The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 22, 1938, Page 3

Show Place of Juneau Last Times Tonight . i1l story of @ uqh-thnl / E:»evil:that exposed @ rea life robbery- LEET With PAUL GUILFOYLE - LEE PATRICK BRADLEY PAGE + FKO-RADIO PICTURE SHORTS ot Firemen's Picnic Trailing Along N Latest News Snapshots ... PREVIEW TONIGHT . . . “PAID TO DANCE” and “WALLABY JI I.ITTI.E TOTTIE |was a crack golfer, much sought [for betting foursomes. } He was discovered last year |through a bit in “Rhythm on the |Range” and soon he had an M-G-M contract and a lead spot in “Bad {Man of Brimstone.” In the inter- Read On If You Are Think- vening years he had done every- . 3 E |thing one can do about a studio ing of Crashing Movies | 1% bits, swept out stages % b | played extra with Offspring }didm care for plumbing, so he | grabbed the chance of five days | work with Olive Borden in a 1930 flicker. For nearly a year after- |ward he didn't act again, but he propped, and played golf | since “Brimstone” he’s been so busy in pictures he hasn’t had time HOLLYWOOD, Cal. 99 |for the links. But the other day he i ent |took on two pals. At the first tee If you are a movie-siru par ? 4 and want to get your own bright |1t sounded, he says, like an alibi little tottie into the flickers, you contest. ought to come to Hollywood first— “I've alone—and take a look around. think I You ought to be on hand around |first a casting office some day when| “A there’s a call for children, and see can't pi for yourself the swarms of movie “Haven mammas and their offspring you O'Keefe. and your prodigy will have to buck der. and fight for even a look at the The scores role of the 19th orphan in the OKeefe, 75! orphanage scene. You ought to see for how the mammas, as they By ROBBIN COONS donp’t the pback — said bad do much.” got a can stung my right arm—I " said the second slayed in a year,” said “This is going to be mur- bee No. 1, 80; No. 2, 70 yourself It pains me to report that Fred- wait, |die Bartholomew's soap box racer glare sweetly at ch. other and now in course of construction, has primp their pretty pets—and how met & us obstacle. phoney so many of the kids them- Freddie's entire allow- selves, who ought to be backyard sand-castles or taking their naps; look with their trans-|ling” parently = xehearsed “cutenesses, ishing the contraption and giving their frequently artificial curls, and it a trial run. All it needs is their alleged talents for dancing wheels, but Freddie is without funds {18 ‘sthgidg ‘o ‘vecithig plepes. s-and Wil fake at;least a month And then, if you still think Hol- to accumulate the required amount lywood'’s a good idea for your child| Aunt Cissie, meanwhile, stand and insist on bringing it out, look ing upon her rights and their before you leap into any of the |agreement, is unyielding — figur- numerous child talent schools inling no doubt that any town. They are so easily inv to the try-out is justifiable as post- tigated that there’s little e3 poning a catastrophe. for anyone's being taken in. >, T | MARTHA SOCIETY FRIDAY Dennis O’Keefe, the erstwhile Bud Mrs. David Wood and Mrs. Ray Flanagan of the extra ranks, made Ward will be hostesses tomorrow more money at golf his first year [afternoon, when members of the in pictures than he did at acting. Martha Society gather for dessert- O’Keefe, son of a famous vaude- | luncheon in the parlors of the Nor- villien, was salesman for a local |thern Light Presbyterian Church, plumbing concern when he called at 1:30 o'clock. on a pal who happened to be an! ks ST DT assistant casting director. He'd had | Lode and placer location notices some experience in vaudeville and lor sale at The Empire Office. time off from “Listen Da he had great hopes of fin With making [ance of $1 has gone on the vehicle. | legal delay | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, SEPT. 22, 1938. SCENARISTS, BANDITS IN | \ DRAMA HERE |“Crashing H()Tywood' Ends | Tonight at Capitol Theatre Starring the fire-cracker star Lee Tracy as a motion picture scenarist, RKO Radio's riotous action-comedy “Crashing Hollywoo@" brings to the| Capitol screen for the last times to-| night an exciting and ingenious story of Hollywood's invasion by gangland A fictitious major studio provides the setting for most of the picture'’s swift action, which deals with a| screen writer’s troubles in making | a too realistic picture. Tr: writer, collaborates with another man in recreating a famous bank hold-up on the screen acy isn't aware that his colla- borator is an ex-convict who parti- ipated in that particular robbery,| and when the picture is released| troubles pour in thick and fast a a result of the realistic touches the/ ex-convict put into the story. These| troubles are interwoven with the ro- mance between Tracy and Joan Woodbury as an unsuccessful can- didate for a film career. Paul Guilfoyle, as the former con- vict, and Lee Patrick as his wife, head the supporting cast. Bradley | Page in a dual role as an actor and | a bank-robber, Richard Lane as| |a film producer, Tom Kennedy as a gun-man, and Frank M. Thomas, | George Irving, Jack Carson, Leona | Roberts and Maxine Jennings all have prominent roles. | The background of hing Hollywood” and its cleverly con- trived story make for a unique type | of screen fare. Its unexpected situ- | ations and a thrilling chase are | aeulated to afford real excitement | to theatre-goers. Lew Landers di- | rected the production by CIliff Reid, | | with Paul Yawitz and Gladys At- water writing the screen play from the original play by Paul Dickey {and Mann Page. | | — ., NORWOMEN TO - MEET TONIGHT | Eighty-five reservations have been made for the first meeting of the fall season of the Norwomen, | which is to be held this evening in ilh(' parlors of the Northern Light | Presbyterian Church. This is ac- ording to Miss Mary Jeanette Whittier. Following the dinner, which is set for 6 o'clock tonight sharp, an | interesting program has been ar- | ranged. i { | GamE | Game is sc ARCE, ROADS BAD | rce and owing to re- cent heavy rains, roads are in bad condition in the Manley Hot PHOTO MEMO Don’t Let " By Lydie Gray Shaw. 3 b i esiidsins nd fumes e n't insist. No point en if the violin is ha t to hate all music. dc clarinet | torcar Fiddle Burn Sé as good a musical cdu e sneak in a little swing now and then, | | | going X on |ing uch more impor music. If | inter: < > him. He ion from it, ev What's the street for?) is properly stared at for the rude f¢ is. In general, Chinese exhibit a iking resemblance lo the rural chicken who vearns for the other side of the road at all i but especially when a mo- approaches Traffic in Peiping is like slow Iway most olved are edestrians cold thick. tretehes iuspired to her and indulge sporty races. There is a cop at every inter- |section who attempts to make the Rudy Vallee is pictured on the Waldorf-Astoria roof in New York, w:}h lovely Judy Stewart, and Broadway scents a new romance. _lf you're interested, Judy’s wearing a hat of wine-red shirred velvet high above her widow’s peak, and the V-necked frock is of black satin, pin-dotted in white. If America’s Traffic Distresses | You—Then Try Peiping’s | %7()()1]\1(“'1‘ the Peiping list. He pedals with the heels and n 5 a wili | graceful weaving motion with his| By J. D. WHITE [ PEIPING, Sept. 22—Talk to any American motorist here. He high varied traffic—ranging fromn blind men ng v around ti 0st ¢ Beyond this the harried co accomplish little except to survive until the next watch relieves him. Conditions are much better now, ert residents, than they were r cars first arrived here. early days most Chinese in ieved that assorted ghosts them about X it was tuff then to dash deftiy' front of an automobile sc | st follow- e Tun over i Tips Came s traffic last sum- » Japanese Army mnized, and bent on T} toll of ped s, and ri ming. Accu- ing or sup- Limates plac- ut 100 within those sha-pullers rate figures pressed, but reiint ed the deaths ¢ the first few months. Much {rouble s rienced ith ' Chinese driving J rese ea immune fo cause of the Risir un their bump police were called o Chines contz Now after several been expe- chauffeurs They felt ions be- ing on Consular | nese ¢ welp the | | thy Lamour. Still anothe | | Raye. Itell you—after wiping the perspira- tion from his brow—that only the hand of some divine and over- worked Providence has protected _|the entire population of Peiping By Pioneer’s Auxiliary at Berls|pon yiolent death in its own traf- Cash Grocery, Saturday, Sept. 24.|g. ) : adv. ywnat | springs rezion. Planes are handling emergency traffic. gives the American the | vehicle to show ‘what an expert ping’s tr | rider he is. If a dust storm’s on, he !mal chaos and subuw urally shuts his eyes and car-|law it acknowledges that of 1|i on unperturbed. If someone survival. |1 -uns into him, he can always sue. | S | A pedestrian is even more non: | |chalant. He figures that his knm‘TEn LEWI |was here centuries before those g 1My WIFE WAS DRIV/NG CLEVER COMEDY Wares¥eyaT TADED BY KAY 2 0 “ANDE FODERATED By W.1 54055 Juneau s Greatest Show Value LAST TIMES TONIGHT TONIGHT IS THE BIG NIGHT ' Get the D y"" Ends Tonight} eum Show with | l | 1 | est Deal - wemen should be al- and talk. eal life, and they are aceord noted director, Staniey Lo: 1 has let y only but chatter idly at length, in Warner Bros. comedy night at the Coliseum. based on the famcu oad stage play. ‘And in the next picture on which' Miss and Leozan will collabor- aptly named “Women Are Like That,” the director is allow- ing the actress a five-minute speech men who are not beautiful nere men, should not be | mitted to monopolize the convers: tion, according to the man with the mecgaphone. “In real life, they may try to get away with it, but no one wants to listen to them ail the time, “But a beautiful woman can talk on and on, if she talks reasonably well, and, like rer things ey " she may do, it { ; PRESTON FOSTER » ANITA LOUISE In “First Lady,” Miss Franci EF CONMOLLY pi the wife of a governmer G " ficial and any one who thir the husband has al' ti makin~ privileges in his not know his Washin his playwrights, who haj Kathes Dayton anc George Canfon this case. Or his beau- you should Francis not ending to- eit nd ''s enthusiasm. He never receives th- ' college try. -coast publicity the movies or think it v —_ i d when old cides to tern someone c¢lse fort of his I purh be a sed day in- Dr. Sunshine de- his land over ta aud seek the com- ceye farm. Maybe he won't ever do this. I have a hunch that he won'v. Twenty years of r ing U nd down country, sleeping in elegant hotels, sleep- n drafty hotels, eating in ralk But Ted Lewis goes on drag down his $5000 a woek. ¥ dok it? He can't sin lick who can sell a .ong better Ted Lewis? Al Siegel calls person- ality o song Siegel says any- bory ca whether you | ean sing or if yon nt the wd stations, g in exclusive ng o vour own p rsonality. Y 1bs, ki ands with bums, must- listen to Siegel when he keing hands with bi- shots does makes ts like this » man thut he can’t cause he has had too much succoss shake off. Good fire to discount him. He found Ethel|hor like that. They don’t Merman at party on jght, | €ver @i il they drop in their singing. She wws terrible and n,u““‘“‘" 8 & one- paid any attention to the| I Was wolking ii 506 strest the broken-hearted girl w emb ot nisht and the r swalgic wail rassed, was sobbing ¢ a1 of a el me floaung out into piano when Siegel found ‘he street _aught it and Siegel said, “Do as I tell you.” And | blew it bac Seventh avenue. he listened to him. He taught he. [ followed, and walked through a style—a style that suited her per-|dccr, aud Ted Lewis was there, sonality. showir boys how it was done. Another of Siegel's find glad to have you back, a long time. And when away, stay only a little and then hurry back. = B S THURSDAY SCHEDULE OF ELECTRAS NOW ENDED FOR WINTER PAA Electra sched- to come down from Fairbanks Juneau todey, as Thursday les have been abandoned for winter months, it was an- aq! behind her. € The int is Doro- His latest is 2o | whom you will find at Manana, on the same bil Lewis. But we digress. success the late O. O. McInt ed. He never got away from th homey qualities. Yet Tec Lewis’ home town of Circleviile Ohio, is just as famous as is Mc- Tk Intyre’s Ohio town. He will tell ule you. “Me, I'm a farmer at heart. to You ought to see my farm neaf? schec Circleville.” the while with Tec Consider the | re en- ere is 1o 5 'STILL LEADING nounced today. His old battered high hat with 1 BIG GRCHESTRAHM silver lining is as much a Sunday schedule will be main- 1 | symbol as Charlie Chaplin’s mus-| tained, but the rest of the flights | | tache, or Durante’s nose. It sits at during the week will hinge on'the i ) |a perilously rakish angle, as al- arrival of boats and the number of ways, on the head that was once| passengers making the trip. o 7 st EKeeps Popular with Public e ————————————————————————————————————————————————— vThe qovdgasolines sy are those that give you . longest mileage o easiest starting o quickest acceleration o least corrosion silent performance s perfect combustion " These qualities, unified and balanced, make Standard Gasoline Unsurpassed . You be the JUDGE! - STANDARD GASOLINE IS UNSURPASSED e« AT STANDARD OIL DEALERS °* ° pe—————— ‘wilhca is the universal habit among | new - fangled motor - cars arrived, | Aftm’ 20 Years—Some- | | Chinese of never looking where | they are going. Chinese motorists, cyclists, rick- |shas, and pedestrians all exhibit |the same carefree unconcern for | the rest of the word streaming by |around them. To do so would be | an admission that someone else had | the right of way. Face would be ‘Iost . . . Impossible . . . Never. and the right of way is therefore | his. | Like Chickens The aged gentleman with um- brella and birc is naturally to be respected and accorded room in | o land where old-age reigns su-| preme. Anyone honking for him to get out of the middle of the street (WHAT, walk on the siucwulkfl‘ Behave thing About Al Seigel | By GEORGE TUCKER ! NEW YORK, Sept. 2—The wail- | ing moan of a clarinet insinuates | itself into the shrill, mixed - | sion of Manhattan after dark. . What does this mean? Don't ask foolish questions, honey. You know | Ted Lewis is in town as well as I| black but now is quite g But e ee — Ted still has all of his hair. He| Try an Empire ac. Film Star to Wed Ocean Flyen } Sl “RED” DAWSON’S QUESTION BOX... THE FOOTBALL SEASON IS HERE! Final proof of this fact is in a series of short articles now appearing in THE EMPIRE. Lowell (Red) Dawson, illustrious head coach at ‘Tulane, assisted by Horace Renegar, Tulane publicist, has prepared an illuminating, informing group of daily questions and answers. Turn to the Sporting Page of THE EMPIRE. They will appear every day for the next deveral weeks. | do. You see Ted Lewis one day, and he goes out of town, and maybe six months later vou run into him |in Omaha, or Pierre, or Macon— big towns and little town—and always he packs them in. I think if you analyze it you| will find that Ted is the only big| name attraction that was famous 20 yerrs ¢ who still flies high thout henectiv of the cinema oi {ithink he did make a pic- | ture once. And now and then you | pick him up on the airways. But | there is never & sustained pro- i SR Rl Gt = ORTHOPEDI SHOE SPECIALIST FOOT EXAMINATIONS Avch Supportg—allous Pads—Foot Comforts Made to individual nieasurements. APPROVED BY THE MEDIUAL DOCTORS. P, McGowan Gasticeru Hotel Phone for vpoinment. S —— Jo: Numerous romantic rumors linking Toby Wing, movie s*arlet, and Dick Merril!, transailantic f'7or, were coni:med when they an- _pounced that they would ox this < 'L lerrill is the only fiyer who has 7 Je two round trips by uir across the A » atig,