The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 8, 1936, Page 3

HISPOWERS WERE SUPER- HUMAN! BUT ONLY IN THE PRESENCE OF “'THE | OTHER WOMANI' PLUS Ants in the Pantry Topics—Sports—News IT'S A ZENITH 10 TUBE RADIO HERO-WORSHIP OF CELEBRITIES HAS TWO SIDES Obligations Are Met by Employing Different Angles By GEORGE TUCKER NEW YORK, Dec. 8—The joys of being a celebrity gren't all con-| i to hero-worship and ne plus ul limousines. They constantly have to deal with job-seekers, char- ity ' solicitors, autograph maniacs, strangers, and spongers. It is in- teresting to compare their various manners of meeting these obliga- tions. Elsa Maxwell is boisterous, hearty, unpredictable and invariably boasts of some new purpose in life. Her latest whim is to teach society how to milk cows. Helen Hayes is polite, shy, but emphatic in what she has to say. John Halliday is friendly and a corking conversationalist. Noel Coward is effusive and wisecrack- ing. Approach Kathareine Cornell and you'll find a gracious yet se- rious and romote person. She eschews speeches even at private dinner parties. SPENDS QUIPS FREELY Alfred Lunt and Charles Mac- Arthur are both unserious. Jack Dempsey is an affable and hail fel- low well met. Gary Cooper usually exposes the blunt, aloof side of his nature. He seems taciturn and ill at ease, almost gruff. On the other hand, Charles Bickford §s a roar- ‘ing, hearty, enthusiastic hand-shak- er. It isn't a pose. He sincerely enjoys meeting people. Marta Abba, the Italian actress now in her first season on Broad- way, has a genius for bright phrases and doesn't save them for the Dorothy Parkers of New York. She’ll waste her newest and most impromptu observation on anybody within hearing. Jack Pearl is a sincere person but he never talks in dialect off stage. He is extraordinarily super- stitious. Conrad Nagel meets strangers as easily as he faces 1yo |movie cameras. CAPITOL FILM DIRECTOR HAS NOVEL POLICY The Clairvoyant” Reveals Mystery of Psychic Power at Coliseum Let the audience write the pic- ture! That revolutiicnary doctrine been introduced to Hollywood Mitcpell Leisen, brilliant young di- rector whose latest film, “Thirteen Hours By Air,” Capitol Theatre, with Murray, Joan Bennett, ZaSu Pitt John Howard, Bennie I | | | | has in the leading roles. “The most sucgessful writing |done today, whether for the screen lets those for {whom it is written do part of the {or for publication, !work,” declares Leisen. “To let |the audience draw its own con- |clusions from a line or scene in a | picture, is not only an artistic {method of presentation which es- |capes the banal, but it is ‘good pol- {icy’ from a psychological stand- | point. It's when you do their thmk- |ing for them that they go tu ~lppp lon you.” Leisen’s new film, “Thirteen | Houke By Air” is an exciting melodrnma of tmn.sconlmemal fly- ling, in which a Kkiller is one of half a dozen persons in the cabin o on tonight at the Fred Mac- Bartlett, | |Grace Bradley and Alice Baxter THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY DEC. 8, 1936 This is the first of a of four articles in which the answers are ught from his- tory to the questions the nation is asking about President Roos- evelt's second term. series By ALEXANDER GEORGE WASHINGTON, Dec. 8—Second term Presidents frequently find the job smoothest sailing along some courses Bl | Roosevelt when he if Franklin had any inclinatign, |learned of his viciory, to dream |about easier pointing ahead, he had the second four years in the White House usu: have brought foul weather as well as fair. ‘The course of the second New Deal Administration will be contingent upon many uncertain factors—plans as yet undeveloped or unrevealed Iby only to look at history to real- ize that Mr. Roosevelt, domestic and international developments of the next four yea and the reac- tion of the Congress, the Supreme Court, and of the public to these developments as well as to Presi- dential actions and proposals. Usual Characteris The 11th United States Presi- dent to be re-elected and the fifth D. of a New York-to-San Francisco What goes on in a mindreade mind? What does he think about his own mind when he isn’t read-| ing what is in yours? “The Clarivoyant.” the GB pro-| duction starring Claude Rains and Fay Wray at the Coliseum thea- tre, reveals the mystery of the mjy {tic power of clairovoyancy. It takes you into the heart and soul and mind of a man, endowed through contact with a strange girl who un- | consciously is his medium, with the power to make the inevitable vis- ible. future TOWS. and reveal its joys or so forward a shy, slow drawl, saying little but meaning what he does; say. Babe Ruth is sincere in hi anxiety not to be misunderstood. Tullulah Bankhead is frank, gen {erous, talkative. She ean, and fre quently does, keep three cigarettes with as many conversations going at the same time. No thought en- tering her head is turned away without expression. Arturo Toscanini is pagerly sought to tear a veil from the | Carl Hubbell puts l‘rl’:ll‘l?lll “ record of kee Administration was but a montl declare war on Germany. by interviewers after each crossing| __ because he contributes excellent copy. He has a pleasant way with | strangers but does not encourage | aimless conversation. THEN THERE'S JIMMY WALKER No selective list of name person-| alties would be complete without Ina Claire who is sure to bob up| with a wealth of coolly sophisticat- ed small talk. Kathryn Brush talks just like her novels, and so do Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Norris. Hap- | pily, Gertrude Stein doesn't talk| anything like her berserk writings. Her exchanges of pleasantries are always sane and understandable. Then there is Jimmy Durante who, though he may give the im- pression of having sand in his| throat, conversationalist. He seldom talks about his achievements unless prod- ded. Then he opens up. Fiorello LaGuardia’s moods are a gauge to his remarks. He usually talks in a frank, open vein, round- phrased but friendly. However, he can erupt with voleanic abruptness. Finally (and you knew he could not be left out) Jimmy Walker is still in the van of infectuous greet- ers. Although he . isn't about as much as he used to be, the former boy mayor has no peer in the mat- The Second 'l'em The careers of Presidents who have held office twice contain hints lems facing Pr velt during th years of the New Deal. series of four Alexander R. of the prob- esident Roose- e second four Ina dgily articles, George, Asso- ciated Press writer, discuss- es President Roosevelt's re- election in the light of prev- jous second - termers’ activ- ities. day in The Empire. The first appears to- Daily Alaska is a surprisingly serious | |to serve more than one term, Mr. Roosevelt presumably will begin his second term with the tradi- tional freedom from re-election |worries but with the outlook of a sshortened whip” on Congress. To first-term Presidents, the | prospect of submitting their rec- |ords in office to the voters within less than four years after inaugu- |ration and of setting the pol |stage for re-election usually pl {a part in determining their’ policies |and actions. Second term execu- tives can advance their programs with less concern for their own political fortunes. On the other hand, second-term Pxesxdmts customnnly have to deal | ter of putting a stranger at ease. His glib rhetoric has made for |many happy moments in the lives |of thousands who met him briefly {and passed on to other wuyb R Build News Roads OZARK, Ala.—Motorists, through' gasoline tax payments, largely will | finance the most expansive road improvement program ever under- Frank O. Deese, of the court of commissioners, says the program calls for paving 27 miles of roads and involves expenditure of $145,- 200. —.,e—— FEDERAL BUILDING NEEDED AT ANCHORAGE Renewed efforts to have funds |for the needed $625,000 Federal | Building at Anchorage included in |one of the lump sum appropriation 'bills will be made by Delegate Anthony J. Dimond in the coming Congressional session. “The new |building is shamefully needed,” Dele- ;gnw Dimond said recently. “The ;bullding housing the courts and| |The Alaska Railroad offices, par- |ticularly are in depressing condi- tion.” Cows on Pumpkin Diet, Drought Area ' SPRINGFIELD, Mo, Dec. 8— Turnips and pumpkins are the lat- est on the dairy cow's menu. Farmers turned to them after drought cut the supply of normal dairy foods. The vegetables are cut in small pieces and mixed with grain as in the common method of feeding silage. Once cows get ac- customed to the mixture, farmers report, they clean it up readily. ————————— TAKING IN PLANE S. E. Robbins is on his way to Fairbanks from the States, ferry- lln‘ in another ship for the PAA. taken by Dale County, in Alabama.| OFF TO A RUNNING START soing into their second term, Farley are relatively free of two THE SECOND TERM Unpredictables Veil Future of F. D. R. President Rocsevelt and Manager first-term worries: (1) Patronage redistribution, which always follows a change of party-in-power; (2) Getting ready for a re-electil with a Congressional personnel less bound to them for re-election pros- or for campaign tership. ffening in Congressional op- ion second administrations axiomatic American poli- largely to gains by the party in the ional particularly in the last position to i ties due rival major Legislature, | | Roosevelt | | lection his His second h old \vhl'll he asked Congress to on |en ! ministrative- aids.” two years of such administrations Upsets Do Happen Another second-term characteris- tic is a Presidential tendency to- ward consolidation and rounding- out of programs which have been inaugurated in a first term. Many expect Mr. Roosevelt to follow this course, although unprecedented su- preme court invalidation of New Deal measures may complicate a follow-through program. Unforseen developments, ov equently upset an tration’s “apple cart” A month after President Wilson took office for his second term, he found his cherished role of America as peace-| maker in the European holocaust more- SENIOR CLASS * GVING DANCE NEXT FRIDAY High School Cym Will Be Scene of Annual Af- fair This Week ‘ Next Friday, December 11, marks the date of the third annual Sen-, ior ball given by the Senior Class of the Juneau High School. The theme of this year's ball is different than anything ever at- {this time, Committees, headed by| {Miss Edna Harpole, class advisoi | have been busy during the past week preparing for the big event| of the school year. Music will be furnished by a five- piece orchestra. I n num- | {bers are being arranged, and rc- freshments will be served. Dancing }vnll begin promptly at nine o'clock ’Jn the h(gh school gym. e — Dan for Short VAN ALSTYNE, Texas— If good name is to be preferred to riches, Dan Murphy, Negro farmer here, should be happy, His full name, containing 25 words taken| from various scriptures in the Bi-| ble, is Daniel's Wisdom May 1 Know, Stephen’s Faith and Spirit| Chose, John Deviné, Communion Seal, Moses’ Meekness, Joshua's| Zeal, The Day And Cgnguer All Murphy. — .- | Queen Wilhelmina of Holland has| decided that the marriage of Pran-] cess Juliana and Prince Bernhard Lippe Biesterfeld shall take place at the Jacob’s Church, The Hague, during the first part of January, according to high authorities. a |ing and e | have the adv. led with legislative adminis- | 5 | death of a President in office, and| tempted by the classes previous to| jon campaign. impossible of realization and he went before Congress to ask a dec- laration of “war to the uttermost” against the German government Grover Cleveland, serving his sec- ond term, hardly had got his fish- ing rods stowed away in the White House when a business slump, “the panic of 1893, swept the countr In Cleveland's case, there a one-term Republican interim tween his two administrations so in his second regime he could not pick up where he had left off in his first Recovery Aids second term, President apparently will have the advantage of an advancing recov- ery from one of the worst of Amer- ican business depressions although a tremendous army of citizens ¢ Federal relief rolls and other de- pression byproducts remain acute problems As a second-termer he will have the traditional advantage of a pat-| ronage problem - largely settled.| When a President «s elected to a second term there is no wholesale | change among office - holders—a familiar source of inter-party criti- cism and intra-party friction In his Four years of White House train- |’ perience is rated an in-| | valuable asset of second-term Presi- dents. They know the administra- | tive and legislative ropes. They| ntage of having work- | leaders of their| parties and of knowing intimately their traits and capacities Experience Helps They ¢ knowledge of the tal- and shortcomngs of their ad- Phey haVe had opportunity to learn of conditions in virfually all of the states and to ascertain ways of “reading the public pulse.” They have a back-| ground of familiarity with for- cign relations including highly con- fidentjal informaton that is never| made public. New Dealers in the recent cam-| paign and spokesman for the “ins”| in: virtually cvery oth campaign since 1864 have employed, as a re-| el ion argument. Lincoln’s clas- maxim. “It is not good policy to swap horses while crossing a stream.” 11 PRESIDENTS RE-ELECTED ‘ WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—Eleven| men have been elected twice to the Presidency. They were: George Washington, Thomas| Jefferson, James Madison, James| Monroe, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses 8. Grant, Grover Cleyeland, William McKinley, | Woodfow Wilson and PFranklin D.| Roosevelt. | Theodore Roosevelt and Calvin| Coolldgc served more than one | mlm but neither was elected twice. Each succeeded to the White Hous from the Vice-Presidency on the| then was elected President in his| own right at the end of his part| term. Tomorrow: The “Crown Prince.” — ., | RHODA MAY CuARK—Foot cor | rectionist. 517 Goldstein Bldg. adv. secect BEER In cans trade-marked E(il—'N 0 America's finest slow mellowed beer since 1858 — for flavor — for quality. FOR SALE AT YOUR FAVORITE DEALER | Alaska Distributor W. J. LAKE & COMPANY, Inc| Seattle, Washington had been | “ thorror YOU'RE NUTTY, WE ARE BATTY, ALL ARE CRAZY [vuybody Is Loco as Ritz! Brothers Go Looney in New Movie By ROBBIN COONS HOLLYWOOD, Cal, The Ritz Brothers are | “Boots and Saddles” By the they very gamut scale, the events, the Kentucky everybody else crazy. They may ring in Al Jolson's Mammy, the Tournament of Roses, | the Leogue of Nations, | whale, P in Spring, Dec. 8. translating into operatic time they likely of course of human Derby, and TmS, finish with it will have run emotions, the social i | Jonah'’s next year's |Mardi Gras queen, Darryl Zanuck, and Vice Versa, including the Scan- dinavian and the Kitchen Sink. They are, (and I am violating a confidence if you've seen them in “Sing, Baby Sing?”) completely loco, nuts and batty. ‘They probably always have been, Al least none of the trio remem- bers when he wasn't. But they make it pay, which is comfort enough in these times and days. o RN S - § SRR ¢ Da ies won't tell. Boop-boop-a doop How They Work Now I'm not crazy, or am I? But that’s a faint imitation of how those things got started. Once they get started only an adamant director can put a stop to them Or, as Harry the youngest ex- plained in a rational moment: “We just get together by our- selves and we talk about something to do for a number. One of us gets an idea and we start on it—take this horror number in ‘One in a Million. “Now everybody knows about the actors, so we've got some- thing to work with. We make up a lyric about Karloff, Laughton, and Lorre—Jimm; Lorre. Al's Karloff, nd I'm Laughton. So the gags just come. Maybe we have Karloff say he’s off to haunt a house and he invites us to come along. So we all sing it: ‘A-haunting we will go, a-haunting we will go, hi-ho- de-merrio, a-haunting we will go.’ (It gets over because it's nuts. Just be crazy enough and they'll go for it We don't have to have any fl Doubly Certified! sense to what we do. ' appearing at the Clover Club and | The crazier it is the better it goes.” And so they garble sense with| non-sense, hi-de-ho with grand op- |era, take their cues from the air |and land on their feet, necks, or | noses with joyous abandon and— All Their Dad's Fault * In vaudeville they used to com- mand around $2,000 a week. Since The Show Plnn; of Juneau LAST TIMES TONIGHT | | “Sing, Baby Sing” their appearance AND THRILLS AT 300 MILES AN HOUR! in a theatre calls for $4,200, and after “On2 in a Million” it probab- ly will go up again. They actually are brothers, real name Joachim. Al is 33, and mar- ried. Jimmy, 31, and Harry, 29, are single. They were born in Newark, N. J., and they blame their clowning on their father, Max Ritz, an actor and dancer, who clowned so much playing with them they grew up balmy. Athletics at Brooklyn high, plus tricky dancing, prepared them to take the physical beatings they give each other in their acts. Gravitating singly to the stage, they combined their| goofiness 12 years ago. | They got four film offers after 200ms thru th g in awild dash with 3 HOURS BY AIR’ FRFD MacMURRAY 1 F k NNETT the Trocadero in Hollywood, where insanity—at long last—is cominsi into its own. s e ‘Basement Garden’ Is Scientist's Goal CHATTANOOGA, Tenn,, Dec, 8.— A garden in every basement to furnish vegetables and flowers for every family is the ambition of Edward J. Bedoit, horticulturalist. ‘What nourishment a plant needs is easily determined by chemical analysis of a leaf, he says. The| needed portions are then fed to t.hc) TEps plant through a mixture poured | NOTICE TO CRED- TORS into the medium (soil, ashes, peat Junea: or moss) which supports the pl““"‘mn'fcexnc? o’lxl‘::;mc:ym;l ‘:l‘uk;, Dtu m?:nlight and soll are “““9“5“ xn“'i'fié‘ mmr of the Estate of sary, declares Bedoit. Everything = ypo; o mmso% deceased furnished the plants by these ele-| Notioo i herehy' given that on ments can be glven through the| n. 4 qay of December, 1936, the mixture. “dersigned, Andrew Rosness, was When the plan becomes practi- appointed Executor of the Will cal, the “mixture” formula would Nels Pearson, deceased; all - be standardized and could bel ..y neSooi Soontd el bought from a chemist. The cost tate of sald Nels Pearson, deceased, would be slight. | must present same, duly verified, Bedoit says he has grown toma- |, the undersigned, at the office toes which fruited as rapidly and of Henry Roden, Valentine Build- plentifully as plants grown out- yno™ juneay Alaska, within six doors. His “dark” grown String|yontns from date of this notice. beans produced 14 days earlier than Dated t! ¥ beans grown in the open. ‘ 193; d this 7Eh day of Dece ¥ adv.} “THE MARCH OF TIME” The News Behind the News Battle Royal—News PREVIEW TONIGHT “BUNKER BEAN” - Give “Holeproof” Hosiery. 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