The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 9, 1937, Page 3

VOICE OF MOORE, KREISLER MUSIC | HERE AT CAPITOL Booth Tarkington Teams | Jane Withers and Jackie Searl in Laugh Film Once again the golden voice of Grace Moore rings out from the screcn, in Columbia’s new musical romance, “The King Steps Out” which is scheduled to open Sunday at the Capitol Theatre. It is the diva’s third picture since her re- turn to the screen in the sens: tionally successful “One Night Love,” in 1934. On this occasion Miss Moore has for her leading man Franchot Tone, who has grown in a short time int one of the most popular stars of the screen. Tone is seen in the role of Emperor Francis Josef, who woos one daughter of Duke Maximilian —played by Walter Conolly—and finally marries another. The other, one might safely presume, would be the lovely Miss Moore. Also seen in leading roles are Raymond Walburn, engaging char- |acter actor who will be fondly re- I membered for his drunken politician |in “Thanks a Million,” his valet in “Mr. Deeds Goes to Town,” and other characterizations; and Vvictor Jory, the Oberon in “Midsummer Night's Dream” and leading man | | | | of {in many other pictures. As for |Walter Connolly, he has recently \))een seen prominently in “She |Couldn’t Take It” and “The Music | Goes 'Round.” | “The music in “The E |Out” was writien oy Kreis- {ler, who is accepted to be the {world’s outstanding exponcnt of the |violin agd a composer of classical calibre. His famed composition “Ca- ! price Viennois” is sung in the film by Miss Moore, with lyrich by Dor- othy Fields, who also penned the words for the other Kreisler music |in the picture. { At Coliseum | In “Gentle Julia” the Fox pic- 'ture which comes Sunday to the Coliseum Theatre, Booth Tarking- {ton’s funniest story and one of the |screen’s most talented little com- |ediennes are brought together in ia heart-warming romance of the {dear old days when men wore peg- !leg trousers and axtomobiles were gasoline carriages. | Jane Withers, in her most mis- | chievous mood, is the leading player (of this picture, which features Mar- sha Hunt, Tom Brown and Jackic |Sear], the little villain of “Ginger,” in principal supporting roles. Dealing simultaneously with Jane and Jackie’s hilarious feud and M Hunt’s romantic difficulties, the pic- ’Lure shifts its attention from chil- dren to adults, until it finally blends the two streams of the story to make little Jane a sort of inadvertent Cu- | pid. ng Steps f Love” and you're Voice in “One Night You Marvelled at Beautiful PRETEND TO BE Grace Moore’s JOBINMOVIES Directors Seem to Want: Foreigners, but then Good | Americans Will Do By ROBBIN COONS | HOLLYWOOD, Cal, June 9. —, Margaret Lindsay of Dubuque, Ia., who once pretended with profit an English origin, is working now in a typically American picture called, “Shim.” ! | Middle-western Margaret is oppo- 'site two middle-western boys named |Pat O'Brien (Wisconsin) and Hen- ry Fonda (Nebraska). The story is |William Wister Haines' account of perils and romance in construction of those magic steel towers which bring power across deserts, moun- tains and prairies to the home. Iowa’s Peggy Kies fooled Hollywood ‘by getting a role in the “all-English {cast” of Calvacade.” Her sucgess {therein established her firmly encugh that it didn’t matter; some | timie later, when her real origin was revealed. She dropped her affected English accent, and nobody cared. | Praises “lowa Sense” 1 If the accent got her into pic- il | | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, JAN. 9, i937. Reviewive. - 1) E c E M B E R 1936 TRIP IS TOLD Summer Play Days of “Davy” and Wally Lead to Winter Crisis for the British Empire armaments (1936 expenditures By VOLTA TORREY . exceeding 1935's by $9,000,000,- AP Feature Service Writer 000), placid folk stacked match- By December, romance, rebellion’ es on beerbottle tops (a West and recovery were racing pell mell ' Virginia bricklayer got 5,400 on to make 1936 forever memorable. his bottle.) Love spun the British empire into London’s “Punch” suggested a “constitutional crisis” in which Santa Claus bring a bayonet for Premier Baldwin's government won. little Jim, a first-aid kit for Edward VIII renounced his king- Susan Anne, a machine gun for steel helmet for Uncle’ dom for Mrs. Wallis Simpson. Shy George VI took the throne, and yas mask for Aunty. pretty Princess Elizabeth became 1 civilizatica can't last,” heir-presumptive —the royal Word said Story-Writer mes Nor= for “next.” 1 Hall, “because it just does- Revolt rled tables in Asia n't make sense.” China’s head man, Kai-Shek, “It's De-Lovely” Business men d about who had been pret- the trend of who first fought for, and then against, his country’s commun- ty ts, was kidnaped. His captor few months earlier, were Chang Hsueh-liang, who Its De-Lovel And they had gone forth to subdue red were not so far out of tune with rebels and stayed to champivn the New Deal, which was promising them. farmers sor ng better than AAA, The Kkidnaper's first ransom n Indiana fruit jar demand was war against Japan. manufacturer bought control of the The first repl rom the cap- § 000,000 V Sweringen indu: tive’s official family was war t empire for §2 and launch- st the aper i 26,000 wC jocial Se- r released. curity accou Fireworks In Spain Santa Claus was sliding down Madrid remained the hub of A chimneys i B e el itk fiery pinwheel shooting sparks all the world. Children were caressing over Europe and keeping firemen- gtreamlined toys, women getting diplomats on the run. Spain’s re- furs and jewels again, fathers go- bellion, already fatal to 500000 ine back to work in heavy indus- grownups and children, was virtu- tpy ally a European war—to many Ital- Dividends were flowing through! jans, Germans, Russians and other: {he mails liks Christmas cards. Rail- had joined in the butchery \ds were buying locomotives once Italy reported the capture of { SEC Chairman Jame last defender of Ethiopia’s indepe s finding financial cor dence, Ras Imeru, Haile Selassie’s ed by pidly rising fronsth. e , expanding volume and an ! F. D. R. Hails Unity apparently insatiable demand for “We in the Ame " Presiden’ capital issues.” Roosevelt told the Beunos Aires Housewives were humming “The Peace Conference, “stand shoulde’ way You Look Tonight”” All to shoulder in our final determina- America was, like Sandburg's Chi- tion that others, who, driven by cago, “under the terrible burden war madness or land hunger, migh® of destiny laughing.” seek to commit acts of aggression s £ e against us, will find a hemispherc |wholly prepared to consult together White sweaters are embroi in red and green, green sweate purple, and yellow sweaters in mul-f ti-color. | for our mutual safety and our mu- tual good.” While governments piled up { ! ENGL'SH Tu GET “good old-fashioned Iowa sense” confronted with Hollywood's de | mands for “experience,” have over the vague but satisfact “Oh, stock in the Middle West. Hollywood Thick Skinned It is no longer fashionable for Hollywood people to leave and give out interviews slamming the town, but Hollywood is mnot sensitive about that either. P. G. Wods house, who attained consid fame in this respect when he talked about his munificent non-working contract, is back again and work- ing. Grace Moore, who fini put ory that has kept her in. “I've all but forgotten the Eng- lish experience,” sne says. “When I have a new role to play, I find myself thinking of someone I knew in Iowa, rather in England, as the type of character I am to portray.” | Does Hollywood reseu. being de- | ceived? Scarcely. Look at Robert | Cummings, who put Margaret Lindsay up to her “great deception.” Cummings, like Margaret, went to England and returned with a man- ufactured fame as a British juv-| % enile. As an American boy, New THe Eihg Bteps Out” and i sundry reasons why she would not York stage producers overlooked | ooy Thog poen doing “Inter- him. But as a young English act,ori lude.” he was snapped up. In Hollywood, “ye*ose things make Hollywood he was considered English at first, | : A b 3 Yasdle o difference when the |SisSUIR At Hiee, Hio pata 1s quick- A ly forgotten or attributed to the :;:h came out. He is doing very;“..als o R C. B. DeMille is practically Dean | e Sl of the Deceived. Jean Williams,| AR annual lecture has been in disguised as Sonia Karlov, exotic| Stituted by the royal society and plonde, had won a role in “The | the department of scientific and in- Volga Boatman” until DeMille was | dustrial research, England, to hon- tipped off. Later, the director’s|OF the memory of Sir Charles Par- search for a “virginal Diana” re-|S0ns, inventor of the compound sulted in a selection of a mysterious |Steam turbine. Miss named Mari Colman, who af-| e o e e ter the picture was made let it be| The Philippine Islands were nam- known she was wife of the wrestler 'ed in honor of King Philip II of Gus Sonnenberg. As Judith Allen |Spain, she has pursued a fairly success-| ful career. . R S Lode and piacer locatlon retices The Empire office. tures, she thinks now, it was her And the players are myriad who, |for sale at . Pioneers’ Home ed in China 1 Demanded as s Ransom W Diplomacy “Down Under’ 1braces the President of Uruguay Buy George A. Ball Tells a Senate Committee About It Match King r A. D. White Builds the “Highest” Pyramid Pioneer Bound For Sitka Home Can’t Be Found Where's Matt Schlosser, pioneer of the Interior, who left Seward on the Gorgas enroute to Juneau from where he was going to the at Sitka? This is the question Territorial officials are trying to solve. Schlos- er was on the Gorgas passenger list for Juneau. Officials searched high and low on the vessel wi it was here for him, but finally decided he had gone ashore and would report for passage to Sitka But nothing was seen nor heard of him. Radiograms were sent to the Gorgas. The Captain replied Schlosser had left the vessel at Ketchikan. Commissioner Austin at Ketchikan tcday radioed he couldn’t find him in that cit Where’s Matt? is the question as the "hunt goes on for the missing pioneer. - - NOTICE TO PUBLIC On and after Jan. 1, 1937, coal and feed will be sold only for cash on delivery. D. B. Femmer. Phone 114, 5 -adv. e - Today’s News ‘iod ~ ,3,? 43 R B4 «»FRANCHOT TONE WALTER CONNOLLY RAYMOND WALBURN A Columbia Picture Oz Z NS later date. TOUGH TRAIN IONDAY TUESDAY BY REP, GREEN 'S A MATCH-MAKER, UNMATCHED FOR MIRTH! Béoth w Legislator Is Keeping Program to Himself for Time Being dtkington’s? All of c¢ne night spent in the cramped quarters of a train stalled in a howling blizzard, should be enough to excuse Dan L. Green, one of the Representative from the Fourth Division in the Territorial House, for looking with some trepi- dation toward his first participation slatve sesson. uch is not quite the case n piling up a few ULIA 2 FOXF JANE WITHERS TOM BROWN MARSHA HUNT hours of 'p behind him, Rep. Green is ready and willing to climb JACKIE SEARL into the thick of the law-making worries, although he is aware of his lack of experience and is unwilling to state whatever program he has in mind, until after he has had an opportunity to plumb the possibili- ties Rep. Green declares, howover, that the residents of the district he rep- e expecting action at the ALSO TWO COMEDIES — Shake Mr. Shakespeare ond Flicker Fever NOVELTY—"Tke Little Champs” _——__—_“ ——————— e e session on the liquor ad- nistration problem and on Social =SS Security. “Our district has had a gold season,” he said LAST TIMES TONIGHT Leave Hot Springs Rep 1 declares, however, that the Hot Springs Hotel they operate at Manley, also prettiest dog-team in the TH‘ATRE h North,” about ten days ago | —_—— f hort stop in Fairbanks, B & rded the PAA Electra for Juneau Be sure GENE AUii. in Although they experienced fine to inspect @ P 9 weather as far as Whitehorse, things the v & d were not to go as smoothly as they &, Blgll!g aga 2o had expected, and when the plane | RADIOBAR vas unable to cunlifnm- through to on (li<plz|y ALSO 1eau, they were forced to spend i Iz ” two days in Whitehorse. “That in The “E Flat Man wasn't bad at all, though we did s 3 o e reea | SABINS | Great Air Mystery—No. 11 declared. Show Caught in the Act” Overtaken By Biiz Window intending to cotch the Estebeth | e Skagway, M and Mrs. Green nd tre other Blectra passentors LAST TIMES TONIGHT luding Representative W. Leon- wrd £mi‘n, from Nome, and Repre- T sentative tnd Mrs. Leo W. Roe THE SHOW PLACE from Fairbanks, boarded the White Pass Route train at the Yukon City OF ]UNEAU and headed southward, Thursday morning. The train was overtaken by the blizzard at Lake Bennett. Stoppsd ping snow, and with no snow-plow available, the train crew atfempted to crash through and the locomotive was derailed That stopped all notion for the time being, and the passengers hud- dled in the alternately cold and hot cars, without being avle to rest, for several hours until three locomotiv$ arrived at the scene from Skagway, with a rotary ow plow. “Everyone met the situation with good spirit, and, though we were uncomfortable, we didn't make out so badly,” Mr. and Mrs. Green said. Back On Rails After the three new locomotives had got the engine back on the track, they continued to Skagway, where they did not arrive until yes- terday morning, when they immed- g boarded the Estebeth and ailed for Tuneau. The trip on the Estebeth was fine, and we were able to catch up on our sleep” both Mr. anfl Mrs. Green agraed. “However,” sald Rep- resentative Gireen, “I have long pre- ferred air travel to rail transpor- tation, and this trip didn’t help out trains in my opinion.” Representative and Mrs, Green ire now looking forward to delving into the legislative session, and to meeting old frends in Juneau, *THE BETTY FURNESS CE CABOT ROBERT YOUNG - RAYMOND WALBURN - BR ALSO Wild Wings—Vitaphone Headlines Slum Fun—Daily Alaska Empire News VBTN | Miss Vivian Bernice Le Master {and Marshall Freeman Erwin are | to be married at 5 o'clock this after- noon by the Rev. Erling K. Olafson at the home of her parents, Mr, and Mrs. E. 8. Croken. Friends of tha couple will gather at 8 o'clock to- night for the reception which is lvo to be held at the Croken home. The bride attended school at Se- itle and then came to Juneau with her parents several years ago to Part of the cargo had been dis- | reside, m\d‘ was employed in the tributed when the pickets arrived, [Forest Service as bookkeeper. The longshoremen conferred, then| Mr. Erwin is an A-J miner and decided to release all meat as a|C@me from Oklahoma about three necessity, but barred the groceries. | years ago. The couple plan to make The picketing is peaceful. Duty | '€ir home in Juneau. had been paid on the cargo. B o B HOUSE BREAKERS INVITING SKATERS | According to reports in Juneau Auk Lake is now a glistening | this morning, the Auk Bay summer curface of ice, inviting to the eye lhome of R. E. Robertson Juneau any skater—in fact, a good many | attorney, has been broken into. It skaters have already accepted the is not yet known what, if anything, invitation and are inscribing their 'has been taken. name on the glass like surface, ac- e ———— cording to reports spreading in BECOMES CITIZEN town this afternoon. Norman Victor Smith, native of The ice is thick, and slick, and, Canada and resident of Juneau, a good many Juneau residents now was admitted to U. S. citizenship know just what they are going to today at a naturalization hearing do on their day off tomorrow. in Federal Court. PICKETING IS ON, KETCHIKAN KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Jan. 9.— The first picketing on the docks here started last night and is con- tinuing today. A dozen longshore- men surrounded the cargo on a smajl boat which had returned from Prince Rupert with several hundred | dollars worth of meat and assorted groceries. MARTHA SOCIETY MEETS ON FRIDAY At their first business meeting of the year, held yesterday, mem- bers of the Martha Society made plans for a food sale to be held at the Sanitary Grocery on Janu- ary 23. Mrs. Ralph Martin was appoint- ed chairman of the committee and is to be assisted by Mrs. David Wood, Mrs. J. E. Smith, Mrs. M. J. Wilcox, and Mrs. M. 8. Whittier. There were about 40 members present yesterday and Mrs. J. L. Chappell was elected treasurer. The minstrel show was postponed to a SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY Midnight Preview 1:15 A. M. Tonight Matinee Sunday 2P. M. THE SHOW PLACE OF JUNEAU ROMANCE! Another sparkling triumph for the screen’s exotic e of music and enchaniment!