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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1938. SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY SHORTS Glimpses of Peru King Without a Crown Rhythm in a Night Court News of the Day LAST TIMES HOLLYWOOD 1S HOLLYWOOD AT ANY OLD TIME Coons Returns from Vaca- tion to Find Things Same as Usual By ROBBIN COO HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 20.—This is Hollywood again, all right. Be gone a week, a month, a year. Come and the first day you can e up where you left off. That is what I find on returning from my vacation in New York The usual stack of mail, includ- ing accumulated mountains of pub- lici copy. The usual notices, telephone messages. On the streets, the usual scare heads: Lupe Again Seeks Divorce. (What, again?) Or maybe it’s Joan and Tone part. Or Somebody Else. And the usual impulse to hurry back and do a screed on the Pity of 3t All, or Why Can't Hollywood ‘Marriages Endure. (Impulse nobly resisted.) After all, when a movie marriage lasts, that's NEWS. And the Richard Arlens have said their au revoirs, with the usual regrets. That was another of those jdeal Hollywood marriages. If T were in pictures I'd go gunning for the first marriage “ideal.” And they're still casting “Gone With the Wind” and announcing a new starting date. . . . Last one was September, new one is Janu- ary. . . . So next August or there- HISTORY TONIGHT preview | scribe who called my | E‘dgwetym.’l’lu i o MTHeaTre L] The Show Place of Juneau ...and daughter 3 one® Py B ‘f‘b“,\a A “TRAPPED “S. O. S. BY G-MEN" abouts we’ll be seeing it — but | there's more than a possibility that {Norma Shearer won't be in it. Pri- |vate hunch is that premature cast- ‘mg announcement was but a straw {in the wind—and the straw is out of sight in the cyclone from the |opposite direction. But Norma can do it—and as well as the next one |—if she gets the part. In fact, T'll bet my preview tickets she can. I {mean the stubs thercof. | And while on the subject— which |is also usual—there’s a Scarlett test | which knocked ‘em for the loop. Of {all people you'd not suspect, Fran- ces Dee. They say she’s just about perfect. | And then there’s the usual cast- ing talk—Paul Muni isn't going to {play Juarez in “The Phantom Crown” after all—It's going to be Edward G. Robinson Itoday Paul Muni IS going to play Juarez in “The Phantom Crown” after all. The usual news, too, about Gloria !Swanson. She is NOT going to Imake “Lady in the News” for Re- public. She is NOT going to make anything for Republic. This makes 'Gloria the signing-est of movie |stars. She signed with Metro, Co- {lumbia, Republic in turn and hasn't |made a picture yet. Understood here she’ll do a New York play— which might make her a lady-in- !the-news again. M~anwhile the {movie script, originalk planned for Frieda Inescort, but revised for Swanson, is being revised again for | —Inescort. will be “The World's Applause” be- cause the producers fear the man George Raft-er a foreign flicker. Fear also the same man in the |street wouldn’t know what caviar is. And the customary “big excite- a WAS REPEATING when water in the Lahontan irrigation-control atrol reservoir which COAST GUARD” MIDNIGHT PREVIEW Tonight—1:15 A. M. MATINEE Sunday—2 P. M. HATS OFF...to swell fun grander romance ...as a lovable vagabond of the boulevards‘promotes’ a chateau and a man with a million...fora who thinks he's sweil. With Frank Morgan (remember him in “The Great Ziegfeld"?) and a riotous cast of laugh stars! “AS GOOD AS MARRIED” ment"—this time Uncle Sam’s legal look-see into the picture business— about which the rank and file of | Hollywood aren’t concerned in the |least, although the big shots are | plenty annoyed, Hollywped isn't really Hollywood unless it has a v"th excitement.” It's Hollywood again, all right. And if this doesn’t sound properly bored, the act has failed. It was an act, you know, because like most of the scribes who pretend to be bored with Hollywood I can't think of a place I'd rather be. G S S POCUS, POCUS; JIMMINY, GEE RICE LAKE, Wis.,, Aug. 20.—Bill Brooten stood before the filling station asking for a half-dollar so he could demonstrate a “good trick.” Someone loaned him the coin, whereupon Bill put it into his mouth, waved his hands mysteri- ously, said “pocus-pocus” and then stood pop-eyed. The coin was supposed to vanish but not_the way Bill's hocus-pocus made it go. Hospital X-rays showed the half dollar lying in Bill's stomach. — e | POPULAR OLDTIMER | A genial little man, Alf R. Erick- |sen probably is the best liked old- |timer in the Circle district. Mr. instead—but The usual title changes. “Caviar";Ericksen is the postmaster and | | roadhouse operator at Central. His good humored tales of little inci- in the street would think the new dents in the Circle country never | fail to amuse the visitors at his roadhouse. ——————— by Lester D. Henderson. J “Alaska” “BEG, BORROW OR STEAL" AT CAPITOL SUN. Florence Rice and John Beal Add Romance to F Morgan Comedy Frank Morgan, of the nervous eye- | brow Morgans, heads an all-comedy cast in “Beg, Borrow or Steal” | which brings a barrel of laughs to | the Capitol Theatre, beginning Su | day. Also featured are Florence Rice ind John Beal “Be Borrow or Steal” presents more comedians to the square foot han any recent picture coming out f Hollywood and is hailed as a ast, nonsensical, madcap feast of ntertainment. ' Leading his estranged wife and seautiful daughter in America to selieve that he is wealthy, he car- vies out the bluff when he hears of 1er impending wedding to a bank- T on by sending his congratula- ions and regretting that thereisn’t ime for them to come to Europe ind be married at his chateau on he Riviera. The socially ambitious mother of he bridegroom-to-be decides that hey will make time. The marriage s postponed and Steward is ad- vised that they are on the way. Steward, in a stew, has to promote 1 chateau. With the aid of his crook riends, he sets the stage. Things happen fast and furiously from hen on and reach a startling cli- max when the daughter proves to be a chip off the old block and mar- vies the wrong man. Tonight for the final showing is the double feature, “As Good As Married,” starring Doris Nolan and John Boles, and “Trapped By (- Men,” with Jack Holt and Wynne Gibson. World-Weary Rirman Starts SYDNEY, N. S. W, Aug. 20.— Fred Briggs, former member of the Royal Australian Air Force, is mak- ing plans to “get away from it all” ity called the International Good- will Settlement on Nukahiva, an island in the Marquesas Group.. Hundreds 6f inquiries ‘have beén received from all over Australia, but only 80 were accepted. Each was able to pass a rigid medical test and is ready to contribute $400 to a community chest. The island is 47 miles square and is said to be rich in vegetables and animal life. Its former native inhabitants are non-existant. “Although Nukahiva would sup- port us without our needing to do stroke of work,” he said, “we on't propose to be idle. We shall build houses, graze stock and per- haps to do little trading in island produce. And there is always fish to be found,” Briggs says. $126,000'in Salary Paid to Cochrane DETROIT, Aug. 20.— The man- agement of the Detroit Tigers to- day broke a precedent of thirty- eight years standing, the time the club has been in the American League, by publicly announcing the salary it had paid one of its em- ployees. Issued without comment by Walter O. Briggs Jr., treasurer and son of Owner Walter O. Briggs, a statement disclosed Gordon Stan- ley (Mickey) Cochrane, deposed | manager, had earned $126,000 in the last three years. e - - | DAUGHTER FOR LINKS A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. John Link recently at Fair- banks. The father is employed on the Ester dredge of the U.S.Smelt- ing Co. ir on the Carson'river, Nevada, spilled over (above) as the “rgqc_:l_u_t_c_.mny. last spilled over in 1922, Istd Utopia| and start a co-operative commun- | 'WARNERS’ NEW MUSICAL HAS | COLLEGE PLOT Dick Powelagd Rosemary | Star in “Varsity Show™ at Coliseum Sunday | "Varsity Show Warner Bros, filmusical extraordinary, has its lo- cal premiere Sunday at the Colise- um Theatre. Starring the ever-pop- ular Dick Powell and introducing in grand manner to motion picture au- | diences, Fred Waring and his na- tionally famous orchestra, the) | Pennsylvanians. “Varsity Show” | marks a new high in musical and | comedy entertainment. | Included in the stellar cast be- | sides Dick Powell and Fred War- ing are such leading figures as Ted | Healy, Lee Dixon, Priscilla Lane, | Rosemary Lane, Buck and Bubbles, | Walter Catlett, Johnny Davis and | Roy Atwell, Busby Berkeley. The plot of the picture deals with | the efforts of Chuek Daly (Dick Powell), a Broadway producer tem- porarily on his uppers, to stage the annual Quadrangle Club show at Winfield College. Daly, himself a Winfield alumnu: induced to re- | turn to the college to rescue the var- sity show from the hands of Pro- | fessor Sylvester Biddle (Walter Cat- lett), faculty adviser, who is all for art and nothing for modernity mn school presentations. | ‘Daly overcomes many obstacles set before a successful production by Professor Biddle, jams mc‘mbvrsi of the cagt through special schol- |asfic examinations and then fig- ures in a student strike brought on when Biddle ousts him from Ihc' campus. The undergraduates take | matters into their own hands. The show must go on. It does, Ending tonight at the Coliseum is “Born Reckless,” starring Rochelle| Hudson, Brian Donlevy and Barton | MacLane; and a second feature, Tim | McCoy in “West of Rainbow’s End.” | CANT TAKEIT AFTER HOLIDAY AND ADMITS I Qld Letdown Gets Tucker! i and Fills 'Him with | | Gobs of Gloom | By GEORGE TUCKER NEW YORK, Aug. 20—Honey, the | old let-down’s got me. I dunno why it is, but I can’t come home from vacations like other people, full of| pep and raring to go. I gotta be | gloomy. I gotta feel sorry for my- self. I gotta sit around with my chin in my hand, feeling like the| drag end of Gloomy Sunday and | | wondering what Blue Monday's | | gonna be like. Nobody has a better time than I do, but next day there’s a lily in my hand. And that’s utsnay, if you task me. Here I am back from as| | pleasant a stay as 1 was ever on,| in Connecticut it was, and instead | |of feeling keenly reminiscent and |alive, instead of bubbling over | with = suppressed energy and ex- | citement, I am lost in apathy, kin- dred to a whipped houn’ dog. | The rambler rose may be beautiful | to Robert Burns, but it is only a | blossom to me, and a thorny one at that. This metropolis may be magic city to others, replete with romance and glamor, but it doesn’t thrill me. Not today it doesn’t. To- morrow — that's something else | again. But today it's only a big dull town. There's no savor to the ghoulash. All the blush has gone from ' the peach. There's something else, (t0o, that ‘ma.kes me: feel 'pretty bad. I passed {a ghost won the- street just now, | the ghost of the old -White -Horse Tavern. - Coming across ‘45th ;Strest I just happened .to .look up and caught. sight of a sign..It said, sim- ply: “For Rent.” And it came to me with something of .a.start that heretindeed 'was the: scene of many a gay old time. Almost everybody remembers .the ‘Tavern in prohibi- tion “days. "It was picturesque ' and it was well managed. You had to have credentials to get past the door, and the attendants looked like fox hunters in scarlet coats. There was an ancient darkie inside named Chester who banged a little two-by-four piano and sang any song you wanted to hear. They tried him out one night and he sang 167 requests without repeating | himself. That's coming through the| | rve. Chester was a book darkie. I'm sure he came out of a book. T nevel saw ‘one like him before, or since.| Looking as the place now it makes you feel a little sad. The rains and the sleets of the years of Repeal | have washed away the bright front | of the Tavern. Today the windows, little diamond-shaped squares of | stained glass, like those in cathe- | drals, are dusty and dim. Spiders make their homes in the cracks of | the door, and cobwebs are the only | lacy -curtains there. ‘What happened to the Tavern I lcan only guess. But like so many PREVIEW TONIGHT 1:15 A. M. SUNDAY! HOTCHA AS A v ® “Born Reckless” other places that thrived during{ the dry years, it faded with Rt--i peal. It is a memory now, a sudi ghost drifting through the dry sum- | mer days. | I have often thought about Chcs-‘ ter and wondered if I would walk into some place some night and see him perched at that little pi- ano, grinning delightedly at hi: white folks, banging those tunes| they like to hear. | But I never have. You'd think in| all the places you go to (through! the years there must have been 500| of them) you'd run into a fellow| like Chester. You couldn't be mis- taken, There never was anybody even a little bit like him. never have, and I suppose now I never will. Chester was old, and Repeal happened a long time ago. SIX OUT OF 10 PATIENTS ARE INSANE WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—Uncle Sam is worried about the mental health of the nation’s citizens. The national resources commit- tee thinks the problem of mental disease is the most baffling in the entire field of health. It states: “Sixty per cent of all occupied hospital beds in the United States are now assigned to patients suf- fering from nervous and mental diseases.” — e Writers Locate First Negro Town EATONVILLE, Fia., Aug. 20.—In- vestigators of the Federal @Vriters’, project of Florida report that they | have substantiated this Orange| county hamlet’s -claim that it was| the first incorporated town for ne- groes in the United States. Eatonville, located a short dis- tance northwest of Orlando, re- eived its charter of incorporation n 1883. et REPUBLICANS GETTING READY AT FAIRBANKS TO BE ACTIVE IN CAMPAIGN The Fourth Division Republican Club recently met at Fairbanks and made plans for conducting a short campaign. Speakers at the meeting spoke against the present form of tax on gold, favoring a tax on profits rather than gross output, also against a one house legistature. FUNNY AS A FRESHMAT 8 FLIVVER! —FEATURETTES — POPEYE in “] Never Change My Altitude” LATE FOX MOVIETONEWS LAST TIMES TONIGHT —— Deluxe Double Feature Program ROCHELLE HUDSON—BRIAN DONLEVY But I JUNE AU = COLISEUIM OWNED AND OPERATED 37 Juneau's Greatest Show Vatue MONDAY! CO-ED'S DIAR¥ \ I ?e\\“sy\vanlans Here’s the show that turned all America into a cheering section! $ JOR Baby?” “On With The Dance” Wish for ; Fewer Fish Ted Healy keops busy in this institution of higher yearning! NNY D} BUCK an BUBBLES DIRECTED BY WILLIAM KEIGHLEY A Warner Bro. “Love Is On The A TongM" Cuntod and Dioemied by Busky “You'se Go Something There” ~ Buckeley - Music 4nd Lyrice by Dick qre orher hio bie) Witing ond Jehany Meseor SUNDAY IS THE BIG NIGHT TIM McCOY gl “West of Rainbow’s End” Picture rigiosl Stary by taught sketch artist of no mean |ability. The boy’s work has attract- | ed the attention of many tourists at Circle this summer and if he keeps on with his work, Circle may be noted some day as the home town LISBON, Aug. 20.—Sardines pack- |Of an excellent artist. ed like sardines along the coast of Portugal have caused a fishing bled to the point where it doesn't pay some fishermen to fish. | So many of the little fish are be- | MIAMT, Fla |ing caught that prices have tum- | = s TERNS MOVING NORTH — 'The Sooty and Noody Terns, two comparatively rare species, appear to be moving north. Southern Florida observers Worse than that, trawlers at found hundreds of those birds, Figueira da Foz report it was nec-|wpion ordinarily inhabit only the essary to drop anchor after thick |yt HERITE < Ameriea. chools of sardines clogged the propeller and interfered with nav- igation. - ee— YOUNG ARTIST Harry Joseph, 14-year-old son of politics — et Addressing university students in Wales Lerd Baldwin said “when learning becomes prostituted to there are no depths to Ezias Joseph at Circle, is a self- which it cannot descend.” His Win Rebuff for New Deal? Representative Howard Smith voting -~ i Triumph of Representative Howard W. Smith of Virginia, over William E. Dodd, Jr., in the Eighth district Democratic congressional primary in Virginia is looked upon by political observers as a rebuff to the New Deal. Smith, on the “black list” ‘of the Non-Partigan league (C. L O.), has voted against key administration measures. Dodd, son of the former ambassador to Germany, proclaimed hime self an “unswerving” Roosevelt supporter. ing in the primary at Alexandria, Bhoto shows Smith Vot~ ] s