The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 28, 1937, Page 3

WOOED AND WON BY THE SCREEN AT LAST! America’s Premiere Prima Donna! ROGERS TRIUMPH HERE AGAIN ON CAPITOL SCREEN Music from Opera to Spirit- uals in Picture Featur- ing Operatic Stars For ti.ose who missed it before and for those who have requested to see it once more, the Capitol Theatre, by popular demand, is bringing back, starting tonight that unforgettable Fox film, “State Fair,” the picture that brought Will Rog- ers his greatest fame, A veritable constellation of stars| surrounds the beloved humerist in “Btate' Fdir” beaded by Janet Gay- nor, who is co-starred with Rogers, and also including Lew Ayres, Sally Eilers, Norman Foster, Louise Dres- ser, Frank Craven and Victor Jory. The excitement, the laughter, the A | THE BEST TAP BEER IN TOWN! THE MINERS' Recreation Parlors BILL DOUGLAS . | ZORIC DRY CLEANING e Soft Water Washing Your ALASKA .LAUNDRY THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1937. Thé K;ntucky Derby— “Yes, Sir, It’s No Sir-" Mary Picks Own Horse STARTING TONIGHT By KEN WHITE (First in a Series) | LOUISVILLE, Ky. April 28. — iTlu- girl daddy told not to is at Churchill Downs to win the 1937 | Kentucky Derby. She's Mary Hirsch [daughter of famous who trained last ye: ner, Bold Venture. | Her horse is No Sir, lswer is “Yes, Sir” on his chan “No Sir is always a good horse she said, patting his nose. “The ‘horse that beats him in the Derby will know hes been to the races.” v It's Mary Hirsch's first shot at the Derb; If No Sir wins, it'll be the time a woman-trained horse has reached the wire first in Derby his- tory. G But it won't be the first time for a woman-owned horse. That trail was blazed by Mrs. R. M. Hoots’ Black Gold in 192 Since then Mrs. J. D. Hertz won with Reigh Count (1928), Mrs. nd adventure of the great Payne Whitney with Twenty Grand reflected in the ex- (1931) Frake family as Cavalcade (1934). they prepare to depart for the event! Miss Hirsch leads—and apparent- they have eagerly awaited for a ly enjoys—a life for which few girls | year. would give up their social pleasures. Will Rogers (Abel Frake) has en- But make no mistake about it, they'd \tered a prize hog, Blue Boy, in the have to, if they trained horses, for |stock competition while Louise Dres- it's an early-to-bed, early-to-rise |ser (Mother Frake) is looking for- business. ward to winning first prize with| Hep . piokies. and sUnORRat. | Miss Hirsch is at the stable not The children, Janet Gaynor and jong after daybreak every morning Norman Foster, anticipate adven-|__the time of day, at this season, ture and romance at the fair. \when the air is merly brisk for rid- As the event is to last a cOM-jers pyt chills to the marrow those plete week, the Frakes pitch their who come to watch. tent at the fair grounds. ROBETS| ghe js training five other horses spends mgsl of his m_ne with Blue pesides No Sir, but the bay or Boy, Louise Dresser is busily en- prown colt by Sortie from Fib is jgaged in comparing recipes with the ¢y, only 3-year-old she is pointing other women, while Janet Gaynor go. tphe Derby. {bas met Lew Ayres and Norman, wiss Hirsch was asked about the |Foster has fallen in love with Sally gecepted version that her daddy ERALe, adt gerinl Perlopils. |didn’c want her to take up racing. As the fair moves through s yps true, she admitted. She didn't [exciting week, many things happen|get to work with horses until a few |to the Frake family. Love, humor years ggo, and excitement are skillfully blend-; “He put me in boarding school led in the narrative and the filmignq 1 had to 0" she sald in a [stands today, as it was When first|manner suggesting she didn't care ‘rs:leaaed, one of the screen’s great|much for boarding schools. g PR : | But how did she get in the game “State Fair” is a Henry King pro- finally? Didn't her father keep ob- |duction, adapted from Phil Stong's jecting‘? famous novel of the same title. “Well, yes he did.” Miss Hirsch Eleven songs—solos, duets and|grinneq. “But I sort of snuck up choral numbers ranging from ' on em’ iplaintive Negro spirituals to clas-| apout two years ago the New 'laical operatic arias, 1nterminglediyork Jockey Club granted her a |with Victor Schertzinger's newest|irginers license, the first in history musical creations, provide the mu-|, pe granted a woman, sical entertainment in “FolloW| what does Miss Hirsch do on her | Your Heart.” day off? ‘hThe Republic operetta co-starring; You're thinking, of course, she |the Metropolitan stars, Marion Tal- seba i {ley and Michael Bartlett, comes to- e homsebagk Thilug: 1t Semed {night to the Coliseumn Theatre. “Follow Your Heart,” the theme song, is sung by Talley and Bart- lett and a mixed chorus of 100 dancers. 24-year-old Max Hir: romance state fair is \pressions of the Up at Dawn lother of those busman's holiday things. Well, it isn't. “I don’t have many days off,” she said, “and when I do, I certainly “Mignon,”; and the Page aria Imm.track. “Les Hugenots.” Bartlett sings “Magnolias in the| Moonlight,” “Ah Maria,” and an old | g/, i d J |Hirsch would tire of English hunting song—assisted with| wh 2.9 e ok Miss Hirsch on Teas . Two solos by Miss Talley include!qon't want to go riding.’ Her riding, | Je Suis Titiana,” an aria fromiynat there is of it, is done at the| It was suggested perhaps Miss| ar’s derby win- | but her an- | tirst | MARY HIRSCH said, “No, sir!” when her famous trainer father, Max Hirsch, advised her against a career of training . . . Mary and her Kentucky Derby en- trant, No Sir, are shown above. and Mrs. Dodge Sloan with | game and would come to enjoy the life of other women. There could |be social pleasures like dinn bridge parties, teas Miss Hirsch, who punching holes in the soft earth of the cooling ring with her spiked| |heels, looked up suddenly and glared. “Teas!” she fairly snorted. “Teas Hmmph! One gathered Miss Hirsch did not like teas. The subject was changed quickly had been |The Rev. Kashevaroff Is- \br | the {day of Easter. jat least a week between the Jewish lV'.wwvcr and the Chris |—back to thé Derby. | Miss Hirsch thinks the horse to beat is Col. E. R. Bradleys Brook-|9 Iyn. Loucnnemy’s Pompoon is he 1, but what of Jerome a good horse, s it? No Sir holds a distinction boast- ed by only one other horse. As a 2-year-old he beat Pompoon, the| 1937 favorite. | It happened in the Diana handi- 'cap at Saratoga last August. No Sir won one other race as a 2-year- old—the East View stakes at Em-| \pire—and placed four times, An-; cluding the Flamingo Stakes (for- merly the Florida Derby) at Hia- leah, in 11 starts. The other 1936 conquerer of Pom- poon was Reaping Reward; but, |points out Miss Hirsch, No Sir did it first. | talmost inevitable this would be an-| MAX HIRSCH, the “irate fa- ther,” trained last year's Derby winner, Bold Venture. the first two by the girl dancers.| gt e ton "= DETERGRYRR NEWS NOTES The repertoire of the Hall John- son Negro chorus, already famous for its four years on the stage with “Green Pastures,” includes, “Who | PETERSBURG, Alaska, April 26 — (8pecial Correspondence). — Joe Meherin and Earl Clifford arrived ’this morning on Mr. Meherin’s boat, Minds ‘Bout Me,” featuring Clar- ence Muse; “Work in the Morning,” the Triton. They will leave this eve- ning for Wrangell. |“It's All Over Me,” “This Old Ham- mer Killed John Henry,” and sev- leral cottonfield spirituals. Clinton Erwin, local high school boy, passed away Saturday night, after a short illness. A new radio station has been in- stalled in the PAF office. Call let- ters are KALQ and KALP. Roy ILundqu!st is the operator. Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Scott who have been visiting with their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Nor- man Rustead, left on the Yukon for their home in Olympia, Wash. Other passengers leaving on the Yukon were: For Seattle — Matt Rayner, James Ketcham, C. A. Johnson; For Ketchikan—Mrs. C. Olsen. N ing Tea kas more flavor because its toasted Friday morning Anton Melandeno had the misfortunte of losing his gasboat St. Martin at Scow Bay. The boat caught fire and neither Mr. Malandeno nor the engineer, Vince Frudnich were able ‘to extinguisn the flamps. The two men shore in the skiff, but were unable |to save any of their personal -be- longings. The boat was partially covered by insurance. April 24 marked the fifteenth year the C. E. ‘Swanson company has been in business in Petersburg, Housewives were busy taking advan- tage of the specials run Saturday and Monday. Mr. Swanson now plans on enlarging his store and will also add a furniture department, = N REEIEE AT THE HOTELS 3 Gastineau L. J. Kavanagh, Seattle; Fred O. L. J. Kavanaugh, Seattle; Fred O. Matson, Gustavus. Juneau Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Wells, Bend, Ore.; Mr. and Mrs, J. P. Crawford, Bend, Ore. Alaskan E. J. Rice, Seattle; William Rod- dy, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Norman, Bd | Laurie, Juneau, There are lots of good horses.|? made | Beauty at Inquest Russian Easter {0 Be Observed um@wmy SHOW PLACE OF JUNEAU Starting TONIGHT al Now! WE'VE BROUGHT IT BACK FOR THOSE WHO IISSEDITBEFORE ....FOR THOSE WHO WANT T0 SEE IT AGAIN! THEATRE sues Statement Re- garding Celebration tussian Easter will be observed Sunday, May 2, according to a: st ent issued today by the Rev. | A P. Kashevaroff, who said: | In the early Christian era there n ) uniform day set for the cele- ion of the Resurrection of our Lo and this question was troub- lir ly Christins for a long t It was the cause of disputes, rguments. The Easter Sun- | was observed on different days several unsuccessful attempts | ch an agreement, two distinct camps became evident, the| p consisting of churches in the and the churches of Asia Mi- These two groups, each adher- to its own belief in celebrating . with more or less harmony. nding on the Bishops, carried he dispute until the middle of fourth century. The complete between the two groups was verted by a diplomatic letter of a sishop of Lyons | n the year 325, at the first Oe- nical Council of Nicea, it was' % d, by the holy Fathers pres-| o observe the following rules| the day the Easter should be brated: 1. The day of the Resurrection| ol Our Lord must be celebrated on a Sunday 2. The day of the Lord's Res- urrection must not be observed at same time that the Jew ob- serve their Easter, since the Old Testament Passover has no rela- tion to the New Testament Easter. 3. The Easter must be ob- ved after the Vernal Equinox 4. Easter must be observed ter the first full moon of the V | nal Equinox. This last law requires| that there must be at least three $4.94%. days between the full moon and the 18%, Holly Sugar 32% Also that there bei NGy t the es | Murie) Oxford, famous English beauty, is pictured above at East- bourne, England, on her way to testify at the inquest into the death of Frank Vosper, British actor and playwright. Vosper was la:_n seen alive at a party given in Miss Ox- ford's stateroom on the liner Paris. One week later his body was washed ashore on the English coast. ALSO Bottles s Alaska Empire News Daily 37, Fure Oil Republic Steel 37 H MEETING IS {Bessle Lavenick, Left Supporter to ithe Noble Grand; Mrs. Gertrude | Boggan, Right Supporter to the |vice Grand; Mrs. Linda Schlinder, Left Supporter to the Vice Grand. ‘ Miss Helen Torkelson will be the musician for the evening. 3 STOCK QUOTATIONS | AUSTRALIAN PRIEST QUOTATIONS TUESDAY i an Easter.| yesterday's quotations were as’ SSthe ChOsn Pl MO GA R S % RERFIRA tating the postpone-|can Can 100%, American Power and e e Bl chaey i o0 T, Jeusiets RISER 90 B8 ERINNEE B 57 hem Steel 87 Calumet and Hecla ' it Commonwetth and Soutnern PAST NOBLE GRANDS {2%, Curtiss Wright 6%, General| W Motors 57%, International Harves- R‘b‘k‘ lNo{:lv‘cmn_({ z;xrltgers ?lr crhgi Olafeiie RiodaN stk itk Jentral 7%, Southern Pacific 55%, e 3 tiives of NEW YORK, -April 28. — Closing | United States Steel 108, United Cor- this evening in the LO.OF. Hull.fffi:fi":zz;mw::m’m':f ot quotation of Alaska Juneau mine| poration 5%, Cities Service 3%, With Mrs. Anna Webster to preside Co" o0 4o the evening. stock today is 12%, American Can| pound $4.94'., Republic Steel 39% as Noble Grand. | SCEGNGS b5 7 o 101%, American, Light and Power| pure Oil 20, Holly Sugar 33% | Mrs. Anna Keeny will be Vice %, Anaconda 49%, Bethlehem Steel > |Grand; Mrs. | Kathering - Heoker, j 821, Calumet and Hecla 12%, Com-| NC MANAGER RETURNS |Past Grand, Mrs. Mary Crewson,| YUKON ROUNDTRIFPPER monwealth and Southern 2%, Cur-| H. C. Bennett, accompanied by Chaplain; Mrs. Edith Sheelor, Sec- | b o tiss Wright 5%, General Motors Mrs. Bennett, is returning to his retary; Mrs. Lulu Gardner Inside| The first foreign roundtrip pas- . International Harvester 104%. post at Anchorage aboard the stea- Guardian; Mrs. Mary Bavard, Out-|senger of the season to make an Kennecott 52% New York Central|mer Alaska, after a vacation trip to side Guardine; Mrs. Edna Polley,| Alaskan Cruise, the Rev. O. J. Me- 45%, Southern Pacific 53%, United |the States. Mr. Bennett is mana- Warden; Mrs. Sam Paul, Conduct- | Gee, secular priest from Australia, |States Steel 101%, United Corpora-|ger of th¢ Northern Commercizl ress; Mrs. Ruth Blake, Right Sup- | returned south this week aboard the tion 4%, Cities Service 3%, Pound|Company store at Anchorage. 'porter to the Noble Grand; Mis. | steamer Yukon. GET OUT OF DEBT Have a Good Credit Standing Hold Your Head Up he Pooled Account Plan IS THE ANSWER TO EVERY DEBT PROBLEM. WHILE YOU PAY DEBTS YOU STILL KEEP ENOUGH MONEY FOR CURRENT NEEDS! Alaskza Credit Bureau -First National Bank Building CHARLES WAYNOR Manager PHONE 28