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

! DR SPISIIP e, S 1A tetetetetetesto i o bttt 3t TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT LAST Show TIMES Place TONIGHT . Juneau FIRST SHOW STARTS AT 7:10 P. M. YOUR PAST! YOUR PRESENT! all rolled into Released though EDGAR KENNEDY RKO-RADIO PICTURES. —Our Short Subjects Are the Talk of the Town— PUPPET SHOW—GOLD QUEST OF AGES SCRAMBLED LEGS—GOING PLACES—NEWS BIG EXTRA ATTRACTION ON THE STAGE MISS HARRIET MALSTROM (The Little Girl with the Big Voice) IN SONGS YOU LIKE TO HEAR MRS. BEERY AT THE PIANO At 8 P. M. and again at 10:16 P. M. MIDNIGHT PREVIEW “"WERE IN THE LEGION NOW and “"CONFLICT” FREE MICKEY MOUSE BALLOONS SATURDAY JOIN THE PARADE of the MICKEY MOUSERS SATURDAY AT 12 COME IN A COSTUME—24 PRIZES WILL BE GIVEN AWAY FROM THE CAPITOL STAGE | night were Miss Mary Vander Leest Miss Louise Kemper, Miss Barbara Winn, Miss Elizabeth Terhune and Miss Mary Simpkins. Mrs. Charles G. Burdick will work ems with the girl leaders, who plan to Meeting at the hiome of MisS meef again next Wednesday eve- Mary Simpkins last night, a group | ping, of prospective Girl Scout leaders dis- cussed Scout leadership work with GIRL SCOUT WORK DISCUSSED; FIVE PLAN LEADERSHI Miss Jeanette Stewart, and plans oy for work with the Juneau troops| is now underway. | Mexican cooking is highly sea- Prospective leaders meeting lastsoned. AR Y B l///////// ! |WHILE YOUR FRIENDS ARE SHIVERING this winter, you can be having the time of your life in the land of perpetual sunshine. The golden laziness of California, the desert resorts and guest ranches of the Southwest, the romantic West Coast of Mexico, al, are only a few days away from Seattle and Vancouver when you go by train. And your Southern Pacific rail trip is a fitting prelude to the thrilling outdoor days that follow in these sunny vaca- tion lands. All our trains are air-conditioned. You'll travel swiftly, safely and comfortably, arriving at your destination . rested and relaxed, ready to enjoy the gay days that await you. Fares are low—for example: From Vancouver 21-day 3-month 21-day 3-month & _ Roundrip Roundirip Roundirip Roundirip SanFrancisco . . $29.50 *35.00 $24.00 *#29.00 Los Angeles .. . 39.50 46.00 34.00 40.00 Low fares to Phoenix, Tucson, Mexico City and other Southwestern destinations, 100, Above fares good in coaches and chair cars. Also in tourist sleeping cars, plus small berth charge, Fares in standard Pull- mans cost a little more. Southern Pacific For folders, reservations, additional information, write B.C. TAY- LOR, Gen. Agt., 1405 Fourth Ave., Seattle, Wn.; or ALTON, Canadian Gen. Agt., 619 Howe St, Vancouver, B.C.; or J. A. ORMANDY, Gen. Pass. Agt., 622 Pacific Bldg., Portland, Ore. « 50 widely recognized that 46 of the ASTROLOGY IS * THEME OF FILM PLAYING HERE JoeE. Brov;m Sial's at Capi- | tol Theatre in “When's | Your Birthdays?" An intriguing title feature “When' Your Birthday?” David L. Loew’s| comedy starring Joe E. Brown,| which ends a run at the Capitol Thea're tonight But the rather mystifying game imme ly becomes clear when it is revealed that the story is con- cerned with astroloy and the plan- ets, which are said to govern the lives of persons born under the different signs of the zodiac. Brown, who becomes a professional astrol- ogist, was born under the sign of Taurus, the Bull, and no bull in| a china shop ever created more con- fusion than does the obtruse sooth-| sayer, who believes implicity in the’ 1= infallibility of his chosen profes-| is the third of a series of sion. And through a series of les in which 11-year- lucky acgidents, jeverything that | old Brian Bell, Jr., son of the |happens asimply strengthens h‘g" western division news editor of \cinviction that every human event| The Associated Press, tells what is definitely tied up with the plan-| he saw and heard in Hollywood. ets. Marian Marsh, Fred Keating and Minor Watspn play principal roles Writer Finds Just as Big R LL, JR. By Bl in support of Brown. This AKO | N v s ke Radio Picture was directed by Har-|Eddie Cantor occuples the dressing, k [room formerly u by Will Rog-| ry Beaumont. | MRS A St | FEDERAL MEN WAGE WAR ON GIGGLE SMOKE SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Oct. 28. —The Federal Government has for- mally entered the war against Am- and I interview him there. | Mr. Cantor told me that, with-| out realizing it, when he enters the | ungalow, he lowers his voice, even | when he is talking in a normal| tone. He was a great friend of Mr. Rogers and said he did not believe anyone else should ever have been | lowed to use his dressing room. | “Will Rogers never had an er my,” he told me. He added the even when Mr. Rogers made fun of people they liked him. Not many| people can make fun without hurt- ing people’s feelings Mr. Cantor's Big E | ‘"“"‘m:‘ :“,::(;: ;‘;‘\'{"“" menace, the| ¢ 7 was introduced to Mr. Can- et BRich tor T was struck by his eyes y When the potent Harrison nar- : - are just as big off the screen as cetic act was ed in 1914, “gig- D : they are in pictures. Mr. Cantol gle smokes” were known only to a e iR handful of Mexicans in the .o:l'lvj’_‘;"‘"] i I‘H‘ k' "l i 1‘ s west and escaped inclusion. In the| '8 M0 B N e ‘y‘)’ post-war jazz age they attracted at-|1Ot Know g R tention of western peace officers|Was in his 305 S as a frequent factor in juvenile| He tried a joke on me by asking if T thought he looked older than 29.| Of course I said “No,” although I knew he must be older than that “I have known your father near- crime, and by 1937 their danger was 48 states had outlawed them. Easily Concealed | Now, under the form of an “ex-|ly that long” he said. “I have a cise tax law,” Congress had em-|daughter 23. I would have hi powered Uncle Sam’s trained dope[to marry mighty young to be 29.” hunters to go into action against| Mr. Cantor moves forward in marihuana. |his chair as he talks, and as he “Marihuana is raised largely by|srows interested slides farther and Mexicans in the midst of cornfields,”|farther. T though he might slip out of his chair but he never did. But once or twice he stood up as he talked. | A Bad Burn He was sad over a tragedy in which a man working on his picture | “We have found it among the|had been killed by a magic carpet plants of a man’s backyard garden|Mr. Cantor was in the hospital two and a park laborer even sowed it!days with a burn on his ankle suf- among his flowerbeds. The ordinary |fered at the same time. He showed |birdseed you buy for a canary iS|me the burn and it was a bad one. \marihuana seed, so you see it The picture is about the Arabian| {easy to start a crop. nights and he told me the plot, but| { Most Smokers Young I can't tell it here as it would spoil| ‘roi: 11:::8:“;‘:‘:‘;: JIIZO?JSS;T :‘\::"Hm picture when it comes out. I ! ? “ican say it sounds like it will be a |cotic resin. The branches then are|q..qy with a lot of legends brought harvested, dried in the sun, crushodlup u‘) date jand rolled into cigarets These nor-j = \p. C'lvntor tobAi nie that he ?nm,‘\ni:&gn?;i::\(x‘:\{‘ul: s‘;cgr Frank makes only one picture every eight R. Gomfla, New Orleans commis- months, or three in two years.| ;sioner of public safety, shows a :h a"siiidh Bl kwhy. b i:e _meml“;‘({w large proportion of Marihuana au?nencesc ::y Effl; f}qo"p‘sfl“;“‘mfl‘fi smokers are boys and girls between < by z i ¥ g but will not hold it against him| {m and 21. They refer to the cig- e larets as “muggles,” and to the ef- when the next one is released eight| says W. G. Walker, chief of the California division of narcotic en- forcement. “Five hundred pounds may be grown in a patch 100 feet square and hidden in 160 acres of corn. is fect as a “giggle.” One cigaret of months later. But they will re- pure marihuana is usually good for|member a good one for eight months. But if he made them of- {a three-hour giggle. — e, { tener, they would remember the ! CARD OF THANKS bad one and might not go to see the good onme. Fake Ice Cream I asked him about his picture in which a lot of boys ate a lot of ice cream. I wanted to know if it was real ice cream. Mr. Cantor| stood up to tell me about this. ‘We wish to extend today, our sin- cere thanks to Douglas Gray, Frank | Stragier and all those participating lin the rescue search last night on | Douglas Island. MR. AND MRS. BERT ELSTAD MR. AND MRS. VICTOR CUFF “Believe it or not, Brian,” he ————————— said. “It was colored mashed po-| The first Nobel peace prize win-|tatoes.” | ners were FHen:® Dunant Swiss,| “Not so good,” I said. I 'and Frederic Passy, French, in 1901.) “And each boy was required to THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, OCT. 28, 1937. 11-Year-Old H ollyzroofl Boy i 5 BRIAN INTERVIEWS EDDI | father’s i MRS. JOHNSON | .l‘(‘(hllik‘il] Al]\‘is(‘l' R(‘p()l'ls: } from East Africa on New Pictures | | | | By GEORGE TUCKER ! | NEW YORK, Oct. 21.—Clark H.| Getts is an unusual sort of technical adviser. He accompanied his cli- ents wherever S R they go in addi- | tion to haniling out practical ad- | vice. For in- stance, he is now in East Africa, with Mrs. Martin Johnson’s new expedition, and here is a note ffom him. It is § dated Arusha, Tanganyika, E A., September 10. Mrs. Johnson | “Just back in civilization after two months in the interior and have said. eaten eat about six helpings,” he “I'll bet those kids haven't any mashed potatoes since.” He explained that real ice cream would have melted under the managed to survive the impact of lights before the boys could have luxuries like cigars, porcelain baths, eaten it before the camera. and a spring bed again. We have “How about lemonade?” I asked. been so much delayed by rains in “It was real lemonade,” he re- | Kenya and by grass fires in Tan- plied; so the boys got one break ganyika that we are now cuting after all. all corners, but it has been a grand itrip. I have got back some of my |Cape Hatteras tan and my farm- lunch in a studio r: }rr‘.\, appetite, and I guess I am pretty visits with Sh “wcll sold on Africa and camp life. 2 B PR | cumpa"m"ate | St 70 T 8 oy Marriages Old Stuff to Japan |sponsibility to maneuver so many | Tomoerrow Brian Bell, |men and so much equipment through |the jungle. We have had 150 to 500 natives and 20 whites, plus 26 trucks with Indian drivers The feeding | problem alone is a whale, but Mrs. Johnson is in her elements here and surely knows how to swing peo- |ple around. We have had the most ! \ward Everett |pictures I bring back—pictures thnl. HORTON FILM ENDS TONIGHT - AT COLISEUM Let's Make a Million Also Stars “Pixilat- ed Sisters” California’s native sons, who boast that their state has everything can point to what happened durin; the filming of “Let’s Make a Mil- lion” the gay comedy with Ed- Horton, which con cludes its Juneau showing tonight at the Coliseum Theatre, to prove their point. Plenty was needed, and the scenery adjacent to the studio provided it all. | For instanc a house was need- ed to conform with the architec- ture of a typical Oklahoma small| town, in which Horton is a store- keeper who has just received his bonus, and plans to “go.to town” with it, Director Ray McCarey got me photographs of typical Okla- homa homes, got into his car, and| drove around. In an hour he found | one—a Jerfect Oklahoma home-. stead, in Palms, California. | Next, he needed a band stand on which an American Legion band | must play. He drove seven miles| more and found the bandstand in| the middle of a park in Englewood. Then, needing a nice, fresh oil field, he drove four miles further and| spotted just the development he| wanted, not far from El Segundo. The oil field was essential, as Hor- ton invests his bonds in “black gold.” | I have taken myself. I have always felt that artist-management was| an all-round education, but I never | dreare>d that it would compel me| to become a cameraman.” Signed| TOKYO, Ocl. <. Recent dis- [delightful table imaginable, than coveries by Dr akeo Minamoto.|to her, with everything but caviar,) Japanese scholar, indicate that ajand on occasion we had that. | custom resembling companionate “The camp looks like an :ll'my‘ marriage was practiced in Japan | outfit—I have some shots to show bundreds of years before the ex-|you when I return—and we have a| pression even was current else- British army captain giving it an where |army discipline. The blacks haven't| In Japan, the custom is known as fought very much, and the Holly the “visiting bridegroom” system. |wood boyd have been extremely well 1t is still practiced on the island |behaved and have taken to the jun- of Chigen, the Miyako Archipelago,/gle with surprising speed in view in Southern Japan, Dr. Minamoto|of the fact that none of them has \id. When a Chigen youth decides|ever roughed it before. Some of the fo 'marty, he buys some rice wine|boys have been bitten by insects “nd accompanied by his closest/and others have had other ailments, friends goes to see the girl's par-|but I have survived about a thou- ents. His proposal is to them, not|sand tzete fly bites and a million to her. |mosquito bites with no ill effects to| If the parents approve, he be-|date—all this without the inocula- comes, forthwith, the girl's hushand. tions which all but Mrs. Johnson|, land myself took. P There ¥ no other ceremony. But she continues to live in her house as an unmarried “Running a party like this runs [ FISH STORY GALVESTON, Te: Oct. 28. They tell this fish story here when the c ion lags— i An r caught a finny speci- men which had colored stripes along its body, giving it a stream- lined appearance. The most un- usual characteristics, however, was the fact that it swam backward to keep the water from its eyes. The fish backed up until it felt the bait with his tail. Then it gave the bait a swat, knocked it around in front, and grabbed it. e ARAGEMAN SOUTH B. J. Mosely, employee of the Ser- vice Garage in Fairbanks, is a pas- nger on the Yukon bound for North Dakota where he will visit relatives. [, woman, he works and lives as a sin- |into real money and we are natur- gle man. He visits her when lus;z\lly hoping to finish up as quickly, fancy dictates, is a visiting bride- as possible. As a matter of fact,; groom. Custom requires that he|it is costing more ¥han $2,000 a day, | devote half his income to her sup-|but if things go well we should wind port, whether not there are things up in time to leave Nairobi! children. some time early in October. We ex- Later, perhaps years later, hus-|pect to fly back to Southampton on band, wife and children may estab-|a chartered Imperial Airways boat’ sh their own home formally. They|Which is now being set for us—cov-| usually do. But, the scholar said, |ering the same Alexandria-Rome- it is not uncommon to find twenty | Marseilles-etc. route that we follow- or thirty persons living under the|ed when we came down last June.| same roof, in cases where several| “Lack of time forces me to cut) daughters have been married to|this short. But wait till you see the! “visiting bridegrooms.” e A Three Days’ Cough | . Is Your Danger Signal No matter how many medicines you have tried for your cough, chest cold, or bronchial irritation, you can get relief now with Creomulsion. | Serious trouble may be brewing and | you cannot afford to take a chance with any remedy less potent than | Creomulsion, which goes right to the seat of the trouble and aids na- ture to soothe and heal the inflamed mucous membranes and to loosen and expel the germ-laden phlegm. Even if other remedies have failed, don’t be discouraged, try Creomul- sion. Your druggist is authorized to refund your money if you are not thoroughly satisfied with the bene- fits obtained from the very first bottle. Creomulsion is one word—not two, and it has no hyphen in it. Ask for it plainly, sce that the name on the bottle is Creomulsion, and you'll get the genuine product and l the relief you want. (Ady. or TROOP TRAIN JUMPS TRACK YOKOHAMA, Oct. 27.— Twenty one men and women were killed| when an electric train, said to be a troop train, jumped the rails and ploughed through a great crowd gathered along the track. Three score are known to have| been injured. The accidert occurred between here and Kangawa. Several of the dead are Japanese soldiers. ——,————— Try Top Notch Rinuer—50c. adv. R ‘ c OLISEU M TONIGHT 1S “THE BIG NIGHT” and LAST TIMES TONIGHT EDDIE i HEADS THE FUN PARADE! EDWARD EVERETT HORTON CHaorlotte Wynters Porter Holl...s The “Pidlated: Sistets Margoret Seddon . argaret MeWade A Pdjamavit Aéure Select Short Features Late News KIDDIRS GEORGE BROTHERS PAY'N TAKIT are giving A BIG FREE MATINEE for you Saturday—12:30 FREE SHOW FREE GIFTS Come On, Kids, Let's GO! Empire classifieds pay. ———e Hotel Juneau “Where Living Is Pleasant” B Nearest Federal Bldg. B Elevator Service. B Beauty Shop. B Reasonable Winter Rates Cheerfully Given, CLARENCE WISE Owner-Manager SWIMMING POOL, RECREATION CENTER BALLOT No. 1. tion Center at $12 each, or, at $12 each, or, I agree to purchase ..... 1, the undersigned, agree to purchase ...annual memberships in the Juneau Recrea- T agree to purchase ........ annual memberships at the rate of $1 per month payable monthly, If and when sufficient memberships and dona- tions have been made to insure erection and opera- tion of the recreation facilities. ARG, | LG No. 2. in order to help establish Center. Signed ... Address... Please mail ballot to Mrs. C. P. Jenne or place in 1 agree to donate the sum of $.. the Juneau Recreation ballot boxes distributed at various places in Juneau. The purpose of this ballot is to ascertain just who are interested and to what extent in the Swim- ming Pool and Recreation Center in Juneau. L ] Not Forgetting HAPPY NEW YEAR! with GREETING 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. CARDS ——