The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 15, 1937, Page 3

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1937 Powell-Blondel In Glter Movi *“Gold Diggers of 1937 at Capitol Tonight, Back- ground for Life Drama “Gold Diggers of 1937, the cur- rent edition, had its local pre- miere yesterday at the Capitol the- tre and sent a succession of highly pleaccd audiences homeward with |smiles on their faces and the hum |of gay music on their lips. Dick Powell and Joan Blondell, are the stars. It will be an unfor-, gettable picture for both of them, because it was during the making of this big musical that their court- ship was conducted. And it was on the day after their last scene together that they were married and started honeymooning. Both look very gay and happy in this picture. Dick sings as splen- didly as ever, and Joan joins in with a pleasingly harmonious voice. “Speaking of the Weather” prob- ably will be sung and whistled about {town. So will “Let’s Put Our Heads ‘Together” 'he Warner Studio team of Harold Arlen and E. Y. these. PAGTRRY LT S G SIS Evergreen Bowl Sports Program PLUS Music Hath Charms Daily Al Empire ska Events Are to Start at 1 0'Clock—Schedule Announced POSTAL INSPECTOR and YELLOWSTONE MIDNIGHT PREVIEW The seventh regular Friday af- ternoon contests in Evergreen Bowl will begin promptly at 1 o'clock to- morrow. The Race Drug Co., is sponsoring the event. Boys and girls with tricycles and scooters are urged to attend. Golf, Stars Turn to Retouching the latest event added to the list W’le'l Hips ES(.('PO Di()ts of contests, will also be included in | ————— the afternoon games. Many other By ROBBIN COONS lted. Hippo is the Warher's ath- CVEnts are also scheduled. HOLLYWOOD, Cal, July 15. — letic conditioner. w:l’l;:ro‘-:\{w:;:i ‘events scheduled for The sad face on the cutting room| “Hips” he said, “always come oo N0 Tl g e paee 4 g floor has an unsung, jolful tousin|With prosperity. Good food and y o7 0 oyl coooter race, 7-9: boys —the hip on the retoucher’s brush, |automobiles are largely responsible. /. . Ity H | 3 i or girls’ foot race, 4-6; boys’ or girls Hips are unpopular in pictures,| Too much sitting and lolling about Yibt Tace N0} el Ky 3ELDE 3 L Pt s ; girls’ bicycle race, 10- Pictorially if not socially, they rate on comfortable cushions, plus rich it A v 14; boys' bicycle race, 10-14; tigh along with dental cavities, double diet, does the trick. Automobiles i "G, P VCE e wmkfi"‘; chins, and crooked teeth as things|are broadening in more ways than open: horseshoes, 12-15; hoys' golf one may have but not in public. one sense.” open; girls’ golf, open; tennis place- A sizeable army of studio worke! Yvonne Avonde, one of the town's pang 10-15; basketball, open; penny cuffers with “retoucher’s cramp”|most facile retouchers, fears that give ' open: best craft work pacind —astiffness of the fingers, caused |film actresses have lost their Per- (ng age limit). / by overwork in brushing out excess |spective in the matter of thin hips. ST o hippage from the negatives of still | Yvonne thinks it’s absurd for every g pictures. ifigure to have the same hips, re- | When diet, massage, badminton,}8ardless of shoulders, legs ‘ -HOSPIT and i busts. e tennis and rowing machine have | USts: | done their best, the retoucher is| Nothing Like a Brush! “I suppose,” she says, “I've cut MMM FRES| WHO IS IT? Mu‘,n‘s AL NOTES Lewis Dyrdahl, admitted to St. Ann’s Hospital yesterday, under- went a major operation this morn- ing. Mrs. Lloyd Ritter, a surgical pa- tient, was to be dismissed this af- ternoon from St. Ann’s Hospital. Mrs. Tom Casey and baby son were to be dismissed from St. Ann’s Hospital this afternoon. Elmer J. Peterson, for 15 years night nurse at St. Ann’s Hospital, is confined by a leg injury to the hospital today. The injury was re- ceived while Peterson was fishing aboard the halibut boat Diana which returned with him to Auk Bay this morning, from where he| \was driven to the hospital here. joff a thirty-second of an inch from |every hip I've retouched in the past {several years. Exercise and diet {could never reduce hips as one tslroke of the brush will. One ac- |tress said frankly that she wouldn't bother to reduce when I could take 'off extra poundage so easily.” | But Yvonne—and her co-workers lers of the brush—keep on retouch- ing right merrily. Their brushes |sweep the truth away, and work ==—— s well on mashed potatoes and \ .candy as on lettuce and pineapple ‘k ! juice. | Wife \_fi = | the court of final appeal. There is, despite the current vogue of sea pictures, no glamor in a broad beam. | Slayer Goes To San Quentin SAN DIEGO, Cal, July 15. | Thomas Botham, former San Diego feotball star, has been sentenced to San Quentin prison for from one to ten years for the slaying of his wife last February. | e ee—— 's News Todav—Embire. DR e G R J. A_T THE HOTELS | —# Young actresses know this, and! hips are the bane of their several| existences. Even when they're play- ing themselves, they think of hi Hips, unlike screen characteriza- tions, cannot be changed at will. Prosperity Brings Hips On this matter no authority bet- ter than Louis Hippo could be con- Gastineau E. E. Mead, Point Retreat; B. Benson. Alaskan C. W. Clarberg, Lisianski; M. J. | I Today Mauritz, Inian Island. ANNOUNCING Effective MIDNIGHT, THURSDAY, JULY 15TH, 1937, we are terminating our lease on the Coliseum Theatre, Juneau, Alaska, dnd thereafter we will not be re- sponsible in any way for any obligations pertaining to the Coliseum Theatre. ‘ WE WILL CONTINUE TO OPERATE | ne CAP[TOL s THE SHOW PLACE OF JUNEAU Sincerely, JUNEAU EMPIRE THEATRES, Inc. By B. F. SHEARER, President; Romance Started | ! annual show of the Morris and and “Life Insurance.”} Harburg wrote| Be I[fld Friday! ;for Monday evening but was post- R | A — Claire Windsor, movie queen, holds | Mollie of Cloonmoyne, bull puppy which was exhibited at the eleventh T-cex Kennel Club, DOUGLAS | NEWS | B LR M B AR T PARTY HONORS VISITOR In honor of Miss Jessie Doig of Oakland, California, a surprise party was given last evening at the Government School with about 25 ladies present. Preceding the evening’s enter- tainment which consisted of con- tests, a short program was present- ed. M W. E. Cahill sang two se- lectio “Because” and “Blue For- get-me-not of Alaska.” and Mrs. J. F. Jensen gave two readings, “The Twelve Young Gideons,” and “Lit- |tle Bateese.” Prizes for the contests were won by Mrs. L. Carlson and Mrs. Frank Pearce. The spelling contest with | Mrs. W. E. Cahill and Miss Doig as leaders was won by Mrs. Cahill's ide. The evening concluded with re- |(l'c.shm('n(s served by the hostesses, Mrs. Charles Schramm, Mrs. Robs raser, Mrs. Rose Davis, and Mrs. J. O. Kirkham. Additional guests were: Mrs. J. R. jLangseth, Mrs. Glen Kirkham, Mrs. {Inga Dickenson, Mrs. Sam Devon, | Mrs. George Woodbury, Mrs. Charles I"ox, Mrs. Alice Kirby, Mrs. Charles Sey, Mrs. F. A, J. Gallwas, Mrs. E. E. Engstrom, Mrs. Guy Smith, Mrs. J. R. Guerin, Mrs. Bob DuPree, Mrs. Charles Tuckett, Mrs. Alex Gair, Mrs. James Sey, Mrs, John Mills and Mrs. Marcus Jensen. e GUILD MEETING A meeting of St. Luke's Guild will be held tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock in the Parish Hall with Mrs. m Devon as hostess. Everyone invited to attend. jand j | Road | intact. | A Couple o Starc INEW Melody Trend |GROSS T AK!NG | }llllfiu1|umn||m||nnu|||||fl|i|||||||||fl|||||||n¥|n<|;uu;|||lugmélu¥||nm_ Is Revealed in Hit | OVER GOLISEUM | On Shanty-Boat AT 12 TONIGHT “Banjo On My Knee” To-| Veteran Show Manager Is|: night at Coliseum, Pro- | Again in Business Here vides Good Screen Fare —Announces Policy and singing, laughing Dave W. tempestuously living man of Juneau, again enters the lives in hanty-local movie entertainment business in the lower Mississippiin Junéau and Ketchikan. Tonight}: River, the primitive and pictur-|at midnight both the Coliseum the-j esque characters in the "Pwentieth tre here and in Ketchikan will re-y; Century-Fox drama with music, vert to the management of Mr.j “Banjo On My Knee,” enact a story Gross and a midnight show will be that provides distinetly different featured screen fare, at the Coliseum The- For four years and two months atre tonight the Coliseum theatres in Ju { Distinguished by its fine produc- and Ketchikan have been oper ted| s tion qualities, a new trend in song by outside interests under' the di-, this picture which [rection of B. F. Shearer of Seattle,” locale of “Tobacco|sald Mr. Gross today, “but begin-| the atmosphere of ning at midnight tonight I will Round the Bend,” has manage hoth houses. Mr. Shearer| lly cast with Barl and myself will each operate ou ALSO ™ Stanwyck and Joel McCrea co-|own theatres on a competitive bas! ir | | J ve basis | [{I1NACARRRRAR RO st_m’rz‘d in the leading roles, and und‘ there will. be no prejudice |————— - with the very important supporting shown. B e S AL FOREST SERV]CE MAN characterizations entrusted to such| “The lelen estley, uddy bsen al- | enlargec 0 'ing e S o g : : CABOOSE AT SEWARD ter Brennan, Walter Carlett, An-|dard of outside houses, but there thony Martin and Katherine de will be no closing up for this work. —— Mille Picture Contracts | The “I will exhibit picttres that I]er he was driving crashed into an| boat of W: have had under contract for the|Alaska Railroad caboose on the | Joel McCre: about to marry past 20 odd years. These ])imurmi[lra('k at Mile 13, near Seward, Chuck | Barbars wyck, a “land gal”|are produced by the la firms { Whitmarch, U. 8. Forest Service em- | Brennan is entertaining the guests|in the movie industry, including|ployee, is receiving care at the| y his one-man band ‘“con-|Twenticth Century, Fox, Para-|Seward General Hospital. No in-1 traption Everyone is merry v,\'-‘,ummL Warner Bros., First National, | ternal injuries have developed. cept Katherine de Mille who want-| Gaumont British, educational, com-| Whitmarch was on fire patrol ed Joel herself. | edies, besides many other outstand- [duty for the Forest Service when HUGE BARABARA e DISCOVERED BY & s IR, A, HRDLICKA * TucATREN Fighting Gross, veteran show|jg and loving, their own boat color melody, combines the with “Steamboat also been id Seriously injured when the speed- | 15 on the shanty- nnan, whose son, beg ter story @ st ling attractions. | "There il be four changes each| .o e I‘:‘E”‘nf | week, shows for Sunday and Mon-| ..o {day, change for Tuesday apd Wed-|__ In , change for Thursday and) | Friday and Saturday only one bill |There will also be four midnight| classifieds for | Silver Nights | “There will be silver nights and | new registration book will be| started on Friday night.” | Mr. Gross, a pioneer exhibitor in | |Juneau, said he will continue to| | operate the Coliseum under ghci |same policy as formerly, a high lev- | {el class of pictures, good sound and | feet long and 100 feet wide wm‘"’“‘,;f;III"‘g‘,’:)’::::f:“::“'t‘l“'::‘:[‘w R buried under four feet of earth,| " R | and though estimated to have been |Will be managed by Zalmain Gross,| bullt, centurles ago, .was reasonably |10n8 time associated with his father, Y las his local office manager. The| | Coliseum theatre in Ketchikan will | {be managed by H. E. Cawthon,| who is now managing the Gross {theatre in Petersburg. Charles What he claims is the largest barabara ever found in Alaska, has been unearthed at Chernofski on Unalaska island, by Dr. Ales Hrd- licka and his party. The great community house, 200 timbered contained The structure, and roofed with d, many relics in the y of wood and that the Bl b o, |Imanager of the Coliseum theatre in e native populace had beenf. \ ... wiped out by a sudden epidemic. |PetersPUTE. The barabara had stood on a point | of land, giving commanding view of surrounding sea areas. i@ | “Smiling Service” IT The scientific party visited the| | ) | ancient village site aboard the| | Bert’s Cash Grocery | 7. i PHONE 105 US.C.G. Morris, and from there | Vot went on to the Island of Four Moun- | Hrop. DALY Jraenn ! tains, heavily | | | | SEATTLE -BREWING & D SCOUTS HAVE BUSY SSION Tre regular weekly meeting of the Boy Scouts was held last eve- ning at the home of Scoutmaster Dick MacDonald with all members of the troop present with the ex- ception of Bob Feero. The regular order of business was followed: first, pledge of allegiance followed by the administering of the scout oath. After reading and approval of min- | utes of the previous meeting, $10.30 was paid in for dues and cooking equipment. | An agreement to pick blueberries and sell them at 15 cents a pound was made by the members to raise <4 {money for uniforms. The sum of $1.25 was given to each Scout to start a fund toward his uniform. Several Scout officers were pre- sented with their badges. Gordon! Wahto was given his Senior Patrol Leader badge; Billy Feero received | his Bugle badge; Jimmy Devon was presented a Quartermaster’s badge; and Frank Cashen received an As- sistant Patrol Leader’s badge. | A troop flag with a flying eagle‘ design was received by the group| the fore part of the week and an order for a large American flag has| been placed. Following the meeting, the Scouts enjoyed playing “Coo-Coo.” | ————r————— LEAVING ON VACATION TRIP | Miss Elizabeth Fraser will leave tomorrow on the Mount McKinley | for a vacation trip to Seattle and vicinity. Miss Fraser will return to Douglas before the beginning of the school term in September. R T S Y LY C.C. AND COUNCIL MEETING The weekly meeting of the City Council will be held this evening at 7:30 o'clock in the Labor Union | Hall. The meeting was scheduled poned on account of the baseball game. At 6 o'clock, the regular meeting of the Douglas Chamber of Com- merce is to be held at the Douglas Inn. It will be in the nature of = luncheon and business meeting, at which all local business men are urged to be present. Persons inter- ested in building a home in Doug-| las will be welcome guests at the meeting. - Try The Empire classifieds for| results, 3 CENTURY. BREWERY y Pickings—News In My Gondola T 1S THE NIGHT PEEE R R R ET T B B ERT TR ML R EP RSP R R T PP TEEE L LT ALSO FORT WAYNE, Ind. — A dog under her car delayed a woman shepper for a half hour. The wom- an dared not drive from her park- ing place for fear of crushing the dog, which refused to move. The car finally was pushed away. The dog immediately ran under another automobile. e, \ Chinese farmers, who compose |almost 80 per cent of the 400,000,000 people in tha erage of half untry, own an av- acre of land each. -+ On the same day James Burke Hillsboro, Ala., became the father of twin children, twin colts and ves were born on his place. Since 1878 S A. MALTING CO. SEATTLE 60 SECONDS WILL DO IT! Is BuyingOne A Minute! 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