The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 29, 1936, Page 3

MOVIES' FAMED JACK 0" HEARTS IN RETIREMENT Warren KeTr‘i_gan Saved His Money and Watches Stars Do Their Stuff (Copyrighted, 1936 by Associated Press.) 1 HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Oct. 29.—Be- |side Cahuenga Boulevard, over {which many film stars of today drive from Hollywood to work in |the studios of Burbank and Uni- versal City, stands a large, ramb- ling, yellow-and-white frame house. The tall, lean, gray-haired man | who lives there can look from his | breakfast room windows upon lhe. passing show and hear the roar | of constant traffic. But if occas-| sionally he sees an old crony of his| movie days speed by to work, he| ‘sulrers no nostalgic pains. | For J. Warren Kerrigan, the |Clark Gable of his day, the silent! Iscreen’'s famed “Jack o Hearts,” is comfortably retired—comfortably | nd, he hopes, permanently. | No,” he will tell you with beam-~ ing gooa humor, “I got pictures out of my system when I was working in them, and I have no desire to go| ;bavk. Oh, yes, I've ha Gam..cmm.. DANGEROUS SMILES-SNARLS With Hat A-Cock And A Chip Riding On His Shoulder, The Old Sea- Dog Comes Sailing Into Port To Ald Dan Cupid And Shoot A Mean Harpoon Into His Foes. * ’ PETER B. KYNE'S ‘CAPPY RICKS RETURNS with SEIRT McwADE | ‘bolh stage and screen, but I'm en-| |Joying life too much as it is.” 1 He was born George Warren Ker-! rigan in Lousville, Kentucky. When| he was 13 years old he started to| work on the railroad, used to work from six to six. The long Xgours‘ then were responsible largeiy, he| says, for his decision to retire from active work while he was still young ugh to enjoy sleeping late ani eing completely his own master. “What excuse shall I make? TiHe retired finally, in 1924, having do hope it’s not Aunt Kate,” Myrne | finished his last picture “Captain sighs, exiting after the butler, and Blood.” Once before he had retired, | followed by an anxious Bill Pow- but returned in 1922 to make his cll greatest success, “The Covered Wa-| gon. } TIME OUT “1 was never a great spender,” But it will take Myrna approxi- he says, “and I was able to make mately one hour to get through S¢me wonderful investments. Somz lhag door and emerge on the other |of them, of course, turned out badly | sie Let's follow the proceedings. —but I still have enough to get by.”| Here Is Wllham Powell and‘ First of all, we're wrong. Myrna' Most of his time now Kerrigan |won't get through that door until Spends in his mountain lodge, Rock- Myrna Loy in New | maybe day after tomorrow, because haven, up in Santa Anita Canyon Produc!ion | van Dyke signals a move over go‘nem Mount Wilson, where he fish- | Stage 24. Myrna, in traveling out-!es, hunts, reads and hikes. fit, vanishes toward- her dressing] When he buii* his house on Cah- room for a change of costume. Bill,'uenga Boulevard it was an isolated ,in one business suit, has to change|estate. But Hollywood has grown to another. greatly since 1917, and he is think- In five minutes, over on Stage 24,ing of selung now. left | van Dyke arrives to find that his| Life in retirement three |set is being utilized for some tests Markably “peaceful” in contrast year ago, ahd/for “Parnell,” the Joan Crawford-|to old studio . For him the Dircctor W. S.|Clark Gable historical romance — |celebrated “lure of the greasepaint” § van Dyke is in in fact, to find that his set isn't|is dead. charge of these|there yet. “Hey, Rose,” he yells,| “Until the last two or three years,” proceedin g s|“where’s my set?” |he says, “there were still a few called, “After the| «Coming up,” respuuds Arthur PeoPle on the streets who would Thin Man.” |Rose, production manager. And Iécognize me. But now I can walk Detective Nick overalled, shirt-sleeved carpenters along Hollywood Boulevard and Charles and wife| g electricians pop seemingly from scarcely be recognized at all. No- (Powell and|ipe walls to start hammering. body wvnPts an autograph or a pho- Loy) have re- Through the great stage door a tograph,” he chuckles. “When I'm turned to San | g0 packs in, bearing equipment. town, T read a lot. Yes, I'm still Francisco for this| 5, open section of a sleeping car interested m‘ pictures and p:ctur.c- first scene, to drawing room, on a portable plat- pegplo—that is, I keep up on what’s find their home a New Year's Eve form, is wheeled in; eight men going on. No, time never hangs beiam, Nick, so tnoroughly al‘mam to pull the camera up an in_‘he'ny on my hands—on the con- home in New York where the “thin| jina ¢o position; property men dashmmy it seems to go very fast. I man” business was staged, now is in i, with Powell and Loy luggage, and | SUPPOse it’s becaus«_a Im_ happy. | 4 hotbed of in-laws. It promi.ses‘m half an hour there it is: “In- K_errxgan lived with his mother to be very good fun. {terior of train drawing room.” ‘unul her death 12 years ago. Dur- g The scene has Myrna and Bill,i {ing her lifetime he devoted all his, just off the train, wondering what) By this time, who should return! they're to do abou;{abhdmner "!‘]"" but Myrna, in a smart tailored neg- tation from Aupt Katherine, When|jjgee anq Bill, coatless, tie-less, col- a butler steps in totell Myrna she jarecs to act as if they're about m‘thv films, having entered them Irom( is wanted on the telephone. pull into San Prancisco and must| (¢ St8ge in 1910, Among his hits| ol e . |were a “Samson and Delilah.” “The get dressed in a hurry. Timid Young Man 19 Hole Club Paramount Pictorial Paramount News LAST TIMES TONIGHT THEATRE BEDLAM IS LET By ROBBIN COONS Hollywood—Film factory. On stage 12 today William Pow- ell and Myrna Loy are taking up| where they off nearly he fiads re- 4marned He is one of the real veterans of VAPORUS Fever,” laughter-provoking technique. Rol ert Montgomery and Myra Loy. President Rocsevelt carried his campaign for re-election into Chicago October 14—with an address before a crowd which packed every ing streets. national Illustrated Ne HOT LAUGHS IN Photo. 1GY COMEDY AT { LOGAL THEATRE Coliseum Shows Comeback | of Peter B. Kyne Sea Hero If you like to laugh—and who doesn't?—you will want to see the new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer comedy at the Capitol Theatre, “Petticoat co-starring those experts The film gets its action against the ice-bound terratn of .Labradoy. It is the story of a wireless opera- tor in a remote government station,| so lonely that he holds prisoner an engaged couple whom he from the freezing night, tlmn face another Arctic rescue: rather winter | Well acted by the stars, it also |attention to her, and he never has| boasts an excellent cast including | Reginald Owens, Otto Yamaoka, | Forrester Bo Ching and others. Cappy Ricks regaled Kyne fans for many years in novels and a ser-' ies of stories, and he has been lately revived by his creator to become |the leading role in “Cappy Ri Returns,” the Republic pxuduum" which ends its showing at the Col- iseum Theatre tonight with Robert| Harvey, |McWade playing the title part seat in the huge Chicago Stadium and which swelled over the surround- At ton, President Roosevelt speaking to overflow crowd in the Chicago Stadium, and, at bottom, huge crowd outside stadium listening to the Pi dent’s specch from loud-speakers. (Inter- t Juneau yesterday in his red Waco | seaplane, bringing three of Kczcm-‘ kan’s leading citizens—Jack 'lulbot Henry Erwick and J. F. Van Gilder | —to this city, took off from the Channel this noon on the return!| flight to Ketchikan with the same passengers. - eee BROTHER-IN-LAW OF MRS. AL WEATHERS DROWNS IN RAYMOND, WASHINGTON News of the accidental drowning of her brother-in-law, James Da- venport, at Raymond, Washington Sunday night was received today by Mrs. Al Weathers. Mrs. Davenport was Miss Dagne Jacobsen and has visited her sis- ter in Juneau on several occa ons. Mr. and Mrs. Davenport were mar- ried last April. Mr, Davenport was employed at the port dock at Ray- mond. SIXTY ATTEND REBEKAH DINNER IN LO.O.F. HALL Dinner was served to sixty at the Relxkdh\ cov lish dinner pre- ee;xmg the regular meeting of the the Odd Fellows' Hall &v night Following dinner pinochle was played by those not attending ‘the lodge meeting and joined in later by~ lodge memk Prizes were awarded Mrs. Marion Crewson, Mrs. Ayina: Snow, John Winn and Monte Sriow A Hallowe'en motif was carried out in table decorations. The com- mittee responsible for the success- party were Mrs. John McCor- K, Miss Mary Kolasa and Miss Elma Olson. —— ELLIS LEAVES ON FLIGHT TO KETCHIKAN PRS00 i st The branch of natural science that treats of fishes is called ichthy- arrived in ology. Pilot Bob Ellis, who TRY YOUR UNITED FOOD CO. Home-Owned Grocery and Market NOVELTY CANDY FOR TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT at The Show Place of Juneau IT'S CONTAGIOUS COMEDY! 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