The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 3, 1936, Page 3

N T— DAVIES SHOW AT GAPITOL IS ROMANCE chk Powell Pat O’Brien, " Patsy Kelly, Lyle Talbot | and Others in Cast “Page Miss Glory,” Marion Da- vies' new starring vehicle, closes tonight at the Capitol theatre. Based on the Broadway stage hit by Joseph Schrank and Philip Dun- ning, with the screen version writ- ten by Delmer Daves and Robert Lord, the new picture stars Dick Powell, Pat O'Brien, Mary Aster. Lyle anm Patsy Kelly, Allen Jenking e Hobart Cavanaugh, Miss Davies and Powell sing a duet written especially for the pro- on by Hellywe leading son3 t producers, Warren and Dubin Althcugh nw plot is mitted’y funny, a thread of romance also runs through the humo Miss Davies introduces style creations. — .- R.B. ANDERSON DIES AT HOME IN WISGONSIN {“Father of Norse Literature in America” Pass- es Away PAT O'BRIEN DICK POWELL MARY ASTOR many Blue and Gray News (Continued from Page One) RITES PLANNED | FOR TORKELSEN ON WEDNESDAY Bone Services Tomorrow After- noon for Prominent Juneau Citizen | Funeral services for Ol 46, who passed night, orkel at hi will be held at away Sundaj y c'clock tomorrow afternoon ir the Lutheran Church Rev. Erling K. Olafson will of- ficiate at the and Lola Mae lexander will be vccal soloist Alexander will cing two of the vorite songs, “Lead and ‘Lay My Head = G Beneath a Rose.” The interment | RASMUS B. ANDER will be in the Elks’ plot of Ever- green Cemetery Pallbearers are: tendance at the University of Wis- consin. An argument arose between A. W. Henning, J. A. Krugness, Emil Samuelson, Anderson and the prmcipal over Andrew Bernstein, Gunnar Ing- | the growth of Norwegan influence m Connors. in the school and he resigned, only | The City Hall will be closed dur- ine the services for Mr. Torkelsen, fuse his resignation and discharge who was street foreman for the him. city for the past 12 years. A na- . tributed regularly te “Outlook™ to have the Board of Trustees re-‘ tively engaged in this line when he a((spted the ministerial post. Becomes Editor Upon his return from abroad, he went to Madison, Wis,, with his wife | and four children. The former died | in 1922, His activities thereafter in- | cluded the publication of a Norweg- | jan weekly newspaper, Amerika, | which he founded in 1898 and con- | tinued until 1922. He also was presi- | dent of the Wisconsin Life Insurance | Company from 1895 to 1923, and ‘president of the Wiscbnsin Rubber Compan\ His Greatest Book Anderson’s greatest book was ack- nowledged as the title, “America Not Discovered by Columbus.” One of his first books already had cham- pioned the claim of the Norsemen that Lief Ericson had discovered | this continent in the tenth or elev- | enth century. ! He liked to tell how he approach- ed Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at Cambridge to have him read his first work, “Norse Mythology.” Longfel- low enjoyed the book and thus be- zan a lifelong friendship. Other Writings ! Other tales which established An-| derson as a writer and Scandinavian | authority included “Viking Tales of | the North,” “The Younger wda."‘ “First Chapter of Norwegian Im- | |migration,” “Creative Spirits,” and | | the story of his own life. He con-| for | a number of years, while his other activities included translation of !many Scandinavian works, editing | of the Norroena library and the Norway music volume with Auber | Forestier. His home at Madison con- tained a mngmncent library. e, SKAGWAY BOND BILL IS SICNED | WASHINGTON, March 3.—Presi dent Roosevelt has signed the bill authorizing Skagway, Alaska, to is- sue bonds up to $12,000 for muni- cipal public works. e SPANISH WAR VETS | TO BE GUESTS OF LEGION MARCH 16 Spanish War vetdFans i be special guests of the Alford John Bradford Post, American Legion, | for the post Jiggs dinner to be held March 16 in the Dugout, it was de- cided at the regular meeting of the | Post last night. W. O. Johnson, | V. A. Davenport and Robert Kauf- mann are the committee in charge of the affair which promises to be a gala event. Several more applications for the' bonus were handled by Post offi- cers last night and it is estimated that more than 160 veterans have | applied up to date from the Gas tineau Channel community. Meeting of the Building Asso-| | ciation was called by Commander E. M. Polley for next Tuesday night, March 10. Little Lou Ann Markle | Showing Improvement | PORTLAND, Ore., March 3.—Lou Iroles T appear | smile. | this, {The work he relishes most in film: ‘Bob Montgomory Mopes Over His Roles; He’s Tired Out of Being “Smug Robert Montgomery doesn’t So-and-Se¢’ want to play Ibsen, Chekhov and Shakespeare, but he'd really like to do “The Prisoner of Zenda.” By ROBBIN COONS HOLLYWOOD, March 3.—A group | of impromptu critics, talking about sometimes, got around to Robert Montgomery. The decision was fair- | ly unanimous that the young man, more and more, is walking through {his roles with little concern. Your callous reporter took the next opportunity to convey this in- formation to the star for comment. It came, calmly. “I wouldn't be surprised if were cuite right,” he caid And then he warmed to the sub- ject: “I hope they noticed the kind of to walk through. If I were to write a book about my ex- periences in a Hollywood studio they these past few years, I'd call it ‘You | Enter, Stinking,” and the cover de- sign would be a cocktail shaker. I | can imagine audiences saying when I come on, ‘Oh, there’s that smug so-and-so again, with his sappy But that what I'm given to do, and T do it.” Set Mold for Career One infers from this that Bob is| |slightly more than dissatisfied with his film assignments. More than he is frankly gloomy that h contract calls for three more years, although he has some enthusiasm for a future picture based on Steven- |son’s “Suicide Club.” Before he became a star, he said, he had better parts. There was that weakling in “The Big House” for The young professcr thereupon Ann Markle, Anchorage girl who instance, and his role with Norma wrecked the school by causing the |is a patient in the Shrine Hospital Shearer in “Strangers May Kiss.” mold for his future career, he thinks. he said, was a single scene in Clar- ence Brown's ight Flight"—a tive of Norway, he came to Doug- las in 1907, and was a prominent Pupils he had obtained to go to|for Crippled Children, with an in-|But the latter, unfortunately, set the and respected citizen of Gastineau Marshall college. Albion reopened | fected leg, showed a slight im-| Channel for nearly 30 years. several times thereafter for brief | Provement following two blood = intervals but finally was abandoned | transusions. CLUB WILL | during the World War. .- DRAMA Chair Is Founded | SHOP IN JUNEAU! | MEET THIS EVENING Members of the Drama Club will Joining the University of Wiscon- | sin in 1869, Anderson served as in- structor of languages for six years, meet this evening at 7:30 oclock when the um"?l'Si'-y granted hls @e- in the grade school auditorium for |Sire for recognition of Scandinavian a lesson in makeup, to be adminis- | literature, art and languages, and tered by Mrs. Helen Webster, Pro- | founded a chair for their teaching. gram chairman, and one in tap- |Anderson ruled this department for dancing, to be held following the eight years. business meeting. | Meanwhile he had written numer- Reports of both workshop sec-|0US articles and books on Scandi- ! tions will also be heard at tonight's navian subjects, and when he re- | signed from the university he con- tinued this writing and engaged in (Continued on mg Twol | the insurance busmess He was ac- DOUG BACK FROM FLYING TRIP session Fairbanks, noted film actor, Is shown with Kay Francis, sci 3‘:."3::; as they arrived at Los Angeles on the same plane from New York, where Doug had hurried for a few days’ visit. Misg Francis said she made the trip only to “catch” all the latest shows. (Assocl ated Press Photo), short scene in which an aviator, tired lflllIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIlIlllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII‘ A0 IIllIlIIIIIIHlIIIIIHIlIIIIlIIIllIIIIIIIIII|IIllIIIlII|IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIHiIIIIiIIIIIIIIIIMIHIIHIHIII FRONT STREET ou! stepped from an airplane. With him, he insists, it is not the | aspiring to | old story of the comic |actors as one does in Hollywood piay Hamlet \ To Satisfy Ego | I don't want to do Ibsen, hov, Shakespeare—I'd like to ‘The Prisoner of 2 1 prisoner of Metro, That Failed’ or “interesting “Or ‘The Light characters. Montgomery holds that tors—of the stage, at least acting primarily as a big money. They do it express themselves But money and achfevement are wafds. few ac- took up | highway to he says, to| to satisfy ego. satisfaction in the actor's re- ey and more,” he said, “for taxes are |taking most of that. What is left, | then? Certainly. no satisfaction in | achievement, for I'm not achieving {anything. I'm having no chance to progress, to become a better actor. does 't do it by standing still Porhaps,” he concluded, {leave pictures, work hard for years jand finally think I'm pretty good, | T'll give a performance that will bt‘ a stench in the nostrils. But then I'll'at least have the satisfaction of knowing I've had my chance.” — ., NS OF NORWAY uneral of our late Brother, Olaf Torkelsen will be held from | the Lutheran Church tomorrow afternoon (Wednesday) at 2 o'clock All members are requested to at- tend. —adv. The f el g i The Ladies Aid of the Resurrec- tion Lutheran Church will meet on Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the church parlors. H. J. YURMAN “The Furrier” [ANNOUNCES New Location "- INTHENEW ' FIREPROOF AND MOTHPROOF, 4 DECKER BUILDING Chek- | do | borts satisfactory reception of the; said thu\ test broadcasts the program series | He named uthvr{ *T can’t say I'm working for mon- | Every man wants to improve, but he | Next to Nugget Shop THL DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 1936. ORCHESTRA TO |RACE COMEDY | . BE ORGANIZED ' ENDS TONIGHT | THIS EVENING Musicians Are Requested to| | Meet at 7:30, Grade I School Audltm um | If Juneau wants a first | chestra, principally for concert | '\\mk tonight is the time to make | that indication known. | At 7:30 o'clock tonight in the | Grade School Auditorium all mu- sicians interested in an orchestra | Will be given a chance to turn out |and those unable to attend the | meeting, but who will give support | later, are requested to send in | their names and the | they play. | Byron Miller will be director of | the orchestra which will be in con- | nection with the night school. Con- tact has been made with many mu- | sicians of Juneau and Douglas who have announced their intention of Jmmng such an organization and | | it is expected that many others will | also attend the meeting tonight -, — PECK EXPLAINS 'HOWBROADCAST TO BE HANDLED /One or Twoic;grams Each | Day from Plane with First from Juneau I | (Continued from Page One) | for NBC release will begin at Ju- | neau. | “There is to be no commercial sponsorship of any kind of this series of programs, which is in line | with the NBC policy of not per- mitting its special features to be | commercialized Those The party | first flight on Flight of five to make the from Juneau to Fair- | banks, will include the following: For the National Bmadcastmg Company. J. W. Baker, Opera- tions Supervisor, Engineering De- |partment, San Francisco; Don | | Thompson, Special Events Produc- | er, Program = Department, Francisco. For Pacific Alaska Airways, Inc.: W. J. Barrows, Pilot, Fairbank: ‘after I|Murray Stewart, Co-pilot, Fmrb’mk%: | and Lyman S P.eck, Vice-President, ' | New York City. | Mr. Baker and Mr. | accompanied Mr. Peck from \States arriving here this morning, and are registered at the Gastineau hotel. Gleason To Aid Robert J. Gleason, Superintend- |ent of Communications for the Pa- ‘unc Alaska Airways, who also ar- | rived on the Alaska, will cooperate +| With the National Broadcasting of- ment on the plane, The Electra will be ready for the radio tests about next Friday or Saturday, according to Mr. Baker. Daily Broadcast At least one, and probably two or IIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlI‘IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII|IIIIIIIIIIIIIlllllllllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIllfl mllllllllfll“fllflIIHflIHIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIllllmlllIIfllmllfllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllIII|IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIE i or-| instruments | San| a ——ALWAYS! California Grocery THE PURE FOODS STORE Thompson | the | | ficials in installation of radio equip- AT COLISEUM James Gleason, ZaSu Pitts, Playing in “Hot Tip.” Story of Betting Comedy and dramatic suspense are expertly combined in “Hot Tip" which features Zasu Pitts and James Gleason, playing for the last times tonight at the Coliseum the- atre With ‘Gleason and Miss Pitts | playing the roles of husband and wife, the plot centers upon a race where Gleason is risking the family fortune in an effort to regain a sum lost in betting another man's money. The other man in the pic- | ture is his son-in-law, who risks his savings in order to have enough money to win Gleason's wife's con- sent to his marriage to her daugh- ter. When Gleason loses the money, | he becomes imbued with the de- | termination to recoup, and blunders his way into one uproarious situa- tion after another, finally coming out on top, Supporting the comedy stars are | Margaret Callahan, Russell Gleason and Ray McCanr more programs, ranging upward from 15 minutes in duration, wil be broadcast each day from the plane, Mr. Thompson stated, de- pending upon the time periods avail- able on the NBC network Alaskan talent and material will be used exclusively, he said. | Following the Juneau proadcasts, the specially equipped Electra will carry the radio party to Fair- banks, Mr. Peck said. He admitted the possibility that Mary Joyce, “Miss Juneau,” enroute from Taku to Fairbanks by dog team to attend the Ice Carnival, might be persuad- ed to appear on some of the broad- casts to be released in the Fair-| banks district. Miss Joyce was last |reported at Tanana Crossing, on | the last leg of her thousand-mile | Journey to the Interior metropolis Broadcast Schedule The broadcasts will probably con- tinue for a period of two or three weeks, Mr. Peck said, and no defln-l | Fruits and Telephone 478 | arr | horse last ") Wednesday afternoon. | their TAST TS TORIGHT HE WAS ON THE RIGHT TRACK . .. BUT ON THE WRONG HORSE . . .! ALSO Selected Shorts THEATRE. —Coming Tomorrow—= “MOONSTONE” S S e i i —y ite schedule of locations has yet been arranged beyona rairbanks. Pilot Joe Crosson, who recently | returned to Alaska from the States, with a Pacific Alaska Airways Lockheed Flectra plane, and who ed in Fairbanks from White- Saturday, is a victim of influenza, Mr. Peck said, and will not be able to fly the radio party on its tour of the Territory. —ee ATTENTION ELKS The funperal services for our late Brother, Olaf Torkelsen, will be held from the Lutheran Church at 3rd and Main St, at 2 p. m. 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