The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 18, 1939, Page 3

COMING! CHARLIE McCARTHY! SUNDAY! LAST TIMES THEATRE TONIGHT The Show Place of Junean Ill A ;zf 4?7 MlelQHT PRE\’IEW "SINNERS IN PARADISE" % /Z(/ PHONE 411 CONNORS MOTOR COMPANY BARANOF BARBER SHOP WE NEED YOUR HEAD ART!STS HAIR-CUTTING TO RUN OUR BUSINESS Shave 35¢ Haircui 65¢ ENTRANCE THROUGH LOBBY Hollywood Siglzfi And Sounds By Robbis Coom HOLLYWOOD, Cal,, April 18.—Surprise to me and many an- other who saw “Three Smart Girls Grow Up” was the performance of Robert Cummings, alias Blade Stanhope Conway, alias Bryce Hutchens. But it was no surprise to Cummings boosters, especially not to Jim Hogan, the director who had been trying to get him a break for years. Hogan fihally got the lad his chance, too, though not his big one in the Deanna Durbin film. Bob Cummings had been at Paramount nearly four years, and had made 23 pictures, without making a dent in Hollywood’s active resistance. When Lew Ayres walked out on a program picture called “Touchidown, Army” last summer, Cummings was lifted from a supporting role to the lead. He didn’'t know about it until he was sent to a tailor’s for costume fittings. He only suspected it then because never bofore had his wardrobe been a matter of concern to the studio. It was Hogan who told him that, at long last, he was actually doing a lead—it was Hogan who had talked him into the job. Paramount dropped him from the contract list as soon ds the film was completed. He heard about it in San Antonio, Texas, Wwhere he had flown his plane (Spinach II) for personal appear- ances in connection with the picture. He flew right back—and for three months couldn't get a thing to do. Nobody would look at “Touchdown, Army” which was being held for football season re- lease. Nobody would look at Cummings. Producer Edward Small, among others, turned him down for roles in “Duke of West Point” e e S D, PERCY’S “sniffertest®—No.1... how's your “sniffer” today? It's easy to make sure that it's working O. K. Just stroll into PERCY'S at dinner time. If you find yourself surrounded by the most savory, fragrant aromas you've ever met — why, your “sniffer” knows its way around. e e e, and other Small colossals. (Small was among those who wondered, after seeing the Durbin film, where Cummings had been all these years.) Bob was ready,to pack for New York when his agent, Stanley Bergerman, got him an interview with Henry Koster and Joseph Pasternak, the Durbin director and producer. They weren't much interested, at first. But then—as is their custom—they got Cum- mihgs to tell his life story. C:nmmings told. The story of a Joplin, Mo., boy who wanted to be an engineer but acted in a few college plays and was a goner for footlights from then on. The story of an American lad who went to New York and pounded the sidewalks, haunted agencies, in vain—because 1928-29 was a season of British casts in British plays. He told how, in desperation, he had gone to England, taken the Aame of Blade Stanhope Conway, and returned—with an ac- cent, a fancied career and fictional stage triumphs—to acceptance by the same managers who had turned him down. He told how he’d guided Peg Kies, a Dubuque, Ia. girl, through the same masquerade—to her “break” as “English” Margaret Lindsay. There was more. His eniry to Hollywood, after he'd turned into Bryce Hutchens for the Schuberts and “Ziegfeld Follies,” his financial desperatiori, his inability to crack—until he copvinced King Vidor, the Texan, that he was just the Texas-born youth to play a Texan in “So Red the Rose.” And when he'd finished, Koster and Pasternak looked at each other. “The boy in this picture,” they said, “Has to play the piano. But if you've done all that—you can fake the music, too!” So Cummings is “in.” And they're planning big things. Para- mount has tried to borrow him. Other studios have tried to borrow him. Universal (which has his contract) is considering him for the next Irene Dunne picture. There is np substitute for Newspaper Advertising _THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY. APRIL 18, 1930; HISTORICAL FILM ENDING TONIGHT | ATCAPITOL SHOW Mane Aniomefie Seen’ at Local Theatre Star- ring Norma Shearer Norma Shearer, whose courage won for her the respect and ad- miration of a world that hailed with >nthusiasm her decision to resume a brilliant career, returns to the | screen in “Marie Antoinette,” spectacular picture ending tonight |at the Capitol Theatre. | With Tyrone Power as her co-star {for the first time, Miss Shearer brings to life the glamorous and fascinating Antoinette, a role she | has waited four years to play. |derly romantic or grimly tragic | episode than that of the little Haps- | burg Archduchess whose marriage to Louis August, Dauphin of France, | chiinged the course of empires. The powerfully dramatic character role of Lous is played by Robert Morley | who was discovered in London after ja y search. | A happy and carefree girl, Antoin- | ette looked forward to her wedding as the supreme adventure. She left { for Parls in high spirits, soon to be disillusioned by her meeting with lLoms stupid, physically unattrac- | tive, terrified by a marriage he did not want. { Denied the love of a husband and | friends she could trust and sur- | rounded by enemies in the Palace |of Versailles, Antothette determined {to find happiness no matter what the cost. She became the gayest, most extravagant woman in France, | She gave lavish parties, lost for- |tunes at the gaming tables and welcomed dangerous flirtations. \Then Antoinette met Fersen. They | | fell desperately in love, a love that | , as a Queen, Antoinette had to ‘(lpm But through the later years it was Fersen’s love and his coura- | geous efforts to save Marie Antoih- | ette from the guillotine that provid- ed one of history’s most beautiful love stories, MARSHAL RETURNS U. S. Marshal William T, Mahoney returned on the Alaska from Ket- chikan, where he left Jack Sparks to plead at the present court term to charges of robbing the mails here. oo~ ENGINEER THROUGH Clarence Carlson, young mining engineer, was through on the Alaska today for Nyac to work at Jim Crowdy’s New York-Alaska Mining Company. Carlson, recently gradu- , ated by the University of California, is a former Fairbanks boy. e MAY DAY DANCE By American Legion Auxiliary, Elks Hall, April 29. adv. the | History has written no more ten-| I What pro- fessional field supplies most of the movie acting talent? Name the * director most - frequent- ly identified with (a) bath- tubs; (b) the successful di- rection of chil- | dren; (c) the | art of creating suspense; (d) the artistic touch. 3 In “The § * Story of Vernon and Irene Castle,’ what comedian glays himself as e appeared more than 25 years ago? 4 film production & teams have be- come successful enough to be § identified as a duo. Supply the 1 and . : (c) Composcr MacDonald and 5 Leo Robins and . * all four principals English? Count 20 points for each q Answers on p.\ge Six ! Your Screen Test t names of these teams: (a) Wflters Ben Hecht b) Director-Writer, John Ford and In what recent mystery melodrama, made in Hollywood, were score of 90 is colossal, 80 is excellent, and 60 good. \ ! +..; (d) Actors, Jennette uestion correctly answered. A PERSONAL | APPEARANCE .WORI( PLANNED MT. McKINLEY NATIONAL PARK Springiime—VTHNeSSes (CC Activity Resuming in Interior Alaska SAN FRANCISCO. Cal. April 18, —Springtime in Alaska is signified this month by the resumption of Civilian Conservation Cgip. s in Mt. McKinley Natio Selected from CCC camps gon and Washing in Ore- 200 e ailed from \l > il retwrn L rt in earl October. Plans announced by the Nationa Park Service region Interior Department in San Fran cisco reveal the enrollees will have a busy summer. Among jobs to be undertaken is the construction of 75 miles of tele- phone line from Park Headquar- ters to Wonder Lake, across the park. A garage is to be constructed at the superintendent’s residence, a machine shop in the park admin- istration area and a ranger sta- tion. office of th IANE WITHERS WIT | j play the lovebirds in a hilarious | Seven-year romance, and Marvin Stephens, the bad boy of “Borrow ing Trouble” is the first “crus} MT. McKINLEY SEEN FOR LAST TIME AT COLISEUM SHOW i is wild excitement and | 1s Jane Withers rides down | wome stretch in “Checkers,” her Twentieth Century-Fox pic- | will thrill most of | i nd human story. The uproar n, the aching thrills enchantment that i n every young life un- tonight for the last, times on sereen of the Coliseum Theatre m\d the audience share it all with Jane, so proud in those checkered rheing silks, Jane recently was voted one of | the six most popular stars of today | and fn this story of galloping hoofs and gallant hearts she's at her very | best. Stuart Erwin and Und Merkel COLl OWNED AND- - OPERATED e nig STUART ERWV ALEOQ: Coler Cart of Jane's screen career. e ——————— « Only Nature can give Vanilla its delicate, alluring flavor. For more than half a century, Schilling pure Vaailla has been giving to des- serts exquisite, elusive fragrance and enticing flavor that add so much to the pleasure of eating, 37 SPICES 19 EXTRACTS DRAWS CROWD AT S. F. FAIR 'Vigna Says Alaska Made Mistake in Not Hav- ing Exhibit Alaska is the only place along | either side of the Pacific which is | not represented by a displdy at the | San Prancisco fair, according to Piet.ro Vigna, who is headed back | to Fairbanks after attneding. the Golden Gate International Exposi- tion and who terms Alaska's decis- ion not to participate “lamentable.” ! Vigna made a large relief model | derson entertained last evening at of Mount McKinley to be shown at|her residenice on C Street with a the fair by several transportation | shower. companies. The pla mot Shower Honors Mrs. 'Sternig Honoring Mrs. Phill Sternig, was hmet pecial builling which George Creel, ! ed: duri he evenin ir manager, hi ¢ for it al « ongside the Nati Park exiit © huge Vigna said A ng Vigna says he heg the expagition tha Territory of | Prize Alaska was not the A Miss Alice Palmer i Is Complimente "! Complimentary to M AL Palmer, bride-elec i A F.G lione, Mrs. G. F. Freeburger and Mrs. John Newmarker entertained with four tables of bridge last ev- ening at the Frebeurger home on West Ninth Street. | E 1 Th E g Honors for cards were won dur-! ven 's ven'" ing the affair by Miss Marjorie Till-| otson, first; and Miss Elma Olson, = At 6 o'clock this evening Norlite- second. A guest prize Was also pre- men will honor their ladies with Opal Ly \1. Alice Powers, Vivian Bedsie Powe > Norlitemen Dinner ,,. ISEUM Tha uprcarious fun, the excitinq thrills, the deep heart- warmth of a grand humenm story! 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Road im- |Tresults. group this wasbn md a special pro-| Juneau’s Greatest Show Value Last Times Tonighi "UNA MERKEL \' Schlllm f “IRifle Ciub Wil . Present Ad in .S Show Friday “Com'ny 'Tention'" bawls Serg- eant (Jimmie Lemieux) Palogkie, & non-com, to his regiment of, four )t the misfittest, so-called soldiers set foot on the ‘Vaudeville ) “Sissy” Seram asks he ‘Please, boye, ; lets not act so jgnorant and get in*line.” fhe thiee remaining soldiers; Are Don Wilcox) Stubbletop(El= o1 and Boobydeop. « Prank e, Corpors Joys sweetly N E we of the forth-coming an= sh Schicol vaudeville, the boys members of the Rifle Club;and Sisoved: and directed by, Mr Harmon inverted nu M er in mixing busz s Felmets and hand-carved (notohed?) tocks to which are attached lengths of garden hose for rifle:bar- re buitich of mixed angl agsort- v bles boast their fearigss- ness of war or anything! But the announceinent The United States has | dectared war Cohen gives a frightgned ‘Oy.” Corporal Scram, '“My.' Myl Oh my gracious” Stubbletop, “Liste en, Sergeant, my grandmother ik awful sick,” and Boobydoop, “When en if ah evah gits home, ah hides foevah mo!"” Guaranteed to be one of the best acts of the vaudeville, “Com'ny "Ten- tion!” will be seen in the . High school gymnasium on April 21, gram of entertainment has been planned for the occaston. A 1arge at hendance 15 anticipated. provements will also be placed | | underway. | | ko {3/ 4G | GUSTAFSONS FLY | \ D. R. Gustafson, Interior mlnmg‘ | man, and Mrs. Gustafson were pas- sengers for Fairbanks on the PAA | Bleetra which lett Juneau today, after they arrived this morning on the Alaska. The Gustafsons spent | three months Outside visiting in| Montana and the Dakotas. | B PUBLIC CARD PARTY | By Women of the Moose, Wednes- |day filght, 8 o'clock, TO.OF. 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