The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 26, 1938, Page 3

| | (w ».«A THE WORLD KNEW HER %, ONLY AS "MADAME X~ Why had she been exiled from society. . . and why, years later, had she refused to speak when a single word might have saved her? A heari-stabbing drama . ..and an acting triumph! with soun BEAL WARREN 'WILLIAM Reginald OWEN - William RENRY . A Sam Wood Production Times ~wsmmman/) Tohight [P [~ ¥ Last THEATRE Show Place of Juneau Tax Problems of Nation Put in Nutshell or Two FLEECED OUT OF THEIR WOOLENS at spring shearing on crowd pen (right), await branding with cold red paint. In center, mer GLADYS GEORGE STARS IN FILM ENDING TONIGHT | “Madame” at Capxlol The- By PRESTON GROVER 1000,000,000, or 10 percent of na- WASHINGTON, May 26. — One tional income. thing the country can look forward Immediate future estimated by to, come good times, is the prospect| President—National income $80.- | indicated in Treasury figures that| 000,000,000, tax $7,000,000,000, or Federal taxes will take seven to 8.75 percent of national income. ten percent of the national incomie| Later future — National income ing%ead of the five or six percent $100.000,000,000, tax $7,000,000,000 | taken out in 1929. President .Roosevelt once esti- mated that future Federal budgets would stay fairly close to the $7,- 000,000,000 level, although they rapidly—or 7 percent, or more, of national income. Not since 1930 has debt been cut down. the national or more if the debt is to be cut down | atre—Warren William Is Also Starred The screen demonstrates forcibly again that it can add new 'm Have been going above that in re-| For 1938 estimated expenditures lo the old beauty of the theatre. cent years. He forecast that, bar-|are about $8,000,000,000, which is 13| The time-honored stage hit, “Ma- ring the unforeseen, the nationalipercent of the estimated naticnal|dame X.” by Alexandre Bisson, has income also wowd climb to $80,- income. No debt retivement is in-| been adapted by Metro-Goldwyn- 000,000,000 in a year or two and cluded. Mayer with Gladys George in the ultimately to something around s g title role and proves heart-stab- $100,000,000,000. At present the ST . : bing entertainment level is around $60,000,000.000. it A This is the picture which came to Moreover,’ in the years before| Already tax levels have been hiked | the Capitol Thealre yesterday to the crash the five or six perceni|well over the leveis prevailing in the | enthrall a capacity audience. It is of Federal taxes piled up enough|prosperous '20’s. In the years 1925 on for final showing tonight. to knock the public debt down o 1929 the surtax ranged upward| The remembered story of the nearly a billion a year between to about 20 percent. At present the Woman who was drawn by circum- DIAMOND SNAIL pin and huge wrist bangles added 1919 ‘and 1929, reducing it all toid| from a top of about $26,000,000,000 when the war ended to $16,000- 000,000 when prosperity ended top surtax bracket is 75 percent Corporation taxes in those averaged around 12 percent and now average about 16 percent, Treasury sources estimate. The administration’s that without greatly the rate of taxation enough money will come in from rising national income—when it begins to rise—to accomplish the double purpose of balancing the regular budget and leaving enough over to begin cut- NOW FOR COMPARISONS These are box-car figures, bewil- dering when taken in the mass, but less so when broken down. Note these for comparison tween what was, is and may be: In 1929—National income $80 - 000,000,000, tax $4,000,000,000, or five percent of national income. outlook is increasing be- 1932—National income $39,500,- As the national income rises, 000,000, tax $2,000,000,000, or five'the President forecasts that the percent of national income. sent outgo for relief and re- 1936—National income $64,000,- ery will shrink a billion or so 000,000, tax $4,100,000,000, or 64 annually as the tax income rises a billion or so annually. 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She characte: tion a wealth of artistry and delicate understanding | John Beal is the son and Warren | william plays the part of Fleuriot the husband. T e accomplished actors who contribute precisely right qualities to their characteriza- | tions. The supporting cast is | good, including Reginald Owen, Wil- the screen on | liam Henry, Henry Daniell, Phillip | Reed, Lynne Carver and Emma Dunn. DOLORES SMITH WILL ENTERTAIN Dolores Smith, daughter cf |Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Smith, will en tertain a few of her friends at an | informal gathering at 8 o'clock to | morrow evening at her home on the Glacier Highway. Refreshments will be s |ing the course of the ev | about twenty-two guests have been |invited to attend the affair. | L S | DOGS BEING TATTOOED CONNERSVILLE, Ind. — Whole- | sale thefts of valuable dogs in this area have led to use of tatooing as 2 means of identification of the can- | ines. rved dur- ning, and g Afghanistan, with compulsory military service, has an army of | about 100,000. adation brings to the the notably ‘lnmnr to Gloria Swanson, at the Waidorf with Donald Leith, s been ve- gains a in the The producers have also into in the kind of acting Hollywood isn ADVENTURE The new boy, G 1 was taken to 1¢ ladies’ hearts for his looks in the acting depariment Geox s is the nd-out, with Dav iven uncommoenly good in \,rl\l of ser nd comic charact erization More Melodrama “Four Men 2t % Prayer”| “siolen Heaven" is unusual in combination of classical in Limelight—Other o ,000-acre Lazy J ranch near Mason City, Tex., sheep te clippers; left, man stomps wool into bag. "1 COLISEU JOPERATED 3/ Juncaw's Greatest Show Value TONIGHT IS THE BIG NIGHT! FOR Anl)l"l) NJOY\H‘.N 'y in “The Mechanical Cow” Latest Paramount News “Oh, yes, 1 see them. There ar lots of them. But you know what?” “What?" think thing up.” we ought to split this you mean, Bucky?"” id Bucky, “I'll do you do the counting.” the looking TROPICAL FILM ENDS TONIGHT AT COLISEUM ‘Which reminds me of the youngster only about three, who became con- fused with shooting robbers and at- tending Sunday school. (Stop me if I've written this before. But it actu- ally happened, a1 s one good kid tory deserves a h y: | goe: He was the youngest of half a Monla and Warren Hull dozen youngsters who carried Cn~stal‘ in F,lm 0 tomatics and played G-men all day 3 . long. They spent their mornings South Seas hooting gangsters and their after-| noons shooting Indians. . ) And tagging at their heels wa ot B e o 4 the | this 3-year-old tot. Came Sunday South Seas; the lvllic ives of i and his mother carried him to Su- tween a mative gl mad o white day school, where he heard all so a nafive girl and a White | "¢, oinating tales from the n man played amid the thrills of a o ASEPE primitive Eden—all these elements ~ "] S dlans ‘on: the: Pwi Tascines are woven into an exciting and S0 N SIPU OR by + tions of gangsters and thrilling entertainment i “Para- 3 hearing pl about the dise TIsle,” Monogram's love drama : Divine Father of the tropics, now showing at the "W Coliseurri THaats Early next morning his dad came Tt 1t a gripping pleture of an|dOWD for breakfast to find his son unusual sc the romantic love already at the table. By his oatmeal story of a simple Samoan girl and|13Y @ toy pistol. Still enthus about the combination of pleas a blind shipwrecked artist who she | nurses back:to health; of her cour- < Eagh Rl W.1 .GROSS Last Times Tonight «« WILLIAM DAVIDSON JOHN ST. POLIS « GEORGE PILTZ things stirring his imagination, the lad grasped his pistol, fired a couple of “shots” into the air, and cried, “Boom! Boom! God’s dead!” His dad hasn't recovered yet. Billy Swanson, the young orches- tra tro playing at th La mad bankroll as a law} befoer he started swinging a baton. Co Sam Goldwyn’s decision to rush prdouction on a picture dramatiz- ing the exiling of the Jews from Germany is causing plenty of spec= ulation among Manhattan movie tycoons, >-oo—— THE BOOK OF ALASKA WILD FLOWERS By ADA WHITE SHARPLES Residents and visitors to Alaska have had the same experience of seeing whole fields of wild flowers with no book or guide to aid in iden- | tifying them. With more than one hundred and fifty photographs, the book is a thing of beauty as well as a prac- tical guide. The book is also a clever solution of the gift problem; what to give that is useful, beautiful, lasting and economical, For sale at the NUGGET SHOP. adv. in defying a native “tabu” to 50 pearl diving to money for his operation; his of white man’s civilization return to the exotic wc he Movita age aise ifice 0 loves. glorious Mutiny on the Bounty” “| native girl and gives a performance 14 the heroine of plays the that many a Hollywood star could ftudy for the delicate shading of her expressive acting. Warren Hull is the stalwart American who found ove and understanding from the gamoan girl, and outstanding per- formance: re delivered by William 1Is sensible... TO START WITH TO STICK WITH TO ASK FOR 3 with a fast cops-and-robbers melo- | Davidson, George Piltz and John New Productions drama, Gene Raymond and Olympe | St. Polis s Brandna play the jewel thieves who,| Monogram sent a camera crew By ROBBIN COONS making their escape from pursuing |t Samoa under the supervision of HOLLYWOOD, Cal, May 26.— police, seek refuge in a woodland Mrs. Wallace Reid where they “Four Men and Prayer” is a globe- home wWhich turns out to be the $Pent three months photographing trotting adventure. It sounds notes abode of an aged concert pianist|exterior scenes that were Ilater reminiscent of “Beau Geste” and| (Lewis Stone). Over Olympe's soft-|Matched in Hollywood and Catalina again of “The Three Musketeers”| hearted objections, Gene pe Island. The photography is stir- but winds up on its own power as a|the faltering old man to stage afingly beautiful and paints a pic- BLENDED SCOTCH WHISKY |pretty good movie. comeback, a plan which would yuw ture of matchless 1‘2’1"\_*“‘» ALWAYS The four men are George Sand- Gene and company a chance atl ers, David Niven, William Henry money to make good their escape. | and the new English young man,| Director Andrew L. Stone’s use | Richard Greene. The prayer is not, of music—Liszt, Chopin et al-to further his story is inter as one might assume, the beauteous and heavily wardrobed Loretta | Bradna acts more like Snow White| Young, but an earnest resolve to|than like a tough adventur but “get” the intriguers who discredited |she has charm and sings and dances and later murdered the boys’ army | officer father (C. Aubrey Smith). | A Musical Jumping back and forth from Eng | “Doctor Rhythm,” on land to America to India to South sober reflection, is really America to Egypt, the story packs a C: ’s best picture but great deal more power and suspense|so at very frequent intervals in its| in its early and middle stages than|running. Based on an O. Henry |at the end. But it offers excitemen: story, “The Badge of Policeman| enough, and there is a good deal|O'Roon,” it sometimes mr,\aku»l of light comedy supplied by Niven,|plausibility for convenience as when | Bill Henry and Miss Young. Direc-|a hunted erook (Fred Keating) ap- tor John Ford seldom lets Loretia pears at.a policeman’s benefit to gef or her wardrobe hide the adventur-|the girl (Mary Carlisle) whom he| ous aspects of his tale, and he pre-|doesn't really love. This makes it |sents one whale of a sequence in|possible for O'Roon (Andy Devine) | iwhxch J. Edward Bromberg shows and the young doctor (Bing) to |capture him in a garrison finish. well. | suspects on | Binz seems not it The ROY AL ANN EARLY BARR—Owhner-Operator T Frank Tuttle’s clever direction helps, . but what sets “Doetor Rhythm” apart for us is the distine-| Beauty 9(110" tive comedy for Beatrice Lillie, here making a triumphant return to pictures where once, I years ago, KNOWS all the new nobody understood her n Miss Lillie goes shopping for “two dozen hair double damask dinner napkins,” and the clerk is Franklin Pangborn, the house is likely to react as the pre- styles that are featured this summer season; and — what’s view nl:dien(,e did, with sustained| more—can adapt them l)in" himself goes pleasantly | : B through the usual romance with the becomingly to your in- leading lady, croons to his f PRSI taste ,and breaks precendent by dividuality. issing the girl—once. — e » ODD FELLOWS MEET 115-2nd St.—Tel. 723 A meeting of the 1. O. O. F. is scheduled . for this evening at 8 OPEN EVENINGS o'clock-at the Odd Fellows' Hall, >oo H. J.Baker is here this week only, mmng pianos. Call the Gastineau. osting, Miss| ' of counting sheep, and so this new | four—and so on.” “‘“l “Can you see them?” she anuhull PROVES T0 BE DODGER Son of New York Editor Slips One Over on Sleepy Guest RED LABEL, ALL 8 YEARS OLD; Black Label, 12. uuu DRY GINGER AL| By GEORGE TUCKER NEW YORK, May 26—The fivc- year-old son of a New York editor is indeedan artful dodger when it com-| Remember, if you want a pleasant evening, make yours @ short Johnnie Walker before dinner and a long one after, BORN 1820... still going strong INC., NEW YORK, N. Y.; SOLE Dllm“'.l [es to having others work for him. To his father'’s home there recently came several out of town guesis, and during the afternoon one of the {guests retired to her room for an hour’s rest. “I'd like to rest with you,” de- clared the little shaver, moving briskly into the room. “All right,” she told him, “but you'll have to be quiet. You'll have to take a nap.” “But I'm not sleepy.” “Oh, I can fix that,” explained' the guest pleasantly. “We'll count sheep. Don’t you ever count sheep| when you want to go to sleep?” It appears the lad had never heard and wonderful friend explained how | it worked. “You just lie quietly on the bed, close your eyes and imagine sheep are jumping over a fence. Oh, lots and lots of sheep, and as they jump over the fence, you count them—like this: ome—two—three— Intrigued with this idea, the youngster climbed on the bed and closed his eyes. - | Buy A FEw PACKAGES Tob L