The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 24, 1937, Page 3

THE SHOW PLACE OF JUNEAU THEATRE THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1937. SUN. MON. TUES. Midnight Preview Tonight Matinee Sunday—2 P.M. W e IT'S HARLOW TIME in PARIS and what a time! She’s the dazzling darlin~ of the bouicvards! ALSO A SONG A DAY FOOL YOUR FRIENDS DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE'S TALKING REPORTER ———LAST TIMES BETTE DAVIS and WARREN WILLIAM in TO! IGHT— “SATAN MET A LADY” ALSO—Second Childhoed . . . Old Plantation . . . Camera Hunting . . . News “Streamliner” to Link Los Angeles and Chicago Built of lightweight stainless steel, this gleaming irain will go into service between the Pacific Coast and Chicago this soring. The nine-car de luxe limited, (o be known as the and will cover the 2225 mile Santa Fe route from Los Angeles to the Super-Chief, will be Diesel-powered, “windy city” in 39 hours 45 minutes. “The Secret Six” Assists the Old-Time Film Stars By ROBBIN COONS HOLLYWOOD, Cal, April 24— One of the reasons you see so many old-time stars in today's pictures is “the secret six.” That’s an informal organization of directors. It doesn’t hold meet- ings, collect dues, or give parties. It does all its business by tele-| Real Versatility phone. When W. S. Van Dyke, for| Film-acting had its problems, instance, finishes with an old-timer then as now. Hogan once played in one of his films, he gets on the Grant and Lee in the same film, 'phone and calls one of the other Was & Confederate soldier in the “members” to let him know. If MOrning, and spent the afternoon that director hasn't a spot available,'in the Union ranks shooting at one of the others has, and the word himself. géts around. That way, the peo-| ple who were yesterday's stars get —if one got a job the others trailed a fairly consistent break. along, usually got odd jobs too. Once Former Extras 'when Hogan was an assistant di- This little sunshine-dispensing rector, he hired 16 of his pals. The group is composed of directors who director, Allan Dwan, spotted them, used to be, many of them, extras told Hogan he was tired of the when the people theyre helping same gang in all his pictures, or- were big shots. Among them ‘are dered them fired. Hogan got 16 Van Dyke, Richard Wallace, James long black beards. It worked, un- Hogan, John Ford, Wesley Ruggles, til one of the b Al Hall, Norman Taurog, Robert Z. as its wearer was passing Dwan. Leonard and Lewis Milestone. | Hogan, now directing “Tightwa Hogan had just finished “placing”‘once was a producer, but very brief- a fairly well known comedian — ly. With Bernie Fineman and who had only two days work in the'Benny Ziedman, he made that phe- past four months—when I called nomenal hit of the silents, “Where on him for some of those early Is My Wandering Boy Tflnlght?“‘ movie yarns that lend so much color A shoe-stringer, it was nearly al /T got up my back looked like a waffle. $2 for the boarding house. Most of us were cowboy and Indian ex- tras. Got $1.60 a day—the dime for carfare. You were a big shot if you made $3 a day.” We didn't always have the| The “boys” always stuck together| rds fell off—just! SON BORN YESTERDAY | TO MRS. L. IVERSEN To Mr. and Mrs. Leslie E. Iverson a baby son was boin last night at /10 o'clock in St. Ann's Hospital, |weighing eight pounds and five | ounces. | The child, who has been named Erik Richard, is the first grand- child of Archie Radelet, and its| |mother is the former Elaine Grace| (Radelet. verson is fiscal au- |ditor with U. S. Forest Service. {Their home is on the Fritz Cove| |road. { Arthur Maynard, Former | Yukon Bank Teller Dies, | Worked with Service | | SEATTLE, April 24—Word has| been received here of the death at| { his home at Union, Washington, on |Hood Canal, of Arthur Maynard, 66, formerly teller of the Dawson |branch of the Canadian Bank of | | Commerce. He died following a brief | |iliness and is survived by his widow. | Mr. Maynard had been a Seattle ‘bank teller for 25 years. He was| |teller at the Dawson bank at the| |time Robert W. Service was book- !keeper there. Mr. Maynard cam: to Seattle in 1907. | S e — | LEAVES HOSPITAL JEAN HARLOW IS | tion by which Juneau'’s second min- AT CAPITOL AS NOTORIOUS SPY Daffiness Runs Rampant in’ Picture Version of | “Qr o | Sing Baby Sing | plidi | Jean Harlow's newest starring | | vehicle, * in which the pop-| {ular actress is supported by Fran-| lchot Tone and Cary Grant, will| | be the attraction cn the Capitol | \.\'re‘l'x' starting Sunday | Adapted from the sensational| novel by Herbert Gorman, "Suzv"‘ is the deeply romantic story of an| American girl who becomes en-| |meshed in the war-time spy system in Europe | | George Fitzmaurice, who direet- | ed two of Greta Garbo's greatest | hits—“Mata Hari” and “As You De- |sire Me"—directed Miss Harlow /in the new production. | Although the notorious spy is {not one of the principal figures in the drama, Miss Harlow, as Suzy, unwittingly uncovers evidence which leads to a woman counter-spy’s execution and the shattering of her romance with a young army officer. Miss Harlow returns to her screen work after starring roles in three successive pictures, “Wife Versus Secret. in which she appeared with Clark Gable and!| Myrna Loy, “Riffraff” with Spencer , and “China Seas” with Gar ble and Wallace Beery. With Alice Faye swinging torchy |new tunes and romancing with) Michael Whalen, Adolphe Menjou| {going daffy and roaming around inj |his nightie, Gregory Ratoff, the 'demon dialetician, mangling the | English language, the king and| queen of comedy, Ted Healy and| Patsy Kelly, smashing all laugh Irecords, and the Ritz Brothers| {bringing a new Kkind of musical clowning to the screen, “Sing Baby Sing” opens Sunday at the Coliseum Theatre. Four hit songs, including “Love, Will Tell,” ““You Turned the T: bles On Me,” “Sing, Baby Sin and “When Did You Leave Heav-| en?” are featured in the produc-| tion. J | " Milton Sperling, Jack Yellen and| |Harry Tugend authored the screen wmy. Sidney Lanfield directed,| \with B. G. DeSylva associate pro- | |du('er. Merchants Ball | | DRINK FOOD at troop sites like this. 30000 Boy Scouts together -lternational jamboree. ‘ But boys have a way of bringing| |their appetites with them when they travel. And how many eggs (do 30,000 stomachs need for break- |fast How many gallons of water Take First Bow ldoes it take to wash 30000 chins |afterwards? Al Bloomquist to Pilot Newdo you get eggs and water to Bush Team—League | Teams Practice parks in Washington? Washington merchants were “Merchants” is to be the appela-| worker, Harvey Gordon 1 or league baseball team is to be Lining Up Supplies ¥nown this’ Saason. | Gordon, whose office is in N Manager and Captain Al Bloom- | YOrk, is known by the unromanticy quist, former Cardinal backstop, is Dame of director of engineering for| the Scouts. now rounding out his squad for the - T % He arrived here three months, opening of the Bush scheduled be- Canvas water bags supplied with 50 sounds of ic up fer each of the 816 sceut trecp units at the June im will be run up at the 25 big kitch- ens Scouts to the nearest kitchen. Those two will stagger back to the troop And how in thunder|village with a sort of metal coffin|y, a1 trip to the Seattle office of his Anchorage has retired to privato boys|holding four containers of hot f00d.|company, George H. Walmsley, Pa-|life following service of almost 30 living in tent villages all over the|Back in their own amull | they’ll dish out the individual plates.|pere hoarded the northbound|including some 20 years in Alaska pret-|And 30,000 of those elastic caverns |ty well stumped by the problem/in boys' middles will stop growling,pie, | |until the Scouts sent on their magic|for another | “Magician” Gets Ready to Feed 30,000 ! day will be set amboree, Push- Hot meals will be carried from central kitchens to be dished out WASHINGTON, April 24. — It kitchens, Those 25 are merely the was all very nice to think of getting big cooking and dispatching points| in that will send hot food to the 816/ {Washington during June for an in-/small kitchens and dining tents that | will be set up. Dinah will blow no horn when eal-time arrives. Instead a flag will send two Each troop kitchen short while. e 'DOUGLAS OFFICERS TO HEAD MEETING OF EASTERN STAR tween his Merchants and the Cal dinals, William A. Holzheimer, pres- ident of the Gastineau Channc! Baseball League, sponsors of the minor league, announced this morn- ing. Several of Juneau’s younger base- ballers and several dark stars who |arrived in this city during the win- ter, are set to perform in Merchant spangles, and with the priming Manager Bloomquist plans to give his squad, the Cardinals should not have far to look for a full share of opposition this summer. President Holzheimer also stated that the practice schedule for Chan- nel League Teams calls for the Moose to take the field Monday eve- ning, the Elks to follow Tuesd: evening, and the two teams to al- ternate every evening atier that; instead of practicing just on Mon- days, Wednesdays, and Fridays as announced yesterday. o WESDAHL IN PORT Coming here for the week-end, the tender Wesdahl of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, com- manded by Lieut. H. Arnold Karo, arrived in port this morning and is moored at the Government Float by the Alaska-Juneau Rock Dump. The Wesdahl is engaged in chart- ing Taku Inlet. > - DRANGE COMING HOME Oliver Drange, who has been south for some time, is returning to Ju- neau aboard the Alaska, . ORDWAY ON ALASKA Fred Ordway, who has been south on business in connection with his photograph shop in Juneau, is aboard the Alaska Juneau bound. - e ahead of the jamboree and is rap-| Eastern Star members are to fls-l dly bringing order out of chaos. semble next Tuesday at the Scottish |He's signing up chickens as far Rite Temple when an initiation| Isouth as Richmond for the 70,000 ceremony is to be held with officers eggs he'll need for each breakfast.|of the Douglas chapter, Nugget And the cows that will supply the chapter No. 2, presiding. 130,000 quarts of milk a day stretch| back into Pennsylvania. |Matron of the Douglas chapter, and He has engineers drawing stacks Sam Devon, Worthy Patron, will be| lof blueprints to pump the 1,000,000 in charge. |gallons of water into the tent col-| Douglas members and guests are| jony for drinking and bathing. to be present for the meeting here 250 Cooks ’und a large group from Juneau will | There will be 25 big kitchens run-|also be in attendance. The meet-| ning’ full blast, 250 cooks perspir-(ing which begins at 8 p. m. will| ling, 250 tons of food daily mm-mg!closr with the serving of refresh- ?mw the Scout towns along the Pu»}mvms by a Douglas committee, |tomae. Those tons break up into| i, S e, ST Bl lsuch unimaginable quantities as: REFINISH HOME 900 bushels of potatoes for one meal, | 5,000 pounds of bread a day, 30,000/ The M. D. Williams home on West quarts of milk a day, 4,000 pounds |Sixth Street is Heing fixed over in ;uk‘ sugar and the makings for 100,~1an old English style, with the ond | painted a deep green. ;’umd please don't ask for a |helping, the cooks have been ta-} ken to the hospital). son were married recently at All Saints Episcopal Church in the |funct Daily Capitol, published in presence of thirty guests. Miss Genevieve Feero, Wurthywhe Star Airways of 3,125 grade cr constructed |immediate eral funds. information given elapsed after the alarm has sounded. | ady. Juneau Douglas Telephone Co.|of Seattle, will be in Juneau, stop= {000 flap-jacks for one breakfastwalls to be covered with shakes‘icurrm( of Elkins, W. Va., S {he has walked more than 100,000 A cream trimming will add to the miles delivering mail the last 30! effect. The work is expected to be | years. SUNDAY MONDAY THEATRE TUESDAY A HOLLYWOOD ROMEO ON \ HIS ANNUAL CELEBRATION |....SPOUTING | SHAKESPEARE T0 A MODERN MANHATTAN JULIET! PATSY KELLY Gregory RATOFF RITZ BROTHERS Michael WHALEN s ALSO I Want to Play House Going Places News “RED RIVER VALLEY” “FLASH GORDON” Arber Day: News Pardon My Spray i T LAST TIMES TONIGHT ‘L,,_ i s s |WAMSLEY ON WAY | NORTH ON ALASKA; Returning to Juneau after his an- |ANCHORAGE SIGNAL CORPS MAN RETIRES Master Sergeant J. W. Curlee of leific Coast Coal Company agent|years in the United States army, steamer Alaska this morning at Se-|as a member of the Signal Corps. - | Besides conferring with officials| FAIRBANKS ELKS HOME lof his company, Mr. Walmsley| Plans have been announced for | planned, while soufh, to attend the|the construction of a $55,000 Elks |reunion banquet of his W;ll‘-\lmu‘h()mt* in Fairbanks. The building, {regiment, the 72nd Seaforth High-|which is to be a frame structure, landers, at Vancouver, B. C |will be two stories. - | S AT R ANCHORAGE COUPLE WED E. E. BEARD IS DEAD E. E. Beard dled recently at his Miss Lila Hugh and Virgil I»I;m-yhomv in Tacoma. Several years tha 'ago he was publisher of the now de- |Juneau radio operator for e Mr. Hanson e AT THE HOTELS Since the summer of 1933 a total | H———————————————=11 sings have been scheduled for with Fed- Gastineau A. N. Minard, Taku; Willard A. | Beatty, Washington; Hans Stamm, | Washington, D. C.; D. A. Sheppard, Juneau; Louis Ficken, s, Alaskan It is requested that no calls for| John Willis, Juneau. concerning fires t - five minutes have| ATTENTION Dr. J. W. Edmunds, Optometrist or are construction e - s NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC until for June adv, Gastineau Hotel, beginning ping at the sld mail [about two weeks, estimates | 2. S ceee W. D. Tyre, 57-year Oklahoma has 140 co-operative grain elevators, s Gordon, who is a Scout )um.s(-ll’,!complcted by the end of next week. |- {had charge of the meals at the —— — | London jamboree in 1929 and (-Vm’y-‘) L e e Sttt S st thing went along fine, even if it/ } |does sound confusing. | The confusion will be taken out| of the picture by Gordons' three] DRY CLEANING }dlspatchers who work in { -hour | |shifts around the clock i | They will sit at a big wooden table littered with telephones con- neeted with the 25 kitchens and the city’s food wholesalers. They’ll keep big charts, one for each kitch- en. Keep Tab By Phones At dawn the phones will start ringing with messages like this |“Milk beginning to move—eggs on! the road—sugar leaving the ware- | house,” SPRING FROLIC -~ DANCE~ ELKS' HALL TONIGHT APRIL 24 Rands’ Orchestra Mrs. Russell Wells was dismissed BACK FROM MEXICO can sit cozily imagining the trucks | For a few minutes the L!i:;pu(ch(‘x" Hospital today fol-! Clara Hanson, one of three wian- on the road, and then the phones 4—PRIZES! to this industry. Imillion. Hogan says practically ev-|from St. Ann's Two for Men—Two for Women! ning the recent Empire prize of a|will start all over again wnh'| “Most of us lived in a boarding eryone in Hollywood had a share ‘house just off what is now the Hol- in it—and Micky Neilan gave his| lywood Boulevard business section” to his Chinese cook. Hogan, after he said. “Two dollars a month the preview, sold his own share aplece for lodgings. Milestone lived for $21,000—to B. P. Schulberg. in a cutting room—he was in charge| — e, —— there, at night, with a broom. Some-' Brazil is attempting for the first times I'd sleep in Priscilla Dean’s time to supply its own needs for dressing room at the studio—sleptcigaret paper |lowing surgical care. 1 e DR. VAN ACKEREN ENROUTE Dr. J. F. Van Ackeren is 2| |northbound passenger aboard the Alaska enroute to Juneau, following |attendance of a conference of medi- lcal officials of the Bureau of In- dian Affairs in Washington, D. C. trip to Mexico, is returning to Ju- neau aboard the Alaska. - eee - NEIDING DUE HERE B, B. Neiding, superintendent of the Polaris-Taku mine, and son- in-law of H. R. Shepard, is aboard the Alaska en r\autc to Juneau. |“Kitchen No. 1 reporting milk ar- rival—Kitchen No. 18 reporting cof- |fee coming in—Kitchen No. 9, Sir: eggs have arrived.” And so on, un- til every kitchen has every item |scheduled for that day breakfast. | | Naturally Gordon isn't planning| to feed the whole 30,000 at just 25| Outstanding dancers of the sea- son — 3 different type dances. Admission $1.00 9:30 P.