The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 24, 1939, Page 3

TIMES TONIGHT MIDNIGHT PREVIEW TONIGHT e o QUOTATIONS FINE HOBBY, N.Y. WRITER Grabs Them from Here, There, Everywhere - He Then Dishes Them Up By GEORGE TUCKER NEW YORK, Jan. 24.—Quo ] ) liave an irristible ap and’ everytime I hear or r I jot it down as these: “Critics are like horse-flies which the horse from ploughing years T have read criti- | and T do not re- | ) ark of any value or one word of ble advice. Only once' Skabichevsky wrote something which made an impression on me. T would die in a ditch, The Russian Chekov wrote thi¢, and T found it in a preface to a group of W. Somerset Maugham short stories. Earl o “What am know—I haven’t read where 1 stock only was acting because I in planned cuit as a background that the work was largely turally, that was rd aboul it good idea.™ | cent interview. “One grass surface like fireworks. from the tropic Great Lakes, stre fish, seals and sharks. me one suc was called the Jew-fish; sin keen, creature marble-hard eye- that the altered.”—Paul Morand about becoming a great | writer or artist is the w and U. S-Born Wife Part London dispatches report that Henry P, G. Hope, Earl of Lincoln, is suing for divorce. The countess, with whom he is pictured, was the former Mrs. Jean Gimbernat of New York, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, David Banks of New York and New London, Conn. They were married in New York seven years ago. The earl’s family for several generations ewned the ill-fated Hope Diamond. I writing al the moment? I don’s the literary columns today. Not long ago I read summer to write a novel with the summer cir T I read indeed completed the first T had but it seemed a very Sinclair Lewis, in a re- I writing—what am t or the beauties of (the) New York (aquarium) is the silent to and fro passage of the long black stur- zecns, the monstrous darting of the great turbots. In each tank, like the model of a mythological submarine ballet with its setting of rocks and the bubbles shoot up to the Colored fish trout from the icy aked catfish, pig- Most mons- trous of all is the June-fish, which I first knew four years ago when it bald, fat, oriental, open-mouthed, waving its fins like stumpy arms, it watched Wall Street with its small haggard, so ugly a New York Jews demanded that its name should be “The worst way in the world to syndicate chosen | for everybody, The Hustons Step Out e Walter Huston, ! | sereen and stage favorite, and his actress wife, Nan Sunderland. seek a little entertainment for themselves at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, THE DAILY COMEDY HIT ENDS TONIGHT, CAPITOL SHOW Ginger Rogers and James Stewart Star in "'Vi- vacious Lady” The futile efforts of two young newlyweds to be alone after their hasty marriage are threaded into the hilarious plot of “Vivacious Lady,” current vehicle for Ginger Rogers and James Stewart, playing at the Capitol Theatre for the last times tonight. Stewart plays a repressed pro- fessor of bota in a small town. ‘While making the rounds of a dozen Broadway night-clubs in search of 1 playboy cousin, he meets and falls in love with a beautiful night club singer, Miss Rogers. They get mar- ried, and immediately board a train ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, JAN. 24, 1939. to return to a little up-state college | § ommunity On board the train they find that | their compartment is already occu- pied, and they are obliged to sit up all night in the smoker. When they arrive at their destination, the groom loses his nerve and hesitates to tell his prudish parents of his marriage to an entertainer, so the affair is kept secret. With the young ouple occupying different homes, the young instructor continues his loctures at the university in the day- time, and at nights keeps unwilling | dates with a former fiancee. The bride, in the meantime, is squired around to the same functions by her husband’s playboy cousin, and the couple’s frustrated honeymoon while proving uproariouhly funny to onlookers, drives the hapless pair nearly wild—until they decide to take drastic steps to solve their marital problem. George Stevens directed “Vivaci- ous Lady,” which is a Pandro S.| Berman production for RKO Radio, The supporting cast includes James Ellison, Charles Coburn, Beulah Bondi, Frances Mercer and Phyllis Kennedy. by almost every striver who comes to the big city in search of that kind of success. He comes into the syndi- cate office, fired by a holy zeal, and cays, ‘Can’t I get a job as office boy, janitor, assistant to the reception clerk, or something like that? I want to grow up to my job, and I know TI've got talent.’Fortunately the zealot gets the job. Maybe he goes back home and learns to fly around the world upside down, rope coyotes from an airplane, talk like a hill- billy preacher or play chess with bolts of lightning.” Charles B. Dris- coll, in his life of O. O. McIntyre, “An intelligent critic, who com- bines wide reading and a sensitive taste with a knowledge of the world rare among those who follow his calling, has found in my stories the influence of Guy de Maupassant. That is not strange. When I was a boy he was considered the best short story writer in France and I read his work avidly. . . . In this man- ner, before I was 18, I had read all the best stories. It is natural enough that when at this age I began to write stories myself I should uncon- sciously have chosen those little materpieces as a model.”—W. Som- erset Maugham. LIE DETECTOR BEING USED BY - STUDENTS NOW seldom | INDIANS NEVER KNEW the artistic possibilities of their head-dress, as does Bess Ehrhardt, one of the Ice Follies | skaters in New York. She blended ostrich feather fa Indian head-dress and let her feet do the rest. SONJA HENIE SHOW ENDING TONIGHT HERE "Happy lanflifig" at Coli- seum Theatre Has Won- derful Developments Or 1 few years ago, those neon zas signs used to e and go out| if the weather got around 40 degrees Fahrenheit Now, through the wizardry of the| 20th Century-Fox technical staff, they actually’ can freeze the tubes| into the floor of an ice rink and have them light up to produce some | beautiful effects for superlative Henie's newest musical hit thriller, “Happy Landing,” which ends tonight the Coliseum Theatre | And to go to t¥ other extreme, | the tubes can be twisted and turned around the outlines of every instru- | (ment of an orchestra—to light up | while the band plays hot music. | “Happy Landing,” which co-stars Sonja and Don Ameche, reunites | in romance those “One In A Mil-| lion” sweethearts and presents a| | musieal of sumptuous splendor from _ | Hit-Creator Darryl F. Zanuck. Sonya at with an OLD LIQUOR ~QUESTION UP | AGAIN, BILL ‘Anderson Would Have| | Referendum on Terri- ‘ torial Stores Only bill with a controversial as- peet introduced today in the House of Representatives, holding forth again with renewed vigor after the official Sitka trip, was a measure * introduced by Representative J. P.| Anderson for a referendum of voters regarding the question of whether or not Alaska will have Territorial liquor stores. Anderson’s bill, House Bill 21, would submit the question of Ter- ritorial liquor stores to the voters |of Alaska at the next general elec- |tion in 1940, asking them to vote! “yes” or “no.” The bill is essentially the same |as was defeated last session. Should the vote of the public be lin fayor of the liquor store, the 'bill would require the 1941 Legi: ‘lature to pass appropriate legi |lation to bring the people’s desire {about. | One Senate bill was g |two House Joint Memorials, this |afternoon, and three other bills were introduced by Speaker Howard Lyng, relating to aeronautics in the | Territory. d and Senate Bill No. 1, with reference | |to making unknown heirs defen- |dants in suit or action relating to \real property, was passed unani- mously: Chairman Karl Drager of the | Judiciary Committee commented on | the bill, explaining its necessity in “quieting title to land and prevent- |ing “veritable blackmail” of prop- :erly owners who appear in protest | after property is sold. | Speaker Lyng introduced House | Bills 22, 23, and 24. House Bill No. 121 would have aviation companies |of the Territory report monthly to the Alaska Aeronautics Communi- | cations Commission instead of the | Territorial Highway Engineer. | Also, the measure would give the |ONE-TRACK MIND CLEVELAND, Jan. 24¢.~Cieveland AACC control of Territorial Radio College has added to its faculty a Stations, authorize the commission mechanical counselor—a lie demmr;m require 2-way radios on all that has nothing to do with crime. planes operating over 25 miles from The counselor’s job: to explore their bases, to establish radio and student minds and ascertain what |navigational aids at Ketchikan, Ju- is behind the collegian’s problems. | neay, Cordova, Anchorage, Fair- “Some students say they want to panks, Nome and wherever the | be lawyers because their fathers say | commission feels the need is ap- lsu.” observed Dr. Jay Otis, vocauon-\puem‘ and-to at any time trams- al guidance director. “The detectar |y, any or all of Territorial owned indicates the student’s real lmcudel‘mdio stations to the Civil ' Aero- and guts everyone on the right| . .o authority with the consent i of the Terriforlal Board of Ad- Some glamour-minded co-eds who insist they want to be private secre- taries to big-business men agree, after a session with the detector, that they really would prefer schoel ‘teaching. “Answers colored by obvious ‘changes in blood pressure, breathing, muscular tremors and skin reflexes, las recorded on the machine, unquestionably indicative of emo- tional tension, althought verbally the subject may successfully disguise his feelings,” Dr. Crawley said in explaining operation of the detector. Taking of the tests is entirely 'voluntary, and the college calls the | are | ministration. House Bill 23, by Lyng, would amend the Civil Code relating to aeronautics and no civil aircraft, under the bill, will be able to fly in Alaska without license under Federal Law, the word ‘“permit”’ ‘bemg stricken. | House Bill 24, also by Lyng, is |an act to prohibit the erection of 'an obstruction on or adjacent to Territorial owned airfields or land- ing fields in Alaska, without a per- mit ; from the Alaska Aeronautics Communications Commission. House Joint Resolution No. 2, by Drager, regarding resolution that Territorial offices be not permit- |ted ‘expenditures over and. above their appropriations, was re-re- ferred to the Judiciary Committee on second reading today. At 8 o'clock this afterrioon the House had disposed of its calendar | business and was winding up the lapparatus not a “lie detector” but a “behavior research photopoly- graph.” SEEKING BROTHER Information regarding his brother, believed to be in the Mata- nuska region, is being sough* by Anton F. Stander of Talkeetna, from day :preparatory to adjournment, whom a letter on the subject was | R i s received yesterday at the Gover- ROTARY COMMITTEES mor’s office. | TO MEET DURING “Il‘ilil(k - e - AVIARY FOR EAGLES ‘ Committees making” arrange- MELBOURNE, Australia—A flight ments for the Rotary convention aviary for eagles is being built at/coming to Juneaw next May will the Melbourne zoo. The enclosure, hold meetings during the coming | 140 feet long, will be constructed so|week, it was announced today. The | speak. | when | or | strong enough to make ther They cannot even say “ye: asked if they want cream to go to a movie Manuel Sherman of the Uni- | | versity: of Chie Orthopedic ® school said the girls suffer a men- tal condition known hysteria, an affliction which appears almost exclusively among adults, chiefly women. ice YOUTHS STUDIED BY CHICAGO U CHICAGO, Jan. 24, — Children who ca peak td only one person and to that person only alone are being studied by University of Chi- cago psychologists. | Two girls, age 9, of above aver- | age intell have the strange affliction called mutism. One can speak only to her mother alone| and the other has spoken only to| her mother brother in three years. Both chiidren normal in ev n -oo CHIMNEY FIRE A chimney fire on the house of C. E. Hixon on the tideflats off Wil- loughby Avenue called the fire de- partment out for a 15-minute run at 5:06 o'clock yesterday afternoon. There was no damage D SON OF LEGION MEETS The Sons of Legion will meet to- | night at 7:30 o'clock in the Ameri- can Legion Dugout on Second Street All members are requested to report, D Mayor of Valdez, C. J. Egan, | passed through Juneau on the steamship Baranof last night on his way Outside. and are healthy and respect and stand high in their schools as far as itten work goes. Both easily and will reply to any ques- tions by writing the answer un- less the question con their | speechlessness. Then they cannot write. No emotional stimulus appears 5 La Swanson and Dauéhter Time flies, they say, and here is ample proof, The ladies are Gloria Swan- son, screen star, and her daughter (right), Miss Gloria Somborn, now grown into a beautiful young lady. They were photographed in a New York nightclub, 5 e e How Do You Like Ifl 'COLISEUM Junean's Greatest Show Value LAST TIMES TONIGHT LANDING” with Sonja Henie and Don Ameche A Host of Other Stars ALSO— Selected Short Subjects MINE PRESIDENT THROUGH W. V. Conley, President of the Nuka Alaska Mining Company | which operates out of Seward iIs & passenger on the Baranof on his | annual hegira to the Southland. SKAGWAY MATRON ON BOAT Mrs. O. E. Reynoldson, wife of | the former City Clerk and present Railway Express Agent of Skagway, |1s on the Baranof bound for Seat- HURLEYS BOUND SOUTH Mr. and Mrs, Julien A. Hurley of Fairbanks are passengers aboard the Baranof for the States.”They will first visit in Oregon, former home state of Mr. Hurley, then go to San Francisco to see the fair, after- wards going to Washington, D. C. They expect to return north in April A “WORST” GOSSIPERS HAUGHLEY, England — Too much garrulity in this Suffolk par- {ish was denounced from the pulpit by Rev. W. Grange White, who said, “for malicious scandalmon- gering Haughley is the worst I have ever come across.” WAKE UP YOUR LIVER BILE :‘ Without Calomei —And You'll Jump Out of Bed Full of Vim and Vigor. Your liver should pour out two pinta of liquid bile into your bowels duily. T¢ this bile isnotflowing freely, your food doesn'tdigest. 1t just decays in the bowels. Gas bloats up your stomach, You get con four whole system is poisoned and you feel sour, sunk and the world looks A mere bowel movement doesn’t get 8t the cause. 1t takes those famous Carter's Little Liver Pills to get these two pints of bile flowing freely and make you feel *“up and up”. Harmless, gentle, yet amazing muking bile flow freely. Look for t! Carter's Little Liver Pills on the I?F age. Refuse anything else. Price: Feature of this new evening gown modeled by Barbara Cooper at a New York fashion show is the back decolletage filled by three narrow vertical straps. The gown is of transparent white mousseline de sole, printed all over with frosted floral design. .- The present Italian royal fam- ily ruled for centuries over Savoy, which is now a part of France. - e TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Joe M. Sunick does not represent the Mutual Benefit Health & Acci- dent Ass'n, or the United Benefit Life Insurance Co., of Omaha, Ne- \braska, as agent or otherwise. HECTOR MCcLEAN, Manager for Alaska adv. Hollywood Sights And Soundf By Robbia Cooms HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Jan. 24.—Only three years ago a young blond chap and a cocky little fellow in a high silk hat were making the rounds in Hollywood. “Time on our hands” might have been their theme song, except that they were too busy looking for work to get in any singing. The blond chap (aw, his mame’s Edgar Bergen) tried to get a job acting, either with or without the little fellow (and his name'’s Charlie McCarthy). He tried to tell Hollywood he'd make a good dialogue writer. But Hollywood was bored. Edgar and Charlie went bick to Chicago, where they knew they could have regular meals, anyway. Pl ‘What has happened since then you all know, and it all Adds up to the fact that “time on my hands” is likely to be a missing element in the pair’s life for a good spell to come, Funny, how these things work out. Success in pictures, fame on the air. They bring a fine home, maybe a swimming pool,— and precious little time to enjoy either. Not that Messrs. Bergen and McCarthy are complaining, but— “I work five times as hard as I did before Hollywood recognized our existence,” says Bergen. “Before, I used to spend a great deal of my time looking for work. Now work comes looking for me," At present Bergen and McCarthy are spending about 9 hours daily at Universal, helping W. C. 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There are 25 McCarthy novelties on the market, each m- senting a “deal” which had to be investigated and closed, ll;a many others which have been refected. And then—benefits. f As a double-talk artist, Bergen is the town's busiest actor. He must speak his own lines, do his own acting, speak and act tfl: Charlie at the same time, 4 oo It's uncanny, the way he gives that little fellow personality, and yet retains his own. At Bergen’s house, I understand, the servants speak of the woodpecker’s feast as solicitously and admir- ingly as they do of the master—and are as proud of Charlie’s wardrobe. d % Incidentally, I picked up a new chapir in the McCarthy- Fields “feud,” relating to bulbous-nosed Bill's first visit to the Santa Anita racetrack this season. Here: g Charlie: “Mr. Fields, T heard that you rode one of the horses at Santa Anita yesterday.” L e Fields: “As a matter of fact, T did, Charles, my diminutive little chum.” g dikiog Charlie: “What a jockey! I suppose, to hear you tell it, you won by a mile?” Fields: “No Charles, I am not given to tarradiddle,—I won by SALE HOURS: From 2 to § o'clock only, January 25 ithe birds will be able to fly under |regular Rotary luncheon was held natural conditions, 13! noon today at Percy's. | { i a nose.” %% Charlie: “Oh, just a length-and-a-half. . . .)”