The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 4, 1935, Page 3

AT PLAYHOUSE “The, Wikl Bac” with Judith Allen and Tom Brown at Colilseum THEATRE LA.,T SHOWING TONIGHT “l'lll o T \\ MPET. ‘& with 0 ADOLPHE MENJOU MIDNIGHT PREVIEW SHOWING. erican 'playwright is coming Tues- | day to the screen of the Coliseum Theatre. “The Witching Hour” is the play, and Augustus Thomas is the playwright. Wtih a theme of intense inter- | est to modern psychologists, the both dramatic, and peculiarly poig- nant, at the same time. Something of the sentimental, nostalgic qual- ity of “Smiling Through” is found in the romance of Judge Prentice which survives through many years of frustration to come to the aid |of two young lovers badly in need of help. The young lovers are played by | Judith Allen, as Nancy Brookfield, and Tom Brown, as Clay Thorne. | Both are rising young luminaries |in the cinema sky. In the story, Thorne has a phobia or complex |on cat's-eyes, which are scml~prec- |lous jewels and not the eyes of al | feline. | Superstition has long attached |itself to these strange jewels; and ‘the superstition works on Thorne | to the extent of forcing him into | a fantastic crime. | murder, but when he did it, or s = mas' famous AugUS'”’ Thom § millions play beloved b cHING \\\{C\ R SIR GUY STANDING JOHN HALLIDAY JUDITH ALLEN TOM BROWN A Paramount Picture motést idea. | It is in the defense of Thorne that Judge Prentice and his ro- mance of long ago play such an important part. If the crime can be called fantastic, the defense is even more so. And, while “The Witching Hour” certainly is not a one “courtroom picture,” it has |seene in' the chambers of jus that has seldom been exceeded for dramatic suspense and intensity. R ‘SQDU additional for to $9,000, while 50 percent of the amount in the case of death of a‘ non- cmzen is allowed and 60 per- ; HOUSE PASSES FOR AGGIBENTS and the amount of (‘ovcrage in each Now Goes to Senate Where SILVER PRICE IS ADVANGING Commlwmn u) delcrmmf- The bfll Simitar Measure Is | Under Consideration | FAST SENDER IS INSTALLED NOW makes all industrial plants, subject COmCS to Fronl as POllllCal AT RADIO OFFICE| go-Green bill provides that upon to the act. Economic Question— et Experts’ Views the death of an alien which at| An automatic radio transmitter work under the industrial act who has been installed in the Juneau has no dependents the difference office of the United States Signal between his burial expenses, $195, Corps. The new transmitter is cap- | and the amount allowed for death |able of sending 200 words a min- under the act shall go to the old ute but can be controlled as low age pension fund. Also the differ-|as 50 words a minute. The installa- ence between thé amount paid to | tion of the transmitter shows a step citizens and aliens goes to the old | toward greater efficiency in caring age pension fund where no de- | for outgoing business which has pendents exist. The payment for | been increasing at a terrific rate death of a citizen is $4,500 with ' during the past several months. i e each child up e — - | NEW YORK, March 4— The spurt of silver to 577% cents an cunce, higher than any yearly av- erage since 1928, cast the Govern- ment’s silver purchase policy to the forefront as a political economic question. With the export levy clamped on by the Government in China to keep the white metal within that country, experts predicted the Unit- ed States will have a difficult time finding silver other than newly mined metal here and abroad in large enough quantities the Silver Purchase Act obligation mmm seven to ten years. - BACK TO MINE J. A. Anderson is returning to his gold mine on Independence Creek, at Mastadon, on the Vie- toria. Anderscn is bound for Sew- ard from Seattle. s W MRS. CLIFFORD RETURNS (Continued (rom Page One) ‘ | | Under the amendments, the Lin- BENEFIT representative of the to her home here from Seattle, arriving on thc Vlccoru Wednesday Night, March 6 MOOSE HALL MUSIC BY “Dude” H aynés Orchestra (Contributed) All Proceeds for a Worthy Cause Ladies Free' Admission $1.00"' | A famous play by a famous Am- stery of “The Witching Hour” is| He commits| | where, or why, he has not the rn-‘ to fulfill | Mrs. E. H. Clifford, wife of the| Marshall- | Wells Hardware Company, returned | apparent anticipation of further clashes in that pian and Italian troops have battied before. It Is circled by a heavy line.on the map abova. Pr Emperor Haile Selassie (left) of Ethionia. Italian trooos. similar to those being mobilized, are shown below. (Associated Press Photos), ‘PmflNANT DRAMA Two Stars in Luz'u‘l i)il;tllli(? OPENS TUESDAY \ tol Theatre. ALL STAR STORY WITH FINE CAST 1S AT UPTOWN “Woman Accused” with Nancy Carroll, Cary}! Grant Is Thrilling “The Woman Accused,” the Par- | amount-Liberty all-star story, t- ten by ten of America’s most fa- mous authors—Rupert Hughes, Vie- ki Baum, Zane Vina Delmar, Irving S. Cobb, trude Atherten, J. P. McEvoy, Ursula Parrott, Pa:_hn G and Warren William soon in “Cleopatra® at KING OF SIAM QUITS THRONE; EFFECTIVE NOW Party in Power Refuses! More Liberal Govern- ment for Nation CRANLEIGH [I‘Clflnd March 4. | apadhipok, diminutive King of Banks and phie Kerr—openéd Sunday at the Uptown Theatre, Nancy Carroll, Cary Grant'ahd | John Hallida, play the leading | \roles in the , which recertly appeared ser in Liberty Maga- zine. Tt was written for the maga- zine and for the movies simultage- on of the film centers around arroll, who faces a murder ze on her weddJing day, as the result of an encounter with a for- mer lover the night before. e | latter, demanding that she ret % , threatened the life of Grant, her fiancee, and Nancy, 10/ e o e 6 ©¢ @ © © © o o o o Juneau Lumber Mills, did not ac- 4 save him, had committed the mur- der. On her wedding day she flees aboard a steamer making a “cruise to nowhere,” Grant with her. Halli- | day, a friend of the slain mgni follows, and attempts to secure | evidence incriminating her. But Grant, in a dramatic climax, frees her of all guilt. > } MARGARET M’FADDEN UNDERGOES OPERATION AT HOSPITAL TODAY Miss Margaret McFadden, in- structor of the fourth grade in the | Juneau Grade School, underwent an appendectomy at St. Ann’s Hos- pital this afternoon. Miss McFad- den’s operation occurred just one day after Miss Velma Bloom, an- other grade-school instructor, had been discharged from the hospital |after a similar operation a few days ago. Miss McFadden’s place is being taken by Mrs. Frank E. Swartz. | Miss McFadden. is a resident of lAnerdeen. Wash. Mussolini Mobilizes Trm)ps m Ethiopian- I of Africa. 8éa and Siam, has given up the throne, it became known Sunday. He signed the abdication document Saturday ‘nl ernoon and it was effective im- | mediately The Kir successor has not been determined, according to advices but d Siamese schoel boy, now received here, 11-y Prince Ananna, stud t Lusanne, Switzerland, has b frequently mentioned for the t If chosen he would rule under a regency Prapadhipok renounced the throne because the party in power in Siam refused to permit the es- tablishment of a more liberal con- itional government. oo @0 000006000000 . AT THE HOTELS (i neau 1, Ketchikan; w. B(‘r*ml Sp)lrm“ R. D. Baker, | Seattle; C. H. Keil, Ketchikan; C. W. Hall, ‘Seattle. Zynda Otto Kohlhan, Seattle; Mrs. L. V. Castner and child, Chli- | koot Barracks; Maj. Henry W. Mei- sel, Chilkoot Barracks; T. J. Pyle, Juneau; A. M. Rice, Fairbanks; Roy Nichels, Juneau; Mr. and Mrs. Donald 8. Hartzell and baby, Juneau; S8am Pappas, Seaftle; Bil- | lie Vogan, Goodland, Kas.; Willlams F. Holley, Seattle. Alaskan Frank Morn, Haines; Robert Shade, Haines; Richard Gadd, Haines; E. P. Gregory, Haines; J. Hanson, Juneau; Ben Wilson, Ju- neau; H. Fiske, Seattle; C. H. Keil, Kemh‘kun; J. C. Porter, Paters- burg; " L. McKarnes, Seattle; Al| Osgood, Juneau. e Trayeling to Seward for the pur- pose of re-opening his cannery on Copk Inlet, Al Jone: & passenger on the Victoria. He boarded the R.! | Lt. and “SHOW PLACE OF . JU] Tonight and Tomo”rr’ow COLBERT TAKES | "ROLE OF NILE ~ SIREN IN FILM G b leopatra, " Tremendous De Mille' Spectacle Is Playing at Capitol . TS ‘edl B DéMille, motion picture director, and master of the spec | tacle, has turned to the pages of history for his mewest Pamlmum film which is entitled “Cleopatra, and which made its debut at the | Capitol Theatre yesterday. | With Claudette Colbert, Warren Willtam end Henry Wilcoxon play {ing the prinecipal parts, “Cleopatra” brings to the screen all the talent |of this pioneer director, who has come up from the beginning of thotion ' pictures, more than twen- 1ty years ago, with each new film topping his previous one. ‘That his metier is the kind of film making shown here is beyond all doubts. In every lavish, glit- | tering, fascinating sequence, the genius of DeMille speaks out in bold, clear strokes. “Cleopatra” is |indeed the finest thing he has done. Taking the exciling love affairs o! Egypt's glamorous queen for his slury basis, DgMille weaves his pn(tem on a background of Rome Ezypt in all their glory and gmndeur. More than 5,000 people' appear in the film, which tells in! ‘dramauc hion how Cleopatra | a-nd Marc Antony, the Roman lead- |er, linger at love while mighty' (Empires totter about their very | feet. | | - The supporting cast is complete ! ywlth many of Holiywood's best playcxr Amcng these whom you will see are Ian Keith, Joseph Schildkraut, C. Aubrey Smith, Ger- trude Michael, Irving Pichel, Will- iam Farnum, Bryant Washburn, Robert Warwick, Edwin Maxwell and Ha Beresford > MRS. RUTHERFORD DAUGHTER RETURN WILCOXON A PARAMOUNT PKKTURS ¢ on mmpany them on the “Vie," but!”‘"“ hoadquarters while In the Mrs. Roy Ruth- ' plans to take northbound passage | States and Florence attended a Florence on the Yukon, due to sail from |P0arding schootdn fhat etty, Althouzh “Frida erford ! Juneau they July "y and her daughter do not consider their long sojourn Seatti> March 9. He is remaining | — ==~ RS in States at all “unludky.” |to handle certain business demfls& SHOR AN JU"F'“ ! k - Rutherford and her daugh-| s Rutherford said that their | ter returned to their Juneau resi- lence as passengers on the Vic- Iln' trip had taken them as far| cast as Chicago, where the World’s | toia, having taken paba?\"(! at .SL- Faxr wag visitediy, While in ghat tagtle. region, a visit to Champagne, Tli Mr. Rutherford, prcsldent o! the wnrs. Rutherford's birthplace, was | Hclp Kidneys flrly functioning Kidy You sullor 1l Beoag . llmhm:. marti ty try \he guarants iss-tex) ion Cystex ( rusisi, The ELECTRIC PIPE THAWING QUICK EFTICIENT | vessel at Senme International attention centered on the border between Ethiopia and Italian S8omaliland as Premier Mussolinl mobilized rforces also were moved to that.portion of thi en filed by Mussolini ( sts have talwn Clash SERVICE Cabs | . ! 11 1 1 cALL TR ALASKA WELDERS Nl(yH’l‘ .md DA\" A fifimmifif M iy ~UPTOWN~— TONIGHT The Parumolmt -Liberty Magume ALL STAR STORY “The Woman Accused” with NANCY CARROLL—CARY GRANT JOHN HALLIDAY A Paramount Picture W PHONE 441 A Flaming Romance of a Girl Trapped by Passion . . and Freed by Love! soldiers in M) with