The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 12, 1939, Page 3

& S 3 t * w . P L L T % i % - H * PR DU DR DY NP SEap . > 4 SHORTS Roomers LAST TIMES TONIGHT Some Biondes Are Dangerous Making the Headlines—News Kichoahi Adlem, Beverly Suberts, LoluTiiet in the Republic Picture, “Call of the Yuken.” ?éEWfifiGlE IN PULPIT or's Preaching Phras-, es Are Abundant in Mliteration CHARDON, O., J Flat Foot Fleogie is a floundering failure as alliteration con red to that used by Cromwell Cook Cleveland of Chardon’s Christian church. He sprinkles sermons with an abundance 1 “Purpose prece " is a simple sentence Ir one of the 926-year-old preacher’s salty ser- mons. Mr. Cleveland former Yale student and his ent has done much to inc church attend- ance. He does not consider himself a “show-off,” explaining his father was a debater who always used such phrases without effort. Some sample statements: “Man’s cravings carve upon his charagter and control his conduct. «pracrastinating, putting off, is a parasite thal prevents any prog s “Many persons aj . baffled, bothered, bewildered and made bit- ter by their blunderings because they are blind to the way that is bes Mr. Cleveland’s longest sentence to date: “This loose, lavish, lustful lad-— a lazy libertine, had lost his love for the. Lord and all, things lofty and was living in luxury, but now at the length of his lilting lark, being list- less and lank, he longed for at least a little lunch, for he at last had languidly limped to the loathsome Jevel that was lamentably lousy and low.” Sermonette on the chureh bulle- tin board “Purpose without Pep is Piffle.” o Refugee Children Fund Raised in U. S, WASHINGTON, Jan. 12. Mrs. Grace Coolidge, widow of President Coolidge, and William Allan Neils President of Smith College, have raised funds to bring 25 children German political refugees, country.- Secretary of State was asked to help raise the fund. to this Hull \ ‘ Big Oflu' for Quints MAck Sauer Last year the Leesburg, O., Citi~ zen offered $10,000 for the first quintuplets born within eight miles of Leesburg. It went un- | claimed. Now, the Citizen, whose publisher is Mack Sauer, doubles the offer. The Citizen also an- nounced it would pay $10,000 to the first quadruplets, $1,000 to the first triplets, $10 to the first twins and $5 to the first single baby. The single baby will re- ceive the $5 only if both parents are Republicans; if they are Democrats, only $2.50 will be pmd (ABARET SATURDAY ~ ATEKS' BALLROOM turday nigit at the Elk's ball- n, the third cabaret. presented o this winter season will be an event for members of the Elk’s lodge in good standing. | Lililan Uggen and her orchestra will play for the affair, refrosh- ments will be served, and entertain- , ment will be supplied by students of Dorothy Stearns Roff. Rod Darnell, dance chairman, will have charge of arrangements, and all Elks and their ladies to ,be present for the festivities. 15 WINNER .| no novelty; sometimes I imagine it THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE THURSDA\ JAN. REPUBLIC MAKES CURWOOD'S NOVEL | " THRILLING FIM! "Call of fhe Yukon” Ends at Capito! Theatre Iomght 1ew R»"’lhrm Picture, “Call rukon,” which, is ending to- e Capitol Theatre, is one | The of the nig of the outstanding adventure films jof the entertainment season. Based {on one of James Oliver Curwoods most popular stories, “Swift Light- e new picture stars Richard nd co-features Beverly Ro- |berts and Lyle Talbot | The plot of “Call of the Yukon’ |deals with the stirring adventures {of a beautiful young lady (Beverly | Roberts) who, through her own | stubborness, becomes stranded in !the wastelands of snow: and ice in { Northern Alas She is forced to | tern to a cold-blooded half-civilized | trapper for protection. (The role of the trapper is enacted by Rich- ard Arlen) Complications arise | when a north-wood’s trader, Hugo | (Llye Talbet), puts in an appear- ance and tries to take the girl back | to civilization, | several animal actors dogs, cub [ies 's, pet ravens—are introduced during the course of the picture. ,Swift Lightning, a huge German police dog throughout plays an important role | the picture and is in- {strumental in bringing the picture ‘|.. a 1)uwrrfl|£ climax. PP BENATURAL EVERY TIME Those Who Are Always Themselves Are Those Who Get Along Best GEORGE TUCKER NEW YORK, Jan, 12.—It must be true, the ng that people who along are those who are Pretense is only a transparent veneer. You can hold a mask to your face only so long, best ys themselves. and then it slips and people see through you. | Take Gladys Cooper, the actr She is the most natural and one of the most fundamentally honest pes sons I ever saw. No sham or pre- tense whatever. The other day I w; talking with her and a young lady of about nine came in, “This is my daughter,” she and she turned to the child. along now, dear, Mother’s bus) After the girl had her how amazed I was that she had such a grown-up daughter. “T don't see why,” she replied. | “I'm well into the forties” And | that's what I mean. Most women | on the stage or in professional life | who look as young as M Cooper | would die rather than admit their | age. said, “Run | Another young man who is him- |self at all times is Billy Rose. I | admire tremendously the way ne‘ ‘lmnd]es himself in public. In meet- | ing people, I mean. Usually his cab- aret-restaurants are filled with ¢ Do you think he is im- d? He is as courteous and { casual with a newsboy as he would | be with the Duke of Windsor. '1 The other night at the “Diamond | Horseshoe,” a throw-back to -the | 1890’s which, I suppose, can best be | | described as an idea with handle- | bar mustaches, dozens of celebrated orchestra leadesr, actors and im- presarios were there to see what | they thought of Billy’s new show, {Many of them had their wives with | them ,and most of these wives were applauding loudly at everything that | happened and making obvious ef- | forts to convey their enthusiasm to Rose. At the conclusion of each act they would bank their noise-makers | against the table and smile at Billy. It looked to this observer as if they were dying to be noticed. He was pleasant and courteous, yes, but that stuff doesn’t get to him. He wasn't beaming with that gee-I'm-so-grateful attitude. Having droves of celebrities around, him is is a bore, but he is too shrewd a business man to show it. I think he’s got the right idea about the whole buisness. You are well treated by him, but Joe Doaks of Hamlet, Wisconsin, receives {much considerakion as the Presi- | dent of the United States. Another take-me-as-I-amn lad is one Jack Dempsey, who used to be something of a pugilist. Jack is a| happily married man now, rich and contented. But when you go to his | house he says, “Come in, boys. Take | off your shoes and make yourself at home.” He is a hand-shaker be- cause he has to be. Everyody wants to shake hands with him. But he is | no hand-kisser. There is a differ-| ence. ————— JEAN CAMPBELL AT CHENEY Of interest to her Juneau friends| comesword. that Miss Jean Camp- bell, a graduate of the Juneau High School, is now attending Normal School ak Cheney, Washington, gone I told | § : - | Women inThe News Winter Brings Glad Tied -ings LOU I\I' CAMPBELL, movic ate was married toa felow Horace MacMahon, in JANE V AN( E, who u ul to \mg with Paul Whiteman's orchess tra, and Clark Dennis, singer, Deec. 27, ALICE KEE, Chinese, ang mayor of Chica American-bora Gerald Chinatown, » Dee, tUTH MIX, daughter of Tom Mix, of Western films, revealed on Dec. 29 that she had been married to John A. Guthrie, a rodeo promoter.’y .. For Swimming - Marion Talley Stréamlined "for swimming, Ma- rion Talley, the well-known sing- er, shows off her two-piece swim suit now being seen at California and southern beaches, The suit is designed of ! candy-stick pin satin lastex over which she wears a multi-colored terry cloth cape- i radio | were wed in New York | Moyae. | ; SHELLS TRACE - — % Lk ] PO MURPHY'S RISE REALLY STARTED. WHEN HE WAS " 'ADOPTED’ BY ROOSEVELT DETROIT, Michigan, Jan, 12.-; red-haired Frank Murphy, has been nominated successor has aLl who to Attorney General Cumming [ been in polities in Michigan. some 110 years before ‘his name became | known nationally. | His rise to prominence seems, to jl’;: e from the time he attracted the | atiention of Franklin D. Roosevelt | when Roosevelt was Goyernoy of New York and Murphy was Mayor ‘m Deiroit Helped the Needy In the turbulent days of 19301933, | Murphy was trying to whittle De- troit'’s $400,000,000 debt. He w izing Deltroit's social servic instituting. several reforms similar o those to be sel up later under | social security by President Roose- \ velt Auto plants were shutting down, | banks were closing, relief rolls were | growing. Murphy called on Wash- | ington to help; care of the unem- | ployed, he insisted, was a national problem. | In May, 1933, after Roosevelt had become President, Murphy resigned | as Mayor to aceept a Roosevelt ap- | ponitment as Govenor General of the Philippines He had been in the Philippines {| vastating) of Girl meets HILARIOUS FILM ENDING TONIGHT, COLISEUM SHOW "Danger-Love at Work (o-stars Ann Sothern and Jack Haley New w ways of of laugl “commotior bring a lit to the tre wher plays fo Sothern lovin, wnd in the 1 s of laughing newer ind that is the funy picture” of the yeax and I d Eyerett starred in th faffiest ned produced by the Twentieth Cer tury-Fox merrymal In or out of bediam n ever seen the likes of () romanties and haywire hiarl this outstanding comedy shell (a very fitting plac way) this new kind of rib-ticklin tale is a simple story (si Boy. B Ming! Lhe came meets Family, Boy lose. I'he Girl is Ann Sothern debutante whe ever a trance! The Boy i the most bewildered ever faced a shotgun! is altogether pixilated koo for their crest and a stvait jacket their coat-of-arms! The Mind—well, nobody does, it grand fun! | s daffie ont-—of Jack Huley Romeo The I who il o | three years when, in 1986, he was called bac Elections were coming {up and Democratic leaders figured | that Murphy-for-Governor would help carry Michigan. FRANK MURPHY Murphy won. He scarcely had o v S & . [taken office on- January 1; 1937, | ‘“Fhey. Called Mo Red:' as a | when a sit-down strike in Flint | o | inaugurated a series of labor trou- | - bles that beset his administration. | me ‘Red’ as a boy and they call me Amidst the clamor that the sit- | ‘red” now.” downers be evicted, Murphy held out Last November he was defeated against bloodshed. He finally | for re-eletcion after a campaign brought about peaceful settlement | largely concerned with his labor of the strike. But critics have said | record ever since that he did not know the He's a pachelor—says he never importance of property rights. found time to marry, He's a worker, too: rarely finds time to play, though | when he does he plays hard. Likes Red, After a witness before Then and Now the Dies commiitee had testified that Mur- | to ride, and plays golf, but his golf phy countenanced communist ac- | is not so good. Enjoys the theatre, | tivity, “They called | likes Katharine Cornell especially. Murphy replied, HospiTaL NOTES s admitted morning Mrs. Gilbert Prucha w to St. Ann’s Hospital thi MIGRATIONS OF Mrs. F. Chinela was a surgical admission this morning to St. Ann's Trade Belween Ancient | ospitar Amen(a, Japan Was Mrs. H. W. Hanson entered S. Aunn’s Hospital yesterday afternoon for medical attention. Al Gustafson, who has been re- ceiving medical care at the St. Ann’s i Hospital for the past several days was dismissed today. George Bowers was admitted last night to St. Ann’s Hospital for medi- cal attention. Partly: Game ! By HOWARD. W. BLAKE AP Science Editor EE LA JOLLA, Cal, Jan. 12—One of California’s supeylatives, its abalone shells—the world's biggest |—are a key to ancient migrations |of man. | | The abalone is a mollusc which ¥ 2 is one of California’s table deli- mu}:u . cacies, its multi-colored, mother- ” of-pear]l shells the brightest spots |in: curio windows. Once or twice in a blue moon, an (abalone produces a perfect pearl. When that happens the gem-is the e MRS. CORKLE HOSTESS TO SUSANNAH WESLEYS rarest, most beautiful and most valuable, of pearls. It may be QR A i ERHE bisy igreen, bitie ShiMek, .I"I‘\n:. for a Ground Hog dinner were discussed. at -yesterdays ses- fawn yellow and all this will be shot - through with flashes of red and crimson. La Place Bostwick. of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography here, in a report to the American Gem Society in .its publication, Gems and Gemology, says thal some abalone pearls have been foungd in statues of Bfiddha, made in Ja- pan, in the year 300 AD. The sige indicates, he further reports, that these pearls prob- ably came from California waters. | Nothing else big enough in aba- | lones, then or now, is known to | account for them. | Mr. Bpstwick does not suggest that Japanese fishermen then, as today, roamed across the Pacific. But he thinks the pearls were shipped back to the Orient, in trade, by early peoples who mi- grated here from Asia. Their route, | via the Bering Strait, has becn mapped by archeologists with evi- dence that it is thousands of years old. sion of the Susannah Wesley Cirelé, jheld at the South Franklin Street residence of Mr, and Mrs, Lee Corkle. Two members, Mrs. Roy Mnrphy -~ Stocx QUOTATIONS 12. — Closihg Juneau mine American | Can NEW YORK, Jan. quotation of Alaska stack today is 9%, |97, American Light and Power 5%, | Anaconda 31%, Bethlehem Steel 75%, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright A 24%, Gener- al Motors 467%, International Har- vester 55, Kennecott 39%, New York Central 19%, Northern Pacific 12%, Safeway Stores 30, Southern Pa- cific 18, United States Steel 1644, Bremner bid 1'%, asked 2, Pound $4.66%. i | . DOW, JONES AVERAGES | The following are today's Dow, | Jones averages: industrials 147.33, rails 30.08, utilities 22.65. s, H. Markene, who have been and M yesterday. - Others present include: Mesdanies Mildred Hash, Burns MeCroskey Roy Sharpe, Hamilton Gibson and | G. Edward Knight | Refreshments were served by the | hostess and the next meeting was | planned ‘to be held at the home of Mrs. Roy Sharpe. ..... PO | FINDS NEW VARIETIES ! BATON ROUGE, LaDr. C. 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