The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 1, 1937, Page 3

' THE DAILY AY COMEDY SET ABOARD | OCEAN LINER Mary Boland Appears in| Her First Motion Picture Drama at Coliseum 6 The Show Placeof I Juneau STARTS TONIG CAPITOL EXTRA! [ ] AUDIO- SCOPIKS Something New Under the Sun! STARTLING! THRILLING! Gangway for romance! | The “Hands Across the Table” | stars are at it again! the high-powered sleuthing of five |international detectives ave merely | minor incidents in the plot of “The | Princess Comes Across,” which is at| the Cupitol Theatrs Fo_ the picture is essentially a ro- | mantic comedy, bringing together Fred MacMurray and Carole Lom- bard for the first time since their {smashing success in “Hands Across Iu.p Ta In a story perfectly fitted to their type of rom le e, the | pair clinch their positions as to- And just dud V. day's “Number One Screen Sweet- 5 heart { All action of the story takes place on a transatlantic super-liner, en- route from Le Havre to New York Miss Lombar¢ laccent for her role. She is c: a Brooklyn girl posing as Princess | |Olga of Sweden for the purpose ol | gaining a film contract c | luxury-liner “Mammoth, and falls in love with MacMurray, {leader of a swing band. | The ship and the romance hardly get under way before the first of a; pair of murders arts a chain of | suspense and thrills maintained | throughout. Music, provided both/ d by concert- (who sings | | first song in films in this pic-| | ture) —We'll bet you do duck, too! ALSO Charlie Chase in Life Hesitates at 40 Adolph Zukor preseats (AROLE LOMBARD FRED Mx:MURRAY 'TOMES Amuss'{E A Perbiaount Picture with DOUGLASS DUMBRILLE ALISON SKIPWORTH WILLIAM FRAWLEY * PORTER HALL GEORGE BARBIER Popeye Brotherly Love aids the comedy and roman- tic scenes in maintaining the {ilm's |light touch. An unusually fine supporting cast, led by Alison Skipworth as a wise- !eracking former trooper, “lady-in- iwaiting” for Princess Olga, and William Frawley, manager for Mac- {Murray's band, backs up the stars. !Included are Douglas Dumbrille, Porter Hall, George ‘Barbier and a score of others For the first time in her screen {career Mary Boland is to be seen in a dramatic role; a part with a tH vil “The Princess Comes Across Tenth Episode—"Great Air Mystery” |dramatic punch that will open the CARTOON COMEDY CANDY ||entoved ner only in comedies. £ Miss Boland is coming to the Col- iseum Theatre tonight in Para- - st e s om0 mount’s “A Son Comes Home,” di- NflwN Joan Blondell were the feminine | lleads, and I had only two days’ |work. T'd just finished a good part BY 1 SGENE rected by E. A. Dupont, and this is in “The Front Page’ and I had ex- | Komy | But She Is Starring in New| 1 i | Fox News PO DRSS S 4 MICKEY MOUSE MATINEE SATURDAY—I1 P. M. S e N L R A N B MM L MRS S B G- ME SHA b 0 S Directed by William K. Howard fruit, and eager to do it honor. “And I cried,” she says, “when I first learned what I had to do in Public Enemy.’ Jean Harlow and sult of being handed her first dra- matic part, which calls for heavy emotional acting. With Miss Boland in “A Son Comes Home,” is Julie Haydon, who is making her first screen appear- ance since her big hit with Noel Coward in “The Scoundrel”; Don- ald Woods, talented young juvenile; Wallace Ford, Roger Imhof, An- thony Nace and a cast of more than twenty supporting players. - BIRTHS SHOW GAIN, DEATHS DECREASE DURING 1936 HERE Births for the first 11 months of 1936 in Juneau already are great- er than for the 12 months’ period of 1936 while deaths are less than the previous year, according to rec- ords at the U. S. Commissioner’s office. All births for December have not yet been recorded £o com- plete records are not available, but for the first 11 months, the birth total was 129 compared with 1z for the entire year of 1933. Deaths the production that launches her on pected this to be another stepping Features—Bit Just |her way to a place on the screen, {perhaps, like the one she once en- joyed on the stage. Miss Boland was powerful role after Paramount had tested many of the outstanding |character women of the screen and N e rlet - e | there probably wasn’t a happier star went to the set and they gave me my script and I read the sequence —and cried. But Bill Wellman said he would get it in one take, and | = 2 Jimmy hated to do it at all, so I Makes Big Hit said, ‘Let's et it done. We did it— tand I was as amazed as anybody By ROBBIN COONS else at the reception audiences gave HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Jan. 1. —|the scene,’ Through a movie career of seveni Champion “omebacxer years and an average of four pic-i nae js the champion “comeback tures a year the fame of her “'"‘f".girl" of Hollywood. Imported from gest little scene” has remained With | the stage by Fox in 1929 to act and il Mae Clarke. |sing, her career for a time was Her fan mail still occasionally (dogged by poor health and opera- refers to that momentous occasion tions. Four times she has made a in “Public Enemy” in which James | comeback, and this one, she insists, Cagney plumped an open grape-'is permanent. fruit in her face and squeezed it| “When you have an illness in there. | pictures, producers never get over But for that scene, Mae today!the idea that it’s chronic,” she thinks, fans on the street might says. “I learned that this idea was address her as “Miss Clarke” in-|keeping me out of some parts, so I stead of “H' Mae.” On the wholr,fproved I could take it. I did pic- however, she credits the grapefruitttures for independent companies, with a beneficent aid in implant-' where the hours were long and ing her name on public conscious- hard. If work like that couldn’t ness. (break me, and it didn’t, nothing No More Slapstick |can. My health is fine, I'm happy, In her new picture, “Great Guy,":and I feel that despite all my which reunifes the Cagney-Clarke troubles I've made steady prog- duo, there is no similar scene. Jim- | ress.” the year just ending total 108 my has gone gentleman with a| In a recent film (“Hats Off” for |against 181 during the previous| chivalric bang. He neither slaps, | Grand National, where she is con- |year. kicks, nor caresses with grapefruit|tracted) Mae realized one of her > FAIRBANKS IGLOO | ELECTS OFFICERS | Jess F. Bryant, pioneer Fair-| banks business man, was recently | elected President of Igloo No. 4, Pioneers of Alaska. Other officers clected were: First Vice-President—John Quen- | boe. Second Vice-President—Tom Ner- land. Historian—James ¥ Barrack. Secretary—R. C. Rothenburg. | Treasurer—J. H. Groves. Chaplain—William N. Craigie. Sergeant-at-Arms—Ole Fisher. Doorkeeper—Denny Leach. Trustee for three years—Charles Schiek. Leo W. Rogge is the retiring President of Igloo No. 4. .- — Empire ads are read. | any woman. He never liked those ambitions—to sing on the screen. brutish informalities, anyway, and: It’s funny that a singing actress women’s clubs liked them even should have to cherish such an less. They did shoot, however, one;ambition, but that's the way pic- scene in a cafeteria in which Mae, tures are. A girl doesn't have a with a smirk, declines grapefruit.| voice until she’s used it on the Mae hopes this scene will be re-|screen. tained, but it was cut in an early | e, version. Mae is grateful to grape- Today’s News Today—Empire. — \%2 Mrs. T. Hunshedt You are invited to present this coupon at the box office of the Capitol Theatre and receive tickets for yourseif and a friend or relative to see “The Princess Comes Across” As a paid-ap subscriber of The | Daily Alaska Empire Good only for current ‘offering. { Your Name May Appear Tomorrow WATCH THIS SPACE ¢ PR I | Pay’n Takit | PHONES 92 or 25 | Free Delivery { Fresh Meats, Groceries, §| Liquors, Wines and Beer We Sell for LESS Because] | We sell for CASH }| Leader Dept. Store George Brothers B e e s s o § Two murders in mid-Atlantic and igned to the y, in the films than Mary as the re- : Born To Be Queen— ALASKA EVPIRY. i Princess Reigns Now as “Queen of Heart: By CHARLES NORMA AP Fealure Service Wriler Like Virgin Queen of England wh 1 in a time of great- ness and glory for Brit 10-) sld Prince ibeth, heir-appar to the thr is the child of a ro of & commone mother. 3u with this f sav in the dreams of Englishmen for another | Queen B all similavities be-| ween the two Elizabeths as chil-| dren end ' The Queen who ruled England in its “glorious days” of the sixteenth | century was a lonely, close-confined hild of three when her mother,| Anne Boleyn, died in 1 uth and beauty on the scaffold on Tower | Hill, victim of Henry VIII's \‘.L.'\h_; Her nam had the de-| voted care of a loving mother alll her life, and occasionally for nurse-| maid a reigning sovercign, Queen| Mary, when her parents traveled!| ymbols of the crown hey | were me the Duke and Duchess | . of York | “GooD QUE 1 e 0 | ' England can neevr forge Ehught by Steen et | “Good Queen Bess's Glorious From the aay of her birth onj =g,y ill an Elizabeth 11 Aprl) Frinc Elizebeth | pring them back? d all the attention ond train-| . e which 14 be accorded a| Meanwhile her charm and thel royal personage who might}ghrightliness of her conversation |, rule the British Empi r this} reason she has never insid I { | 1 RIDAY, J 51 | Hupp; [ave captured the hearts of the peo-| Henry A, Jenkins and Wilma Mille; 1, 1937. NG ! |celia Kunz; George W. Brown and DAN CUPID HAS > BUSY YEAR IN - JUNEAU IN 1935 | | |Number of Marriages Show | Gain Over '35 and Boom ‘ Far Ahead of Divorces The year just ended, 1936, was a good one for Dan Cupid in Juneau, according to records at the U. S. | Commissioner’s Office. The little fellow was successful with his darts 1135 times during the 12 montt period as against a score of but 120/ | ma during 1936. | | Divorces for Juneau lagged far !h. hind marriages, only 68 having |been recorded during the year. | Marriages here during the year 11936 follow: | william Young and Mary Hub- bard; Roger H. Stevenson and Ma- | deline €. McKinley; Ralph A. John- son and Marion Louise Jahnke; Stanley Eneberg and Phyllis Spell- {man; J, E. Peterson and Mildred Bristol; R. L. Schrock and Myrtle Hedman; Boras Charnikoff and Ka- herine McRoberts; Arthur White and Roberta We Carleton O. Pet- {erson and Dc M. Wilmot; Rob- ert D. Watkins and Adeline Da- vick; Asborn Nygard and Eve Po- {lich; Leslie E. Iverson and Elaine G. Radalet; Lyle Beeghly and | Louise Frazzini; A. J. Jackson and |G. W. Thompson; Ralph E. Flan- |ders and Charlotte R. Polet; Wil- !liam R. Thompson and Nellie D. Oldfield; A. F. Ellenberg and Hilda | Kerr; Owen A. Swenson and Wilma H. G, Reaber and Eve- lyn Alstead; Robert R. Martin and Eva Seevers; John D. Abbott and | Edna Fulton; Edward Kunz and Ce- r | May Bunn; LaVerne Wilson; John Ture Holm land Aasta Varness; Calvin Stuart, % | White and Bobbe Margaret Dalzell; | ‘Clarence Whittanen and Etolin Campen. | David Mahlum and Pauline Walls; | Mike Tomanovich and Mary Kar- {das; Arthur Burke and Margaret | {Nelson; Ernest Livingston Smith lend Frances Margaret Robinson; | Beclan Sakieff and Lois E. Camer- jon; George A. Imlach and Ruble | Gunn; Clarence Geddes and Ethel i Joe Short and Lucille Mc- | Guire; Charles E. Hooker and Lillie | Burford; Howard Yetter and Aileen |J. Willis; Joe Marmich and Bar- bara Johnson; Fred Story and Lil- lian Wick; Vern Fitzgerald and Lu- |cille Isaacson; Stanley Nowicka and | Alaska McChesney; Virgil Mar- |quette Lynam and Audrey Pearl Richardson; Robert H. Graham and Gertrude Van Dam; Quinton Y aylor and Margaret B. Dudle; ponnoll B RThbATIS. Ier the-ahil | o whom she miy $ome d4y| pranklin Hodges and Jean Fred-| of Englis , recelv-| onee inated ittt fae shni.| Fickees PAuL Seliabt (and Rhea her ed Al R T R i, (‘ y " ;\“ by s Lm; :d (‘”‘Bu;;m-: Clifford L. Swap and Edna ¢ grass il o £ F. Hastings; Craig D. Reams and priviie: futon, 210 fage an e | her home on the instant if|porothea Douglas; Cecil Howard tor than Queen Mary has she had gne didn’t have herself better. | Donohue and Vt‘l'kl' Gill’ignn' e s ey Al R f g0 home now” she i5|gamisto and Helmi Routsala; John eitquette and conversation & to e replied. - “THINE of] o Olon sud Legta . lsons N D | Reading, writing and etic, a1l the people who Wwill be Waiting|nfover and Ellen Mize; Frank Beh- French and dancing and Kkniting ¢y see me.” N R e prate fmanad “It's Royalty Speaking” Santiago M. Cesar and Elizabeth M have been her love o Once the captain of the guard . rvin Hicks Bramhall and L A anding . atifly hefore hex,, ask Josephine Walker; Gerald At ”‘"‘ guard if he could dismiss his weary men.|yao Green and Rhoda Minzgohr. | of the colors, ¢ Vs ilance she 8 ol i ! i pageantry of royal life. But though!cd quickly to the Queen and asked: | ,Jon O: Johnson gila Eiieh Liady; she has been closely guarded again: Did I tell him loud enough?” , |Rosario Fain Su.ltuj and Eleanoxr contaminating influences, her h| When she refused to obey her Maddieux ann‘uson, Ole Brgmdnl‘ spirlts and natural imperiousness |governess, and persisted even after| 204 Anna Hope; Leslic James Reed | of manner have been defensive me- e was upbraided for it, she e and L-mvce Bender; Paul Thomas chanisms against iffiness.” d_ Hefself by saying: = “Iys|20d l\fmy ;w.l Kn:t; J?hngon Finds Arithmetic Hard oyalty. speaking.” | :;: ?;UX::SV n;;izf\?‘;oald%ego;?“ Arithmetic makes her fro Not for notk has Sir James ;“.ul ani f:dnh N’iPmi' Raiph 5 : Barrie called her “the most gra-| . ooner ang Dorothy Z. Owen; | many another little girl. She stude s lady in the land.” Her blunlml‘\“’ Walibkt and Idal Maudu‘ from 9:30 until noon, then goes for ;!]"5 golden halr, her clothes Toic Wallmakl end _lde Maude, a drive after lunch. hich have set the fashion for the A 3 d | Tt 15 Delloved Gt I ner great | wikhE of ahildien -everyWwhese, snd| COrolly. BE, MeDeen: - THUHR -ROE great-grandmoth will be sent abroad for r, Victoria, shc finishing oo IT'S ROYALTY WAVING BACK er vivaciousness I ople of the Empi charmed tk | Princess Elizabeth responded to the crowd’s cheers like a veteran when she went to Southampton with the Royal Family last May to inspect the giant liner Queen Mary, o e i e ward Taylor and Dorothy Jane | yurne; Les Myers and Ruth Wil- | | K. K. Kyler and Ida G. Ba-| vard; J. C. Davis and Eleanor Du- | | vall; Caccius €. Carter and Mar- | °t A. Tatham; Oluf Christensen and Esther Littlepage; Herbert W. Hanson and Mabel O. Monette Fred Paddock and Elizabeth Hamil- |ton; Willlam Fromholz and Amy . |K. Guerin; Frank See and Bessie | | Dick; Wesley C. Overby and Gladys | M. Carlson; Billy Jack and Dorothy | Wanamaker; Carl Lindstrom and | Effie Fleek; S. R. Coulter and Anna Rautio; Henry M. Corpley and Sel- ma C. George; Robert Garlow and Katherine Louise Harover; Harold | Eugene Gath and Leona R. Kar- inen; Edward John Giovanetti and | Flizabeth Elaine Martinsen; George Wwilliam Hillman and Daisy Cath- erine McKibbon; Jack Westfall and | Mary L. Moles; Wayne C. Johnson | and Emogene Quigley; Christopher Nelson and Aliee Young; Jacob W. Sorri and Florence E. Chaffee; An- ton J. Reiss and Agnes W, Eunson; | Chester B. Ellis and Margaret Bands; Reino Rudolph Huld and Martha Linden;’ Alfred F. Bucher | and Mary C. Laurie; Glen Johnson | |and Nina Rhodes; E. W. Butler and | Beulah Parson; Philip F. Tringali| and Grace T. Alello. | Russell Bordeaux and Cathryn Louise Hahn; Edward R. Ridley and Lucille K. Boyd; Dollis 8. Weyand and Dorothy H. Rhodes; Mercer F.| Thompson and Ruther Woodward; sol {Robert A. Kanvidan and Elmi Liedes; B. Peterson and Ingrid Lersten; Frank W. Bandy and Del- | ma Evans; Elbert E. Rhodes and Marion M. Stanworth; Vincent Ya- kopatz and Mary Watson; Saul| Freedman and Ruth D. Mosher; Elmer Valdemar Hansen and Fran- ces Ruth Johnson; Arthur J. Mar- {tin and Elizabeth Samato; Arthur — STARTING A Ticirrcid ~— TONIGHT Al She broke her heart...to save an innocent boy’s life! She defended an accused murderer against the world ... not knowing the guilty man was her own son! Adolph Zukor presents ‘A SON A Paramount Picture with MARY BOLAND Julie Haydon « Donald Woods Wallace Ford « Roger Imhot Directed by E. A. Dugont Great Air Mystery Going Places Paramount News W. Nyquist and Ada Faneuf; Hnrry’Men Bllild Up Forub Edgar Young and Pearl Elva Brock- | man; Jimmie George and Lenora| They Helped Cut Down L. Bell; Tom Jimmie and Bessie | 3025 Wilson; Earl L. Boese and Ella A.] PARSONS, W. Va., Jan. 1. — Olfon; Albert Borallo and Alice| Brauny men of the mountains who Peterson; Harold D. Jarvis und“helped cut down West Virginia for- Helga Johnson; Jenkin M. Williams | ests now are nursing sapiings to and Cora May Minzgohr; Lloyd Cal- | build them up again. 3 vin Steele and Clara Rognan; Ed-| Lumberjacks who followed the ward E. Hibler and Mary Frances timber trails a decade or so ago, Ward; Alvaro DeAsis and Lucy | swinging their axes, plod along row Johns; Odin Lonning and Elizabeth | after row of young trees at a fed- Cropl John Malcolm Ellman and |eral forest nursery, swinging hoes. Mary Baretich; James Earl Mat They are employed by the gov- tox and Elizabeth Mote; F. W. Har: rnment’s forestry service in plant- ris and Rose Stuke; John Howard|ing, cultivating and transplanting Day and Wilma Lee Mogseth; Albert | 700,000 saplings. Guino and Sylvia Jackson; Harold From the nursery—Ranger Don- W. Barrett and Annz D. Meyers; ald A. Oliver calls it the largest Frank M. Campo end Lilly Shiota of its kind east of the Missisippi Isturis; Russeii O. Wells and Eve-|River—go red spruce, red pine and lyn Stephenson; William E. Sparks|sugar maple to make timberland and Saimie Lassiter; John M. Tur-|again out of what now are bare ner and Phyllis Schroeder; George | hills. Douglas Hawk and Helen Edna | . Harmon; Viadimir V. Solovieff and| NOTICE TO PUBLIC b Maria Bacla Lindtner Skeie | and Hildur Ostberg; Arthur Lund-| oOn and after Jan. 1, 1987, coal berg and Florence De Shon; Wal- anq feed will be sold only for cash ter Bindsell and Ethel Sorti, lon delivery. D. B. Femmer. Phone T R |114, —adv. Getober births and deaths in Greenville, 8. C., were reported at 68 and 46, respectively. e S ot Lode and placer location notices for sale at The Empire office. M o /(/z}Dr%%ef White Hats in Manhattan Some of Manhattan’s leading modistes are showing white hats to wear with sleek black clothes, Sally Victor makes a tall toque for the cocktail hour of white suede and accents it with a cluster of feather flowers in shades of deep wine purple and white, Notice the striking line of the mounting crown.