The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 20, 1938, Page 3

with THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1938. THE NEW UNIVERSAL presents A TEN STAR FUN FROLIC MERRY-GO | OUND 7 BERT LAHR + JIMMY SAVO BILLY HOUSE + ALICE BRADY MISCHA AUER : JOY HODGES LOUISE FAZENDA « JOHN KING + BARBARA READ DAVE APOLLON AND HIS ORCHESTRA Produced by B. G. DESYLVA (Who produced "SING, BABY, SING™!) CHARLES R. ROGERS Exac. Vige-Pre . in CHARGE OF PRODUCTION STARTING | TONIGHT 3 N \ | [ MISS CLEO CAMPBELL | GUEST, MRS. KARNES| teacher at Juneau on and is the Anthony E. s Cleo Campb(ll. Ketchikan, arrived in the steamer Aleutian, house gnuest of Mrs. Karnes, «. h and Main street. Miss Campbell will visit M Karnes until the latter leaves for the south, July 28. Following her visit in the Capital City, Miss Camp- bell plans to journey to Sitka for brief stay before returning to i a THEATRE The Show Place of Juneau residence on Seventh ‘ Ik Ketchikan. Mrs. Karnes and her three chil- dren, Carol Jean, Jackie Ann, and ncy Lou, plan to leave for Orton- ! ville, Minn., the end of the month, returning to Juneau December 20. During their absence, Mrs. Karnes and her children will visit with her parents, Mr. ins. REY Percy Reynolds, on a short business D g LDS RETURNING who went south trip, is McKinley. SCOTCHMEN KNOW A GOOD THING — MacKINNON BUYS 18 HOTPOINT RANGES 12 years ago Lockie MacKinnon selected Hotpoint Ranges for his new apart- ment. Now, after years of service, he again chooses Hotpoint to help-modern- ize his apartment house. 7 years is the average life Mr. MacKinnon ex- pects to get from the Calrod Units on his new ranges— ARE HIS TENANTS SATISFIED? ALASKA ELECRIC LIGHT & POWER CO. Juneau Alaska———Douglas SINGING PIONS—NEWS OF and Mrs. N. J. Wil- the Government Hospital today for re- |who have been visiting in Peters- turning to Juneau aboard the Mount burg, | anvoy to London, is pictured in his | White House for a brief chat with | President Roosevelt. A real sheik of —COMMUNITY — PIGSKIN CHAM- THE DAY 3 . 4 | HosPITAL NOTES l - Eva Childs was dismissed from St. Ann’s Hospital last evening. Emit Jackson was admitted to medical attention. - MRS. COOK RETURNS Mrs. Norman Cook and children, returned home to Juneau on the Northland. Calls on President The Sheik Hafiz Wahba, Arabian flowing robes he called at the , he is dressed in the robes FARCE COMEDY PLOT SHOWING NOW, CAPITOL Merry Go Round of 1938’ Featuring Ten Stars Is at Capitol to spring a pic- ¢-Go-Round of fair “Mer It's hardly ture such as 1038” upon an unsuspecting public |Every day he receives cables re-| HOLLYWOOD, July 20.—Frank without due warning. To do 80 is to layed through Lioyds of London | Leavitt, 320 pounds of him, is in the expose innocent ribs to wreckage; giving him the present whereabouts movies again, and the sound stages to endanger serenity, and to expose [Of the ship which cleared Hook |are groaning—and should be grunt- the public to nonsense in dangerous three weeks ago . ... p_crhzms at ing—in welcome I doses. Lourenco Marques (that’s on the| Frank is a big boy from Georgia “Mery-Go-Round of 1938,” now | East Coast of Africa), or at Colombo | by way of West 43rd Street, New at the Capitol Theatre, is a laugh- (that's in Ceylon). [York City, where he v born |riot, a steam roller of hilarity, a e g nearly 47 years ago—June 30, 1891.| | deluge of delicious, delightful and| It must be an interesting pastime, | Even at that early date in his ca- | grouch-destroying comedy. lif you are at all ship-minded, to|reer he loomed big=16 and one- I Go to see this latest product of [have the whole mystery of the sea | half pounds. He kept on looming.| Hollywood and learn just how much|Wing in the hollow of your hand. |By the time he was 14 he was big you can laugh without getting a| Incider . New York is soon to!enough to fool the U. 8. Army into stiteh in the side. If yours ribs hold have (he 12th annual Internatonal | letting him join. And that, in a| | out wntil the final, furious, fade- Lifeboat races, right here in the | way, was what led him surely into {out, you are a hopeless case and|barbor, which is something those| the art of acting—and eventually, | should be examined by a squad of | Washington huskies and the Middy | therefore, into Hollywood. For he psychiatrists, shell artists ought to see. took up wrestling even then, and Of a farce comedy plot, plenty of | These races were suggested a doz- | DOW ‘. good music, hordes of comedy gags, €n years ago to help keep alive one | Champ—In Pictures gangs of pretly gir ongs by Jim- of the traditions of the sea—the »!n Hnll.\'\\’lwl he has a role to {mie McHugh and Harold Adamson, one about A. B. meaning Able | his liking at last. He has played it and the screen play by Dorian Ot-|Seaman. and to see that skill at |in real life many times, but there| | vos and Monte Brice, the director, oars did not go the way of sailing|Were usually hecklers to dispute Irving Cummings . has woven a|skill with the intrusion of the ma- | the niceties, of his performgnee, laugh-forcing production that ranks|chine, even in lifeboats (on the even his claims to it. In "The as the best of the screen’s mad and |larger liners many of the are now |Gladiator,” Frank Leavitt is play- merry musicals. motorized). ing the role of UNDISPUTED worlds heavyweight wrestling The cast includes, the quartet of comedians (already| Lifeboats are made to carry peo- |Champion, and the novelty is ftre-| | dubbed “The Four Horsémen of ple safely through heavy seas, not mendous. Leavitt will grapple for Hilarity”), Alice Brady in the role to race. College oarsmen would find | & full reel—his biggest footage to of the hoity-toity and flighty aunt; this course pretty tough going. For | date—with Joe E. Brown. And the Louise Fazenda as the jhard-boiled [a standard Coast Guard lifeboat|Outeome of the bout—up to the lat- but romantic theatrical boarding- weighs 1635 pounds compared with |5 “{inal” script—was not yet “in house-keeper: Joy Hodges, & screen |the 300 pounds of plywood slivers| e big.” Which also, if the wres- newcomer as the girl, and John!which college crews use. There are | ‘ing-baiters can be heeded, has King as her sweetheart. no outriggers, sliding seats and|llé elements of novelty. spoon oars—just a bench in a stout‘ Leavitt stands unique among NEWS EDITOR FOR SHIPPING KEEPS POSTED His Busmess Is to Know Where Vessels, Leaving Port, Headed For By GEORGE TUCKER NEW YORK, July 20.—Sometimes one loses sight of the fact that Manhattan is an island and New York a port, and that this metrop- olis would not be here if it were not for river and .ocean. But there is one man in this community who never forgets it for a single minute. He is your ship news editor. Every time a vessel passes Quarantine and Sandy Hook, in addition to watchers relay the word to him on | times as many as 20 vessels clear L] in a couple of hours, and he has to hustle to check on where all are A HEAvaEIGHT |going so that their destinations b 1] |may be accurately reported to the | newspapers. | The big passenger ships are ea everyone knows where they are go- ing. But most of the clearances are bty | comstwise vessels and empty tankers Tlps Scales at 320 Pounds bound for Texas oil ports and some | Struts His Stuff with Joe E. Brown are cargo ships which, before they return to New York, will visit dis- tant ports which most of us will never see. The ship news editor fol- lows these ships around the world. By ROBBIN COONS boat and a heavy sweep that must make a men feel like & gelley slave |20t0rS 8s bulky, there are even ac- tors who deliberately wear beards film actors, new and old. There are - efore the two-mile course i i:’trnk:-d 5 i 15! off screen and on. But Leavitt is Right now at/the Bay of Naples | e GRly Jnovie @eiar who. expects 4 y to be called by his wife’s name and at the fjord that leads to Oslo, | H ¢ rather than his own. Youd never |and at Cherbourg and Bremer- .. i o A 0 haven the matives ere pursled by | oAbk oLy calingidranchot Toge the reat linors which lower boats | Mt Crawford.” or. Dick Powell Dt and send thor | Mr: Blondell,” but Leavitt built \u“\ x‘u‘\\..? o! l&]l.,‘xl VA\.:\(-» 1:p nrm. his fame as “Mr. Dean.” His wife ],“,. ‘,“'\' [““’";; L““ s ipent l’l‘“ O | down Georgia way still is known cear life. Buy pie.seamen WElas Dors \Dean, and Frank «(when selves aren't puzzled. They're just | he isn’t Mr. Dean) as Man Moun- training for the big. race in New |yin“Dean York ‘ This, he explains, was due to his g ) v 2 wrestling tour of Germany. The | Jose Limon, featured soloist With |pame Leavitt—although his fami- | the Doris Humphrey-Charles Weld- |y haq peen Yanks for generations | man dance company, has just en- as suspect in Hitler's Germany. a unique teaching as-| going to instruct | trained for signment. He | He had to use Dean to get hi license. mat football play nd other athletes|ager, anyway, that seemed the in Colorado State College in the | right name to use. He had met her gentle art of the modern dance. in Miami, Fla, while traffic-cop-| - e e ping. He had wrestled as well as Roman games played in the Col-|been wounded during the war, and osseum included chariot races, mili- | punctured a kidney in an early reviews and gymnastic con-|match thereafter. The job in traffic tary |te | served during recuperation. Alaska Aids U pbuzldum ‘ Of Nort B FIVE YEARS’ GROWTH Above, 20,000- barrel plant of Columbia Brew- eries, Tacoma, in 1933. Right, new million dol- 7 lar brewery in 1938. That the Pacific Northwest can definitely attribute to Alaska a generous part in the upbuilding of its industries, is the opinion of Harry R. Lawton, vice-president of Co- lumbia Breweries, Inc, Tacoma, whose visits to Alaska will be re- called by his many friends. “Our Alaska business has con- tinued to double and treble, and as a consequence we have, in the five years since beer came back com- pletely rebuilt and expanded our original plant of 20,000 barrels ca- pacity to a thoroughly modern, re- inforced concrete and steel million- dallar brewery, covering approxi- mately one city block. “The Alaska business, responsi- ble in substantial measure for this development, comes not only from Juneau but from every city of con- sequence throughout the Territory, as well as from the most remote trading posts and mining and fish- ing centers. “During the five years beer has been back, Columbia Breweries, Inc., brewers of Alt Heidelberg beer, has expended $1,753,000 in payrolls; $3,500,000 in taxes, the tax bill for 1937 alone approximating $900,000; $2,408,000 in purchase of materials and supplies; and $1,000,000 in plant and equipment. “We would be ungrateful if we failed to acknowledge the part | and tfl‘m-cnrdad turban of his rank. played in this development by our customers and friends throughout Doubled For Laughton Mrs. Dean piloted Frank uuuugh Germany and England, and it was| actor—and his beard—were covered simultaneously. for Charles Laughton in wrestling sequence for “Henry the Eighth,” Frank couldn't keep his hwest Industries and kept it. Whether that started it tors. But until now no studio has given more than passing recogni- | tion to his talents. Leavitt may be prevented from capitalizing on his newly won film success. Stern duty calls. He's run- ning for the Georgia legislature, to make speeches and kiss babies— that his spectacles are being used to read up on political matters “What politician,” he demands, “ever had to read anything?” | Meanwhile, among his cherished | | possessions is a tent-like full drefls suit. A movie actor never knows when he’ll need one, as he told Da- | RAIN ADDS ONE | Four back games are now crowd- ing the Gastineau Channel base- [ ] Islanders, No ball batte 15 bied| Cinderella Takes a for tonight, and the horsehiders are poned mixes and march through to| | the end of the second half. | Alaskan Melodrama | By L. L. WIRT Honoring Mrs. Robert Coughlin | PRICE $1.50 on her birthday, Mr. and Mrs. . The evening was spent in plnymg‘ bridge with Mr. and Mrs. Virgil| Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Farrell, Mr. and Paul Judge, Mrs. T. Judge, BUTLER MAURO DRUG CO. the Territory,” MR A LT sy BOOKS ON POSTPONED LIST A e | raining out of last evening’s sched- uled contest between the Moose and weather that will give them an op- By REBIE HARRINGTON portunity to mop up on their post- | PRICE $3.00 PARTY GIVEN IN s D HONOR OF BIRTHDAY| Alaska Adventures dinner party Monday evening at| their home in the Seatter Tract.| By HON. JAMES WICKERSHAM PRICE $4.00 Mrs. Paul Judge, conosolation. | Polit' for the occasion (wefe| DY MK #o 3. SEARPLES PRICE $3.00 the host and hostess. ——— Try an Empire ad. ball league slate, as a result of the looking forward to a break in the Houdqy SR | By J.'A. HELLENTHAL David Wood, Jr., entertained at a Old Yukon Farrell winning first, and Mr. and| Alaska Wild Flowers Mr. and Mrs. Robert Coughlin and As his wife was his man-| in London that his talents as an dis- | Doubling | a brief | false beard on, so grew his own— or not, his ring performances have | caused certain sports observers to| laud him as the greatest of all ac-| and must hie himself back home | those not too frightened. He denies| 3 SEL st Show Value MIDDIES MARCH T0 GLORY, NEW FOOTBALL FILM Actual Coronation of Brit- ish Heads to Be Shown vl‘« 1_]llli&‘()lr)l' Juneau's Great STAI TO For the first time, the Coronation may be seen cxactly as it appear to its millions of spettators ing tonight at the Coliseum Th tre is showi The Coronation of King George VI and Queen Eliza- beth, entirely in Technicalor. Twen- tieth Century-Fox presents this exclusive feature attraction which is a sensational scoop and certain- ly one of the unique achievements in motion picture history Five film favo will be seen | in their most outstanding roles to date when Paramount’s footbail ramance, “Hold 'Em v, also y showing at the Coliseum These are Lew Ayres, John How- ard, Mary Carlisle, Benny Baker and Elizabeth Patterson, who worked under the direction of Kurt Neumann, .ace director who megs phoned “Wake Up and Dream” “Espionage.” Howard, recently seen here AL S T VRS < SR ELAIEACHERENITE A7 0 A D£SBT “Bulldog Drummond Comes and Ayres portray Annapolis jron stars in the film. Miss Carlisle, plays the proprietress of an off- MARY C»‘ UJL!‘. campus sweet shop where midship- men gather to bask in the warmth of her smiles. Miss Patterson, who recently completed the important role of Randolph Scott’s grand- mother in “High, Wide and Hand- some,” will be seen as M Car lisle’s young-minded grandmother, and Baker has been given the film's leading comedy role. Directed by A Paamcuai Pich AT SPECIAT ADDED ATTRACTION vid Loew, his producer, on arrival. Even his best friends don't rec- ognize Jack Oakie since he dropped those 40-odd pounds. He's streamlined himself now to a shad- owy EXCLUSITVE! THEONLY FEATURELENGTH. 8 PICTURE ‘IN JECHNICOLOR Things to drive the glamor girls' and boys battly, Charlie McCarthy,! a wooden dummy; Dopey, an ani- mated drawing; Shirley Temple, Jjust a cute kid; and Deanna Dur- bin. . . . Universal hopes that after “The Rage of Paris” Danielle Dar- rieux will be able to share some of the burden that has rested on Deanna’s young shoulders 50 that the “U” will have two meal- tickets. . . . | S ] xine aeorce vl QUEEN ELIZABETH . . 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