The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 29, 1937, Page 3

YOU CLING AS YOU SHOW i JUNEAU SWING TO THE SWING TIME WALTZ Fred A STAIRE AND Ginger “SWING TIME” e “IT'S GREAT—IT'S. GREATER THAN FOLLOW THE FLEET Is Now Dancing Music. ASTAIRE-ROGERS SWING WALTZ IS LAVISH FEATURE Screen'’s Supleme Dancing Team Generous with Art in Swing Time Devotees of the dance are enjoy- ing something novel in conception; and exciting in interpretation in “The Waltz in Swing Time” num- ber, the glomorous dance sequence " and Everybody to Swing (Time) Legislative Ball Affords Juneauites Big Time Saturday Most [:vcrvone Accepts ln- . vitation to Dance in | Elks’ Ballroom ! Juneau generally had the best!| time it has had in months at the | Legislative Ball in the Eiks' ball-| room Saturday night. So many Gastineau Channel res- THE DAILY ALASKA LMPIRE. MONDAY, MARCH 29, 1937. in Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers' ‘.dvn s accepted the gracious invi- | current melody hit at the C.mm)x Theatre, “Swing Time." On: of a half-dozen whistle-pro- voking melodies by Jerome Kern, “The Waltz Swing Time” is a syn- cophated waltz in rhythmic, accel- erated strains. The number staged in a la featuring a corps of fashionable dancing ccuples while Astaire, in top hat, white tie and tails, and Miss Rogers, in a striking, especially designed dance rown, the mirror-like floor. “Ipe Wiltz in Swinz Time"” is one of two big dance specialties in “Swing Time,” tne other obeing “Bojangles of Harlem” interpreted by Astaire with two dozen sepdia beauties. “Swing Time” pictures Fred As-| taire as a dancing gambler who matches bet for bet and tap for tap with Ginger Rogers, as a dance hall instructress. Victor Moore, is‘ sh night club set,| perform on| in a symbolic setting| itorial Legisla- party and enjoy the floor was beginning of the end. flags, tation of the Te |ture to go to the, ! themselves, ~that ‘uowded from the ‘menmg until the ‘ Large American and blue str of the Legislators, |by Lu Liston, | room. red, white cleverly drawn decorated the ball- 2y | | Specialties during the evening in- {cluded songs by the Rhythmettes, a trio of high school girls, Phyllis | Jenne, Patri garet Harris; Bernice Lovejoy, other talented high school girl, who |sang to the orchestra’s accompani- ment, by Patricia Harland Hussey. Rands’ orchestra was especially good, with plenty of new and nld favorite dance tunes. and Patricia amers and carictures | ia Harland and Mar-| an- | and dancers Pats and Pats,| Members of the Legislature, wuh} red ribbons across their white shirt Helen Brokerick, Eric Blore, Betty‘fron's to designate them as com-| Furness and Georges Metaxa com- mittee members, took excellent care plete the featured cast of this RKO‘of their guests and all who attend- | Radio piccure l2d had an excellent time. : Mrs. Nell Scott, Representative, ‘from the Third Division, was chair- MRS DUSENBURY ]S‘m'm of the dance committee, and lN JUNEAU ON WAY was ably assisted by all other mem- TO HOME AT CHILKOOT . Mrs. Ralph Dusenbury, wife of | Colonel Dusenbury, commander at\ Chilkoot Barracks, arrived in Ju-| rieau on the Princess Norah and iM‘ a guest at the Governor’s House| until she departs on the Alaska to-| morrow for her home. Absent from Alaska since January, Mrs. Dusenbury was the guest in Los' Angeles, her former home, of Gen-| eral and Mrs. Walter P. Storey. In San Francisco she visited Ma-| jor General and Mrs. George 8., Simonds at Fort Mason. General Simonds, who Is commanding gen- eral of the Ninth Corps Area, was! stationed at Chilkoot Barracks for | two years when he was a first lieu- tenant and is looking forward to his return to Alaska when he comes north on inspection next summer. Before leaving for Juneau, Mrs.| Dusenbury visited Capt. and Mrs.| B, A. Mueller, who are now at Fort|At that time he declared that Ju- | Worden, Washington, after transfer|€au looked plenty big enough: to there from Chilkoot. {him and that he had no desire to Captain and | Mrs. Mueller asked that they be| {OLDTIMER FINISHES FIRST TRIP OUTSIDE SINCE DAYS OF 98 W. W. OLeary, of Fairbanks, i where he is connected with the Fair- }banks Exploration Company, is en- iroute north to his home aboard the | steamer Yukon after his first trlp |to the States in 38 years. Mr. O'Leary came to Alaska dur— ling the Klondike Stampede, and | |after working his way into the Fair- banks distriet, has remained there| continuously until last winter when | ‘he left his family to pay a long‘ idelayed visit to relatives in Oak-| land, California. | Mr. O'Leary spent several days| in Juneau early in the winter, after flying here from Fairbanks and’ while awaiting a southbound ship. | {be anywhere but in Alaska. |bers of the Senate and House. | |a remembered to their many friends! in Juneau. GODFREY IS BOUND { BACK TO KOUGAROK | Sam Godfrey, a pioneer placer mining operator with heavy prop- crty interests in the Kougarok dis- irict, north of Nome, is returning there aboard the Yukon after a eombined business and pleasure trip of four months in which he visited in Pacific Coast cities. Godfrey will use plane transpor- tation from Fairbanks to his des-| tination and is looking forward to| a record year in his district. “A very great deal of interest is dis~ played along the Pacific Coast in everything Alaskan, in faet much more interest generally than I have ever encountered on my ‘many vis- its to Coast cities and "it' would .cause me no surprise to see a boom rush started for the North at any | While he was in port Saturday |during the stay here of the Yukon, he re-affirmed that statement, de- claring he had had enough of the Outside, though it had interested |him greatly, but that he was more | than ready to get back to his héme. | {IS RETURNING HOME AFTER BUYING TRIP| Mrs. T. M. Welch, owner and manager of Welch’s Style Shop in Anchorage, is returning to her bus-| iness aboard the steamer Yukon after a buying trip of several weeks which took her to several Pacific| Coast cities. Welch's Style Shop| is located in the New Anchorage |Hotel building at Anchorage and| is one of the outstanding smart shops ‘of the North. ——————— ENROUTE TO ANCHORAGE Bound for his home in Anchor-| age, where he is a prominent mer- | briefly in Juneau Saturday |the few hours the steamer Yukon General view of the werkers in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery, at New Ldondon c\plll~~inn which razed ‘he - Consclidated Schoe! Building. Texas, digging graves for teachers and children killed in the TRUCKS BEC OME HEARSES FOR CHILDREN Funerals for the more than 400 victims of the Consolidated school explosion at New London, Tex., exhausted the supply of hearses in nearby towns and it was necessary to use trucks. Here are shown caskets placed on trucks to be taken to the cemetery following a quadruple funeral. (Associat ‘HIGH TRIBUNAL Hunger Stalks GIVES DECISION IMPORTANT CASE Legislation on Rzulroad Col- lective Bargaining Is Sustained (Continued from Page One) stitutional the 1934 National Fire- |arms Act requiring dealers to reg- ister with the Coltector cf Internal {Revenue ‘and pay a tax of $200 a | year. The Tribunal also uphéid the ef- fort of Washington State to impose two percent tax on articles brought into the state for use in | construction of the Coulee Dam. The |7 to 2 decision reversed the ruling of three judges of the Federal Courts that the state law could not be enforced against the Silas Mason Company and others building the power project. The Supreme Court also held con- stitutional the revised Frazier-Lem- ke Act authorizing a three-year moratorium on farm mortgages and | foreclosures. - e —— EMARDS THROUGH Mr. and Mrs, H. J. Emard visited during was in port from the south. They {have just completed a winter in the States and are passengers aboard the steamer for Anchorage, where Mr. Emard operates the Emard | Packing Company. Mr. Emard is an- ticipating a better than average sal- inon season in his district. ,eo | CORDOVA CANNERY HEAD HERE, YUKON H. M. Parks, operator of the Orca Salmon Cannery, at Cordova, is i Chinese Farms Quarter of a Million Peas- ants Are Faced with | . { Starvation j SHANGHAI, China, March 29 Hunger stalked eastward into the on rich wheatlands cf Eastern Honan province, casting a shadow of death over a quarter-of-a-mil- lion farmers and their dependents as seven months’ drought have dried up their farmlands. Drought and hunger are report- ed to have driven peasants there and elsewhere in the hunger area, where freezing weather is bei experienced, to rioting and other extremes including the kidnaping of children to sell, and to eating the leaves of trees for nourishment. ed Press Photo) BEER, YOU SAID IT, FOR KANSAS Beverage of 3.2 Percent Alcoholic Content Al- lowed—Regulations TOPEKA, Kansas, March 29 Gov. Walter Huxman has signed into the law a bill defining bever- ages up to 3.2 per cent alcoh content as non-intoxicating. The bill is effective May 1. Strict regulations are prescribed. Another measure Gov. Huxman signed makes it illegal to sell such 3.2 percent beer to any person un- der 18 years of age and DI sell- ing the beverage must close mid- night, all day Sundays; also on holidays. e~ Emplre c!nssmcds pm ofefertedeledeled ROUSTS HERE -SATURDAY ON WAY BACK 10 CANDLE Mr. and Mrs. Tom P. Roust paid brief calls on some of their friends here Saturday while the steamer Yukon, on which they are north- bound passengers, called at this port. Mr. Roust, mining man and | operator of an aviation company at Candle, together with his wife are bound from Seattle to their home. They stopped in Juneau for a few days southbound about two months ago while awaiting steamer connections, after flying here from Candle. S SN AR, LEGISLATORS AND OFFICERS OF TERRITORY ARE SUPPER GUESTS AT GOVERNOR'S HOUSE Members of the Legislature’ and Territorial officials were guests of Gov. John W, Troy at a buffet sup- per at the Governor’s House before the Legislative Ball Saturday night. — e — Try an Empire ad. SAVE 5 BAGS AND WIN 510 By suggesting a new label for GLOVER'S OVENIZED POTATO CHIP BAGS BUY THEM AT YOUR GROCER'S GLOVER’S OVENIZED POTATO CHIPS MADE AT ACUTE COLLEEN! .. ALSO . A Pain in a Pullman Hiway Snobbery Snapshots—News HONORS BIVEN GEORGE COHAN ELunalics TaE for Theme of Playwright and He Wins Out By GEORGE TUCKER | NEW YORK, March 29. — This | [fanciful farce of the Manhattan| |comic opera is relayed by a maga- }zmn- writer who attended a party !with Margaret Sullavan, Noel Cow- lard, George M. Cohan, Burgess | Meredith and a coterie of others. (Finally they turned to swapping inut stories, and actor Cohan col- {lected the homors with this pleas- ‘ant little invention: | One day a consignment of luna- |ties arrived at the asylum and was lturned over to the warden for ques- :!h)ning, | “And what is your name?” in- 1 quired the warden gently of the | tirst newcomer. i “Napoleon Bonaparte,” declared that worthy, surprised that every- body didn't know who he was. “That’s fine,” continued the war- \den in kindly tones. “And who gave !you the name of Napoleon?” | books, | for several nights and then sallied | out to exhibit her ncw-found know= FOR HIS STORY [ she had overlooked in her youth. Collecting a set of mall-order she communed with herself ledge. Marc, attending a soiree at her apartment one afternoon, said, “Gwladys (her name really is Kate) I've got a splinter in my hand. Give me a pin.” “Really, Tim dreadfully sorry,” | she explained, gazing vapidly into space, “but my personal maid-in- waiting isnt here today and I don't know where the pins AM!™ Leo Reisman, propped against a bar between dance tunes at the Waldorf, overheard this conversa- tion between a ham actor and a somewhat caustic friend, The ham, it seems, had finally obtained & bit, a most unimportant bit, in a third-rate show. “Say,” he enthused, “have you caught my show yet? I just live my part!” The friend thought this over a moment. “Yeah,” he said finally. “I saw your show last night. A? you must lead a helluva life!” ° Which leaves just room enough to report this most singular and original order placed in an eatery near Grand Central Terminal: “Let me have, said the cynical one, “tw oboiled eggs—sofe as a gig~ olo’s voice!” | “Why, God did,” he said. named me Napoleon.” “That isn't true,” cried another |of the goofy ones, springing for- |ward. “I did not such thing.” “God | Man Strangled to Death; Body in River PORTLAND, Oregon, March 29.— |Efforts are being made to identify the body of a strangled man, aged about 30, dragged from the Willam- ette river last night. The body is clothed in a loggerman's outfit. A light cotton rope was knotted tight- ly around the neck. | Then there is the legend that leaves Marc Connolly in stitches every time he tells it—the legend of Gwladys, who began at a late date to correct a little matter of learning to rea dnnd write, which NEW e 0 0 o SPRING SHOES o Kid @ Suede o Gabardine ® Patent Leather BLACK—BLUE—GREY COMBINATIONS $3.95, $4.95 and $6,$7,$8 FAMILY SHOE STORE- Juneau'’s Oldest Exclusive Shoe LOU HUDSON, Manager Store Seward St. noommnc SERVICE ‘“0. K.”” LUNCH PHONE 324 MRS. GLOVER TRAINED ACCOUN'I‘AN'I‘S Tax and System Service JAMES C. COOPER COMPANY CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS Phone 182 chant, H. Seidenverg stopped off lbound north to that city to organ- here for'a few hours Saturday whue‘iim his plant for the coming season. | the steamer Yukon, on which he is Mr. Parks, a passenger aboard the 4 passenger from the States, was steamer Yukon from the States,! in this port. . |spent several hours in Juneau Sat- —_——————— urday while that vessel was in Today's News Today—Empire, port here. date,” Geodfrey said. i'e ——eeo The first electric cooking was done by Benjamin Franklin, and the first practical electric lamp was in- vented by Thomas Edison 50 years b