The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 12, 1936, Page 3

| ' THEATRE TONIGUT is the NIGHT at the Show Place of Juneau ” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, NOV. 12, 1936. San Francisco-Oakland Ba yb B —PLUS— Vitaphene Casino Fex Movietone News PREVIEW TONIGHT “TO0 MANY CAPITOL FILM REVEALS LIFE OF FUTURE MAN Cotiseum Feature Is Ruth Chatterton in Roman- tic Drama How will the man of the pass the time of day?—And t will be plenty of time to pass world of the future, with machin- ery performing all the work and hours of labor reduced to a mini- mum. Will there be bridge and pinochle games? What will the men and wo- men wear? Will there be styles and fashions or a dull uniform costume? There will be television,! course, but will there be croon- Things To Come,” Alexander Korda's production of H. G. Wi forecast of the future, at the Capi- tol Theatre, answers a host of questions that may be puzzling you about the world a hundred years hence. Raymond Massey, Ralph Richard- Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Pearl Ar- le, Mar; ot Scott and Patricia Hillard head a cast of 20,000 in this production, which Willi Menzies directed It through United Artis Maid. of honor at the that should have been her: Such is the lot that falls to Ruth Chatterton, playing the part of Celia | Whittaker in Columbia’s new ro- mantic drama, “Lady of Secr showing tonmight at the Coliseum | Theatre. | Supporting Miss Chatterton in the! film are Otto Kruger, Lionel At-| will, Marian Marsh, Lloyd and Robert Allen. Marion Gerring | directed. The story, by Katherine Brush, was prepared for the screen | by Joseph Anthony and Zoe Akins. e OE MOLAYS INITIATE 4 i is released wedding | | | At the regular session of the De- Molays last evening, four candidates | were initiated into the well known | {raternal order. The initiation took| place in the Masonic Lodge rooms in the Scottish Rite Temple and those taking the work were George| Alexander, Peter Warner, Herman | Porter and Stanley Heisel. PIONEERS ARE | T0 NOMINATE The members of Igloo No. 6, Pion- cers of Alaska, will meet tomorrow ! night at 8 o'clock in the ILO.OF. Hall and the important business of the session will be the nomination| of officers for the coming year. A social session will follow the busi- ness meeting. e PIONEERS ATTENTION Regular meeting of Igloo No. 6, Pioneers of Alaska, will be held ¥riday evening at 8 o'clock. Nom- Nolan| — ridge, Built «t Cost of $ 70,000,000 0péned7 Toda ¥ panoramic view of the great bridge cocnnecting San Francisco with the East Bay cities of Oakland, B erke is taken from Yerba Buena Island, shows t bore tube in the werld, cne ¢f the most novel engineering feats of the project, will take the traffic though the island. Note the gigantic concrete center okt the ends of cach bridge cable unit are em bedded. The ferry beoats in the foreground offer compa graph, Intern:tional Ilustrated Ne tunnel, ihe pier, in wh Infra-Red Camera Reveals Beauty of Bridge the These unusual photographs of San Francicco-Oakland Bay bridge towers were taken by the new infra-red camera process. The new “camera eye” pierces (hrough haze, fog and cther at- meopheric conditions, revealing the true outlines of the object pictured. A freighter (in right fereground) demonstrates the great dimensions of the tower, which rises approximately 500 feet above the bay. The tower is built on solid reck foundation about 200 feet below the surface of the water. (International Il- lustrated News Photo.) Ha;'biil, City o‘f‘Lrt.)vélAjrf v Women, Has Gone Puritan By JAMES MILLS |less of color, caste or nationality, could hang up their hats, banish BARBIN, Manchoukuo, Nov. 12.— | thejr car refresh themselves, After spending a week here once, gamble, drink, dine, or flirt with the late Will Rogers declared that|the lovely Russian girls, who gave this Manchurian town, situated at|pgarbin much of its glamor and the crossroads of the world, where || o, “ the East exchanges drinks with the £ ¢ West, was one of the wildest, gay-| Today all this is changed'hMa:;;l est and most reckless cities in|Of the 30,000-0dd Russians who still| the world, fremain here say they have a SRS A dian | Fretched existence under the new cu}xf]d ‘z’en::r';a ’:o J}g‘iwnsmgre ]’;a_reglmv, Their only other choice is & sAlmbdetat T8 jto return to Soviet Russia, where iodny i gsich 8 glimpse of HAr{iney fear their lot under the Bol- bin under Japanese influence, he Pripeddog it for the c shevists might be worse. v y r same i il i bt Harbin Revenue Ceases 2| With the sale of the Chinese Since Japan entered Manchuria,| "% o _ = Harbin has lost its reputation as|Eastern Railway by Soviet Russia A to Japan, the chief source' of re the * e, d laug : 3 : or” C::d o;fl‘:‘lcgz)fiemhm%: o cnue to Harbin ceased. That rail- city of sighs and tears. Gone are '0ad employed nearly 25000 Rus- its gayety, its beautiful girls, its Sians in Harbin alone. They furn- nki s 7 ished not only most of the city's carefree, jovial spirit. i " 5 rade, but much of its prosperity Th T Nedalce ? a £ dapgue - ‘open. door” polig and gayety. Almost all these Ru: initiated by John Hay applied es R g pecially to Harbin, which, under its /208 unable to make a living former gay, smiling Chinese re- under the Japanese regime, have gime, kept its door open and its ‘etwrned to Russia. ? heart warm to receive visitors of And with their return, many of | all nations. No passports or creden- the cabarets, restaurants, dance tials were ever asked for in those halls and other places of amuse- days. Everybody was welcome. ment, which foremrly made Harbin the mecca of visitors in the East, Joy Loving Populace Populated in the old days by have closed their doors forever. ]‘n their place have sprung up staid genercus, jovial, joy-loving ' Rus- sians and smiling, joss-pigeon Chi- Japanese retail stores, cafes, bar-| ination of officers. Social will follow. CHARLES W. CARTER, —adv. President. nese, Harbin was always regarded |ber shops. as a sort of international road-| Thousands Impoverished house on the worlds highway, where all the world’s races, regard- mostly “whites,” are too impover- days when Harbin was the center patches of gulf weed. ished to support even themselves, and with Manchuria’s former “open door” closed forever, foreigners no longer come here. The Japanese themselves are too much bent on making Manchoukuo a political and economic success to spend any time on dancing, drinking, or nocturnal reveals and gambols, which once gave Harbin so much of its spec- ial character as a sort of Asiatic Monte Carlo. 1 Especially hard hit are the thou- ' sands of pretty Russian girls, who once made this city famous the world over for its feminine beauty. In former days Harbin was a great clearing-house for women and girl refugees fleeing from Soviet Russia into China. Among them were Princesses, Countesses, Baro. ses and other members of the old nobility and aristocra to make new lives Girls Scatter Left without employment by the abandoned cabarets, restaurants and dance halls, these girls have grodu- ally scattered to other parts of the Orient, particularly to Shanghai, Tsingtao and Chefoo, where thi pursue a rather precarious exist- ence entertaining the officers and sailors of Asiatic fleets when they come to these ports. The more fortunate ones have landed husbands nmong these sail- ors. But many have wound up on the streets. Without a country without home, without money, no country wants to receive them. ! The “open door” of Harbin i3/ now closed, jammed and locked forever, the key is lost, and would- , Alameda and Richmon two separate suspension spans that link cisco with the on with the s of the 8'i-mile bridge. { rElubor:at(re Exit Systerr-z Is Dc;vised forTrafft Construction of the San Francisco approaches s for network of reads and ramps over valuable industrial preperty. The arrows, shows the elaborate system devised by engineers to expedite fic will have two exits to choose from: one uptown, the cther leadi; and. nd. This photo- double-deck ¢ fie bridge necessitated building a course of each road, indicated by traffic. San Francisco-bound traf- ng directly downtown. Interurban trains will speed across the lower deck of the bridge to a new terminal building now under -construc- tion. (International Illustrated News Photo,) CHEF EXGNEER | TTLE FLOWER | Membership Drive Is to Be Made—Study Club Is to Meet Little Flower Court, CuLlluhL“‘ Daughters of America, held its reg-| jular semi-monthly meeting Tuesday | HIGHWAY HEAD Pk ¥ in Parish Hall, with Mrs, Walter G.| 7 Hellan presiding, according to Miss | {Rosellen Monagle, chairman of the| publicity committee. | Mrs. Katherine Shaw, chairman of the membership drive, being con- | ducted simultaneously with the Na- tional campaign, reported good pro-| | gress, and announced that a list of | ! !all eligibles in Juneau and Douglas had been compiled, and an effort| would be made to enroll all of them| under the banner of the Catholic! Daughters. Mrs, Ruth Wenzel, chairman, and . " . Mrs. August Goodman, co-chair-| Solution of many unusual en- |man presented a report on the suc-| gineering problems that arose | attending the organization of during construction of the $70,- | the Junior Catholic Daughters, and| 000,000 bridge is attributed by |many members present spoke in ap-| State officials to C. H. Purcell, | preciation of the excellent work of Chief Engineer of the project. he committee. Purcell, who was employed by The Study Club will meet next the Bridge Division of the Cali- | Tycsday evening at the home of fornia Department of Public |yys Guy McNaughton. Encouras Works, takes part in the cpen- |, interest displayed at for ing ceremonies today. meetings of the Study Club, the : g s o ommittee, headed by Mrs. Mary has prepared a special pro- of revelry, romance and recreation. The beggars that haunt the stre gram. An invitation has been ex- the empty stores, the thousands of tended to the Rev. William G. Le- Russians without work, are eyi- vasseur, 8.J., Chaplain of the Court, dences of the change in the city, © deliver an address on Commun- which was once Asta's playground. 5™ : Publicity was given the organiza- tion of the Catholic Daughters in ;E’;":fir“;‘g ] mtm“v'w;%nfh%f 0. Juneau through the widely read bul- A len er, 73, of gl ‘ 4 York, Pa., beat her and choked her l“]: é‘;dzl‘fe s cath S because he was jealous. ; i i i AT G Rain caused Elvin Dilling's six, The Sargasso Sea is a section prize Holstein cows to take refuge | rs of The 30,000 Russians who remain, |be visitors can only dream of the'of the North Atlantie covered with under a tree at Altoona, Pa. Light- Ining killed all of them. I partment of Public Works, Earl Lee Kelly, who has represented the State during construction of the bay bridge. The State Highway Commission, a branch of the department, headed by Kelly, will supervise operation of the structure. Kelly partici- pated in the opening ceremonies today. NO MORE CORNS OR CALLOUSES Thousands of Alaska people have ended their Corn and Callous troubles with END-O-CORN. If you have tried liquids that evaporate, messy pads and plasters that bind, smelly old salves, danger- ous knives and razors and still have the corns, come or write to the Butler-Mauro Drug Co. tonight or tomorrow, and we’ll tell you why END-O-CORN removes ANY Corn or Callous, Quick, Easy, Safe and SURE. END-O-CORN is econmical be- cause it REALLY does the work every time, —adv. | tricia Harland. Mrs |is Mother Advisor of (he TONIGHT is the NIGHT ALSO “TUNED OUT' with RUTH ETTING STRANGE AS JT SEEM= Pathe Nows a fan Demaistati " of Cooking !s Next Wednesday |Afternoon and Evening Ses- sion Will Be Held in Church Parlors The third of the series of cook- ing demonstrations by Vena L. Crane will be given at the parlors of the Northern Light Presbyterian Church on Wednesday afternoon and evening, November 18. They are sponsored by the Vocational Department through the Territorial schools of Juneau. The demonstrations are free to all women and men over 16 years of age. The demonstrations will be held at 1:30 o'clock in the afternoon and are to be repeated at 7:30 o'clock at night, next Wednes- day. RAINBOW GIRLS INITIATE FIVE {Work Also Exemplified Be- fore Members of East- ern Star | | | | | Miss Sybil Godfrey and her corps |of officers deserve much credit for | the way they exemplified their work before the Order of Eastern Star lon Tuesday night. A large number | of Eastern Star members and Rain- |bow Girls turned out at the Scot- | tish Rite Temple to witness the | ritualistic work. The six new candidates who were taken into the order were: Marjorie | Snell, Lillian Olson, Martha Harris, |Lila Sinclair, Althea Rands and |Ruth Allen. Miss Anita Porter, | Past Worthy Advisor, assisted in putting the new candidates through their secret work. Y Mrs. Howard Stabler, ' Worthy | Matron of the Eastern Star, was es- corted to the East and ptésented with a beautiful bouquet of flow- ers. Choir members entertaned with a group of somgs, and' Miss Margaret Harris sang, The End of a Perfect Day.' Elected officers of Rainhow Girls are: Worthy Advisor, Sghil Godfrey; Worthy Assoc e Adv Sylvia Berg; Hope, Lomise Tanner Faith, Alberta Porter; Charity, Pa- Walter White Cupid's business, ¢ good economic baromi shewed a 50 per cent increase in Miwni last September compared with the same month a year ago. a Phone 206