The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 27, 1938, Page 3

CAPITO ) Show Place of Jumeau LAST TIMES TONIGHT with Maureen O'Sullivan Lionel Barrymore “MANHATTAN MERRY- GO-ROUND” Miscellaneous Shower Honors | Mrs. Pearson Mrs. George Larsson and Mrs. Claude Baldwin entertained with a miscellaneous shower last evening at the Twelfth Street residence of Mrs. Larsson, honoring Mrs. Oscar | Pearson, the former Miss Emily Pe- | gall. The evening was spent in playing COLLEGE FILM ENDS TONIGHT ~ AS SHOW HERE |“A Yank arO:ford" Stars Robert Taylor at Capitol ‘When Robert Taylor, Maureen O'- | Sullivan and Lionel Barrymore left) England for Hollywood following | completion of Metro - Goldwyn- Mayer's first British-made produc- | tion, “A Yank at Oxford,” which ends tonight at the Capitol Thea- | tre, their au revoirs to fellow play- ers were said in full expectation that almost all the leading players | in the cast would meet again in California. Griffith Jones, who plays the role of Maureen’s brother in the film delayed accepting a Hollywood con- | tract in order to appear in Noel Coward’s next London production Jones appeared in the New York production of Elisabeth Bergner's “Escape Me Never” and may again visit the New York stage before going to Hollywood. Vivien Leigh, who is expected to| ’wm new screen honors as the “other | igirl” of “A Yank at Oxford,” is re-| ! garded by her fellow players and by | Director Jack Conway as a young | actress who will be given every op- | portunity to follow a Hollywood | | career if she so desires. She, too,| { was rehearsing a London play when ! the film was completed. | A story of the adventures and | experiences at Oxford of a co(‘k,\" young Midwest college athlete who is awarded a scholarship to the famous university, “A Yank at Ox- ford” also presents three outstand- | ing British character players in| C. V. France, Edward Rigby and| Morton Selten, who, Director Con- | way asserted, could all sign a Hol-| lywood ticket at any time they chose. Dist, Deputy 1o Visit Rebekahs Mrs. Evelyn Hollman, District De- puty, will make her official visit cootie, with Mrs. Jack Gould win- ning high honors and Mrs. Fred| Orme, low. | Guests present included Mrs. Ro- | bert Bailey, Mrs. Robert Cunning-| ham, Mrs, Jack Gould, Mrs. Paul| Ekland, Mrs. Fred Orme, Mrs. Hen- ry Nelson, Mrs. Ted Keaton, Miss Ellen Spinburg, and Miss Loreen | Aneuen. to the Rebekah Lodge at a meeting tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in the Odd Fellows’ Hall. Following the meeting a party, in celebration of the eighty-seventh birthday of the lodge will be held, with music and refreshments ar- ranged for the occasion. All members of the Odd Fel- lows and invited guests THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, SEPT. 27, 1938. ‘Ermine Wraps for Beach Wear! Models on Atlantic City boardwalk You can be sure that these two young ladies don't go near the wate | the Coliseum Theatre. when they're garbed as above, for both are wearing ermine wrap! | a feature of a fashion parade in Atlantic City, EXAMINATIONS FOR CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS SOON Examinations for Certified Pub- lic Accountants will be held in the Territory some time in November of this year. In order to be able to obtain a sufficient number of examination papers through the American Institute of Accountancy, it will be necessary for any candi- date wishing to participate in this are to be present for the |ial Board of Accountancy at Ju-| | festivities which will begin approxi- mately at 9:30 o'clock. - e neau, Alaska, on or before Septem - ber 30, 1938. Qualifications for candidates are as follows: 1. A citizen of the United States Charge of driving a horse when [on the Latin Amer and of the Territory of Alaska. 2. At least 25 years of age, and of good moral character. 3. A diploma from a recognized high school, or must be able to | present satisfactory evidence of an equivalent education. 4. Must not have less than five vears of experience in the practice of accountancy. iy gt WEST SCARSBORO, Me.fAlbertl A. Cole, eighty-four, who claimed to be the oldest active grocer in the of the!examination to notify the Territor- | United States, is dead. ! Our Pooled Account Plan WILL CRACK THE TOUGHEST DEBT PROBLEM....OI...... it will give you security from worries and a fresh start - It’s Simple and Easy we will have your creditors pool their accounts with us as trustees. All you have to do is pay us a reasonable proportion of each pay check to be distributed on payment of you r accounts . ... YOUR BILLS FADE AWAY BEFORE YOU KNOW IT— and, all the time you are paying, you still have plenty of money left for all your current needs over with us NOWI! AT HEAT A< el R CKEDIT 5 A SACRED TRUST First National Bank Building come in, talk it Alaska Credit Bureau Charles Waynor, Mgr. PHONE 28 COMEDY HERE ENDS TONIGHT AT COLISEUM Errol Flynn Plays Title Role in “The Perfect Specimen” Joan Blondell, the film star, es- caped without even so much as a bruise recently in one of the strang- est accidents ever to occur in a motion picture company. The mishap occurred on the Flint- ridge country club’s golf course, where “The Perfect Specimen” troupe was on location, shooting ex- teriors. The final sequence of the comedy- romance called for Errol Flynn, the male star, to pursue Miss Blon. around the golf course, supposedly a private estate. The actress finally hides inside a short length of con- i(‘rebe pipe that is being laid in an irvigation ditch. | Flynn finds her there, demands | an admission of love and, when it | is not forthcoming he lifts the pipe and Blondell high into the air with | & hand winch to which the pipe is attached dell | At Director Michael Curtiz’ “cut!" wood effort was a sour note at the and assorted mayhem that they'd Flynn turned away from the handle of the winch to permit laborers to lower Miss Blondell to the ground | At that moment, the lock on the winch drums slipped, droppine fhe heavy pipe and Miss Blondell fif- teen feet to the ground. Fortunately, the pipe landed on a pile of soft dirt and did not shat- | ter. While the rest of the company stood around horrer stricken, Miss Blondell crawled from the pipe. “That,” she commented, “was | rather rapid descent.” “The Perfect Specimen | seen for the last times tonight at ————————— HORSE DRIVER FINED clapped on Joseph Cote after | MONTREAL — A $10 fine was|—and it is as a “pop” singer he he is being pushed by Paramount, |office here, | Primavera and her daughter Bea- C MOVIE OPERAS ARE NOT TO BE PRODUCEDNOW Many Prominent Singers Being Relegated to Speaking Roles By ROBBIN COONS HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 27.—Gladys Swarthout, the loveliest contralto, is coming back to work out her Paramount contract and they're giving her a little epic called “Am- bush” which is about bank robbers and presumably cops. And she won't sing a note. The day of the operatic star in pictures would seem to be over. Gra Moore, who started it all with “One Night of Love” and long led the popularity parade of the warblers, came to terms with Co- lumbia on that last picture and accepted $50,000 for not making it in lieu of twice that for making it. Lily Pons, married now to Andre Kostelanetz is through with pic- tures. Nino Martino despite such engaging films as “The Gay Des- perado,” is back at the Met, along with Jan Kiepura, whose Holly- box-office. Lawrence Tibbett, who started something in “Rogue Song” of the early talkies but did not repeat for Zanuck when he came back, hasn’t been heard from cinematical- ly since ‘“Metropolitan” in 1835. Helen Jepson, who was effective in the “Goldwyn Follie: was com- mitted to Goldwyn for a while but the producer let her go for want of a an immediate vehicle. Kirsten Flag- | stad’s film work—in “The Big » will be Broadcast of 1938" has consisted | only of an inserted aria. Tito Guizar, the Mexican -born troubadour, sang in opera once but ck d to the more popular tunes had pleaded guilty to the unusual which has an uncommonly good eye the influence of- liquor. under Who hasn ping from delivered every day pire, full of ican market right now. ... THATS EMPIRE AD-SHOPPING! 't trudged wearily home after a day spent shop- store to store and wished most fervently for a better way of shopping? The answer to that wish is to your doorstep — The Daily Em- news for shoppers That leaves, of all the songbirds with operatic pretensions pirations, only the red-hafred girl who never saw an opera stage but came to pictures from musical com- edy-—Jeanette MacDonald. Jeanette has ambitions for opera, and puts across an aria in pictures when- ever she can—but she’s never for- gotten that she's a pieture actress first. When screen musicals had been discarded, Jeanette stayed on and played “straight” roles until they same back and sent her to glory. And Jeanette vemains the lone singing queen—and will re- main so unless by some miracle Hope Hampton (“The Road to ,Reno”) catches on at this tail-end of the operatic craze. Nelson Eddy, who has sung op- era on the stage, is right up there with Jeanette—but Eddy has never sung an aria on the screen And remember when there was {talk about producing whole operas on the screen? Ernst Lubitsch had the idea, but that was three years ago. Since then Hollywood has been concerned less with costly experi- ments in “art” than it has been with getting returns on its money— and opera-an-the-screen would be financial suicide, Even Nelson Eddy, who likes to ng it, wil¥ tell you that entire ap- as would be movie wash-outs. “Except for a few,” he'll tell you, “the plats are so full of gore, infidelity never get vy the Hays office in the first place. In the second, | they're time-worn and full of the |old hoke. It's the music that keeps the opera fans coming back, but that's not enough in a movie.” FAIRBANKS WOMAN, FORMERLY OF THIS CITY, VISITS HERE Mrs. Ruby Boyle, of the Northern Company office in | Commercial Fairbanks, arrived here by PAA |plane yesterday from the Interior | on ‘her way south for a month's va- | eation in the States. | While in Juneau, Mrs. Boyle, for- is a guest of Mrs. James | trice. She will go south on the Co- 'lumbia tonight. ONE or as-| CO OWNFD AND O Juneau's Greatest Show. Value LAST TIMES TONIGHT He gets them Joan gives them' Youl love them' MARSHALL IN PERIL ~ : WHEN BOAT WRECKED In the rushing waters of the Koyukuk River near Wiseman, a small hoat containing Robert Mar- shall, author of the book, “Arctic Village"; Ernest Johnson and. two natives was wrecked, and the craft and all the outfit in it were lost, according to radio telephone mes- sage received in Fairbanks recemtly. Mr. Marshall and Mr. Johnson and the two natives narrowly ‘es- caped being drowned. They were exhausted when they reached the Wiseman side of the river's shore and made their way to the village. Mr. Marshall and Mr. Johnson left Fairbanks early in August’by |plane for Wiseman. Their purpose that | merly with the Game Commission | EASY WAY was to climb Mount Doonersk, High peak in the Arctic Range, 70 ‘miles by air north of Wiseman. It is pre- sumed they were on their way back to Wiseman from their mountain- climbing expedition when the ac- ident happened. Empire classifieas oas. There’s Only - in the'ads ity carries, in ad- dition to all the news of the world! Contrast finding the items you need simply by turning the pages of The Empire with the hit or miss method of shopping the stores! Let the . ads be your guide to better and easier buying! The Daily Alaska Empire