The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 15, 1938, Page 3

% 3 YEARS TO MAKE! COSTS R FORTUNE! y Thousands in its mighty cast! POSITIVELY ° Last Times Tonight Doors cpen 6:3 First Show 7:00 P. M. Second Show 9:30 P. M. Powerful story of human loves! le never before attempted f 2 hours of mi YR D e o S THEATRE Show Place of Juneau ighty thirills! MIDNIGHT PREVIEW “SOLDIER AND THE LADY"” Movies Ex “Great Lover” Still Awes Norma Shearer By ROBBIN COONS HOLLYWOOD, Cal. March 15.— The years are so SHORT: I. She was a little blue-eyed brunette from Canada by way of New York, and she was working in a quickie out at the old Warner Bros. lot where the big star was a very romantic fellow. The big star was doing a thing called “Don Juan” to prove among other things that when better love scenes were made he would make them, that when more star-struck girls swooned over a Great Lover he would be the G. L. Actually, of course, the guy was just making a living and he didn't care a hoot about the gushy movie romance. There were even slanderers who insisted that, for sheer contrariness, he made a habit of chewing garlic before a love scene just to see if his leading lady could take it. So the little blue-eyed brunette used to stand in the background on his sets, and marvel, and think how wonderful it would be if some day she could work with so great an actor. Well, the other day it happened. They were working together. But Norma Shearer was the star of “Marie Antoinette” and John Bar rymore, no longer the Great Lover, was sinking his teeth deep into a character role. And the little girl, grown up, said she was just as ex- cited and awe-struck now as she would have been in the old days. It had almost happened once be- fore — but in “Romeo and Juliet,” Norma and John had no scenes to- gether. He Still Worries II. Nobody much looked up, ex- cept maybe a dizzy girl or two, when he came into the studio com- missary to have lunch with me. He was an uncommonly handsome fellow, but he wasn't a name. He'd done a thing or two in pictures, and a few people. were beginning to conjecture on his possibilities as a star. But they conjecture about almost everybody. The first thing that hit, when we got to talking, was the chap’s modesty, unusual for a picture- struck kid as good-looking as that. He hoped like everything he'd get somewhere in pictures, he needed the money, but he didn't really think it would last. He was wor- ried about it, and it wasn't an act. Today Robert Taylor is, essen- tially, the same fellow he was then. He still worries but not so much, and he tries to carry off his spot- lighted condition as lightly as they’ll let him. When he enters the commissary eyes click and pop, but he’s getting used to it and he doesn't look so self-conscious any more. Maybe he reckons that a fel- low who's survived the tag of “Beautiful Bob” can't meet much worse! N Basement Shopper III. It was after the little girl's first click in picturés, but she wasn’t too famous to go shopping with her mamma. Ran across the two of them down in the basement of a popular-priced department store, and the mamma was looking for, of all unglamorous things, a garbage can. - One of the reasons I like Mrs. Ruth Withers today, and daughter Jane, is that mamma spoke right up then, like anybody else, and didn’t pretend for a minute she was just slumming, or had wan- dered there by mistake. NORLITEMEN . ARE TO MEET TONIGHT Norlitemen meet tonight for their regular dinner gathering at 6:30 o'clock in the Northern Light Pres- byterian Church where motion pic- tures will be shown by Trevor Davis and Irish story telling will mark the program. A. S. Dunham is chairman of the dinner committee, and the Rev. John A. Glasse will preside. Court of Awards For Girl Scouts . Set for Tonight {Public Invited to Attend Program in Grade School Gym Before a large audience of par-| ents and friends scheduled to a semble at 8 p.m. in the Grade| School gymnasium, Girl Scouts of Juneau will be honored tonight at the Court of Awards. Under the direction of Mrs. K. C. Talmage, chairman of the eve- ning, a varied program has been planned. A color ceremony will open the program, followed by in- troduction of the three troops. Mrs. Ernest Parsons, president of the Girl Scout Committee, will present | the badges, following which a talk on “Girl Scouts in Juneau” will be given by Sylvia Davi Motion pictures of Girl Scout ac- tivities are to be shown by Trevor Davis as a special feature of the evening, and dramatization of a song will be given by the troop of Mrs. B. R. Glass. Following group singing, Laura Jean Clithero will play taps. . Troop leaders who have been ac- tive in preparing for the program include Mrs. H. B. Humphrey, Mrs. B. R. Glass, Mrs. K. C. Talmage, Miss Elizabeth Terhune, Miss Mary ‘Vanderbeest. Miss- Mary Simpkins, Miss Barbara Winn, Miss Louise | Kemper, Miss Betty Wilms, and| | Miss Louise Skinner. | B Put Drunks in+~ - Cage, Stand of - Boston Mayor WOBURN, Mass., March 15. — Boston's drunks aren’t going to be in the doghouse any more. They're going to be in a lion’s cage. But the lion won't be in it. | Annoyed at the increase in jail maintenance costs because of an increasing number of convictions for drunkenness, Mayor William E. | Kane threatened the lion cage and |a ride through Boston's busiest | streets for inebriates. The cage would be towed by a police car- and at night would be illuminated. The prisoners would not be permitted to eat their heads off in jail for thirty or sixty days, but would be driven around the city for everybody to laugh at (the| mayor hoped ) until they sobered | up. Then they would be dumped out. | That goes for women, too, the Mayor said. MIAMIISTO GHANGE SLOGAN MIAMI, Fila, March 15.—Miami tiring of its boom-time slogan, “The | Magic City,” wishes to become known as “Royal Poinciana City.” | As a step toward this goal the| Chamber of Commerce asked school children to gather seeds of the royal poinciana tree. The, youngsters brought in a truckload.! The committee turned the seeds| {over to the two railroads serving| Miami to be planted along theun; | right of way near the city. { In the spring the royal poinciana becomes a mass of vivid color, | They have been described as tooth- | yet the new English dictionary lists Mother fo Give THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, Stagehand Wins ( PANHANDLER SPRINGS ONE THAT IS NEW Bandmaster J;)t; Rines Goes Ca”ing But Returns After Good “Call’ By GEORGE TUCKER NEW YORK, March 15.—Occa- sionally there shuffles up to the curb a panhandler with a ney and refreshing argument. Such a brow- ser stepped smartly up to Bob Rip- ley and touched him on the arm “Pardon me,” he said, “can you let me have 35 cents for a cup of cofiee?” “Thirty-five cents! Cotfee costs only a nickel.” “Yeah, I know,” replied the bum “but I've got to get my tuxedo pressed.” It is Joe Rines who tells this one on himself. Joe was pretty much in need of sleep and was gratefully pounding his ear the other night when a terrific racket brought him angrily back into this world. Donning his robe, the band leader rushed next door and gave the unthinking merry-makers a blistering dressing down. “Say,” ejaculated the “aren’t you Joe Rines?” “Well, yes I am,” replied Rines, somewhat mollified, “what about it?” “Gosh, I think you're the great- est bandleader in New York. I was * just playing some of your records. . Tell me, when that trumpet goes ta-ta-te-te-ti-ti, what is that bell-like noise in the background?” Several hours lateér, when Joe got back to his own room, he wasn't a bit mad. “G E th” t There’s a legend that a fortune [md ar n has been accumulated in a down- town bank, small sums lefi there by E"d E"gagemflnt | Here Tonight sailors who were lost at sea or Paul Muni, Luise Rainer otherwise disappeared. At least, so the story goes, they never came back Star in Outstanding Production and all efforts to communicate with heirs have met with failure. Except for the trifling drawback of heing untrue, this is a charming fable and belongs with the rest of Broadway’s Mother Goose stories. “The Good Earth,” based on the novel by Pearl S. Buck and the stage adaptation by Owen Dav and Donald Davis, ends its Juneau show- ing tonight at the Capitol Metro-Goldwyn-Ma ha I have heard also and read in the world the visualized audible the reports of my colleagues from time to time of gnarled old hags drama of the Orient which Pearl Buck put into the printed wo out of witches tales who brew nameless potions in blackened pots urder the gloomy arches of Brook- lyn Bridge, but I have never been so fortunate as to encounter them Paul Muni portrays the humble Chinese farmer, Wang Lung. The actor who was “Louis Pasteur “Dr. Socra and who played “I Am a Fugitive,” excels himself in this new and more intriguing role, The actress from Vienmna, Luise Rainer, here assumes an enviable position in her profession. There will be critics who rate her firsi of all the heroines of the screen for her performance as O-Lan the slave-girl who becomes the wife of Wang Lung. Miss Rainer starred fellow. Stagehand, Maxwell Howard’ $3.80 to place and the finish lin given less and leaning on crooked sticks and mumbling incantations while stirring these mj ious broths. I guess I don't get around enough A sports writer in New York trip- les his income making records for a phonograph company. However, he croons these ditties under an as- sumed name. There are only 4,000 words in all of Italian opera, 550,000 words . . . But if that total tends to give you an inferiority complex, remember that Shakes- peare used only 15,000. One of the politest visitors to in “Escapade” and again in “The New York this season was the Great Ziegfeld” as Anna Held, but London dramatic critic who de- in “The Good Eearth” she scribed a certain play as “ham the true heights of her power. | rather slowly fried.” However, he — added, “there is much to be said for good ham.” Girl Carrying Gun Blame Bus Rider NEW YORK, March 15—Eliza- beth Danvich, nineteen, a waitress who came herg from Pittsburgh, was arrested for carrying concealed weapons, a gun she claims a fe v Her Eye to Child LANSDALE, Pa., March 15. — A 30-year-old mother says she had arranged to give her right eye that bus passenger dropped into her lap. her baby son might see, | The girl said the man wno Mrs. William Laverty, wife of a dropped the gun into her lap in- textile worker, made plans to go wistructed her to register at a hotel New York for the operation March| where the manager would give her 28 at the Presbyterian Medical $15000 when she produced the Center. | weapon. The manager called po- The curly-haired baby, Roger, will | lice, she asserted. be two years old tomorrow. His -~ Mother said he won a health contest in competition with 1,200 children a year ago at Providence, R.I,, where the Lavertys formerly lived. . Doctors told the mother the child had been losing his sight since he| became ill with measles last April. His right eye is sightless and the left is affected. Mrs. Loverty said she and her husband “talked the matter over” and decided on the operation. — e ' HULL IN TOWN D. D. Hull, representative of W. J. Lake and Company is in Juneau, having arrived on the Yukon. He is a guest at the New Alaskan. ———..—— Since it has come some persons .ings, we are taking thi HILLARD RETURNS HERE | Deputy Collector of Customs J. J. Hillard returned to Juneau on the Princess Norah after being sta- | ioned at Hyder during the winter, HELPS PREVENT | MANY CoLps Especially designed | aid for nose and | in the Icy Guich area. ceedings unnecessary. MINING phenomenal biscuit, who was favored in the betting. S 3.00 to show to § Stagehand, whe is trained by Earl Sande, won the re ent § have been seen proximity to the Alaska Juneau Mine work- s occasion to warn the public against a near approach to the workings. Al the workings are on private property, quite some distance from amy public road; trespassers thereon are in danger from blast- ing and from caving ground. ! 0 ticket holders. who flew to Les Change Proposed in Stake Net Fishing in Bristol Bay Section (Continued from. Page One) benefits to general navigation.” The cost was believed to be excessive because of the steep slope of the sea bottom. However, the Delegate believes | the the project would be of such unusual value to the local fisher- men and boat owners, and that a detailed survey might disclose a means of providing for a break- water or other method of protec- n, which was not arrived at in the preliminary examination, at a reasonable figure, that the matter should be given further censidera- tion. Claude M. Hirst, Director of Edu- cation in the Indian Office at Ju- neau, who has been in Washington for several weeks will make a per- sonal presentation of the case for Metlakatla before the Division En- in Po nd, Oregon, and gineer hefore the District Engineer in Se- attle, on his return to the West in'a few days. INDIAN SCHOOL LANDS BILL The House Committee on Indian Affairs on February 24 reported out to the House the bill sponsored by Delegate Dimond to authorize the thdrawal and reservation of tracts of the public domain in Alaska, not to exceed 640 acres, for native schools, hospitals, and similar na- tive uses as required in the building program of the Office of Indian Affairs. Reason for the proposed legisla- tion is aptly described in the fol- lowing excerpt from the committee report made on the bill: “It is not expedient to construct such schools and hospitals on the publi¢c domain for the reason that the public domain is subject to location, entry, and occupation by citizens of the United States under the general lands and mining laws. It would not be wise to construct a hospital upon public domain and later have somcone locate a min- ing claim covering the same ground.” At the Delegate’s request the bill NOTICE!! to our atteniion, that in dangerous Approaches to the workings have been posted with trespass notices but some notices . may be covered with snow. public is warned, whether or not they see a notice, against going into the vicinity of the open pits or the extension thereof, particularly Therefore, the B It is hoped that this warning will be heed- ' ed by all, thereby making any trespass pro- ALASKA JUNEAU GOLD COMPANY TUESDAY, MARCH: 15, 1938. agehand set a new track record of :01 3-5 for the mile and one-quarter and paid Seabiscuil is-nartially hidden by the winner in the above photo as they crossed Anita Derby and was ridden in the Handicap by Angeles irom Florida fof the assignment. was placed on the Consent Cal- endar of the House expedite action on it. to FEDERAL AID HIGHWAY ACT before Recently testifying House Committee on it was considering H to amend the Federal Roads wher R. 8838, a bill Aid Highway Act, Delegate Dimond requested that the provision in the bill set- ting the apportionment of funds for forest roads 1 trails in Al- aska at $500,000 for each of the| fiscal years 1940 and 1941 be strick- en out entirely, and that Ala: be permitted to share with the States in such appropriations, but that if; be made for in any special allotment Alaska, the allotment be made the amount of $600,000 rather $500,000 as the “very minimum of what should be expended in the Territory each year in order to make any pretense of carrying out an adequate road program. Justifying his request for the in- creased figure for an appropriation item, Mr. Dimond called attention to the fact that the national forests in the Territory can “produce in perpetuity enough pulp wood to upply about one-fourth of the present requirements of the United | States,” or approximately one mil- lion tons annually. The Delegate further said in emphasizing the fairness of his request for this in- crease, that “99.8 per cent of all the land of Alaska is still owed by the United States Government, and if Alaska is going to be what it ought to be as an asset to the United States, some encouragement ought to be given to settlers. I have lived in Alaska more than 33 years, and I know that roads lie at the very foundation of any settlement of Alaska. You can not get people to stay anywhere unless you give them roads to travel on, or unless they are helped to get roads, and as long as this road program goes forward for all the rest of the United States there is no sound reason for putting Alaska in one o i 'QUALITY counTts GET YOUR MONEY’S WORTH ... BUY General E Cleaner 31.95 S No Oiling—Power-Driven Brush Light Weight—GE Quality :_ SOLD ON TERMS - Alaska Electric Light than | IR + Handicap by a nose from Sea- 0 to win, ick Wall, category and the States in an- other.” The Delegate also asked that that part of the alling for con- | struction of forest roads or trails |estimated to cost $5,000 or more |per mile be advertised and. let to contract, be amended with the pro- vision that “not to exceed $100,000 of the expenditures in Alaska in any fiscal year may bhe made with- out such restriction.” Adoption of this amendment would be authority for the Bureau of Public Roads in | Alaska to undertake road construc- tion work with its own equipment and personnel, up to the amount of $100,000, instead of having to have all such work done under contra Eafing Evidence " Fails to Save Him NEW MARTINSVILLE, W. Va,, March 15.—Doyle Quinn ate the evi- dence and got--not indigestion, but seven years in state's prison. Arrested on a forgery charge, Quinn chewed the check at a pre- liminary hearing, but the grand {jury indicted him. He pleaded in- sanity, but a trial jury held him sane e HERE'S the BIGGEST BARGAIN YET! TERMS IF We MUST MAKE ROOM for improvements now under way in our show PRICED FOR IMMEDIATE SALE: ONE—3-Unit Monarch ELECTRIC RANGE TABLE-TOP MODEL WITH LARGE OVEN—Units are Chromalox and non-breakable. Rice & Ahlers Co.-Phone 34 'co 3 |Vote for Mag West | I]ecide_g 1 Election PITTSBURGH. March 15.—A vote for Mae West helped to cecide the in a village election near re Mae received one vote, and that vote loomed large, for Joseph Lehos= | ky, a sticker candidate, lost to Er= | nest Rometo for township commis= ner of East Deer by three votes and petitioned the courts for a re= T'he recount proved that Lehosky really the winner by one vote. recount also brought out that cast for Mae West would deadlocked the contest if cast for Rometo, OIRL 20THERED BY TELEPATHY' Claims Remote Control Is' Exerted by Crooner Rudy Vallee LOS ANGELE March 15.—Po= Jice Chief James E. Davis has re= ceived a letter from Denver which made him sit up and blink. He read it twice to be sure he bad not made a mistake It was | signed by the assistant city attor= ney of Denver and, in part, it said: s Fanny Singer, 1379 Grove is in the office and comp'a’ns that one of the residents of your city, Rudy Vallee, is bothering her by mental telepa= thy, and he has even threatened to kill her. I would appreciate it very much if you would investigate this matter and see if anything can- not be done to keep him from both= ering this young lady.” It was written on official Denver stationery and signed by Richard F. Ryan, assistant city attorney. Chief Davis. said he'd look into the matter, * Vallee, here now for a motion picture, had no comment to make, but he did not seem to be much upset when the letter was read to him. have av she >-oo— _a° NOTICE - Women of the Moose will meet . Wednesday at 7 p.m., Odd Fellows ! Hal 1l adv, B PN 2 St. Patrick’s Day Silver Tea. Trin~ i ity Deanery. Mar. 17, 2 t0.6 p.m. adv. UNEAUS OPERATED &y W. GB SWNED _AND Juneau's Greatest Show Value LAST TIMES TONIGHT Claudette Colbert in “I MET HIM IN PARIS” with Melvyn Douglas—Robert Young DESIRED room- SO——We have lectrice’s $4.00 DOWN LOW MON PAYMED and Power Co. ¥ i