The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 19, 1938, Page 3

e atande THE RAINBOW G IRLS OF JUNEAU BACK FROM ALASKA WITH A MILLION IN GOLD It's of his dreams a as gold-digger, too! Funny Fast, flippant comedy in a 3-way romance und withanew twistevery minute and a new Has laugh for every turn! as R KO RADIO Picture (rrrrrrrrr e ! — SHORTS — ! WHEN THE WEST WAS YOUNG —_BARS AND STRIPES _LATEST NEWS SWING FEVER- Library Extens Benefits Thousands in Rural Areas COLPMBUS, O., April 19—Fa- mous characters of .fiction, Robin- son, Crusoe, Tom Sawyer, Rip Van Winkle, Hans Brinker, Robin Hood, King Arthur and his Knights of the ‘Reund Table, Sherlock Holmes and scores of others, are making their debut in thousands of rural Ohio ‘homes. The children and adults in these homes, tucked away in hamlets and *villages where no libraries are available, for the first time are be- coming acquainted with these story- book personalities through the work of the WPA library extension proj- ect. Using the Federal government’s grants of $800,000 for the wages of the WPA assistants and $15,000 for new books, Ohio libraries have adopted the policy of taking the books to the reader instead of wait-'“library service ing for the reader to come to the library. ! Branch libraries, supervised t_;y' attendants, have been established | ‘by county libraries in schools, pri- vate homes, storerooms, tool sheds and, in one instance, in a chicken coop. %! Bookmobiles, which are special- ly-designed trucks or busses, are used by other libraries to distribute all type of books, fiction and non- fiction. These libraries-on-wheels tof which 16 are operating in Ohio, maintain a regular schedule of visiés to small towns, schools and hospitals. Trained library assist- ants accompany the bookmobiles to | assist readers in choosing books and | to check them in and out. i _sponsor of the project, hopes |have workers in every county ————PRESENT d the girl | | | e, ioM Rlskan! —She Was a Gold Digger, Too! BUT— Didn't See Any of It's Color in This e ) MIDNIGHT PREVIEW Clark Gable—William Powell Myrna Loy in “MANHATTAN MELODRAMA” IEESSESSRS PSR S U | To supply reading material in‘ other out-of-the-way places in the | State the deposit station method is employed. = Automobile couriers in Adams County, where the system is used, make regular trips to 73 one-room schools, 140 homes and 16 other centers in public buildings, stores and gasoline stations where a public official, school teacher or gasoline station attendant take| charge of the lending of books. | The couriers take 30 or 40 books on each trip to each center and | exchange them for a like number which have been read. 1 With an increase to 1000 WPA | workers on the library project due| within & few months, Paul A. T.! Noon, director of the State Library, to ini of in the State to attain his goal for everyone Ohio.” “The assistance of these WPA workers which makes possible the operations of these bookmobiles, branch libraries and deposit sta- tions,” Noon declares, “is the big- gest boon fo library service in the hitsory of the State. { “Many Ohio communities which |never had libraries before are now sold on the library idea and when better times return they will vote local tax money to support a li- brary,” he predicted. There are 1,600,000 people in Ohio who have no library within reach of their homes, Noon said, although the State leads the nation in library activity. —_———e — Empire classifieds pay. NORLITEMEN DINNER SET FOR HAY 380 Will Be Annual Ladies’| Event—Seating Ar- rangements The Norlitemen Dinner has been postponed for two weeks until May 3 because of the conflicting date of the Martha Society Dinner which is planned for April 29. The Norlitemen Dinner on May 3 will be combined with the annual ladies’ night. Men making reserva- tions are to be asked to give the month of their birth as the seating arrangement will be grouped ac- cording to those whose birthdays fall in the same month. H. L. Faulkner will be chairman of the dinner committee. Dies for Murder In $363 Robbery CHICAGO, Tl April 19—J. 8. Scott, burly 22-year-old negro, died THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE CAPITOL SHOW SPONSORED BY RAINBOW GIRLS Comedy with Fine Cast at Capitol Is Offered by . Local Girls" Club Sponsored by the Rainbow.Girls, “There Goes the Groom,” an ingen- ious comedy with an excellent cast will be shown at the Capitol The- atre tonight only. San Francisco with = its new bridges, Golden Gate and colorful | waterfront, is the locale of most of the action in “There Goes the Groom,” new romantic comedy from RKO Radio. The picture, which stars Ann Sothern, Burgess Meredith and Mary " Boland and includes such sterling performers as Onslow Stev- ens, Louise Henry and Roger Tmhof in support, is presented as a laugh riot. The story starts with Meredith and Imhof sailing into the harbor on a pleasure yacht, and the new bay bridges are seen prominently in the foreground. Through the story comedy treatment of well as a romance. “There Goes the Groom” was di- rected by Joseph Santley and pro- duced for RKO Radio by Albert Lewis. A news reel and short features complete the program. A 9 Month of May Has Eleven Weeks There are eleven weeks in May, al least. And in the first week in May, there are four weeks, no less. Lets list them and prove it. First week in May (among the four weeks in the first seven days) is National Baby Week, figure that one out yourself. Next week (in the first week) is National Foot Health Week, (do lots of walking). Third of the four weeks from May 1 to May 7Tth, is National Music Week, (everybody sing), and fourth week in the first week is National Week—that week is just for ambitious chickens. But -there are still seven weeks left in May. National Restaurant Week runs from May 2 to May 8— we suppose everybody eats out—and then May 7 to May 14 there is Na- | tional Golf Week—that’s a honey, “everybody go golfing.” May 9 to May 14 sounds teresting. That's National Hard Week. For May 15 to May 21, save all your old cuts and bruises, for that is National First Aid Week. That same week should be not only National Week, but should be national holiday as well, for that is also National Ice Cream Week. May 20 to June 5 are National Cotton Weeks, (girls can wear cot- ton hose and say they're celebrat- ing, not economizing.) | May 22 to May 29 is the last week in May, the eleventh week, and it is nothing less than National Poetry Week—but the chances are that after all the weeks of celebration | before, everyone is going to be too weak to write poetry that week. B NOTICE Meeting of Women of the Moose, Wednesday, 8 p.n., Odd Fellows Hall. | GERTIE OLSEN, adv. Recorder there is a amnesia as REVIEW BOARD 'ALL LAUGHLINS, OF BOY SCOUTS ONE EXCEPTION, TUESDAY, APRIL-19; 1938.- FOR A HULA HOMEC Crabbe, swim star and movie actor who spent his early years on| the Pacific isles, Orchestra Leader Lani McIntire (right) and Moni Kai, in the grass skirt, met in New York’s Lexington hotel. Both| Mclntire and Moni Kai are natives of Hawail. , HOLDS MEETING Applications for Ment Badges Approved— Members Raised Meeting in regular session at Ju- neau High School, the Boy Scout Board of Review last night approved the applications of two scouts for merit badges and raised three other scouts to the rank of second class scout The board refused to pass on two applicants for first class nk, pend- ing the appointment of qualified ex- aminers for certain individual tes as specified in official regulatior The tests for which examiners arc required include judging, signaling, first aid and map-making. Two applicants for second rank were ordered to report later this month for further examination Those scouts who were successful last night include Geng Rhode, camping merit badge. . Lee Lucas, American Legion troop, reading merit badge. Second class rank: Dean Allen (Norlite), Lew Williams (Legion), James Johnson (Norlite). A Court of Honor will be held early in May. The request for ex-| aminers will be placed before th® district committee at its meeting April 27. Present at the Board of Review were A. B. Phillips, chairman; Rev.| O. L. Kendall, J. A. Paradis, K. R. Ferguson, Sherwood Wirt, David Wood, Jr., and Henry Harmon. e Japanese are building a new celluloid factory in Tientsin, North China, which will use native Chin- ese cotton as raw materiai. class ‘;VPenner A By ROBBIN COONS HOLLYWOOD, April 18. — That | haystacked needle is no harder to | find than a bad word for Joe Pen- |ner . . . Penner, once a poor boy himself, has all he needs, with an- nuities and such, to last him a long while and he's using his money now to enjoy himself. . . . | Like this: he hears of a chil- dren’s hospital that needs an iron lung to fight an infantile paralysis | epidemic, so he buys one for $18,000, all on the.quiet, and gets it there. . .. Then he know some guys who need a job of work and he sends them on the road to give shows for kids and collect pennies to help support the “lung.” . . . One place it cost Joe $305 to send his show and the collection was 93 cents—and the 93 cents went into the fund. . . . He has a Hungarian orchestra on |his payroll, too, and it earns its |keep by playing for Joe once in a while. . . . Oldtimers who were big names when Joe was a strug- gling youngster hold his admira- tion—they're still “names” to him and when he can help, he does. . . . But chiselers-by-correspondence might as well save their stamps. . . . Because Joe has to know whom he’s helping, and he’s nobody’s fool. Nice Titles Joan Crawford’s next film, “Fi- delity,” is taken from a yarn titled “Infidelity.” . . . And “Joy of Liv- |ing,” you know, began it career |as “Joy of Loving.” . . . Both show- | i | come. musicals way out! A while back when all the stu- dios were building up their con- tract lists the free-lancers were doleful because most of the movie Jobs went to people already on the payroll. . The studios now have done something about it—by in- creasing the number of free-lan- cers to meet the “recession.” . . Samples: Paramount’s list of 130 players is now 107. . . . RKO’s 83 is a thin 36 now. | Barbara O'Neil has a dog named Snoook—with three o's, but for no special reason. . . . Frank Capra personally presided over Gloria Blondell's screen test at Columbia. | Lane’s McShain | The net picture Ray Bolger will be cut from—if his past luck holds ~—is “Snug Harbor.” Mrs. Jack Oakie (Vanita Varden) has gained 6 of the 15 pounds she needs to win a test for the role of Miss S. O'H— . . . There's nobody less like the tough characters she plays than Claire Trevor off-screen. . . . | Richard Lane’s wrestler, Danny| McShain, is the only one of his dozen-odd financial ventures the aetor didn’t seek. . . . Lane saw (they say) are on the, |Dapny at a match in Texas, ad- vised him to get a manager. . . . Danny started writing the actor for advice, finally sent him a con- tract. . . . Lane’s been collecting | — 15 percent — but only since Dan- ing how nice Hollywood has be-| . Joan's spending her| heavyweight division. . . . And Dan- ny became “champion” in his light- during the night in the electric| pre-picture time singing, and they|ny (take Lane's, word for it, not |chair for the murder of a gypsy say the voice is worth hearing, mine) reads the Greek philosophers 'woman in a $363 robbery. th]ch is good to know just as for diversion! . children. Nights, be a white-haired old man.” ¥ | who had been Iso a Ducky Guy ‘ In Role, Good Samaritan s “EASY LIVING” IS AT COLISEUM | § AEA!N IGNIGHT § Last TimesvToniqht | ;\" VUNEAU S OWNED AND _ODERATEI W 6ROS - Juneau's Greatest Show Value Last Showings of Picture with Jean Arthur, Ed- ward Arnold, Milland Easy Living,” a smart, slightly bantering “sophisticated” comedy, A i last showings at the Coliseum Theatre tonight Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold and Ray Milland are in the leading 1 is play written by Preston its settings are h t & nice pace for a ich high praise is due : ‘\'“:‘]“""] ;j‘l»‘.h:;l. and the direc- OUR SHORT FEATURES The stc concerns a stenogra "Pf"'""" Bagtime Story™ pher, played by Miss Arhiur, who “I¢s a Living"—All Color suddenly and unexpectediy s a Late Movietone News sable coat valued at $50,000 "and !l . oo FUITAE St then has to live up to it. Like the man in Mark Twain's story STARTING TOMORROW who found he didn't have to have “FORGOTTEN FAC any money as long as he had a ; check for a million pound: B [ e Arthur finds the town wide open The sound made when a Hawai- to her jan player accidentally dropped a S Completing the screen program 1 1 comb on the strings of & anish guisdr suggested the type instrument now known as the ” are short features and a news reel OMING vrarry “‘Buster of LSRN W AN The United States s the largest| Hawaiisn guitar, socording W importer of toys manufactured in M. H. Berlin, Chicago musical sup- Japan. British India is the second PIY_ Wholesaler who made a trip st purchaser of Japanese toys. ' '“"“0“”" to look into the sub- jec ATTEND SGHOOL BATON ROUGE, La., April 19.— Mrs. Albert Laughlin doesn’t go to school — somebody has to stay at home, cook and keep things in order, And she has plenty to do. Etta | Marie and Helen Louise, her| daughters; Glynn Albert, her son, and Albert, Sr., her husband, all| g0 to school Laughlin, Sr., dropped out of the cighth grade about 20 years ago.| Now, at 37, he has “repented that foolishness.” He picks up his lunch basket and trudges off to grammar school every day with his three | he works for a power company. | Laughlin doesn’t mind that most | of his classmates in the ninth grade answer roll call in a mixture of treble and bass. The children don't mind either. | “I probably know more about these kids’ troubles than Mr. Sum- mers, the principal,” says Laughlin. And Guy Summer: ays his oldest | pupil is more of a teacher than a student. “He takes the children to athletic | contests,” the principal explains. “Besid he’s a good physical in- structor.” Laughlin sits behind Etta Mari 16, his oldest daughter, wh straight “A” average makes her a | strong candidate for class valedic- torian. Laughlin is “B” student. His other children are in lower grades. He plans to enroll in the Istrou-‘ ma high school next fall and after | that, perhaps Louisiana State Uni- | versity, “By that time,” he says, “I may PLEATS ARE SMART Pleats are playing a big role spring’s favorite navy blue, is fa a skirt which falls softly in unpressed pleats. It is piped in white pique to match the saucy double-brimmed hat and gloves. Notice the unusual arrangement of the veil. i e hundred Four Basque children | sheltered in Eng- land for the past nine months re- turned to their homes in Bilbao recently. | “Nothing_ Funny” about washing clothes for even four people by the old washing board method. General @ Electric WASHING MACHINES Built at a reasonable price for the average family. With only a small $5.00 payment a month to meet no ruother should be expected to wash by hand. TWELVE $5.00 PAYMENTS WILLBUY A | ; GENERAL ELECTRIC 5 Alaska Electric Light & Power Co. * JUNEAU—ALASKA—DQOUGLAS &