The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 1, 1934, Page 3

THEATRE LAST TIME TONIGHT By ROBBIN COONS HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Octo 1.— Four years have made a difference e . in the attitude of Evelyn Laye SHE PLAYED WITH THE)] [blue-eved English singing star,, to- 5 ward Hollywood and king pic- tOVE OF A SAVAGE tures. So is back, and right AND THOUGHTAIT) |[happy to be here < Her previous experience starring LOADS OF FUN! in “One Heavenly the i thought she ws very them and nothing a studio could offer was sufficier 0 induce her to remain. b & al' offer from Irv- ng she says, “but T felt the stag Then- I and—and our finest English di- responsible, £ u : Victor Savil. DANGER AHEAD! lt George Arliss in ‘Welling- k took me in nd and The ok restrantsof urciv- showed me ho shall I how Hlestion meant nothing to | ot to act- He pointed out that I ber ‘toy"barbari too busy to be good, too oc- cupied in doing things before the | camera, He showed me that I had ma e ake of acting, too i enthusiastically, rather than being (natural. He mi me want to | make good in Hollywood.” | Offer Still Holds So when, Irving Thalberg and rma Shearer were last in Eu- Evelyn Laye telephoned for | ppointment and asked if his |old offer were still good. It was— |and so Ramon Novarro has for co- ‘&lnr in “The Night Is Young” the Hk‘PBUHN HAS {new screen operetta, the young ac- | tress whose pink-and-white dainti- | ness f'nchmund New York in “Bit- GREAT ROLE =~ Slnc(' leaving Hollywood Miss Laye has played return engage- ments in that Noel Coward mus | cal, has made films, and more re- | cently has starred in the Max Reinhardt production of “La Belle Dramatic Actress POHI’AV‘ Helene” in London. She approached IN “SPITFIRE" that assignment with some trepi- Fpe brand Mountain Girl | dation, awed by the fame of the in Capllol FeatL re 1”““‘ B0, | Likes ‘Gentle’ Directors ; | n “Spitfire,” now showing at ihe| «For some days at rehearsals I Capitol Theatre, Katharine Hep-|waited to be directed by Rein- burn again gives motion picture|hardt, and I never was. It began to fans something to discuss. She Por-| worry me, for I w re he was ys a character entirely differ-| thinking me terrible,” she relates. ent from any she has hitherto|“He was always very sweet and done, and gives a superb perform- |gentle, but the only direction I was ance. | having from him was an occasional As Trigger, devout, profane, deep- | request that I smile more. ly itual and a rock-throwing| «I became so worried that I went firebrand, she is impressive and at|to the producer anc times seems inspired. She practi-!learn from Reinha arries the whole show what was the and | matter. And I was immensely flat- one feeling that one hastereq n he returned and told wed a great stage drama, touch-|me nothing was wrong, that Rein- ed the elemental in emotion and|hardt was pleased with me, and viewed a g | that all he really could suggest was vail, emergir that I smile more. There is sufficient comedy to “T like gentle, soft-spoken direc- somewhat lighten the somber, m00- | tors. There are some, you know, dy key in which “Spitfir¢ " is pitch-| who roar and bawl at one, and the ed» and a splendid c.?& supports | |effect upon the player is exactly Miss Hepburn in this dnmmm‘ the opposite from what they de- story set in the grim, mountainoussire.” country of the south, where dis-| Miss Laye's friendship for Frank trust and superstition take L‘w\y_,,“mn young English actor who place of literacy. It is a deeply| | will be “David Copperfield,” has moving story with a powerful heart | occasioned reports of their engage- appeal, and is beautifully told bY|ment Miss Hepburn, Robert Young, Mar-| <y friend. she says of tha Sleeper, Ralph Bellamy, Louis|those reports, “and if there is Mason and others in the outstand-|anything else to announce—we will ing cast. }announce it.” |cials who have been out delivering |speeches have been careful to dis- |claim any political intent or desire. Farley, Morgenthau Devoted to Chief; Actions Dlfi(’renl |firesses for publication through the EDemocratic National Headquarters. | Apparently Mr. Roosevelt intend- — |ed that, for the present, each key Morgenthau, like Farley! could official should let his conscience be hardly have acted without the his guide in interpreting the Presi- knowledge of his chief. At least dential mind. there is no sign that the President| But obvously some day there is was all put out about what hap-|likely to be a round-up of consci- pened at the Treasury. \enrxrs and a more definite policy. |1t is the guess of politicians that A MIDDLE COURSE? the line will be laid down some- Scattered between these two ex-|Wwhere between the, views of Mr. tremes are the other eight depart-|Farley and those of Mr. Morgen- ments and numerous independnt thau. bureaus, commissions, and agencies. Some of the Govemmem cfr ¢Continued rrom s-age One) R SHOP IN JUNEAU! asked him to , |Others have given out their ad-! THE DAILY ALASKA LVIPIRL. MONDAY, OCT. wErolvn Laye Duln’t Lflm Tu’ktns' —-Until Shown ‘Hmr \ot to 4(‘t | HUGH WALPOLE EVELYN LAYE Talkie cameras don't bother Evelyn Laye any more, so back in Hellywe th Ramon Novarre. PWA ARTISTS HAVE COFIED HISTGRIC OIL PAlNTlNG ;RECEIVED | “The Signing of the Alaska Trea- copied in oil from the original iting by Leutze, has been re- i ere, a preser n to Gov. John W. Troy on behalf of the rritory by the Secretary of the| erior Harold L. Ickes. The orig- paint hangs the Na- Museum in W; nd that received here is tem rily hanging in the office of | the Territorial Sec: Four by six feet in dimension, and beautifully executed, the large oil painting, recordin moment at 4 o'clock in the morning | on March 30, 1367, when the Alaska | ie historic | NEW NOVEL BY | IS CONTEMPORY Sabatini Wg; Adventure ' Tale—'The Ebony Box High-Grade Mystery | JOHN SELBY “Captain Nich- olas” returns Mr. Walpole and his readers to the present, with the| Ipurpose of contemplating at leisure | what happens when a wholly con-| ;science-less ‘man settles himself in |the midst of a wholly content and | |thoroughly proper family. | { And Mr. Walpole fulfills his pur- !'pose with his accustomed straight- wrdness. Captain Nicholas i no good. He has been livi hout a qualm and with complete onesty on his charm and v\hwxe\el was convenient for 10| He has not written his| ister Fanny. And suddenly he ar- rives at her house lowly' Faany, her husband| her children, her mother- in-law and her brother are drawn into Nicholas' power. He subtly sets one against another, usually | without anyone’s realizing it. There is a counter theme in the ex-| perience of Nicholas’ clever but| {vaguely reptilian daughter. There is |a perfectly prepared chmax—-»a.nrl’ |the end. “ Mr. Walpole has seldom wnu(‘n ( better prose than in “Captain Nich- ’olas." By Hugh Walpole's | Charles, | Thumbnail Reviews | “Entirely Surrounded,” by Cha.rle\ Brackett (Knopf): sopmsticatea !many of them recognizgble Lhrough’ their diahphanous disguises, dis- (port themselves satirically upon an‘ island; for those who like to watch sophisticates cavort. ‘ The Ebony Box,” by J.S. Fleteh- | ler (Knopf): the book is h grade Fletcher, which will tell what the mystery fans want to know;Chaney _land Camberwell are again at work “My | Dennis Normandy,” (Dutton) : by Mary Cable an affectionate | saccount of life in a tiny Norman | jvillage by a woman every day of “Horse Nonsense,” by W. C. Sel- (lar and R. J. Yeatman (Morrow): |a really funny book about the cult who enjoys Treaty was signed, and the great A Territory became the property 01‘01 the horse at its most non- the United States of America, is a sensical. [ cent example far-| Victorian England ! ng effects of the PWA. For| ‘Full Flavour,” by Doris Leslie s this splendid work of art as cop_uw“mumm the long story of ijed by Lynn Fausett and Helen atherine Ducrox’s progress through | Wessells, under the provisions of the Victorian era and almost up t jc Works Administration. |t the present; a leisurely “chron- acters de State Wil- Stoeckl, of Seward, Edward Russian Ambassador, to the United States; Mr. Chew, Chief Clerk, Mr. Hunter and Mr. Bodisce, who are standing in the b comparing | the French i English copies of| the treaty, Senator Charles Sum- ner, chairman of the foreign rela-| tions committee, F, W. S sistant Secretary of State, all of whom took part in the final scene in the transfer of Alaska from the Russia of the Czars, to the United States. e WILLIAM CHILDS 0 FILL VACANT POST OF CHIEF JAILER William Childs, dent, has been Jailer to replace the late James McClos- key, effective today, according to an announcement made this morn- ing by United States Marshal Will- iam T. Mahoney. James McCloskey,. Jr., has been appointed to the position of guard, to fill the place left .vacant by Mr. Childs’s promotion, Marshal Mahoney announced. well known resi- appointed Chief NOTICE Women of the Moose will give a October 6. —adv. TROOPS BATTLE RHODE ISLAND TEXTILE STRIKERS " Rhode Island national nulrfiman sent to Saylesville, scene of severe rioting in th. textile strike, are shown swinging clubs and t,mfllng gas bombs in their efforts to disperse hostile strike pickets. Several persons were hurt in a series outbreaks in whlcn rloterl camd _mill. (Alnchh‘ Press Photo), _— "~ sonlldorablo damagc to a textile cted in the paint-|* ard, As-| of the Juneau Federal Jail, | > novel” about a Victorian who |was not precisely according to the mode. | “The Tavern Rogue,” by Robert Gordon Anderson (Farrar and Rine |hart): a giddy story about the il- ilegitimate half brother of the Earl | lof Essex, poet, brawler, fighter Alld [lover in the Engiand of Elizabeth. | “Reshaping Agriculture,” by O. W. Wilcox (Norton): a fascinating study of the possible course of ag- riculture; Dr. Wilcox does mnot hesitate to give practical hints as well as the theoretical analysis. “General Buntop's Miracle, Martin Armstrong (H Brace): A group of amusing, though very English, short stories which | sometimes sound rather of a piece, | but really aren’t. “Venetian Masque,” by Rafael | Sabatini (Houghton, Mifflin): the creator of Scaramouche sends an- other such hero as he on a secret and highly dangerous mission to Venice in Napoleonic da; arm-= chair adventurers will want to go| along. . . 80000 s cuwvonoe . AT THE HOTELS L4 S0 000 eevsecvcye Gastineau L. E. Tucker, Monrovia, Cal; Dick Farkas, San Francisco; Eldred Ireland, San Francisco; F. E.| Swartz, Juneau; A. B. Searle, Se- attle; A. J. Dimond, Valdez; B. C. Brown, Valdez; L. C. Wright, Val-{ dez; Bob Du Pree; Dave Walker, Port Althorp; George Gechett, Port Althorp; J. A. Berg, Tenakee; J. T. Tenneson, Seattle; George Durner, Juneau; John Bebbraidich; Mrs. B. Ardis, Butte, Mont.; J. A. Suarez; C. R. Wright, Hoonah. Alaskan 1. Robinson, Juneau; Nels Bjerk- ness, Juneau; Gust Niketes, Ju- neau; Gus Erickson, Lisianski In- let; Matt Saul, Lisianski Inlet] Hans Lund, Juneau; Neil Galla gher, Funter; Mrs. A. Maki, Ten akee; Mammire Maki, Tenakee; A. Toverson, Cordova; Nels Kyshol, Cordova; Mike Curraw, Fairbanks H. G. Carter, Fairbanks; K. Lour- ing, Seattle; Florence R. Mathews, Skagway; F. C. Edwards, Seward, H. B. Crain, Eagle River; Fred Story, Sitka; Nick Sucei, Juneau; A. J. Gillis, Juneau; James O'Con- nors, Juneau. | Zynda J. P. Morgan, Juneau; Mr. and Mrs. Howard Ashley, SkagwuV; George E. Moran, Anchorage; G. F. McDowell, Juneau; Roald C. Cap- stead, Juneau; Alf Skoflestad, Mrs. Alf Skoflestad; Mrs. Robert Green- erald, Hoonah. .. DIVORCE SUIT FILED On September 29, Mrs. Ford But- ler filed suit for divorce from Ford Butler in the office of the U. 8. Clerk of the Courfy g5, 8. leader’s daughter. in Mayfair, grows until he forgets his native , 11934, FIRST ROOSEVELT CABINET BABY Marcus, three-weeks-old son of Assistant Secretary of War Harry Woodring, former governor of Kansas, and Mrs. Woodring, is shown with his proud parents at their summer home near Washington. Mrs. Woodring is the daughter of Senator Marcus Coolidge of Massachu« setts. (Associated Press Photo) UNUSUAL FILM IS VEHICLE FOR FOREIGN STARM {Francis Ledener Makes Hol— Duna, creates the native wife with I\'WOOd Bow in Man Of ‘lare sympathy and understanding. y b 7 | Henry Stephenson, J. Farrell| Two Worlds,” Coliseum {macponald, saran Padden, walter| Wi[& A crashing and heart-touch- situation. the role of the | hunter, Lederer essayed a difficult and daring characterization. So kkl}l!‘ull,\' has he played it, however, that his Aigo will be H‘mvmbvl('d and loved by audiences, long after | the moq cohventional (!uxucmrs JByron, Emile Chautard, Forrester| A new personality flashes bril-|Harvey, and other sterling per- liantly across the cinema horizon |formers contribute exceptional sup- in “Man of Two Worlds,” the RKO- 'port. ‘ {Radio Picture at the Coliseum The- | J. Wal Ruben has done mas- ater. Francis Lederer who brought terly work with his direction. The an international reputation to the screen play by Howard J. Green American pictures with his stage and Ainsworth Morgan is based on successes New York and Europe, the latter’s novel, “Man of Two gives a fine performance in “Man Worlds. |of Two Worlds.” [ - PUPEFLEIET. Elissa Landi, co-starred with Lederer in the production, gives a [PRICE OF HALIBUT sparkling portrayal which is par lel to that of Lederer, although her | IS HIGH AT SEATTLE {role is briefer | iy e “Man of Two Worlds” is the| SEATTLE, t. 1—Halibut ar tory of a mighty Arctic hunter rivals today were the Norrona, from who is taken from Greenland tothe western banks, with 19,000 | London by scientists for whom he|Pounds, selling for 10% and 9 ihas acted as guide. He has con- | Cent Argo, from Area One, Wwith ceived a strange worshipping pas- 2:500 pounds of halibut and 17,000 sion for the photograph of the Sable, selling for 11 and 8 and 3% cents. The Merif came in from the local banks with 12,000 pounds of sable selling for 4% cents. When he meets the girl in flesh, his hopeless infatuation I awson thtlo I;s Vm‘or | B — William Lawson Little, the broad shouldered scion of an army officer at the Presidio of San Francisco, is the amateur golf cham- pion of two countries, England and America. He won the American title September 15 thus equaling the performance of Bobby Jones and Harold Hilton, who won these championships the same year, the big hitter from the Coast absolutely butchering young David Geldman of Dallas, Texas, in a final round that was almost brutal. The score was 8 up and 7 to play. It was ose of the most em- phatic beatings a player has sustained in some years of champion- ship play. Goldman simply conld not hope to stand up to the type of play that'Little put on for the edification of a 3,500 gallery. Little came through three under a very tough par at the Brook- line, Mass., match. He won the British title some months ago from James Wallace by 14 and 13, ing climax results from this strange i untutored stetfi! | Another NOW PLAY:INC“' ALSO Vincent Lopez Donald Novis Mills Bros. Arthur Tracy in THE LITTLE BROADCAST Walt Disney’s MICKEY MOUSE Pet Shop ® e ; LATE NEWS = o o o - o BIG GAME HUNTERS | bes of the sy und i ARE SOUTHBOUND ON | nunting i the Webws nave made | hunting trip the Webbs have made . Alaska and all procured their STEAMER ALEUT]AN limit of game on the hunt just completed. | Among the southbound passen-| Two other parties are aboard the igers on the Aleutian, in port on |Aleutian after completing hunts in Saturday, were several big game |the Territory, Mr. and Mrs. Frank hunting parties that have been at|B. Foster and daughter of Haver- the Westward and Interior, for a |ford, Penn., and A. J. Casper of {month or six weeks each, procuring | Union City, New Jersey. The form- |game and photographs. All ex- er spent their time on the Kenai | pressed themselves as well satisfied Peninsula, and .the latter in the with their hunts and are now re- Healy district. turning home with fine trophies,| according to E. M. Goddard, acting Bcutive Otfcer of the Alska DEER ARE PLENTIFUL 3ame Commiasian: | IN HILLS, ACCORDING J. W. Peake, of El Paso, Texas, | Wwho with his wie made the Yukon | TO WARDEN DUFRESNE Circle tour, has been hunting in| the vicinity of Fairbanks and An-| Deer Seem plentiful though they | chorage since early in August. Both are far back in the valleys and on {were here for a short time on Sat- the hills, gccording to Frank Du- urday, and said they were delight-| fresne, Alaska Game Warden, who ed with their trip. ‘mtumed to his Juneau headquar- big game hunter, who ters last Saturday aboard the Sea !has been in Alaska since last May, Otter after completing a patrol and was aboard the Aleutian south- trip around Admiralty Island and bound, is Fred W. Hollander, of in the Chatham Straits area. New York City. Mr. Hollander spent| On his patrol warden Dufresne several weeks in the vicinity of Visited two hunting parties from Juneau fishing and hunting before Chilkoot Barracks, camped at Chalk leaving for the Westward. He is and Kelp Bay. There were twenty primarily interested in photography, in the party, divided into two and obtained some splendid motion' groups of ten each, headed by Col. pictures and still pictures of game. R. W. Dusenbury, commanding of- He covered the Interior and Kenal ficer of Chilkoot Barracks. They Peninsula, fishing and hunting in 'spent tem days fishing and hunt- the region of McKinley Park, Rich- ing and though on® five deer ardson| Highway and Peninsula.| Were obtained, they said they had Slim Crocker, registered guide of seen them in considerable numbers Anchorage, accompanied him on back from the beach. ‘thn entire hunt and they pmcuredr ———— | some choice specimens of moose,, STEWART—BUNZEL sheep and brown bear. | Miss Lillian Stewart, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, J. Watson Webb, Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Stewart, of their three sons, of New York, and | Hyder, becarie the bride of Hans Howard M. Newton, of New Haven, Bunzel September 18. The mar- Conn., made up an enthusiastic, riage, performed by U. S. Commis- hunting party which has spent sioner Charles F. Sanford, was fol« |more than a month hunting nenr; lowed by a luncheon and reception the Rainy Pass district in the west- ' for friends of the bride and groom. 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