The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 8, 1939, Page 3

START TONIGHT Show Place of Juneau o ) e | v~ - THREE MEN - TWO = e . LOCKED IN the JUNGLE WILDS...! BRAVING DEATH in a STRUGGLE to CONQUER A DREAD DISEASE! WOMEN THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, FFB. 8, 1939, Vote for Radio Strike POWERFUL DRAMA OPENS TONIGHT ON | "LOCAL THEATRE Ralph Bellamy Stars in Ti- ile Rol2 of "Crime of Dr. Hallet" af Capitol Show The ‘Crime’ of Dr. Hallet” which opens tonight at the Capitol The- atre, is a powerful and poignant picture. It tears at the heart strings and holds the interest from the mo- ment that Dr. Hallet is first seen fighting a tragic misunderstanding in hi; Sumatran jungle laboratory, until the moment when he plucks victory and love from the jaws of defeat, and the snares of hatred. The story of this picture concerns a battle of elemental love and hate, with men and women aroused to | primal emotion at fever heat, against a background of heroic martyrdom to science. Hallet goes to Sumatra to find a fever cure, and falls in love with woman assistant, Dr. Reynolds. When Dr, Saunders, an- | other assistant, dies through an im- | perfect experiment, Hallet takes his name to carry on his work to ful- filment. Then Saunders’ wife, Claire, arrives and threatens exposure. Ralph Bellamy is outstanding as Dr. Hallet. William Gargan, as his ironical assistant, revels in one of the picture’s best roles. Josephine Hutchinson, as Hallet's sweetheart, Frances Carlin, Gene Byron and Anne Seymour Commercial radio sponsors, involved in the salary tug-of-war be- tween the artists who advertise their products and the advertising agencies which produce their shows, move to intervene in a dispute WARNER BROS, HIT OPENS TONIGHT AT (OLISEUM THEATRE Kay Francis and Pat O'Brien to- gether in films for the first time, are at the Coliseum Theatre in “Women Are Like That.” The role given Miss Francis is the | new picture is light, -romantic, sophisticated and spicy. She’s the wife of advertising genius Pat O'Brien. and when her lovable old | reprobate father, played by Thurston | Hall, throws the business into near- | bankruptey by a covered-up embezz- lement, she tries to come to the rescue. But her sex-appeal methods | anger Pat. The pait 'splits up—and | after that it's adverlising agency | war to happy-clinch finish between estranged husband and wife --- TAKU TAMED IN. TIME 10 SPARE CITY FROM FIRE Wind Velocity Only 5 fo 8‘ Miles - Temperafure Six Above Zero The 'weather zods were kind to morning. averting a| calastrophe which would | have spread fire to half the| W,0.60055 Herds a Star-Match Nobody Dreamed of — In a Picture Everyone Loves! Juneau's Greatest Show Value STARTING TONIGHT ADDED ATTRACTIONS Musical’ Comedy Cartoon Paramount News RALPH FORBES « MELVILLE COOPER « THURSTON HALL « GRANT MITCHELL « HERBERT RAWLINSON - LADIES' NIGHT FOR ELKS OFF escaped injury for every one dam- aged by fire in 1938 within the 158 National Forests of the United States. This damage is one-third less than the average for the last five- Dr. Reynolds, gives a touching por- i trayal, while Barbara Read, 'as Claire, d John King, as the ideal- RALPH BELLAMY S5 T B g o1k b et . A convincing cast. S. Sylvan Simon's Josephine Hutchinson direction 1s fine, William GARGAN JOHN KING &:PICTURE ...SHORTS... which threatens a nation-wide radio strike. Local unions of the American Federation of Radio Artists in New York, Chicago and Hollywood, have authorized the federation to call a strike unless a blowing today. i settlement is reached with the American Association of Advertising Wind veloc! throughout the | Agencies. Radio artists demand an individual minimum of $15 for e fire raged in the Goldstein | - to an ' announcement forces is given credit by the Forest 9 15-minute commercial broadcast plus $6 an hour for rehearsals. nk oo froe to “"‘ci" ’T'I?E fhrenoon. The tegular | Service for the smaller losses of re- Photo shows three Chicago radio performers, who joined in the o hour, aceording 0 . anio RX fhe BHix Tod 11 be | cent years. } sfrike vote. They are Frances Carlin, Gene Byron and Anne Seymour Weather Bureau figures, The| I ‘I}i ’:Vw‘;ve‘r he s Lodge w: be | d IR e 4 e | hel 0" g | y Vind blew steadily at 30 miles &R pateifor the new Ladies night will | NEW TELEFHONE DIREOTORY hotr g o'c s P d when the ice was so thick She moenino b which time it suddenly be announced later, the commxlu.oi'l;fi bew:&mgd lMa.rch 15 and forms couldn't be warped into her berth. gied to 10 miles an hour and there- states. “'0‘:" . arc] 3 For space, lstings The ugly, grunty little tugs were after decreased. J:)n c] anges please call Juneat and | darting about for hours trying t0 while wind was moderate, how- i b m r clear a pasage, and the slips Were over, temperature was low to chill 20 W so frozen that her 6 pm. docking firefighters and drape icicles from ' | year period. Better organization, im- provement in fire fighting equip- | ment, and the presence of the CCC ity if vesterday's wind had been Ladies night at the Elks Club, scheduled for tonight, is cancelled tive miles per W. H. MBLAIN SUCCUMBS HERE THIS MORNING wind N. Y. CABARET - .. FIRE LOSS SMALL Nine hundred and forty-six acres WHAT PRICE SAFETY COMMUNITY SINGING SNAF " NEWS FLASH 0TS LAT Hollywood Sights And Sounds | By Robbin Cooms HOLLYWOOD, Cal 1y Iy wou movie writer asked him to, ries. Irving Cummings having some work done on his trees at home, Said he'd written Well, a movie director and a movie director is always getting asked to Irving sidestepped it—and so Wessel Smitter it got published, it got to be a best-seller, ee surgeon got to talking with him a yarn and would Cummings like to see it? is a busy read people’s yar sent hi man book away at ount has just bought it. So it It’s called “F. O. B. Detroit.” more enthusiasm t time he's had over any as nothe Life of Ale: tive f B A ander Graham Bell.” Feb. 8.—If every movie biggie read every L there All the same, I like the story about eems fitting that Cummings should be directing—with mment in a long movie yarn that almost slipped through the execu- Pioneer Alaskan Passes af Hospital After Linger- ing lness W. H McBlain, 79, pioneer resi- dent of the Territory, passed away early this morning at St. Ann’s Hos- pital as the result of a lingering ill- ness. Mr. McBlain, who for the past several years had been postmaster at Baranof, was brought in from Warm Springs Bay last Saturday | and admitted to the hospital. He had | also been a patient at St. Ann's about a month ago, and after re- ceiving medical care, returned to Warm Springs. A charter member of the Douglas Odd Fellows Lodge, Mr. McBlain was from 1902 to 1915, District Deputy Grand Sire. He was a mem- ber of the Douglas Masonic Lodge, and was a charter member of the | Rebekah Lodge in Douglas, which was founded forty years ago. Mr. McBlain’s only known rela- tive is his daughter, Mrs. Ed Christo, CLOSES, WITH STORY BEHIND {Reason Why One Big, | Gold-ornafe Pleasure | Dome Didn't Last By GEORGE TUCKER NEW YORK, Feb. 7.—The oracle {who first observed that things are not always what they seem may well | have had the rialto cabarets in mind. {The big- gilt ornate pleasure-domes of Broadway have always been a {puzzle to creditors and public alike. There was that bawdy, gawdy, {naughty paraphrase of Paris street life which closed its doors in the { Times Square sector the other night. It had opened only a few weeks be- fore amid the blare of bugles and the waving of peacock feathers, but those who attended quickly discov- \ervd the show was far from new. It had to be delayed until after nine. Shortly after this long conversa- | tion he sent me a pet monkey, but ,the monkey died, and the French Casino, for which he was producer, | changed operators, and I never saw him after he went over to this new and gawdy Times Square entertain- ment center. | They say they want this producer{ out because his shows are hitched | |to too much over-head. They want | | to operate on a le scale, and they | can't do this when the show's per»\ onnel is under contract to him. So the disappointing box-office take | |was used as the excuse, and the: colors hauled down. | That, at lea is the story one| hears in the late hour stubes. It| should come pretty close to the truth. This much is certain: this now idle Broadway casino is certain to reopen, and in the near future. It is too valuable and too costly a real estate venture to remain dark long. And when it does open, the chances are 100 to one the new pro- ducer will be George Hale ,a Broad- | | way product, a man who made his | | was mainly a restatement of former reputation on the street in which '@ new peak in the United States | ever burned, he said. He contracted | wires and cornices. Minimum tem- perature this morning was six de- grees above zero at 6:30 o'clock and was about that throughout the day. Cold weather prevailed elsewhere | today, with 10 above reported at Ketchikan, six above at Sitka and 60 below at Mayo, Y. T. QUIST SEES FIRST OF HIS BUILDINGS 6O UP IN FLAMES A. W. Quist, contractor, was one of many who watched the Goldstein Building fire today with real sor-| row. Of 192 buildings Quist has con- structed, this is the first that has the construction of Block in 1914, At the height of the blaze, wor- ried firémen were reassured by Quist that the walls of the structure would remain intact. They did. R I The sale of matural gas reached the Goldstein SPOT THIS! The Spotted Deer can clearly hear Each forest sound both far and near; For Calvert . . . blends without a peer! | And far and pear you'll hear men cheer 1now residing at Langley, Washing- | ton. coincidence which | The remains are at the Charles W. Carter Mortuary, pending fun-| spectacles, a fact which might have |, a5 iveq for the last 20 years. |in 1987, totaling 2,447,620,000,000 cu- been a factor in its swift demise, | bic feet. but that is not the answer the boys Calver’ 90 Proof —72%% c:-i’r'i‘f-lsnn. This little number might now be resting in the story depart- ment's discard file ept for the of arm room stretched longer than is its custom. It happens that Kenneth MacGowan has a daughter. pens she goes to Stanford U. daughter of Writer Ray Harris. B e e e e P PSR your favflrite ammm haps the greatest test of any product Do the people who use it like it?" Where PERCY'S ICE CREAM is con- cerned, the answer is overwhelmingly YES! tryitnow at PPeprcy’s esteemed associate producer at 20th Century-Fox. about the inventor of the telephone. So— MaeGowan, curious, looked it up. He read it, casually at first, He went to Big Boss Darryl Zanuck. Together they then avidly. It hap- It happens she has a friend, .the It happened one night—the writer’'s daughter was visiting the daughter of MacGowan, an el The girl asked casvally why that old studio hadn’t bought her dad’s fine story did the nip-ups customary among executives who have Found eral arrangements. FIREMEN SAVE WOMAN'S LIFE 'Refuses fo Descend Ladder -Smoke Eafers Don Masks to Reach Her Mrs. Agnes Readman, third floor occupant of the ill-flated Goldstein Building, owes her life to two un | identified firemen. When smoke from the flaming | basement choked the building, fire- men put ladders to the windows and began clearing out tenants who could not gain exit by the stairs. Mrs. Readman, at her third floor ladder with waiting firemen, and so | two fire fighters donned gas masks, | fought their way to her rooms and | with wet towels about her face, guided her through the smoke filled | corridors and down the back stairs in the back are passing around. ‘ They are saying this move was designed to ease the producer entire- | ly out of the picture. This producer is a convivial, cultured showman, a gentleman who operates in the | window, refused to go down the high | ‘grsnd manner, a poised bon vivant on two continents, a fancier of blooded pigeons, a wholesale dealer lin personable talent. | It is this last qualification which seems to be the fly in the ointment. ost of the personnel in this show Iis under contract personally too him. He it was who found them—the dancers, the acrobats, the singers, | the clowns, the mannikins, the ! ‘apaches—in dim Parisian cafes, in| sidestreet hostelries, along the boule- vards of Paris. | | T used to see a lot of this man in the bars of big transatlantic liners | on which he traveled as frequently | |as you ride street cars. I used to sit | and listen for hours to the tales of nightlife in the Bohemian at-| mosphere of the old Latin quarter | |and of the unsung back-streets of | | the French capital. | ‘We were on the Bremen one night MANY WINDOWS ARE BROKEN NEAR FIRE Several hundred square feet of show window glass were broken in business houses adfacent to the Goldstein Building, but most of it is covered well by insurance. Windows were broken in the White Spot, the Ideal Paint Store, the S. and N. ten-cent store, and the Top Notch, Other buildings nearby suffered blistered paint. » . Still Coughing? Even if other medicine has failed, dol Creomul- i horized to refund your mo: thowgJfly satis fits obtaified. Crcomulsion is one word, ask for it ?lamly, see that the name on the bottle is Crcomulsion, and youll e; the genuine product “3R you want. (Adv. For Coughs or Chest Colds MULSION | Something. They bought it. It seems the rejected synopsis of the yarn had been enthusiastically concerned with the invention, and had skimmed over the Great Love Story, a procedure almost guaranteed to put a script in the discard file. For once—which makes all the enthusiasm understandable— they had found a real life story in which an authentic great love was the theme and motivation. 1 to safety. ((CC TRUCKS COME IN 10 AID EXODUS FROMDANGER AREA With frantic business men and Put your For Rent sign UP in the “RENT ADS” in the Classified Ads and you can NOTICE? JUNEAU INSURANCE AGENCY For once, instead of looking for material to bolster dram- atically a historic tale, the scenarist—Lamar Trotti—and the asso- ciate producer had to huddle endlessly on which of the abundant materials eould best be omitted. It is the studio’s proud boast that the final script “with the exception of ene or two very slight and hardly noticeable liberties, the true story of the invention of the telephone and the great love story which inspired Bell in his work. The. script, incidentally, has the approval of the Bell descend- ants, including Mrs. Gilbert Grosvenor, Bell's daughter, wife of the President of the National Geographic Society. Don Ameche plays the title role—as yet unbearded, which is also authentic—and Loretta Young plays Mabel Gardiner Hubbard, who was to become Mrs. Bell. An inventive hero whose sweetheart is deaf, whose scientific work is bent toward the great task of aiding her in her handicap, who was urged to success by her unfailing faith—no wonder they are” doing - handsprings! i apartment dwellers in the vicinity of the Goldstein Building moving everything movable from the danger zone, transfer trucks were hard put to handle the rush. As a result, the Forest Service sent in three CCC trucks under the supervision of W. J. McDonald, with {about 15 men to aid in transfer of possessions. S e WATER NOTICE Do not let your faucets run con- |tinually. There is a good supply of ! water in the reservoirs but the city mains cannot handle the water if it is allowed to run all the time. |If this notice is not heeded we will be obliged to shut off your water. adv. JUNEAU WATER CO. STANLEY V. GRUMMETT, Mgr. Is Now Located in Temporary " "Quarters in the ALASKA FEDERAL SAVINGS and LOAN ASSN. offices in the VALENTINE BUILDING SEWARD ST. — Phone 3 #1808 S gar rooms, take it DOWN from your window. Many seeking flats and houses are NOW watching The Daily Alaska Empire RS Rt ALASKANA, By marie Drake, 50¢ There is no substitute for Newspaper Advertising