The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 31, 1939, Page 3

A R TR T T SR B TONIGHT ONLY REGULAR ADMISSIONS SHOW PLACE OF JUNEAU The MARTHA SOCIETY Presents SHORTS Calling All Curtains Strange As It May Seem Latin Rhythm MIDNIGHT PREVIEW YELLOW JACK T e e e THE DAILY ALASKA CAPITOL COMEDY IS SPONSORED BY ' MARTHA SOCIETY "The First_fl)O Years''| Shown Here for To- night Only Breezy in story, In movement and n the delineation of its characters, The First Hundred Years,” now creening at the Capitol, playing for | tonight only, and sponsored by the Martha Society of the Northern Light Presbyterian Church, wins rating as one of the best-told come- | dy narratives of the season, timely, convincing and thoroughly entef- taining The comedy combination of Rob- ert Montgomery and Virginia Bruce is sure-fire, Montgomery never hay- een better than as the boat de- ner who can't persuade his wife, Miss Bruce, to give up her job as a theatrical agent to make a home for him. That the star can turn from a “Night Must Fall” to the domestic high comedy of such pictures as “Live, Love and Learn,” proves him one of the most versatile actors in | picture | Miss Bruce, given her best oppors tunity to date, handles her part| with* assurance, deftness and her | accustomed charm. If anything, hers is the mest difficult character- | ization. The smooth touch of the| two leads is amply complemented by | Warren William as Miss Bruce's business partner. be superfluous. from a Louisiana plantation house to homeless waifs on the streets of New York. But what attracts your attention| and holds it is the honesty of these | pictures. The photographer hasn't attempted to shock anyone. He hasn't posed or ‘“colored” his sub- jects. He has taken them as he found them — a couple at Coney Island, a Hudson Street boarding |house, a coal dock worker, a bat- |tlefield monument at Vicksburg, |an Arkansas flood refugee—in fact, | America. It is published by the | Museum of Modern Art and the The subjects range | EMPIRE. TUESDAY, JAN. 31, 1939. YOUR SCREEN TEST — ho kps up with his reading about the stars Each question counts L A regular movie-goer W sheuld be able to score at least 60 on this test. 20, a grade of 60 is average, 80 excellent, and 100 colossal. Answers on page 4. 1.—At least four Hellywood actresses, one of whom is shown here, use only one name. Can you name two of them? NEW KIND SIT-DOWN STRIKE ON Undouhledly—St aged for Purpose of Justice for Underdog (Continued rrom Page One) gross income of the lower rungs on the cotton ladder. 2. Meéchanization of cotton farms is gaining ground gradually but surely, espechally on the big cor- poration plantations. 3. The government’s cotton acre- age reduction program also is re- ducing the number of tenants re- quired each year, leaving more of them to roam the countryside as day laborers. 4. Farm owners are tempted to do away with tenants and sharecroppers and turn today laborers in order to keep all their Government benefit checks. The law now provides that or croppers, unless the local AAA committee agrees to allow a farmer to switch today labor. The local committees naturally are filled with owners. From the landlord’s point of view— 1. The total average income per plantation in the cotton belt is ex- treemly low, no more than six per cent of the total investment, leaving plantation owners themselves an av- erage of only $850 clear for their year’s labor. And what a year’s labor a plantation requires from an owner! checks must be shared with tenants | . COLISE CWNED AND - OPERATED . 57 m w.0.GROSS Juneau'’s Greatest Show Value LAST TIMES TONIGHT SPARKLING HIT AT COLISEUM THEATRE ENDS HERE TONIGHT Warner Baxter, 1 Bruce are starred in Century-Fox gay ‘Wife, Doctor and ‘wentieth 1, hich ends tenight at the ¢ Thealre atured in the cast JTane Darwell Sidney I ki Mautice C Minna Gombell, and Margaret Trv- ing. | Tie story concer the affairs of _ LORETTA a doator, played by Baxter, his wife | (Lorstia Young), and Virginia | Bruce, whe plays the part of the nurse in'love with the doctor. | The sparkling solution is found in a meeting of the three which results in a dramatic, yet humorous and entertaining compromise which paves the way for a happy climax sissippi levee and landowners took some of them back on land they had left. The leaders were unable to say exactly what they wanted, except ! to' point significantly to the La-| forge, Mo., Federal farm experiment | nearby, where Uncle Sam is re- habilitating tenants on a long-term loan basis. Officials may solve the immedi- ate Missouri problem. But, unfor- tunately, they aren‘t apt to make a — dent in the gréat. vitous circle of ‘ cotton. Cotton bankruptcy has been averted in the last four years of | surplusage only because the Federal Government has tied up $400,000,000 of taxpayers’ money in cotton loans, and because {t has been writing benefit checks at the rate of $200,- 000,000 a year. s RLA T E D — " ADDED ATTRACTIONS POPEYE in “] Like Babies and Infinks” “Out Where the Stars Begin® Fox Movietonews CAPT. CURRY 2.—~What important announcement was made recently by Doug- las Fairbanks Sr.? 2. Nearly one-half of the land- §55,000 NETTED | MAKING VISt !lords in the South have a long term 3.—Name the movie star who for seven years (ever since it was started) has been selected by the national exhibitors' poll as one of the year’s 10 best draws at the boxoffice? 4.—What actress, within 18 months, starred in two pictures, each depicting almost the entire life of the same queen? 5. What is the name and nationality of the actor selected to suc- coed Warner Oland in his characterization of a well-known Chinese detective? | debt ranging well over 40 per cent | of their holdings. 3. Interest rates on short term loans run extremely high on a sea- sonal basis, 10 per cent on Govern- |ment’s bonds, 15 per cent on bank | loans and 15 per cent on merchant's accounts. 4. Marginal owners are constant- ON SHRINE GAME Says Polaris-Taku s Build- ing New Barge at Pefersburg Capt. Archie Curry, skipper of the Taku 'Chief, Polaris-Taku Min- ing Company river boat, arrived in SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 31.—The | fourteenth annual East-West char- ity football game, played here Jan- | uary 2, netted the Shriners’ Crippled | Children’s Hospital a profit of more than $55000, Managing Director | 1y losing out in the scramble for sur- | willlam M. Coffman, announces. MY REVERIE" {result is something that will hold all some 37 recordings have been|anyone's ~attention for a long made, 17 of which are in foreign |while. The take from the languages. EARKiNG BIG INCOME NOW Revenue from Larry Clin- sheet-music sales won't go much beyond $2,000, but the mechani- cal rights—recording, broadcasts, etc—will earn $50,000 asily. An interesting note is the fact |that in France “My Reverie” can't be swung. It must be played as a ballad, which is the way it was written, and I'm not sure but what have idea. | It was so unexpected and so |amusing that you couldn’t get over |it. There was a group of people, | probably 50, in front of a theater. |Down the street came an ancient {colored man, rattling a pair of ‘bones and dancing a jig. A huge |grin lit up his countenance as he | continued his dance past the thea- 1 dancing roles—and Lucia Chase is| the wealthy Mrs. Thomas Ewing, Jr. Despite her fortune, which would assure a life of ease and luxury, Mrs. Ewing cast her lot with one of the toughest of the arts and already has worked up from the chorus to an envied place |among the exacting Mordkin's principals. e e——— Maybe Birth vival, and are joining the share-| It was the largest sum realized Juheau this morning on b Bar- cropper groups in ever increasing since the contest was established 8DOf to inspect the “Chief and its numbers. Thus they can’t pay Wage |in 1925, The officlal attendance Darges at Auk Bay where they are rates standard elsewhere in the na- numbered 60,550, a complete sell- beached for the winter. : | Capt. Curry also sald another tion. out two days before the game. Dates (ause 0f Divorces - ‘When in Egypt, |You Hire . fia’:]:xnpl:?n:’:l?l: :’:I:’:r‘: part- | Egyp'lal‘ls time ministry, led the protest march- | Bankers and merchants also have their sad stories. Tenant agitation is a natural by-product and like- wise, landlord resentment. |“big" barge capable of carrying about 120 tons of concentrates, is being built this winter in Peters- burg, to take care of an increased | tonnage at the Polaris mine. Expecting to stay in town about a week, Curry will return to his" Vancouver Island home until break- By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE fon’s Song Already Into Five Figures the French the right After all, why fiddle around with something that’s already perfect. | ter, past the crowd, clear on to the |corner. But what “got” you was Ry GEORGE TUCKER NEW YORK, Jan. 31. — Thay I have been leafing through a soothing little item called “My book called “American Photo- Rcverie” which Larry Clinton | graphs” Well, leafing isn't the right word. I started by leafing and ended by making a study of each page. It's a rather grim and start- | ling look at contemporary Ameri- adapted from the opening strains of an old Debussy piano exercise ‘has reached such dimensions that expert bookkeeping is now manda- tovy. can life, and all the pictures were The world rights to this song |taken by Walker Evans. There are have already brought in between no captions to these pictures. ‘They need no captions, for each tells its $52000 and $60,000. This is exclu- own story so well that words would sive of its profits in America. In High Necks Back in Favor for "Or Rosaling Rusge |the way he held to his tune when | someone flipped him a half dollar. He didn’'t even look at if, just let it lie on the sidewalk. It was strict- ly his party and he kept it that way. A palm to Mrs. Thomas Ewing Jr., millionairess, to whom money doesn’t mean a thing. If you catch the Mordkin ballet when it's mak- ing its cross-country jaunt this winter and spring, you'll see Lucia Chase in one of the principal Evening Low-necked evening clothes are now being worn on the most formal occasions. Dresses with high necks and sleeves are back in favor for evening wear ‘at cafes and the like. The ensembles worn by the screen players above show une trend. Betty Ann Davis has selected a cocktall suit that is atrictly tailored. It is made of black velvet with Swiss embroidery adding a bright touch at the neck and on the pockets. « Beatrice. Imhoff's eve-. ning gown is of white jersey with a high neck and short little sleeves. The skirt is wide and flow- ing. The heavy-looking jewelry adds a great deal to the beauty of the costume. Rosalind Russell's model is high-necked, too. In design it is remi- niscent of styles worn during the war. > The diagonal treatment is both alluring and unusual. The gown is made of gold lame and has a dropped - shoulder- line and_long tight sleeves. GLAMOR GIRL SEEKS DIVORCE; CHARGES MADE Fay Wray Received No Af-| fection from U. of W. Graduate, She Says HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 31.—Millions of men film fans may think of beau- | teous Fay Wray as their “dream| girl.” And they may even hope some | day to marry a girl like her. But married life with the glam-| orous Miss Wray is a dull and mon- | otonous life—or so her husband | thought. The noted actress said so in a di-| vorce action she filed against John Monk Saunders, the able writer of splendid film romances. It was bad enough that Husband Saunders, graduate of the University of Washington, should think such | ungallant thoughts. But when Saun- ders, who was also a Rhodes scholar, | went so far as to voice his opinion | many times about the monotony of his married life, La Wray complain- ed. Called Unromantic The petite act*ess went on to tell how unromantic was her writer hus- | band who' authors so many sweet and domantic stories about love for the movies, but didn't show so very much love as the man around the| house, she alleges. ' The lovely Wray shook her thick curls and protested that Saunders,| one of Hollywood's highest paid au-| thors, told her in the presence of| others that he didn’t want to live with her and would rather she'd leave. He nagged, tormented her and said he was sorry he’d married her, che says. Unromantic Altogether, Miss Wray rather thought that Author Saunders was “surly, sarcastic and ungentlemanly” in 'his attitude toward her, particu- larly, she said, on the many occas- sions when he became enraged. The actress continued to say that several times in the past year Saun- ders has been away for days and | weeks at a time and gave no ex- planation. 4 He also thought she had him tied tco much to her apron strings and did not give him the freedom he desired, Miss Wray lamented. | Adding all this up, Mss Wray said she wanted custody of a daughter, Busan Cary Saunders, two; a share in the communjty property, and $5,000 as a fee for her attorney. | Late in the day the court granted) Miss Wray temporary custody of) her daughter pending the outcome], of divorce litigation. |any of the other combinations, re- AP Science Editor SAN BERNARDINO, Cal,, Jan. 31, —Ninety days may be a bad interval to have between birthdays of hus- band and wife. This idea comes from a chart of 1,100 couples whose divorces came to Major John A, Hadaller, attor- nev here, or to his friends. The chart showed most of the di- '@ short time, lacking sanitary fa- | 226 weré exported during the first vorces bunched under four groups of birthdays, when these dates were ar- ers to the Missour! highway. That CAIRO, Jan, 31. — The Egyptian up. Minister ot Finance had drawn up also explains why nearby landowners resented the march and asked for a Federal investigation. legislation which will necessitate the employment of a larger per- The fact remains that the move- ment was an intelligent, orderly, plece of labor agitation. The one obvious course was fol- lowed and the camps, located on an important highway, were de- | clared a menace to public health— which théy were or would be in cllitiés as they aid. | ‘The campers were herded onto ranged according to the interval Government property near the Mis- | separating them. The longest pos- sible interval is a little more than 180 days, or half a year. For these, 1,100 couples four in- tervals were bad, namely, 45 days, 90, 135 and 180, and of these 90 was much the wrost. Four other inter-| vals were good, so favorable in fact | that they contained barely over 100 of all the divorces. The favorable intervals were 30, 60, 120 and 150 days. The “influence” of these good or bad date peaks extended for a few | days on each side. The 90-day peak not only exceed- ed all*others in number, but study of the records of divorce seekers in that group showed more intensity of conflict and of emotion than in any of the other high divorce frequency peaks. The 90-day group, including five days on each side, showed a history of quarreling soon after marriage, and in some cases before marriage. The persods in this group, unlike fused’ to credit the other partner with any virtues whatever. ey i Try an Empire aa centage of Egyptians by foreign | companies operating in Egypt. | This is expected to reMeve the | mcute ecrisis of white collar unem- | ployment in the country. - — A total of 4,221,399,000 American- made cigarettes valued at $8,127, eight months of 1938, a gain of about 15 per cent over the same per- idod in 1937. e bt b e i e SHAMED BY CHARGE, SCOUT HIDES BADG LONDON, Jan, 31.—A thirteen year-old Boy Scout, charged &t East London juvenile court with stealing, tried to hide his badge. “It is no use trying to hide your badge. You have disgraced it and the Scout law,” sald Mr. B. L. Q Henriques, the chairman. | | | | ARE SEEN HERE Put your For Rent sign UP in the “RENT ADS” in the Classified Ads and you can take it DOWN from your window. 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