The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 29, 1939, Page 3

~ - COMING SUNDAY Our Greater Movie Season TONIGHT (AO TONIGHT SHOW PLACE OF JUNEAU SELECTED SHORT- SUBJECTS MIDNIGHT THEADORA GOES WILD | PREVIEW and FLASH GORDON Parties ‘Honor P.R. Bradleys Before Departure Mr. P. R. Bradicy, President of the Alaska-Juneau Gold Mining NEW YORK, June 29.—Closing Co., with Mrs. Bradley, will return| quotation of Alaska Juneau mine to the states tomorrow on the steam- | ¢o0k today is 7%, American Can er Baranof following a brief s0- 991, American Power and Light journ in this city. 3%, Anaconda 21%, Bethlehem Steel During her visit here Mrs. Brad-| 51~ commonwealth and Southern ley has been the incentive for nu-| 1., curtiss Wright 4%, General merous social gatherings. Many in-| notors 41, International Harvester formal and formal affairs have also| 54 gennecott 30%, New York Cen- OCOGIFTCIRTIOANR, BESE | tral 12%, Northern Pacific 74, Yesterday morning Mrs. B. D.|ynieq States Steel 43%, Pound Stewart was hostess with bronkmslr“.ea_ at her Calhoun Avenue home, hon- | DOW, JONES AVERAGES oring Mrs. Bradley. Guests for the| . fol‘lowing are today's Dow. occasion included: Mrs. H. L. Faulk- | It 4 9 i MFa, L ¥. Metgar, Mrs, P, J_}.!ones averages: industrials, 130.05, down 279; rails 2599, down .83; Pitzsimmons, Mrs. E. L. Bartlett| sone o0 ® 0 000 Hollywood Sights And Sounds By Gabbia Coem HOLLYWOOD, Cal., June 29.—Dennis Morgan has gone places in months that Stanley Morner couldn't go in four years. Dennis Morgan says Stanley Morner nearly went nuts trying—and wait- ing. Morgan is (or was) Morner, a good-looking, husky ex-Car- roll (Wis) collegian and football tackle who can sing and soon will be heard singing. Maybe in “The Desert Song,” when they make it, for his was one of the tests on which the Warners have spent a total of $100,000. Morgan can smile about Hollywood although Morner had little enough cause for smiles. Morner’s was a once-in-a-lifetime story. Morner specialized in dramatics (the football was incidental) at Carroll College. Maybe that was his error—another Carroll alumnus, Fred MacMurray, didn’t specialize in dramatics and 160k at him today. Anyway, after school and diploma, Morner started a promising career. He worked in stock, in chautauqua, over the air; he sang 26 weeks with the Chicago Symphony Or- chestra; he sang in opera; he studied music at Carroll, at Mil- waukee's Wisconsin Conservatory and at two Chicago conserva- tories. (Of course, in slack times, he played semi-pro baseball, and worked in lumber camps, but mainly his activities were dramatic and musical.) and Mrs. H. G. Wilcox. In the afternoon Mrs. Bradley was entertained in the Iris Room eon given by Mrs. M. D. Williams, D || STock QUOTATIONS | Then, in 1934, he met Mary Garden, the operatic diva who was scouting for screen talent. A year later, with a film contract and orders to be in Hollywood by a certain date, he cancelled several engagements, got in his car and drove like hell to be on | hand. And then he learned. He waited several hours for admission to the studio. He found everybody rather vague, but someone Food Can Be More of the Baranof Hotel with a lunch- | CAMPUS DRAMA ENDS TONIGHT - AS LOCAL HIT Marg aret—EarIy, Robert Wilcox, Tom Brown Star | inFilm, Capitol Theatre | One of the first realistic stories of life at a typical American col- lege, in which youthful romance |is interwoven with all the thrills i(\! the football season, Universal's | college picture, “Swing That Cheer,” ends tonight at the Capitol Theatre. The story begins with the almost | typical situation of a veteran coach whose job is endangered after three | losing seasons for “Carlton College.” |He must win all his games, despite |a threatened loss of team morale ‘when two football stars carry their private grudge onto the gridiron. High point is the rivaly of these High point is the rivalry of the star ball-carrier who attains All- | American rating on the strength of his teammate’s blocking ability. A surprising note lies in the fact that the real hero is a lineman who is shoved into the background while (his teammate gets the glory. That is, until the big game, when the lineman fakes an injury and de- clares himself out, while his own romance with a beautiful co-ed, the coach’s job, and the college's foot- ball record rely on him, Ultimateiy he gets into the game, but not until a series of dramatic situations brings the rivalry of the| two stars to a breaking point. S e ‘Douglas Officers ' Initiate Five for - Juneau Rebekahs Five candidates were initiated into the Rebekah Lodge last evening when Astrid Loken, Noble Grand, and her officers from the Douglas lodge presided at the meeting in the I.O.O.F. Hall in Juneau. A large attendance was present for the session, the last gathering to be held until fall. Plans for a picnic to be given July 23 at the Auk Bay recreation area were dis- cussed. Mrs. Tom Gardner will be chairman in charge of the outing, which will be for members of the 0Odd Fellows lodge and Douglas Re- bekahs, as well as the Juneau Re- bekahs. Mrs. Evelyn Holmann, Deputy Grand President for the Rebekahs, made an official visit at the meet- ing last night. Mrs. Mary Barnett was a visijor from Gem of the Mountain lodge at Colville, Idaho. Those initiated were Mrs. Esther O'Laughlin, Mrs. Stella Bates, Mrs. Ellen DeRoux, Mrs. Danie Paul .and Miss Minnie Roger: | Following the busin session and initiatory work a social was held, with Mrs. Sam Paul in charge of the refreshments. | ‘Wome; Running |Off with Big Fish Honors The biggest fish contest at Jim O'Neil's Baranof CiCgar Stand has turned into a woman’s race. Until yesterday afternoon, Mrs. Rod Darnell had all the honors with a 27% pound king salmon, but THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1939. DOUGLAS NEWS TREADWELL HOME SCENE OF " SHOWER; MISS WHITTAKER Honoring Miss Derothy Whittaker who is to be married Friday even-| ing to Mr. Earl Wilson, Mrs, Joseph | Selliken entertained with a canned food shower at her home in Tread-| well last night. The affair was in| the form of a dessert bridge party.| \Miss Myrle Biggins won high score prize and Mrs. Frank Pearce the traveling honor prize | ‘Those present included Mrs, El- mer A. Friend, Mrs. Lyle Hebert, {Mrs. Grover Winn, Mrs, Glibert |{Prucha, Mrs. Jack Wilson, Mrs. Laurel McKechnie, Mrs. Felix Gray, Mrs. E. S. Clements, Mrs. Prank Pearce, Mrs. Lester Troast, Mrs.| Ray G. Day, Mrs. William Walther, | Mrs, Walter P. Scott. Mrs. Milton | Daniel, Mrs. Guy McNaughton, Miss | Margery Whittaker. - BOARD MEETING FRIDAY Meeting of the Douglas School | Board was postponed vesterday to| Friday night for consideration of| budget readjustment. - - PARADE FEATURES ARE ANNOUNCED FOR FOURTH Mrs. J. R. Guerin, chairman of the parade committee for the July! 4 celebration, announced the fol- lowing prize winning characters or. features for the children to plan for: Best decorated bicycle, same for tricycle both boys and girls; best decorated wagon (boys); same | for doll buggy (girls); best deco-| rated baby buggy; best decorated kiddie car; best dressed girl and boy; most patriotic boy and girl; most comical; most original (girl and boy best decorated wheel- barrow; two prizes, first and second, will be awarded in each event. Each child participating without winning will be given 25 cents. | -~ — BASEBALL TONIGHT | This afternoon it is z\nnolmcvd‘ that the Foundry baseball team | will play the Alaska Juneau Dock PRISCILLA LANE IS C °~Is E“ STAR AT COLISEUM | B det b dmbedobel WITH WAYNE MORRIS‘\ LAST TIMES TONIGHT MODES of the MOMENT """ by Adelaide Kerv £ S Juneau's Greatest Show Value For the ordinary people of the warld, this problem is: Should a i wife continue to work at an out- § side job after marriage? For the| el intellectuals, it is stated Should & a wife sacrifice her marriage to her ambitions for a career?? | § “Men Are Such Fools,” the pic- & ture starring Priscilla Lane and ; Wayne Morris, which ends tonight & at the Colisenm Theatre, was sdapt- | ; ed from a Faith Baldwin novel. It & never makes its points by merely | letting the ch cters talk about & them. Tt is a fast-paced succession ¥ of amusing, exciting and sometimes 8 moving incidents, and for this the i director, Busby Berkeley, must be given a large part of the credit. > oo The Book ALASKA, Revised and Enlarged, Now On Sale; $1.00. JOHNNIE DAVIS - P JEETIL AMERICAN BEAUTY ADDED PARLOR ATTRACTIONS Buddie DeRoux—Ellamae Scott VITAPHONE VARIETY 201 SOUTH FRANKLIN ‘ COMEDY-——-NEWS “Complete Boauty Service” | | pumuu—— (TR - | | R PHONE 411 Here n two mswers to th? .(!lvleslAlflll of what to bw;lr to the beach. ‘E O_N N,O R S M 0 T 0 R C 0 M P A N Y On the left is a chartreuse and white striped rayon jersey suit topped | by a white chenille jacket. The white-dotted blue suit of rayon alpaca is cut bloomer fashion and inset with white to simulate the exposed midriff mode. (Costumes assembled by Abercrombie and Fitch.) | team on the Douglas diamond to-| CHURCH WEDDING | FOR MISS H. ALLEN, Ceremony Will Be Per- formed Saturday Evening Miss Helen Allen, daughter of Mr and Mrs. Roy A. Allen of this city will become the bride of Mr. Wil- liam E. Hixson, son of Dr. Irene Michael of New York City, at an 8 o'clock ceremony to be perform- ed Saturday evening by the Rev. John L. Cauble in the Resurrection Lutheran Church. | The bride will be given in marriage by her father and Miss Helen Junes will be her maid of honor. Miss| Thelma Bodding will be Miss Al- len’s brides-maid and Mr. Gerald Allen, brother of the bride, will be groomsman. Mr. Robert Laney is to be Mr. Hixson’s best man. Preceeding the ceremony a quar-| tet will sing two selections, “Oh, Promise Me,” and “I Love You Truly.” Lohengrin’s Bridal Chorus| i last night Alice Eliason registered {a 85-pounder taken in the vicinity Than F M g a ) of Tee Harbor. Pleasant surroundings combined with' courteous service and faste- ful preparation makes eating a delight “PERCY’S finally recalled the contract. He went on a tour of the lot, his ego flattened, and returned to be informed that the 12-weeks’ lay-off provided in his contract (meaning no salary) would begin immediately. He was visiting friends in Arizona when a wire came re- calling him at once. Work at last! In “The Great Ziegfeld.” They spent three months on his “number,” so his option was lifted in the interim, The picture came out, Morner got raves for his singing of “A Pretty Girls Like a Melody.” . He'd known all along it would be like that—and it hurt. . Because the voice was the voice of Allan Jones, and Morner merely appeared to be singing it. (Jones, after recording the song, had to leave.) Metro, where all this happened, had Nelson Eddy and Allan Jones. If ones couldn’t get much of a look-in because of Eddy, Morner had both of them to hurdle. The only singing he did was in 4 short about “Annie Laurie” and one corny number in a flop picture called “Mamma Steps Out.” So he got permission to do “The Student Prince” on the local stage, just to prove he could sing. All it meant was another option lift, with no roles in pros- pect. Just when he hoped to be dropped, he sang at a distributors’ banquet and the hearty response meant another option lift. ‘But he begged off that one, appealing directly to Louis B, Mayer, who was fair about it. i Then came Paramount. Morner, rechistened Richard Stan- ley, really go to work there. The first day he was handed a script. That night, reading eagerly, he found his “part.” Two lines—and out! The next role was heavier—a gangster in “Il- legal Traffic.” The handsome juvenile, smeared with make-up, played a Scarface type. Another one—and out again. ‘With cheers he prepared to leave for New York. But Charles R. Rogers, the producer, heard him sing first. Rogers hadn’t anything for him, but he told Jack Warner, and Warner gave him tests. Rechristened Dennis. Morgan, Stanley Morner is on the high-road now,, Qut of nearly a hundred regis- trants, it appears very likely that the women will take the honors, {with the contest closing tomorrow | 4 night at midnight. I. Goldstein’s store is the official weighing sta- tion. Next month, O'Neil says he is planning a big trout contest, with the details not yet definite. ———————— The Book ALASKA, Revised and Enlarged, Now On Sale; $1.00. (LNE THEYR - SEAGRAM'S 7 CROWN BLENDED WHT. grains, 90 Proof. SEAGRAM'S 5 CR spirits distilled from grains. 90 Proof. M ETaR o#“' 60% neutral spirits distilled from BLE! 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