The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 12, 1933, Page 3

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSD e L T N It BOILS over with LAUGHS "and MERRIMENT ! WHEELER: WOOLSEY | $O TH/S IS AERICAI w+» RAQUEL TORRES COLUMBIA PICTURE FAMOUS COMEDY TEAM IN A NEW HILARIOUS FILM “So This Is Africa” with Wheeler, Woolsey- Opens Tonight at Capitol Wheeler and Woolsey, mirth pros voking comedians, in khaki shorts, pith helmets and. plajd sock, wrap swhacking. blows of satire at wild animal pictures in the funniest of their feature comedies. yet pro- duced, “So This Is Affica,” which opens at the Capitol Theatre to- night. “So This Is .Africa” is a madcap story. Woolsey. takes his inevitable |cigar and Wheeler his cracking | voice into the deep, dark, damp, forbidding depths of the continent {that has been eulogized on the | screen in “Tarzan,” “Trader Horn” {and other famous movies, and. they both flag carelessly, and uncontrol- ably about the jungle. Feature Picture This is not an, ordinary .comedy and is definitely not mere slap- !stick but has mare subtlety and finesse than any feature picture ivet made by these hilarious com- | edians. t KRAZY KAT KARTOON COMEDY SCENIC LATE NEWS CAPITOL Where the BIG Hits Play Barber, 88, Works OSKALOOSA, Ia—Henry Hock- edy, 88, negro barber who came here in a stage coach from Ful- ton, Mo., in 1869, is the ranking veteran of Oskaloosa businessmen. | his shop | here continuously since that time,| He has been operaling WO! ED BY SHOT George McGuire, troller from Port Alexander, is in a Ketchikan hospital for treatment of a bullet wound in his left thigh. McGuire jumped from his boat to a float at Port Alexander, and slipped. A loaded 32 caliber automatic revolver he was carrying discharged and he i While. putting on. a. rather ter- \rible act in a hanky tonky vaudes ville house, with six. lions they imeet a masterful blonde, Esther Muir, who wants to film animal life in Africa, and they go right along. They find other lions in Africa, lions who blow, trees down when they growl and a backward tribe, walking backwards as back- ward tribles should. Wears Night. Shirt In the middle of the night, ‘Wheeler walks right into the arms of beautiful, raven-locked Raquel Torres, a leopard-skinned Amazon girl. He walks right into her arms blindly, because he is walking in his sleep. They fall in love, and incidentally Wheeler has a night- shirt during much of the picture, which brings about many ridiculous situations. i The entire whimsical, wild, fan- tastie: film s’ a” delightfull antidote DELEGATEHAS. ECECTIONBiLL TO INTROBUCE in Alaska — Fishing | Code Be Discussed i (Continued from Page One) Filmlénd’s e Symbol of Glamour—Thai Is Jean, Who By ROBBIN COONS HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Oet. 12— Jean, Harlow iy Hollywood'’s new symbol of glamor. e Always a personality to attract attention, if at the beginning only | because of her striking. beauty and her distinctive blond hair, | Jean has had crowded into her 22 years enough joy and tragedy, success and failure, to fill a full life span, And .she is now a hride again, for the third time, wed in a mid- | night air elopement to Yuma that | was a distinet surprise to Holly- wood and even to her close friends. A CINDARELLA STORY Jean’s first marriage to Charles McGraw 1L, wealthy young Chi-| at 22 | groups | desert cagoan, was a failure even. before Harlean Carpenter came to Hol- lywood and became Jean Harlow. | Even though Jean's family was well off, there is a touch of the Cinderella, about her, for she'be- gan . Inconspicuously on’ a comedy lot. | Tt was “Hell's Angels” that| launched her as Hollywood's "‘p‘,at-} ¢ inum “blond!’ but it ‘dld not make ! her an actréss—and: Hollywood agrees that Jean is an,agtress now, and an actress of parts. It Was) “The Red-Headed Woman” revealed Jean. Harlow, comedignne. Before that she played sirens, snobs, and hard-headed. “other: Wo- men” almost exclusively.. | Jean’s marriags. to Paul Bern, producer of that picture, was as much a surprise to Hollywood as his suicide two months later. was a shock. ' Jean virtually _retired from social life, and. buried herself in. wark. The cameraman on “The Red-| Headed Woman! was Harold G.| Rosson, known as Hal. He was behind the camers on “Red Dust,” and other Harlow. films including her Iatest “Bombshell” Jean was seen places with Hal Rosson, but to Hollywood he was “just a friend of the family”—until the news. got out that he and Jean were mar-/ ried. { | { ACE CAMERAMAN | Rosson is 36, but sturdy, wears a mustache is quiet and unassum- ing but not self-effacing. He 'is popular, and professionally is re- garded as among the top-poteh cdmeramen. » | marriage to a star has |him for the first time into the that ¥ | flaming At 22, glamorous Jean Har- low has had encugh of joy, tragedy, success and failure to fill a full life span. Now she’s wed again, this time to a cam- craman. Harold G. Rosson, shewn with her abeve. He would rather be behind a camera than facing one. He has been in the business 19 rs, but brought eyes of the fan world that as a rule doesn’'t care much who is behind the camera as long as a star is facing it. And the star he has married is —Hollywpod’s new symbol of gla- mor. ! years. Since then Mr. Berg ‘has| been doing a lot of traveling and he estimates that when he returns Grows Most Broomcorn OKLAHOMA CITY—Oklahoma is home in December he will haVe giouing nearly half the country’s tovered 30,000 miles. 11933 crop of broomcorn, or an esti- Miss Katherine G. Kane has been 'mateq 12,900 tons, Federal crop sta- appointed postmaster of Alitak, settlement on Kodiak Island, her name having been placed before, the Post Office Department by, Delegate Dimond. This is a newly | established. office. “ resident of Juneau, was tisticians reported. The Sooner cron is 61 per, cent of normal. —t MRS. BRADFORD, HOSTESS former one of Mrs. Z. M. Bradford, AY. OCT. 12, 1933, ' ias he gets the loot. JACK HOLT AND FAY WRAY ARE. STARS OF FILM “The Woman I Stole” at ' Coliseum Tonight Is Drama of Oil Fields No more engrossing between men and men and betw and groups have markec any industry than those which have been part of the getting ou of the world's oil supply. the photoplay “The Wor Stole,” which opens tonight the Coliseum Theatre, this is the basic theme. On the edge of a Morrocean the Alianza and Pan Kan- sas Petroleum Corporations are| struggling over oil, and Jack Holt struggles —always a fighter in his pictures— | is battling with Donald Cook over a woman—and the fair object of the struggle is the lovely Fay, ‘Wray. | Then there is also a perfectly | grand bandit general to stir things up still further., He doesn't eare which oil company he raids so long ' And he's a| jovial giant, a picturesque charac- | ter played by the ‘colorful actor,| Noah- Beery. And then there's a tempestuous, little Spanish dancer to and still further situation. | | add | beauty | This is young Raquel Torres, well| known through her last picture, | “So This Is Africa,” with Wheeler | | | piquancy to the general and Woolsey. “The Woman I Stole” was adapt- ed from the famous Joseph Herge- sheimer novel “Tampico.” It is/ complete with color, sweep and ac- jtion from beginning to-end! Irving ‘Cummings directed. CALL FORBIDS 'ISSUED 0N J0B KTPETERSBURG Tenders Sought by BPR.| i for Clearing and Grub- bing on 514 Miles T A call for bids on a new section of Mitkof Highway at Petersburg was issued this week by the United States Bureau of Public Roads. The project is listed under the NRA program and $40,000 has been set up for the work. Plans for construction have been "approved by divisional headquarters .of the Roads Bureau at San Fran- "cisco and the bids will be opened here on November 16. —————————————————————————————— She Was The Woman | Wanted!| For her I defied the world and broke the 10th command- ment....but do not condemn he me dll you iald Cook MNoah Beery Raquel Torres STARTS TONIGHT S Adulis 30c Kiddies 10 Added Special Short Subjects Wool Frocks Are Getting Gay!. $8.75 §12.75 Weol dresses were never so important and they were never sc dressed up! Satin tops, clever necklines make them dresses you can wear anywhere. Of courke, if you take your woolens strictly tailored, we have them, too! " From the nével “TAMPICO™ Black . Brown Rust Olivette Eel Gray . Taupe and still shaves some of his cus- h gh, banks has arrived in Washington. 4 got the shot in the thigh. FISHERIES CODE thres HoMtasses ‘at ‘& recent Eastern| The work consists of clearing and tomers of 50 years ago. ————-——— HANS ANDERSON DIES Marconi Edits ROME—Guglielmo Marconi, the noted inventor, recently appointed president of the Encyclopedia In- stitute, has started arrangements for .a.modern -appendix whieh will bring Italy’s national reference work up to date. Hans Anderson, former Ketchi- kan and Sitka resident, died in Seattle last week. He had been ill for nearly a year. He is survived .- Advertisemerss spread world products before you. oty Have a Dream Home _ With The Magic T ouch of Coler? 'I'HOUSANDS of happy. housewives have made & wossderful discovery...how for a -~ few cents adayanoldhome woee €an be modernized and beautified with paint. There arescoresof paintop- ities in your home, too. Let us show you how the' magic touch ‘of colof . We handle a completeline of Rasmussen paint?rod" ucts . . . you! can depend upon them for beauty and service. Rasmussen & Company tégd { f 20 IDEAL PAINT SHOP If It's Paint We Have'I¢!’ PHONE 549 _ Wendt & Garster by a daughter, Ruth, and son, Neil. | in May on his |He is registered in the Foreign Service School of Georgetown Uni- versity, where he will be a stu- dent for the next year. Mrs. Thompson and their baby son are in Dtroit visiting friends and will {comt to the capital city shortly. | Mr. Thompson, a graduate of the Alaska College, has been with the | Fairbanks Exploration Company for ithe past few seasons, TERHUNE IN WASHINGTON Hugh W. Terhune, executive of- ficer of the Alaska Game Com- mission, has been in this city for the past few days on departmental business. He expects to get away for Juneau the early part of next NAMED POSTMASTER - Upon.the recommendation of Delegate Dimond, the Post Office Department has _appointed’ Mirs. Amy D. Larson postmaster at Tay. lor. Mrs. Larson has been given permission to move the office four miles from its present location. Taylor is a mining community on Seward Peninsula, | 'HIGHWAY ENDORSEMENT {_“& resolution endorsing the In- ta-n'anona,} Highway and urging its| jmmediate construction has been adopted by the Good Roads Com- mit/ of the Great Falls (Mon- |tang) Chamber of Commerce. | /ALASKA PICTURES SHOWN Seven reels of motion, pictures, about Alaska, depicting his ex- prations on’ the Alaska Peninsula, were shown. ta a. small group of, Alaskans and others at the May- flower hotel this week by the Rev. Bernard R. Hubhard, 8. J., “The| "Glacier. Priest,” Father. Hubbard's 4‘,p;rty was shown climbing Shichal- I'din, and flying to the crater of ‘Aniakchak. : Father Hubbard has now return-, |ed from Washington to New York ‘City, where he is engaged in out-~' ting and editing 250000 feet of 'tng:mem on nis latest expe- i . The picture is, to be re-. leased through ope,of : i panies. A member the party Temained on the Peninsula to take movies of brown bears. Pathen | Hupbard plans to return to Alaska lin"May. i " BERG ON VACATION o Anchorage {irst vacation in 14 4 M'oomm_‘ Plans have been made, subject to change, for openings of hear-, ings on the master code for fish-| eries under the Natiopal Recovery' Administration in, Washington, on October 21. A preliminary meet- ing will' take place Ootober 19. An effort is being made on the part of some of the salmon pack-| ers to have the salmon industry included in the National Canners’, Association code, thus doing away| with the necessity of a separate code. The smallest packers afre represented as being opposed to any such mave for reason that they feel the National Canners’; Association would have no particu-: lar inferest in salmon and such an attitude, would react adversely upon the salmon packers. 8till others believe the industry, can operate under the master code alone, t group is holding t for a, specific code for salmon. Among. the Trepresentatives of the industry in Washington the past week were: ¢ H. B. Friele, vice president and general manager of the Nakabl Packing Corporation and also pres¥ ident of Pacific Fisheries. | Walter P. Shiel, manager of the ciated Currency of the Coast Salmon Brokers Association.! William Timson, president of the Alaske Packers Association. | william P. Studderf, superin- tendent of the Sand Point cannery of the Alaska Pacific Salmon Cor- poration, . A. H, Bradford of the Associ ated Fishermen of Alaska, Inc. P. E. Harrls, president of P. E. Harris and Company. ! . McCord, Seattle ailor- Tepresenting’ Pacific Ameri= Alaskan Mr. and Mrs. W. M. McCall, Kzt< n; Ole Argard, Juneau Y. Baldwin, Juneau; F. E. Bam Petersburg. nto & Pactfic” =47, vy { Patrick, Juneau; Art Gom= bel, 7 Al Preisch, Baranof; . Star social in Wrangell. ——e,e————— The average cost of a trip on an airplane in continental United States is 6 1-10 cents a mile, says the Depaftment of Commerce grubbing 5.606 miles of right-of- |way between Mountain Point and Falls Creek. There are 37.5 acres to be cleared and 24 acres of grub- bing. Daily Cross- ACROSS Solution of Yesterdag's Puzzle word Puzzle 9. Metallic cement * roop Bign-of fire Utter 10. 11 Conjunction IE L ‘Word of cone sent Cira ard gam Bty Ci 16.. Cotton fabric nity ? in New ersey , Produces TIRIA[PHZE AII)-R A INDILISIT STl EIE Tree Deficient Blaze The one de- 18, 20. 22 23, & R Wopseis . Old times: Doet. Very hard variety of “feated 25, Boisterous quartz . Short for a man's name . Botch . French author Wild ox 27. Free from de- fect 28. 30. Transmits Spindle on which a wheci turns . 100 square . Fish cggs Flah esgt . THat abtained meters of a pro- miscuous mingling of things . Negative prefix 8. Cry-of a cat 5 Bartiot o doo 6. . 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