The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 9, 1938, Page 3

ow! e T”/' B ) o MIDNIGHT PREVIEW LILY PONS in ‘HITTING A NEW HIGH’ BLUE BOOK TO BY 3 COLLEGES Preston Grover Speculates on Worth When Actual- ly Completed By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. — Most faportant hews we have heard in |trace their four generations back |Pioneer behicles. The stage coachi wecks is wnat a blue book of Yale, |step by step from scholar, to states- Was hauled high into Zion Canyon| JOSEPH CALLEIA LEWIS STONE GUY KIBBEE Produced by Harry Rapt CAU FIREMEN'S SHOW [ grads” will be listed, just the young- | sters presently in school who will |be available for stag line duty B For instance, imagine the swank of a debutante who could say that she had at her party only third | and fourth generation Yales, Har- vards or Princetons. None of these newcoming second generationers. | Of course, some of these third or | fourth generation back-trackings | may reach clear across the Atlantic Ocean—or the Pacific. That natur- ally would be taken into account. 1 Fourth generationers might come at a premium—that is, if they could Harvard and Princeton students is‘mm\. to social leader. They might being compiled, listing: their an- |hold themselves out for only the cestry back even unto the fourth toppest of the parties, while the generation. fthird generations could be only | This bit of information was con- slightly less withholding. Seconds tained in a society column of a|and first, of course, could be had| Washington paper and the society for hotdog-and-beer affairs. editor (bless her heart) was more| But again, we are concerned not concerned about the value the with the social value of this blue thing would have for social pur- book but its governmental value. poses than for the general govern- Imagine having a government bu- ment. But we are always and incessant- | by four generations of prime an- ly concerned about the welfare of]cestry. Or more exciting still, four the general government. If the generations of liberals. compilation has value for debutantes | or their mams in making out party LIBERAL 'WAY BACK lists, all very well. She thought it| Of course a liberal four genera- would have. None of the ‘“old tions back would be a rugged indi- Anniversary Special for the month of AUGUST ONLY! OUR REGULAR $7.50 OIL PERMANENTS at $6.00 and $5.75 PERMANENTS at $5.00 $5.00 PERMANENTS at $4.50—— [ J all types of beauty work are performed by our operators: JAN LINDSAY CASHEL NORMA SCHWEGLER MARGARET LINDSAY hair-cutting a specialty ® PETER PAN BEAUTY SHOP Triangle Building Phone 221 |reau staffed with Yales backed up | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1938. “THE BAD MAN OF BRIMSTONE" 1S AT CAPITOL \Wallace Be;;. Is Starred in Epic Saga of West tons of head Carrying two hundred equipment, hundreds of cattle and horses and a his neer stage coach in four special cars, a :pecial “rail caravan” with fifty players and forty technicians went to Cedar City, Utah, to film a pic- ture of the motored and packed into Zion Can- yon and Kanab to film exteriors for “The Bad Man of Brimstone,” dra- ma of the overthrow of the bandits and coming of law and order to the pioneer West, showing for the last time tonight at the Capitol Theatre. Wallace Beery stars in the pic- ture in his most strenuous drama- | tic role nce “Viva Villa.” Vir- ginia Bruce, Dennis O'Keefe, new discovery among leading men, and a large group of character players, made the trip, one of the largest location jaunts of the year. The compan established headquarters at Kanab, Utah, and camped on outlying ranches and locations for the stirring epic of the old West. National Park and CedarZu Players include Beery, Miss Bruce. | O'Keefe, Joseph Calleia, Lewis Stone, Guy Kibbee, Bruce Cabot and | Cliff Edwards. A complete pioneer town was built for a land rush, with a thou- sand persons, hundreds of head of cattle and horses, and hundreds of for a ‘hold-up sequence. B A. B. PHILLIPS AND BOBBY HERE | A. B. Phillips, superintendent of the Juneau Public Schools, accom- panied by his, son Bobby, is a pas- | senger on the steamer North Sea,| arriving in port this afternoon. Superintendent Phillips has spent the past two months vacationing in the Pacific Northwest, while Bob- by has been attending a Y.M.C.A. summer camp. i Returning a few weeks previous | to the re-opening of school, Super- | intendent Phillips will attend to all | the necessary arrangements which have fo be made each year before the school doors open in Septem- | ber. — e MARY YARKON FUNERAL Funeral services for Mary Marie Yarkon, three-year-old native child | who passed away last Saturday in the Government Hospital, were held today in the Charles W. Carter | Chapel. The eulogy was read by the Rev. A. P. Kashevarof. Interment | was in the Evergreen Cemetery. !vidualist compared with his great- |grandson but no one could doubt he was for the New Deal before 11932. That would have to be taken for granted. | Again, suppose the government |takes a swing to the right. A fourth generation conservative, his record | established beyond question, could command premium attention. And added to that, he would be a Yaler, or a Harvard man, or a Princeton- ian. Of ‘course the thing has draw- | backs. A fourth generation Harvard iliberal might be discovered to have | three generations of conservatives ‘!ln his background, or maybe even one out of three, as a sort of “bar sintster.” He might rue the day | that he ever was listed in the HYP | blue book. At this point we might mention |a worry felt by the society editor. She suspected that the book might never have any real value in Wash- ington. There are so many stag lines between Harvard, Princeton and Yale, far to the east, and ‘Washington, that mighty few ever trickle through to here. sEEEasEs BENTNE frRsTEEEEEE be open from 8A.M.TOS5P. M. Juncan-Young s i AERBAREIAGEABLLR BRI SREL BB DAE A NOTICE! In order to maintain a strictly eight-hour working day among the salesmen and deliv- erymen, and at the same time serve the buy- ing public to better advantage, commencing Monday, August 15th, the following stores will The Thomas Hardware Co. Hardware Co.’ TEERSE EEERNEENNRNEREREEREEER RSN NNRRTRRNSNEE: EEEETERERETRNE real West. The caravan | Beauty Lure in Racker Trial? Hope Dare and Dixie Davis, inset 1> wie beauty of Hope Dare, ex-chorine sweetheart of Dixie Davis, alleged racketeer boss, being used as a lure to persuade Davis to aid the state in prosecution of New York's policy game? Such is the theory advanced in explanation of permission being granted |home. The stage can take him as |he is. The movies have to sprinkle | |giving a radiant and glowing Per- | parf have been tied up in the |around, I call it—and she’s never |best hex on the whole business, | meeting, scheduled for 8 o'clock at Da ure in an investigation involvin Tammany Hall, who is charged tion™ STAGEIS NOT DEAD; THERE IS LIFE IN N Y. . Robbin Coons Finds The- atrical Business Spurt- ing in Metropolis Robbin Coons, our Hollywood columnist, is in New Yl)l‘k to see what movie activities are like in the east. By ROBBIN COONS NEW YORK, Aug. 9—I'm the |guy that came to bury Caesar and |found him doing the Big Apple The New York theatre isn't dead It doesn't even look sick to me. Back in Hollywood, when came the alkie dawn, we used to say smugly, “The stage had better look got reports that the stage, at last, had looked. But there's nothing like seeing for yourself. That’s what I've been Davis to leave the Tombs where he is imprisoned to visit the beat former mouthpiece of the late Dutch Schultz, is the key fig- It was rumored that Miss Dare had promised District At- torney Thomas Dewey that she would use her influence to get him to its laurels.” This past season we | ye g James Hines, assistant boss of with receiving money for “protec- | [doing. Ana if what T've seen is| ailing, then I've been a corpse for | ten years The mov have taken over ‘Ih(m(l\\u\. yes. But on those shoddy | treets there is excitement and | beauty and a sense of things stir-| ring. And I don't mean mice. The most of excitement, beauty, and stiring I found in the one| plece of which Hollywood can make mothing on film. Don’t look for Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” at your local nickelodeon. | side Movie Minus Scenery? Maybe Hollywood’s own William K. Howard, who had a hand with !Jéd Harris in theé production, is planning to film it but I hope he| isn't. He'd lose his polo shirt. Be- sides, I hate to think of what the screen, with its matchless facilities for realism, could do to ‘Our Town.” “Well, now, we gotta have scen- ery.” That would be the f shot at the movie story conference. Whoever said it would 'be right. Any movie without scenery would be as boring as Mr. Will H. Hays at | a ceremonial banquet. On the stage, in “Our Towr you miss scenery less that I'd miss Constance Ben- nett from the screen. If Mr. Wilder lis going to write more pieces like it, the stage won’t have to worry mucii | @ 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 M mow popularly priced! G-E* Monitor 1—Bigger Dollar Value than ever. 2—Low Current Cost. 3—Long Life. SOLD ON CONVENIENT PAYMENT PLAN Alaska Electric Light & Power Co. JUNEAU———ALASKA akout looking to its laurels. ( “On Borrowed Time,” on the other hand, is going to be & movie. | It ought to be a fine one. But I'd| N w N FUH put pretty words in the old grand- | 0 0 hate to be the scripter who has to | In the movies grand- | less than Dudley Digges says on stage. But the Digges grandpa is a 3 character I'd hate to see without a|Film Siars Oscar Homolka' and Frances Farmer in Drama at Coliseum od, repository for much of the sugar. | To Cherish Julies Another quick reason the stage| g, will have to keep on MvINg is|{1. world's curiosa, has besome the “Shadow and Substance.” Taking| ot port of call for those Towantic the play cold, my movie-trained| ;4 wind ships which are fast dis- mind (aged 13) couldn’t quite de- appearing from the sea cipher it. Julie Haydon’s been &| nNgsed out of maritime duty by personal weakness for a 1ong time, | tne swifter, larger steam freighters, and shes’ on the stage a great deal,| the old sailing vessels fof the most back- formance. Next time I intend 10| waters of the ports they once ruled watch the play, and pay more at-|op else relegated to inglorious ta ks tention to the fine work of Sir|{ pBut Hollywood, alert to the Tine Cedric Hardwicke and the others.'drama of the sea, is changing all But Julie Haydon, all by herself, | that with a cycle of motion piciures is cause enough to feel confidence | whose directors are scouring every in the theatre's life. | major port in the United States for Julie, remember, was mishandled brigs and barkentines, fullriggers and abused by Hollywood kicked | and frigates. Latest of the forgotten old wind- jammers to shake the mouid from her canvas and take a lucrative cruise to cinema waters is the Gol- den State, a scrooner out of Frisco. Skippered by Captain Charles Arey, who as seventy-eight still makes a yearly voyage to the Bering Sea, the three-master was leased by Paramount for “Ebb Tide,” the first ‘Technicolor picture of the sea, fea, {tured for the last time at the Coli- seum Theatre. Carrying Director Jamles Hogan, Oscar Homolka, Frances Farmer, Ray Milland, Lloyd Nolan, Barry Fitzgerald and other picture play- going back I have had word for it, and it serves Hollywood right. But there has to be a place to cherish people like Julie. That| place is the stage. If it doesn't keep on recognizing its responsibility, I'm going to invoke Hollywood’s et LEGION AUXILIARY MEETING TONIGHT Election of delegates to the Le- gion convention at Ketchikan, Sep- tember 7-9 will take place tonight at the regular Legion Auxiliary weeks off Santa Catalina Island. In this South Sea Island adventure the Dugout. drama, the old ship figured in scenesj | - | g | pa’s mouth pas get their mouths washed with | good Breen soap for saying muchi | he | ers, the Golden State cruised for| OWNED AND _ OPFRATED %y W.i .GROSS Jureaw's Greatest Show Value LAST TIMES TONIGHT it First South Seas Adventure Romance Ever Filmed in A Pare+a Yot Pillord with 0T HOMOLKA B 53 srivornats with Goumons i Pty o i FRANCES FARMER * RAY MILEAND (LD NOLAN and BARRY FITZCRA10 ALSO Selected Short Subjects —Latest News— | CELEBRATES HER | EIGHTH BIRTHDAY | Complimenting Mary Avoian, | daughter of Mrs. S. Avoian, a par- ty was given at her home on Harris | Street Sunday afternoon in honor of her eighth birthday. A matinee show preceded the Reports will be read, and plans for entertainment for the National President of the Western division of the American Legion Auxiliary, Mrs. George A. 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