The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 17, 1939, Page 3

SUPPORT THE ROTARY CONFERENCE — BOOST JUNEAU STARTS TONIGHT Fate sent - \ heir WOr : nto a dizzy . !a'\\-SP‘““ SHORTS: A Day at the Beach Snapshots Skyline Review Canned Fishing News PHONE 411 | ticated debutante to whom | Varconi, as a ruthless racketeer who | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 193 LEW AYRES IN TITLE ROLE AT " CAPITOL SHOW 1"King of fi;Newsboys” ; Is Feature Opening | Here Tonight Intense- and gripping throughout. and interspered with humorous sit- uations, Republic’s “King of the | Newsboys” will open tonight at the | Capitol Theatre to begin a two-day showing With Lew Ayres in one of his most impressive roles to date, and lovely Helen Mack in the feminine lead, the story opens in the slums |of New York. Ayres, inspired by | his love for Helen, attempts to rise above his sordid environment. How he starts as a newsboy on 2 | corner, and finally develops a news- | paper distributing agency to attain ‘wealth and influence, is the main itheme of the picture. His boyhood friends, who rise to riches with him, provide most of the unusual humor in the story. Victor Ray Cooke, Horace MacMahon, Will- jam Benedict, and Jack Pennick, finding themselves with unaccus- tomed luxuries, are as ludicrous in the situation as would be expected Bobby Breen | Jane Withers, child movie star, celebrates her birthday—her 13th— | and youthful Hollywood notables bring gifts. | motion picture actor, hands her his present | J“]ane Wi ithers Observes Birthday IRBU FOR SCANDAL' OPENS TONIGHT AT | couseum THeamee Hailed as the comedy event of the vear, “Fools for Scandal,” starring Cagole Lombard and Fernand Gravet, will have its opening tonight at the Coliseum Theatre. A light and gay romance of London and Paris produced and directed by Holly vood's ace comedy director, Mervyn LeRoy, it is said to reach a new hig! in entertainment No one needs to be told about Miss Her recent come “True Confession” “Nothing Sacred,” speak for them- selves. “Fools for Scandal” gives her the opportunity to further her suc- cess as a comedienne. Gravet is. the handsome, appeal- 'ing young Franco-Belgian actor whom LeRoy discovered in Paris last year and brought to Hollywood under personal contract to star with Joan Blondell in the delightful com- edy-romance, “The King and the Chorus Girl.” The story is about an American movie star who under an assumed name is seeing the sights of London and Paris. Jane Withers Bobby Breen, also a four ducklings. ’ Lovable Alison Skipworth plays| the part of Nora, an old scrub Wom-|iaken in after workmen had an who has ddopted Ayes. Viclorgnphed off a takeoff field of sorts. 8 It is believed Barr is completing operates a horse racing dope-sheet. | o on his plane at Jack Wade manages to win Helen away f“"““\und will be Fairbanks Jerry. Sheila Bromley, as a sop;:is ‘shrn'll). ew back in - | turns for consolation after Helen| irected by Bernard Vorhaus and| leaves him, is also featured in the well-rounded cast. iMrS. l.. K. MOI IS “King of the Newsboys” was di- | F d B' hd adapted from the screen story by | ete on "' ay Louis Weitzenkorn and P:‘gg,\-i | medical attention today. HOSPITAL NOTES L | SILVER ANNIVERSARY 1 IS - CELEBRATED BY Mrs. Elaine Allman was admitted M. ANR MES. JORNSON to St. Ann's Hospital this morning for surgical care. A dinner party at their home last evening feted the 25th wedding an- niversary of Mr. and Mrs. John G. Admitted last night to St. Ann's{Johnson, well known Hospital, Walter Collin is receiving couple, pioneer residents of the Is- land. | Mrs. Alex Demos, sister of Mrs. Mrs. Stanley Pierce and her baby (Johnson, who was bridesmaid at boy left St. Ann’s Hospital last eve- |their wedding, cut the fine cake DOUGLAS Douglas c Slar?ing COI' NO 0P} NCE_A FRATED U s ». W.L5ROSS CAROLE LOM BARD FERNAND GRAVET / ots RALPH BEL LAMY Presented by WARNER BROS. wieh ALLEN JENKINS + ISABEL JEANS + MARIE WILSON MARCIA RALSTON « A MERVYN LeROY PRODUCTION ———PICTORIAL ALSO MUSICAL COMEDY——| REVIEW LATE %Operators §lgn Contracts| | Involving Nearly Sev- en Thousand Men | HARLAN, Ky, May 17. — Coal {mine operators employing approxi- mately 7,000 men have signed the |unfon shop contract with the Unit- led Mine Workers as 400 additional i ordered - MINES INHARLAN | Thompson. CONNORS MOTOR COMPANY Hollywood Sights And Sounds Oy Rebbin Coom HOLLYWOOD, Cal., May 17.—Whenever a hit book or play comes along, Hollywood sets in, informally but vigorously, to “cast” the picture version. But there are always a number of stars whose names never figure in the castings—stars that shine brilliantly on the screen but are dismissed instantly when table talk gets around to the latest best-seller. These are the “personality” boys and girls, the people who need “o nals” to be presented at their best. Bing Crosby is typical. Bing's best picture is still “Sing, You Sinners”—written for him, based even on certain phases of Bing's own life as presented in his brother Larry's biography of him. They can fit Shirley Temple into popular books and plays. They can even turn “Wee Willle Winkie” into a girl so that Shirley can play it. But Charlie Chaplin, after all these years, is still on his own, creating characters and situations that suit Chaplin. Irene Dunne “fits” into novels readily, but Robert Tayl despite “The Magnificent Obsession” and “Three Comrades s still happiest in pictures designed to his measure. Garbo probably has played more classical heroines than any star in town, but Gable—until he took shape Rhett Butler in the majority mind —was never a fellow the readers, putting aside a book, would peg as THE man to play the hero. The literary “hit” currently being cast for pictures in restau- rants, at movie parties, wherever picture people gather, is John Steinbeck's “The Grapes of Wrath.” Since Darryl Zanuck bought it the town’s less reverent “casters” are assembling a “typical P e S e which side of the bed you get out . . . after a breakfast at Percy's you're sure fo be set for a big, glorious day . . . PERCY’S e e Zanuuck cast,” predicting that the “Grapes of Wrath” will develop into “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” on wheels, into “In Old Chicago” on U. S. Highway 66, into “Jesse James” in the California orchards. This goes on after the question, whether this tragic saga of dispossessed midwestern sharecroppers can be filmed at all, has been thorpughly debated. It's a big question, and bigger if it’s true (as I have it from a friend of Steinbeck’s) that the author sells to pictures with the proviso that his work shall not be changed except by censorship requirements. The too definitive vocabularies of the characters will necessarily be laundered, a comparatively easy task. Another essential movie change, required by the code, would present California’s law enforcement officers more sympathetically —a change which just might work toward making a better, truer picture. (Adverse criticism of “The Grapes of Wrath” contends that the author, biased in his humanitarian theme, ignores the obvious “other side” in his plea for the oppressed.) When it comes to serious casting, however, it’s a 10-to-1 bet that Henry Fonda will grab the plum role of Tom Joad, he being available to Zanuck and the character in the book suggesting him instantly to the picture-wise. Brennan could do Grandpa, or even Pa, but the casting most readers will be interested in is Ma Joad's role. There IS a character, right out of the earth, and Zanuck had better not pull any funny business like putting a box-office name into it. He'd better, if he's wise, take some little-heralded char- acter actress who can look and be the part. T'm thinking, myself, of a character woman named Esther Dale —an excellent, esteemed actress who hasn't yet had the chance she deserves but has been wasted on stuff like “Big Town Czar,” ex- cept for telling sequences in larger productions like “Made for Each Other.” Esther Dale could be a true Ma Joad—and never let Zanuck say we dign't tell him. BARR FINALLY GETS SHIP T0 CIVILIZATION The big ten-place Pilgrim plane flown between Juneau and Atlin two years ago by L. F. Barr, has been flown to Jack Wade from its forced landing field, according to reports from Fairbanks. | Barr was forced down on a flight from Fairbanks to Jack Wade last fall, but managed to escape with-! out injury to himself after a three- day hike through tundra and brush. Repair parts were flown to the scene and additional gasoline was | Honcring Mrs. L. K. Moi, her | daughter, Miss Julia Moi enter- |tained last evening at the family | home on Sixth Street with a birth- day party. | The following guests the |evening in playing Chinese check- ers: Mesdames I s Mead | Frank Heller, Peter Oswald, Frank Olson, Carl Wilson, Marie Nelson S. J. Simpson left St and Ebba Erickson. pital yesterday after receiving sur- ! — e, gical care, | oty ‘ALBERT WILE RE-ADMITTED Inez Zuboff underwent a minor ! TO ST. ANN'S HOSPITAL | operation this morning at the Goy- | ernment Hospital. ning for their home. After receiving medical attention for bruises and injuries received in |a recent accident in the mine, Leo | Chapados was dismissed from St. Ann’s Hospital last evening. spent Albert Wile, postmaster, was re- admitted to St. Ann's Hospital last evening and is receiving medical attention. Mr. Wile was dismissed from the hospital last week after having been confined for several days. His condition is said to be improved this morning. A minor operation was performed at the Government Hospital this morning on Martha Nelson. - Lode and placer location notices for sale at The Empire Office. BETTER AND BE ore GE Money TRIPLE-THRIFT GENERAL 3 ELECTRIC FOR LESS AND LESS! r— (144 Refrigerator for Less Than Ever Before! 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Covers for the dinner were laid (for Mr. and Mrs. Jack Warner, Mr. |and Mrs. Carl Lindstrom, Mrs. De- | |mos, Miss Jenny Johnson and Mr. :und Mrs. Johnson. i ke | FAREWELL DINNER | HONORS TEACHERS Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Cahill' were {hosts at a farewell dinner party at | |their home last evening honoring Martin Pedersen, Arthur Ladd and Ernst Oberg, Superintendent and Instructors of the Douglas school, who are leaving at the end of the term. A trip to Mendenhall Glacier six tables of hridge, given compli- was followed by contr omplet- | mgntary 1o Mis ne Vick | g a delightful evening Miss Vickery, a former Juneau - .o girl, left with her parer a num? LAST DAY OF SCHOOL ber of years home | Douglas High School students it Kenne going soutt yea completed their term of study today ago to attend t University of {and are now anticipating their Washington, A ving in Juneau a tinal reports tomorrow. week ago. Miss Vickery is renewing | In the evening commencement 0!d acquaintances and plans to| lexercises will be held for the sen- 'make her home in this city. ok ago to make her UNIONSHOPFOR requirements. CANADIAN WHISKEY| Imported by WORLD IMPORTERS, INC,, Seattle STATION KINY——5:30 P.M. Dail» except Sundays & Wednesdays o Steaks.... ARE JUICIER at the ROVYAL CAF! they're cut from finest steers. B iol Albert and Hjalmar Savikko At the affair last evening honors and George Stragier. for bridge were won by Miss M | Attorney R. E. Robertson will VanderLeest, high; Miss Louise | make the graduation address. Kemper, second, and Mrs. Jack Jef- | - trey, consolation. Miss June Mitchel won honors in Chinese checkers and Mrs. Edward Met CORNED BEEF & CABBAGE Mary Simpkins, was given a prize (for being the newest bride present. | | for Lunch Tomorrow . | | e | | { | at the BARANOF DancingParty Tonight o For Miss P. Cartwright| | | SONS OF oo Sy " o, n w A v 'a dancing party at her Gold Street | residence. Forty-five guests will be| \present for the occasion. {with her aunt and uncle, Mr. and | o+ 4 jar nee Miss “GQOD OLD— Miss Cartwright, who is visiting c " |Mrs. Earl Cleveland of this city, ) will leave for her home in Seattle| " during the latter part of the month. | e | “ A Y l 7 IN APPRECIATION | 5 We wish to thank most sincerely | B30 B \the many friends for their kind ex- pressions of sympathy for our be-| no"ms |reavement and for the lovely floral |offerings. i NATATOBIUM | ““"“%as nowsmr rmasen MRS. LEONARD JOHNSON, Music by the MRS. DOUGLAS GRAY, SCANDINAVIAN ladv. MISS JESSIE FRASER. | “SWING-TWISTERS" I & T A i b i To obtain a standard cup meas- REFRESHMENTS 'urement, set the cup on a flat sur- face and then fill it. A whole cup ADMISION should be brimming full. Holding a cup in the hand for filling will lnm give true measurements. 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