The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 12, 1938, Page 3

- - The year’s big fun and LAST TIMES TONIGHT music show JOE PENNER - GENE RAYMOND PARKYAKARKUS - VICTOR MOORE Six New Songs and All New Laughs! Directed by William A. Seiter » Produced by Edward Kaufman and “20 MINUTES IN AN NEWS OF THE sk DREVIEW Simone Simon OLD NICKELODEON” DAY—It's Timely /'s Heroes the War aturda “I Cover Sandra Martiy Held in Los Angeles jail on charge of having embezzled $16,000 from the bank account of Simone Simon, the Freneh actress, while the latter was in Europe, Sandra Martin, her secretary, emphatically proclaimed her innocence and declared there would be “plenty of fireworks before this thing is over.” Mis. Cross Here - On Rgt_um North Will Fly to Deering by Way | of Northern Cross Airways Mrs. John N. Cross, who has been south for the last six weeks, w | Magids will return north early in | June. | Littie Patricia, small daughter of Mrs. Cross, remained in Seattle at Holy Names Academy. gty o ! MINE FIRM INCORPORATES The Alaska - Pacific Consolidated Mining Company of Washington | State today filed articles of incor- | poration with the Territorial Aud- |itor. Alaska headquarters is given |as Amchorage with Clyde Ellis as resident agent.” Capital is listed at MUSICAL HIT ENDS TODAY AT CAPITOL *Life of this Party” s6d OM Time Melodrama Are Showing Weaving their way through the dizzy complications of a high-speed romantic plot, eight screen favorites ccmbine their talents for love-mak- ing and laughter in the ‘apitol Th-atre’'s new musicomedy, “The Life of the Party.” Gene Raymond and Harriet Hill- iard share the romantic honors as a young heir to a fortune and a strug- gling singer. Joe Penner is a ro- mantic interloper, Helen Broderick is Harriet’s manager, Victor Moore is Raymond’s guardian hired to keep him out of feminine entaglements Parkykarkus is a nitwit hotel de- tective, Billy Gilbert is a temper- mental orchestra leader and Frank. lin Pangborn is his agent. Before this octette gets its affairs straightened out, tuneful hilarity results, forming one of the most entertaining films of the year. Six melodic hits background as many vocal and dance presentations by Miss Hilliard, Raymond, a beaut- eous chorus line and Ann Miller, whirlwind dancer who scored ‘in “New Faces of 1837.” William A Seiter directed this RKO Radio Pic- ture. Also showing for the last time will be a motion picture feature of the silent day era, showing many former screen favorites. e GIVE REPORT ~ ONLANDING OF HALIBUT The records of the International Fisheries Commission show that for the period from April 1 to April 30, 1938, the following amounts of hali- but have been landed in the various ports on the Pacific Coast: Area 2 Area 3 U. 5. Fleet 2,538,337 2,869,962 Canadian Fleet ...1,845655 5 ‘Total 4,383,992 2,946,897 These figures have been correct- ‘cd to date but are subject to furth- er correction. For the corresponding period in 1937, April 1 to April 30, the fol- lowing landings - were recorded: Arca 2 Area 3 U. S. Fleet 2,067,763 2,914,281 Caandian Fleet ...1,419,754 32,845 | Total 3,487,517 2,947,126 It should be noted that in 1937 the halibut fishing season began on March 16 instead of April 1 as in 1938. For the period March 16 to April 30, 1937, the following amounts of halibut were landed: | Area 2 Area 3 | 3,416,239 4,166,275 2,339,199 100,837 1U. S. Fleet Canadian Fleet Total 5,755,438 4,267,112 Acknowledgment is made of the assistance by the Department of | | Fisheries, Canada, United States Bureau of Fisheries, and the Can-| |adian and United States Customs in the compilation of these totals. DeMolay Officers [Mitzi 10 years ago o s THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1938. Juveniles ICoogzm Trial Recalls Fate of Other - Jackie Coogan, who skyrocketed to teamed with Charlie Chaplin in “The Kid", is not alone in his financial and career difficulties view of moviedom's annals reveals youngsters whose names were in lights a decade ago but who have slipped from MOVIE RACKET ' esemb) ! ed even n ying to § Garbo came back When Valentino quarreled with § ed a young fellow named Jacob Krantz, rechristened him Ricard sy 3 Cortez, and started a it lover Personalities, for Ace in build-up. Valentino didn't com v back but Cortez was laur d on HOle# AIC‘(J(‘,II(‘IEI“)/ a long and profitable career Under Contract Over George Rraft's rebelliou b head was hung the threat of Jack By ROBBIN COONS LaRue, but not very effectively from . the studio point of view. LaRue paly- HOLLYWOOD, May 12.—You can'ed an occasional Raft role, but Raf see Freddie Bartholomew WOrking _when he came back—aly %7 on the Metro lot agaiz, bul you ask what he wanted about Ronald Sinclair and peopic Beery Threat Used out there look a littie vague Julie Haydon is havir “He isn’'t with us any ,” they fame when he | Mary Kornman Barry, “Spanky a dozen other the rule the top since la Birc a6 on Broadway now, afier WO Ronald’s the lad who was sup- Used her badly. Julie was elaled posed to take Freddie's place in pic-|0D¢ day whe n) BSD s e tures when &reddie’s Aunt, Myllicent Put next fl;l.v she knew lw”wr“ took him out in strike. Ronald, sing- | 11T ianoe. fo. Ang ol ularly like Freddie in appearance|'hen being in one of her studio battles. Julie caused dismay and manner, made one picture called “Thoroughbreds Don’t Cry” And then Freddie came back. by refusing to play ace —and bobbing her in the hole hair It's that same old movie game K One of the most amusing sto: they've been playing since the days of the sort centered around George when producers woke up to find Bancroft's refusal to play in “Th that their anonymous screen playe Wolf of Wall Street” several ye had been made into “stars” by 8go. Then a big star, Bancroft nickelodeon fans. And they're still tired to his Santa Monica while Paramount f fumed. and playing it no less craftily, no more subtly. § When Gladys Smith Became Mary Pickford and started mooning, in her practical way, abon‘ the huge fortune she should ta tures, somebody discc Miles Minter, whose curls were just ubsequently sche Result of the scheming was that Bancroft one afternoon, reading his paper, saw that Wallace-Beery, then under Paramount contract, would others are among those whos Mitzi Green and Madge Evans are the exception to Both won fame as young: have gone on to achieve added laur: > Webster, s |$30,000 and officers are C. L. Har-y in Juneau today while the Aleu- rison, President; George H. Thom- tian was in port. | as, Vice-President, and W. W. Stoll, On her way back to Deering, Mrs. | Secretary. Cross will be met in Cordova by | e, her husband, Capt. John Cross, of | FULLERS VISIT HERE the Northern Cross Airways, and| Mr. and Mrs. George Fuller of will fly to her home by way of Portland, Oregon, arrived in Juneau Fairbanks and Nome. Boris Magids, brother-in-law of Mrs. “Cross, who went south with her, remained in Seattle on busi- ness in connection with Magids Brothers, operators of trading posts at Deering, Candle, Keewalik, Ki- ana, Kobuk, Selawik and Shishmar- eff, Kotzebue Sound Lighterage Company, Northern Cross Airways and other businesses in Alaska. Mr. |aboard the steamer Aleutian, and Are Chosen Last ~ Night at Meeting Charles Jenne Is Again to | are visiting their brother and sister- |in-law, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Smith. | Mrs. Fuller will be the house |guest of Mr. and Mrs. Smith for the remainder of the summer, A meeting of the Order of De- while Mr. Fuller is in Fairbanks, Molays was held last night in the where he is connected with the Scottish Rite Temple, for the pur- Fairbanks Exploration Company. pose of electing officers for the ST o e AR ensuing term. Today’s News Today.—Empire. The following officers were el- Head Group for An- other Term Buy A FEW PACKAGES ected, and others appointed: Charles Jenne, Master Councilor, re-elected; Forrest Bates Senior Councilor; El- win Messer, Junior Councilor; Peter Warner, Senior Deason; Shelby Tucker, Junior Deason; Frank Par- sons, Senior Steward; Bud Lowell, Junior Steward; Herman Porter, Scribe; Charles Tubbs, Treasurer; Harry Watkins, Marshal; Don Wil- cox, Chaplain; Claud Helegeson, Standard Bearer; Alfred Zenger, Almoner, and Claude Hirst, Sen- tinel. A joint installation with the Rain- bow Girls was decided upon, and will be held Saturday evening in | the Scottish Rite Temple. AR SRR SR BECOME CITIZENS | Prans Joel Fors, native of Fin- land, Benjamin Abraham Prissar- eff, native of Russia, and Edel |Karenelia, native of Norway, were |admitted to United States citizen- |ship at a naturalization hearing in ‘Pbdenl District Court yesterday. All are residents of Juneau. ——— i Try The Emplre classifieds for ‘reaulv.s. x Topay as nice as Gladys Smith’s. went on and got her millicns, and in this case Mary Miies | caught on with the public too. But it doesn't always work that Every studio likes to personality it can promote as in the hole or a bluffing Mary play the Bancroft role ext morn- ing George was at the studio—and Gladys “The Wolf of Wall Street” was one of his most successful films. But Minter what he didn’t know was that Par- amount made the Bec ment for his benefit way. Ang croft in the picture! an ace| War dampens the ego of t threat|lar species. It does terrible in the movie poker game. It’s sup-|to fan mail. posed to help keep stars in line. Garbo Returned When Metro wasn't sure of Gar-g § Jackie Coogan’s China has practically ing pen in hand en isn’t often the first tl Mother probs B have un-|intended to put anybody but der contract, at the proper time, a he y announce- 1ever Ban- Breaks Down in Court Jane and Katherine Lee, Wesley McFarland, Jackie earl and tars have dimmed sters and both s as adults MEETING OF REBEKAHS LAST NIGHT Mother’s Day Program Is Presented as S[)t‘cial Feature of l:lvcning Six members were initiated into the Rebekahs last cvening at a| meeting held in the Odd Fellows Ha Among the initiates were| the wives of the Noble G and Grand of the I F. in this city. wort Mother’s Day program was presented, at which time six members of the drill team spelled out the word “Mothe Mrs. Betty McCormick, Noble Grand; Miss Mary Kolasa, Vice Grand, and Mrs. Evelyn Hollmann, Acting Past Noble Grand, presented three members of the lodge with Martha Washington Geraniums, the first flower ever presented to a mother before the carnation was adopted as the Mother’s Day flower Mrs. Charles Carter, Mrs. Anna and Mrs. Pearl Burfor were the three mothers who were honored, each having been a mem- ber of the Rebekah Lodge for more than thirty years. Mrs. Evelyn Hollmann then sang, “Mother Machree,’ followed by @ poem entitled, “The Good I Know About You,” which was given by Mrs. McCormick. Plans for a food sale to be given May 28 were also discussed at last night's meeting. Questioned whether he was in- vesting one million sterling in Brit- ish film industry Sam Goldwyn, ;. American movie magnate, said smil- ing: “Silence is Goldwyn.” grab when a bomb drops. Spain isn't writing either. When Mrs, Lillian Coogan Bernstein, mother of Jackle Coogan, testified in court at Los Angeles relative to the former child star's suit to recover Mrs. Bernstein on witness stand part of his film fortune, she broke down and wept after testifying that Jackie had been a “very, very bad 20-year-old boy.” Juneau's Greatest Show Value LAST TIMES TONIGHT { 3 \ § \ \ ) Tonight is the BIG NIGHT . BASIL'RATHBONE ALG,CRISP + MARY. MACU|0% Yibhsnio. i goeet “Clear the courtroorm. Wi The public must W 2 e, . ko haseedi? 2 ol FOR ADDED ENJOYMENT—— Short Subjects of Merit MISSIONARY WORK LED BY MRS. GLICK elected KAY FRANCIS - IS FEATURED - ATCOLISEUM | | | | | | ona | “Confession” to End Ju- Interne 1| Society Elects | neau Engagement fficers at Meceting gag L I This Evening Yesterday | Kay Francis' giuv as a portrayer, Mrs. J. E. Click was electea Presi- |of highly emotional scenes will be dent, at a meeting yestreday after- .x!hpmm to audiences at the C noon of the International Mission- | cum Theatre tonight when ary Society, which was held in the pears in her newest starrin lors of Trinity Cathedral. 1 he Warner Bros. drama Other officers chosen are: Mra, |sion,” ending its Juneau efigage- R. B. Lesher, Vice-President; Mrs, | ment this evening L. Rice, Secretary; Mrs. Alfred | aid to be the most power- Zenger Mrs. Peter Os- in which the dark beauty wald, Lib; has played during her nine-year The society plans to meet the | career 1 picture actress, outr Good-Will boat the last week in |ing even her unforgetts One July. The Rev. David Waggoner | Way Passage,” and her recent tri- will join the party of tourists in umph in “White Angel.” Seattle and will conduct the tour Confession” was adapted from to Alaska. Upon arriving in Juneau the famous Continental stage play each tourist will be presented wita |“Mazurka.” It has to do with a an Alaskan souvenir by members once-great opera singer, now re- of the society in this city. duced to cabaret jobs, who learns Mrs. Jake Cropley read an inter- that the man who had betrayed esting article yesterday about the | her, years previously, now has the missionary work in South America same sort of designs upon her of which Robert Waggoner, former- young daughter. ly of Juneau, is in charge. A maga- When she sees the two of them zine report was given by Mrs. Peter together in the cabaret, she kills Oswald, followed by a devotional him and, at the end of a vivid and talk by Mrs. J. E. Click. | suspenseful is acquitted on the RS e = grounds of justification. All the ac- DIVORCES GRANTED tion is laid in W v end in the a0 picturesque s eproducing tha ancient Polis - & VIKING CLUB TO MEET Divorces were granted in Fed- eral Cowrt yesterday to Eva Gold- smith Waugh from Elmer Waugh of Juneau on grounds of non-sup- port and to Charles J. Davis of Juneau from Mildred E. Davis on grounds of desertion. Glenn Cunningham, University of Kansas world's fastest miler, gen- erally gets 11 hours of sleep a night. A meeting of the Viking Club will be held Saturday evening at |8 o'clock at the Odd Fellows’ Hall. | Games will be played and refresh- ments served All members are urged to attend. “There’s none better than the best”. . . 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