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

Last Times Tonight “Village Tale” with RANDGLPH SCOT1 KAY JOHNSON ALSO SELECTED SHORTS MATANUSKA COLONY SCENE OF WEDDING The first marriage ceremony ye! to 'be performed in Alaska's much- publicized Matanuska Valley Colon- ization Project occurred on October 24, when Countess Madeline de Foras became the bride of Eugene Ells- worth Sedille, assistant under Cap- tain Allen Perkins in direct charge of the construction and completion of the majority of houses in Mat- anuska. The bride, who is the Red Cross nurse in Matanuska, is the daughter of Count and Countess de Foras, a|Dicbursement, rendered several ap- lives alone and who happens to be family whose history dates from the !wife of the F.ER.A. architect ! ment of U. S. Marines, who has been in direct charge of the colony's prog- ress, represented Miss de Foras’ fam- ily in giving the bride away. Best man was Capt: ‘Allan Perkins, Chiel of the Construction Division, and bridesmaid was Mrs. Leo B. Jacobs, in charge of Federal work at Palmer. Nuptual Mass was celebrated at 10:30 o'clock in the Construction Division Headquarters' cabin, with a capacity attendance. Mrs. Nell Hewitt of Anchorage played the piano at the wedding, and Eugene J. Carr, head of the Divi- sion of Procurement, Account and propriate vocal selections. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, NOV. 4, 1935. WILLAGE TALE' W ynne Gibson Comes Home FromEnglaud But Just to Fan Thoese Hollywood Fires STONG CLASSIG AT COLISEUM Story of Dramatic Love in Small Town Enacted Screen Lovers “Village Tale,” Phil Strong classic now playing at the Coliseum Theatre, is a gripping story concerning hap- penings in a small town and the dra- matic events that are the result of a whispering campaign against two persons. Randolph Scott portrays the lead- ing farmer of the village, with Kay Johnson, one .of Hollywood’s most talented actresses, making a fine showing by Janet Stevenson, wife of | the community’s ne'er-do-well Janet as the neglected wife falls in love with Slaughter, a bachelor, but the affair is innocent enough and | ccnsists solely of meetings in the church in connection with social and welfare work. Her husband's broth- er, however, royally hates the sight of Slaughter and all that he repre- sents, and proceeds to goad his weak brother to seek revenge for what looks like an illicit love affair with the latter’s wife. Subsequently, there is a dramatic scene at the church | and Einer the brother, takes a pot shot at Slaughter but does not ser-: icusly injure him. However, this event precipitates a scene between Janet and her husband and the leaves him and goes to live tempor- arily with a kindly old man who the town's mentor and dispenser Wynne Gibson wrote dialcgue but all her serious characters FARLEY AIMING AT TWO THIRDS RULE, REPORT 'Claim Democratic Chair-| man Would Oust Time Honored Meet Setup WASHINGTON, Nov. 4. IIL‘I'L‘! has been talk in well-informed quarters of the Democratic party that “Big Jim" Farley, chairman f the national committee, is pre- to administer a| | knockout bliow to the time-honored two-thirds rule at the 1936 conven- tion He' attempted to have the 104- vear-old rule governing the nomi- nation of presidential candidates avolished in 1932, incidentally with almost. disastrous results to the candidacy of President Roosevelt. The 1936 convention will be an ‘ideal time to abolish the rule, in | the opinion of Farley. He is con- vinced that Mr. Roosevelt will be renominated unanimously, hence | there will be no danger of treading lon anyone's toes. In 1932, FDR en- tered the national convention shy !m’ the necessary two-thirds votes to nominate and all attempts to chuck | the rule which has caused so many | deatllocks and some disasters for ! the party proved unavailing. | Jackson Started It | If Farley is successful, the Dem- (ocrats will have displaced a con- | vention mechanism as old as the | party conventions themselves. It cA Big, New Idea in ' Melody- " Drama! M-G-M broke all the rules to bring you the year's big- est musical thrill! go did Naughty. Marietta when s followed her heart to the end of the world {was in 1832 that Andrew Jackson turned out to be comics, so she quit. 1 - rad . b - S T time of the Crusaders. She is a| The bride and groom will continue of homely philosophy. native of Chambray, Savoy, France, and a graduate of Providence Acad- ! their work in Matanuska Valley. Commenting upon the wedding, emy, Vancouver, Wash., and Provi- | Rev. Sulzman declared it was “the| dence Hospital, ‘Seattle. Miss de Fera arrived in Mat-| anuska with the first transient| first recorded case of a person with a bonafide title of nobility married in Alaska, and it illustrates the wide workers and has been active in col- | diversity in social status, nationality, onization work ever since. and occupational classification of The ceremony was performed by the persons participating in the col-' John Cromwell directed the pic- ture for RKO. CHINESE LUNCHEON OFFERED BY GUILD A Chinese Luncheon, to be follow- ! By ROBBIN COONS HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Nov. 4—Six characters in search of an author? Today it’s six Wynne Gibsons in search of a char: eral, it’s only one Wynne Gibson, freshly returned from England, who is searching for a character with the cter—or, being lit- f Rev. F. Merrill Sulzman, Catholic | Onization project sponsored and sup- pastor at Palmer. 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WE knew it all the time, Wladek, but we have been reluctant to express it that way. You say, “When i? comes to :pr'i:n‘ting, fast :and clean, your staff a} Empife printers is the best bunch olf printers | _evér came in contact with. Courteous and éficiem, and always anx- ious to get the customer’s idea.” We have felt that way about it, too, but wouldn’t put ' You win the debate. it that strong. They are GOOD printers, and we hope we can serve you often. { PRINTING DEPARTMENT The DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE 2] ed by an afternoon of comractl Phone 374-2 rings and a represen- ! | eagerness of six. Wynne, a little blonder perhaps but otherwise unchanged by her British experience, wants to stay in Hollywood and make at least one picture before she returns to Eng- land for more. She has offers there for five more films, but any star wants to keep her Holiywood fires |burning. Hollywood, unlike its mov- |ie fans, quickly forgets, and Wynne |has been away all of five months, Whether she returns to Engla | makes one here, Wynne i ing for a character to play. | SHE PLAYED * | “Wnhatl mean,” she says, “is & real human being. You know,” she adds with mock wist{ulne: play- ed one once. In ‘Lady and Gent' with George Bancroft. That ‘Puff’ was a real woman—I felt she was real. She wasn't just another like ‘the girl next door,’ nice maybe, but not particularly interesting. “Have you .ever thought how few real human beings get on the movie screen? Interesting ones, I mean, who are characters not cut from cne or another favorite pattern? Yes, |I know there are some, but—" she laughs, ‘‘—but Gibson doesn’t get to play 'em.” Wynne (it's “Win” not “Wine” and she dolled it up herself from her real name Winfred) made two pictures in England, one of which she says she knows is bad, the other she hopes is good—and that despite the fact they let her write her own dialogue. “I used to do a lot of writing,” she explains. “but I gave that up. I was trying to do serious stuff, but all my characters turned out to be comics, topping each other’s gags, s0 I quit. T took no screen credit for my dialogue contribution to the picture—I'm playing safe.” BRITISH DISLIKED “HENRY” Before she left the British studio Wynne had offers to write, direct and produce as well as act. i “Might not be a bad idea,” is her | comment, “Over there, they think if you can do one thing you can do other things. And they never forget! what you can do. In Hollywood a | player is as good as his last picture, but in England they remember pic- ! sides, and does. { tures made three and four years| ago.” Still, the most amazing informa- | tion Wynne brought back is this: forced the adoption of the two- thirds rule at the party’s first na- tional convention. Jackson didn't need the rule for | himself since he was certain of an that many English people (not in | Overwhelming renomination, but he the Eighth” was a “terrible” picture! Amazing, that is, because that was the English picture that awakened Hol ood to the progress in English pictures! LATEST BOOKS HAVE CAMPAICN IMPLICATIONS BY JOHN SELBY NEW YORK, Nov. 4—The political campaign is beginning early, and so are the political books. It's no good colinting the books indirectly intend- ed as campaign feeders, for they are too many. But some very directly tell their story. One is James P. Warburg's “Hell Bent for ’ Election” (Doubleday, Doran), which is just about as strong an attack as can be leveled safely at a President of the United States. Mr. Warburg compares campaign | promises with performance, and finds that Mr. Roosevelt has come nearer fulfilling Socialist Norman Thomas’ promises than those of the Demo-| cratic party. He says that Mr. Roosevelt is a “dangerous” man to have in the ‘White House—that he is “all things to all men.” He thinks Roosevelt has a craving for popularity and will go to any lengths to achieve it. And so on. John Dickinson’s “‘Hold Fast the Middle Way” (Little, Brown) is less vigorous, but perhaps more thought- ful. He is Assistant United States Attorney General, a professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania, and formerly was Assistant Secre- tary of Commerce. Although of the administration, he can see both And his conclusion is that neither radical nor conservative should have charge of our economic and govern- mental fate, He sees no benefit from the various “share the wealth” plans, quite the opposite. Forrest Davis' “Huey Long: A Candid Biography” (Dodge) was “scooped” by the death of the Sen- ator. But although his frank story WELL, THEY in a New Jersey ceremony. Here first picture since the ceremony, ARE MARRIED NOW "7 After repeated rumors and denials of their impending marriage, Joan Crawford and Franchot Tone finally made it Mister and Mrs., suite in New York. Miss Crawford is. autographing the book of an gdmirer, (Associated Press Photo) . the screen pair Is shown in their Ime) told her they thought “Henry | Vanted to show how much strength | he could muster for his running {mate Van Buren. The senate had | refused to confirm Van Buren pre- | viously for the post of minister to !F.ngland and “Old Hickory” was { determined to prove that he was |the real boss of the Democratic 1nam« i Hard Cider Campaign While it helped Van Buren in 1832 it later led to his downfall. He duly succeeded Jackson to the Presidency in 1836, but four years Jater he literally was howled out of the White House in the famous |“log cabin and hard cider” cam- paign of 1840, In 1844 he had an excellent op- portunity to stage a comeback. With a substantial majority of the con- vention back of him, his mana- gers did everything within their power to have the two-thirds rule set aside. They failed and Van Buren lost the nomination to Jas. K. Polk because he was unable to muster. 32 votes required under the rule. Changed History Since then the two-thirds rule {has remained securely fastened to the party’s neck, Hopeful conven- tion minorities have frustrated every effort fo abolish it. The rule has had a far-reach- {ing effect on the history of the country. It has dashed the ambi- tions and hopes of many individual candidates as well as splitting the party on occasions. In 1860 when neither the north- ern nor southern wings of the party could command two-thirds of the votes in the convention at Charles- ton, the split was so wide that Lin- coln was swept into the White House and the civil war ensueq Had it not been for the two-thirds rule, Champ Clark of Missouri ano not Woodrow Wilson would have been the Democratic nominee in 1912, of Huey now will have little bearing for its politics, it still is worth read- ing for its factual content. Long was unique, and no more readable biography of the Louisiana dictator has been done. Thumbnail Reviews “My Country and My People,” by Lin Yutang (Reynal & Hitchcock); a curious, amusing and ingratiating dissertation on China and the Chi- nese, by one of them. ‘‘Yankee Arms Maker,” by Jack | Rohan (Harpers): the life of S8am- uel Colt, inventor of the revolver, the submarine mine, clever muni- tlons salesman, smart manufacturer. “Romantic and Historic Virginia,” by Stephen A. Hyatt Verrill (Dodd, Mead): the opposite of Julian R. Meade's caustic “I Live in Vir- ginia,”; good text, good illustrations, good humor. “Whether There Be Knowledge," by Robert Henderson (Lippincott): a nice novel about university life, in which the atmosphere is precisely | right; not too rough, not too goody- goody. Fr The Collector “Art Treasures and Intrigue,” by James Henry Duveen (Doubleday, Doran): anecdotes about art and art collectors by an expert; the two sections on Morgan the elder are especially good, i “‘Shining Windows,” by Kathleen' Norris (Doubleday, Doran): Mrs. Norris writes again the highly suc- cessful Norris navel; youll find it in your rental library. “My Rendezvous With Life,” by Mary Pickford (Kinsey): Miss Pick- ford (in person; not a movie) gives shortly after leavin, their hotel another dose of her philosophy to such as want it. .. .. SPECTACULAR | FILM TRIUMPH Jeanette MacDonald, Nel- son Eddy Splendid in V. Herbert Musical | | “Naughty Marietta,” by all means the best of the musical spectacles 3f the past year, brings Victor Her- sert’s immortal melodies to the talk-| ng screen in a brilliant and thrill- | ing production. It is at the Capitol. | J§ Jeanneétte MacDonald and Nelson | Bidy were ‘triumphs in singing and | acting alike. The theme song of the picture,| “Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life,” has| probably never been sung more beau- | tifully than in the clinsetic scene) “Naughty Marietta,” which is per-| formed as one would certainly 1mng~1 ine Victor Herbert intended it to be.| The story tells briefly of the ro- mance of a French princess who fled | to New Orleans to escape a state | marriage, and there found romance with a young English army omcer.; The pirate capture of the ship bear- | ing the Cacquette Girls, the great| | “Marriage Auction” in New Orleans, the fight in the Everglades between scouts and pirates, the recapture of the princess, are among the dra-| matic highlights of the production. | Elsa Lanchester (Mrs. Charles Laughton gives a whimsical and striking performance as the wife of he pleasure-loving New Orleans gov- ernor (played by Frank Morgan). Others in the cast are Dora Sue Col- ins and Cecilia Parker. R e SPECIAL DELIVERY TO DOuG- LAS! Daily at 10:00 am. and 2:30 pm. 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