONIGHT At Mrs. Hooker’s Coffec Shoppe. 85 cents. Rheumatism Pain—Agony Starts To Leave In 24 Hours Happy Days Ahead for You Think of it—how ‘this old world does make progress—now comes a preseription which is known to pharmacjsts @s Allenru and within 48 hours affer you start to take this swift acting formula pain, excess wuric .acid has started to depart. Allenru does just what this notice says it will do—it is guaranteed by Juneau Drug Co. or Butler Mauro —your money whole heartedly re- turned. —adv. ROCK BOTTOM PRICES No. 1535——:$5.15 Net Lighting Fixture Specials 20% FROM SEATTLE LIST—20% We Hang Them Free Alaska Electric Light Juneau—Phone 6 Old & Power Co. Donglaw;i'hone 18 }{_ Pers for Saig at | mplre Office late bereave-| —adv,! agony and inflammation caused by I \‘ COLUMBUS, O., Feb. 23.—People| who live in the “Joseph’s coat”| { type of hous:s may throw all the stones they like, for rocks will not damage their walls. Nor will heat and cold, wind and rain or weight and pressure prove \ospcclally damaging to buildings raised from a new translucent. glass ick being dev:loped in the ex- | perimental plant of a large glass! | company here. | The brick, made by separately| ng a five-sided glass box and| sealed in place| pri | lid which then | to form an airtight chamber, is be-| | ing tested for structural and | jdece xative possibilities: its | Test Buildings Erected | erected. One of them is an offi | for the mould shop at ! is all glass from ion to roof | fice has been dubbed “Jo- seph's coat” because of the color effects obtained as the building. is| viewed from varying angles. Surfaces of the brick in contact with the mortar are coated with a | colored cement paint to make the; | mortar stick, to give the blocks | suction when they are laid, to pre- vent water from penctrating the wall and to prevent unsightly air- |bockets in the mortar. i found This of | Clear Glass Appears Tinted The application of colored ce- ment paint affords a new means of architectural treatment, the ex- perimenters have found. Light re- | flected from the cement paint gives the effect of tinted, light-colored | glass, although the bricks them- selves are clear. The range of colors, however, is limited to cobalt blue, light blue, emerald green, light green, amber and rese aml Other colors are | too expensive. Although translu- j cent, the glass blocks are not trans- | parent. | Diffusion of light through one of these glass walls has been found to be extraordinarily good. Dirsct sun- ‘llzh: on the glass does not cause| | shadows insidz. Rather the light is| Drug Co. and leading druggists to' reflected by the mortar joinis in'ard Wakelin, Seattle; Mr. do it—you can get: one generous| bottle for 85 cents and if it doesn't| bring the joyous results you expect, many directions, including the up- per portions of the building, so that the result is a soft and restful light. Although the glass block is not being developed as a load bearing material, the experimenters believe| I no difficulty will be found in meet- |ing building code requirements with Experimental buildings have been |} the Colum- |} And Throw Stonea---They Won’t Hurt It UGH 5 POUND BRICK. 3 Glass houses? Yes, but th v ave mot transparent, and they will withstand cold, wind, rain, pressure and blows. Above are shown a small “Joseph’s coat” factory office and one of the glass blocks frem which it was built at Columbus, Ohio, for experimental pur- poses. Mortar jeinis cause cari is viewed from varying angles. us color effects when the structure proper lateral stiffness in a four- Kristie inch wall. Stones, such as youngsters fling at windows, have no effect what. ever on these bricks. * e AT GHE HOTELS Gasuneau J. A, McDonald, Mr. and Mrs, James Frawley, Nome; George Hel- lerich and daughter, Nome; James Ramsey, Anchorage; Fred S Alaska Juneau; L. 8. Coffin attle; Herb Dunlap, Seattle; R and M F. E. Swartz, Juneau;R. G. H Seattle; A. C. Black, Po Ore.; L. L. Trimble, Seattle; ald Armour. Zynda Nels Swanberg, No; Blake, Nome; Talbert Scott H. H. MocCutcheon, Ancho: 8. D. McCuteheon, Anch Marion i’-llcy, happy at e 0 | | Raucheisen, Kansas operatic prodi piano in Long Beach, Cal., z erman pllu ,ALL HARMONY FOR MARION NOW rears ago, seems of her mar- Sather, Juneau; W. L {Dolgner, Haines; Mr. and Mrs. W. In. Cordie, Green City, Montana; and Walter King, Ketchikan. Alaskan Seorge A. Powell, Auk Lake. ————— FINAL TAX NOTICE Gecond and finai payment of taxes become delinquent Tuesday March 17, 1933. After this date, 10% penalty and 8% interest at- taches to all unpaid taxes. H. R, SHEPARD, City Clerk. First publication, Feb. 17, 1933. {Last publication, Feb. 38, 1933. Eight hundrea seventy miles of Lz.m-‘tuck in Italy will be electrified. .o Proposed 1933 expenditures of .| France show an apparent decrease 2; |0f $2,148,000,000 from last year. WILL REOPEN BERN SUICIDE CASE, REP Further Inveshgalxon I.nto Death. of Jean low’s Husband LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. 23.— Reopening of an investigation into the death of Paul Bern, motion picture producer and husband of Jean Harlow, appeared likely as the result of a secret inquiry. Two members of the grand jury have new information, it is said. This information will be an incentive for an investigation. The authori- ties said they did not know the reasons for the investigation al- though the Bern family has never acceptzd the spicide findings. Film-Making Firm Formed at Victoria VICTORIA, B. €., Fer Zs—Bas- ed on the belief ihat British film quotas will inevitably demand a | percentage of film productions on British soil and with British capi- tal, the British-American Films,' Ltd., was incorporated recently by a group of Victoria business men, in association with Hollywood mo- tion picture experts. The company has an authorized capital of $600,- 000 and plans to operate a fully equipp:d motion picture studio in Victoria, Lingering Coughs Chases ’em in A Hurry Or Costs You Nothing There is one cough killer you can count on. It brings you swift, unmistakable relief or you can take it back and get your money. Usually two doses of Brenchuline Emulsion are enough to loosen the most stubhorn cough. If a half-bot- tle doesn’t do it, Harry Race and all other good druggists guarantee to give your money back, There is no sedative nor habit- forming drug of any kind in Bron- chuline Emulsion, Your own doctor would recommend it. ‘Get Bronchuline today and chase that old hang-on cough in & hurry! —adv. “Tomorrow’s Styles Today” lated’ Press Photo) I Values! CASH SALE FOR THURS $2:25% rack—Special $1.60 ALL WASH BLOUSES—Only $1.00 Were $2.25 SILK BLOUSES drastically reduced. Regular values. to° $6.95 Must Go at RAINCOATS—Values to $8.95—All to go at $1.75 TABLE SPECIALS of values to $4.75. Final cleanup—25 cents each article These values are real 1933 prosperity items. Don’t miss ,is undzrstood he and Ballard were {to have separate trials. in that condition. Mr. Hickey was jointly indicted with Ballard. He left here early this week to appear for trial. It will give as much hnt as two of the dirty, slaty kind. That's why you save money by getting your coal from us. If you want coal that will not klink up your stove, will burn down to the fine ash, that will give the most heat pos- | stble you should give us your erder. . WE SPECIALIZE IN FEED C IVESTGHTION |~ mamss ' INTO DEATH OF : GIRL IS ENDED]| _Scloum’s i Seward Street, moar Second Parents of Tacoma Social : Leader Believe Clues Show Suicide TACOMA, Wash,, Feb, 23.—The police have relaxed in the inves- tigation intg the death of Miss Mary Fitzgerald, leader of the city’s: With the | acquittal of Ballard it is believed the case against Hickey will be dism\ssed by the Government. JUNEAU FR SHOPPE “Exclusive but not Expénsiye” ‘y,unger social set, whose body was| found washed up on a Puget Sound/ . beach. The police stopped thelr] investigation when the parents of the girl agreed that clues would apparently point to miclde. BIG VALUES e o - GARBAGE HAULED Reasonable Monthly Rates E. 0. DAVIS in SAFE COMPANIES Burn CARBONADO COKING FURNACE COAL PR Sy é- : 3 E 'f “TOMORROW’S STlYLES TODAY" Values! DAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY HOUSE DRESSES from our regular Circulating Heaters Heating Stoves Srufl Heating Plants . See one of these 025.00 burners under work.in‘g conditions at ALSTROM’S NEWS these values offered for three days omly at

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