The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 28, 1938, Page 3

NOW! THEATRE The Show Place of Juneau ¥ Jmabeyond 1 of fic tion: OUR NEWS 1s g TIMELY E SHORTS Sun-Filter Prevents Sunburn MOTHER HE Comedy HOLIDAY—Our Gang NEWS OF THE DAY and parasol exture of the rmth to s v i is this transparent beach r . by attractive Mitzi Uchlein. dy while p netrate through and bring an cven coat CARDOZA IS Pardon for Tom Mooney Taken Up REQQL’ERING WASHINGTON, Feb. 28. — The Senate Judiciary Commiltee has Latest in summei sperted at Venice, C material shields mils wea allowing w: from sea breezc tan without the dis- Associate Justice Supreme approved a resolution urging a par- . don for Tom Mooney, convicted of| Court Making Steady the 1916 Preparedness Bay bomb- Improvement ing. | ‘The Committee also approved the ncmination of Robert Jackson Sclicitcr General. WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.-—Asso- ciate Justice Benjamin N. Cardoza, of the United States Supreme Court, who has been ill for several month, is now in a convalescent stage and is making steady progress, his physicians said. MRS A D AND ODFRATED By W.1.GROSS HEALTH IMPROVES Advices received in Juneau are that Mrs. Harriet Pullen, one the north’s most widely known old- timers and proprietor of the Pul- len House at Skagway, is improved in health. She has spent a consid- erablé part of the winter with her granddaughter, Mrs. George Bean, in Seattle. Juneauw’s Greatest Value NOW BARBARA STANWYCK and JOEL McCREA in “INTERNES CAN'T TAKE MONEY” MAYOR OF A VILLAGE, ket of smelts on its mile-long haul to Boyne tania,” Michigan Bill Smith starts a bas- City from “Smel- ’s fishing city on Lake Charlevoix, of | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, FEB. 28, 1938. “CASEY JONES” PRODUCTION IS | NOW IN MAKING ! (;wu-r;rhca}m in New York Stage RS}}earsals Putting Play On— l By GEORGE TUCKER l | | i Jay in New Y The Gr theatre is getting ready to present "Cesey and Charles Bick- ford is the star. With him are Peg gy Conklin, who playe I mouth, his daughter; Van H Jed, his pal; Charles J. Dingle Collins, a yard superintendent, anc perhaps a dozen others It is about 4 pm. and the re- nearsal is held on the stage of the Bedasco. Elia Kazan, the direc comes in and yel or age, please.” ktord, who plays the come felt ight blue shirt irim dcuble-breasted coat with trousers of a slightly lighter shadc He flops yn at a tab cigarette, sinks his chin in Peggy has on a red swe: 2 blue skirt. She is chew and conversing in an undertor with her dog, a Scottie, who here and there about the g van Heflin takes time out to bal- ance a pool cue on his chin. The is a pool game scene in the } and he likes the feel of that i Kazan, whom everybody calls “Kaz," speaks up: “If you handle all your cues as you do that one we'll have a hit.” Kazan is a meticulous direc doesn’t hestitate to get to the bot- tom of things. He has a stack notes a foot high which he made while watching countless re- hearsals and he goes over each flaw, each change, with every one indivi- dually. Suddenly he jumps up: “I think | we're handling Casey little too | much,” he says. “And that’s wrong You can’t be too palsy-walsy W Casey. You can jolly with him only | when he lets you. You've got to be nore in awe of him—hang on his ords. Youre actually embar- ssed by his presence.” tor and of . felt faint, pulled his Ishbel to Marry | Bickford: “Ka what about tha cene where I kiss her. I'm thor- y ill at ease.’ : “We'll stop tonight a | figure it out. She ing and u're practically unnerved. Sud- denly you shout: ‘Well, if you'r | sonna act that way I don't know | what to do with you—goodby.” | See? . Throw it right at her, | Bickford nods, “Okay, Kaz.” . Kazan then painstakingly goes ver each speech, each scene with sach person in the cast. He listens satiently to any suggestions. He knows exactly what he wants to | bring out. . Plot . . . It's about old Casey, the famous engineer, at the end of his career . From watching those s whiz by his eyes have become bad . . . They want to put him to bauling freights, take him off a | tast express . . . But Casey doesn't | want that . . . Yet he is faithful to he road . .. He finally decides to retire on a pension rather than lapse into the role of a “has-been.” Note: One of the scenes will be he interior of the cab of a great locomotive . . . It'll be authentic down to the strap attached to the whistle, which “breaks into a scream” whenever you touch it . . . And I have a hunch that Casey touches it . . . This is the first time 2 train has been on the stage of a New York theater since “20th Cen- tury Limited” four years ago . . . I want to be there when she starts rolling. Ishbel MacDonald, daughter of the late Prime Minister, is pictured ebove at London. Her engagement to Norman Ridgley, a house deco« rator of Speen, Buckinghamshire England, has been announced. Misg MacDonald operates an inn called | The Plow in the village of Speeny TO SANITORIUM O. F. Anderson, of Fairbanks, is a passenger aboard the Alaska en- route to a sanatorium at Riverton near Seattle, for his health. e e Calcutta is the second city of the British Empire. — .- —— HAULS 100 CORDS OF WOOD John Durant, who recently haul- led 100 cords of wood to his placer !ground adjacent to the Niggerhead | Association on Dome in the F |banks section, is visiting in Fair- banks. largest P ...CALLED ‘SMELTANIA’ BECAUSE OF ITS CHIEF INDUSTR Y—the smelts—an unincorporated city B R A TOOTHACHE THAT HALTED INDUSTRY was reported by Buffalo’s Police Lieutenant William Marnon, As Halbert 1. DeFreest drove home after having ni ar to the carb, hit a power poie. Eleven other pole. were pulled down, street and house lights went out, a standard exploded, 4,000 men in eight factories were made idle and 200 line- mea worked 12 hours to stra “Dog Catcher’ Ball ie. Uil To Buy ! Ses nounced cateher ball, the prc used to buy license for ¢ of indigent persons A twelve ar-old boy who plight ve him the will re ceive the first lic € Christen iid. The second will go to para- girl whose pet is her chiel comfort - - SEWARD PENINSUL PROSPECTOR FOUND BURNED TO DEATH Jim Hunker, lon 1 the Seward Penir tly Burned ath in his cabin on Knoll Creek, according to a let- received by the Gov fice from Candle. time prospector ula 1 n ter s of- A sea g party was sent out for Hunker when he failed to ap- pear in Candle the first of the year. Two searchers found his cabin ourned to the ground buried his remains. and - o> AMERICAN LEGION MEETING TONIGHT Members of the American Legion will hold their regular meeting to- night in the Dugout. Business will be nsacted of a routine nature, it id. a D - Past Exalted Rulers’ Night, March 2, initiation, nomination of offi ady S b teeth extracted, he ten things out. Gems Loses $150,000 Mysterious theft of jewelry valued at $150,006 from Mrs. Philip Hill (above), wife of a British financier, at Palm Beach, Fla., was made known when detectives were asked to join a widespread hunt for the thieves. Mrs, Hill has bech wintex- ing in the Florida city. AT , ANN'S Mrs, Oscar Eliason was admitted to St. Ann’s Hospital yesterday af- ternoon for medical car e e Britain will complete three 35,- 000-ton battleships this year. of some 209 fishing shacks stretches a mile off shore from Boyne City, Mich., on Lake Charlevoix. The city, divided into five precincts, has a mayor, nine commissioners and a constable, About 250 fish an hour is a good catch during smelt run, FORTUNE LOST ON BEAUTY IN CAPITOL FILM LI ances Farmer, Edward Arnold Star in “Toast (lf N(‘\\' \’(Jl‘k” titanic struggle between the 1 gi of the post-Civi v control of the Eri Railroad forms the background for t pec @ romantic drama The Toast of New York,” wh Arnold, Cary Grant, Fran- Farmer and Jack Oakie co-star Capitol Theatre tonight and the most picturesque of ‘ builders was Jim Fisk pl ward Arnold. His ipt 1 the money marts, limaxed attempt to corner ld market, form one of the hectic episodes reflected in photopla Equally a lorid as Fisk's amaz= 1 career, his affair, is n the na, with Josie Mansfield, beauty of humble ¢ ho as- pires to theatrical sk fortune to further her 1bitic d to her love, an ich ends heartbreak. former night club motion ast of of a dancin effort wi Th and victure ma Leed: radio star debut in in the Her singing iid to be one ent features of the s A brilliant supporting cast in- cludes Donald Meek, Clarence Kol Paul Guilfoyle, Douglas Wo George Irving role brette. e sO01- and of the and Edward Small and Rowland V. Lee, as producer and director re- pectively, guided “The Toast of New York” for RKO Radio - frican Witch Doctor Brings [lmfivn_me Rain GWELO, Southern Rhodesia, Feb. - A woman “witch docto; known as “The Gogo" and revered for her ‘“rainmaking” abilities is credited supe! ous natives with breaking a drought shortly fter she was tried and acquitted n a charge of practicing magic “The Gogo,” who maintained the charge a t her was instigated by a rival witch doctor, made a pil grimage to the sacred Matopo Hills after her acquittal to invoke the aid of Mlim the supreme spirit And immediately there was rain > FUN IN JALL HERRICK, Ill, Feb. 28. prisonerless Herrick jail hi turned into a recreation cente — The Individual cells have been trans- formed into work rooms and the bullpen” is used as a craft lab- oratory. The building also contains a small library, reading tables, game equipment and stage for amateur shows. But just in case the trend of goo behavior has been overesti- mated, one cell is reserved for law violators. EERL TR BOUND FOR OUTSIDE Frank DeWree, trust officer and assistant cashier of the First Na- tional Bank at Fairbanks, will pass through Juneau aboard the Alaska for a three months vacation in the States. He will join his wife in Ta- coma and then will go east and south before returning north. been ¢ BRITON'S BEAUTY was enhanced by fur ensemble worn at a London weddings L. 5. T0 PROB "MOKOPOLY" N RADIO INDUSTRY ' WASHINGTON, Feb. 28. — In- vestigation of the radio industry to determine whether there is a mon- opoly will be launched shortly by the Federal Communications Com- mission, Chairman Frank R. Mc- Ninch announces. McNinch also revealed for the first time that he intends to re- main chairman of the commission imtil he has put into effect “con- truetive regulation” and “policies the guidance of the industry.” C as Surprise \cement came as com- to members of the ciation of Broadcast- convention here, de- “czar” fol- This lete prise National A rs, wt in d to set up a radio wing adoption of sweeping reor- ganization plans. McNinch was transferred from {chairman of the Federal Power {Comm n to the FCC last fall by President Roosevelt to “clean up a there in view of widespread emands in Congress for investiga- tion of the .y Thus far, the President has kept the chairmanship of the pow- mmission for McNinch's ex- ed return. The McNinch an- incement clinched growing opin- ion here he would remain as FCC chairman. . Speaks at Meet McNinch, in an address to the broadcasters, announced the mon- opoly inquir; “My word to you on this subject (monopoly) is that it is the duty of the communications commission ta prevent the development of a mon- opoly or to set about to destroy it if one exists,” McNinch said. e AERONCA WORKS SUNDAY cper T The Gastineau Channel Flying Liberia was founded in 1822 by Club Aeronca was banking over Ju- Negro freedmen from the United States. - e, Past Exalted Rul Night, March , initiation, nomination of officers. adv. 2 s neau most of yesterday. A. E. Karr Commissioner of Education, Bud Bodding and Sonny Lund all took solo flying in the lit- tle ship and Rudy Tencich took dual lessons from Tony Schwamm.