The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 11, 1939, Page 8

SECOND GROSS CASE ENDS IN JURY DEADLOCK Veniremen Are Dismissed AP Feature Service Writer NEW YORK~-In Hollywood where the interest in legs is probably greater than anywhere else in the After 42 Hours Fails to Brmg De(mlon world, the man most interested in e legs is Willy de Mond, ex-pug and Unable to ag.:r-e after 42 ()!\nur.\LO‘I | one-time Times Square newsboy deliberation, the jury in the case A man’s being interested in Holly- of the Electrical Research :l’(xlu(‘l‘ 1“,00(.1 legs is ordinarily just ordinary. Inc.. vs. W. D. Gross was dismissed | ,¢ willy is different he doe: this morning at 10 o'clock, thus end- \(lmm,hxn.g about it. He makes a 1iv- ing the second trial of the suit-here. |y o"oue o 4t 1 might go so far a The jury notified Judge George F |to say that Willy is making a for Alexander that it was hopelessly| yune gut of it, though far be it from “";;;’]‘“k';“ o TR sty Geer| I tassk thedniome Tux hounds on hen tried here originally Gross |, d o 'a 990,000 yuflgmenit, The (Gt} S * 21 cuit Court of Appeals at San Fran- cisco ordered the case back for r trial. Original suit was entered by the Corporation to collect for 41 months’ service alleged rendered on theatre equipment at the Coliseum theatre herg. The case was complicated by a counter action of Gross, the theatre owner, who sued because of alleged loss of revenue suffered by reason | % 3 v of execution of a replevin action. S0 familiar with filmland legs as i Vol Lawyers | Willy de Mond / . The present trial began Februars | If you have a silkworm’s-eye-view 23, ‘Two. attorneys, Homer Breland |0f the hosiery business in and J, S. Ward, were sent here from | Wood, yowd better change you New York to assist R. E. Robertson, | Perspective. Wall Street should hear representing the Corporation. At- about this—and perhaps it will. On torneys for Gross were F. H. Foster 3 and Jack Hellenthal : Another trial of the suit expected until late fall or next year. The regular jury panel has beer requested to return to court next Wednesday when the case of Mrs | J, E. Nelson against the City of Juneau for injuries allegedly suffer- ed in a fall will be heard. The Court is going to Ketchikan March 28. Jurors in (he Gross case were C. 8. Whittenhall, Mrs. Inez Hogins, F,Hu‘ Betts, T. J. McCaul, J. W. Flanagan, | Joe Snow, John Clausen, Mrs. i, P.| Dawes, Alleine Council, Winifred | § Williams, Marie Forward, Louis Dyr- dahl. You see Willy (Willys of Holly- wod, if I must be commercial) | the man who sheathes those motion picture gams in glamor--I mean he puts hosiery on Hollywpod's haught- iest and lowliest He's the silk- stocking man of the film industry And whether it be the underpin- nings of Garrulous Garbo or the shapely shanks of that shy little daisy, Marie Wilson, there’s no one is is not early ! S THREE ELECTED INRADIO CLUB New officers for the Alaska Am- ateur Radio Club elected at a meet- ing held last week at the home of Hill Shaw on the Basin Road in- cluded Pastor H. L. Wood, President; Bill Hixon, Vice President, and Dean Williams, Secretary. One of the programs to be under- taken by the organization for the coming year is the institution of code practice for beginners and ad- vanced amateur radio operators. Under the supervision and with the co-operation of Stacey Norman, Federal Communications Comm! sion inspector in Alaska, this prac- tice will be conducted through the utilization of an automatic trans- These hese, designed for Gin- ger Rogers to wear in “The Castles,” cost $35. days of every month. Anyone in- terested in amateur radio operation is invited to attend these sessions. ,ee— — ARMY ENGINEER TO 60 T0 WRANGELL Having seen the Federal break- water project at Juneau's small Holly- | ¢ |they mission unit. Code students may listen in on this sender three times » week on days to be announced boat harbor through to completion, M. J. Rogers, U. S. Army Engineer, is leaving within a few days for later, Wrangell where he will direct re- Meetings of the club will be held pair work on a breakwater. He will on the second amnd fourth Thurs- return to Juneau later. = they R AVE about ¢ =A REC.U.S. PAT. 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On Artists and Models Abroad.” which was no major box office item, the hosiery bill was almost that much: and on Jack Benny's “Man Aboul [ Town,” it will be more than that the most expensive picture to date | in the matter of putting silk on the legs of the movie sirens. Willy, who is here on a visit. once made a pair of hose for Cecil B DeMille (DeMille didn’t wear ‘em, | but one of the actresses in his pic- ture did) that cost $3,500. They had platinum-set diamonds in them and the jewel insets could be zipped out {and zipped into another pair by a | slide fastener if the silk sheath | should get a run or become dirty. DeMille Likes 'Em DeMille, by the way, likes these | jeweled hose. He once gave 120 pair lror Christmas presents. But they were nothing like the ones he used in the picture. They cost a mere $20 a pair. And jeweled clocks and set- tings were merely amethysts. jade and pedrl: Willy is a veritable storehouse of such information, but he consid- ers most of it a matter between himself and the producers. There was no great difficulty in finding out that Lily Pons wears the small- est hose of any een star—size 7' —but it took a little verbal eudgel- ling to learn that Anita Louise wears ize 11. Greta Garbo, who has much more reputation than she deserves so far as footsize is concerned wears a 9—about average. As in all trades, there are tricks in the hosiery business | “1f a girl. has ‘French legs, | Claudette Colbert had when she made her first picture—that is, if are sort of ight up and down and too thick-—we use point- led clocks to give them shay De | Mond explains. “Using hose with a { horizontal mesh or hose blended to | a darker or lighter shade from front | to back are other methods of shap- |ing the legs. And black hose make large legs look thinner. AMBULANCE 1S | as LOOTED TWICE Car thieves have looted the am- bulance, quartered in the City Hall, twice within two weeks Blankets, tools, and other items were obtained by the burglars from the vehicle. On both occasions the driver of the ambulance has been iorced to delay departure on emergency calls while replacing pilfered ticles. The last robbery was reported to- day by the Royal Blue Cag Com- pany, owner of the ambulance. - e PIE SUPPER IS FESTIVE EVENT Approximately thirty-six persons were present for the pie-supper 'held last evening at 8 o'clock in |the social rooms of the Methodist Church, which was sponsored joint- ly by the Epworth League and the the ar- ¥ Susannah Wesley Circle. | The affair was in charge of Mrs. |Lee Corkle and Miss Louise Peter- son, with Mr. Corkle acting as jauctioneer for the evening. ——————— WILLIAMS RETURNS M. D. Williams, District Engineer of the Bureau of Public Roads, has returned to his Juneau headquarters from a routine business Sitka. Williams traveled both direc- tions on the North Coast. SOME OF THE LOVELIEST LEGS IN HOLLYWOOD . ARE PROPS FOR EX-PUG'S HOSIERY BUSINESS This is Willy deMond, at werk. Th irgs are Arden Leeds’, of the films. “We often have to do that when girls first come to Hollywood, But | after they get there, exercises and massages prescribed by the studios soon give their legs beauty n eliminate the use of colors, and clocking.” The average pair of hose used in pictures costs about $5. Opera hose like those worn by Misd Colbert in ‘Zaza," come to about $16.50 a pair To meet the demand of the cam- era’s eye, which doesn't always see glamor in a bare leg, Willy has de- signed a “one-thread” hose which is so sheer that it is impossible to tell from the screen that an actress has them on. This, he says, was no great difficulty, but duplicating the hose worn by former generations for historic films sometimes is. It took a lot of research to duplicate Irene Castle’s hose and being abso- lutely accurate about the weave and mesh on modern machines for a picture like “Union Pacific,” puts gray hairs in a hosiery man’s head BARANOF FIRE ‘ MAINS TESTED mesh | Wwater mains and fire fighting facilities at the Hotel Baranol w | given a workout this afternoon when | the Juneau Fire Department sent a | truck and crew to test the new equipment. It was found to be sat- isfactory in every way. CHRISTINE HALVORSEN North NEW OFFICES OF - PAATO BE MARK !Face of Structure Is fo Be| Trimmed in Chromium Over Blue Glass Juneau still grows, and her build- ing growth leans more and more | to “eye appeal” architecture. When workmen are through re- | modeling the former home of the | Juneau Melody Shop for the offices | )f Pacific Alaska and Pan-Ameri- :an Airways, the building front will perhaps. be the most strikingly | beautiful in the Capital City. Paa Traffic « Representative Louis Delebecque proudly displayed blue- prints today that show plans for large main office space with Phil- ippine mahogany counter, private offices, pilots’ lounge, showers, and | store rooms, all plastered and mod- ernly trimmed. The front of the structure will be the most striking thing about | {the project, however, for plans call for facing the lower half of the |two-story structure ‘with “PAA Blue” Vitrolite (glass-like), and chremium trim, all surmounted by a PAA flying insignia. Situated in the busiest intersec- | {tion of town, with a full view of sthree-way traffic, the new PAA of- fices will be a beautiful addition | to the Juneau business district. | It is expected the finishing work —— {will be completed about April 1. Born on the lower East Side, Willy | i g x o 0 o graduated from street fights to the | prize ring by natural stages and a:S(Hool s AD a00d left hook; found time to study Rt - in a Brooklyn textile school between | and went into business for| himself as a hosiery man. In the big | Crimson Bears Win Casaba Tilt in Last Quarter Attack Breadway musical show era, he con- tracted to glamorize the legs of! The High School Crimson Bears came from behind last night to chorines; lost his factory and his trade during the depression and| turned to Hollywood, where he aet- | ed in gangster roles for a yeay before | he could scrape together enough of | take the Alumni five in the last student vs. graduate ‘asketball game of the season, 39 t The score tipped one way and then another until the fourth quar- a stake to start another hosiery | ter, when the younger five turned mill. Willy doesn’t sell his hose to any | on the heat with a brilliant pass- ing and shooting attack that left one but the studios and the stars now. For the latter, however, he them way out in front at the last horn conducts a unique service. He keeps “night-club hours” and through a messenger service delivers any- Tommy Powers, in a forward slot for the High School, ran a smooth game of ball and tallied high man where within 25 miles of Hollywood for the evening with thirteen markers | | | | | re legs be is measuring for stock- | | | ‘» | a pair of hose to any of his fair clients who have been so unfortun- ate as to acqnire a run during the evening's frivolity Home Career Now - VARIED PROGRAM [of the choir, and organ selections OF CIVIC BEAUTY. | N ¥irs, John Metcalfe, former Flo Leeds, is cheered by son, Michael, in New York, where she has filed suit for separation and for support. Glamour irl of World War days, and a prominent figure in the James Stillman divorce case, she said she was “abandoned” by Metcalfe. P NEW WEDDING PLANS nas Johnny Weissmuller, movie “Tarzan” and swimmer, who says he plans to wed Bery! Scott (above), daughter of a San Francisco rug dealer, when he's divorced from Lupe Veiez. They're at a Hollywood film lot. in the California Apartments with a kitchen shower. Roses and hyacinths are being used by the hostess as decorations for the occasion and the after- noon is being spent in playing cootie. Guests invited to be present in- clude: Mesdames Ludwig Thoren, mother of the bride-elect, Hans Berg, morning will be conducted by Mrs. R. B. Lesher. At the regular Vesper Service tomorrow evening a musical pro- gram will be offered, with several anthems being sung by members presented by Ernst Oberg. Piano | and organ duets will be on the pro- gram by Mrs. Carol Beery Davis AT NORTHERN LIGHT CHURCH SUNDAY "m.d Ernst Oberg, with several tenor | solos being offered by George Schmitz. P. J. Hussey, Robert Wolney, Robert Gordon, Richard Nichols, R. Lin- quist, Misses Corrinne Duncan, Marily JackKson, Bernice Lovejoy, | Geraldine Bodding, Dorothy Ber- | tholl, Claudia Kearney, Mary Wildes and Sybil Godfrey. S . Miss Yvonne Perry Is o This afternoon at 5:30 o'clock in the Parlors of the Northern| | | | trip to | Light Presbyterian Church a din- ner is being given for members of the Vesper Choir, in charge of which is Mrs. John A. Glasse and Christine Halvorsen, well known Juneau business woman, is return- ing here on the steamer Yukon, after a business trip south Complimented Today gapy pracER S e \With Kitchen Shower. pASSENGER SOUTH | i I K Tomorrow morning at 9:45 o”| SR | sonsms i > - ! clock, a meeting of the newly or-| Complimentary to Miss Yvonne| Representative Karl Drager sailed ganized Berean class, for adultsand | Perry, whose marriage to John |for Ketchikan on the North Coast. older young PK‘DF"IG- will' meet ‘at Whitely will be an event of April | He plans to stop briefly in the First the Northern Light Presbyterian |18, Mrs. Clifford Berg is entertain- | City before returning to Anchorage Church. The session tomorrow ing this afternoon at her residence on the next northbound boat. FOR GREATER BoA T' NG’ PI,EASURE! THE REINELL FISHERMAN— If you're looking for a boat adapted to sports use in Juneau waters, here it is: Economical, staunch, sleek. Up to 6 hours running per gallon of gas from Bendix inboard, air-cooled engines (1 to 5 h.p.) equipped with reverse gear, DON'T FAIL TO SEE THE REINELL! ON DISPLAY ABOUT MARCH 20TH GOLDSTEIN-—JUNEAU — Resident Agent | s ‘ A 16-18 ft. lengths — 58- 62 in. beams — V-Bot- tom — weight 390 Ibs. — six persons capacity — brass shaft and under- water fittings — cedar decks and planking — stem, keel and old knees of fir. | Off for South American honeymoon, from New York, is Frederick who resigned as assistant district attorney, and his N stage and screen dancer. The bride said she is giving up career to con- centrate on being a wife. | | | | | | | 1 i \ 3 S bride, the former Eleanor Whitney. - HAWAIIAN beauty queen | for 1939 has been picked at this | early date, the winner being Leo Lani (above) of Honolulu. DT ——————] | OVER THE FENCE wasn't “out” for these Italian soldiers who aren’t refreating. To demonstrate their speedy advance under conditions, they scaled a wall, took part in Rome’s 16th anniversary of Fascist militia. simulated battle WING-versus-SWEET They’re-In-Their-Corners “TRUCK -ON -DOWN** to “The NORTHE ' MARIAN BORDERS Makes Rhythm “JUMP* — Always in the Front with the LATEST HITS — TONITE TILL-=-==-2:30 A. M. EVERY NITE-==-=-9:00 P. M.