The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 19, 1934, Page 3

& et ——————— et THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, JULY 19.,1934. FINAL SHOWING TONIGHT EROM THE Li BROADWAYTO ITS SHADOWS —in one woman’s Jifetime! | l\a_v Francis THE HOUSE ON ™ STREEL RICARDO CORTEZ, JOHN HALLIDAY GENE RAYMOND, WILLIAM BOYD PREVIEW TONIGHT SLIM SUMMERVILLE and ANDY DEVINE in “HORSEPLAY” CAPITOL HELPS FOR HOUSEWIVES If you will cover material stained by iodine with a paste made of starch and water and leave it on until the paste becomes powdery and dry, you can just brush off the starch and find the stain gone. Mud stains can be taken off tan shoes or slippers if a slice of raw | potato is applied vigorously. like in spite of its official good and unpleasant to eat. Decorate the spinach, too, with slices of hard boiled egg, and cream it dur- ing its final moments on the stove. TAPE BOTTLE STOPPERS To prevent stoppers from coming out of bottles , when traveling fasten the stoppers with adhesive tape. THINGS TO REMEMBER Water containing baking soda, will make it sweet and clean if the original washing has not accom- plished this. AIDS TO BETTER | If you, or any member of your TASTING MEALS | family, bruise easily, use arnica, Always wash strawberries before | Which is a preventive of too much hulling so that no juice will be | discoloration. wasted. | And do you know that aspirin Always wash asparagus spinach thoroughly before cooking. |more pep? One of the reasons spinach has | e come in for so much personal dis- e O T S P TR 2 e o = G R 0 HEAR FOREIGN SHORT WAVE and all STANDARD BROADCASTS et ArwATER KENT s RADIO Come in today and let us demonstrate the big new thrill in radio enjoyment W. P. JOHNSON Distributor [ PSS, Thirteenth Annual South Eastern Alaska Fair JUNEAU, ALASKA September 12,13, 14 and 15 PREMIUM LISTS Write “W. S. PULLEN, Secretary and | Will give drooping flowers a little | KAY FRANCIS 1S CAST AS CHORUS GIRL ‘The House on 56th Street’, Closing Tonight at Capitol Theatre Kay Francis closes tonight at| the Capitol Theatre in her latest | arring picture for Warner Bros., e House on 56th Street,” a { | colorful drama based on the novel by Joseph Santley. Miss Francis plays the part of | one of the mosj beautiful and most popular of roadway butterfly | cnorus girls whose beauty and | charm’ get her into trouble. The characterization is said to be the most dramatic role of her career. the romance and the tragedies in the life of this show girl giving! run the gamut in emotional ex- pression. The story centers about the un- usual incidents in a mansion on 56th Street, built by a millionaire New York clubman for his chorus girl bride. At the height of her happiness, the young wife is torn ifrom husband and home and sent {to prison on a charge of murder- ing a former lover, though inno- cent. Later she returns to the same | housd, as mistress of a Blackjack | game. Colorful scenes take place in the |famous old Casino Theatre, now only a memory, at the time when | Floradora was the most popular | musical show of the day; at Sher- | ry's and Delmonico’s and other ren- dezvous of the Broadway play I boys of the early part of the cen- | tury. The story then leaps across| the years covered by the World| |War and comes down to modern| times, winding up with a spectac-! (GET NO ACTION 'FROM CONGRESS \Evils of Old Practices Are. Recognized by Pres- | | | | ent Leaders { ‘Continuev rrom rage One) d notice that he intended rec- | ognizing any Senator who wanted { to block such measures. { In the House, time and again Re- | publican Leader Snell and his aldes halted the mad rush by yelling louder than those seeking | passage of “pet” measures. i PASSING THE BUCK | ‘The difficulty in attempting lo‘] | control this situation lies in the fact that usually both houses have | been working at top speed day and | | night in an effort to adjourn. | | Nerves are frayed, everybody 15‘ | fatigued and anxious to get the! | session over so they can rest. Con- | sequently, there is a disposiuon‘ | to let down the bars. Once down, | the flood of bills rushes in. In the majority of cases even | the sponsors of these bills hardly |expect to see them become laws | Once through Congress, however, the other end of Pennsylvania| Avenue. What does it matter if, | the Presidential axe falls heavily| | and effectively? The member’s duty [to his constituents has been dis- charged. A CHANGING PICTURE | Some of the most loyal Admin-| istration supporters are not adverse to using this neat little political |trick. They have no malice in‘ their hearts against the Presi-| dent. They would bg the lastito, |admit any attempt to embarrass him. { They simply believe the Chief| Executive can better afford to take | |the chance. Their political sphere iis confined to a single state or| district. The President operates on a national scale and on nation- al issues. Mr. Roosevelt's practice how-| ever, of not only vetoing these bills but telling why in each in-| stance changes the picture some- what. It tends to rob the “hard- working, always alert” member of some of his political thunder. And it may result either in Congress deciding to remain in session until the proper considera- tion can be given these bills or in making ft virtuafly impossible for them to be brought up for {action at all {ALASKA TROLLERS MEET TOMORROW | A meeting of the Alaska Trollers | Association will be held in the La- |bor Temple tomorrow night at 8 o'clock, accordding to A. P. Wal- ker of Craig, who is making ar- rangefents for the gathering. Matters of importance to all members. will be discussed and Mr, iw.lher urges all to attend, KIN OF HARRIET BEECHER STOWE IS HOLLYWOOD “SAPPHIRE BLO.NDE”IGHURG‘H PAGK‘ED o, e LASTNIGHT AT (By ROBBIN COONS) HOLLYWGCOD, Cal, July 19— larrie: Beecner Stowe, the zeal- cus Tady W New England im- & press!o; prave could 1lollywosd’s I Not that Janst Be 3" descer ing. woman the least ¥ she is a rauch talent, and i Nut she is an actre: and she: has blue hair, definitely blue hair. Thé halr—to dispose of that first ~—Is simply the re: of that blue- inz dip which use to prevent yellowing. Miss Beecher has been ‘‘gray” since her early twenties, promature grayness running in her family, she says. In her case, the texture of her hair lets' it retain the blue tint to such an extent that in mpst lights it is more blue than silver. In Hollywood, of course, where the | standing is that it often is gritty | Miss PFrancis the opportunity t0icoining 6f catch phrases is a prof-| itable business, she becomes the “sapphire blonde.” The late Mrs. Stowe might have understcod that, but—a Beecher an actress? ACTRESS BY NECESSITY Harriett Beecher Stowe thought the theatre so wicked, says Janet Begcher, that she frowned on at- tempts to dramatize “Uncle Tom's Cabin.” Incidentally, that is one left standing in a baby's bottle,! house, now a fashionable gambling|of the few things she knows about her distinguished ancestry, off- hand, she having left the detailed study of the Beechers and ‘the Stowes to others less interested than she is in today. Miss Beecher, seen to advantage with Ann Harding in “Gallant Lady” herself came into the the- atre through necessity rather than choice. 'When family fortunes failed, she tried to earn a living as an artist, but playing an extra on the stage brought in three dol- lars more a week. She hated act- \JANET.BEECHER ing at first but long since fell in love with the professioin. When she was starring in “Courage,” on the stage, she played through a siege of influenza, giving one per- formance while a fever of 104 de- grees raged. She must like act- ing GLAD TO MAKE OWN WAY She is glad she nhas had to make her own way. She relishes achieve- ment. “People who have everything pro- vided for them,” she says, “miss so much in life. Without the downs, how can one appreciate the s? When you're working, every day is a thrill and a challenge. “Many a morning in the old days mother and I woke up to face the fact that we had just 25 cents— or less—in {lie house. What of it, we always said. That only made life more thrilling, more challeng- ing!” —e Her Portrait Cau s Dispute A,nort‘;llt M'M rion Davies (above), motion picture actress, which was placed on display threats from Mry. Jullanna Force, di art, that the = upon” the Americans. ( i entire American exhibit would be withdrawn. Mr { their responsibility is at an end.| did not want the portralt, which was the work of a Polish artist, to The buck has been passed to: hang in the American pavilion. She contended the painting w. ociated Pre: at the biennial art exhibition In Vénice, brought rector of the Whitney museum of Faorce "forced Photo) ROPER IS NOW ON WAY SOUTH SEWARD, Alaska, July 19.—Sec- retary of Commerce Roper arrived here Tuesday night from the Prib- ilofs and two hours later left on the coast guard cutter Tahoe for Seattle, via Sitka and Ketchikan, M oo o g LAND DIESEL ENGINE FROM AIRPLANE USING MATTRESSES, PARACHUTES A 20 horse-power diesel engine was transported from Valdez to the Big Four mine near that city eafly this month by airplane. As ho landing field was available, heavy and fragile parts of the mofor were wrapped in mattresses and dropped with parachutes from an altitude of 300 feet. The enzine was thus delivered without hatm within @ few hundred feet of the mine entrance. > FIRE DESTROYS SHOP OF MINING COMPANY Fire recently destroyed the ma- chine shop and most of the ma- chinery in it, except what could be pulled out with tractors, of the Yukon Consolidated Gold Corpora- tion, on Bear Creek, necar Dawson. The Dawson fire department Wwas called out and was able to prevémt the fire from spreading 1> other buildings. ———-——— ouwuluuun*‘- pire Office. GITY DEBTS ON INCREASE WASHINGTON, July 19.—Debts of American cities have begun to inciease again. The total now is estimated to be almost eighteen billion ddliars. ———————— WILL START WORK ON ‘RAILROAD PROJECT NOW The Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company is to start work this summer on the projécted Canadian North Eastern Rallroad, according to recent announcement. The line, .when completed, will connect Stewart, B. C.,, and Hyder, Alaska, with the Peace River dis- trict, and with one of the major railroad lines serving that district. As a result, one town of Alaska will have railroad communication with the resf of the United States. The sum of $30,000 is to be spent this year, i v FOUR BROKEN RIBS Joe Fournier, proprietor of the Hunker Summit roadhouse, near Dawson, recently suffered four broken ribs when he was thrown from a buckboard on which he was hauling hay, one bale landing on him and inflicting the injuries. | Ellen Recpj\fillis Nowell, FINE CONCERT Helen Torkelson, Give Several Encores The second concert given by El- | len Reep, singer, Willis Nowell,| violinist and Helen Torkelson, pia: ist, last evening in the Presby ian Church was equally as well ai b fended as the one Tuesday even-| ling. All seats being taken, chairs | were placed in the aisles to ac- | commodate the many Who wished ]to hear the music. All three were quite generous with encores, but even so, once or twice the program was carried for-} ward in spite of calls for another | selection. Miss Reep, whose rich contralto| voice has shown much growth since | her appearance here last year both | in volume and tone color, was call- ed upon for two encores. The first {was at the end of the group of| Norwegian songs which was met with much appreciation by the au- dience, and she sang “Kirken den, er et gammelt Hus,” a Norwegian, hymn. The prolonged applause brought forth by the singing of request number, “Mamselle Maric | by Guion, was followed by the en- |core of “Silvia” by Speaks. Demonstrates Mastery Willis Nowell again demonstrat- | {ed his mastery of the violin, and; {could have had more encores than | he took, playing the difficult “Hun- | garian Rhapsodie” by M. Hauser| |as a request number iustead of the | “Fantaise on Themes of Faust” which was on the program. Fol- lowing this selection, he was called (back on the stage for a bow, but refused to hold back the program. | He did play “Trees” which had | been requested, as an encore for | the “Mazurka” by Wieniawski. 1 Pleasing Artist Miss Torkelson found a very re- | ceptive and appreciative audience | for her two numbers, and after { playing “Romance in G-flat” by | Forge, she gave as an encore,| { “Moonlight Sonata” (second move- | ment) by Beethoven. As the crowning numbers on the | | program, Miss Reep sang with vio- | |lin and piano accompaniment, “‘Hindoo Song” by Bemberg, and “Ave Maria,” by Bach Gounod, i!\; which Mr. Nowell’s violin obligato | |and Miss Reep's voice blended| | beautifully. The insistence of the | | audience upon another encore | { brought the great favorite, “Be- | ceuse, (from™ Jocelyn) by God-| | ard, which was part of the pro- |gram Tuesday evening, and which ! (had been requested for last night. Following the concert, many pressed forward to express their | felicitations to the musicians, and | | their appreciation for having had | | the opportunity to hear and enjoy them. | Mrs. Carol Beery Davis was the | efficient accompanist. ARKANSAS T0 " PRAY FRIDAY FOR RAINFALL {Drought Situation Is Now Approaching Intensity of Famine in 1930 FORT SMITH, Arkansas, July 19. —Farmers of Arkansas, who have Jjust repaid South Dakota for that State's aid during the drought and |famine of 1930, are now threatened with even a worse blight. State and county officials de- scribed the prolonged drought now already approaching the 1930 in- tensity. The heat wave here is the worse in the city’s history and a sea- sonal record yesterday of 106.2 de- grees for the third consecutive day. Friday will be a day for prayer for rain. Meal of Ancient Gaels | Relished by Stray Dog CLONES, Irish Free State, July| 19.—Achaeological cxcavators were excited here by the discovery, in an ancient plot, of food which they estimated to be at least 2,- 000 years old. After a cursory examination, they reverently laid it down in the | shade of the ancient tumulus they were excayating and returned to seek fresh treasure. When they returned the pot was empty. No one, it seemed, had noticed a friendly dog. ek The animal lay before them licking its chops, totally uncon- cerned that it had set a record by having a meal 2,000 ycars old. e ——— Icy Straits Salmon TONIGHT AND TOMORROW 600 ANY SEATs 289 € TiME BRUCE CABOT BETTY FURNESS e SESSNT IR COAL BUNKERS WILI, CLOSE AT 1 P.M. SATUR- DAYS DURING May, June, July and August Your cooperation in placiug orders for week-end requirements will be appreciated. BURN ’ Indian Egg Lump $12.00 per ton at bunkers Your § is bigger when yousburm s & Indian Egg-Lump PHONE 412 PACIFIC COAST COAL Co. (] - 4] SUNEAU %) ALASKA ALASKA MEAT CO. | FEATURING CAKSTEN’S BABY BEEF—DIAMOND TC HAMS AND EACON—U. £. Government Inspected B e UNITED FOOD CO. CASH GROCERS Phone 16 We, Deliver Meats—Phone 1‘ 1 Process Served Confidential Investigations Alaska Detective Agency WM. FFERO, Manager Room 1, Shattuck Building P. O, Box 968 PERMANENT WAVES That Keep the Ends Always in Curl No more straggly ends—with this permgnent that’s rolled up from the ends. And the soft- est, most natural wave on top. It's only $6. Peter Pan Beauty Shoppe Company Incorporated, OLYMPIA, Wash., July 19.—Cor- porate filing with the Secretary of State includes the Icy Straits Salmon Company, of Hoonah, Al- aska, capital stock of $50,000 and power of attorney to P. J. Andrae, of Seattle. PHONE 221 « Evenings by Appointment SECOND FLOOR—TRIANGLE BLDG. 0ld Papers for Sale at Empire O