The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 3, 1938, Page 3

“March of Time" “DONALD’S OSTRICH” NEWS OF THE DAY Show Place of Juneau HOSPITAL NOTES | — 4 Sheldon Simmons, who has been receiving medical care at St. Ann's Hospital as the result of an acci- dent, was dismissed yesterday and returned to his apartments. Mrs. Fred Axford, who has been receiving medical treatment for the past three days at St. Ann's Hos- pital, was dismissed last evening, Mrs. Beula Sung, a surgical pa- tient at St. Ann’s Hospital, was dis- charged Sunday and returned home. Mrs. Sam Dapcevich and baby boy left St. Ann's Hospital yester- day for home. Jackie Burford, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Burford, underwent a major operation at St. Ann's Hos- | pital Saturday afternoon. His con- |dition is said to be very favorable | today. Grant Price was discharged from | St. Ann’s Hospital today after hav- ing received surgical care. Admitted to the Government Hos- pital from Yakatat this morning, Sam George underwent a operation. —_—— e SISTER TRAVELING Sister Emily, after six years ser ice at St. Joseph's Hospital in Fair- banks, will pass through Juneau shortly on her way to Mount St. Vincent, in Seattle. e Empire classifieds pav Hollywood Sights And Sounds By Robbin Coons HOLLYWOOD, Cal,, Oct. 3—This new hair-do the gals are supposed to be wearing is something a male who is extremely mere will have to get used to in small doses. The first time I saw one—on a studio secretary, not a star— I thought it was a mistake. The lady obviously had been called from the tub in a hurry, and had forgotten to take the pins out and let the locks down before s a mistake at all. It was, I was thing.” It's comforting, however, to 1 wearing a bob, shares that reaction. he came to work. But it wasn't informed disdainfully, the “latest earn that Norma Shearer, who is Norma called it the “bath- tub style of hairdress” and said she'd have none of it. Of course you can trace this thing back to pictures. least the various studios can. At Paramount would have you believe that Claudette Colbert, with that show-the-ears, pile-up-the-ring- lets. coiffure for “Zaza,” was the pace-setter. Warner Bros. are sure that if Bette Davis and Anita Louise in “The Sisters” hadn't done it, nobody would be bothered now. Universal puts the credit or blame on Danielle Darrieux and I think they have a right to —"“The Rage of Paris” was on the screens before Colbert or Davis pulled up the loose ends. There’s a bit of a division. too, in the make-up clan of West- mores about the latest tonsorial crisis. says it's a move on the part of permanents. Perc (out at Warner’s) the beauty parlors to sell more Perc, with the House of Westmpre selling perma- nents like all the rest, would seem to be cutting his own throat YOU HAVE A SURPRISE major | NEW COMEDY TEAM SEEN AT CAPITOL Edna May Oliver, Frank Laughs in ‘Paradise’ An enthusiastic audience at the | “Paradise for Three.” Nearly every poor man would like to enjoy the life of a millionaire for two weeks, and every rich man would like to go back to the simple p]easures—’ at least for the same time. And that's just what Frank Mor- gan, Robert Young and Reginald Owen do in this escapade of the Alps. Morgan turns poor while the other two actors become rich and powerful. Their plan works until Morgan's daughter, Florence Rice, his house- keeper, Edna May Oliver, and his “girl friend,” Mary Astor, find out about it. % But in the meantime Morgan, !who has won a contest and has been given two weeks' vacation at a swank Alpine resort, appears to be a poor man and therefore is treated badly by the management. Only one man is kind to him, and he is Henry Hull, the dishwasher. ‘When~ Morgan’s family makes him return to his normal life as the wealthy capitalist, he orders the hotel manager and porter to his office, explaing that he was actu- ally staying at his own hotel, re- minds them of their treatment |toward him and makes the dish- | washer their boss. Eskimos Brnk Their Tea Like Any Britsher | i {Northland No Longer Out-| side Fringe of Civiliza- | tion Says Griffin (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) This living in the Arctic Circle ! isn't the tough job it once was, with coal now available at a paltry ' $100 a ton, and flour a mere $12 a hundredweight. And the Eskimos — why, they even must have their tea to go with | Itheir fish, or they consider them- selves practically martyrs of priva- tion. These were the impressions brought to Seattle by Father Thom- as Patrick Griffin, a New Yorker by birth, educated in Texas, and who for the past nine years has been | missionary on Darneley Bay, some few hundred miles east of the mouth of the great MacKenzie Riv- 'er in Northern Canada. Seattle “Tropical” On his first trip out since he was sent there fresh from school, Father Griffin every few minutes paused | in his story of life in the Arctic | to wipe large beads of perspiration from his face. After all, living in weather which never gets above 40 degrees and swoops down to 170 below zero makes Northwest weath- |er a veritable tropics. | And the people — well, it's like |Coney Island in July nowadays, |with from six to seven white men |in the vicinity where Father Griffin keeps his mission. He’s never really |counted them, so that's why he says “from six to seven.” “The natives are well civilized in Frank Motgan Provide | Capitol Theatre yesterday enjoyed || COMING FOR YOU! - Wait and See the Newer and Finer PERCY’S SRATIRAE IR kD UL el A A i S S S R, but that’s how it is. Wally Westmore (at Paramount) is strong for “Zaza” and her pull-it-up mode. So apparently, is Claudette. She’s been wearing it around, evenings. The Warners aren'’t letting their stars or starlets go for the new mode, for daytime wear at least and in pictures. For eve- ning—well, the gals have beex; pushing it up, with flowers stuck here and there, for some years now. T'll never forget the first time I saw Claire Trevor done that way, with what looked like a daffodil bed transplanted among the curls. ; Perc Westmore is afraid the hair-Up notion isn't practical un- less it’s achieved with some cutting-in-the-back and some perma- nent waving—those loose néckline strands trimmed, and the top hair waved. The page-boy bob—comb it and brush it out and there you arel—was the thing that put the crimp in the beauty emporia. The sale of “permanents” fell off mu_Sethlna awful while the gals discovered that the straight, short, boyish bob could hide a multi- tude of defects. Time-saver, teo. Why, in a pinch a girl could skip washing neck and ears, although naturally none ever did THAT. Perc Westmore is sure that husbands and men in general are going to revolt against any feminine hairdress that keeps tumbling down in strings at the neck, and that women are going to tire of how they look after the first hour’s washing and ironing and cooking—three feminine pursuits guaranteed to wreck one of the pretty pile-ups. - (Mrs. Westmore—Gloria Dickson in the movies—at last re- ports was still wearing a page-boy bob.) Meanwhile, Garbo's due back to do those pictiies, Garbo, remember, started quite a fad in the coiffure line herself—that very long bob long since christened “the Garbo,” In recent films she has forsaken it, however, which permits M-G-M to blame it on Garbo—hair-up in “Conquest.” Ithe whole region today,” he ex- plained, “and they are astute busi- {ness men. While things aren't so | ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS Sealed bids, will be received at the | City Clerk’s Office, Juneau, Alaska, until 5 p.m. October 24, 1938, for ithe construction of sewers for the City of Juneau and will then and there be opened and publicly read |aloud. Bids received after the time | fixed for opening will not be con- | sidéred. | A set of plans, specifications, and forms may be obtained at the City Clerk’s Office, Juneau, Alaska, upon | deposit of $5.00, i The full amount of deposit for ong_set, of documents will be re- turned to each actual bidder within a reasonable time after receipt of bids. Other deposits will be refunded with deduction not exceeding the actual cost of reproduction of the drawings, upon the return of all documents in_good condition within 30 days after the date of opening bids. Each bid shall be accompanied by a certified check, cashier’s check or bid bond (with authorized surety company as surety) made payable to the owner in amount not less than 5% of the amount of bid. The City of Juneau reserves the ‘rtgm to reject any or all bids, and to waive informalities. No bidder may withdraw his bid |after the hour set for the opening | thereof, or before award of con- tract, unless said award is delayed for a period exceeding 30 days. 1t is estimated that there will be available for the work to be done under this advertisement substan- tially the sum of $31,200. ETTA MAE KOLASA, City Clerk, # Juneau, Alaska. Publication dates, Oct. 3-10-17, 1938. | " 'THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, OCT. 3, 1938.. Villain Still Pursues Her - On a Showbo boat_ | SHOWBOAT ‘GOLDENROD’ IS ‘MELLERDRAM ST. LOUIS—The showboat audi- ence is never satisfied until the villain is “killed.” And the showboat “Goldenrod" has been thrilling St. Louis audi- ences every night for nine months. It hasn't missed a show since the boat tied up on the levee last win- ter, The villain is husky Harry Owens, who also directs and casts the plays. He says he has played “everything from medicine shows to Broadway productions.” His characterization of the vil- lain is so real that one time in West when feet all and was noisily patron intgrrupted leaped to his e ER'S’ STAGE Virginia his “attack” on the hero|mess hall for the actors and work ands. Melodramas are Owens' specialty. pulled a gun. “Yep, they even used His wife usually plays opposite him to hiss me when I walked down | the street,” Owens recalled. | The Goldenrod is owned by Cap- tain J. W. Menke, who has traveled every navigable river east of the Rockies. Showboating since 1904, She is known as Mary Gaynor and | appears in long bustle dresses of the old showboat day era The patrons come to the show- boat to hiss the villain, but are also thrilled with the air of “When Menke has lost four boats in gales Daddy Was a Boy.” or ice jams, “When are we going to move?” The Goldenrol, built in 1910, is|asked Menke. “We are going to pushed up and down the rivers by | stay right here in St. Louis this the Wenonah, a small, rear paddle steamer. Wenonah also furnishes the heat for the winter and the winter—unless she's a tough one— then we'll go down the Mississippi to New Orleans.” ‘ Like to Snap Youngsters—Here’s How to Do It A By LYDIA GRAY SHAW AP Feature Service Writer NEW YORK — Blond children should be photographed against a dark background. Small babies should be photo- graphed dressed, because a tiny baby hasn't a beautiful body. Don’t plump a child down with its face turned right into the glaring sun, and expect it to look happy while it's being photographed. Don’t stand a child up with its back to the street, so that uncon- scious pedestrians across the way sneak into the picture, and in the finished product appear to be walking on top of your child's head. Do's and dont's like these for photographing children are of end- less interest to Mrs. Ruth Alexander Nichols, nationally-known photogra- pher of children. She’s taken an infinite number of professional pic- tures of tiny babies, not-so-tiny babies, and children of all sizes. Makes Nursery of Studio Most. of them Mrs. Nichols pho- tographs in her Westfield, N. J, | studio, where she can tuck sleep- ing babies away in cribs after the picture-taking is over, and where her maid is quite capable of turn- prosperous with them as some years ago when they received $50 for a single white fox, they own modern little schooners and live fairly well.” Mixed Racially Most of his parishioners are of comparative nearness to Alaska. Farther east, however, the natives are of a purer stock, and more primitive. And they have embraced the Catholic religion almost completely, with the medicine man and other ancient institutions on the way out rapidly, he said. Many of them will come fifty miles or more by dog sled to attend church, making thir- ty miles a day over the rolling hills which characterize the terri- tory. Bishop Has Plane In the vicinity are six missions, with from 100 to 300 Eskimo par- ishioners in each. Each mission is equipped with a power schooner, and the district’s bishop is furnish- ed with an airplane to visit them. No, it isn’t the tough life it used to be—and Father Griffin, a shor, | chunky man of powerful build, con- siders himself an awful softie, with his mail delivered promptly every six months, and a metropolis of at least fifty persons called Aklavuc,“ but a few miles away. Of the Order of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, Father Griffin is on vacation until spring, and has stayed with friends on Vashon Is- land the past week. He will visit New York and Texas before em- Object lessons Ruth Alexander two ways to get good pictures of children, Children Iying on their backs should be photographed from above. N (left) makes.an Note the yawning baby. by a famed photographer, Mrs. Nichols, these pictures illustrate A child at play excellent subject. ing out baby meals. In fact, her ability as a baby- pacifier is so widespread that often her friends Ileave their offspring with heér for an afternoon, even when picture-taking isn't planned. But Mrs. Nichols can't stay away | from the camera long, so she’s soon as work practicing new shooting angles on the children while they play. She thinks amateurs could do a lot of thinking about angles, too. Most of Mrs. Nichols’ shots are made from the top of a step-ladder, with the camera occupying the | ground. Tack grounds It’s difficult to photograph chil- dren against a background of gay flowers, because the flowers reflect a group of the townsmen are gath- | splotches of light which distract ered about it gleefully making laws. | from the subject. A bit of shaded'joshua Logan, the director, is a | shrubbery makes a better back- v s ANE WITHERS PICTURE SEEN | AT COLISEUM “Wild and Woolly Is West- model of a bad dream, “Iron Nell” appeared as a thundering giant on wheels to the Western pioneeys of 1878, when it sometimes exceeded the fabulous speed of twenty miles an hour as it snorted and puffed its way across the plains “Iron Nell” is expected to take its place in screen history as the suc- cessor to the locomotive used in the silent-day epic, “The Iron Horse," which now reposes in antique splen- | dor in a Sacramento museum lwnners with a new background for ter Brennan, Academy Award win- ner, is featured. Others in the cast include Wal- ter Brennan, Pauline Mpore, Doug- ilas Fowley, Carl “Alfalfa” Switzer, Jack Searl, Berton Churchill, Ro- bert Wilcox and Douglas Scott. NEW PRODUCTION 1S IN REHEARSAL .+ FORN.Y. SEASON “Knickerbocker Holiday™ | Name of Show—Intimate ! View Given Back Stage i By GEORGE TUCKER | .NEW YORK, Oct. 3.—Rehearsal shot: time, 245 p.m.; place, Ethel Barrymore Theatre, 47th Street; vcharacters, Maxwell Anderson, au- thor; Kurt Weill, composer; Wal- ter Huston, star; Joshua Logan, |director; Jeane Madden, ingenue Richard Kollmer, juvenile; inci ,dental peaple, noises, etc. | The title of the play is “Knicker- bocker Holiday,” Dutch New York. Maxwell Ander- son, his moustache faded by a long ern Comedy with and Large Kid Cast TN | AN Fesuming career in motion | € \ pic'ures where it left off upon re- QU™ titement from active railroad ser-| . wW% % 3ooe viee. 1 Nell.” the oldest locomo- | voVs® 9'graad®®! tive now available for actual opera- | and\ho¥pend® tion. was secured for use in the| Oemem-™oye ¢ Twentieth Century-Fox Jane With-| Twe'%, 5o ers comedy, “Wild and Woolly," | Jounded which opened yesterday at the Coli- | seum Theatre [ Lookinfz today like a working | | “Wild and Woolly” provides Jam'f i her distinctive style of comedy. Wal- | based on early 3 e COLISEUM OWNED AND OPFRATED %~ .lunezlu's‘(}raest. S o‘v Value NOW! BRENNAN PAULINE MOORE CARL"ANalfe" SWITZER JACK SEARL BERTON CHURCHILL LAS FOWLEY DOUGLAS s$COTT FOR ADDED ENJOYMENT: MUSICAL COMEDY FLOYD GIBBONS CARTOON—LATE NEWS money and some reputations, or jcost a small fortune and relegate |certain people to a workless win- ter. The rehearsals go on day and night. There are about 25 of them on at this writing. It is the great “hurry” season, preparatory to pry- ing the lid off the Broadway sea- son for 1938. .o [Life on Coast Guard Ship Is Full of Things (Continued trom fage One) | with a broken shaft and rudder and put out a fire which already had gutted a 75-foot sail boat off the Massachusetts port of Scituate (call 1it situate). After that we dusted off and pat-rolled a two-day yacht (race at Southport, Maine. Those hings sound routine but in doing {them the ship traveled up and down America’s most historic and rugged {shoreline—the New England coast. Seamen fall in love with that | coast, its rocky harshness and all, {but we liked it best at night. Then makes a fine one for small babies summer in the sun, is sitting in an |jts raw lines are hidden. Occasion- because it's light in color, and can be laid on the floor for a surface, He is garbed in inevitable, loosely |spaced and then stretched right up in the fitting tweeds, With him is Kurt| back to form a continuous back- it to the wail, or throw it over a chair, says the photographer. Pay particular attention to back- outdoors, she advises. paint bucket's face, She suggests the | ground. same arrangement for amateurs. | If you climb a step-ladder, you shade, remember that a concrete;men leaped into prominence over- | can get a good shot of a baby who's pavement or a And when it comes to sun and light-colored wall lying on his back, she says. If he's | reflects enough light so the child lying on from above, but shoot toward his face. Children who are playing on the floor MUST be photographed from above, else one gets in the| other’s way. i Blanket’s Good Background A comfortable position for a very young baby who's being photo- graphed, says Mrs. Nichols, is lying | on a pillow. As for backgrounds, a blanket ' only bé€ cross. And he'll look it. barking when the ice breaks bo! make the long journey completely around Alaska and head East to his little mission on top of Canada. — e | | |mixed blood racially, because of the fMIlk Nm Thflra’ [ ~ Nor Was Porch | ODESSA, Wash., Oct. 3.—In all her 102 years . Mrs. | Mrs. | nington, |Germany on August 17, 1888, his stomach, take him | need not face the sun. In fact reflected light is softer than glaring sunlight, and elimi- nates deep shadows. Above all, don't interrupt a | ehild’s routine to photograph him. Nichols observes rigidly the feeding and sleeping schedule of children in her care. If you try to delay a child’s nap to take a picture, she says, he'll ALL MARRIED ON SAME DATE OMAHA, Neb,, Oct. 3—It's a family tradition. Mr. and Mrs. Gus Glandt, Ben- Neb., were married in Their daughter, Mrs. Frank Mock- Wilhelmina | elman, Omaha, was married August Gross never had anything like it 17, 1918. happen before. | 1 Mrs. Mockelman's daughter, Mrs. She sent her daughter, eighty- | John Gavernowitz, was married |year-old Mrs. Gottlieb Lobe, to the |August 17, 1933. front porch to bring in the morn- | |ing milk, but the front porch wasn't | [there. A motorist, swerving from the ! streef, hit the porch and carried it away. Neighbors heard the night |crash, but none of the residents of ranged a settlement. e ATTENTION MASONS | There will be a Stated Communi- | cation of Gastineaux Lodge No. 124, F. & AM., Tuesday, October 4,.at} :30 pm,, in the Scottish Rite Tem- REBEKA_?E &uu.- yple. Members are urged to attend. at PRACTICE Announcement was made today of orchestra seat up near the stage. Weiil, who wrote the music for the play. “Knickerbocker Holiday” is not exactly an operetta, and yet it |is something more than a play with music, You'll have to decide for yourself. There is a gibbet on the stage young man who kicked around the |Broadway theatre more or less an- onymously for several years and njght. Last year he directed “On Borrowed Time,” a great hit, and |this year he directed “I Married an |Angel,” reigning musical triumph on. Broadway. Off to one side sits Jeane Mad- den, a pretty little blonde, whose part in the play will be that of ! “Tina.” Dick Kollmer, a Yale grad- uate, pleads with her. While he is ' pleading, “Tina,” the director halts | the action and turns to Anderson. “I think it would be better if we| put an extra ‘Tina’ in there and called her name twice, like this— ‘Tina, Tina'—if it's gkay with you.” “Sure,” agrees Maxwell Ander- |son amiably, “go ahead.” Thus is 2 line of “Knickerbocker Holiday” \amplified. Anderson is easy to work with. This action gives the lie to the belief that creative artists are touchy prima donnas who re- fuse to have their brain children tampered with. Miss Madden, clad fetehingly .in a yellow sweater and a plaid skirt, is sitting with her knee buckled under her, waiting her cue. Mr, Kolimer, the juvenile, has a lot of on-stage business to perform and he misses some of it. He forgets a line or so. Finally the director shouts, but pleasantly: “How did you get through, Yale if you can't remember a four-word sentence?’ Meanwhile, a nattily garbed fig- I have ever seén him. This is Wal- !the house were awakened. The mo- | the practice this evening of the Re- ter Huston, who will play the part torist returned by daylight and ar- bekah Drill Team at the Odd Pel-fof Peter Stuyvesant in the play. lows Hall at 8 o'clock. He isn't supposed to do much re- All members are urged to attend [hearsing today, and he plops down ties. RIS S SNOW AT FAIRBANKS has been sitting in one position so long that her legs have gone to The first snow of the season feil {sleep. At her cue she leaps up and | Fairbanks on September 29.lalmost falls. She stamps prettily ‘Vismnc Brothers welcome. By order Sections along the Richardson |to restore circulation, and then All this seems of minor impor- |mining man who has tance, but it isn’t. It is an integral [Fairbanks district en part of a vast and costly produc- [ness, is aboard the of the WM. Highway also reported the first!goes on. SAMUEL DEVON, snow fall. adv. Secretary ———————e 2 Try-an Empire ad. for sale at The Empire Office. tion which may make a lot of fon his way to his home ally a long string of regularly lights show where a “through” highway parallels the coast. Small boats, their side lights glowing, skim along just outside the shoals. Out to sea a freighter wallows along, northbound with coal from New York, or south- bound with lumber, woodpulp or |ore. From every jutting headland, | lighthouses flash their warning codes. All these things are seen from the ship's bridge where throughout }the night an officer is on duty, checking the course almost mile by mile. A hospital quiet prevails on the bridge at night. No light burns except a dim one over the compass |and the one occasionally flashed on the navigation chart while the |course is checked, It is easier fo see from a darkened bridge. | COBRA AT BOSTON Sometimes the cutters run into fantastic jobs. A while back a ship loaded with zoo animals which it had carried 6,000 miles from .South Africa was turning mto Boston harbor when it hit an uncharted submerged rocks in a fog, 10 miles from home port. s . Coast guard boats and other res- cue vessels swarmed about, remov- ing the animal cages, It was a niee clean rescue job until somebody discovered that a cobra had escaped lon the stranded ship. That put the rescuers on edge until a reptile ex- pert assured them that the cobra, a jungle snake, would be paralyzed {or killed by the northern cold in 10 minutes. Half the hull still dangles on the rock. The other half broke off and sank. But imagine finding an unh- charted rock in Boston harbor, busy these 300 years. In late years flying boats have speeded up rescue of sick or in- jured men at sea. In two or three hours a plane can drop down be- side a vessel a whole day's safling distance from shore. We must tell you about Oscar. ure saunters in, looking better than [ge is the dummy who is thrown overboard from the cutters to give the crew practice in life saving. In the water Oscar shows only from his chin up and is hard to see amid the frothy waves. But Oscar as the team is “whipping Intonext to Anderson and Weill. They |never has been lost. shape” for the coming fall activi-talk in low tones. Kollmer gets his Incldenhny,n . o linés straightened out and calls[going man we we asked every sea- met, and they all Meanwhile, Miss Madden |thought it was pretty silly for a captain to go down with his' ship, Just for the principle of the thing. BACK TO FRANCE Jules E.Deschamps, elderly Prefich been in_ Mount