The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 1, 1938, Page 3

SHOW PLACE OF LAST TIMES HEA J TONIGHT LL TAK '?QMANC MARCH OF TIME Late News Flashes MIDNIGHT PRE VI‘EW “START CHEERI) “SET 'EM UP” Thrills on a Bowl- ing Alley *Legion Planning Ful I ngram Next Monday the Post is holding L |a Jiggs Dinner at which a special |program will be presented and on |and €. B. Arnold of KINY is operating with the Legionna arranging it. Speakers also appear at the schools during week. co- s in will the and Auxil dance will be held, | preceded by a mixer in the Dug- out. Two new members were initiated into the Post last night—Harvey {McKowan and Tom Casey Fir: | Vice - Commander Russell Clithero sided in the absence of Com- | pr r 8 celebra- 3 Plans for an elaborate | mander Bert Lybeck, who is out on a hunting trip. tion of American Legion Week which opens November 4 and closes Armistice Day, November 11, the day which marks the 20th an-| . niversary of World War peace, were | Ma m‘ Ge"eral taken up at the regular meeting | * of Alford John Bradford Post, Am- s. n_ erican Legion, last night. . Radio Program, Jiggs Din- ner, Americanism Speak- ers, Dance Arranged Past Commander W. O. Johnson, Chairman of the Americanization Program Committee, announced that Department Commander E M. Polley will be heard over the facilities of station KINY on Fri- SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Nov. 1.— Major General George S. Simmons 64, retired Army officer, is d here day night, opening the week, and | following an illness of several Monday Howard D. Stabler will months be the speaker on the radio pro- The Army officer saw service in gram. A special air program is be- | Alaska, Philippines, China and ing arranged for Armistice Day Hollywood Sights And Sounds By Robbin Coons France. He retired last March. HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Nov. 1.—Ted Snyder’s been on the hill off Sunset overlooking the Gyp Strip only two years, but his little place is a storchouse of memories that dig deep and spade up light on things as modern as “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” and “The Yam.” . Ted is tall, big and grey, a prophet wandered far from Tin Pan Alley. The Ted Snyder !\F.si(‘ Co. Remember? “He was a skinny, pale-faced kid with an ambition to write Iyrics"—this is Ted, digging deep and spading up—“and he was writing parodies on popular songs and singing them at Nigger Mike's. - Waterson, Berlin and Snyder. “What attracted me to Ir more meaning in a single line than most ly whole verse. I put him on at $25 a week when ing $30. “And then one day he walked into my office, sat at the piano and played it—one of the first songs he’d written both words and music for, ‘Alexander. Something so new, so different in con- struction it startled us. We talked it over, and decided to try it on the public.” Trying it on the public proved difficult. Singers heard it, shook their heads. Each one had a different excuse for NOT singing it. But they trapped Emma Carus, rising vaude twinkler. Emma wanted one of their songs, but she couldn’t have it un- less she sang “Alexander” too. Emma was singing at the Met, ] and she had her reputation to think of, but finally she capitulat- ed. Applause? Not a ripple. When Emma went next week to ng Berlin was his ability to put -writers could in a nyder was draw- - the Brooklyn Orpheum, she took “Alexander” along under pro- EVERY EVENING . . .. A truly delicious DINNER . . . includ- ing soup, salad and dessert, all for . as little as FIFTY CENTS. . . . is wait- , ing for you at the NEWER, FINER PERCY’S test. Still no go. Another pair, Elizabeth Brice and Charles King, grudgingly tried it at Hamerstein’s. After one cheerless per- Y formance they dropped it. The pluggers kept plugging. They got it into a burlesque show that was to open the same night Emma Carus was opening Hamerstein’s new roof spot—her biggest break. More pleading, and she agreed to give “Alex” the worthless “second spot.” “We sent a .couple of the boys over to cover the burlesque show,"—this is Snyder again, grinning reminiscently, “‘—and Irving and I sat in a balcony at Hamerstein’s and waited. carus forgot to sing our song—but remember it was an important g night for her too. We sat through the third song, the fourth, * fifth and sixth, and I gave up hope. Carus was going over big, but I wanted to go home and forget about it. “‘Come on and stay, see it through,’ said Irving. I sat down again, expetcing nothing. Carus got hand after hand, they wouldn't let her quit. She was tired out by then. Finally, maybe in desperation, she turned to the orchestra leader and asked for ‘Alexander.’ She sang one verse and chorus—and I've never heard anything like the ovation she got. Sang ten choruses before they'd let her go. Just then our boys came rushing in from the burlesque house. ‘Alexander’ had won there too. Next day all Broadway was talking about it. But I'll never be able to tell why we hung on to it when we should have thrown it away.” Today, 271 years later, I heard the filling station man whistling “Alexander.” | be issuea after the couple had left B ELS THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, NOV. GRACE MOORE - MUSICAL ENDS How Bumper Crop WHEAT &) 10 [ mfi R W _____ ; | g " W I'll Take Romance,” Ro- e 100 . 5 e 16 mantice-Comedy-Musi- & o) 85 o = | < cale at Capitol E E’J 03l = — = » & . - The conjecture that grand opera, © 2wt will some day be transferred in its| @ e 5 | | original form to the screen, broached % ] with the release of every Grace o - Moore musical, is dealt a body blow = - =12 by Isaac Van Grove, former con- Zgq0. ductcr of the Chicago Opera com- pany, who acted as musical conduc- | 60 tor for Grace Moore in her newest i Columbia production, “I'll Take Ro- mance,” which ends tonight at the e 5 Capitol Theatre. 1930 31 ¢ “Grand opera would become A| mpe relationship between big harvests and low pricas | comedy if transferred directly to i and bales of cotton indicate the volume of the crop the screen,” says Van Grove, who also indicts opera generally as “art ficial, unnatural and constrained “One of the biggest items in the decline of the opera,” Van Grove states, “is the singers themselves Although there are a few excep- tions—Grace Moore and Lily Pons are two-—-most opera singers are {schooled by artificial vocal methods to emit sounds, often pitch true and of good quality, but so far removed from a natural speaking or singing voice, and accompanied by facial distortions so fixed and body so constrained, that response to a mo- tivating dramatic idea is impossibie Joy, pain, hate, surprise cannot be interpreted by these paralytics. Hands, eyes, mouth, each tell a different story. Grace Moore, how- | ever, is probably the most natural singer of prominence in the enter- | tainment world today. I am speak- |ing of opera generally wedding of Arthur Walther, well | A known Juneau man. | Miss Lola Lea Hunnicutt of Sac Note the lag between the large crops and decline in p 3 crop—such as last year’s cotton yield—generally is marketed cotton is based on New York quotations, le wheat Details Told 0f Wedding, A, 1. Walther Young Couple Arriving in Juneau Today on Baranof durin, pric Of interest to friends in this city comes the following details of the . ramento, Cal, and Arthur Hoo: [} Walther, of Juneau, Alaska, werc married at high noon Monday, Oc- tober 10, by the Rev. Richard De er, at the Ritzville, Wash., home of | | the bride’s sister, Mrs, A. A. Shuler Following the singing of “Through the Years,” by Miss Helen Norman, the wedding party. to the strains ¢ ok Wedding March. took | e their places before an altar, decor-| fg 4 ated with tall white tapers and a silver bowl of cream and pink rose- buds. The bride, entering on the arm of her brother-in-law, Allen Shuler was gowned in a floor length dress of blue taffeta. She carried a colon- ial bouquet of cream and pink rose- Warmer than ~ Usual, Report | Lohengrin’s Weather Bureau Records Average Temperature Above Normal The month of October, 1938, in Juneau averaged much warmer and somewhat drier than usual, with| the percentage of sunshine slightly }’]f::‘l;‘ and wore gardenias in her above normal, according to the ~or s | monthly meteorological report is- | M Seward Blansett, sister of| mhe lucky man whispering in beautitul Hope Hampton's car is George e o e Juncau Weather | D€ bride, was her only attendant.| Burns, of the radio team of Burns and Allen, The dark la t sued today by the Juneau Weather | e, Phde: ; , ¢ n of Bu She wore a floor length dress of | js Gracie Allen, surrealist painter, who Bureau Office. The average temperature for the month was 48.3 degrees, 5.0 degrees above the normal, making the month just passed the warmest in 46 years of record. The highest temperature during the month was 46 degrees on the 19th and the I h satin and carried a colonial bouquet of mixed colored rosebt in her hair were cream rosebuds. Roy Walther of 0, Nev., and brother of the groom, acted as best During the reception which pre- LUTHER LEAGUE PARTY ceded the wedding, Miss Helen Nor- The seene wxs snapped in society’s newe | Casanova C Affect Farm Prices He Tells 1t to All the Gixls y at the has trouble finding her brother. est rendezvous on Broadway, the lub, alian Troops To Leave China lowest 36 degrees on the 14th. The |men gang, “Little Old Cathedral highest October temperature on| iy the Pin accompanied at the Twenty-five membe c the record over a period of 46 Vears|piano by Mrs. Decker. Following Lulheran League gathered in the| TORYO, Nov. 1. — The Italian was 66 degrees in 1896 and thethe reception, dinner was served to Social room of the Resurrcction Li- Goyernment informed Japan that lowest 13 degrees_ in 1_933. | thirty guests. The bridal party and theran Church last evening in cele- a withdraw the troops they The total precipitation for Octo- guests present representing the bration of Hallowe'en in China as a gesture of ber was 9.90 inches, or 1.28 inches states of California, Nevada, Ore- The evening was spent in playing gyiendship, roops were sent below the normal. The maximum gon, Washington and the Territory Sanes, the lat part of which the | here at the beginning of the war amount of precipitation for any 24- of Alaska. cider and cool was ed o protect alian citizens and hour period was 2.04 inches on the| Mr. Walther is the son of Mr. and _ All guests attended i ther property. 5th-6th. The wettest October of | Mrs. J. C. Walther of Fort Halleck, i1 costume, with the prize for the record was that of 1936 with a|Nev. Mrs. Walther is the former best dressed person present bein |total of 18.71 inches and the driest | Lola Lea Wilsey, daughter of Che- @warded Eckley Guerin WAKE u P Youn late. In charge of the affair was Lil- 'that of 1888 with 2.04 inches, over lan pioneers, Martha and the ifred Zenger and terday a period of 46 years. No snow was John S. Wilsey. 1 recorded in Juneau during Lhe} Following a motor tour of the Elizabeth month. | Pacific and Central states, the cou- There were 2 clear days, 5 partly |ple left for Juneau on the steamer > ‘cloudy. and 24 cloudy days during Baranof and are arriving here late MRS- PAINE RETURNS Ithe month. Out of a possible 319.1 | this afternoon. hours of sunshine, 64.2 hours were — -ee — - FROM TRIP OUTSIDE received, or 20 percent. | LIVENGOOD DISCOVERER e The average relative humidity at | IS ON WAY TO STAT Mrs. V. Paine, Keku Island fox 3:30 a.m. was 75 percent; at noon,| James Hudson, discoverer of pa her, returned ye from a 70 percent, and at 3:30 p.m., 173 dirt in the Livengood area, passed several months’ trip Outside, and percent. | through Juneau on a recent steam- plans to spend about ten days iy The prevailing wind direction for | er bound for the Mayo Clinic at' Juneau before back to her 'the month was from the southeast | Rochester, Minn. He has been in foxes across from Kake. She is stay- and the average hourly velocity |failing health recently. ling at the G {was 9.4 miles. The maximum veloc- | lity for a sustained period of 5| \minutes was 30 miles from the east | lon the 17th. Solar halos were ob- Iserved on the 5th, 20th, 22d, and | 28th; light fogs on the 2d, 6th, |14th, and 28th, and light IrOSLs’ jon the 2d, 14th, and 28th. | | e — | W / |OFFICIALS SEE | 2 7 “SPITE WORK” IN | GADDI ARREST HERE ' Charged in a telegraphic warrant from Anchorage with violating the | Territorial liquor law, Mr. and Mrs. | | william Gaddi are being detained here by authorities. They arrived here yesterday on the steamer Al-} aska. After being arraigned before | U. S. Commissioner Felix Gray, they | were released on their own recogni- zance. District Attorney William A. Holzheimer said Gaddi was return- ing to Anchorage on the Baranof| tonight while Mrs. Gaddi and their two children will remain here. Authorities here were skeptical of the Anéhorage charges and said there was indication of “spite work. They said it was strange that a war- rant for the couple’s arrest should for you Anchorage, near where they told officers here they had operated a road house since last spring, but failed to make it pay. {‘ — e Lode and placer ioeation noticel for sale at The Empire Office. } LIVER BILE— Without Calomei-— And You'll Jump Out oi Bed Full of Vim and Vigor <l sour, nt doosn’t get at of SN t'ehplceat ... er's | COLISEU FARMERS VS, | OWNED ~AND. * OPERATED W..5R08S Juneau's Greatest Show Valwe IHRILL TO MIGHTY tAMA FILMED IN i ECHNICOLOR “GOLD IR T IS WHERE YOU “ T with GEORGE BRENT OLIVIA DEHAVILLAND CLAUDE RAINS | i ; “For Added Enjoyment— Hsmi ¥ MY LITTLE BUCKAROO 1 < Wi Y O Color Cartoon i s : ROM THE MINUET TO b THE BIG APPLE FOX MOVIETONEWS 4 : T ainst tl inancial which he hydraulic mine inte Mounts, October mining operation was carr « the use of huge hich threw powerful streams 1gainst the mountainsi ST AIch: Was tH M. Nov. 1 British wshad ot poured down over the Guthorities disclosed that fighting val ruining thousands of acr rism in that vicinity had oF valuabls Whedt Tands ost 435 lives during October. The In' the plotire, Gesrge B number of wounded for the month g the part of a young miner Wa ced at 240, the east, arrives 1 1t the t ed the heaviest of dramatic f The a 7 dead tate Is divided Into two fac-| The Arabs usually carry their ‘ e d bloodshed is the rule of woyy ith them when they re- “Gold Is Where Yon Find Tt ‘““( Sl st vivid portrayal of this dramatic o Agpobig i tory from history >oo Laies' Aux. Dance Event on Saturday BILLY M’CANN TO SAIL SOUTH; WILL CONTINUE BOXING FOR HIS CAREER Billy McCann, one of the mos potent little middleweight boxer hit this town in many turday night at the Union Hall nee, sponsored by the Junean sail- ng south on the Prince dies Auxiliary, No. 34, will take day to follow a wce, music being provided by a six- or in the States, piece orchestra. ly showed up admirably in the One of the outstanding affairs of °r here with a wicked wal- the year, a feature of the evening, lop in either hand, plenty of color, will be a spot dance, with prizes and fast on the getaway. He used o' being awarded the lucky couples. be a table mate of once champion Freddie Steele, and he hopes to hii Entertainment for will ine the evening de a tap dance, presented the uphiil climb again, in Tacamas by Miss Anncbelle Hagerup, and a Seattle or Salt Lake City song and dance routine by the Miss- - e es5 Jacqueline Schmitz and Mar- Tryv an Empire ad garet Guanocos. 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