The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 15, 1938, Page 3

iy L3 ] WALTER ABEL TRYING TO PUT MOVIE SHOWS IN FIRST PLACGE Millions of Dollars Being Spent to Educate Flicker Fans By ROBBIN COONS HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Sept. 15—A million dollars is being spent to convince you that movies are your best entertainment. All the movie studios are in on the big “educational” campaign de- signed to make you and many others—come and see the new sea- son’s flickers. Stars, directors, writ- ers, producers are preparing, by publicity man proxies, many nice little sermons on WHY you should come to the movies. They're telling you that movies are educational; that movies ar instructive; that movies are ally uplifting; that movies high ideals; that movies ar for bunions, corns, chilblains, yel low fever and ptomaine poisoning A few of the sermons, of course, will stress that movies, in addition to their cure-all and cultural ad- vantages, are also entertaining. It’s nice to have a million dol- lars spent. And I hope the cam- paign works so that all the produc- ers and exhibitors can be happy again—even as happy as they were in the good old days when people ir flocked to the boxoffice through habit and came back in no matter what manner of celluloid tripe they had been served. That will be fine. Tt wiil be finer BuYy A Fl-:w PA HENRY STEPHENSON Show Place of Juneau | * ALS * MANY UNHAPPY RETURNS * TENNIS TACTICS * LATE VS > PREVIEW TONIGHT all these highly touted new nnm\ turn out to be as fine as | they're supposed to be. And T don't ‘doum that many of them will. T've wSL‘!n a few that can go down on |anybody’s must list rizht now. On the otner hand, I'm thinking like a great many other people that the be way to convince people | about their “greatest entertain- ment” is to make the picture so goldarned entertaining that they can't deny it. Get a picture like that, sell it with showmanship, and the picture and. the public will take care of the rest. | I'm thinking in particular “Ale: vmd(‘r's Ragtime Band.” There’s a number that has had| one of the smartest of exploitation and advertising campaigns. The campaign brought the people into | the theatres, and the picture ap-| | about | parently has lived up to the cam- don't know when I've so much word-of-mouth ad- on a picture since paign. I heard | “Snow | 1g In any gathering, onj street cars, at railroad stations, on he street when people stop to chat, its’ “Have you seen it?” or ‘I tried to get in but there \\dsnt‘ a seat,” “Gee, its’ a swell movie!” “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” unless your edu- | Berlin's music h: been overlooked; it doesn’t instruct | you in anything; it isn’t morally| uplifting; and it doesn’'t cure any- | thing — except boredom and the | blues, sometimes known as the bo or And isn't educational caton in Irving It used to Be a trusty maxim of | this business — “There’s nothing | wrong with the movie industry that | good pictures can’t cure.” The pres- ent come-on-and-see campaign is inspired by a realization that some- | thing more is needed, some general stic-up of the old public enthus- liasm for the screen. But back of it | CKAGES TonAv 100-150 watt, clear 200 watt, clear ... 300 watt, clear 500 watt, clear 100-200-300 3-Lite, I HOME 1. 5-1025-50 Watt, 34 V. 100 watt, 34 V. BOAT LIGHTING 5-10-25 Watt, 12 V. LARGEST ASSORTED STOCK OF EDISON MAZDA LAMPS IN ALASKA Alaska Electric Light & Power Co. ALASKA—— JUNEAU GOOD LIGHT was never SO CHEAP SEVENTEEN PRICE REDUCTIONS IN SEVENTEEN YEARS SINCE 1921 Edison Mazda Prices Lowest Ever STANDARD 10-100 watt, frosted . .E.S. | the Government Hospital last nigk\, 15 .20 30 55 120 . 65 --$ .35 50 $ 45 IGHTIN DOUGLAS THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSD. “WISE GIRL"IS FEATURED AT CAPITOL NOW Greenwich Vill:age Is Vivid Background for Comedy Slalnm__,Hopl\lm,Mllland A fast-moving comedy drama with crackling dialogue! unfolding | one of the most unique romances | presented on the screen, is “Wise Girl,” RKO Radio picture co-star- ring Miriam Hopkins and Ray Mil- | land which opened last night at the | Capitol Theatre | The novel romance involves two natural enemies “- a tempestuous | Park Avenue beauty and a defiant | Greenwich Village artist. The girl has promised to aid her wealthy father secure custody of his two orphan grandchildren who live with their uncle and legal guardian, a youth with a precarious income. Upon this premise are built the s dramatic and laugh-provok- ng situations, chief of which is the hectic love affair between Milland and Miss Hopkins when the latter pesing as a destitute actress, meets story the artist with the idea of double- crossing him, but suddenly finds| herself in love with him Tense drama. arises when the grandfather, despite the girl's pro- tests, carries out his scheme to gain custody of the young:t whereby | - Miss Hopkins' real identity and I apparent treachery are revealed to SOARING HOME, BACK TO N. Y, FROM OLD N. 0. is re-established as a result of the AP Cnlummst Althoux:,h turbulent love affair. A})()V(‘ Clouds Has , the artist, In a hilarious climax the hei manages to convince him of her love and at the same time forces him to mend his idle ways Miriam Hopkins evidences unusu- jal versatility in her quick transi- tions from freezy comedy to heart- plundering drama. Ray Milland is equally impressive in the role of the struggling artist whose career Other noteworthy charactes tions in “Wise Girl” are contributed His Reminders by Walter Abel as a hard-drinking s artist, Alec Craig as a soft-hearted b A s landlord, Guinn Williams as a R ST oL sculptor by day and pugilist by ABOVE THE CLOUDS, Sept. 15. night, and Henry Stephenson a Reflections on spasm bands, voo- the crusty millionaire. Two juven-|doo drugs NroudBt Tank: dkan {le newcomers, Betty Philson and|work balconies and a thousand Marianna Strelby, turn in outstand- | other fa peculiar to fabulous ing performances as the orphans. |New Orle Chicago and Southern’s racy all, that old maxim still holds Lockheed is 7,000 feet above the true. delta We're clipping along at 181 miles per hour . . . But I can't hear the motors . . . The only thing is the throbbing jangle of Last spring when producers were wailing, there was joy to spare at Walt Disney's little plant because I hear Mrs. David Waggoner gave a spir- itual uplift talk, and Mrs. C. C. Per- soneus told of the missions in South | fo'bits each. |to a dollar 2 As we spiralled above Shushan America. |airport and lit out across Lake Miss Matilda Holst, accompanied |poptchartrain our position was 29° by Mrs. Carol Beery Davis at the 56/ North Latitude; 90° 84’ West plano, sang several vocal selections. |1 o aitude Bl s New Refreshments were served QUring |orienns 15 . . But from where we I‘?:ig;ft’”“”"" by Mrs. George E.\ove there isn't any New Orleans 7 Siyais now . . . She's just a bend in the *. o |river. |on St. Charles Avenue has been 'sold to Robert Eddy, the furniture | HosPITAL NOTES ’ | Marguerite Clark’s lovely home L3 - Mrs. Charles Kitzman, who has man, and she’s in New York . . . been receiving surgical care at St. And not far above her home is Ann’s Hospital, was dismissed yes- Loyola University. It's so close to terday afternoon. Tulane that you can sit in a ¢Loyola classroom and wink at a Tulane co-ed Remember Wilma Frances Saurassen,-the actress (“Stage Door”)? She's a New Or- leans girl and her father is a ship Hazel Wheat was discharged from after having received surgical care. After receiving medical treat- |captain. ment at the Government Hospital,| Sorry I didn't get to tell Dick David Rose was dismissed today. Vecino, at the St. Charles, and NOW IS THE TIME! DON'T WAIT ANY LONGER—to have your h plant put in readiness for the winter’s heavy work. You will save much expense and discomfort later by having fuel tanks pumped and cleaned and fire boxes re-bricked, now. RICE 8 AHLERS CO. PHONE 34 cating Third and Franklin Streets For Real Refreshment AT THE FAIR See MINNIE FIELDS for “Juno-Maid” Ice Cream and Cookies ICE CREAM CONES WATCH THE ELECTRIC RANGE AWARD at Humboldi park in Milv dpor opera-goers until someos AY, SEPT. 15,'1938. Sam Guarino, at the Roosevelt, odby They're two bartend ers who can tell a good story And 1'm sorry I didn't get to \'X\Il any of those famous Negro Cults ln summer the refreshment is ;l lemonade” but in winter ssed . coffee.” you close your “.um\ you can hear ux the snowball man . . . in New Orleans . The s of shaved ice saturated w fruit syrup—raspberry, fig, peach, anything you want 5 and the eyes en chant banana, cents. Then there “poor boy.’ {sandwich 1Tt's a whole |tengthw | beef lettuce | nickel You can't Quarter you can't is the matter of th A “poor b is a but what a loaf of bread nd piled with r and tomatoes. Co: see much of the Frenc you walk . . And much of the rest of unless New Orleans unless you ride . That section of the Quarter near the French Market has been mo. nopolized by Ttalians . . . And that Snow White” hadn’t heard about|a New Orleans spasm band ! a recession. Later on, the Warners |Ever hear one? A spasm band |3 bpobulated by the Irish is had a grin because “Robin Hood” |is a miscellaneous collection of [KNOWN as The Irish Channel . . . had hit a bull’s eye with his trusty | Negroes playing on pan tops, soap | 1€ first white man to glimpse the longbow. And “Alexander’s Rag-|boxes, broomsticks, (in cans, and | of New Orleans was Lui time Band” is well on its way to|gongs . . . They play in jitter-bug | MOS¢0s0, a surveyor with DeSota, prove the same thesis, that “Mov- |fashion, wandering the streets like [PUt T €laim to be the last to have {ies are your best entertainment.” strolling minstrels and serenading | CeR it because I trained a pair of Which they are, when they EN- anybody for a dime binoculars on her just as she dis- |TERTAIN. I hope the emphasis| Ever hear of anger powder? . . apbeared in the That |will always be on that last word That's one of the gaudy little items |JUst @ little while of the campaign slogan. obtainable in voodoo drugstores | " already past Jackson . s iy | You have to be known to get and heading into Memphis . . ‘Jlu MISSIONARY SOCIETY | in one of them . .. Then you are(®d Big Muddy is cr ling, be- HOLDS FIRST MEETING Ucticd fo their weird assoriment ."““l‘l“ us like a big snake, headin of conjure stuff: dragon's blood, |50t - . . In six hours Il be l»:ul» mad luck water, delight powder,|D New Yol Members of the Interdenomin black cat oil, hell's devil powder, -+ tional Missionary Society met yes- and snake root. There are scores [ terday afternoon at the Methodist|of other items I could name but DRUNK D | Church, for the first meeting of they're unprintable in a family the fall term. newspaper. Cost you from two bits CHARGE BRINGS FINE, SENTENCE : Crowded Coupe Smashes Into Patrol Wagon at Early Hour Today Chris Nelson, 23, was fined $100 and given a 30-day jail sentence by City Magistrate Mayor Harry I. Lu- cas this afternoon for drunken driv- ing. Nelson early this morning with four companions in his coupe, one of them a woman, ran into the Iparked patrol wagon on Willoughby Avenue, then ran into the Salva- tion Army Barracks and onto the| beach, according to the police. Damage to the patrol wagon con- stituted two smashed fenders and son’s car was minor. In addition to his fine, must pay $40 damages to the patrol wagon, City Magistrate Lucas said, and “if the $140 is paid, the sentence will be suspended.” Nelson also forfeited his driver’s license, and his car was confiscated. L b SHOWER GIVEN MRS. FRANK WOODS HERE Louise Tanner-Casey and Mrs Farnesto entertained with a shower in honor of Mrs. Prank Woods terday afternoon at the home cf Louise Casey. Refreshments were served by hogtesses and the aflernoon v spent informally, with the fol ing guests being present for the o o feasion: Mrs. Anna Rosenberg, M {John Pastl, Mrs. G. Nielson, Mi J. B. Dalton, Mrs. M. A. Monag rick, Mrs. Frank Behrends, Mrs Tanaka, Mrs. A. Rutsala, Mrs. {"Mifiner, Miss Roscllen Monagle and | Miss Leota Harris. - e Today's News Today.—Fmplre, S ukee where predatory mosquitees broucht thought of large paper sacks. a running board. Damage to Nel-|. . | Nelson | Mrs. Frank Reaber, Mrs. L. E. Pat-| PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION IS - FORMING NOW New Fang l Schooling Is| Introduced by Var- i ious Methods ‘ o | | By LYDIA GRAY SHAW ! AY cature Service Writer NEW Y 3ept. 15.—If pro- i 1 asn’t reache home town ht be just as| if U ok a look at it in the| . New i 100! I i N York the schools, niblie anc rivat have been a for progressive here this “ne pe of teach- ing nore and more communities, Probably u won't be able to tour the York schools but T went through a m of them just to see what ild may run up against Ui -0l next in the way of new funcled s¢hool- ing Progressive education is “indi- vidi That can be done even in a school system as large as N York where especial schools, 1 the Music and Art high school, are maintained for children talented in | es special lines. » ‘Hook: Problem | Progressive education is | That means actual experience takes | precedence over text hooks. For | instance, arithmetic may be learned invu-ixw. the process of buildink a | ship. be picked up in Hln process about the | early settlers. Progressive ckers, involves “vital.” Reading may of learning education, say its few disciplinary pr »hn ms. At the Music and Art school, for instance, instrue- s find students so interested in | their work that they take no time out for mischief. And at nearby | Manhasset Bay school, a private | institution on Long Island, stu- dents who learn geography by constructing models of great rivers in the ool yard forget to play | pranks, Grades are unknown in progres- sive schools and tests are given by the students themselves. Usually the report home consists of a de- tailed summary of the student’s aptitudes and progress. For. in- | stance— | “John’s quality of work is below what he can do. At present he is | barely passing his plane geometry. He seerps eager to learn but is ex- periencing difficulty in overcoming | previously acquired work habits, ” and so on 1or 5, more. 100 words | For Teachers Too Child guidance bureaus are an in- lUL,rdl part of progressive schools. | The modern school teacher has | come to realize that psychological problems are likely to clog the aca- demic work of the students. New York City has a bureau for the en- tire school system, with trained guidance workers. in attendance. Learning First Hand Fven teachers learning to teach in progressive schools are trained in New York by progressive methods. A teagher, says the Bank Street| School in New York City, is a c¢ii- zen of the communily in which she (15 teaching. She ean’t shut hewsvif leaving ~ the and simply pour werial into her stu- dents, because textbooks no longer *| construction; | e all of education. the Bank about the world, send out students goes into the hor | of their own. She ‘Bhe spends { rooms much Ito stores and s of parents tolone learns abouf it in New E. learn aboul the conditions there.|It hasn't been accepted by all au- time in class-|thorities yet, helpiug progressiye stu- | speaking against it publicly dents in their own work. She goes|more. But, whether approved 5 to the trades-|uot, it apparently is on the march.! ROLLICKING COMEDY SEEN AT COLISEUM ’\'(.me Ollvla De lland, Co-starred in reat Garrick™ n Uring Lero the fmmortal | Bt David Garrick, a gay comedy of that star and his times the “ereen of the Coliseum tro last night, with Brian ire in the role of Garrick and Olivia de Havilland as Germaine. | the ¢irl with whom he falls in love. | 45 » Great C rick” is the Litic 1ced | of picture, which wes prod for Warner Bros. distribution hy{ Jame wle, under the banner and the personal supervision of Meryyn LeRoy. 1t is the fourth LeRoy cine ma tince he became an independent producer, the others being “The King and the Chorus Girl” “Mr Dodd s the Air” and “The Won't ¥ t.” Garrick in the era of the 1750's| was acknowledged to be the greatest | actor the world had ever known. could play anything-comedy. straight drama story finds him ¢ in London and pre another in France. Enem rculated a false report | He tragedy, This he said he would “teach the o to act.” Tnsulted, the French st fok decide to frame him up n make him look ridicu How he turns the ta and then goes on to success Paris sfage, Is what makes up the st t has some ititul wbly the old Drui 1 Iheavre in London and the Comedie Francaise in Paris, 'nu.i various streets and dwellings in (ie two capitals. i — e — CHAMBER BACK OF BOND 15SUE IMPROVEMENTS Bustness (imup Urges Ap-| proval by Taxpayers | at Tuesday Election The bonds, if authorized, will run ‘sl atement by Jimean’s Greatest Show Value Last Times 1'onight TONIGH BIG N is THE Also Mal Hallet and Orchestra Color Cartoon Fox -Movietonews o7 — ion according to a recent Bradstreet and Dunn on the subject ol municipal bonded indebtedness. We recommend that the Cham- record as lavoring the ue. safe port ber go on { whole hond In making a favorable recom- st mendation, however, we would ac- (Continued trom fage One) kmmlnnv it with the suggestion T " " [ihat the ity should' prépare 'to These amounts represent 55 per | retire its bonded indebtedness by cent of the cost of the m.;uovp-jm Jeast $25.000.00 per year. ments. The Federal Governmenut 3 will donate 45 per cent or $116,- SIX KILLED IN i for 20 years and bear interest at 4 per cent. There bas been a ‘War Deparfment $232 vide for the dredging and other work for the boat harbor. None of this has to be matched by the city. upon the city providing the termn inal facilities, extension of streets in the vicinity of the harbor, and otted by th 100.00 to pro other n sary improvements. The city has already pledged this amount, feeling certain its citizens would back it up in the action, for the reason it has been recognized by everyone as an urgent need for 20 years or more. There seems to be no valid reason why bonds for this project should not be ap- proved. | The other four items are in one! calegory and are proposed to Lro-| vide funds for tie construction of streets, sidewalks and sewers, They ave largely interlocked. If the streets are paved, the sidewalks and sewers must be constructed at the same time and as a part of the improvement, An Opportunity Concerning the last four iteuws, your committee finds that it is extremely unlikely the city will again be offered grants hy the Federal Government in any amount; that the improvements are very much needed; that the City Gov- ernment has a definite obligation to take care of the city’s growing needs; . that such _improvements very definitely stimulate its that toe street surfacing will, by estimate, save the cily nance cost of while the interest on new will be bu 1e Mayor's a4 mainte~ the whole $5,656.00 per year; improvements have to be douple the present cost; he proposed issue with the city’s pies- ! eni bonded indtbtecness will be 900.00. which is about 5 of its assessed valuation 1 wer, a people. ‘Then she sets out to do something about the - condilions whe seen, She Jearns that. to a 6-year-old child unemploymeni isn't just a big word. It's real because he lives with it, at. home, That is progressive education, as York. few although ure| any | its expenditure is dependent , citi- | zens to better and more permanent ' proposed $7.500.00 per year{ proposed bonded indebtedness that | will ultimato.y | madc and at almost’ And. when the child comes to her with questions! Sireet School stu- | that have arisen in his own huu.e, teacher is sent out to learn|she must be able to talk to him in iust as they may|the terms of reality ot - TRAIN ACCIDENT | BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Sept. 15. The Belgrs Surajevo express an passenger train morning 4t the station here. iv passenger: were killed and 60 « rs were iniuved, several fatally. | ——-— - WHATTO? | | SEWARD, Alaska, Sept. 15. | © —Jack MecCord, promoter and now sheepman of West Alaska, announces that he is a future candidate for Delegate to Con- gress. McCord says hl.' slogan, he actually throws his hat inu the Territorial political ring will be “Fewer fish traps and more mutton.’ .I o ol S o The following are scores of base- ball games played this afternoon in the major leagues as received up to 12:30 o'clock trom the Associated Press: ade rain into a i l BASEBALL TODAY R e National League Pittsburgh 7; New York 2. Only game. smerican ngn- Chic.co 5, Philadelphin 4. Cleveland 3; Bostont £, ew York 4; Detroit 8. — PERVMANENT ‘" AVE SPLCIAL for AUGUST YETER PAN BEAUIY SHOPPE ~ PHQNB 221 'nzcomY. mm SATURDAY-=7 P. M. UNION HALL