The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 13, 1933, Page 3

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE,-FRIDAY, OCT. 13,-1933. | LAUGH RIOT L. |it BOILS over with LAUGHS | PLAYING AT and MERRIMENT ! THE CAPITOL H E E LE R & Wheeler andWoolsey Have Audiences Hilarious in ‘So This Is Africa’ Bert Wheeler takes his' cracking voice and Robert Woolsey his in- evitable cigar deep into the for- bidding depths of the African jun- gle in their latest comedy, “S8o This Is Africa!” a Columbia picture ! which convulsed the crowd at the' Capitol Theatre last night. The! real perils of th: jungle encoun-! tered in this instance are not wild | animals, but wild women, a highly | amorous tribe of beautiful Amazons led by Raquel Torres. Wheeler and Woolsey fall more or less willing| victims. “So This Is Africal” written by Norman Krasna and directed by Eddie Cline, who made “Million Dollar Legs,” takes its cue from the numerous jungle thrillers that have hit the country's screens in See for yr)ursv“ WHY Afric Jdexploiers NEVER Come Bac MATINEE Ve 2o 2% M, recent months and proceeds to show what happens when a pair of SATURDAY intrepid explorers like Wheeler and Woolszy try to shed a Iittle light on the dark continént. Their safari consists of a beautiful blonde who plans to make a motion picture record of thelr exploits, a pack horse for Bob Woolsey's special edi- tion of the Encyclopasdia Britan- nica, a St. Bernard dog and a re- peating rifle that repeats three times and dies. If Africa never was quite as wild as it has been pictured, it certainly goes wild when this comic caravan lands to disrupt the peace (and quiet of its jungles. Even the | animals are too busy laughing to themselves to molest the invaders, who, among other startling discov- | eries, stumble upon Africa’s fa- With considerably more than a,mous backward tribe—walking hundred ounces of gold recovered backwards as - backward tribes | from the gravels of the Clearwater [should. Another laugh is Bert River, the Barrington Mines, Ltc.,' Wheeler donning hiking boots be- | discontinued operations for the sea- | fore retiring for the night, in an- |son. Captain Barrington reporfs"lmpauon of walking in his sleep. | that while much of the work done |Some new, perplexing problems for this summer was in the nature of the explorers to solve are always | prospecting and developing, the popping out from behind tree and | clean-up is entirely satisfflctory'thiCket. and operations will be resumed! Esther Muir plays the role of | early in the spring. yMr< Johnson-Martini, greatest ex- y Capt. and Mrs. Hill Barrington, pert on Africa and African cus- | and their son Billy, will make) toms in the world. ! their home in Wrangell this winter,| An interesting news reel, showing |as will Jack Wilson. A. W. H.|among other events, President \Smith. Business Manager for the Roosevelt visiting the reforestation | Barrington Company and Chieficamps of Virginia and enjoying | Engineer Emerson Reid make also, luncheon with the boys, and se- decide to stay in Wrangell this|lected short subjects completes Iwinter. |this entertaining program at the Captain and Mrs. S. C. Bar- | Capitol Theatre. | rington have booked passage on —e——— wn |the Yukon to Seattle where they |have their home in the Queen| | Anne district. | .- Adults 25¢ Kiddies 10c CAPITOL W here the BIG Hits Play CLEARWATER OPERATORS PRONOUNCED VERY GOQD Union University at Jackson, Tenn., began: its 99th session. this fall. | ! (Wrangell Sentinel) “Tomorrow’s Styles Today” EXCLUSIVELY | Deal Theodore Hoover of Stan- ford Uniyersity, brother of former President Hoover, has offered to “ B i ” donate ‘to the state 1,150 acres to Junéaw’s Own Store ’ Lightning, striking the home of | increase the size of the California | L. L. Summers, Massillon, O., bent , Redwood park, if matched by a la pan filled with water. similar acreage. lrypewmemgam?o K..Says ORAMATIC FILM WILD HORSES orothy; Sli¢ Has Double Role gp 1| KNGS REPORTED IN o con PLAYING HERE MINN.FORESTS HOLLYWOOD, * C&l Oct. 13-— With fanfare and trumpets film- Oct. 13, | s from land “discovers” its Cinderellas. But one year later? Here is Dorothy Wilson, whos2 entry into the film limelight’ Was FAY WRRY GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Adding a variety to ta The Woman [ Stole” Star-- Donald Cock Meah Becry lof the sort that Hollywood loyes gt Jack EIDIt and: Fay |[netes Sy i heae Sl Raquol Torres ::f:;‘f: it "enhances Hollywoad's | Wray Is at Coliseum n and that Indians sometimes | TONIGHT & s ture one of the animals for| | Until a year ago, you'll remem- ‘ber Dorothy was a stenographer jon the RKO lot. Then ‘came the day ‘when she went to lunch, as she’ always did, in the studio cof- | missary and afterwards returned ito her typing as she always did. Only that aft:rnoon was differéht | because she was summoned to the 1office of a director. Gregory' La- {Cava had seen her as she walked |Lo lunch, and she was “just the typs" he needed for “The "Age ‘of farming cut-over lands. ich resemble draft e believed to have origi- CO[ISEUM s from lumber | G als left in the | Adults 30c Kiddies 10¢ “Juneau’s Largest is by timber operators who re-) Entertainment Value” m on breaking camp. € ago wild horses were nu-“’,""o_‘”-,’.‘"’ {merous in Minnesota woods, and | traders of captured many head. | % \ is strik- | ,Another of those colorful, fa foving tales by the famous novel- | stee ist, Joseph Hergesheimer, reached the local motion picture screen . last night when his popular “Tam- pico," produced by Columbia and|] starring Jack Holt and Fay Wray, opened at the Coliseum Theat The feature title is “The Woman 1 Stole.” “The Woman I Stole” SEE BIG VAN reveals| cock- | oil fields, | Consent.” sl G colortul | Guns and Ammunition ! —_ o :;Lr‘;{gi“f:"hew’;?an;; ‘v‘;}‘:;; m is completed with | | 204 Front St. 205 Seward St. So Presto!— l he desires he takes. He can't be|, 5 aud ACEVE ol e { GUNS FOR RENT And, then she was Hollywood's /28 bought, bluffed nor frightened. He 4 (A AL ____i is absolutely sure of himself—and +has a right to be. Dcrcthy Wilson, drafted, from | This time Jack, as the oil- m'\uwdmvym_d to p “newest Cinderella,” especially &f- ter they saw her performance. She was given a contract, became; a ately one-third of the | s of the nation are oduction of cotton. DOROTHY WILSON The aavertsemems »ring gou news of better things to have and ier ways to live. “Wampas baby star"—and a ctenographer’s desk for a Dnate, Jim Bradier, happens g4 SRelar. AN e as often happens, was overlool role in “The Age of Censent” | Want Vida Corew, wife of the sup-| when the good roles were beifig) isn't leiting the future worry erintendent he has placed in !charge of the fields. He doesn't hesitate to tell Corew that he| wants his wife and is going to take her. And she—Fay Wray—is| willing to go away with him. But to men like Jim Bradier, their work comes before women or any other interests. There is a crooked general manager, Lentz, who is delivering the Alianza Oil Company over slowly to its rival. He must be disposed of—and !s.: There is a bandit chieftain, a| General Rayon, who loots the Ali- anza payrolls and fires its wells. Bradier puts an end fo his evil ac- | tivities. The Alianza affairs must be straightened out, and Bradier | straightens them. her. | passed around. | i Recently she sought release trf‘n' {the contract a month before it would have expired, and szt out fo see what she could do on her own. She says she is trying fo get. b&pk’ in—although in fact she 'hgs scarcely been “out,” inasmuch B@s she has just finished the lead op- posite Richard Cromwell in' “Above the Clouds.” If the good parts don’t up, she’ll be ready to go back to her typewriter. THREE BROTHERS GET NET TITLES MUSKOGEE, Okla., Oct. 13.—A family of tennis champions are the McSpadden brothers of Tahlequah, Okla., who recently cornéred hon- ors at the eastern Oklahoma tour- nament. Ray, oldest' of the three, retain- ed his men’s singles crown. Vance, the youngest, won the junior dou- bles title with Ed Lindsey of Ok- Wool Frocks Are Getting Gay! $8.75 Looking Ahead Here is Cinderella facing the future: “I would like to keep on as an dctress. I like the work and I don’t know any better way to make as much money. as you can by acling. lahoma City. Tom, the “in-be- But I've seen it happen too often— tween” brother, won the junior T was a stenographer on the old singles title by defeating Vance in ‘Pathe and the RKO lots two years the finals. before I got into pictures—I've Ray, 21, also won the Tri-State seen too many ‘discoveries’ comge crown at Miami, Okla. last year. and go to have any illusions about Tom is 18, and was runnerup in myself. I'm not going to hang on the Oklahoma collegiate meet this as an actress who isn’t working. year, and Vance, 16, was runnerup “If T ever spend six months with- in the state high school champion- out a part in pictures I am going ships. to get on a tramp steamer, sce the world, and then come back and look for a job—yes, at the type- writer. “If it turns out that I must go By the time all this is accom- plished, he doesn't want Vida Co- rew, Her husband doesn’t want her either. So she vanishes from | the picture, lamented by no one! And Bradier and Corew, bitter ene- mies on her account, are, in me1 end, the best of friends, drinking| heartily together and starting off| to conquer another bit of nature | and turn out more oil for the Progeny of Planter Eat {0 from Tree 128 Years Old Holt, as always, is splendid, He COLUMBUS, Tenn,, Oct. 13— '802s easily through all the diffi- back to stenography, I won’t| bé A pear tree set ouv n 1805 supplied culties he has to meet, always the broken-hearted. T'll be glad tH&Y fruit this summer for a dinner at- thorough, competent, clean-cut T've had the experience and start tended by descendants of the man' fighting man. Fay Wray is the Wool dresses were never so important and they were never so dressed up! Satin taps, clever necklines make them dresses you can wear anywhere. Of course, if from there.” who planted it. vacillating Vida Corew and gives Hollywood didn't spoil this Gin-| Seed from which the tree grew a fine performance in a difficult|| YOU take your woolens derella! % i was given -Jacob ‘Lawrence by 'a’ Part. Her husband is Donald strictly “:llfll‘?dv we have L, R R fruit tree agent 128 years ago in; Cook, who is strengthened and them, too! Leo Durocher, St. Loufs Cardi- nal shortstop, plays polo in winter ‘months. payment for a night's lodging.' made a better man through the the This season the tree was loaded dificulties he has with her. | with pears of fine quality. | Two other players deserving of The tree, however, did not bear mention are Noah Beery, as the Season ticket prices have been fruit until it was 25 years old. bandit chief, General Rayon and|| Black . . Brown slashed about 50 per cent for Uni- Dr. Josiah Lowrance, a son of the the ofher is little, dark-eyed Ra- R Olivett versity of North Carolina football planter, bored a hole through the quel Torres as a dance-hall singer ust . . welte ‘this year. trunk, members of the family re-|in love with the hero. Eel G Gray . Taupe —————— Daily Empire Want Ads Pay. in a sma]l desert in Northern Africa The setting, edged town call, and it has never failed to] yield a_full crop since. Sizes 16 to 40 * SATURDAY * SPECiALS F resh Nut Bread . 25¢ Cream Puffs, 2 for. 15¢ Fresh Cream PIES Boston Cream PIES Pumpkin—Large Marshmallow Rolls 30(; Chopo]ath——Each quality of our LR "JUNEAU BA‘KERY We extelld w mfi:ere thanks;m the people of Juneau and vicinity for their wonderful, support and: patrenage accorded us during the, past: yeat, and: are prpud to be able to assure you that we will always strive to impnoge omwr sepvice and. the NEW SILKS! In. contyasting trims of velvet or.satin. Many colors! 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