The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 20, 1938, Page 5

ASSOCIATED PICTURE TALK "OF MICE AND MEN' occupied Broderick Crawford, who plays dumb Lennie in John Steinbeck’s hit show on Broadway, and his mother, Helen Broderick, film and stage come- dienne. Miss Broderick, in New York on vacation, saw her son back- stage. George, in the show, is played by Wallace Ford. ‘ RUM WAS THE RATION FOR REUN!ON of the “diggers,” New Zealand vet- erans of the World war, who forward-marched on the golf conrse at Wanganui, New Zealand, to the brisk accompaniment of a bagpipe. Rum was piped o to the golf course home green. FINDING HER PLACE IN THE SUN was such an easy job for Janet Kneale of Boston that she took on two other 0 at the same time. She managed not only to sun herself but also knitted a sweater for chill da up north, and modeled what the well- dressed girl wears on a Florida beach. IT FITS, found Steve Early of the White House staff whose “never - ling cheerful- s,” and “loyzity to the Presi- t” helped him win a humor magazine silk hat award, CLIMBING UPWARD, Olympic Skater Bert Taylor g tries out stilt skates at Yosemite, THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, JAN. 20, 1938. WHEN DAWN CAME FOR CHARLEY MASSERA, being scooped up by Ref- eree Whitey Healy after a third round knockout by Tony Galento, the Orange, N. J. bartender, his head was far §; FAST FAKING is her business, and for an act on a London age, Koringa, calls self “the only female fakir,” uses the alligator she appears to be holding so affectionately. tear. So were the heads of Gale nto admirers who drank till dawn in Tony's tavern. MAYBE THIS IS HOW YOU FEEL, after some shaves. In London, where the Bertram Mills’ circus has been show- ing at Olympia stadium, the performers include an elephant “that shaves a man,” and here’s the evidence. For above shave, the cus- tomer is a fellow performer with the circus, INE HELD FOR MICHIGAN STATE END, Ernie Bremer, who went on a fishing trin after the Oranze Iu’;‘vlilu(';thall classic and caught this 35-pound Wahoo. The Wahoo is a dark-blue food fish, and anglers along Miami, Fla., say it's one of the swiftest and rarest of gulf stream fish. Bremer had a good fight landing it. HER Dizzy Dean, whe to within two feet of pin, gave t. Petersurg, Fla., course, AT THE RIGHT OF HOSTESS, Mrs. Byroo C. Foy, the former Thelma Chrysler who, with her husband, entertained at the Waldorf-Astoria sat Julius W. Noyes, "LET ME HELP,"' says Lily Pons, opera star, te Keith Mor- gan of the national “Fight Infantile Paralysis” campaign now pre- paring for Jan. 30 President’s Birthday balls, SUN NEVER SETS on responsibilities of Britain’s am- bassador to Japan, Sir Robert Leslie Craigie, who watches over England’s interests in the Sino-Japanese war zones. STATUS OF WIFE No. 3, Illiana (above), Russian dancer who wed Stan Laurel, film comedian, is dispnted by Mrs. Laurel No. 2, who claims unfinished divorce and insists, “Why, I'm still Stan’s wil'e." 3 4 NO FAG FROM JA might be a possibility, thinks Dr. Norman Jolliffe, of New York who found that additior of Vitag min B-1 to liquor might elimi- nate “‘extreme nervous shock,” known as polyneuritis. 'SIEA 8l‘-)EGS of X . orn, 60, are good. A grand- - mother, she’s the commander a fleet of 14 vessels at San Ji Puerto Rico,