The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 10, 1936, Page 3

PLUS— Too Many Surprises Rural Mexico Amateur Broadcast—News CASE' PIONEER MYSTERY YARN Diffident Young Man Holds Spotlight in Capitol Picture The modern trend toward mys- tery and detective stories was start- ed more than fifty years ago by a younz and ingenious mnew writer, Ann- Katherine Green. Up fo the (time of her death, Miss Green pro- | duced this thrilling type of a nov- jel. She didd April 12, 1935. | Miss Green's first introduction into the literary world was through | “The Leavenworth Case,” which Republic Pictures Corp. has pic- |turized with a stellar cast of pla jers. This picture is now at Coliseum Theatre. e “The Leavenworth Cas for many years, lead the sales of all mystery-detective stories, despite the fact it was written more than & half century ago. Translated in |every popular language it still sells ;several thousand copies yearly HOLLYWOOD BACKGROUND STORY TOLD Other Interesting Facts Around Movie Colony Are Related By ROBBIN COONS HOLLYWuuD, Cal, Dec. Film factory touring. Turn the calendar back to a July day in 1881, and you find the Brit- ish House of Commons in tense session. This is the day the young Irish statesman, Parnell, is being accused of fomenting riots in Ire- land. Actor William Stack has the lengthy speech of accusation. Ga- ble knows the answer, also lengthy. Just in case, however, property man Bert Spurlin squats out of camera range beneath a blackboard on which the dialog is written. Bert follows Gable’s speech with a cane, jumping it from word to word as Clark speaks. Directir John Stahl makes half a dozen “takes” of the protracted scene, a difficult one because the speeches may be perfect and at the same time the background action —provided by the members—must be perfect. Most of the members are be- whiskered gentlemen, many of them venlerable, which makes it funnier when assistant director Red Gol- den imuportunes them: “Boys, boys, not so much moving around Gable is smooth-shaven, having woh his to-beard-or-not-to-bear argument. His suit, too, is slightly out of period. Cinematic license is {hvoked, because fashion accu- racy would make our hero look slighitly comic. Charles Whittaxer, historian, writer, technical adviser, dwells 10— Out of more than thirty of Miss Robert Z. Leonard is having trou- | Green’s novels, this famous mys- ble with Charley, an actor-horse. tery story has been declared the }Charley is supposed to pull a car-{most popular. It has sold more | riage bearing Jeanette MacDonald | than 1,000,000 copies and still there 'up a narrow village street, but|is a great demand. | Charley insists on drifting out of| “Bunker Bean,” the feature p! THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, DEC. 10, 1936, of Chorine s Reynolds COLLEGES OKAY 'MONEY STORED CHI universities bave reached the point TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT - - at the P Show Place of Juneau ‘““BUNKER BEAN”’ with OWEN DAVIS, JR.—LOUISE LATIMER ROBERT McWADE—HEDDA HOPPER JESSIE RALPH—BERTON CHURCHILL —PLUS— He's a Prince————Sport Magic Football Teamwork: News PREVIEW TONIGHT JUNE LANG—THOMAS YBEC{SGIN p “Every Satlll‘llay C0-ED SMOKING IN OI_TY_STREET 10 Midwestern, SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Dee. 0. aiiing . completion, of its ke home atop Rirogky |camera rangs. He is not in the ture at the Capitol now, follc jof recosnizin ¥ . Gesig o 9 RO TN, oL fine treni Sas im"m S0 popular| popylarity of musical comedies N, movies Nas ce lietly. date infrequently. snd WvA definte dttemk| o & BEATCH et to‘;"“f)?‘:‘% ?;emm:“ | Finally Leonard gets another in “Ruggles of Red Gap,’ and st R i e B P . Ak Lhndalile ¥ whicaine 1o Al i moke, of | CLICO| KUISN LIED L i - | : sulted in development of a new type ol chorus gurl about u career other than considering it a stepping than’ 350,000,000 in silver eoing ofit | horse—a plain work-horse. Char- Owen Davis, Jr, and Louise Li differing sharply from her sister of yesteryear in { stone 1o murriage with o millonaire. They earn an | Course, ishing to! o T hoent {ley watches the rehearsals with in-| timer, personality, habits und ambitons Kose Tyrrell | uwverage salary of about §70 u week, live alone or | light up between it de The intlu of Chiticse deliats terest. Then Leonard gives Charley; e - and Naida Reynolds are typical 1936 chorines while l pairs i rather small apartments, and work in- upon whose ca s she 5 iadhs ’rmnunw ‘lrunrf‘flc another chance. The actor-horse Jeanne Madden 1s an example of one who “rose | dustriously often putting in a 10-hour day at the by ‘N';_.\‘“wfl_‘ ) 55 8 { works like a trouper. { from the ranks”. They dress conservahively lve \ studios. Washington university at 8t. Lo xw‘\‘ ‘m(’ ;-m;c)\ 10\5 peiing s K"u‘ P Ehe Raruia nosas haxt Besn used S g v S i s i e e ik has a factulty ruling prohibiting| U0 0 HURC s “IM' {With success on actor-humans. | Wil vout etective Ser- the co-ed to smoke in front of L p gy Lo raasn Cirl RS AWaY lec o o %t i, PRESBYTERIAN CHOIR ‘orkin sl '’ w1, 158 0,2 e F kish | away trom the apartment about| PRACTICE IS TONIGHT building or any place on the quad=fg 0“0 story and..a hilfyhigh 'reants | i three hours, after a quarrel, and xalilec 4y iense el @0d whont @ thfrd of @ blodk 1oBg. | frnm Humfl |Jul"s returned and found the body hang-| The members of the Northern| At the Uv““"f‘_"-‘ ke x "‘m" "” [ There it remanins, sheltered etily { Insurance | . | [ ing. Chweij, seaman from the U. Light Presbytelan Church CThoir u‘\"""" ‘“l“' ,”','“ y“"m' 'j:: “\”‘“‘Zf" bourd fence but garded b | | . i s. Northampton, said he sent will practice tonight at 7 o'clock,| ' “HF S “'¢ battery of machine: guts and: tear $<-Loe B e for Miss Hanson two montl ccording to Director Byron Miller, |She SMOKes. .o tgas . rifles in the ~windows hove. | Sta,stlstl(fs v Uy "en !Es but ere prevented from It requested that all members| 7The same rule preyails at "““““'; But next ‘May or woon thepeafter, Bantam Champion and Op- : e heoause he did not have be on hand at the appointed time|Western University. ‘The girls Havely, Weq 000,000 and:racme 500 ; | ponent Qverweight— — h s consent to obtain the time is short for preparing | ¢ g S e e :"‘l:: 000 more will be transterred to ofe Fatal Accidents Increase— Title N Stak B Fannd: Hitsioin g dhi 2" he .Christmas program o iy PU IR the most impregnible - strong- Cumulative Death 1kecor ahnifke Y i pE BT | De Paul University and ToyolsiDolds thab. ever guurdem Seds: | Clothes Closet in Sea- . HOME MRS. LAITO LEAVES i auBia; givs: stid on| Ure Rate Decreases NEW YORK, Dec. 10—Harry i SEA ~Mrs. James - th ; Wibvaiis Reombaet Shind] : % | Jeffra, Baltimore bantamwe man’s Apartment Oshorne I's grand-| Mrs. Ida Laito, of Sitka, whose| .. " "0 0 rom for-t - | . " | NEW YORK, Dec. 10.—Despite last night defeated Sixto Escobar, — mether ansen went husband, Oscar Laite, was a victim | ) its downtown building g ’ - an increase in the number of fatal world’s 118 pound champion, but LONG BEACH, Cal., Dec. 10— south about two months ago and of the recent Juneau landslide, i SR . - . accidents occurring in the first ten the title was not at stake. Both e body of Clara Ann Hanson, recently wrote thi eij a passenger to the States on the| } OBERKAPPEL, - Aush months of 1936, as compared with fighters were over the bantam- ed 19, of Seattle, was found were married r Princess Louise. | SYDNEY, Australia — A bird,| Bruckner died without g how 1935, the cumulative death rate weight. suspended by a strap from a rod Jok id she and her mother e flying to its nest under the eaves|old he was. - He thought e was 06, among the 17,000,000 Industrial pol- The fight was a fast one from in a clothes clo: he apartment Mrs. Elsie Hansen, had not "cor- Fort My ¥lorida, plans to ded-| with a lighted cizarette i its |but reeords proved him 4G be 108. icy-holders of the Metropolitan the start to the finish of the ten A. Chweij, aged 20, a seaman, responded since the girl left home icate its federally-financed $100-|{beak, caused a fire at St. Mary's| B Life Insurance Company had de- rounds. st night. #hout permission 000 yacht basin on February 1 o rol Y Giive “Holeproof” Hoslery. “edv. clined by the end of October to a ey point nearly equalling the all-time low record established in 1935, for the same ten-month period, accord- ing to statisticians of the insur- ance company. Comparison of the change in the death rate, in 1936, in this large insured group, with that in the gen- eral population of 86 large cities, {shows up favorably for the insured, ;who registered an increase of only !about one per cent, whereas the | group of 86 cities showed a mortal- | |ity increase of more than seven perf {cent. The decline in the tubercu-| losis death rate continued through- | {out the 10-month period, while such | favorable martality developed in the case of typhoid fever, measles, scar- lovifigly upon the perfection of de- let fever, whooping cough and tail In the reproduction of the House diphtheria that, unless unexpected of Commons. It is indeed a re-!cutbreaks occur, the death rates markable job. Girl Skates Into Film “Pick a Star” is in work under profucer Edward Sedgwick’s di- rection on the Hal Roach lot. This Hollywood-background story is the first of the comedy lot’s new “big- ger” features, and Patsy Kelly and Jack Haley, with Mischa Auer and Rosiha Lawrence, head a large cast. But only the chorus girls are in action today, on a huge set which represents a movie night club. The girls are in various cos- tumes. Musical film fans will rec- ognize these as having been bor- rowed from other studios, a few from one film, a few from another, to form a compositely costumed chotus. One of the girls is Teddy Blue, 19, who with Betty Shraber, 18, {for all of these diseases are ex- | pected to attain for the entire year ,of 1936 the lowest points ever ex-| perienced by the policyholders. | - The homicide rate has dropped 19 per cent in a year and may es- tablish a record low point by the end of 1936, while there have been fewer suicides per 100,000 lives of policyholders exposed than in any year since 1929. The cancer death rate for the 10-month period was 3.5 per cent lower than it was at| |the end of October, 1935, while & |decline of 10 per cent occurred in |the death rate for diseases inciden- tal to pregnancy. | The year-to-date death rate for, the Industrial policy-holders de- clined from 86 per 1,000 at the| ! end of September to 8:5 at the end of October, which compares not un- | fuvorably with the record low rate | of 84 per 1000 established at the | roller-skated here from Duluth, end of the 10-month period in 1935.‘ Minn. With respect to fatal accidents, Téddy was in a few movie chor- the statisticians say: ‘ uses two years ago, but when noth-| “More fatal accidents have oc- ing better broke she went home.’'curred during the first 10 months This time she decided to return of the current year than during spectacularly. She did—and land-. the like period of 1935. Information | ed in the “Pick a Star” chorus.|is not now at hand to determine; But if she doesn’t get a break as|whether the increase is due to arise a fancy skater soon, she is going in industrial accidents or in acci- | home for keeps. Betty tap-dances on skates. Making a Horse Act On the “Maytime” set Director WAKE UP YOUR LIVER BILE— dents in the home, or in both. In-| asmuch as many more people have | been employed in industry this | year than in 1935, a rise in indus- trial accidents may well have oc- curred. This, however, is certain, that the increase in total accidents| is not due to rise in automobile fatalities, for the cumulative death rate from such fatalities among | Metropolitan Industrial policyhold- yers at the end of 10 months is only 19.1 per 100,000, as compared with 199 at the end of October, 1935 —_—————— NOTICE ©On Novmber 15, 1936, I found a 14-ft. round bottom skiff floating off Point Dundas, North Inian Pass. Anyone claiming said skiff should call at Dundas Bay, Alaska, and Attractively packed in Christmas cartons of 200 cigarettes 20’s foil or 50’s flat Copyright 1936, LicGeTT & Myeas Tosacco Co. é‘ with more smokers : every day a Ul cigarette that gives you no end,o'fs_?'l home easure