The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 25, 1937, Page 3

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1937. }25 SPIRITUALS Joe E. Brown Convinces 1BACK BR(]KEN; ARE PRESENTED; ___Reporter, 10, lle's “Ote’ ' STUNT DIVER TONIGHT is the NIGHT THE SHOW PLACE OF JUNEAU ast Times Tonight TONIGHT ONLY is the NIGH T s “Oke Dad Gets Modern Educa- tion in New Jones Fam- ily Picture at Coliseum |Doctors May Be Forced to Operate—Remainder of Life in Wheel Chair FRANCISCO, |~Ray Woods, 30, S diver, kept up a cheerful while surgeons conferred about tion on his Monday in a San WARNE BROTHERS' MIRAGLE PICTURE OF THE AGE! Cal Louis Mar. stunt patter an ¢ Lovers of spirituals, those haunt- BAN e |ing, minor-keyed hymns of primit- |ive races, will find plenty of them |to be delighted about in “The Green | Pasture: the Warner Bros. pro- t the Capitol Theatre now. § | br 168 f from ducti n | There are no less than 25 spirit- |uals in the picture, two more than there were in the story's stage ver- the sion. Some of them are sung in 5 X X 1t chance to live but will pre full ‘roles, with the singers visible, 3 v spend the remainder his lx(c‘ |others are used as fainter back- A wheel chair. ground music, with the choir un- Woods, in his dive, d back-| seen. ward, doubled to do k-knife, | The spirituals used in “The Green {but was not able to straighten out| Pastures” all fit very appropriately and hit the water of the bay doubled | |into the play. Quite a number are ver his chest - s o SIMMONS MAKING §. E. {"ALASKA CIRCLE TODAY !their rendition for the radio. the of BREAKFAST WITH JOE Brian Bell, Jr., 10-year-old son of an breakfast the morning he calied on Joe | liS_clmnl Teachers AP executive, got an extra Brown. By BRIAN BELL, JR. (Ten-Year-Old Hollywood Correspondent) | “CHARLIE CHAN AT THE RACE TRACK” Midnight Preview For example, there is “Joshua Fit| de Battle of Jericho, and de Wu]lh; HOLLYWOOD, Cal., March 25— | e ALSO d PROUFY circle over Came Tumblin' Down,” and the fa- All Reelected to Commencing a Being Film Villainess Is Fun for Bette Davis' By BETTE DAVIS (Pinch-hitting for Robbin Coens) HOLLYWOOD, March 25. — For some reason it is my peculiar fate to make people think I must be like my meaner roles. When, on meet- ing strangers and chatting with them a while, T catch them watch- ing me with a certain expression on their faces, I know what they're thinking Some of the more forthright have told me. They are saying to them- she seems fairly pleas- real life. How odd!” One par- rly frank person remarked when he first saw me‘in per- son he thought I looked distinctly mean. “You've since obliterated the im- pression,” he said, “At first I thought you had a mean eye and a sneering curl to your lips, and your voice sounded tense as though you might be restraining anger and whip-lash words,” Dismayed at First That sort of thing began with “Fog Over 'Frisco” and “Of Human Bondage.” Several degrees were added by “Border Town.” At firsi I was a little dismayed. I talked to other girls who had played “mean” roles, and then to several cinema villains. It bothered me a little that they'd confess no suth experiences. Did I really seem “mean” not only on the screen but in person? Was my success in portraying nasty characters due to some streak in my own nature I wasn’t aware of? Then I had some pret with a few sympathetic roles. This brought an odd reaction from vari- ous fans, who wrote urging me to do more likeable heroines before 1 became fatally typed as a villiness. Gradually all these things I have mentioned have come to mean a good deal to me in the way of en- couragement and sincere praise. Likes Meany Roles It is the net result of these ex- periences in playing screen mean- ies, plus my own confessed joy in creating such characters, that has made me determined to go right ahead portraying them. To me they offer the greatest breadth, depth and variety of dramatic opportuni- ties. I don’t necessarily advocate them for other actresses. Many tell 0. B. WILLIAMS CO. SASH AND DOORS A Place your order now, for spring delivery, before prices advance. 2 LT. WINDOWS Glass 24x20 2 Lt. Glass 24x24 2 Lt. Glass 30x20 2 Lt. Glass 30x24 2 Lt. 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Tollefson, newly appoint- ed pastor of the Petersburg Luther- on the North Sea. He was accompan- ied by his wife and three children. Before coming to Petersburg, ley, North Dakota, also director of music at the North Dakota Luther- an League and Choral Union. John Van Orman, who recently |arrived here from Tacoma, tried to! commit suicide Friday evening in| his room at the Arctic Hotel by cut- | ting his throat. However the wound | did not prove fatal and later he was adjudged insane by a jury in mo‘ U. 8. Commissioners Court and | taken to Ketchikan. From there he will be taken to Morningside Sani- tarium. | On April 3 a number of Peters- | burg Elks and their wives will leave | for Wrangell to attend initiation | and a cabaret dance. Stanley Johansen, former Peters-| burg boy, was a visitor over the| week-end. This year he is a member | of the crew on the Mitkoff owned by his father, Sverre Johansen. | Louis Miller left for Seattle on the North Sea. He will join the crew | of the PAF cannery tender Karluk and bring her t« Petersburg about | April 1. Albert Peters accidentally fell from the sidewalk in front of the Sons of Norway Hall Saturday night, a distance of about fifteen feet. He was taken to the hospital where he is resting easily. siss Lillian Anderson, local school teacher, is planning a trip to Ju-| neau during the spring vacation, | where she will be the house guest' of Mary Nordnes. Mr. and Mrs, Knute Thompson returned to Petersburg Monday after a short vacation trip spent in Seattle and Stanwood, Wash. Mrs. Virginia Brown, who has been visiting Mrs. Earl Ohmer for the past week, sailed for Seattle on the Alaska. ————— MRS. METCALF TAKES BOYS TO FATHER NEAR SEATTLE Mrs. Frank A. Metcalf, member of the Board of Children’s Guardi- ans, left for the south on the Mount McKinley, taking under her charge Hugh and Theodore Lofgren who will join their father at Burton, Wash, ‘The Lofgren boys have been at- tending the Minnie Fields school, under the guardianship of Miss Fields. Mrs. Metcalf will remain ire Port- land, visiting her mother for sev- eral weeks. ——.— A recent poll by a London liter- ary review disclosed the three most popular _authors in England are My visit to Joe E. Brown gave me | miliar “De Old Ark's A-Moverin'.”|a chance to eat two breakfasts in| Well-known is the spiritual, “Let one day. I had previously had | My People Go,” while “Run, Sin-|hreakfast with a friend but when| |pi outhern end of Southeast "Alaska, )t Sheldon Simmons took the Alaska Air Transport Lockheed Ve- an Church, arrived Monday evening | jof Ketchikan, | will increase the family party which ner, Run!™ is perhaps not as f imiliar as some of the others, but | whimsically it is excellent In the picturization of “The Green Pastures,” the music is rendered by |the Hall Johnsen choir, an organ- ization of 60 trained men and wo- men singers brought to Hollywood from New York. Dad understands all |modern youngsters now. about . the out, can enly be appreciated by see- ing “Educating Father,” the new Fox film coming to the Coliseum Theatre, featuring The Jones Fam- ily. Revealing the adventures and ex- periences of an average American family, the picture is promised as gloves and trunks, Primo Carnera’s a hilarious comedy of family life, |with dad finally getting “wised up” to the ways and methods of the ;mndern generation. Jed Prouty, Shirley Deane, Dixie {Dunbar, Spring Byington, Kenneth |Howell, June Carlson, George Er- nest, Florence Roberts and William Mahan have the leading roles, with \Prouty playing the role of father, (who gets a lot out of life—and |hands it right over to the kids. Kenneth Howell, Shirley Deane, {June Carlson, George Ernest and William Mahan, are the various the 'Jones children who contribute to names. Rev. Tollefson was pastor at Stan-!dad’s matriculation in the school of about two dozen baseballs | experience. R. B. MARTINS SOUTH; % i RETURN FOR MOTHER 70TH BIRTHDAY PARTY Bound on a business trip to Cal- ifornia, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph B. Martin left Juneau on the Mount | McKinley yesterday. From Port- land they plan to drive south with Mr. Martin’s brother-in-law and sister for a short trip that will com-| bine business with a visit with friends and relatives in California.' Mr. and Mrs. Martin will return! to Alaska in time for Mrs. Martin! to join in the celebration of the! Peter Gravrock in Ketchikan on April 26. Mrs. Gravrock, who formerly lived on Gastineau Channel, has many/ friends in Juneau who will be in-! terested in her birthday plans. Probably the most important per- son at the family gathering will be little Virginia Neilson, the baby daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Neilson, of Juneau, and Mrs. Grav- rock’s only great-grandchild, Mrs. Neilson, daughter of Mrs. Martin, and Virginia will leave Ju- neau in time to join the birthday party at Ketchikan. Also planning to go from Juneau is Mrs. James E. Smith, daughter of Mrs. Grav- rock. Three sons and a daughter, all and their families will include four generations, to just about an even dozen. The Ket- chikan members of Mrs. Gravrock's family are Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Erick- son, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Erick- son, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Williams, and Leonard Gravrock. WRECKED HANGAR IS NEARLY WHOLE AGAIN ! AND IN OLD PLACE Almost completely rebuilt, better than it was before the fierce Taku gale of last month vented its fury upon it, the Marine Airways float-| ing hangar was this morning moved: back to its old spot at the end of Keeny’s Float. i As the result of several weeks of labor expended upon it by a crew| of carpenters, the hangar is now | big. (Brown and I have another Mr. Brown invited me to join him nd bhis son, Don, a big football iplayer at UCLA, I accepted. hoys iboys I know like to eat. "Icgus ham, julasses. { Mr, Brown commented at the ta- {ble that when his two sons and }Nlik:- Frankovich, a well known pro- muffins and milk—two lquarts of milk daily. | Plenty of Trophies ! Mr. Brown has a trophy room in ;his Beverly Hills home where our |interyiew took pls This trophy jroom consists |gloves and trunks, Gene Tunney's \shoes (each one much bigger than {both of mine and I have big feet, ;sxzo 8), Frank Wycoff's sprinting |shoes, Babe Ruth’s bat and Paul Waner’s bat, Dizzy Dean's baseball uniform, the football used in the last Rose Bowl football game, Jim- 'my Braddock’s boxing gloves, an !autographed baseball used in the lonly game witnessed by King ,George, the Fifth, and also a base- {ball autographed by a Japanese !team. It seemed queer to see an Ameri- can baseball covered with Japanese The trophy case contains with au- |tographs of famous players Mr. Brown showed me caricatures {from all of the 32 motion pictures he has made. In all these pic- tures, which are on the wall, hi big mouth was a prominent feature |but I do not think his mouth is so The Joe Brown in his own home is just the same Brown I like s0 much on the screen. Besides motion pictures, Mr. thing in common, sports, which we dis- cussed. He is going to broad {some of the baseball games this' THREE-HOUR GOOD summer. Mr. Brown thinks the average fan likes the straight stuff (in baseball broadcasts and that's| what he is going to give them. H 70th birthday of her mother, Mrs, >%YS that if a humorous situation| or a gag develops it is all right to use it but not to overdo it. He’s ‘On The Level’ He is a former professional base- ball player and follows football, too. Both his sons are football players. He also has seven race horses. One was to run the day of my inter- view, but he was ccratched on ac- count of the rain. Mr. Brown said he was not good in the mud. The Browns are pet lovers, hav- ing a white parrot, two finches and four dogs. I had never seen nor heard of a white parrot and asked Mr. Brown if he was bleached. “No, he’s on the level,” he said. I think Mr. Brown is, too. MINA SOLOVIEFF WILL SING OVER KINY ON SATURDAY AND EASTER One of the last opportunities to until her return to Juneau after study in Italy will be over KINY when she will sing cn the Alaska Electric Light and Power program at 5:45 Saturday afternoon. Her program will include favorite opera numbers, vieff will sing Easter music for KINY. ———— MacDOUGALL TO SOUTH D. J. MacDougall, of Tulsequah, storekeeper at the Polaris-Taku Mine, sailed from Juneau aboard the steamer Mount McKinley for a short trip to the States. Mr. Mac- Dougall came to Juneau last Mon- day from the mine, aboard the about ready for a couple of -coats] of paint, then back into service |again. When the hangar is completed, Pilot Alex Holden will return to Ju- neau from Seattle with one of the two Marine Airways seaplanes, North Canada Air Express plane piloted by L. F. Barr. — e DRAWS FINE Frank Neyraud, known as Frank Dominick, Thane road rancher, was fined $75 in U. 8. Commission- Most| . will understand this. All the | Phil We hadl fessional player, were all living at Bul when he gets through to findthe bhouse they bought about 12 of Jack Dempsey's hear Mrs, Mina Baclanova Solovieff | light | | During Easter Sunday, Mrs. Solo- seaplane off from here this 8:30 o'clock. He is ex- pected to arrive back at Juneau to- morrow morning at about 9 o’'clock, after staying overnight at Ketchi- kan. The itinerary for Simmons’ flighl‘ today wasigJuneau to Angoon, to Kake, to Petersburg, to the Juneau {Logging Company camp at Tuxr-l ga Serva}‘Niext Year lips Again Chosenn as Superintendent by by Board 7 of the Juneau School chers in the Juneau High Schools were re- the school year 1937- 'ning & At Board Grade elected 1938 A. B. Philli to head the intendent meetir 1l and 13 night. Passengers leaving Juneau this | was again re-elected | schools as City Super-| A. S. Dunham was re- elected as Principal of the High| School and T. F. Dryden was re- |Schools elected as Principal of the Grndui"“(l School The following teachers were also at Kake, Craig; Fred Thurman, John | Krause, and Evan Wruck to Tuxe- | |kan; and one,other passenger to| B aiected: Petersburg. | Cynthia Batson, Velma Bloom,| At Angoon, Simmbns was to pick | Marian Edwards, Kenneth Fergu- UP Dr. Sonla Chelfets, of the Ter-| n, Dalma Hanson, Walter Hau-|'ltorial Health Department, for | tala, Mary Kolasa, Margaret Mc- |Kake. | Fadden, Mabel Monson, Elma Olson, | A | Helen Parrott, Anne Rohwer, Donie | WEATHER FLIER OUT ITaylor 1‘ Berton Lein, airplane pilot who Iva Tilden, Helen Webster, Zora |'ccently completed a six months' | J. Brown, Ruth Coffin, Everett Er-[scries of weather data collecting {ickson, Helen Gray, Pauline Monroe, | {lights over Fairbanks for the Gil- Henry Harmon, Edna Harpole,|lam Airways, took passage from Ju- | IRathyrine L Byron Miller, | Deau for Seattle aboard the south- | {Myrtle Moe, Marjorie Tillotson. | bound steamer Mount MecKinley. Juneau will regret the resignations| Pilot Lein is on a month's vaca- | of Miss Anne Rohwer and Miss|tion trip to the Stal and will then |Heéfen E. Gray, both of whom have| réturn to Fairbar He arrived |decided not to return to the Juneau in Juneau Monday aboard the PAA |Schools next year., Miss Gray, at|Electra plane from Fairbanks. he close of this term, will have |completed eleven years in Juneau and Miss Rohwer will have com-| |pleted seven and one half years. No | teachers have been selected for eith- | 'er of these positions as yet. Miss! Gray teaches Home Economics and Rohwer teaches the third, results. White Spot LIQUOR STORE PHONE 655 Prompt Delivery ERRE sy AR RSN | | FRIDAY SERVICES WILL BE OBSERVED The Juneau and Douglas Minis- |terial Association will conduct a| |“Three Hours Good Friday Serv- lice” tomorrow at the Trinity Epis-| copal Cathedral between 12 o'clock, (noon, and 3 o'clock. | All are cordialy invited to at- |tend this service and persons may | come and leave at any time, as {the services will be divided into |periods of twenty-five minutes each {with intervals when it will be con- | venient to leave. | — - e | ANB PRESIDENT HERE | Frank G. Johnson, President of |the Alaska Native Brotherhood, ar- {rived in Juneau from his home at |Kake by gas boat. He is stopping at the Alaskan Hotel. 'Schilling Baking Powder makes cakes i light as who arrived in Juneau from Seat- | {kan Island, to Oraig, to Port Alex-|tle last {ander, then to Ketchikan for the|from iMonm McKinley. ikley DEANE . Dixie DUNBAR Modern Tokyo Steepy Time Shooting Record Breakers Clever Critters News A F.OX PICTURE KRAFT LEAVES | FiSH WARDEN BACK I. Kraft, radio engineer | Uik Warden Don Haley, c! the U. 8 week, sailed south again | Bureau of Fisherics, arrived back the steamer |in Juneau this afternoon aboard the | motorship Northland after a week Kraft accomp- | spent in Sitka authenticating sead here aboard While here, Mr, morning with Simmons were: A.!lished the purpose of his trip by | skins. Karnes, Territorial School Com- | inst missioner, on an inspection trip to | bro: Port Alexander, is owned by his brother. Aling new equipment at radio| Warden Haley left Juneau fof wsting station KINY, which |Sitka a little more than a week ago aboard the Fisheries vessel Teal. Gt Teacher’s is a qulity Scotch. To you that means clean, rich goodness...tangy zest...s quict mildness... and other pleasing merits your own taste tests will show. 50U U. 5. 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