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

— THEATRE Place of Juneau Yourwish has come frue . . . He’s Here Again! Singing in adrama of the Maine Dies in E )il RATHBONE . ARTON CLATR HENRY ARMETTA - RALRH FORBES LEON ERROL + DONALD MEEF HERBERT RAWLINSON LEONID KINSKEY . Music by Oscar Straus . . . RKO-RADIO 1 PICTURE . . . Produced by SOL LESSER PRINCIPAL PRODUCTIONS . . . Directed by Kurt Neumann. . . Associate Producer, Edward Gross. COL.E.M.HOUSE PASSES AWAY | IN'NEW YORK astern Home (Continued from Page One) v THE DAILY ALASKA'ngka, 7 PLAY WRITERS “GET TIP FROM REAL INFORMER Nine Thousand Copyright- ed Last Year—1 Percent Produced on Broadway Berry Queen | ORGE TUCKER | NEW YORK, March 28.—So you want to write a play! Well 's fine and I hope you win. But ¢ More than 9,000 plays were copy- righted in Washington last year, autumn leaves: Some of these come directly from the authors, but a majority is presented through the regular nt channels. ‘This is the accepted way to do MONDAY. MARCH 28 1938. juNEs FAMILY Orchestra, Tops in Pay, IS DEVELOPING IN HOLLYWOOD All Studios Have Their Own Individual *“*Com- panies” Now By ROBBIN COONS HOLLYWOOD, March 28—The colony's getting to be a real family- minded place, even on the screen Several studios, after looking at what “The Jones Family” has done for 20th Century-Fox, already have b 3 chimed in with parallel fireside o,l ese only about 1 per ‘odnt groups. And anx‘x-] long we expect were produced on Broadway. ABd|.y the 1ot to have their individual less than 10 per cent of these made | /. 0 o"those versatile, problem- any appreciable amount of money. So you can see your work is cut |PeSCt_Jones. i 3 o v i M-G-M is offering the Hardy's Most of the big producers in New whf; n‘t‘mv their bow in “A Pumfl-. York about ;0 plays a week to {\H}m', »con(muv(l their ndvm.:‘l\uw,\ read. They drop on their desks like in “You're Only Young Once,” and currently are in the throes of a new one called “Judge Hardy's Children.” Like the Joneses, the aHrdy’s “just growed” as a film perennial. The first one was intended to be pro- Can’t Play Single Note JOD—Presenting the world’s oddest four-piece orchestra— It doesn’t HOLLIW to s in v ameng musicians, and it can’t play a note. have te. The ns—Don Ameche, Tyrone Power, Jack Haley and <hick Chandler—get their collective salary of several thousands a we ting. The music they make as “Alexander’s Ragtime Band will be “dubbed in” later. Here are three of the “cats” in that early-do; jazz band geiting their “musie lessons:” Sid Lippman (left) shows Tyrone Power how to look like he’s playing a fiddle. St NEWS OF THE DAY—“It's Timely” | Our Short Subjects Are the Talk of the Tow MAKE A WISH IS FEATURED AT CAPITOL Bobby Breen Stars in Musi- cal Picture Play- ing Tonight Foremost among its attractions is the voice of young Bobby himself, who sings several numbers written especially for the picture by Oscar Straus, noted Viennese composer. | Another Straus song is sung by the lovely Marion Claire, radio vocal star, who makes her screen debut in this production. A new Basil Rathbone, essaying his first completely romantic s role, shares the love interest with | Miss Claire, though their romance | is complicated by the fact that the young lady engaged to Ralph Forbes. The strong comedy element in much of the story is in the capa- All the elements of a thoroughly | ple bands of a large group of popu- entertaining motion picture are jar comedians, the explosive Henry combined in Bobby Breen's new | Armetta, Leon Errol, Donald Meek musical starring vehicle, “Make a | and Leonid Kinskey. ‘Wish,” the Principal Production for | “Make a Wish” was directed by | RKO Radio release, playing tonight | Kurt Neumann, who has been in and tomorrow at the Capitol Thea- | charge of the filming of all Breen tre. | pictures. The original story wa: — e written by Gertrude Berg, author, director, and leading player in “The constipated? Rise of the Goldbergs” and “House of Gilass,” two of radio’s most popu- # “For 30 years 1 had constipation, awful ¥ as bloating, headaches and back pains. lar serials. \d dlerika_hel ped right a“ny.fl“f\uwl. I eat L0 A ng 1 wan - Nover Tub» Datter” Mco. Jhahal' | About 100,000 veterans still are el- rs. Mabel Schott. 1 K Never felt better.”” ADLE igible for World war bonus bonds, the aggregate amount due them being about $84,000,000. The law Butler-Mauro Drug Co.—in Douglas by - AR b B a8 gy, Dermits applications up to 1940. EDWARD M. HOUSE George and King Albert of Bel- gium. The quiet, self-effacing man who went about his important missions abroad so unostentatiously had been President Wilson's confidential ad- viser and friend since his first election, a position novel in Am- erican political affairs. It was said by friends that the President relied upon his judgment and foresight sine: o v s g |Bram-filler, but it clicked, and the 333?-‘“.... {&‘rfiptl.l Il)ix("lywill‘xt“lilln\':: second did better. Now the studio quickly enough whether it has|Plins a serles of 12 features. with Mert. It nhe constders it sales.|lhe same characters—Lewis Stone worthy, he will accept it and try |2 the judge, and Mickey Rooney, to peddle it. He knows all the g‘l‘;““““""“:k : Janet Beecher, Ann markets and all the arguments. R 7 : U e And for his troubles he takes 10| R-K-O is projecting a series of It's carnival time at Ponchatoula; La., when the famous strawber- ries of the district ripen, so what could be more fitting than to have a comely queen such as Catherine Agaisse to reign over the festivi- ; ties? per cent, which is dirt cheap. Most play-agents have a prestige to maintain and never touch manu- seripts Wwhich, in their opinion, haven't every chance to be sold. This assures a producer any manu- script delivered is well worth his | From his college days he had been time. Without this middle-man he more than he did upon those of keenly interested in national and |would be swamped with second-rate anyone else. “He is a man” said the Presi- avid reader of books on politics |nsiieon’ Shubert, use the staff dent, “of remarkable ability. He can hold things off at arm’s length and consider them and discuss them without being mixed up.” Wilson did not know House until the beginning of the canvass for his presidential nomination. Wilson then was Governor of New Jer: and House was a power in Texas state politics. He was not yet i he public spotlight but his work in Texas had made him known to na- tional leaders of the Democratic Party. His father had left him an in- heritance of $20,000 a year which enabled him to pursue unhampered his interest in politics. State politics began to pall on him after he had helped bring about the elections of four governors in succession and at least one United States senator. %] e T T international affairs. He was an and economics. Behind his studies was the idea of working out a distribution of national boundaries that would make civilization safe from war. Later he was to have an undream- ed-of opportunity to expound his theories before the world’s leading statesmen at Versailles and to em- some of them in the Covenant of the League of Nations, House was born at Houston, Texas, July 26, 1858, the youngest of ven children. His forebears were of Dutch extraction, but had lived in England for many gen- erations. His father arrived in Texas when it was still a section of the Mexican republic. Young House was graduated from a grammar school at New Haven, Conn., and attended Cornell Uni- versity. In 1881 he married Miss Lucille Hunter of Austin. They had o daughters, Mrs. Randolph Tucker of Boston, Mass., and Mrs. Gordon Auchincloss of New York. goods. Most producers, as in the case of tem in reading plays. Three readers will study the play. Then they write a brief synopsis and set down their opinions. If two of the three recom- mend it the producer then reads it himself. After this he makes up his own mind. It is interesting to note that plays in America are presented in manu- script form, but abroad they are set up in type. This is okay for the foreign market, but printing in the U. S. is too expensive. It is better anyway, to have yours in manuscript form, so that correc- tions and deletions may be penciled in after your consultation with the producer, providing of course that you can get that close to a pro- ducer. As for length, a page takes up about a minute in action, and a drama should last about two hours and a half. Most theatre men agree it is better to overwrite, as cuts are always easier than making TOMORROW IN THE EMPIRE Will Be the First of Three Stories The Story Behind Hitler and an Analysis of His Military Machine: The 20th Century Saga—The artist who re-drew the map of Europe. It is a three-articled story of the Austrian paper vitalized a nation, electrified the world, who has made a new. Europe and who today rules 75 million people. That story begins tomorrow in The Empire. Every.school boy and every school girl— Every man and every woman will be interested in this story. STARTING TOMORROW IN THE EMPIRE. R R R House had been working for Wil- son’s presidential boom some time before the governor of New Jersey heard of his silent ally. The first additions. There are lots of reliable agents in New York. Off hand I can think l‘lm(‘ House's name was mentioned | o & 14 S. Lyons, Wi il fo Wilson is <u‘1d to. Have been on | T css Hemingway; FBI G Fromls 3 g ¥ man of Brandt and Brandt, who a Sunday in the summer of 1911 pov “Robert Sherwood (“Idiot's ‘;"‘“f‘d“j‘:“"GH‘?“"*BP?‘t’f‘.“' later O Delight”) and Sidney Howard e sreat Britain, and Ed- | «poqsworth); and also Leland ward S. Martin, editor of “Life" |y oo™ 0 oo Margaret motored Lo_h‘mcoton to discuss the Sullavan not so very long ago. It political snurmo“n with Wilson. as this wedding that inspired a| Page remarked: “By the way, GOV- | .o to wire Heyward: “Congratu-| ernor, a man named House is work- lations on getting the other 90 per ing for you down in Texas. You cent,” when Miss Sullavan became ought to meet him. He has ideas.” ;. pride 'Wil]son thenhwrote Housg telling Now, please go on with your im how much he appreciated his ,r. Anq don't think I am trying B services and saying he would like 'y, Giscourage ambition. But, with to arrange a meeting with him. ;.6 9000 copyrights in mind, I They met for the first time in | oot e ) wouldn't spend my royalty checks Jjust now. Not till T got them any- way. \ Q olonel House’s room at the Hotel 20 sotham in New York and were friends from the moment they | shook hands. | “We talked and talked,” said GRANDDAUGHTER OF ‘ House. “We knew each other for| CONNORS SEEN IN congenial souls at the very begin- | Although he held no party post in the Wilson campaign, his pre-| One of the attractive little danc- fecting of the organization and ers to be seen in “Make a Wish,”| harmonizing of conflicting forces starring Bobby Breen at the Capitol | were rated a large factor in Wil- Theatre, is the eight year old grand-| |son's victory. Friends said he had |daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Con- | much to do with getting Bryan’s|hors, Jane Day Matthews. | support of Wilson at the Baltimore | Jane is the fourth dancer from convention. | the right in the song and dance In the fall of 1912, House closed €nsemble, and is a’student of the apartment in New York so he could be near when Wilson wished to| T'V an Empire ad. a slightly different type — what might be called a pre-family saga Theirs will concern the adventures of a young married couple, but the possibilities of a {uture “family cycle “are obvious. A “Quickie’ Start The Joneses, as a movie family, date from Christmas, 1935. On Christmas Eve the first one, called “Every Saturday Night,” was com-| pleted after 13 days’ shooting,— a genuine quickie, costing next to nothing. It was based on a little theatre play by Katherine Cavan-| augh, prolific playwright who \\'urk—; ed on this film and the next, then sold the characters for other movie| writers to work on. So far there have |been nine Jones adventures, with comparatively few changes in cast. Shirley Deane replaced June Lang as the daughter—when June step- ped up to the “A” class—and there have been additions such as Russell Gleason, son-in-law, and Marvin Stephens, adopted son. At last re- ports the players, through long asso- ciation, were actually beginning to develop a family resemblance. The screen’s “family tradition” dates back a long way to the first two-reelers of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew, but the Jonses sét off the present interest in movie family life. Substitutes, Too Those studios which haven’t in- augurated regular families have sub- stitutes of one kind or another. The “Gold Diggers” of Warner Bros. con- stitute a family of sorts, although the members have changed through the years. Paramount works off its family spirit on its annual “Big Broadcast” and “college” series—ev- ery year a “broadcast” and every year a collegiate musical like “Col- lege Swing.” The detective “families” are in a class by themselves. Charlie Chan, of course, is the real family man among sleuths. - COOKS MOVING TO COUNTRY Mr. and Mrs. Norman B. Cook | are moving to their summer place at | Point Louisa Beach tomorrow after| spending the winter in town. Mr.| Cook is associated with the Depart- ment of Education, WAKE UP YOUR LIVER BILE— WITHOUT CALOMEL And You'll Jump Out of Bed Feel- | ing You Could Push a Bus Over | | | The liver shouid pour out two pints of iquid bile into your bowels daily. If thiz bile | s not flowing freely your food doesn’t digest. t just decays in the bowel s bloats up iour stomach, You get constipated. Your vhole system is poisoned and you feel eour, | unk and the world looks punk, | Salts, fizzy drinks, palatable iaxatives and mrsh purgatives are makeshifts. A mere | sowel movement doesn’t get at the cause. It | akes the famous, sure acting Carter’s Lit Liver Pills to get those two pints of b owing freely and make you feel “up a Harmless, gentle, yet amazing in mak- i’ hanger — a frustrated, day-dreaming artist — who re- his home in Austin and took an | MUrTBehnol of Daneing. | e Pil Lok Tor e ‘paree Covter's on e red package. Price: 26¢. consult him. He chose New York, ' == he said, because the climate agreed | with him better than that of Wash- ington and he wished to keep out of the swirl of political intrigue in the capital, | The visits of the president-elect began to attract notice to House. Wilson often would disappear mys- teriously from the capitol at Tren- ‘mn and turn up again in the Pennsylvania station in New York bound for Colonel House’s apart- {ment at 115 East 53rd street. This |apartment became famous as the “American No. 10 Downing street.” ———————— TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: On Your HOME My wife, Irene Smith, having, against my wishes, left my bed and board during September, 1937, this | is to serve notice that from this date, March 28, 1938, I will not be respon- sible for any debts contracted by her. CHARLES A. SMITH, Eagle, Alaska ——p ings, T i adv, Try The Empire classifieds for WHEN d4d YOU Take Out Fire Insurance FURNISHINGS? Has your value at stake increased since then? Have you increased your fire insurance proportionately? It is too late, after a fire, to discover your insurance isn’t enough to cover your loss. Make certain of this important matter—NOW. We'll give you a House- hold Inventory Booklet to help you list and itemize your furnish- Come in, write or telephone for a free copy. SHATTUCK AGENCY PHONE 249 Office—New York Life i L COPROTECT HAVE © IN3, €O, N, & Miss Blanche Thorgerson, Eileen Kerin, Mrs. Jack Gould, Mrs. Marie Mead Nelson, Mrs. John McCormick and Mrs. Sigrid Dull. produces and approximately 1,000,000 accor- dians annually. | OO AL A O e GO RE AR results. o | | i Dillon Ober’s doubtful but be- fore he’s through Jack Haley (right) may pass for drummer . . at least, to the camera’s eye. Earl Dearth (right) is trying to convince Don Ameche that “Chopsticks” is something more than Chinese tableware. MANY ARE PRESENT | AT REBEKAH DANCE| MRS. HOLBROOK LEAVES Mrs. Wellman Holbrook, wife of the A: ant Regional Forester, left ‘tur Seattle aboard the Alaska to Close to 350 were in attendance|be With her husband who is con- at one of the featured events of |fined in the Marine Hospital with the year, Saturay night, when the @B injured arm. Rebekahs dance was held in the R Elks' ballroom. NOTICE TO MASONS Proceeds from the event are to| Regular meeting Monday eve- be added to funds for the con-|nDing, March 28 at 7:30. Work in struction of a boys' dormitory at|F. C. degree. the Odd Fellows Home in Walla Walla, Wash,, where a number of Alaskans are now being cared for. As a special event of the evening, Mrs. Nadja Vestal conducted the Rebekah drill team in marching. Taking part in the exercises were Mrs, John Halm, Miss Etta Mae | Kolasa, Miss Mary Kolasa, Mrs.| Jerry Waite, Mrs. Elsie Blythe, Mrs. | Wilson Foster, Miss Esther Davis, | Miss Anita Porter, Mrs. John Olson, | Miss Ted Loughlin, J. W. LEIVERS. Secretary COLISEU OWNED AND OPERATED 5y Wi GROS adv. Juneau’s Greatest Show Value LAST TIMES TONIGHT Marion Davies Robert Montgemery—in “EVER SINCE EVE” with Patsy Kelly—Allen Jenkins TUESDAY ONLY Back by Request Sonja Henie in “ONE IN A MILLION” Mrs. PR RS RSE One musical firm in Germany 20,000,000 mouth organs