The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 9, 1939, Page 2

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He was talking about his return to films, after nearly four years, in the new “Rose of Washington Square.” He came back, he said, to get it out of his system—and he’s amazed at the results. The social resuits, he elaborated. “Why, Jolson is getting invited places again,” he explained. “It's funny—when you're they want you everywhere. When you're not in pictures, they don't see you. Why, I've even been invite¢ to the academy awards dinner. They've got to have me there to make them happy. Funny thing, huh? in, who is going on 53 he works with This Jolson still has more vitality and push than most of the people He talks with a nervous enthusiasm that spouts forth with gestures of white- gloved hands. He is at his best in scenes of the type he had just been doing when I cornered him—scenes in the story relating the birth of the original “stooge.” Blackface Al was on stage before an audience of select extras in the “Winter Garden Theatre,” and Heckler Hobart Cavanaugh in a box was giving him a working over. The exchange of quips was pretty funny—but not nearly so funny as that between Director Ratoff and Star Jolson. At these latter the extra audience didn’t have to be told to laugh—and Jolson with an audience is a Jolson supreme. The cracks whip out, sparkling. Director Ratoff (“the best show on earth”) was gibing at Al for forr et S b et bttt s s e cherchez la femime? but yes, Monsieur, we know where fo find her. If she’s a smart girl she’s having her breakfast at ! Perey’s ———reesd Csoas S e e this offstage patter, saying: “You vait, Allie, until after 7 o'clock —then you can be funny all you like for these people!” “Yeah—and you keep 'em here past seven and you buy ‘em dinner—and you take the check!” cracked Al Asked later who was the fifst “stooge,” Al said: “Don’t know— T deubt if anybody knows, but they had stooges a long time ago evenri before they called them ‘plants” Fact is we're all stooges and the question is who'll be the last!” Jolson, never too fond of the restraints necessary to picture- acting, still chafes under them. It's part of the reason he gets so worn down making a movie. His recent devotion to radio has ac- customed him to rattling lines off a script in his hand, and before the eamera he finds it tougher to recite from memory. Then there's the matter of toeing the mark for the camera—"how can a guy give when he's got to k&p his feet on a chalk mark?” Al once signed a contract with Joe Schenck on the back of a paper bag. For this return to films, he forgot all about a contract He'd been working on the picture for two weeks before the day they trotted out the formal document for his signature —and it still dian't interest him. He'd promised Zanuck he'd do it and that was that. The money? He's got enough, and they take most of it back in taxes anyway. Why work? “Well, in my own home I'm {he greatest actor in the world—Ruby thinks anything I do And I can't stop all of a sudden after working the way I have so many years. I'm doing this so I ean justify a real rest for myself—Palm Springs, then the Kentucky Derby. I've never seen it. I'm going off the air soon too, and what a break that is —rfio more worfying about bum jokes. . .. !” A prop man brought a chair, and Meester Jolson sank down, pabying his aching tootsies, while Meester Ratoff, who had added insult to injury by “taking” Al on a race bet, put away his whip and took time out for a phone eall. is great. There is no subsutute for Newspaper Advertising A T RO | £ =, ! } Creen Wms Chtcago an“r‘ Sights And Soxmd:]‘ his nomination by the Republican of Chicago. in the general eléction. !HEAIJH MINES | | DEPTS. BUDGETS CUT BY SENATE \ | |Most of Economizing Done" in Two Depariments | Sfill at Work | the general appropriation bill to- day, slashing items left and right in an attempt to get it down to size | | before midnight officially closes the | | 14th session. | Heaviest reductions wereé made ifi | the offices of the Commissioner of | Mines and Commissioner of Health, where ecoriomies totaling $50,000 | were effected. A move by Senator C. H. LaBoy- teaux, from the mining country of | the Fourth Division, to strike from | the bill all appropriations for the | Mines Office was voted down, sev- en to one, but Senators then went to work and reduced expenditures as | follows Mines Budget Trimmed Salaries of Associate Mining En- gineers, reduced from $21,600 to $12,000. Salary of Stenographer, stricken entirely. Assistant in assay office, $4,800 stricken entirely. Assya office contingent expenses, cut from $4,800 to $2,200. B. D. Stewart, Commissioner of Mines, was present during this dis- play of Senatorial axe-wielding, but protested in vain. Health Pepartment In the Health and Sanitation col- | umn, Dr. W. W. Council saw Senat- | ors strike entriely appropriations a.u, follows: Examination of school chx)dren‘ $8,000. Extnesion and | | Senators really went to work on | | improvement of | maternal and child health service, $5,000. Sdlary of Sanitarian, $1.800. [ NO, | SAID MEAT/ BOY AM ) Green, former U, S. Distriet Atlerney, beat William Hale “Big Bill" Thompson, former Mayor, by betler than a three-to-one margin, and will oppose Mayor Edward J. Kelly, Democratic nomines, | slaughtered approximately [ Garner Boom | IsSizzling, Friends Say Drive for Delégafions to Start After Present Session Ends WASHINGTON March 9. John Friends of Vice-President Nance Garner, who lighted the fuse “of a Presidential boom for him in Texas last- December, sdid it i sizzling nieely, but' no word from arner Has beeh received on the| subject The Garner'boom friends assert that several states are making ten- tative plans to send de or 1940 Demo; ormal driv Garner to the tional Convention buta f will not be started until the pres- ent Congressional session ends i - Party as its candidate for Mayor BRITISH MAKING PREPARATIONS IN CASE OF CONFLICT Sanitar, 000. Travel of an, Laboratory supplies and cquip- - meit, 3900, | waver o 1oy War Minister Tells Com- technician, $1,000. Salary of dishwasher tory. Salary of stenographer, $1.800. Health examinations for wa es, ete., $5,000. mons Plans for Expan- sion of Equipment in labora- itress- LONDON, March 9.—British Min- Other Economies ister of War Hore Belisha, an- Late this afternoon the axe fell nounced the preparedness program on the $8,000 proposed appropria- today which calls for expansion of tion for agricultural fairs and | equipment for the British Army for| lopped the rescue and relief fund service on the European continent |from $15,000 to $10000 and the immediately on the outbreak of war. emiérgenicy appropriation from $10,- of Cor o 1t solidarity of Great 000 to $5,000. Britain and Fraice require prepara- Senators were still busily at work tion of u v field force in at press time. eventualiti war on the conti- After the Senate is through with nent the biN, it 'will go back to the 3 | Housé, which will appoint a con- NAZI STATEMENT ferende committee to meet with a BERLID h 9—A high Nazi | slrfiffey Senate committee official of the Foreign Office to- Phe real appropriation bill will day s Our western fortifica- be drawn up by these committees tons are such that neither the | sontié" tikine Iate tonight or early in French nor the British Division, the morning. nor both together, will ever be able 3 9 to cross them.” R » . Russian Airplane s Scare-Lrow DENVER, March 9.—Airplanes are being used experimentally in an effort to exterminate crows in north- etn Golorado. Trt ‘the' first trial more than 15.- 000 crows were flushed by a plane that swooped close to their roost- ing place near Erie, Colo. About 100 volunteer hunters, armed with shot- guns, were stationed nearby and 1,000 of the birds. | Divers Busy MOSCOW, M salvage opgrations, have raised 435 ships, aggregating about 800,000 tons. Many of these ves were sunk during the civil war 3 One of them, a British steamer, was said to be carrying $2- 500,000 in gold to finance the White armies; but when thé divers got to it the gold was gone. e ified Ads for results. ¢h $—In r Soviet divers Empire Clas RAINOR SHINE “THE BEST IS CHEAPEST" for Finest Meals Phone 38 AMERICAN MEAT €O. TOM HUTCHINGS, Manager -HITS THE SPOT | Sasan's !Inay frock follows the s-cket vogue, Its brief bolero and switig skirt aré made of blue rayon taffeta peppered with white dois. Its frill-edged blous¢ is of white dotted swiss. A blue band girdies Women In The News—| They Wear Hats Made For Fun | A CORSAIR Betty Howe, going on a freas- ure hunt to aid hospitals in Manhattan, didn’t look so very fierce in spite of the 11 and crosshones on her hat, COOK Eileen Herrick donned profes- sional headgear when she and five other society girls com- | peted with six well known art- ists who also are amateur chef: in New York recently. MOTORIS Mrs. Edgar P. Lawson, of Southport, Conn., donned headgear of the 1900’s when she rode an old-time auto in a society circus parade at Palm Beach, Fla., recently. MERMAID Betty Ann Boucher, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Boucher, of New York, shelters herself under a pom-pommed sun hat onabeach in Nassau, Bahamas. WORLD LABOR POST is filled by Former Governor | John Winant (above) of New | Hampshire, recently sworn in at Geneva as the International | Labor office director. Sapless Swim Suits Down To Last Inch st. PETERSBURG, Fla. March 9— | Beach style critics tnis winter have | | decided that about the last spare| inch of material had been shorn | from milady’s bathing costume with | | réemoval of the shoulder straps. In the place of the conventional | | straps, a contrivance of rubber elas- | | tic tape strung through the upper | | pleating holds up the top part of | the suifs. Wearers generally appear to be pleased with the strapless out- | | fits, especially for sun bathing. No unsightly white line is left over each shoulder and the coat of suntan is the hat. . STEHECSLL AT SIS L S general. and even for dibplay with evening clothes. : U. S, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU ¢ THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Burean) Forecast for Juneau and vicin beginning at 3:30 p.am., March 9: Snow or rain tenight and moderate to fresh southeast winds. Weather forecast for Southeasst Alaska: Snow or rain tonight and Friday; warmer over south portion tonight; moderate to fresh southeast winds e esh to strong over Dixon Entrance, Clarence * Strait, Chatham t and Frederick Sound and frésh to strong southerly winds over Lynn Canal. Foreeast of winds dlong the Coal of the Gulf of Alaska: Fresh to strong southeast winds along the cosast from Dixon Entrance to Yak- utat tonight ‘and Friday; fresh to strong east amx northeast winds from Yakutat to Cape Hinchinbrook. LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity Weather 0 p.m. yesi'y 02 34 0 SE 9 Cloudy 3:30 a.m. today 36 a3 B 10 Lt. Snow Noon today 29.61 84 SE 14 Lt. Snow . RADIO REPORTS i I TODAY Max. tempt. | Lowest 4am. 4a.m. Precip. 4am. Station last 14 huuM | temp. temp. velocity 24 hrs. Weather Atka - ~ i - Anchorage 3 20 14 0 Cloudy Barrow | -2 12 0 Clear Nome | -4 4 0 Clear Bethel 2 16 0 Cloudy Fairbanks 6 0 Clear Dawson 1 0 Clear ' St. Paul | 4 12 Clear Dutch Harbor 4 02 Snow Kodiak 34 59 Cloudy Cordova 6 T Snow Juneau 36 36 10 01 Snow Sitkn 41 | - 26 Ketchikan 4 | 28 4 0 Pt. Cldy Prince Rupert 44 30 0 0 Pt.Cldy Edmonton 24 8 8 08 Cloudy Seattle 44 34 4 05 Cloudy Portland 52 36 36 6 01 Cloudy + San Francisco 54 46 46 4 115 Rain New York 38 22 32 16 06 Snow Washington 48 - e - WEATHER SYNOPSIS There was little change in the distribution. of barometric pressure today with a ridge of high pressure still present from the coast of northern Alaska southeast over ceniral Canada, to the Great Lakeg, and a trough of low air pressure extending from the Bering Sea east over the southern portion of Alaska, thence south over southwestern Canada and the West Coast States with the lowest reported pressure, 20.20 inches, over the Gulf of Alaska northeast of Kodiak this morning. Light to moderate precipitation occurred from the Aleutian to Kodiak, from Prince William Sound to upper Southeast . along the upper MacKenz'e Valley, and along the west coast of the United States, with fair ther prevailing over the rest of the field of observation. Temperatures were colder thise morning over the western portion of the Territory and warmer over mosi other pertions of Alaska Juneau, March 6:32 am.; sunset, 5:50 pm. 10.—Sunrise, Spanish dishes made with Schilling Chili Powder breathe the robust zest of old Mexico! It’s the ideal chili powder blend that enables you to prepare un- usual dishes quickly and casily. Try Schilling Chili Powder. 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