The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 23, 1938, Page 3

THEATRE The Show Place of Juneau LAST TIMES TONIGHT SHE SWAPPED SWEET- "HEARTS AT THE ALTAR! A laugh-a-minuts ro- 7 mance with Frank Morgan in his funniest role! JOHN BEAL FLORENCE RICE Produced by Frederick Stephani Our Short Subjects Are the Talk of the Town! ’ MIDNIGHT PRE ly Return Engagement JEANN TE MacPONALD and NELSON EDDY v in “Naughty Marietta” The Greatlest Mus Produced P R RN A SR KR T . INTERIOR MAN KILLS HIMSELF, USES DYNAMITE | | | | al Ever I Victor Sorsen Blows Him- self to Pieces Two Days | _After 51st Birthday (Fairbanks News-Miner) Despondent, Victor Sorsen, expert powder man and a foreman for the U. S. Smelting Co., used a stick of dynamite to end it all, two da after his 51st birthday anniversary Apparently, he laid down and held the:dynamite in his mouth or ed his head on the explosive after lighing the fuse. His head, shoulders; and left arm were blown off. Sorsen was foreman at camp on the Dav- idson ditch Dome créek. i His birthd ry was Tues- | day. uu} co to testimony taken at! the inquest held lagt eve- | ning by} Commissioner Wwifam N. ' Growder} he came to town Wednes- day everfing to celebrate, Alterward, 4 ne and a friend, Mike Hakla, left | Fairbanks at 2 o'clock Thursday morning:in a company pickup truck the camp. | Goes Off Road Fifteen miles out, fne truck went [ Tfor off the road, 100 jeet below the | Davidson ditch bfidge, near the | tunnel.” {Sorsen ayi Hakla tried to | | get the Inacmne,ack on the road, A7~ MILWAUKEE) BE SMART. .. > 4 BE COMFORTABLE ; ”&/}Iou THE i AIR-COOLED The Milwpukee Road is not only the great scenic route, but the great comfort rout ether you travel in bedroom cars, stanglard sleepers, modern tourist sleepers ar Luxury-lounge coaches, you get the bénefit of clean, cool, air-con- ditioning § . . of roller bearing smooth- ness and #ilence. .. and of 656 thrilling dlectrified miles through the mountains. Meals i the OLYMPIAN's new, larger dining caF give added zest to traveling —and cost as little as 50¢. Also eco- nomical Off-the-Tray service at your seat in tourist cars and coaches. Low faresto Minneapolis, St. Paul, Mil- waukee, Chi- s cago and the East apply on The MILWAUKEE Roap SMART RIVIERA 1S BACKGROUND OF COMEDY HIT ‘Beg, Borrow or Steal’ Ends at Capitol Theatre ‘ This Evening avan of com with lavish grounds moves = 2 on at the Capitol Th final showing toni called “Beg, Borrow or Steal,” and features Frank Morgan, Florence Rice and John Beal 2 Serving to give Morgan top-bill for the first time under the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer banner, it {is swell entertainment that ranks with Godfre | g Jibeled Lady” and “My Man in humorous propensities. | Borrow or Steal” is the sto of an' American tourist guid: | who promotes a chateau on the| | Riviera to / out a bluff to h GILT-EDGE ————— . v anvra THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1938. NEW ORLEANS 1S GOING TO SEE BEORGE TUCKER Columnist Is Leaving New York for Visit Again to Canal Street By GEORGE TUCKER | NEW YORK, Aug. 23.—Have to go| now. I'm leaving for New Orleans a few minutes, just as soon s bags are packed I'm rited . It's been a long since I walked down Canal Almost 11 years, and too long. as th pretty 1 time Street that's days now I've been thinking about crayfish, and the old French market, and the river . . . And there are 50 things T want to do, and 50 people T want to see . . . I want to see Marguerite Clark, and Roark Bradford, and Herman Deutsch For debutante, family in America. The idea is Lesley Hyde Ripley will have a and Lyle Saxon. I want to stroll use the place for his daughter coming-out party that—society ' along the old street of the duelling wedding and he calls on his crook | l"‘e'ntl'rters ctst:r‘n:“c;::lll"‘l:r“::: academies, and look in on that pals to pose as nobility. With one PREY Dve e prize~fightér's museum, and visit [ove on the police, Morgan man-| f0F,close to $50.000. The SUBDEL | o Absinthe House, and look at | ages the plan all right up to a cer Newsoork R. L those rooms where Lafcadio Hearn | tain point. But the daughter, be wrote so movingly of ‘New Or- [a chip off the old block, ups o T T et e | things by marrying the wrong man.|came upon what was left of the T want toget ona Dauphin street | The picture is filled with laughs, |body, near the bank of ,an old| car and ride to the end of the line| {furnished by a cast of experts.|prospect hole, at 4 oclock Friday ... T want to see the old Napoleon | Morgan is excellent as usual in the | afternoon House, and tiptoe through the Ca- | featured role. Miss Rice and Be It appeared that Sorsen, in tak- | thedral of St. Louis. And drink cof- :uum display their flair for comed m," His “own - 1k d attempted fee in any of the 27,000 cafes and that was evidenced in “Double|, ° 1 0 "o o o the water- |Testaurants there, virginal coffee | Wedding.” Others in the cast are|r .o poie His head and <houlders | that looks like sacramental wine. Reginald Denny, George Givot, E.|y 0 ¢ h'l 1‘m ;fl,“; e —_— Clive, Cora Witherspoon, Her-| - SOt B0 T e body. The| I WABb to see the statue of Jack- | man Bing, Vladimir Sokoloff, Janet| . . = i toanhRa the| 50N — not Andrew Jackson but | Beecher, Tom Rutherford and Har-| 850 arm was still attached 0 the gionowan gackson, the one wher | 1an Briggs i that priest came and said those Empty An empty whiske ed to his cabin, got a bottle whicn feet off the road, a mile and a half below the camp. wondered, for no one was supposed to be out blasting that day. Search Begins When Sorsen did not show up for work that morning—Thursday—a‘an- to meet at the | party of six company men started searching for him. Friday the com- | they will pany sent out 20 men who made a | grounds. thorough search in the country| around the camp. Moving fsn-wise,‘ Try The Empir and 30 feet apart, the searchers|results. rection Lutheran their picnic at the tomorrow. One result of the .ugnue invasion of been to develop an efficient and modeml%n:n.;v, something which China lacked before the regime of Chiang Kai-Shek. The Chinese fighting man of the past was a sort of comic opera person who was as much a bandit as a soldier. Today, how- “fl.@m&humimpo-m;mm'nmya Bottle PICNIC All members of the Sunday School clock in the forenoon from wHere | proceed Found sad Tuesday when the s that v bottle, the one but the ground was too slippery, 50| from his cabin, was found 350 feet Statue Was unveiled. You want that Sorsen told Hakla to walk on in|from the body RS, et you? Teu whnt G heac two miles farther to camp in order| The guthorities learne i M B il to be there in time to go to Work |sen occasionally had dritss. iy, | X0OWD priest shuffled out ‘of the at Tro'closk g ; . crowd and asked permission to say ] and afterward was despondent. He "0 o Ao LR ey The last Hakla saw of Sorsen,|had moncy enough, for $155 was - [C% Words. And this s what he Sorsen was walking toward Fox. ¢ sald 8 g towe found on his person, and he had | et Lk However, he must have changed his|more coming from the company . "(j-'"’" when "'hmlll(i‘vn]m (Ll ,[M v : P > 8 the Confe shot ail, it first mind later, for he did not go to| His employment record at the pu Cenfheeraey SIONIE O T Fox, and he was seen at the Dome |fairbanks office of the U, S, Smelt. | E0ame necessary for Thee to re- creek’ ‘camp ‘et 6 ani, > THUMOAY os .on. sholfl. thalti e’ Was Thoer | 07 Thy servant; BtanewalliJac morning, the Commissioner report- St 14 ek > on ed. i ,]l, e l]m',”‘;( Fl"““"": P'f"',” Those were words that Lincoln Gt Thguor 1921 to 1926 he worked for the Fed-| .14 nave been proud of. T want e : eral Mining and Smelting Co. in |y oo ppo b B o stand The men were then eating break- 'yqaho, and in 1926 he entered the ; E Zast nt b TCe it Borea where that priest stood and say a ast at the camp, but Sorsen did|employ of the * F. E. Co.” Fair- ), not go in the messhouse. He walk- |}0nks branch of the U. Bmalts P'fll" stant prayer for his Catholic o A e o iy soul. Bad I CoHin sy i e | 8 BAlLoIOE, and “Mining. Oo I want to go down to the docks at went to the powder house 50 yards No Relatives Listed night, and smell the fruit whary from his cabin. | The company records of Sorsen and listen to the song of the lone Proficient powder man, Sorsen have no reference in them to rela- | SOme bayous. T want to feel Spanish personally was in charge of thetives, for in place of relatives he MOSs. and see cypress knees, and powder house, so the exact amount |had listed the names of two close €At pompono with Seymour Wei of dynamite he took is undeter- |frlends, Gus Happa, who went Out- | At Antoine’s...I want to taste may- mined. side three years ago, and Matt | haw jelly again . .. I'd give a dol- Walks Out Jarvi, of Fairbanks. Sorsen had l1ar for one spoonful of mayhaw Evidently, he went up the hill worked 12 seasons for the company. Jelly right now . .. I want to eat in the brush behind the powder Last winter he prospected in the | Muscadines and wild fox grapes and house, then walked more than a|Hot Springs district. ride in a handmade pirogue. mile down the ridge, to the point e — iFhove. the Doy wms foubd—L.200 I want to stand in some ruined sgarden and smell the cape jessa- 1 mines . . . And scratch my name A detonation was heard at the on a magnolia leaf and watch it camp at 7 o'clock, and the men| The Sunday School of the Resur-|turn back . .. I want to eat ripe Church will hold Treadwell Beach persimmons and cut myself a pal- metto fan. I want to listen to a | mocking bird again. I want to visit the site of that church at 10 o’- | old underground jail where the| Spanish fathers practiced the In- to the picnic| quisition, as described by Saxon &z so eloquently in “Fabulous New | Orleans” . . . I want to visit that e classifieds for part of New Orleans where Jean | LaFitte held sway, as described by FIRATREERES. AWITINA WA 4 L7 & T3ENGIOTS M. 4. OO, Their Majesties Go Sailing [MUSICAL FILM === ENDS TONIGHT “Varsity Show” Stars Dick Powell, Two Lane Sis- ters, Fred We\ring Fifter thousand llars a min- wi Warner Brc 1 1 finale numbe 31 now showing m Theatre, with Dick P ¥ X and C Warings' Penn sylvania tar premier dar Director W t number tha « top all others ever n on th ser And hav confidence “Bl and relying o ast per fornial s a criterion, studio of- tic okayed his budget of $150,( particular par the pic- runs & seant ten minutes on ei, thus mak the wtly 000 per sixty secon » The entire cast participates in the finale including, besides the Lane Sisters—Priscilla and R mary—Lec Dixon, Fred Waring Roy Atwell, Walter Catlett, Scotty Bates, Ted I Mabel Todd £l Sterling Hollowny. George MacF: - land, Johnny “Scat” Davis, “Pol McClintock Welden and & Here is an exclusive picture of King George VI, Queen Elizabeth, Princess suck and Bubble: Elizabeth (left). and Princess Margaret Rose. It was taken shortly nft_pr they boarded the royal yacht Victoria and Albert at London for a cruise | in home waters, | <. MRS. ROWE IS That’s | |a new title for the one Bette ENTERTA!NFD . | Davis | out on—and rightly. Mrs. L. P. Dawes i DO SOMETHING ABOUT MARIE back. ~ Ditto Kay Francis making “Curtain Call” now | walked It's | good enough for Kay, though. Any- |thing to finish up her contract entertaining | Well, they have revamped the yarn |with a bridge-luncheon this after- somewhat, and it may be better |noon at her home on Fast Street now in honor of Mrs. R. Robinson Ro | But Bette Davis, queen of the|who is to leave soon for Californ Bouquets of garden flowers Mol‘f‘ Pm(lurlions W:ml(‘d lot nowadays, had to get off the lot | S 3 |to win that crown. After she came |ter each of the three indt for |)<‘uullfu], Dumb |back from RKO and “Of Human |tables and guests for the afternoon Little Blonde | Bondage” she was a star—but in|include Mrs. Wellman Holbrook, 2 ‘1o time she was fighting her bosses |Mrs. G. F. Alexander, Mrs., Trevor By ROBBIN COONS lin court. She lost, the studio won.|Davis, Mrs. Waino Hendrickson, EBLIYWOOD, At 28 This 15| Sne W' a "gond sport. Shb' came |Mrs. Margaret Bowen, Mis, Claude a ‘eall o all fams o rally ’round k and made hits : “Marked | Hirst, M s. John Keyser, Mrs. J. C. and make the Watners do some-|Woman” and’ “Jezebel” among)B Hawkes, Mrs, John Chappell, tisirlg dbout Marte Wilson them. After “Jezebel (l}nvy gave her |Mrs. E. Ehler, and Mrs. C. P. Jenne. Wou 'know Marfe. She's the beau- | Comet Over Broadway" (now “Cur- | z T tiful, dumb little blonde. She's play- | (') (‘m:\” 2 ‘\'\"‘_‘l'k”"”“ “““',‘f:"‘:‘ ‘\“‘l‘f“ JEAN SIMPKINS cd that beatiful, cumb 1t bonce . (O 2 0o et ana| ARRIVES TONIGHT| abainERnd naattl ; all is peace agaim. Bette's making | s Moets 'Girl” Maris GUght. 16 g0 I'he Sister | Miss Jean Sml\pklus. (Iaughtm‘ of e e S i Sy - | Mr. and Mrs. George M. Simpkins But voircan't "tell> The: kid ate| Back to Marle Wilson: She ought/|Of .this city, is & passenger on the her Heart ‘ot forimenths Waiting |0 have s chance in something big- | Cauadian. ‘Pacific ‘steamer: Princes to hear whisihne Shewd trust her |§6r. Bhe oughl to have a chiance Plowise dip hixe Wis'shening: s with “Boy Meets Girl." They trust- even, to play a beautiful girl who| «Miss Simpkins has been taking a 3 COLISEU OWNED AND - OPFRATED %y W.L ] Juneau's Greatest Show Value | LAST TIMES TOIfiGHT =% College Life in the Rah! y e Vi i w q AND KIS PENNSYLVANIANS with TED HEALY + WALTER ' 1T DRISCILLA LANE |55 OSFMANY LANE JOMNNY = DAY . 2d EUBBLES "R Oirecred vy Wi: KEIGHLEY ! A Wrnor Segs. Picture W )"?:I El P — i Ot 0 \TE NEWS | POPEYL e s s s . 5 pecial nurses course at the Univer- sity Washington since March, and w ovey uties of of- fice nurse for Dr. Robert M. Coffey, upon her arrival in Juneau. during the a} M aince Hen- dr son, W is 1 »on for a visit in Minneapolis e e, — HELLENTHALS ARE A\RRIVING ON LOUISE Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Hellenthal, who have been south for several months, are arriving home tonight aboar e Princess Louise. - - Lode anG- pracer iucauiom Botices forsale at The Fmpire Office. WAKE UP YOUR LIVER BILE— Without Calomei — And You'll Jump Out oi Bed Full of Vim and Vigor. Your liver should pour out two pints of liquid bile into your howels daily. If this bile isnot flowing freely, your food doesn't digest. It just decays in the bowels, Gas bloats up . You get constipated. Your s poisoned and you feel sour, sunk and the world looks punk. A mere bowel movement doesn’t get at the cause. 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Haven’t heard a e could, may- | she’s earned | Joan Blondell wasn't available. And she worked like ten troupers to make ’em feel they hadn’t been hexed into a decision. she delivered. But you can’t tell—at the Warner factory. Marie might a good follow-up to “Boy Meets Girl,” but she’s just as likely to be thrown back to the B's. ed her finally- but get ving clothes, a flashy car. | oy na a The Warners traditionally have little luck developing feminine stars. They lured Ruth Chatterton away from Paramount when Ruth was tops, and when they finished with her Ruth was ready for a come- elvi she sat y Allen in “Anthony Ad- ECONOMY? BIG ICE My friends tell me I'm silly for going to New Orleans this time of year. They think I ought to wait 'till fall or winter, “because it's’ so ELECTRIC REFRIGERATOR e " Chinese Soldier Has i’;o;enr Worthr Undcvn: Flr; | hot down there. Well, let’s see how it is around here. The little agate lines on the front page of the newspap it is 92 today. 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