The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 17, 1938, Page 3

v A4 " APITO u 55 Our Short Subjects Ar MIDNIGHT WHEN PREVIEW PRETTY GIRLS SEEKING FAME ON BROADWAY Doomed to Disappointment —One Job for Doz- ens of Applicants By GEORGE TUCKER NEW YORK, Feb. 17—It is a pity that so many talented and pretty girls are doomed to disappointment and defeat on Broadway. But the endless supply for a very limited demand has built up a situation that is hopeless and in some respects downright tragic. Broadway today 5 filled with young girls walking the pavements locking for jobs. . They can dance and sing. They are slender and pretty. But the jobs aren’t there. George Hale, referring to a stack of 40 or 50 letters, shrugs and gazes out the window. PR “All those letters are from young girls who want to come to New York for theatrical careers,” he says. “They write me letters and de- scribe their aspirations and ask me to help them. Yet, for all the shows I put on and the revues I create it is rare that I can use one. Their experience is too limited. 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Take one, any one, and read it.” He pushed the tray towards my side of the table. P The stack of letters was a foot high. I chose one at random, a letter postmaked fom the little town of Elyria, Ohio, and this is what it said: “Dear Mr. Hale: As I have the opportunity to come to New York within the next two or three weeks, I am writing to ask your opinion as to whether or not it would be ad- vantageous at this time. “I have had some experience as a dancer and would like to be a chor- us girl in New York City. “I am 19 years old, weight 116 pounds, height 5 feet, four one-half inches without shoes; hair, light au- burn; dark eyes; fair complexion. “Since good looks are one of the requirements in this line of work, I believe I can be understood when I claim to be good looking. “Thank you for your consideration and I shall be waiting for a reply ® from you.” That is the pity of it, the reply that all too often doesn’t come, and even when it does, as it always does from Hale, it is apt to be the end of a make-believe dream. “I'll write her today or tomor- row,” said Hale, “and the rest of them. But how I hate it, disap- pointing those kids who have their hearts set on a world that, for them, doesn’t really exist.” Slum Clearance - Programs Will Be S@Jed Now New Low Price Home Con- struction Is Aim of Adm. Straus WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—Hous- ing Administrator “Nathan Straus, striving to get the low cost housSing construction program underway, has authorized municipalities to shelve slum clearance programs and concentrate on new homes. S e — Try The Empire classifieds for C.P. at the box CAPITOL AS A PAID-UP SUBSCRIBER TO THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE is invited to present this coupon AND RECEIVE TWO FREE TICKETS TO SEE “PICK A STAR” Your Name May Appear—WATCH THIS SPACE Jenne office of the THEATRE | Jackson. |high, and Mrs. Peter Hammer low, in whist. COMEDY HIT NOW PLAYING AT CAPITOL “Pick a Star” Stars Kelly, Laurel, Hardy and Roberti € knocks out Laurel and Hardy Haley and Ro- sina Lawrence crash studio gates. Mischa Auer and Lyda Roberti as scin'illating movie stars . . . just a f-w hilarious highlights of the op- ening showing of the Hal Roach- M-G-M feature comedy, “Pick a Star,” which ends its Juneau show- ing tonight at the Capitol Theatre. Featuring filmland’s finest funsters and songers, “Pick a Star” is a mel- madcap, mirthquake of the . Waterioo, Kansas, was the beginning for Rosina Lawrence, a screen-struck girl with Jack Haley, the home-town boy friend; Holly- wood, Celifornia, was the end of a barrage on the film sets with Patsy Kelly running riot and foiling the girl-crazy idol, Mischa Auer. Fun and glamour, songs and ro- mance, dangfrs and beauty are combined in this entertaining frolic behind the scenes of a Hollywood studio. Patsy Kelly, Jack Haley and Mis- cha Auer turn in sparkling perform- ances to add to their comedy re- nown. Beautiful and youthful Ro- sina Lawrence scores brilliantly with her pleasing voice and skillful acting in the romanic heroine role to merit special commendation. Today's Sousa Is Conducting Hot Dance Band PALM BEACH, Florida, Feb. 17— Now John Phillip Sousa is leading a dance orchestra. This one is the third’ John Phillip and hes a grandson of the famous bandmas- ter and composer. He's 24, but looks younger. His post as conductor of a hotel orchestra is his first real Job since he was graduated from Princeton in 1936. For a while he worked Palsy in the script department of a Hollywood JOHN PHILLIP SOUSA IIL In Action studio, then in an NBC broadcast- ing studio in New York, starting as messenger. Fool Errands “I didn’t mind going on all sorts of fool errands for the artists,” he says, “but after all—there is a limit. T had to buy and deliver a big chocolate cake for the birthday parties of one of the stars—and I didn't get a bite of it—then the sound effects department needed a dozen powder puffs. To ask a chap to walk up to a counter and buy a dozen powder puffs—but the shows must go on. “Later I did some broadcasting. My cousin was manager of the stu- dio, but I got my job there entirely on my own.” Wants to Be a Writer Sousa majored in English at Princeton, and hopes to write. He also likes art — watercolors, and has made a study of orchestration, though he plays no instrument ex- cept the drums. He has transcribed several of his grandfather’s marches into dance rhythm. His favorites are the “Washington Post March” and “Stars and Stripes Forever,” but he won't try to do those in swing time. Sousa, who says his name is of Portuguese origin, is a movie en- thusiast. He isn't married, ‘isn't engaged yet.” OMEN OF MOOSE HOLD INITIATION, SOCIAL EVENING Initiation of Mrs. Kristen Shird marked the social gathering of the; Women of Moose held last night in the I.O.OF. Hall with cards and ‘refreshmenu concluding the even- | ing. | Plans for a public card party on March 16 were announced, and | the refreshment committee for the| next meeting was named, mt:lmilngt Mrs. Siguard Olson and Mrs. Olaf Mrs. Olaf Bodding was high and Mrs, J. Torvinen, low, in bridge last night; Mrs. E. F. Rodenberg, —————— i Washington Square, New York | | City, was once a parade ground as 'well as a potter’s field. ‘What So Rare as hasn’t said yes and hasn’t said no. band of Peggy Fears. Costumes Cut Big Figure In Shearer By ROBBIN COONS HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Feb. 17.—All that the set of “Marie Antoinette” lacked the other day was a spoon. The whole thing looked like an enor- mous, glittering dessert, rich beyond a gourmet's dreams. This was perfectly proper, for the set was a ballroom of Versailles in the most brilliantly decadent period of France's history, the final fling of monumental vanity in an era of lavish conceits before the black storm of the Revolution. At no time - - in the world's history—I quote my erudite studio informant — were women and men such abject slaves to giddy and insane fashion. The feminine body was but a rack on which to load gowns and ornaments. and still more ornam High powdered wigs, tight-waisted gowns with a wing-spread to fill a modern kitchenette, were but the founda- tions of a costume. With this humble start, a lady merely had to pile on everything she could grasp—ijewelry flowers, feathers—and she’'d stand a chance of getting an ogle. At least until Marie Antoinette entere the room. Marie had a way of oul- smarting the other girls, every time (Which is not, of course, the only reason Norma Shearer plays the role.) Mass Dressing The ballroom was—well, a copy stately and bril- liant, white with candlelight in crystal candelabra. Real candles really burning. About 600 lords and ladies, each dressed to Kkill, were lined up for the dance. I said it was a dessert—maybe a box of bonbons would be better Mounds of silk and satin and bro- cades, in all shades, filigreed with gold and silver and dripping with jewels, and topped off with the ic- ing, the frosting, the whipped cream of the ladies’ wigs. Incredibly ey filling, these animated bonbons, these lacy fondants, ‘these luscious sundaes, and I believe it now—the film will cost at least $2,000,000! Every costume is the real McCoy, at once a headache and a delight to our Adrian, who went abroad to make his notes and must have come home in a frenzy of creation. For a lady to dress in those days required five to six hours, but MGM has applied the ‘“assembly line” principle and disposes of the extras in no time at all. Make-up artists and hairdress- ers—120 of 'em—are on constant duty, the hair experts doing night work preparing the wigs for the next day. Wedding Cake If the rest were bonbons, Miss Shearer was a whole wedding cake, shimmering in miles of white of its original, behind this steel railway bridge—twisted by explosion and fire. They ‘who, however, crossed the f A. C. Blumenthal, New York producer and broker, makes no secret of the fact that he’s that way about June Lang, beautiful screenite, and here they are pictured together in Chicago. THEIR BRIDGE BEFORE JAPS CAME, retreating Chinese had hoped to halt the Japanese | ellow river over hastily-built pontoon bridge. | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, FEB. 17, 1938. Day With June? FRED ORDWAY i B IN ACCIDENT; DIESHOSPITAL Flying Pho-trorg:apher Vic- tim When Cabin Mono- plane Dives Down | | | (Continued from Page Cne) a passenger aboard the steamer Bar- anof. Mr. and Mrs. Ordway left for the south about the middle of last month. They flew by regular air- liner to New York City and then returned by air to the Pacific Coast, Besides M Ordway, known sur- vivors are also a son, about 17, now in Chicago. The son visited Juneau last summer and accompanied his father on a flight that covered west- ward and interior Alaska. Arriving in Juneau for the first time late in 1926, Mr, Ordway was employed by the Alaska Electric Light and Power Company in May, 1927. pany as electrician’s helper and wireman for less than a year be- fore resigning to open a photo- graphic store on Front Street. Photography had been Mr. Ord- way's former occupation before com- ing to Juneau, and it was not long before he had placed himself in the front rank of those engaged in that business in this city. developing a thriving business at his original location on Front Street, he moved his store to its present location in the Shattuck Building on Seward Street. Mr. Ordway was a photograph June, however, Blumenthal is the estranged hus- ’s New Picture very fancy in black a licorice drop, g velvet overlaid with gold doodads. : The costumes weighed about 50 i]’“:‘lt’;sr‘“;;d :fw:‘;“rg:(‘fik Fat L pounds. Miss George wailed that > 0 ) o photographing, having complete equipment for either commercial or private work. Mr. Ordway was energetic as his she suffered headache and backache from hers. Miss Shearer, her face wedding-cake-white with no make- up but powder, blamed hers for the MO e fact that she was constantly hun- C2reer in the north testifies. He gry . It's Norma’s first picture had flown‘ out on all kmds. of since “Romeo and Juliet” and the Photographic work and few sections death of Thalberg, and she was ra- of the northland have not been visited by him. His shop in Juneau diantly happy to be back working. Y ; A . Wishes, however, she could have 15 one of the best equipped in the done “Idiot’s Delight” first . . . The Rorthland. “Antoinette” scrip was ready, the IHerbert Neff, nephew of Mrs. Ordway, in charge of the shop here - during the Ordways absence, re- ceived no details of the crash and knew nothing of the accident until informed by The Empire. 3 More Norsemen Sioned to Race HINTS TO In-Ski Tourney HOUSEWIVES Juneau Athletic Club En- 1 your witchen work tabte s too ters Sundquist' Rmn low put casters on each leg. and Engberg ; other wasn't. . . . Protect your waffle iron and other seldom-used kitchen utensils Three new names are added to- by keeping them in a flour or day to the list of old-country par- sugar sack fastened with a rubber ticipants scheduled to race in the band or string. Juneau Ski Club tournament on Sunday, with announcement by the Juneau Athletic Club of the Make your own kitchen contain- en- ers out of coffee, baking powder or trance of Martin Rian, Hjalmar cracker cans. Remove all paper Sundquist and Ed Enberg. coverings, than paint or shellac Rian, who has lived in Juneau the cans and put labels on them. only for the past two months, is a jumper and down hill racer holding A coating will often form over a record of a 185 foot jump made the top if boiled custard is left in Trondhjem, Norway, in 1926. standing. To prevent this, stir the Both Sundquist and Enberg are custard a minute or two after it is said to be adept in using their poles cooked, let it cool, then stir again. on the meadows, the only place Pour the custard into a dish, cover along the Douglas trail where racers tightly and allow it to chill. need to use their own power, and where the race is either won or| Bananas “au Rhum” may be lost. Enberg has taken skiing priz- made by sprinkling one tablespoon es in Sweden and is considered one of rum, a few drops of lemon juice of the major threats in the event and a bit of brown sugar over the Sunday. fruit. Arrange the bananas in a - ., shallow well-buttered pan and bake MRS. CAMPBELL ls Lhelr: unmuthey are soft. (About HONORED AT PARTY ™" ™2 * Try serving minted lamb sand- | Mrs, J. K. Campbell was honored wiches at your next tea. You mix | at an informal party given to sur- half a cup of chopped cooked lamb | prise her upon her birthday Tues- with two tablespoons of mint jelly, day afternoon, for which occasion one tablespoon of chopped sweet | a group of friends gathered at the pickle and three tablespoons of | Spickett Apartments. salad dressing. This mixture will| Hostesses for the affair were Mrs. fill eighteen small sandwiches. ‘ Campbell’'s three daughters, Mrs.| J. B. Godfrey, Mrs. Eva Wilson, and Mrs. Horace Adams, ——— Empire classifieds pay. -Scrapple can be made at home by adding chopped cooked meat, |cheese or chicken to thick corn- |meal mush. Put this mixture in a He remained with the com- | After | IN FRE AT LIVENG00D (Fairbanks News-Miner) The cabin fire at Livengood Tues- day night resulted in a loss total- ing more than $4,000, it was re- ported in Fairbanks today by Sam Dracula who with Bert Berry came here with Pilot Bill Lavery. estimate of the loss was made by C. H. (Alabam) LaBoy- teaux, the heaviest loser to the flames. Almost an institution in the Live engood camp, the log cabin had been an open house to all comers since the fell of 1915 when it was built by Mike Kelly and Jim Shar- rard. Later Pat O'Connor lived there with Mr. Kelly. Popular Place Kelly and O'Connor owned the place for many years, then turned it over to Frank Bowers. Alabam LaBoyteaux has lived there several winters, and the cabin door was never locked. 1 The last men in the cabin before |the fire were Mr. LaBoyteaux and |Bert Berry, trapper, who came in |from Mike Hess Creek with his | winter's catch of fur which he left |at the cabin. Mattson Gives Alarm While LaBoyteaux, Berry and Dracula were out, the fire started. It was first seen by Charley Matt- son who gave the alarm. But it was too late, for the miners could do nothing to stop the blaze and Gus Phillips For unusual long-distance tele- phone calls you can hand it to Gus Phillips, 48, railroad engineer, of i Omaha, Neb. Phillips called King Boris of Bulgaria on the transat- lantic phone for a chat on the king's birthday. Phillips met King Boris when he visited Bulgaria in 1932 and the king showed an in- terest in railroading. The call cost $31. the old structure was soon ruined. The cabin was a one-room log — — ~—————— building with a large cache in bowl and chill it. Then slice it and | front. Besides its furnishings, its brown the slices in a little fat in |COntents included many rifles and a frying pan. Serve plain or wnh‘f:‘:’;if;:sn' tak?ndb ':ml;lgejuggg’ :t am- syrup or scrambled eggs. [up tiarough o TikEE hizzed New Dutch ovens (heavy iron| FOr years visitors had used the kettles with lids) should be “sea- |Place as a cache, and many per- soned” to prevent the iron taste |Sonal effects were lost. from permeating foods. Wash ana | Mr. Dracula had a sack of jew- scour the oven in hot water and |®Iy—including two diamond rings a strong cleansing powder, Fill it |37d a valuable watch—and a poke with hot soda water, using one |Of nuggets which he had left on a teaspoon of soda for each cup o(ibu“k while he awaited a plane to Cover and let simmer an |Fairbanks. He may find the nug- hour. Scour again and then grease |B€tS in the ashes. the inside with lard or oil. Heat | Besides clothing, LaBoyteaux and for an hour in a slow oven and O'Connor lost valuable papers. Mike finally wash well in hot soapy dish- Kelly, now in Juneau, will soon be water, | notified of his losses. PGS i “Closed Indefinitely” | Frank Bowers, now staying at the Pioneer Hotel in Fairbanks, had |left $50 in bills in his trunk. He TWELVE MINE |too is short a lot of clothing. | While the losers to the fire were MEN TRAPPE“ |congregated at O'Connor’s place in | Fairbanks today, Mr. Bowers is- sued an announcement: | “The Hotel DeBowers is closed One Worker Carried Out in indefinitely.” Rush of Water to | 555 A 'HAWKINS, ADDLEMAN Safety, Uninjured "4 g™ INTTIATED BY ZELTON, Pa, Feb o ELKS LAST EVENING miners are reported trapped under-| ground when a flooded stripping ba- | g sin collapsed, pouring water through | gyg)eq Rn:loe??fi:‘.s ?p‘:;r;::' l:tepumtz the workings. One miner, Bernard yeeting of the Benevolent and Pro- McAlerney, was carried out of the)iective Order of Elks, last night mine exit in the rush of the Wa-|when the seventieth anniversary of ter and was uninjured. the founding of the Elks was ob- - | served. HAUGERUD TO ASS[ST Norman Banfield, Exalted Ruler, IN SONS OF NORWAY |o"% omys, of fhe evening, and INITIATION SATURDAY | were initiated into the Order. Fol- lowing the meeting, Dutch lunch Sons of Norway, Svalbard No. 33,Iwas nerved, will meet in regular session on Sat- urday for initiation of a class of new | EmPire classifieds pay. members, with A. Haugerud, Field JUN T AUS YWNED AND OPERATED 8r w Representative of the Order now — NO W — visiting in Juneau, assisting with the LAST TIMES TONIGHT RUBY KEELER ' water. HAZELTON, Pa., Feb, 17.—Twelve | ceremony. Mr. Haugerud will speak on fra- ternalism during the meeting, and following the business session, a so-| cial meeting will be held including refreshments afid entertainment. Members from the Petersburg lodge who are coming to Juneau for | LEE mxw}h the ski tournament on Sunday, are "REHD wnm expected to attend the meeting. Yt G — e, 3 { R s Thomas Paine, Revolutionary| | =< ] writer, lived in Greenwich Village, New York. 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