The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 6, 1938, Page 3

'O PIONEERS ! ! ! COMEDY SEEN LAST TIMES, CAPITOL BILL JoeE. Brown Stars in ‘Wide Open Faces’ with Jane Wyman é HEATRE J Show Place of Juneau LAST TIMES TONIGHT JOE'S A DETECTIVE NOW! You don’t have to fight In as always, a pioneer simply is “one ¢ the men and women who “go he rost of us tag along. This i at HATS BY JOHN AND FRED — There is much gaiety on the screen of the Capitol Theatre, for Joe E. Brown is back, bringing with him for the last time tonight, a rib-tickling story and a cast that ‘Two Bored Boys and an Afterth Women Clamor for Hats ans to be a pioneer. intreduce you to some of these pioneers and their works. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, OCT. 6, 1938. Today in America, who goes before.” Modern pioneers before” in industry and the arts. s the second of four articles that By SIGRID ARNE AP Feature Service Writer NEW YORK--John - Frederics, Inc., is two bored-looking boys who pioneer in a gilt-edged way design- |ing hats for ladies. CAFE does no end of good. Joe has dished They started in 1930. Now they out heaps of fun in his career, but call out the limousine to roll the | rarely has he been as generous with | few blocks to the office, and crab | his helpings as he is in Columbia’s | about their current lou-zay cook. “Wide Open Faces,” which took They turn out little $50 num- its first local bow yesterday. | bers for women like Mrs. Harrison | . [ / As an amateur rube detective, Williams (tops in fashion). Pretty i 'WIDE OPEN @ |Joc can get in plenty of trouble soon everybody wants a copy, and | V and his current story finds him in the boys are averting their eyes 1 X il just such a role. He gets mixed up A composition in coq (chick- |wearily from the bargain basement| ACES % | with a wholesale shipment of metro- en) feathers, open at the top |editions the trade is shoveling out. . | politian gangsters quite by accident, to let your curls show. (Fred ] Den't Bether About Tt with Alis and in no time at all the situation who designed it, doesn’t like John is 31; Fred, 29. And don't SKIPWORTH is well out of hand. curls to show either.) It's held | bother about the last names. Few LYDA ROBERTI Such able and attractive perform-| on by velvet streamers of |do. Perfect strangers call them 5 ers as Lyda Roberti, Alison Skip-| “shocking pink.” John and Fred. John is short, JANE WYMAN | worth, Jane Wyman, Alan Baxter, p- g 6 graceful. brunet, Fred is tall, thin, i - e | Lucien Littlefield, Berton Church- & | blond. They're both dead pan. Soak the Poor iill. Barbara Pepper and Sidney A few years agc they designed Serene Siam | Toler do much to c‘nlmnmx the gen- }‘n felt hat for a girl in a cigarette I Lamplighter em.l merriment. It is a well stocked |ad. Stuck a long, impertinent quill ] . B into the band at the last minute | Latest News -~ | According to the story, Joe is |and sent it on its way. The ad ap- . |a soda jerker in a small town drug | peared in magazines. Pretty soon d PREVIEW TONIGHT |store that acts as a stopover for < |the cigarette company was per- 1:10 A. M. an interurban bus line. One day spiring over a flood of letters. And the bus deposits Stanley Fields at/| the letters asked, not where to buy ‘LAW FOR TOMBSTON the drug store. Fields asks Joe to | cigarettes, but where to get that ‘PORTIA ON TRIAL’ drive him out to a certain deserted | | hat! inn, but before Joe c¢an do his! The boys cashed in on another —‘stuff G-men catch up with Fields || craze like that. They put a buckle E R e |and haul him away. It seems that on a felt hat. Nothing else. In their { Fields is a notorious gangster. | mind’s eye they saw ladies from MRS. RICHARD NICHOLS| when the story of Fields' at- here to Guam demanding buckled | | tempt to get to the inn breaks in| hats. So they got a royalty contract b ls HOSTESS YESTERDAY city newspapers, more thugs than}‘ 1\rrom the buckle makers. Buckle SRR you can shake a nightstick at pack | business jumped to carload propor- Honoflpg Miss Hilda Moer, re- pr and come m‘sloe's mwnp to | tions; Jojhn l;nd Fred collecge?i‘.m ‘\‘5’)’; ;:";’Ja;e f::;‘fl;:esos;:fi' B:: search for the loot Fields appar-| | “High Class Garbage” Tweet, of this city, Mrs. Richard e;\ltl}é coulddnt gev.n:,o 1‘n \‘Ame.d '{}k‘a:; This wound-up gem ($35) is ..Jol:.x? ”.‘gs they're :he o:ly de- Nichols entertained yesterday af-| josgiitins reslly break out. | made of steel gray suede ante- |SiEners who can put garbage on ternoon at her home on Gastineau % “:a G lops with two crossed quills, He sugi el St i et Avenue, with a dessert-luncheon FEHE S st ‘nlghl. 9yeb-brmf A A High Guests present included Mrs. Ro- JUNEAU MINER WEDS e SBT“HZ& " ; land Lindquist, Mrs. Robert Gord_op‘ Eugene Richman Johnson, A. J PUBL‘IC CAR'D PARTY ?olfh;j-;amfifg;hey‘s s:;rd o{:b:fi; &l ]\}/{l:x:s {?Ob:;i;swfi::;" x:fie:mfliiiemployee. and Hilda Mae Green of SATURBA} EVENING”“ are richer in color and bener‘ Corrine Duncan, Miss Claudia Kear- | Walls, Miss,, were married here yes- ? TR His! ney and Miss Yvonne Perry. terday afternoon by U. S. Com-| Members of the Viking Clu\? will| John started the business. i . 5 missioner Felix Gray. Witnesses meet Saturday evening at 8 o’clock | mother, lllvlme.rLa:;e!, wassz J);;:’ [ rl in the Odd Fellows Hall for a short | York milliner for years. Empire classifieds pav. “\,verf‘:zoseph B :Jstiness Sessi(;)l'f had hats at his finger tips. He made | SO e | At 8:30 oclock, following the|them for girls at school. But his| business meeting, a public card father insisted he go into business. | . party will be held, during which He was floor-walking in a big Phil- Holl wood Si ht.f And Sou”ds time pinochle and whist will be| adelphia store when he rebelled. He| y g played. | walked bang off the floor into the | Refreshments will be served dur-|workrooms and made a hat. He can By e e ing the latter part of the affair, 'cut, sew, pin. Says no designer who HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Oct. 6—Times change, horizons broaden, 2 " e i I | minds grow. The years make one see things in clearer light. & Marie Wilson came into the studio the other day, went to i the files containing the biographical questionnaire she answered when she joined the Warner contract list. Extracting it for examination, she scanned the list of questions and her own answers. She came to that line: “What are your favorite indoor sports?” She paused, reached for a pencil. After “bridge” and “ping pong” shé scribbled in: “Kissing games. Then she replaced the document and departed, with the air of one who has made a satisfactory dent in her list of . things-to-do-today. Schilling Poultry Seasoning is a blend . 1 could recommend the procedure to others among her ques- ;rf)uillp(ohfi:iysz‘:oegi:; It::reth;:em;':e tionnaire file-mates. I think Dick Powell, for instance, should you hoped it would! Besides iviny take a look at his personal record at once. I think Joan hite-airdnd i ¢ 1 ds » 8 Blondell would not like it if she knew that, on the records, she AEACEECOIKH 0 POTI Eresting) rates fourth on her husband’s list of favorite actors and actresses you'll find this prepared seasoning is —with Joe E. Brown, George Arliss and Joan Crawford preceding excellent in meat dishes. Mrs. Dick Powell. And I'm sure Dick, under his own “favorite screen role,” would not today write: “Think T should prefer something light!” For years now he has been beefing at the monotonous, unvarying “lightness” of his screen roles—but he i - wrote that when he was Warner's newest “Biessed Event.” Cars, planes, yachts? Mr. Powell, unprophetic soul, allowed that “in the near future I want my own plane, do not care par- € Ex Ec UTIVE" ticularly for yachts.” Today Mr. Powell has no plane, owns a . DESK LAMP Miss Blondell, who didn’t know then that Dick Powell existed, Produces 6 to 10 SEE IT SATURDAY times mare light thanordinary desk b s q % & lamps. Uses 100 The Newer —— Finer e balby et PERCY rt , $13.50 Closed e Complet) o, admired Ruth Chatterton and James Cagney. You better come (This handsome and digni- . in too, Joan. Errol Plynn, on the records, admired the acting The Holophane fied EXECUTIVE Lemp of several, Today he .oughr to come in and add the name of ,_».g.cm bm"lt is the most eflicient Lamp Lily Damita. He married her. He ought 4ls0 to amend his un- into shade dif- of its type on the market Hollywooden lack of Hollywood possessions. “No plane, no boat {;‘";:”".‘;"."" oday. The diffusi t either, not even a car, and no pets,” he wrote beforé “Captain - today. The diffusing prisms Blood.” \of the Holophane reflector, Jimmy Cagney's ambition, (“Public Enemy” erd) was to “re- built into the metal shade, tire to the backwoods permanently.” Martha's Vineyard isn't filters a”non-glaring, far exactly “backwoods” although (lzt:l !:tv{'r;r: l‘{o'.llywood,Aand to reaching soft li(ht needed ctures. b o v s g St g for eye comfort when en. o 4 : 'gagedinexactingofficework. and their programs?” he was asked. “Yes, for further informa- tion see Cagney personally,” he replied, “and bring three days’ rations.” That would go today too—only toddy you should bring two weeks' supplies and your sleeping bag. Anita Louise—1934—had as her ambition “to succeed before I am 21.” Check—because she’s on the star list now. Inci- dentally, that far back one of her “favorite books” was Stefan Zweig's “Marie Antoinette”—long before she knew she'd be in the movie. Bette Davis—some time before “Of Human Bondage’—in- scribed that she “prefers the stage—not such- hdrd work, and more kick in it.” She also gave out on “doiesticity”: “I think it's a very good thing if it's not carried too'far.” THat sort of calls for elaboration from Mrs. Harmon O. Neison, -Jr. ’ought Feather Muke a Natiot’s ; They Started It in 1930 Jul sn't craftsman is worth desk- spage. a Everything Special Fred came in by way of Paris. He was here selling hats of Eu- ropean houses. His family includes five famous doctors, but blood makes Fred’s hair curl. So he tried to sell hats to John, and John said, “You're wasting time. Those hats must have been made for horses. We could make better ones” So they opened their shop in 1930. In _three months they were employing 20 workers, They sell hats for $35 up. All the young men ready to board a de- luxe liner for a vacation. Every- thing they wear is designed and made éspecially for them. Even the fabrics of their suits. The ef- fect isn't race-track; it's just dif- ferent, Customers come in, sit at little dressing tables and John twists fabrics about their heads until he geéts a shape he likes. If he can work in some brown he's lan- guidly approving. He's introduced three new shades of it. Most fun the boys ever had was the time Marlene Dietrich came in and sat for 56 hats. They gave her one of the chain rings they designeéd and give only to favorite péople. It's like a wide wedding ring with finy fins that stand up all around it. They both have one. John’s is made of sapphires. He says he wears it for evenings. S SOCIETY 1S ABOUT READY PUBLICSHOWING {New Musical Composition\ { by Fred Grofe Has Private Rendition | T | By GEORGE TUCKER | NEW YORK, Oct. 6.—"“Cafe So-| ciety” is about ready. We were | privifeged to sit on the composition | jof the last movement of this latest suite by Frede Grofe, who sometimes | likes/ o indulge the whimsy of hav- | ing factory whistles blow and chains clank in his musical coms | positions. | They did this in “Metropolis.” In “Grande Canyon Suite” you get the | pitapat of donkeys coming down | the trail. From “Mississippi” is the | color- and excitement of Madri/ Gras in- New Orleans. And now, in | » Rich French bronze fin- /ish, sturdily constructed, yet graceful withal, lend. ing a definite note of dis- tinction to thejwell{ap- pointed office.Y A FULL ASSORTMENT OF STUDENT, L E. S. AND BED LAMPS NOW IN STOCK. Alaska Electric Light & Power Co, JUNEAU———ALASKA———DOUGLAS “Cafe Society,” Ferde Grofe has| |painted a musical picture of an| integral part of New York life. { You know what cafe society in {New York is, of course. It is' most- iy a conglomération of snobs, vis- iting royalty,.and upper-drawer so- |cial swains and swainettes who like | |to gather and be seen in the better icafes and restaurants. | And so Senor Grofe, who hasn't| (a drop of Spanish blood in his | veins, has a broad canvas to sketch. |He hils péopled it with a swell lot |of_characters, each fitted to a tune, and the finished product is a bit of New York that everybody who |knows this town will easily recog- |nize, Among the various movements is the. “Ballet of the Drinks,” and the drinks identified are cham- pagne, tye and ginger ale; gin, and |scotch and soda. | We are especially interested in this movement for Mr. Grofe was kind enough to ask us for an opin- jon on how the gin should be treated and our suggestion was ac- cepted and utilized. The cham- paigne, of course, will be a waltz. ‘Then comes the rye and ginger ale, which will be a gavotte. And the scotch and soda will incorporate a |suggestion of scottish bagpipes, or a reel, to be heard in the back-| { , It was the gin that pubzled | Mr, le who hasn't a drop of | Prench blood in his veins, and we suggested that in-as-much as he | HN Calls O1d Fabrics “High Class Garbage” varied as possible he should treat it in the low-down, moaning hlues manner of a Gulf wharf scene. This he has done, and now “Cafe So- ciety” is done ready for its pre- miere, The latest Grofean exercise, which will run about 25 or 30 minutes, takes in the full sweep of a metropolitan cafe. There are the haughty waiters, the cigarette girl, the hatcheck girl. Visiting royalty | comes in. The highbrows saunter | to their tables and are seated. Too, \come a honeymooning couple, and time they work, they look like twoi the heavyweight champion with | |his manager and retinue of pugil- |ism's followers, asking for auto- | graphs, | In an exubrious moment the Champ seizes the bride and em- | braces her. The groom punches the |Champ in the jaw, and kayoes him. They take the Champ out; feét | first, to the strains of a dirge. It goes on like that through eight or nine movements. If you know your |Grofe you have an idea what this is to be like. | And about the time you are read- ing this it will be having its pre- miere in Chicago. Grofe himself will direct. And of course, of that premiere a master record will be made. | 1 certainly aim to get a copy of too. - e — DUFRESNE TO PETERSBURG To confer with Acting Game Commission Chairman Earl N. |Ohmer and attend to other game matters, Frank Dufresne, Executive |Officer of the Alaska Game Com- !mission, sailed on the Mount Me- Kinley this morning for Peétersbhurg. Also on the vessel going to the States for a month’s vacation was | Wildlife Agént Peter McMullén of Fort Yukon. RED LABEL, 8 years old. BLACK LABEL, 12yearsold, Both 86.8 proef. - “DLCATRAZ" FILM ENDING AT COLISEUM Production Stars John Li(el,‘ Ann Sheridan and Mary Maguire /merica’s most widely publicized penitentiary, that “Big Rock” situ- ated in the chill waters of San Pran- cisco Bay. is brought to the motion | picture screen for the first time in “Alcatraz Island,” a thrilling Cos- moepelitan: melodrama which War- ner Bros. present for its final show- ing tonight at the Coliseum Theatre. Grim but fascinating is this story of men who live outside the law and of the men whose duty it is to| apprehend and convict them. Every | moment is loaded with thrills as this drama moves swiftly to an unex- | pected and exciting climax. | But “Alcatraz Island” is more, than a story of crime vs. law and | order. It also carries a splendid | human stery of love—both roman- | tic and parental—and of exciting| adventure on the mainland. John Litel ,is featured as al racketeer who is, despite his busi- | ness, rather likeable. Tncome tax| | evasion catches up with Litel just| as it did with Al Capone and other |real-life racketeers. Gorden Oliver, | |a government , attorney, procures | his conviction. He is sent first to | | Leavenworth. There, in a fight with a lesser gangster which is forced upon him, he is pronounced incor»; rigible and transferred to Alca-| traz. i An amazingly dramatic sequence’ |of events, occurring behind Lhe! | walls of Alcatraz whilé the trial is! going on, bring out thé truth con- | cerning the murdér, and real jus-| | tice has its way. | b HERMANNNAMED HEAD OF LOGAL 103 MILL MEN Many Nemcers Get Chairs in Election Last Night ‘ | Menmbers of Local 203, Juneau| |Mine and Mill Workers, elected of- ficers for the 1938 year last night in Union Hall. Rex A. Hermann sutéeéded W. A. | | | Rasmussen as president of the local, Rasmussen declining to run' for an- | other term because of pressure of' other duties. | In addition to Hermann, not to be! | confused with the well known drul-; gist, other officers elected were as follows: Vice Président, Ernest E.| Stender; Alternaté Vice Président, Jack Turkovich; Recording Secre-| tary, Val Poor; Financial Secrétary, ' John Covich; Conductor, Peter J.| Ludwig; Warden; Mentor Petérson, | and Trustee, Eimer Jacobsen. The new officers will take over | in January. A Scot goes in for moderation in an almost immoderate CANADA DRY GINGER ALE, 1 17's sensible to stick with JOHNNIE WALKER EW YORK, N. Y.; SOLE DISTRIBU COLISEU OWNED AND _OP(RATED w Juneau’s Greatest Show Value! Last Times Tonight' —TONIGHT— IS THE BIG NIGHT YOU'’RE SENTENCED TO ALCATRAZ FOR the theill of your | LIFE! IN ADDITION: , _Vitaphone Vaudeyille.. Musical Comedy—Neéws. STOCK QUOTATIONS | el ool buarwis - 3§ NEW YORK, Oct. 6. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneiu mine stock today is 9%, Americdn 102, American Light and 5%, Anacohda 37, Bethléher gm 60%, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 5%, General Motors 50, International Harvester 65%, Kennecott 46%, New York Central 19%, Safeway Stores 18%, Southern Pacific 19%, United States Steel 61%, Bremner bid % asked 1%, Pound $4.80%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES: The following are today's Wow, Jones averages: Industrials 14830, down .22; rails 29.88, up .39, ufll- ities 20.71, up .03, BORN 1820... still going strowg ' 3 Afl Mesbers of THRIFT CO-OP feqlissted to call &t store Friday and Saturday, October 7 and 8, to vote for Board of Directors. Special Meetings of Members 4 3 Hall—S Fellows’ unday—— October 3——11:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. THRIFT CO-OP Juneau, Alaska. ‘wnnwd the movement to be ul — . I 4 i e