The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 6, 1938, Page 3

4 THEATRE The Show Place of Juneau THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1938. ON LOCAL SCH] “STAGEDOOR” Il s SHowING OW the play by Edna Ferber and Eromge s Kauiman. -Sereen play by ?4.;:?: Rnllnd and Al!hnny Freliler 1L YOU !lal"rlfl‘:l 'and ROGERS TOGETHER! AT CAPITOL Thrilling Drama Co-stars| Ginger Rogers and K. “epbmn gf?m starring ! KAT uAnnl: Based on the highiy successful i“!”u play by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman, “Stage Door,” the long- awaited RKO Radio picture which teams for the first time Katharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers, opened to a roar of plaudits yesterday at the Capitol Theatre. The two glam- | orous stars add new laurels to note- worthy careers by their superb per- formances in the remarkably com- wih GAIL PATRICK | tance Collier Andrea Leeds - Samuel S. Hinds =i CAVA. by GREGORY La gi:;::d By PANDRO S. BERMAN NEWS ITEMS FROM SITKA SITKA, Alaska, June 2.—(Special Correspondence)—Mrs. C. G. Jones, wife of Capt. C. G. Jones of the Coast and Geodetic Survey boat Explorer, arrived on the Denali to join her husband whose ship is sta- tioned here for the summer. Walter Skaris, who has been spending the winter with his grandparents at Blaine, Wash., and attending school, has returned to Sitka to spend the summer with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Skaris. I (arrived on the Denali to join her Mrs. Clarence Rands of Juneau arrived on the plane Monday to join her husband who is manager of the retail department of the Sitka branch of the Columbia Lum- ber Company of Alaska. Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Mellor have returned from Juneau where Mrs. Mellor received medical attention at St. Ann’s Hospital. Mr. Mellor’s mother, Mrs. M. Mellor, arrived on the North Sea from California to visit her son and daughter-in-law. Mrs. George Baggen and daugh- ter Betty left this week for Juneau where they will make their home, and join Mr. Baggen who moved there recently from Sitka. They were passengers aboard the North Sea and were accompanied by Miss Gertie Jackson o | Mr. and Mrs. Ron Eliott and son Billy changed their residence this week from the telephone apart- ment to the apartment over the K. Raatakinen residence, formerly occupied by Mr. and Mrs. A. E.| Patterson and family. | Mrs. John Hollywood and daugh- ter Miss Myrtle Hollywood, returned this week from Seattle where they | spent the winter, and where Miss Hollywood attended Wilson's Busi- ness College. | The home of Mr. and Mrs. W. Leslie Yaw at the Sheldon-Jackson Presbyterian Mission school here, was the scene of a pretty wedding ceremony, Wednesday, June 1, when Miss Genevieve Ross and Mr. Wal- ter Soboleff were united in mar-| riage, the Rev. Jackson L. Webster reading the service. The bride, who | was given away by Mr. Charles| Stuart, was attended by Mrs. Har- | old Donnelly, and Cecil Torgram- | sen acted as best man. Betty Jo Yaw and Mary Ellen Webter were flower girls. A wedding breakfast | was served following the ceremony. Mr. Soboleff recently returned from | Dubuque, Towa, where he graduated last June from the Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Mrs. Sob- oleff has been acting as assistant nurse at the Sheldon-Jackson Hos- pital. They will spend their honey- moon on Alkire Island. The annual Young People’s Con- ference of Southeast Alaska will begin Saturday, June 4, to last six days, at the Sheldon -Jackson School, with Miss Ruth Bernice Meade, of the Sheldon-Jackson fac- ulty, acting as dean. Bishop P. T. Rowe, of the diocese of Alaska of the Episcopal Church, | arrived in Sitka Tuesday for a| week’s stay. He will conduct serv-| ices Sunday at St. Peters by the Sea. Mrs. 'S. E. Wigaelius, wife of Lt. S. E. Wigaelius, attached to| sqaudron VP-19, arrived in Sitka this week aboard the North Sea to join her husband, to reside here during the summer. ! | Cemmander Joseph Cronin, U. S.| Navy, children have arrived here from || San Diego, California, to reside for two years. Commander Cronin has | been placed in command of the navy air base at Japonski Island.| A prettily appointed one o’clock luncheon was given Tuesday m\ honor of Miss Ada Sears, at the| home of Mrs. J. Barbeau. Miss Sears, who has been teaching the | past year at the U. S. public school | here, left on the North Sea for BSeattle enroute to her home in Ihis wife and family e Robinson, teacher at the Sheldon | Mrs. Arthur Reed, of Seattle, ar-|Jackson School, whose marriage to |rived on the North Sea to join Mr. Don George will take place this | presented the diplomas. | tertained with a dinner party and Mrs. Cronin ‘and two pelling drama and share top honors with Adolphe Menjou, who, in the role of a Broadway producer, recalls his out€tanding performance in Miss Hepburn's Academy award picture, r|gn‘()1c|‘11 California. Covers Were | «Morning Glory,” in which he played laid for Mrs. Nels Drugg, MIS. 5 gimilar part. Other players who| __ Arnold Curtis, Mrs. G. Platt, Mrs.|win distinct recognition are Gail L. G. Smith, the guest. T. Carter, Mrs. hostess and the honor Z. E. Waugh, of Florida, Patrick, Constance Collier, Andrea | Leeds, Samuel B. Hinds, Lucille Ball, and a score of youngsters, many of whom are newcomers to the screen. The gripping story is laid princl: pally in a theatrical boarding hous: in New York and deals with the topsy-turvy careers of a group of | stage-struck young ladies who have migrated from all sections of the country. A vivid cross-section of life is reflected in the turbulent striv- ings of these ambitious youngsters The powerful climax of the story ' arises when Miss Hepburn is called | upon to make her dramatic debut | directly after the suicide of a frus- | trated girl friend, played by Andrea | Leeds, an assignment which calls upon her vast emotional reserve, but which catapults her to sensa- tional success. ! Deftly directed by Gregory La Cava, | “Stage Door” will leave a lasting imprint on the memory of those| who enjoy brilliant dialogue, tense drama and genuine, human charac- terization. Pandro S. Berman pro- | duced the film for RKO Radio. Mrs. husband who is Executive Officer on the Coast and Geodetic Survey ship Explorer. Mrs. Emma Troeger has arrived here for an indefinite visit with her daughter and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Fraki. Thomas Tilson, Sr., has left for Seattle, enroute to Norway and other European countries where he plans to remain for eleven months. Mr. Tilson, who is past 80 years, came to Sitka more than 40 years ago, returning to his native home in Norway after a few years' resi- dence, coming back to Sitka with in 1903. He | last visited Norway, where he has property interests, six years ago. Mr. Tilson has three sons and one daughter residing here now. Miss Harriet DeArmond has re- turned to the home of her parents here from Fairbanks, where she attended the University of Alaska during the past year. - presented with a fossil ivory ring.| For the pleasure of Miss Gladys month, Miss Laura Adams, Miss Anna Martin and Miss Alice Cockett, entertained with a miscel- Reed and their son Arvid, car- penters employed by the Peterman Construction Company of Juneau. — laneous shower Friday evening, May | Jack Kirmse, of Skagway, has 27 in the teachers’ living room. left here after a week’s business Thirty guests were present. visit. Mr. and Mrs. 1. I. George, of Miss Ossa Duff, who has been a|L0s Angeles, California, have ar- teacher at the Sitka Territorial(Tived to be present at the mar-| School for the past four years, left |iage of their son, Don George, by plane for Juneau to board the €ngineer at the Sheldon-Jackson | steamer for Seattle where she plans School, to Miss Gladys Robinson to visit relatives before traveling teacher at the school, early in June. East, John Bergquist, of the crew of the U. S. S. Explorer, Coast and Commencement exercises of the Sitka Territorial School were held May 25, in the school gymnasium. Members of the graduating class included Peggy Schrey, Martin Bredvik, and Ruth McNulty. R. W. DeArmond, Sr., gave the com- mencement address, and J. J. Con- way, member of the school board, Musical numbers were given by the school orchestra under the direction of Miss Helen Roan. | Geodetic Survey ship stationed in Sitka for the summer, who has been ill at the Pioneers’ Home hos- pital, on the Northland for Ketchikan. | Miss Helen Roan and Miss Esther | Olson, local teachers, left on the Denali for the south, Miss Olson to visit with relatives in Spokane and to attend summer sessions at the University of Washington and |Miss Roan to take classes at the |same school and to spend some time with her family in Bremerton. Members of the junior class of the Sitka Territorial School en- in honor of the seniors and class advisors, Thursday evening at the home of Miss Alyce Curtis. Outgoing passengers on the North Sea for Seattle included Miss Ada Sears, teacher at the U. S. Public |School, who will spend the sum- mer at her home in California; Members of the alumni of the Mrs. Patterson, wife of A. Earl Pat- Sitka Territorial School entertained | terson, who was inspector for the with a banquet honoring members |U. S. Treasury Department for the of the graduating class of 1938, and | building of the recently completed the school principal, Miss Madgc‘l“ederal Building, and son Wade, McRae, who will not return here |who will join Mr. Patterson, who next year, at the Arcade Cafe, Fri-|left a few weeks ago for Oregon; day evening. Covers were laid fO!'\MlSS Bernice Bergman, teacher at Evelyn Ofa, Olga Kuehn, Laurie|the Sitka Territorial School who | Sarvela, Charlotte O'Brien, Alberta |will spend the summer at her home Burke, Katheryn McNulty, Harriet |in Yakima; Glenwood Platt, school DeArmond, Bill Hollywood, Elame‘prmcxpal who will attend summer | Bolshanin, Peter McNulty, Neil school in the south; Miss Lottie | Bredvik, Wayne Johnson, BeLW'Stevenson, Sheldon-Jackson teach- Hardy, Lloyd Tilson, Martin Bred- ler, and Mrs. Leslie Wisby, the vik, Ruth McNulty, Peggy Schrey, | former Helen Schrey, who will| and Miss Madge McRae, who was|make her home in the States. LIQUIDATION SALE | RED BLUFF BAY Bolted Steel Tanks: 20,000 to 35,000 gals. 1,000 ft.: 14-inch Wooden Pipe. 1,000 ft.: 12-inch Wooden Pipe. Water-wheels; Pulleys and Sprockets. Buildings and Other Equipment— Also 1,000 barrels of Fuel Oil. CLAUDE BINKS RED BLUFF BAY—ALASKA has been discharged and left a EEN | Kenny Baker who is sta “Mr. Dodd Takes the Last Rnes for Gunnar Blomgren Held Yesterday MZ)SOnIl‘ S ery | ce HODOI’S Prominent Juneau Citizen Here Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock, the last rites for Gunnar Blom- gren, wellknown business man, were held in the Nortern Light Presby- terian Church under the auspices of the Mount Juneau Lodge 147, F. and A. M., with Daniel Ross, Wor- shipful Master, giving the ritu service. Interment was in the Ma- sonic plot at the Evergreen Ceme- tery The Cauble read the G. F. Alexander sang two of Mr. Blomgren's fav- orite songs by request, “Abide with Me" and “O Dry Those Tea Active pallbearers, brother Ma- sons, were H. I. Lucas, John Krug- ness, H. G. Nordling, W. P. Scott, Charles Sey, and Arthur Van Mav- ern. Those members of the Elks’ Lodge acting honorable pallbearers were John Reck, Nick Bavard, J L. Gray, F. A. Boyle, Bud lmchm'l, and Edward Shaffer. - 'MARSHAL’S BROTHER T eulogy and Mrs Rev. as HERE ON BRIEF VISIT Leo brother of T. Mahoney for a couple Mahoney of Eureka, Calif., U. S. Marshal William is a visitor in Juneau of weeks, coming north on the Baarnof with Dan Mahoney, son of the Marshal and Mrs. Mahoney, who has just com- pleted his second year at Santa Clara University. Mr. Mahoney is druggist in Eureka. Montaigne, th century French writer, of the modern essay. a Car-= | is regarded as the originator urse near the studio is nicely ruckloads of .\Jn(l having hvln hauled from nearby beaches to ruin « Glka For size “The Valley of the Giants' tops everything at Warner Bros AT Hfll le now—the redwoods and color alone £ B might make it “epic’—but this com- pany’s recently announced program included several supers. And a se- I"|lm\ May Be in Doldrums auel to “Robin Hood" would hs - to be collossa re than a sma But * |.|m'5 Syill ““; ! 1 in more than a smail Budget These are typical “big time” pro- : ductions. Tf the trouble with Holly- By ROBBIN COONS wood is, as a friend remarked re- cently, that it trying to make HOLLYWOOD, Cal, June 3. — §16 shoes for an $8 market,” those Scarcely cheerful reports from the pictures are here to show Holly- | Hollywood economic front lately wood hasn't quit trying would m to indicate a general And one of these days—but don't state of ldrums and orry out- hold your breath—all of us will be look for vears sc ngs, but floored by seeing that epic of epics her anc re is brightness, bigness, go to work. “Gone With the Wind.” and € nostalgic touch of the Remember? colossal - — “Marie Antoinette” — about $2,- 000,0¢ h—is completed but scarcel counted as this we ready o before the monetary scare i Metro is sinking v elaborately costumed E ersion of the musical nd Gravet is playing rol 1 Luise Rainer oppo- a Korjus and George First Trip of Year Made Miliz: | Houston for the singing. Miss Kor- site, and [ jus here two years preparing for o | her screen debut, looks like a differ- with Float ,I"to ent person. Dieting and exercise Lake Atlin m\. removed approximately 45 — xcess be ind now| Alaska Air Transport pilots were |- m might call her Gorgeous. If busy with the Lockheed and the lsound track 1 heard of her voice Stinson over the weckend, carry can be trusted, Miliza may give |everything from cub bears to new- Jeanette MacDonald, the lot's pre-| lyweds. ‘mn queen of song, some bad mo-| Saturday, Simmons took the Stin- ments |son out to Taku Landing and Can- | Another High Flier yon Island with Communications In “Too Hot to Handle” the stu- Commission man Stacy Norman dio is out to out-thrill “Test Pilot.”|and Mrs. Norman and Clara Car- Thi$ is Clark Gable wtih Myrna penter, Norman's secretary, to in- | Loy again, Walter Pidgeon and Leo|spect radio ,stations at the two |Carrillo assisting. It is mnewsreel points. camerman stuff, concocted by Lau-| Simmnos went on to Tulsequah rence Stallings and a young ne' to pick up Harry Bracken and Mr reeler named Leonard Hammond.|and Mrs. George Bruget to bring The two thought it up while waiting |them to Juneau. Shell went back in for things to happen in Ethiopia a the evening in the Lockheed to couple of years back. By fictionizing| Pring in Mr. and Mrs. Glen Goudie freely a number of things that al- @nd Norman and his party. most happened with things that did| Yesterday morning, Shell took the _like the Morro Castle disaster— Lockheed out to Taku Landing with they | produced a big, quick-|® wedding p: Karl Alstead and ot vipt which will run into|Pat Archer going out single and BT oney coming back wedded. In the party Co epics, which might have|Was the Rev. John L. Cauble, Mr been made even if “Robin Hood” @nd Mrs..Fred Rowe, and George hadn't been, are in the cards here|Guerin. and there. Paramount’s entries in- At 11 (rckwk yesterday morning, clude “The Texans,” now completed,|Shell made the first pontoon flight i the ‘udwly inadgurdted “Tr T AN iof the - pRar. with ihe Were King” with Ronald Colman Lockheed, coming back at 10 o'clock last night at an altitude of 12,000 poet Villon, Frank Lloyd pro- flying over the ice cap. nd directing. An enormous {duci feet, " 5! Inbound passengers were T. J. street set covers 75,000 square 1 ) i ,, Jacobson, Dorothy Drury, and O. miles of the back lot, which doesn't Hegstead, Jerry Powers and Lena und like For later this £ Bardi made the round trip. lot plans of the Round R Table—bit . Tet tih - bRy hhe Yesterday morning, Amundsen ple”—but let’s col y 3 | e vt tehing, «Men (ook the Stinson out to Cobol with Ll S G Mrs. George Bolyan, and her two With Winy of cou is Para- . s e children, Dace and Lawrence, and mount’s super-super, Costing IMOT®|c, gnret with A. P, Holzworth, He than a million already, but worth it if advance reports of the sky stuff in color mean anything. Muisc And Color “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” the hottest number at 20th tury-Fox. That's finished, and the big thing currently is “Suez,” elab- orately conceived and sure to be at least slightly colossal e former brought in J. Boyle from Chatham and Pete Melcsovich from Chi- chagof. i Yesterday evening, Amundsen 15 again went out with the Stinson, Cen-| taxing A. Johnson to Canyon Island in the Taku River, and bringing in Howard Shirts. This morning, Amundsen hopped the Stinson to Outer Point on the @ Every month, every week you put off buying your new G-E Refrigerator you are very likely money out. Your present refrigeration almost surely costs more to maintain than the new low operating cost of a G-E. Don’t put up with an in- adequate, old-fashioned refrigerator any longer. G-E, the first choice of millions is mow popularly priced! G-E sealed- -in: o has or achanis! Monit! é“ OL‘N during Economy 3 1—Bigger Dollar Value than ever. 2—Low Current Cost. 3-—Lang Life, SOLD ON CONVENIENT PAYMENT PLAN ALASKA ELECTRIC LIGHT & POWER CO. JUNEAU—ALASKA—DOUGLAS west shore of Douglas Island. with two passengers from the Baranof that had missed their boat here. Shell took the Lockheed out this | morning with George Kodzoff to Tenakee, Miles Price, Ruth De- | Armond and Pete Turner to Sitka, and Bernard Friske to Chichagof. e ‘ After an epidemic ot typhoid in Croydon, England, 100 damage suits | have been filed against the muni- | cipality for loss of relatives and | business. / REFRIGERATOR KENNY BAKER IS STARRED IN COLISEUM BILL Large Supporting Cast in “Mr. Dood Takes the Air Although Baker, popular radio singer had several bit parts, he has his first job as lead- ing man in “Mr. Dodd Takes th Air, h howi at the Coli- seum Theate tor t and tomor Tow ight The plot is taken from Clarence Budington Kelland's stor The Gr Crooner Baker sing five new song hits in the production the numbers beinz written by Al Dubin and Harry Warren His success is due to his winning a song prize which gave him the | chance to sing for a week at the renowned Cocoanut Grove. It was there that Mervyn LeRoy, film di- rector, found Kenny. It was not until two years after he meet LeRoy, that he was given his chance in the movies. There is also a large supporting cast which includes Frank McHugh, in the comedy role, Alic Brady, Ger- trude Michael and Jane Wyman, e SHOPLIFTERS APPREHENDED DAILY IN N. Y, Arrests Are Kept from Pub- ll(. f()l' GOOd Busl“(‘ss Reasons By GEORGE TUCKER NEW YORK, June 6.—Although thousands of dollars worth of trin- kets and merchandise are thefted from department stores every week in New York, you seldom read of it in the newspapers. There is a on for this, and it hinges on the psychological hunch fostered by the gambling casinos on the Cnntm- ent. Merchants believe it is publicity for thefts in their 5 to be reported, just al Monte Carlo believes it is bad publicity for one of its clients to commit suicide after losing his fortune at roulette. For years it has been the cus- tom at certain European spas, when a desperate loser takes his life, to convey the body some di: tance from the casino and stuff a few thousand franc pockets. This enables the manage-~ ment to deny that suicide took his life because of losing his fortune. It is a custom that fiction writers have made legendary and there is| evidence, so they say, to prave that this has happened many times. In New York the stores employ their own detectives, most of whom are women, to keep on the lookout for thieves. They pose as shoppers and prowl through the store look- ing at merchandise and keeping a close eye on suspicious characters. It is gaid that dozens of arrests daily are made, but they are usually set- tled out of court. The stores, except in extreme cases, do not like to in- volve the police and thereby let themselves in for newspaper com- ment. Such publicity has been'in- disputably proved bad, as many peo- ple will avoid a store that figures sensationally in the news. ‘The gambling casino angle, inci- dentally, brings to mind one of Alexander Wollcott’s classic stories. It is that of the tall, young man who lost_heavily at | lent notes into his | ) LT OPFRATED Jllnvau's Greatest Show Value NOW SHOWING FOR ADDED ENJOYMENT Cartoon—Pictorial Review Latest Movietonews. ing boards and then wandered out onto the night. Suddenly there came a revolver shot. The atten- dants rushed out to find the body in the moonlight, a red blur spreading over his shirt-front. Naturally, they were annoyed. But they followed the routine set. aside for such situations. They hurriedly thrust 10,000 francs into his pockets and telephoned the police. But when the police arrived there was no body. Half an hour later the ‘“bod; sauntered casually into the casino. He began to play with the ten thousand francs, which a benevo- providence had dropped into The red blu on his The red bdur on his it developed, was red his losses. his losses. shirtfront, ink Of course there wasn't a thing the management could do but give him a few icy stares. But to these the young man was oblivious. People remarked they had seldom seen a young man in such high good humor, | despite his prodigious losses of the | last few days. As I recall the story, the last that Alexander Woollcott heard of him he was still winning . . . and still very much alive, [ R The Sparta Inn, at Sparta, N. J., [u patterned after Mount Vernon. It is more than 200 years old. How- | ever, the proprietor isn't a de- | scendant of one of Washington's soldiers. Hi# name is Teddy Prin- | gos from Greece. | B |MILDRED WEBSTER LEAVES ON BARANOF Mildred Webster, delegate from Juneau to the annual convention of the Grand Assembly of the Order of Rainbow for Girls in Wenatchee, | Washington, left on the Baranof. Later she will go to Washington, D.C. Miss Webster will stay at the Na- tional Convention for a week, at which time Grand officers for the ensuing term will be elected and in- stalled. School of Instruction will also be held throughout the week. e R ARE MARRIED HERE Miss Mary Diderickson became the | bride of Benjamine Wright, Satur- day afternoon at 3 o'clock at a cere- mony performed by the Rev. O. L. | Kendall, at the parsonage of the | Methodist Church. Mr. and Mrs. | Chris Nelson acted as matron-of- honor and best man, for the couple. EE --- Movie Camera 3 PLUS PROJECTOR and SCREEN L4 This Complete Univex Motion Picture QOutfi will be the Prize in Our An- | nual Sales-Premium Award & SAVE YOUR COUPONS! 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