The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 28, 1933, Page 3

CAPITOL TUESDAY—WEDNESDAY He Wrote This Story Himself! —and in it Gil- bert is coming back to great- ness! JOHN GILBERT AS ROUGE IN Popular Stamays Part of Blackmailing Chauffeur B e at Capitol Tonight the Year! Filmgoers are offered a two- fold surprise in John Gilbert's new- est talking picture, “Downstairs,” which opens tonight at the Capitol Theatre. In the first place the picture introduces the star in a characterization totally different from any he has ever attempted before, that of a sinister villain of the Von Stroheim type; in the sec- ond place, the leading feminine role is played by Virginia Bruce, who has since become Mrs. John Gilbert in private life. Star Wrote Story Himself Of additional interest in connec- tion with “Downstairs” is the fact that the plot of the new Gilbert drama was written by the star himself. The plot 'of “Downstairs” con- cerns the absorbing adventures of a ne'er-do-well chauffeur who dis- rupts the entire household of the aristocratic Austrian family by J|whom he is employed. Not con- * |tent with merely blackmailing his mistress whom he has caught in an intrigue with her lover, he steals the life savings of the ro- He's the best man at any wedding! with PAUL LUKAS A MONTA BELL production A Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer Picture Special Shorts mantic cook and then attempts to bring dishonor to the young bride [ = %ilof the butler. It is the butler, | HORLUCK’S | |played by Pan! Lukas, who brings the action of the tale to an as- tounding climax with the villain | PALM BEACH Brick and DANISH Ice Cream ‘DONNSTAIRS' THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, T‘UESDAY, FEB. 28,-1933. FUTURE BALLERINAS TRAINED FOR MUNICIPAL OPERA NEw PLANTO SELL STORIES 0 BE FILMED Complete Serip ipt Replaces Scenario—Producers Act Quickly By ROBBIN COONS Ballet and' choral schools have been opened by the women’s committee of the San Francisco Opera Association with the well known choreographer, Adolph ‘Bolm (near left), in charge of the ambitious misses. This is part of his first class which will give 8an Francisco a 100 per cent grand opera of its own. (Associated Press Photo) Rhumba Sure, She Could Do It,ifl[_fl INDUSTRY So Iowa Girl Gets Film Chance BEING REVIVED Demand for r Wild Horses Increases—Old Days Coming ‘Back RIFLE, Colo., Feb. 28. — Wild horses, for many years vagabond rulers of the ranges of Western Colorado, are feeling again the slithering lariat and the branding iron. After almost a score of years they are being herded again into corrals and freight cars as an old western industry is revived. Not since the early days of the World War has there been such |ton Sturges’ tures, g | . When Sturges, whose ALL FLAVORS | getting his just due. “Downstairs” was directed - by Juneau Ice Cream | Monta Bell, one of whose recent | Parlor ] successes was “East is ‘West”. To- [ 4 |gether with Miss Bruce and Paul — — Lucas the cast includes Hedda [3 e I. Hopper, Reginald Owen, Olga Bac- lanova, Bodil Rosing, Otto Hoff- BETTY MAC | {man, Lucien wLittietield and Mar- BEAUTY SHOP | |ion Lessing. MacKinnon Apartments | PHONE 547 | . . ! ! Modiste l ; Bergmann Hotel ({Planes Needed for Discov- EHONE 129 | f N S . . ery ol ew Jources 3 2 of Gold SABIN’S OLYMPIA, Wash, Feb. 28—A memorial was introduced in the' Senate today by State Senator Everything in Furnishings Reardon, of - Snohomish County, for Men, s which asks Congress to appropriate 4 o | $1,000,000 yearly for four years to 3 operate airlines from Fairbanksand . - ¢ | Anchorage to places in Alaska not S reached by the regular airlines. CAPITAL ELECTRIC | This is with the idea of discovering new gold 3 KOLSTER RADIOS | |5, b sources. 1 A; Upon sufficient showing, the ore | Electrical .rl:“""’“' | [planes are also needed to carry ¢ Rep: \ mining machinery to start devel- opment and the government in re- turn would receive 2% per cent. royalty on all gold discovered with- in a radius of 20 miles by the person who aided in finding the mineral, because of the free trans- ponauon - ; DEPENDENTS INCREASING COLUMBUS, O, Feb. 2. — A SATISFYING COALHEAT that's euy on your pocketbook Burn CARBONADO COKING FURNACE COAL with INDIAN COAL Money-back guarantee of satisfaction. PHONE 412 Pacific Coast Coal Co. centers, plus the fact that in the past two decades many young per- sons are leaving -the farm, is caus- ing an increase in the number of dependents per rural worker. These conclusions are from a four-year study made in eight ty- pical Ohio townships by two rural economists at Ohio State Univer- sity. The rural population has 50 per cent more children under 15 years of age and twice as many persons 35 years or age or older per 1,000 population, compared with urhan populations. The investigators found that of every 100 farm boys, 41 remained to farm, most of them .coming from families that had been the most successful in agriculture. INSURE YOUR HOME Your F:umishings in SAFE COMPANIES H. J. EBERHART AT LOWER RATES —— e Mrs. Cordella Karshner passed away in Fairbanks February 4, as the result of a heart attack. Mrs. Karshner was a member of the Piopeer Women of Alaska and a Jongtime resident of Fairbanks | demand for horses as there is to- | day, wild horse dealers and wrang- {lers declared today. The roaming herds, descendants of Spanish {horses of the days of the conquest, | have been unmolested for many years and have increased greatly. | Shipments to Every State | The wary old leaders who kept out weather eyes for water hole Ability to dance gave Alice Jans her real chance in the movies. A former Creston, Yowa, girl, she e and an opportunity to act. HOLLWOCD, Cal, Feb. Because she danced as a back in Creston, Iowa, on studying dancing as she grew up Alice Jans has a future as a film actress. It wasn't quite so simple actual- | ly, but it was a dancing hit that\ won her executive attention and|Ig 2 picture, Green having tried several rhum- |ba dancers and finding none sat-| isfactory, sent for a mnew order. of candidates. waited, Alice piped up. with-the vival of their trade, but they,‘cals news that she could do a- rhumha culate”,, —and would they:let her ¥ caused her to be offered a tumr contract. ‘With her love of aancing, Alice first came into pictures whegn mu- sical films, with their large chor- uses of dancing girls were in their heyday. -She danced in the line with numerous other equally vig- orous youngsters in many an “all- dancing, all - singing, all - talking and Manley Hot Springs. She was seventy-two years old, | 28. — | film, child | job when studios lost interest in and kcpt‘mat type of picture. tress none the playing bits and extras roles. She jwas an Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., did the rhumba when no one on’ the set cculd please the director, and she won a’ contract, / {'Wesl are the best markets. ! traps and hiding cowboys are gone land the new leaders are learning {an>w of the fence pole traps. * 1 The new demand for horses has jlcd to shipments to virtually every | State, but the South and Middle Almost rany kind of horse, and even the | midget burro, are in demand. Wild | broncos, retired saddle horses, I'muyles, but most of all the savage| | muygtangs, are wanted, { Keeping up with the revived in- ,:dustry, carpenters are busy re- he: and like the rest, lost She wanted to less, and began set where was mak- when Director Al extra on a ‘While . the. company They difl, she got" ne’ hsslgnmem |and was good enough to.cause an | executive, when the rushes were 215 POUND END e e e | BLACKMAILED BY THE “ROMANTIC ROGUE” Virginia Bruce, Olga Baclanova and John Gilbert in “Down- stairs” at the Capitol Theatre. be a movie ac-| ! pairing old traps and woodsmen |are cutting poles for new traps. Wild or Tame The Rifle horsemen deliver them wild or tame — preferably wild. Buyers who don't specify get car- 'loads of raging horse flesh right off the range. For the benefit of the others, impromptu rodeos stir prairie dust into the air every day | as .the “hoss-wranglers” ride them into shape for saddle use. i Horsemen here, are .not, concerned| | with the causes.of the sudden re- it’s. because farmers gan Irmse .hay for -borges but not gasqy, line:.for, tractors and wwmobfleg. HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Feb, 28— (If all screen writers followed Pres- scheme there might be much money 2 saved the studios ° 'and at the same time -a better ,quaty = of . pic~ plays, ‘Strictly Dlshon- jorable’ and \ ‘Child of Man- {hattan,” both ‘mve reached the lscreen. wanted to |sell Jesse Lasky |a. film story be ‘brought with him a complete |screen play script. Lasky looked it over, bought it, and ‘The Power and the Cvlory is on his schedule r Tracy. That Xs such a logical way to sell a screen story that it may appear | to scarcely worth comment. |But if you think that, you don't know Hollywood. SPENCE TR lDEAS ON SALE The usual procedure .when a writer has an idea for a scenario is anything but logical, unless cus- tom makes logic, which it doesn't —especially not in Hollywood. The writer dashes off, on a page or two, the essence of his plot. He submits this to the executive, who, if it appeals to him, purchases the “idea” and employs the writer, at so much per week (or possibly two or. three writers) to prepare a film treatment or screen play. Then the circus begins, the lit- erary Roman holiday. Often the “jdea” emerges on the screen; of- ten again it is lost and the result- ant hodge-podge is put forth to become “just. another movie.” The costs, . meanwhile, have mounted daily. It was such a haphazard sys- tem, for instance, which produced one of Ann Harding’s less praise- worthy films “Prestige”. It sounded great in the sales talk of the scen- artist, but the completgd script was nothing like the promise, Sturges points out. that a play- wright never attempts to sell a play from a short outline and holds /AND PAUL LUKAS IMAKE BIG SHOW © [T “every office,” some WOYk = sloW. " | Some are fast. And the bosses never know what plots are being cooked up—until dinner is served, for two! Such fun! Such excitement! % COLISEUM MARCH F u'st of flie it PAUL LUKAS, Frances Dee, Charles “Buddy” Rogers, Judith Woed, Dorothy Hall, Stuart Erwin ‘WORKING GIRLS’ “Buddy” Rogers, Dorothy | Hall, Frances Dee, Stuart Erwin at' Coliseum A good cast and a good story recommend “Working Girls,” me picture coming to the Coliseum w. Special lme of Straw Braid Hm, $1.50 night. Paul Lukas, a favorite on the screen for his romantic roles, SPORT HATS shares the male leading honors with Charles “Buddy” Rogers, and Stuart ‘Erwin. Dorothy Hall, Fran- ces Dee and Judith Wood are the girls in the story. 4 Judith Wood and Dorothy Hall’ play the parts of two sisters, who arrive. in New York looking for jobs. They: livg in a semi-insti- tutional bearding house for girls, find themselves jobs, and, on their own in.the gveat city, their ad- ventures in love and business eventually bring them happiness. Frances Dee comes into the story as the daughter of Buddy Roger’s boss whom he thinks. he loves in- stead of Dorothy Hall. The. ro- mances become tangled and the lives of the young people.a bit involved before the.. “Working Girls” adventures in the city arve happily ended. CONFIDENCE IN PREM. DALADIER PARIS, Feb. 28. ~ The French Senate has . passed a motion of confidence in Premier Edouard Daladier on the reduction of mili- tary expenditures by $20,000,000 -on assurance that the deerease in no way impairs armed efficlency. Assorted -Colors $2.50 and '$2.95 CREPE TURBANS All New Arrivals and ‘ Latest Spring Styles Juneau Saniple Shop Opposne arris ‘Hardware *Co. sNOW CLASSES 50¢, 75¢, $1.00 that the same should be trué of plctures, WRITER'S GAMBLE But the novelty of his arrange- ment with Lasky does not end there. His monetary reward is to be exactly as it would be on. the stage on a royalty basis. The “down payment” is comparatively small and the total amount of his, remuneration. . will be..determined at the box office, If his picture.is a failure, he will receive little. .But if, it is a big hit, be stands o get much more; than s ordiparily. paid for a seript bought, outrighty aver thec deskr, tap.. ¢ e Ged LD LEAGUE 1S REVIVED o [Eu ;. FOR 1933 TIDE| supEriOR, wis, reb. 28. — The | : MAY BE CENTER l TUSCA!JOOSA. Ala., Feb. 28— Out of spring football training at iAlalhama has come news that Coach |Frank Thomas - may shift . Jiml > Whatley, 215-pound freshman end, to the pivot post on the 1933 var- sity. Centers at Alabama are not too plentiful. since the graduation of Rip Hewes and Red Houston, while tackles and ends are abundant. Whatley played end in high school and as & freshman, but fitted into a tackle. posmon with only two weeks' practloe chown that night, to exclaim, “Who is that girl?” That meant the contract. She has had parts in several features Slm | Her hair is black and her cyes jare blue. ! —_—————— | Classified ads pay. BARNEY GOOGLE AND. SPARK PLUG THERE'S A WIRELESS FOR/ | YOU —' THE BOY'S BEEN ’ PAGING* YOU- ALL OVER ' WHE gE - ) WAlT LEL SULLY By old Northern baseball league, which closed about 15 years ago, is to.be revived this summer, with an eight. team - circuit in three states .and Canada. The league has booked a schnd- ule of 112 games, with teams en- tered from Superior and Bau Claire, Wis.; Grand. Forks and Fargo, N. D.; Moorhead, Crook» ston and Little Falls,. Minn,, and ‘Winnipeg, Canada, with the eighth team to -be Chippewa Falls. or La ‘Crosse, Wis. ‘Among players in the old North~ ern League who became major league stars were Dave Bancrott, new . Minneapolis manager, with Philadelphia, Boston and .the New. York Giants; Otto Miller of the Brooklyn Dodgers; George Dauss, pitcher . with Detroit. for several years; Don. Fube Marion, with the 8t. Louis Cardinals, Brooklyn Feds and Milwaukee, .and Rube Schauer, pitcher with the Giants and later with Minneapolis, BILLE DE BECK LISSEN, BUDDY— GET, THIS TUB BACK TQ NEW EXTRA TWO BUCKS- : Butler Mauro " Drug Co. EXPRESS MONEY ORDERS m:'s 60-YARD MARK NORMAN, Okla, Feb. 28.—Stop watches have caught Whitey Cox, University of Oklahoma sprint éan- didate, in 6.2 seconds for the 60- yard dash, equaling the world mark. Cox led his nearest rival to the tape by two yards in try- outs. e Classified ads pay, See H. R. SHEPARD & SON' Telephonié'409 * B. M. Behrends Bank Bldg. 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