The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 19, 1938, Page 3

“THE- DAILY. ALASKA EMPIRE,-WEDNESDAY, OCT. 19, 1938, TERROR-STREAKED TORNADO OF THRILLS! Marc Lawrence Dick Curtis -+ Ann Doran From the play by Martin Flavin SHORTS : ERQGAR AND GOLIATH GOING PLACES PATHE NEWS, Unleashing the hate-crazed - fury of men separated from the women they love/ 2 S : WALTER CONNOLLY JOHN HOWAR JEAN PARKER - ROBERT BARRAT STARTS CAPITOL how Place ot Juneau 0Id Gold Chiannel May Be Struck hy (Wrangell Sentinel) Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Wing and son Walter returned on the Hazel B No. 3 Saturday night from their placer prop at Porter's Landing on McDames Creek, a tributary of the Dease River. They tramped 30 miles with small pack to McDames post on Dease River and two days later were taken by Bob Wilms in his boat to the head of Dease Lake from which point they traveled the 73 miles to Telegraph Creek in a Hope and Marion truck. The trip was made in eight hours. Bob Wilms on McDames Creoek has struck a new paystreak, Mr. ‘Wing reports, It is a short distance below where Barney Reilly and Clay Leeds drilled some years ago. ‘Wilms says that if they had drilled one more hole farther down the bench they would have struck gold in paying quantities at about the 90-foot level. Wilms. has purchased a tractor to enable him to cut timber to build a flume which will give him plenty of water through the mining season Mr. Wine states that Wilms this year has been ground sluicing shov- eling in by hand. Next year he ex- | our Wilms, McDames | running.” \ungler the, direction more than 300 yards. We put this munity through and got 18 ounces of gold.| Ed. “T'he most of this season’s trouble |man of came to us,” he continued. “through Taylor, vice-chairman last year’s high water. It weakened |Herring, secretary -1 ditch until we could run Mrs. s, T. Pettijohn, but one monitor and at that one chairman. of the three of us had to be patrol- ing the ditch while the pipe was Saari was elected the council Ms, surer, R — {HARRISON IS NAMED The Wings will spend the winter in Wrangell and in the spring again go in to their property by plane from Carcr LGRS T S PALMER, Alaska. Harrison, of Paterson, ager of the Matanuska TONIGHT Screen play by Fred Niblo, Jr. and Selon I. Miller - Directed by John Brahm - A Columbia Picture | | | good when the hill sloughed in not | the medical profession of the com- as chair- Mrs. W. A Paul and publicit TO JOB, MATANUSKA| Appointment Cal,, Val- |by the board of directors of the co- G"rduva Haa"h |iey Farmers Cooperating Association was made | operative organization, known here recently. Mr. Harrison gained Council Formed prominence among cooperative officials by his | work in conneetion with a coopera- | tive nd the Palmer ho: colonists, feel they ar obtaining his services. (Cordova Daily Times) At a well-attended meeting in the | Council Chamber of the Municipal Building yesterday afternoon, or- gan! ion was completed and of- ficers were elected for the Cordova | 286 Health Council, a group whose pus pose will be to give assistance in the promotion of public health | nursing in this community . The public health nursing pro- gram here sponsored by and is of the Terri- torial Department of Health and | one of its urgent requests has been the formation of a local council which can be of assistance to the | health nurse in setting up adequate | headquarters for carrying on the Bank of Italy in California. HOLLYWOOD, Cal., youngest, strikes family. farm colony on the West Coast consisting of fortunate in For 10 years, Mr. Harrison man- ! 1 a cooperative farm colony of |rose and charged him. It was stop- r- 500 famihies under direction of the |ped by a Luger cal Hollywood Sights And Sounds By Robbin Coons Oct keep a good Barrymore down, but the transformation of John, the me as the most amazing coup in that amazing 4 AN ki ! ZBLAllNG DRAMA i —',‘,]ittcrbugcttes CAPITOL FILM |"* - ~ OPENS TONIGHT I'Penitentiary’ Stars Walter Connolly, John How- fl]'(], J(‘i"] I)E]l'l’\'(‘r A prison story of unusual prom- lise, Columbia’s ‘‘Penitentiary,” cpens at the Capitol Theatre. Tl In\. Martin Flavin's dramatic tale of'} a politically ambitious warden whol {finds that life inside a state peni- | tentiary goes deeper tiah mere in- ! dividual desires, , Walter Connolly, John Howacd Jean Parker and < Robert 'Barrat | play the leading roles in the pic- ture, while Marc Lawrence, Dick Curtis, Ann Doran, Arthur Hohl, Marjorie Main and Paul Fix are seen in lesser parts Connolly has lately been scen i “Nothing Sacred;” Howard has been playing in the “Bulldog Drum- mond” pictures, and Miss Parker, has recently been seen in “Life Be- gins with Love.” Barrat, who speci- ializes in brutal characterizations, [enacts a similar role in “Penitenti- The story concerns William Jor- |dan, who is sent (o prison by a | district attorney aiming for the goy- ernor's mansion. Jordan accidentaliy killed the son of the state's most in- fluontial eitizen because of an in- sult to a girl. So Thomas Mathews f Jordan to the *penitentiary later, Mathews is appoint- | | ed warden of the “pen,” another step toward the governorship. His daugh- | ter, Elizabeth, goes along In prison, broken in spirit and WED AT VALDEZ in health, Mathews finds Jordan,{ joo.oc A Dayis and n}wbu_v h\’sunlf"«w.xy A chain of ““"‘}mhlmk;np, Bath . of circumstances in which there are alpooioq October 6, U murder, an attempted prison hrouk.mionm Margaret Harrais and a romance between Jordan and {05 " ooremony. the warden’s daughter, brings Ma Joe O'Neil <] thews face to face with the most dramatic crisis of his life, — e - K1 3LACIER BEAR Vern Horne killed glacier bear while Mt. Drum recently. He reports see- ing another, but did not get it | Mr. Horne said the first bear was sleeping near where he passed and ! O'Neal swing it under the swing spell. son and Mickey Ann swinging it Sickels of Seward What About a nice blue or | taveling near | | | | ried by Mr. Horne. 19.—Everybody knows you can't Garry Thompson and Mickey Ann Young and old alike are drawn Here's a couple of tiny tots, Garry Thomp- O'Neal, during a jitterbug session in Miami, Fla. Mrs. Valdez, S. Commis- perform- |of were Ruth | Lena were Witnesses Bertha ‘BORDERTOWN' RETURN SHOW AT COLISEUM Paul Muni, Bette Davis Stai in Drama Seen Again by qunw»l Playing in the Warner Bros,' pic fure Border which, due fo popular currently mak a this owin demand, i turn engagement in i » Colisennr: Theatre;, are Wo ' act who 10 bein i have One of aversion them even fuse ¢ oles of a simila to his past production: ¢ Paul Muni, star of { Barrat who rature The two the picture, and Robe the important role ipporting t provides that he and this is when sub- uni’s contrac in mind mitting sc for 1 Barrat ha ility rous roles Muni contends selection escaped because i provided him with of a varying nature. that in order to keep from being typed, or given roles of a similar kind one after inother, an actor must have a wide knowledgc other words it is the ponsible if the has dialects. n player producers and cz him in quent plays and pictures which res m to play the who is re; ing dir subse ame type of him quire h which ha success illustrates pointing to the roles in “Border~ town.” This part requires that 1 speak with the broken accent of foreign youth while Barrat ta like an Americanized Spanish Pady This pictures life in @ picturesque community on the U. S. border. -oe ALASKANA, Ly Marle role brought prev+ ious Muni this point by Drake, 50c s a striking drama | s { suncaw's Greatest Show Valu RETURN ENGAGEMENT! Greater drama has yet to be filmed! Greater stars have yet to be born! V- EUGENE PALLETTE o Warner Bros, Picture /MARGARET L ! fa&;m — Vitaphone Pictorial ramount News ADDED — RACTIONS Sportlight _— - Pa TAJOOSH AT PETERSBURG jwill clean the hold and forecasfle, 1t vessel Tatoosh, which |bow stem will be rpelaced and en- Wrangell Narrows Sepi gine taken down and thorougHly has been raised towed | cleaned { istian Martinson, ha el on the gridiron nk in em and - Lode and placer iocation notices for sale at The Empire Office. -~ burg placed th where mer work Mrs. Mary Cauthorne, from the Junean headquarters, and Miss Dor- othy Hansen, local public health | y nurse, presented plans of possible | as aclion and isted in organization Just a few years ago John, the big romantic was as particular about his profile as even Claudette Colbert, who has an entire set for “Tovarich” rebuilt rather than make an en- trance showing the “wrong” side of her face. Don’t know that | John ever had sets rebuilt, but he was plenty demanding, living of the group. Miss M. Doug Barnes- || P to his professional status as a “great lover.” Jey, Office of Indian Affairs nur s, | Barrymore went into a skid when the years great- who has her headquarters in Cor loving rather ridiculous for him, but he has skidded up again—by dova, was also present in an ad- turning on the comedy at which he was always best, and by visory capacity. Dr. J. E. Young throwing his profile out the window. To realize how far h("..‘. and Dr. W. H. Chase represented thrown it, see “Hold That Coed” and then see—or remember— biv g P i that John of such lyrically lovey-dovey silent pieces as “Eternal Love,” “The Beloved Rogue” and “Don Juan!” pects to have his dragline in oper- e ation. | “If this is the Old Channel that the oldtimers were looking for, then I guess Bob will be on e street,” Mr. Wing commented, this gold is much heavier than the China bar gold.” As to his own property Mr. Wing sal “After what was not a very satisfactory cleanup we were get- ting some nice pans that looked made the WHITE DOT — Corrigan’s in the right place, making a movie based on his life. Hollywood has been shooting pictures backwards for years— and its critics still say it does things the wrong way. . . . Re- minds me, there was a movie once that actually did go the wrong way. . . . Started at the end, with the hero’s funeral, and went back from there. . . . Fine picture, too, “The Power and the Glory,"—and Spencer Tracy was every bit the actor he is today, but it didn't make a penny’s worth at the pay-windows. Eddie Cantor’s going to make pictures for RKO and Metro and it was only months ago that Zanuck (20th Century-Fox) and 4— the only LIFETIME pen WHY NOT ENJOY A REALLY DELICIOUS SUNDAY DINNER AT THE N E;W ER—FINER PERCY’ Cantor were protesting undying affection at the big Cantor testi- monial banquet. They made one picture together, then phooey ! Story trouble—same as Eddie had with Sam Goldwyn. Bert Leeds—he’s Herbert I. Leeds in the screen credits—is one boy who knew what he wanted and went after it. A cutter at Warner's for five years, he tired of promises of a directing job and switched lots. . . . Twenfieth gave him a “Jones Family” to do, and after that “Island of the Sky,” Jane Withers' “Keep Smiling,” then the Quintuplet feature, and now “Arizona Wild- cat,” again with Jane—all in less than a year. W. A. SHEAFFER PEN\«COMPANY R S Fort Madison, lows, U.S. A. Wonder what was in Naney Carroll’'s thoughts the other eve. Saw her leaving a preview, in which she’d done a minor role, P e eaaa s e e e e e e makes writing a pleasure Because of 'its Balance design and the smoothness of its FEATHERTOUCH point, 2 SHEAFFER'S LIFETIME is sure to be your favorite writing tool. SKRIP—the Successor to quickly, and does mot Al it with SKI AT LEADING STORES SHEAFFER'S Ink- ALWAYS ASK FOR Somewhere in Europ’e a baby is starting life in a gas mask. newspaper. These men represent the far-flung staff of The Round about is a jittery continent, rife with suspicion, hate and intrigue. In an atmosphere tense with war scares, all " political, social and economic life is in the throes of change. Associated Press, ever ready fo report minute-by-minute developments from the frontiers of the uneasy world. They are on the firing line as insurgents and government forces clash in revolution-torn Spain. Hour by hour they rush fresh developments from the troubled areas of Central Europe. From Moscow's Red Square to the palaces of dic. tators, from peasants’ huts to diplomats’ desks, their daily assignment is to report fact, not fiction. ) and she Walked aloné through the autographic lanes—with NO . What is going to happen to this little child? takers! All the kids were watching for the exit of Virginia Bruce, the STAR, who was just a little stock girl at Paramount when Nancy was a movie queen. . . . T don't know what Nancy was thinking, but I do know'that she held her head up and smiled while she thought it—and it seemed to me that a girl who can do that has licked Hollywood! They're tearing down and rebuilding at the old “U” lot. . . . Spending a million on new stages and offices, tearing down the relics of Hollywood’s beginnings. . . . Sentimentalists are weeping quietly—because here practically all of Hollywood’s once great and now great have worked, one time or another. . . . 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