The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 2, 1936, Page 3

AT PHE 'SHOW PLACE OF JUNEAU TONIGHT ALSO: Orphans’ Picnic—It’s a Silly Symphony Daily Alaska Empire’s Talking Reporter DR, LOFTUS IS AT ANCHORAGE ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov. 2— Dr. Jules Loftus has arrived here from his Juneau headquarters, with a quantity of serum to aid in chéck- ( ing the swine disease, believed chol- era, at Palmer. He will also go to the Matanuska Colony. e WESTWARD MERCHANTS HAVE STOCKS ON HAND FOR NEXT TWO MONTHS Should the maritime strike con- tinues Westward and Interior points will have provisions for about two ths, according to J. J. Meherin, I-known broker who returned to au on the Alaska Saturday, h trip away from Juneau cut . short by the strike. Meherin found business booming , at the end of a good season. Mer- . chants in coast ports and in Fair- banks, he said, are well-stocked with merchandise and there should be no suffering in these towns resulting from failure of the boats to run. Meherin, who represents Hills . Brothers coffee and other accounts, ;len for the Westward two weeks ago. - e~ "NO DAMAGE IS REPORTED HERE ON HALLOWE’EN The youngsters had a fine time soaping windows and doing other Hallowe'en tricks Saturday night but there was nothing of damaging nature reported, according to Mayor I. Goldstein today. He said the police found the boys having a good time and had no occasion to take drastic action except to chase some of the youngsters home after they had been out pretty late. “Schillin fand- Mrs. Jarvis left on the Alaska | | GABRIEL BAGOY ON FIRST TRIP OUTSIDE A real daughter of the north, Miss | | Gabriel Bagby, is making her first NATURAL COLOR FEUD FILM AT § . CAPITOL HERE § War in Air Over South Am- | erica Shown in Coli- seum Feature The first natual-color picture of the outdoors, Walter Wanger's pro- duction, “The Trail of the Lone: some Pine,” is now at the Capitol| Theatre, with Sylvia Sidney, Fred MacMurray and Henry Fonda in|y the starring roles. “The Trail of the Linesome Pin based on the famous novel of the same title by John Fox, Jr., was filmed on a location almost exactly |8 like the Cumberland Mountain | country in which the Fox novel was | set. Under direction of Henry Ha-' {thaway it was filmed entirely in the | next three-color Technicolor: pro- cess. | In addition to the three stars, !he' cast includes such favorites as Fred Stone, Fuzzy Knight, Beulah Bondx,\‘ Spanky McFarland and Nigel Bruce. The blazing of a wartime amA’ munition dump, containing more] than five tons of high-powered ex- | plosives, is one of the thrills of Uni- | GIGANTIC BOSTO ROMANCE AG N THRONG HEARS ROOSEVELT This is a general view of the vast crowd that turned out on Boston Common to hear President Roose- ) velt when he visited the Massachusetts metropolis on his New England campaign tour. Police Capt. Ben Wall, in charge of handling the crowd, estimated 175,000 persons were on hand. (Associated Press Photo) the Nugget Shop in Juneau and Dr. | Robert Simpson has been associat- ed with Laurence as representative ILANDON TELLS WHAT HE WILL D0, IF CHOSEN Going to Restore “Good Government”'—Also Re-employment Mc Nov. 2.—In hiS‘ address here last Gov. Alfred M. ST. LOUIS, M final campaign Saturday night, Landon pledged restoration of a “good government” bringing “full recovery and re-employment.” Contending the New Deal “has broken promises and is holding us baok,” by destroying confidence, Gov. Landon told his auditors that two of the biggest jobs today wers getting eleven million back to work and “stopping the pouring of our |money through a great political sieve at Washington. The two jobs are wrapped together.” Gov. Landon promised to balance the Budget, restore confidence and these are the requisites for full re- | employment. THE AlDES MONA BARRIE ANTONIO MORENO GRANT WITHFRS versals story of aviation and war trip to the States, a passenger south|made in South America, “Storm | on the Alaska. Miss Bagby was born in Flat but Over the Andes,” starring Jack Holt, now playing at the Coliseum has lived in Anchorage since she was two years old. She is going to! Theatre. The job is done from a giant bomber piloted by Antonio take a nine months' course at the Moreno and Holt in the production. | | eince he accumulated the first com- | mercial collection of Laurence paintings. | The Nugget Shop can claim, too, | the largest individual sale of a Lau- rence painting in the transaction in which Ben E. Smith, of New York DISCUSSES FDR SPEECH TOPEKA, Kansas, Nov. 2.—Gov. Landon said here today that “plain reference” was made by President Roosevelt in his address Saturday night in Madison Square Garden that “you are going to have PWA, AAA and everything else all over again,” if he is elected. At a press conference this after- ALSO i Pathe Topics Making Stars News Seattle Secretarial School. Hazel Seabury is accompanying Miss Bagby south also to attend a Seattle institution, the Metropoli- tan Business College in Seattle® [ JUNEAU WOMAN’S CLUB BROADCAST IS TONIGHT The regular weekly broadcast of | the Juneau Woman's Club will be made tonight starting at 7:30 o'clock over Station KINY. The principal speaker will be Claude M. Hirst, Educational Director for the Office of Indian Affairs, and! his subject will be on the activities of the bureau. There will also be! appropriate music. Mrs. Crystal Snow Jenne is chairman of the evening. i Tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock | the club will meet in the City Council chambers for a regular| { business session. | - - | |NO PERISHABLES TAKEN | OFF STEAMER ALASKA FOR MERCHANTS. AT KETCHIKAN KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Nov. 2— ‘Th(’ steamer Alaska left for Seattle [at 11 o'clock Sunday night after | loading only the mail and no fish. Longshoremen refused to unload approximately $800 worth of ship’s, perishables the company sought to discharge to prevent spoiling. Mer- chants here needed the perishables ‘because of an imminent shortage. e MR., MRS. H. D. JARVIS LEAVEFOR HONEYMOON {AFTER WED SATURDAY Mrs. Helga Jo;mson and H. D. | | Jarvis were married Saturday after- | noon at the Presbyterian parson- age by the Rev. John A. Glasse. For the newly-married couple, Miss Ida Foss and Mrs. Anna Jen- !sen gave a wedding banquet for ten at the apartment of Miss Foss. 1A delicious dinner was served. The | decorations carried out a ischeme of blue and white. | Following the dinner party Mr. {for a honeymoon ‘trip by automo- |bile through California and Colo- \rado. They plan to be away about ‘three months. A A A | ANNOUNCING REOPENING Wednesdhy, of Specializing in both Machin and Machineless November 4 the color | | Other fine performances are giv-, len by Grant Withers, Juanita Gar- fias, Barry Norton and George | Lewis. .- Sydney Laurence Celebrates Tist Birthd@ Oct, 14 | Adventure and Honors Are| Crowded Into Life of Alaskan Artist By GEORGIA O. BALLS (In Anchorage Times of Oct. 14) Today Anchorage has the honor to extend greetings and good wish- es to Sydney Laurence on his sev-| enty-first birthday. Mr. Laurence is the most disting-| uished citizen of Anchorage and in fact quite Alaska’s most celebrat- ed personage. There is possibly no one of whom paid him their greatest honors. the general public knows so little,| He is one of the most brilliant s0 definitely is he the gentleman &nd distinguished war correspond- possessing reserve and dignity when ents. He is‘a licensed steamship these qualities seem to be at a dis-|Pilot and may navigate the Pacific count in our present world of Bab-|and Atlantic oceans. bitts. | Lost Hearing War | Sydney Laurence is pure English| Sydney Laurence was sent to on both sides of his family. His capetown with the British troops grandfather was Sir Lyster Lau-igs war correspondent for the “Black rence-Elliott, a general in the Brit-|,nq white” of London in 1894, He |ish army and one of the first gov- was painting in London at the time. {ernors of Australia. It was then pe covered the Matabili war, the |called Canal Settlement and Bot- Boer war and the Chinese Boxer jany Bay was then the capital, yprising. He also photographed and now Sydney. It was a convict set- reported the Spanish American war itlement at that time. |for the New York Herald. | Thirty Years in Alaska | Sydney Laurence’s father was who can remember the breaking born in Australia, married an Eng- of the “British Square,” a military lish girl and went to live in Brook- formation employed by the English lyn, New York, where Sydney was up to the Zulu war, and thought| born in 1865. Of course he was impregnable. Mr. Laurence was in named after Sydney, Australia. |the thick of it, was beaten down His mother was a talented paint-/and as a result lost his hearing. er and a brother was a pupil of He was also wounded in the Span- Durrneck and for many years was ish American conflict. | ihead designer and part owner of the, Sydney Laurence studied painting famous Rookwood Potteries. |in Paris at “L'Ecole des Beaux Arts” Sydney Laurence has lived 30 His instructors included the most, years in Alaska and we can truly celebrated artists of the day. He claim him as our own. On arriving received honorable mention at the in Seward in 1906, he was attracted Salon in 1884. He also was the re- to Cordova, when he learned a rail- | cipient of two medals in recognition road was to be built to the copper of his canvasses. He studied at the mines. | Academy of Venice. Like our por- No sooner had he put his foot trait painter, Sargent, though re- ashore than he was approached by ceiving his education in France and {an important looking infllvldual,fltaly he chose England to paint it.| who asked “Are you a carpenter?”| France Homors Him {Mr. Laurence answered, “Yes, in- He lived for 13 years at St. Ives deed.” on the coast of Cornwall. There he received recognition few men can know. His canvas, known as “Set- ting Sun, coast of Cornwall,” which' is larger than the McKinley wh ch formerly hung in the Anchorage| Hotel lounge, was purchased in orchestra leader, and William H. in Cut Off Doors Carpenters were in demand and this party was most desirious of | completing his saloon. Mr. Laurence does not claim this as a master- piece, the marvel rather being that| the building really stood up when 1894 by the French government. completed, for he knew not the After hanging six years in the difference between a lintel and a!Luxemburg in Paris, it started its beam. tour of every village and town and | City purchased | Kinley picture for $10,000. - E SUCCESSFUL DANCE a famous Mt. Mc- Sue Carol, screen actress and former wife of Nick Stuart, actor and they sought a marriage license at'Los Angeles. Miss Carol gave her age as 26. (Associated 'Press Photo) |the United States have in turn~Chiltenham Fine Arts | IS GIVEN AT ELKS BY BPWC HALOWE’EN | The Business and Professional {Women’s Sixth Annual Educational jFund Ball in the Elks hall Hallo- we'en was proclaimed a huge suc- |cess by four or five hundred people | who attended the dance and by the |committee in charge of it. | The surprise feature of the eve- ning was a waltz song written by | Mrs. A. V. Tyler, member of the dance committee with Mrs. Lisle |Hebert and Miss Caroline Todd, |chairman. Mus. Tyler's song was sung through a megaphone by Mrs. Roselle Daniels, of Douglas, and its | popularity attested by the many {encores demanded. Its pleasing, |smooth melody and easy rhythm % “mz\dc it a delightful dance number. ‘The Elks hall was decorated with paper pumpkins, witches, skeletons, cats and crepe paper hangings in Hallowe'en colors. | The favors, a variety Society.” [makers, proved popular In fact the letters after his name|crowd, and almost make up a book. |and tooting of whistles created an Twice Mr. Laurénce was offered enthusiastic din: a title and twice he declined. In| e \Wilson, scenarist, are pictured as | of noise with the the blowing of horns| On the proud day of completion, the other workmen left at the noon hour for their lunch but Mr. Lau- rence remaimed to put the finish- ing touch to it. Discovering the magnificent mahogany swinging doors, purchased in Seattle at the rather large sum of $500, were just six inches taller than the door frame he sawed off the doors! In 1915 Mr. Laurence first came to Anchorage. For a period of 10 years he had done no painting. city in France, where it is exhibited in all the schools and galleries. This is the manner in which France |cultivates an appreciation of art among its citizenry. At the end of 50 years, it will be hung in the Louvre along with the world’s m: terpieces. Thus France has pai him her greatest tribute. In London Mr. Laurence eghibit- |ed at the Royal Academy the firsti |time in 1901. This is the greatest honor England can offer an ar- 1901, following the exhibit at the }ELKS DISTRICT RULER Royal Academy, King Edward VII wished to confer the title of Knight- hood on him. The honor entailed an expense of approximately 800 he said he had not that much mux\-! ey at the time. | In 1913 our government pur- hangs in the National Art Gallery at Washington, D. C. Another of! pounds or $4,000 in our money and chased a huge Mt. McKinley, which| IS HERE ON VISIT Percy Charles, of Ketchikan, Dis- trict Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler of the BP.OE, for Southeast Al- aska, arrived in Juneau on the stea- mer Alaska from Skagway on a regular visitation trip to Elk lodges. Mr. Charles said that he noticed considerable progress in Juneau, iigxs magnificent McKinleys hangs infanq especially of all Southeast Al- | He is one of the few men alive the General Federation of Women's|agkq cities, since his last visit here noon, reporters asked him if he daughter had given him the rabbil ithought the questions put up to When she was a small girl. Roosevelt had been answered. “She made him promise it would “The speech speaks for itself. P Put to bed every night, and this He does not specifically answer my Was Kkept up right ough Dr. questions,” said Gov. Landon. Gharoot's: explorations After voting at Independence to- vt morrow, Mrs. Landon and her fa- ther John will return to the Exe- cutive Mansion here and receive the election returns. —————-——— BAYREUTH, Nov. 2.—Plans for next year's season have already been announced by the administra- tion of the Bayreuth festival plays. ight performances of “Lohen- Toy Rabhit Goes . w ! | grin,” five of “Parsifal” and two of an WI ln the “Ring” will be given. The festi- vals are scheduled to begin on July BELFAST, Ireland, Nov. 2.—When 23 and last till August 20. ——a the French exploration ship, “Pour-’ Lode and placer location netices quoipas” foundered in a storm off for sale at The Empire office Iceland and went down with Dr. Jean Baptiste Charcot and 38 oth- ers, it took with it a toy rabbit which the famous explorer had faithfully put in its small bed every night for more than 20 years. The story was related here by Mrs. Rex Arnot, wife of a local yachtsman, who said that his little' foR Baby's Cold Help end it quicker without “dosing* | S | G4 | BY 2 GENERATIONS | PROVED NEED MONEY? SMALL LOANS Are available on short notice from the Clubs in Washington, D. C., a gift four years ago. “Juneau seems to from the Alaska Federation. Anchorage Woman's Club conm—; buted very generously to it | Invited to Washington Sydney Laurence is one of eight of the world’s greatest landscape and seascape painters. In his Al- aska landscapes he has captured the silvery sheen of the birch and the boldness of the spruce. His" clouds are so realistic they fairly tumble from their canvas sky. He portrays the eerie magic of the sun- set in his jewel-like colors and his McKinleys are truly of marvelous| heauty. His marines express depth and romance and happen to be his favorite subject. His sleeping moon- lights are still another mood. His snow pictures symbolize the lonesomeness and vastness of Alas- ka, There is an irridescence and an indescribable radiance about them.{ He is the only artist to paint the northern lights and he does so' with that same immeasurable| something. He says he would like| to paint an immense one and only reeently was asked by our govern-| ment to consider painting a large| mural at Washington, D. C., of the northern lights. He has written his terms. A definite decision is still pending. He uses only three primary colors and paints his sub- jects in as he goes along. His blues are especially fine. As to collections, Z. J. Loussac owns 36, and A. B. Cummings 25 Several other local residents have smaller galleries of 12 and scarcely a home is without an original oil painting or at least a print, mute evidence of Anchorage's widespread appreciation of Mr. Laurence's work. ! | The | pe a mighty lively town, now,” he | said As for business in Ketchikan, Mr. Charles reported that the strike threat had caused the cannerymen and fishermen to leave for the South earlier than usual this fall, and that the City has settled down for the winter already. Mr. Charles will pay his official it to the Juneau lodge Wednes- day nigh! Personal Loan Department ® ALASKA CREDIT BUREAU | CHARLES 'WAYNOR, Manager First National Bank Building 1 Capability IN time of need it often occurs that there are special require- ments. In rendering our services to you we are capable of accomplishing your wishes. Our organization is in step with modern progress, the staff is well trained and experienced. We are equipped to offer you quality service at moderate prices. Stowed Away at Sixteen tist. | Recently, Mrs, Laurence, a charm- His life has been as colorful as| The Royal Academy is the stiffest "¢ French woman, and an artist his paintings. At 16 he ran away|gallery of exhibits in the world.|of ability herself, has joined her from home, stowing away on a|About 15,000 pictures from accred- illustrious husband here. steamer. For four years he followed jteq artists are submitted each year| SO Anchorage pays honor today the sea, which indeed was to Prove and 3000 are chosen for exhibit.'0 @ World famous artist, gallant most valuable to him in later yenrs.!mm are sold later. {flfflflem-fl. delightful companion, This same urge for adventure sent Declined Knighthood | sourdough—Sydney Laurence. him to almost every country in the| Mr. Laurence is a member of “"'i world and eventually to seek gold in|«gociety of British Artists,” Eng-|LAURENCE COLLECTION 4 Alaska. land’s next most coveted honor. He| HERE 1§ LARGEST ONE He is nationally renowned as an|is also one of the eight compli-| The largest commercial collection artist. England, France, Italy and mentary honorary members of the of Sydney Laurence paintings is at| PERMANENT WAVES SOMEONE will get a beautiful Radio ‘ FREE.... It May Be Youl Charles W. Carter Mortuary JUNEAU "We Are Always Ready”