The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 20, 1937, Page 3

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 20, 1937. ~ TONIGHT IS ONE OF THE 7NIGHTS STARTS TONIGHT First Show Starts 7:30 The Show Place of Juneau Don’t Tell Me You Can Type And Spell Too! The producers of “Theodora Goes Wild" hit with another howlarioushit/ That's nice work if you can get itl The side- eplitting story of beauty and the boss who couldn’t even ¢2e THAN - A SECRETARY - Reginald Deriny"- Dorothea Kent A COLUMBIA PICTURE with Ruth Donnelly Directed by Alfred E. Gree ALSO" utting Out Kitten—Every , Picturesque South Africa—New Community Singing Keaton, Mrs. T. J. Jacobsen, Mrs.| {H. L, Hoke, Mrs. O. J. Reiten, Mrs. | | Louis Brown, Mrs. J. Arthur White, J. Klein, Mrs. A. M. Geyer, SURPRISE SHOWER GIVEN TODAY FOR 1o MRS. GEORGE SHAw“Ml‘h. J. K. McAllister, !V.Ix‘\ J; G | Michaelson, Mrs. Is Cashen Close to two dozen guests were as-| Mrs. Miles Godkins, Mrs. J. Thibo- sembled today at the home of Mrs.|deau, Mrs. H. L. McDonald and Walter G. Hellan for a surprise Mrs. A. J. Goodman ! luncheon shower honoring Mrs.! 0 ->-oe o e FIRST PRESBYTERIAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY sh Gay Hallowe'en decorations in orange and black provided a color- ful setting for the affair, at which| the honoree wus presented a num-| 1O MEET ON FRIDAY ber of lovely gift: | et | Invited to be present for the af-| Members of the First Presbyterian ternoon were Mrs. William T. Ma-| Church Missionary Society will hold honey, Mrs. Delia Dull, Mrs. Rosina their regular bi-monthly meeting Schmidt, Mrs. K. K. Kyler, Mrs. J.|on Friday at the church, with Mrs Cashen, Mrs. E. C. Hi . Mrs. T. Rowena Hayes, president, presiding ey = — |over the business session. At the meeting a devotional hour will be held with Mrs. James Goun-/ ett in charge, following which dis-! |cussion of *“What Are National Missions of the Presbyterian Church-" will be made by Mrs. R.uthk Hayes. Mrs. Clara Seévers will speak on “Alaska Missions,” Past and Present.” | Mrs. Jake Cropley will be hos—i tess for the meeting. i Among events on the Society pro-| gram is a rummage sale scheduled| |to be held on October 26. | —— e | i | WANTED The heirs of GEORGE E. | HARWOOD ‘Who lived in Alaska some time before 1924. { GOING TO STATES Among the prominent residents of Fairbanks aboard the Alaskal bound for the States for short vis- its or to spend the holidays are O. M. Floe, William Heitman, Sue Comer, Chester Webber, Mrs. R. D. |Russell, Mr. and Mrs. William Ma- comber, Max Stinnett, Neil J. Har- mun, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Ray. e IS CALIFORNIA BOUND Vivian Harvey is a passenger south on the Alaska from Fairbanks bound to California to spend the S. LIPSON 6 Beacon St. Boston, Mass. for sale at The Empire Office. Not Forgetting HAPPY REPLACEMENTS Gast in Comedy | NOW IN ORDER, Now at Gapitol MOVIE CIRCLES “More Than a Secretary,” |Feud Fosterers Get Busy in Popular Columbia Film, = Hollywood — Something Begins This Evening | About Legs of Stars | By ROBBIN COONS Jean Arthur Is Rioutous fun and sophisticated comedy characterize the newest, smartest, and one of the most thor- It'll be “into the trenches by Christ- oughly amusing pictures of the year. mas” for several Hollywood pa It is Columbia’s “More Than A Sec- if the feud-fosterers have their way. starring Jean Arthur and There are several skirmishes ca- George Brent, which begins tonight of bursting out any minute at the Capitol Theatre. Just read the “replacements” The story by Ethel Hill and Al- on current pictures. Marie Wilson bert Kandel, adapted by Dale Van was to have played “Boy Meets Every and Lynn Starling, is a clever Girl,” but the studio revoked Joan tale based on the premise that in BlonTell's suspension and the spring a young woman's fancy her back for the part. Anita Louise also lightly turns to thoughts of was to bave been Maid Marian in love. The dialogue is brilliant and Errol Flynn’s Robin Hood but Ol- splendidly timed. The pace of the ivia de Haviland became available picture is as breezy and refresh- in time. Things like that are hard ing as a March wind. The direction to take, but don't necessarily lead by Alfred E. cen is deft. It to feuds—because it takes two to loaded with laughs, and the comedy make a feud is interblended with a romance ju: The other day, for instance, Ol- appealing enough to be heart-touch- ivia was being very friendly with ing. Anita Louise. If Anita seemed a bit PO St {cold about it, it may have been the {weather. (Hollywood's Indian sum- LANDON SAYS = G.0.P. LEADER A Confidential Memo It’s more to know that imagination is not dead in Hollywood Take Makes His Assertion in bles Joe Penner is going to immor- . taliize Goo-Goo's web-prints on the Speech Which Also cement of his badminton court. Ann Criticises President pable now is arrived at Barbara Stanwyck’s sta-, these several items just received from the RKO Radio publicity boys, neatly typed on one page: Ann Sou- then’s granddaddy sends her a rare old brass bedwarmer, a baby colt Shirley gets a 200-year-old tea set from a fan, etc And, at the bottom of the sheet, this confidential memo to the pub- licity chief from the author: “All er said “Dealings are not only un- py¢ the Sothern item of this group satisfactory but are dangerous.” |is made up.” Landon termed the President’s) Hkints Ave Alwiss Loke stand on foreign affairs as dange e atyie. deaignars ot ‘Hallywbad ous. He also criticized the appoint- |are red in the face They're em- ment of Hugo L. Black. In general|parrassed at the Birts his statements were the same that'_jn New York and Paris designs caused his defeat by Roosevelt in'are going up. And they can't do the Presidential election. much about it eiether. They have o {to go on making trailing evening Petty Rackets Worked, ~|zuns for the stars, and to ignore Crashing Customs’ Gates‘“ at's going on in the other fash- lion worlds—if they admit any oth- | er. (Continued frum Page One) The reason, if one must — ~ -‘rudu as to inquire, is that so many through the customs line-up she Of Hollywood's “best-dressed” stars trembled in fear that an inspector ack the proper underpinning for would snatch open her coat and|the display of calves. Being stars, see the stockings danging from the they must be protected, and the arm-holes, They had a total value Protection process involves fash- of $2, so that she could have car-,ioning long dresses also for the ried t¥rough a whole fist full of other girls who really have nice legs «ilk stockings in clear view of the but must hide them for the sake of inspector without need of a soli-|the stars they support! tary shiver. Many a story is heard of lads (Continued from Page One) way women’: be so W. C. Fields' hands are soft as visiting in Canada during the balmy|Baby LeRoy's used to be—and by days of prohibition who hastily guz-|the what's happened to Baby zled a quart of raw whisky—be- LeRO) cause fear seized them, as they ap- proached the border, that customs officials would discover their tempt to bring it into the United| States. | But we are told it is practically no fun at all any more to tuck a quart under the belt and try to George Hayes will never again ac- at-'cept a 1vle on Friday the 13th.! e - | . . . Sinclair Lewis’ . g duty is only 25 cents or so on most. No doubt the customs service welcomes these little tips, and if} CALDWELL, Idaho, Oect. 20. other such duty dodges are referred!p g Michaelson, who gave Sinclair to us, we will be glad to pass them!y.wis now famous novelist — his along. first job as a cub reporter on the PR Ty LW Sauk Center, Minn, Avalanche FIVE FLY TO SITKA some thirty years ago, retired today POlNTS lN BELLANCA;’MLE: forty-two years in the news- paper business. He and his partner, Adam Hyde, Shell Simmons pulled the Alaska!woild war veteran and former Air Transport Bellanca off the har-:pyesident of the Idaho State bor this morning and headed for\js) pssociation, announced the sale Sitka and waypoints with five pas-iof the Caldwell News-Tribune to a sengers. |corporation headed by J. T. La Bill Nickinovich and Al Blake pond, former manager of the Free- were to be dropped at Chichagof, press g@¢ Nampa. and Norman Hartung, on a round e o £ i A e 2 trip ticket, was to stop for two hours! ghadows vhat the casual observer at the Cobal mine, 12 miles below thinks of as just gray or black in there, while Mr. and Mrs. Platt 5 painting will be revealed, on close went on to Sitka. b |examination, to be full of color, T A sometimes quite bright. Lode and wiacer location notices L T 4 Try Top Notech Dinner—350c. adv. ; Plugger Vital to HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Oct. 20. —| called | One of the important factors in keeping, Tin Pan Alley's tune fao- tories producing is the modern song plugger. It is he—a dapper gentleman of wide acquaintance and smooth manner—who is the middleman between the tunesmiths and the artists and public for whom they compose. It is his job to persuade stage and radio stars, especlally the latter, to introduce new songs and thus interest the public in buying the sheet music. Much in the manner of the “contact man” of brokerage o sent the latest songs. His contacts are made in the radio studios, at dinner or some other social occasion, and he has proved himself | an invaluable adjunct to the specialized business of tune selling. | . s Eskimo Can’t Addict Reverts | pance wih To Dopes Jailed ;. o SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Oct. 20.|together in native Eskimo dances. Like the Old Man of the Moun-|Another custom is that only rela- tain is the curse of dope {tives may dance at one time and Nick Oakes carried the curse onleach participant dances by himself. his shoulders for many years. He| The “floor” on occasions during was sent to the federal narcotics!the short Arctic summer, when such farm in Lexington, Ky., in March, celebrations are held outdoors, may 1934, was “cured,” paroled. |be pieces of walrus skin sewed to- But recentiy the curse rode againlgether and laid on the sand. The on his shoulders as he faced revo-{musics instrument is something cation of the parole, with addition-|like the top of a drum, made from al charges that he made two sales|the lining of a whale’s stomach. of morphine in San Francisco.| — - Made on Skates E. Williams. y SYDNEW, Oct. 20—Stanley Mock- ford has completed the 600-mile journey from Melbourne on roller |skates, It was his only means of |traveling to enter the Sydney Con- EMPORIA, Kans Oct. 20—Hail servatory here. He averaged 20 stones as big baseballs fell in miles a day. some parts of Lyons County. | - Mrs. W. A. Shown, farm wifc S living near Americus, reported some - of her chickens suffered broken legs and battered heads in the ice bom- bardment, e — Boy Electrocuted At Flag Raising MIDLAND, Mich., Oct. 20.— One pupil was killed and two injured at a flag raising ceremony opening the Barnes rural school for the fall| term. The steel flag pole and chain came in contact with a power line| of high voltage. George Timmins, | Jr., 12, wa skliled. His brother, Carl, | 14, and Richard Sirrine, 10, were burned. - > Big Haistones Fla:t_en Chicks : | [ | i as | | 1 | Schilling Tea /has more flavor because its toasted NEW YEAR! with GREETING CARDS NOW IS THE TIME—and as always the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY has a large assortment, including the finest lines of Holiday Greeting Cards—your old favorites—as well as the newest. An Empire represen- tative will be pleased to call on you—MAKE YOUR SELECTION EARLY! Just Telephone 374 or call at the DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE Office. flices, he manages to ingratiate him~ | self with headliners of the broadcasting world and get them to pree | Is Feature Film |, Now at Coliseum J(‘fln Mllil-v D()llil](] W()()(IS Have Leading Parts in Screen Hit “Once a Doctor ir picture, featuring an Donald Woods goncludes its ing at the Coliseum tonight | An entirely new and different Jean Muir is seen in “Once a Do tor.” On the screen she has been a farmer's daughter, a college girl |a socialite and the sort of a girl |who wears flat heels. But that is past history. | Jean evidently persuaded the stu- dio to let her turn on the person- ality and to let her hair go back to its natural reddish-brown tint. She is now a “brownette,” sinuous |and slinkily clad i - - |ATLIN, TULSEQUAH { MAN AT HOSPITAL; FRIENDS MAY CALL Dan Naphan, who was admitted to St. Ann's Hospital recently for treatment of an injured knee, is sting comfortably at the hospital and will be able to see friends who wish to call. Mr. Naphan lived at Atlin before taking a position at the Polaris- u mine, this fall, and he is look- ing forward to seeing many Atlin friends now in Juneau. In a short time he plans to send for his dog team at Atlin, and will have it brought here by Pilot L. | F. Barr, Alaska Air Transport pilot | The team will be put to frequent use at Pola Taku, and Naphan is locking forward to his return there. National Muir 10W- -o e SAVE THE DA’ D.F.D. Dance Saturday, Douglas Nat. Do You Catch Cold Easily? Oct. 23, adv. To Help PREVENT many colds POINT BARROW, Alaska, Oct. 20. | | “ VICKS and| COLISEUM " TIMES TONIGHT “L OUGHT TO LETHIM || DIE...BUT I| V' WAS... i | ADOCTOR <JEAN MUIR - DONALD WOODS Gerdon Ofiver + Joseph King + Henry Kolker « Gordon Hart + Josoph Crehan Dije¢ted by William Clemens R fihs Nori —PLUS— elected Short Subjects —COMING— ‘Lloyds of London’ I3 [MRS. M’CORMICK i ENTERTAINS TODAY FOR MRS. BOWEN Mrs. John McCormick was hos- tess this afternoon at a luncheon in honor of Mrs. James E. Bowen of Bellingham, Wash., who is visit- ing in Juneau with her mother, Mrs. Fred Jonas | Invitedl to be present at the affair this afternoon were Mrs. Anna Web: nnie Hurley, Mrs. M Ralph Martin, Ray Mrs. Guy Me- 1on, Mrs. Joe Whliams, Mrs. Leivers, Mrs. Fred Jonas and Autumn flowers were for the occas DMrs Dav. el Blank "Mr: Naug! J. W the honoree. used in decoration ion Mrs. Bowen, who attended Ju- |neau schools years ago, is making Iher first visit to the Capital City in 15 years. 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