The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 21, 1937, Page 3

(HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE THEATREN TONIGHT is the NIGHT FLASH BY FLASH LOWDOWN -ON THE YEAR'S MOST EXCITING Dr. Oswald Table Tennis Marine Follies Vitaphone Review IT'S IN THE ARMY NOW Ccmmandeered, this roadster now mechanized forces. in the loyalists’ phones, warnings. the men TALAVERA DE LA REINA, Spain, an. 21.—Spain promises an extra | ordinary market fex automobiles, trucks and buses at the conclusion "or the war. | Thousands of these, mostly of Am- !erican manufacture, already have been wrecked or worn out by the war. Thousands more, it is expected, {will meet a similar fate before the fighting ends. A huge toll of cars and trucks has been taken by road mishaps, bullets, artillery fire and airplane bombs. NEW ACTOR ARRIVES IN JUNEAU TO PLAY ROLE IN DAWN FILM Juneau—another Hollywood? ‘Well—maybe not quite, yet; but at the rate motion picture actors are filing into the city—it will soon be scmething, if not more than a zoo. The latest addition to Juneau’s motion picture colony is now re- tired to his quarters in an unused rarage, where, if people will just Jeave him alone, he is content to sleep off his recent journey till next spring. He arrived in Juneau Tuesday night, from Petersburg, all three hundred pounds of him. Three hundred pounds of full grown live bear. Belonging to Bert Cornelius, of Petersburg, he was brought 1o Juneau this week by Capt. Oscar | Hundreds remain in operation with Oberg, on the boat Hyperien. | bullet holes as evidence of narrow The newcomer is to be used in|escape from disaster. the making of the Norman Dawn| ‘Requisitioned” picture “Swift Lightning, and will On both sides cars have been com- be taken to Menienhall Glac ! mandeered freely. Commercial whenever the sun chooses to shine, | trucks and buses take the place of to play a featured role in the pm-hmmary trucks for troop, gun and duction. | munition transport. The sign “Re- Ahead of him may lie stardom— |quisitioned” marks almost every ser- but to him, it looks to be just a lot|viceable automobile in Spain. of work—and he wants to sleep. | There is evidence that this “trans- i i portation loss” has been far heavier William . Bristoi, 100, of On the leftist side than with the in- n, Tex., c | had the ad- an play a fiddle| surgents, who have with his left hand and is an exper:| vantage of more military organiza- typist. | [tion. - - Capt s Minister for Justic Garvia Oliver Try The Empire classifieds fo |speaking at Valencia, declared re- quick results. - iu-nuy that “more automobiles have = been wrecked and ruined in the —% |past four months than would or- dinarily be the case over a period of 50 years.” "Be at the. TERM INAL Mid - Week Soldiers Go Joy-Riding Dance tonight. | Reports from Madrid and aVien- rumble b \ , THURSDAY, JAN. 21, 1 VICTIM OF AN AIR RAID Once it was an aul enough was left tc raiders over Madric But insurgent be- nobile . ., . hardly After 1 bomb Through identify it seat shout mega- unked i lcars have been wrecked by “joy- |riding” militiamen, in most cases S my I irama mi of a will at side it | workers who find themselves in pos- R ah E 0 epur Br isebsion of powerful and expensive I cars for the first time. _OQ!MQ \1 t In San Sebastian, during the very GGy &Y ¥ first days of the war, the writer i . f ! o and public gars and, covered vl |with red-painted s and driven about with reckless disregard for the welfare of the machine. 3 i 23 | Highway warfare in first months |*“The Moon's Qur Home, cars, trt and buses and torn | roads have contributed to accidents ( .dv-Roma omedy-Romance Wrecked, overturned and l)urn«-'.‘ y g | cars have been a most obvious sign s of the costs of war, Air, ‘-'l "“-'““I*' based on the It will be months, after the war Winchellesque is concluded, before Spain can re- ¢ store normal highway transporta- i€ the Coliseum tion. 1 ight. Lew Ay- How Spain will pay for new equip- radio’s Little Boy featured lead nd Henry Ba- saw luxury cars taken from private of the struggle took a heavy toll of | . ~ | atCapitol, Is Gay May Reward Fascists be the nev ment is another matter. Most cars, P he trucks and buses have been Ame v can imports in the past. If the in- ker surgents win, it is assumed, this lis et for American will find seribbled on a five- 1d controlled competition from dol h i ved to be rma and Italy a reward th ter million dollar for early recognition by those coun- c y by a kidnaper tries. ric chair, -e Boss “On Spat” 5 of a cryptic on himself im- en he s unless he n who will 1 place. He finds olved bill, Ayre 1 w 1 937. 3 INEW STUNT. 15 [ —— PULLED: MOVIE | (GBIl 3 ORCHESTRA NOW TONIGHT Dummy Musicians l:.|imin~l ated by Alert Director He Gets In y ROBBIN COONS WOOD, Cal, Jan. 21 len never liked the idea a “dummy musician cened orchestras are com- sed of “dummy musicians.” These can play, but the camera requires only that they pretend to play. The music is “dubbed in” later Mickey got his idea when sets between scenes, the | orchestra would get requests {tunes to brighten things up. Its | members were strangers to each | {other, had never rehearsed together, {hence the requests could not be| | filled. Mickey decided a liftle or-| anization would help. Chew tobacco without a doc- He had had his first band in 0 . . ' | tor's permit in Connecticut | Arkansas. He had been a soloist | |with George Olsen, had sung in| {opera and played the guitar, vio- | {lin and trumpet. It was his voice | that brought him to movies. He 1g in Jeanette MacDonald's first picture, Love F and em- barked on.a career “dummy musician.” | Organizes Band | Those requests for music on the |sets made him organize an orches- |tra that could actualy play in scenes, land between scenes in response to | requests. He chose musician-actors. In the last four years he has waved his baton on screens all over the world. For one picture he wil wear flowing whiskers, for another burnsides, van dykes, or handleba hes. He has been gray- haired, red-haired and baldheaded. | His toughest job was to ‘“sell | his orchestra to the dirgctors, whose or “no” decided whether he could entertain the stars between cenes. W. 8. Van Dyke would hav him play a few bars in a scene, bu none afterward. Mickey kept his ears ind one day heard the direc- humming “Night and Day After the next scene the orchestra broke into that tune—and broke the ice. Mickey's orchestra prides itself on its versatility. Requests range from hillbilly tunes to ope and the gang has a repertory of 705 musi- cal arrangements. TONIGHT is the NIGHT ACCORDING TO SOME OF OUR OLD "YELLOW HAMMER" LAWS LOW iit‘(&ja LLEGAL ,, Pilfer your husband'’s pockets while he sleeps — in Mary- land. Tip a Pullman porter in Colo- rado. on the dummy for Give away a cigarette in Illi- nois. OR Ride a mule more than 6 miles an hour in Ohio, BUTYo: Can SEE- A mighty fine Musical Com- edy — All in Technicolor — at the Show Place of Juneau without being arrested for wanting to sit through two performances. “THE MCON’S OUR HOME” with MARCARET SULLAVAN HENRY FONDA Also—A Pete Smith Short (Watersports) Technicolor—"Pirate Party’ Daily Alaska Empire’s News MIDNIGHT PREVIEW JOE E. BROWN in “SONS O’ GUNS" mou ves” pe rl and; Fills The Bil 4 cia indicate that more than a few D i e | thousands of bankrupteies result be Take a Peek at Some Private Lives! Here's the most interesting reading in the city; the budget books of the families who do more . . . and do it on less! Details vary; with some it's better furnishings, a better home or apartment. With others it's newer clothes, better meals, greater savings. But every one of these accounts agree on one thing . . . that greater savings by wiser spending is a DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ac- complishment! A System for Saving on Every Page! There are tips for every family . . . and for every indi- vidual . . . in each issue of the DAILY ALASKA EM- PIRE! Put them to work on YOUR budget. Read the ads in N The Daily Alaska Empire - 7 u In Vienna o Any New B;J;i;l?sh Under Ban—Old Ones Must Be Purchased ‘ | VIENNA, ans are ann bits the open restaurant, facto | Officials have with Benny Baker chief aide. Moon Wan late Home,” Walter production for Paramount, opened ye: ny at the Young pitol Theatre capable A new law prohi- |screen actr ret O'Sullavan, of any new shop,{in the star y or other busine discovered that Our Austri that ed Directed by Willjam A. Seiter from a Faith Baldwin story, “The Moon’ Our Home” deals with two interna | tional celebrities who have learned to hate each other merely on the strength of their reputations. ves. ’ of 38 | As ed, pampered, ployes, if they can find employm | ok Dot e, AR Nyine | till"they save enough to buy lcens- | (0% ki e jes of existing establishments. | 4 It may be pure coincidence,|XPIOT lom millions though the police think differently °f women 1 gone ‘mady. s the and are setting u pa special com 3 who would be lost mittee of investigation, but th t water bottle.” Hen- death of old persons through fou Fonda, globe trotte play has risen by 10 per cent since){ers to the n star as a “phoney the law came into operation. blonde with a face that resembles il i bimies French pastr CARRIGANS RETURNING They eventu y meet under Mr. and Mrs. Roy Carrigan are |sumed names, and, without knowing among the passengers coming to each other’s real identity, fall in | Juneau from the States on the Prin- |love. A | cess Norah. They went south from| Others supporting Miss Sullavan lhel‘e for a holiday vacation trip Henrietta Crosman, Beulah about a month ago. Mr. Carrigan Bondi, Lucien Littlefield and Dor- | connected with the Juneau and|othy Stickney. The story was adap- | Douglas Telephone Company. ted for the screen by Isabel Dawn | e :nd Boyce DeGraw. | Lice infesting one variety of ani- — - |mal cannot live if transferred to| The original patent for the dial ianother. \telephone was granted in 1892. | cause there are too many businesse |of every kind already. So they have ruled that oncom- ing generations must remain em- i as- are Hoosier Humorist on the Meno i » ing exhibition at Coral Gables, Fla., Snapped as he watched a swim a " own convalescing after a Georyre Ade. famaus humorist and 1 i f William Wellman, the director, | |once thought he would trip the| {boys by demanding the Greek na- | tional anthem. He did, temporarily. | A few days later, when the studio, golf tournament was in progress, Wellman stepped out on the fif-| iteenth hole and poised his club.| Mickey’s orchestra stepped on the green, gave forth the Greek anthem, | and Wellman missed a birdie. | Jean Harlow requests Baby Melancholy | or hot dance rhythm, whil Joan Crawford wants dreamy senti- mental stuff. Buddy Ebsen will take | ny hot dance tune good for foot- | shaking. Nelson Eddg likes to take ! over the baton to burlesque operct-‘} tas off key, and Robert Montgomery | impersonates great directors in| “Merry Widow” selections, il Wite Badly - SoDaddy Invents Writing Machine LOUISVILLE, Ky, Jan. 21. Charles Lorber went into a new business beeause his young daughter got bad marks in school. | | | “Doris didn't like to write” he| ¢ |explains. “She would draw, but writ- ing was out. I figured that if T could combine writing with a game lof some kind, she would work at i So Lorber got some cardboard and traced deep grooves in the shape of letters. He laid a sheet of trane- |’ parent paper over the cardboard and invited Doris to trace. Later he grooved only the start and finish of t | the letters, leaving the body for Dor- is to fill in herself. The next month she got “G” in penmanship, instead | of an “F.” But before this report came home | Lorber had decided that he had something, and applied for patents. | The more he worked with his charts | | the more ideas he had. To letters he | added figures, then whole words. Then he sold out his key case| business and prepared to manufac- ture writing charts. | — R e — | { ! Change ll—l Name Asked by Actress HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Jan, 21. —-r Because she is given acelaim to which she feels she is not entitled, pretfy twenty-two-year-old Carole| {Dietrich had on file petition to change her name to Carroll. ithm is normal for them. ‘Tables Turned on Parent Who Tells Children “Don’t” EVANSTON, Ill, Jan. 21.-—Incli- “Parents must learn that every nation to control children with in-|child is an’ individual with his own numerable “don't” rules has brought | particular capabilities and lmita- from Dr. Alvin C. Rambar, North- | tions. Children must never be han- estern University pediatrician, a dicapped by subjection to a general- ew “don’ts” for parents. ized adult standard of development. Let the child's own native endow- ment determine his possibilities.” D e Sled with Brake n't pay too much attention to children’s dramatic tantrums. If you cannot bear to watch them,| go into another room. Nothing will | heck tantrums better than com- | plete indifference by parents. ] Held Tnfic Boon “Don't take too much stock in he belief that children should be| KANSAS CITY, Jan. 31.—George seen and not heard.” A child likes| P, Edmonds worried for ten years to feel he is important. Include|when he drove street cars and bus~ him in your conversation and in|es because small boys frequently \vour plans. This Lelps develop the | coasted on thelr sleds perilously near |child's sense of importance and his vehicles, willingness to cooperate. |a sled with a foolproof brake, guar- “Don’t be inconsistent. That re-|anteed to stop the slider on snow sults in confusion, loss of confi- or ice. dence and disobedience. | “Don’t tell a child he must eat SHARPSTONE BACK something because it is good for| D, C. Sharpstone; consulting en- him or “so the food won't go to waste' | gineer for the Polaris-Taku Mine, Don't compare his eating habits accompanied by Mrs. Sharpstone, is with those of other children. Chil-|a passenger aboard the Prineess dren have individual food tastes,| Norah for Juneau. Mr. and Mrs. and if let alone will take an amount | Sharpstone went south about two months ago. PHW THE TERMINAL “This Is Something Different That You Will Enjoy.” Today he exhibited e i For Prompt, Safe Efficient Service CALL A CHECKER CAB 2z R.A.Gridley | You are invited to present ! this coupon at the box offi~e of the « Capitol Theatre and receive tickets for yourself and a friend or The girl said she looked so much like Marlene Dietrich that she often was mistaken for the actress. | et A RETURNING TO JUNEAU R. R. Brown, manager of the| United Food Company, who recently flew to Prince Rupert and Seattle on a business trip, is returning to| Juneau aboard the Princess Norah. 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