The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 22, 1939, Page 3

—STRANGER THAN FICTION —BOY WHO SAVED A NATION —THEY'RE ALWAYS: CAUGHT —NEWS OF THE DAY Midnight Preview | Scoop! Scoop! | Pacific Coast Premiere “VACATION FROM | ~FoURFEATHERS" LOVE" | commNG sunDAY Your Business Is BIG BIISIKESS' to us; and your account is welcome, whether it he large or small. Commercial — Savings — Safe Deposit Banking by Mail THE B. M. BEHRENDS BANK Oldest Bank in Alaska ——————————————————————— Hollywood Sights And Sounds By Robbin Coons. HOLLYWOOD; Cal,, Aug: 22—Shots from sound. stage side- lines: One of the sumptuous ballet scenes of “On Your Toes” is in. a Hindu palace and the cast waits for minutes while workmen polish the floor to glassy slickness, and’ others dash abeut sand- papering. the dancers’ shoes so they won't slip: Lovely Vera Zorina, who is just as much an angel to Holly~ wood as she was to Broadway, pirouettes down the floor, comes laughing to a halt. Her waist, between a frilly ballet skirt, and' a brassiere of spangled silk, is waspish. Perhaps the Hollywood wear and tear? “You might call it that,” says Zorina. “Really, between re- hearsals and' the dance numbers, I have been lifted’ so many times my partners’ hands have massaged off what little fat I had.” Husband George Balanchine starts putting the-ballet through another rehearsal. Erik Rhodes, out of French-Italian character for the moment, and dressed in a huge comic turban-and bal- loon-like pantaloons, hoists a young lady to his shoulders, starts to whirl. Suddenly he stops, looks up. “Say,” he calls, “we’ve been daing this for days and never been introduced. What's your name?” The girl laughs, “Joyce Coles.” “I'm Erik Rhodes, and pleased to meet you.” Amid ripples of laughter, Erik continues his whirling. It must depend’ entirely what side of the fence you're on, PERCY’S IS BETTER THAN EVER NOW — MORE MODERN MORE ATTRACTIVE — INSIDE. AND 9UT-AND EVEN THE FOOD IS BET- TER T00! . as to where the thespic grass looks.greenest. I dowbt. if ever such a migration from Hollywoed: to the Broadway boards was planned as that for this fall. T have no intention of listing-all the movie mites and mighties who say they are or are said to be going bagk to Broadway, but in a single day of rambling around, it ran something like this: Paul Muni talking at length of his definite.contract: to. open in Maxwell Anderson’s new “Key Largo” some time in. October or November. Mary Martin, just arrived, thrilling. conversationally in. her chatter about the musical version of “Sailor. Beware” on. Broad- way and hardly mentioning “Victor Herbert,” which is her first picture, t John Garfield (his friends still call him Julie in spite of the studio dictum that Jules should forever after be John) talking over possibilities of stage shows this fall with Margot Stevenson, not a new arrival, but having her first real success since the movie moguls plucked her out of “You Can’t Take It With You.” Teddy Hart telling friends he’ll see them. in New York in a few weeks; Eddie Albert, in comic blackface; allowing, that he'll be glad to get back to Times Square, too; Walter Huston. start- — ing his seasonal complaint that he and his wife, Nan Sutherland, never have enough time: here to enjoy that amaging house of theirs up in a.canyon near, Lake Arrowhead; Brian Aherne be- moaning the fact that screen commitments will, keep. him. here until December. ; It really isn't any exodus over which you need Have: fears: There will be plenty of stars and starlets left to make- pictures, but it does seem that the Broadway-Hollywood trail is going to see more backtracking this fall than ever before. There is no substitute for Newspapex Advertising THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1939. CAPITOL FILM SHOWING LAST TIMES TONIGHT "Three Loves Has Nancy” Proves-Very Enfer- faining Feature | Often the stars and members of a motion picture company provide many of the properties which are | used in films. This was particularly | ‘noticrflb]P during the making of| “Three Loves Has Nancy,” now | showing for the last times tonight at| | the Capitol. | Robert Montgomery, discovering | that a pair of particular antique | { andirons were needed for a centain sequence, brought them from his | home. He had obtained them in New England. None of the proper type could be unearthed around Los An- geles. | Janet Gaynor did her good deed | when, overhearing Director Rich- ‘m'd Thorpe discussing the neecessity | for an old-fashioned ‘Bible of par- | | ticular design, she brought her own | { to the set. It was a family heirloom | which had been printed in 1840. The | Bible was six inches thick, fourteen ches high and eight inches wide. Director 'Thorpe contributed a picture of a mountain lon. He uses a lion in some form in every one of his pictures, for he directed his first picture the day after he had | bagged his first lion. He considers | it good luck. | One of the electricians produced a table of extremely modern design which he had made himself. It add- ed to the appearance of the ultra- { modern penthouse in which most of the action takes place. ! A wardrobe gir], finding that the studio was seeking the proper wed- ding veil for a small town marriage brought her meother’s to- the set. It | fitted Miss Gaynor exactly and was used in the film. | Franchot Tone, confronted with | all the outside properties, offered to bring his dog, but it wasn't . BRIDE-TO-BEIS 10 BE HONORED A tea-shower in honor of Lucille Lynch, secretary in the Royal Blue |Leest entertained last evening with uate from the Juneau High School, Cab office, and Cleo Commers of the Yellow Cab Company, who are shortly to be married, will be given | on Wednesday afternoon from 2 to| 5 o'clock by Mrs. Beulah Sund at| Her apartment in the Baranof Hotel. | Mrs. J. V. Hickey, Mrs. William ' Reck and Marjorie Fountain will pour. — e Lewises Return South 'On Steamer Aleutian R. F. Lewis, of the Juneau Water Co., and Mrs, Lewis left last night on the Aleutian after spending sev- eral weeks here, to return to their home in Piedmont, California. While in Juneau they renewed acquairtances and expressed the desire- to return here again next suminier; e ee— Empire Want Ads Bring Results. IMODES o4 MOME Daily Crossword Puzzle ACROSS . Small pieces Solution of Yesterday's Puzzie [LLOYD FILM SHOWN - HERE FOR LAST TIMES. | 9. Small un- | 1 caw . Ask . Vessel for brewing a beverage 4. Wakes . Song from an opera 16. Fuss Man: hu- morous Number . Scene of ac- tion 22. Turmerle Midwestern state: abbr. . Close: of day . Size of shot 27. Light-colored mild clgars Cherry color . Nervous twitehing 32 Angry Asiatlc palms Stupid’ vlays: slang Mysell . Tmpenetratile hardness 41, Qrainar, colloq, 49, Medie mo: and 60. Grarted: her- aldry, 61. One who runs to TONIGHT AT COLISEUM Eiiot Nilgent, who established himself as an ace director with his| ‘College Seandal” and “Wives Never| Know,” brings Harvold Lloyd's latest laugh riot, “Professor Beware," to the screen of the Coliseum T]\k‘ll'l’l!‘ for the last times tonight. For “Professor Beware,” Lloyd's first picture in over a year and a half, Nugent and the comedian him- S\ SRl moN® O v m a new leading lady. They were suc- cessful in their quest when they came across blonde Phyllls Welch, | only two weeks in Hollywood after being imported from the Broadway | stage. | Polifical 'Forecasting: Whal # Means (Continued trom snge One) sk Tropieat fruft Grain Water falling B from. the I i the Fhil- Tppities > ! the New' Deal can win in the long run by such tactics. “For instance; if the President thought the country were going Republican in 1940 in spite of every- thing he and the Democratic party | could do;' he fight be tempted ' o | split: the Democrats, separating the ‘liberal’* sheep from the ‘conserva- tive’ goats, as he would put it, and let us win in the process. Then he ! could sit back on' the sidelines kibitz- ing for four years, hoping to get the New Deal back into: the saddle in 1944, “For that reason; we're not jcounting our chickens before they !hatch, and the minority will be in there voting solid, holding its lines taut in the next Congres “BREACH WILL HEAL" | 1An economy-minded Democratic representative who fought. the Presi- Entertain with Dessert-Bridge Misses Jean and Mary Vander- siv tables at a dessert bridge at their home on Main Streeb. Baby chrysanthemums and nas-| teriums were used in the decora- tions. Mrs. Betty Sharpe, who. is| visiting here with her sister, Mrs, Bill Trumbo, was presented with a visitors’ gift. | Prizes for the evening were won by Edna Liston, first; Carol Rob- ertson, second; and Betty Sharpe, consolation, NEAL BLANTON ON. PRINCESS Neal Blamonj brother to Dr. William P. Blanton is arriving this afternoon on the Princess Louise to-visit here before returning to the | University of Washington where he has just completed the session of summer school. - ESTEBLETH SAILING The motorship Estebeth wii sail for Sitka and wayports Thursday evening at six instead of Wednes- | day, the usual sailing date. adv. by Adelaide Kerr dent all along the spending line | throughout the 1939 session: “There IS a fundamental differ- ence between the President and the old-line Democrats, such as myself, who believe in keeping down gov- ernment costs on general principles. ‘There's no getting around that. “But T don't belleve the split within the Démocratic party is hopeless. T rather look for the Mary Fukuyama ls Going fo Japan b, " hets bt 1 Mary Fukuyama, last year’s grad- support any candidate nominated by the convention, even a third- term Mr. Roosevelt,” with perfect logic. We agree with his objectives, but we disagree with his methods. “Furthermore, remember what Carter Glass said, ‘The Democratic party at its worst is better than the Republican party at its' best” T think most all Democrats will come running to the party fold in 1940.” is leaving Priday on the Baranof to attend school in Japan. | Miss Pukuyama will' go to San Francisco where she will visit the Fair. Leaving on the Asama of the N.YK. Line from San Franeisco, she will go to Yokohama where she plans to enter the Waseda Inter- national Institute. After two years in this school she will enter a doe- tor's college. D.R. IN EARNEST” ELKS TO HOLD- FINA ' SESSION ON' SUMMER SCHEDULE TOMORROW Last meeting of thé EI§ Lodge on the summer schedule of twice- a-month sessions: will: be- held to- morrow night, Secretary Merv Sides snid today: Beginning September 1, the'lodge will meet every Wednesday. night. A dyed-in-the-wool New Dealer, rot a Congressman or Senator but a man who knows what the inner Ad- ministration strategists are dis- cussing among themselves: “What the President’s opponents in the Democratic party can't seem to get. through their heads is that the President is playing po- litical marbles for keeps. He's in dead earnest about his program. He's in dead earnest when he says the Democratic party is a party for true liberals, and must die if it turns in another direction. Several of these ‘conservative Democratic Senators who are fighting the Pres- | |ident seem to have the idea that }Lhi.s is some sort of primary cam- paign, and it'll be kiss and make ‘up next year, and no questions Jaskafl. They're going to be sur- | prisea.” “CONSERVATIVES . | WOULD BOLT” A man close to a purgee, one of | those Democratic Senators the Presi- | dent tried to squeeze out of the Sen- | ate last year: | 1“It all defends on what the Dem- | ocratic convention does in 1040. If the convention names a man ac- | ceptable to some of us the Presi- | dent doesn’t seem to like, all. well and good. But if the President tries | to run for a third term, or tries to put one of his yes-men in the saddle | —and’ succeeds in doing either—it is my considered judgment that 90 percent of the conservative element © |of the Demoeratic party will bolt. | Yes, and most of them will vote the }mnub!lnnn ticket!” | ‘A Democratic Senator ‘cwnomy bloc: » “If the President runs for a third | term, “ he’ll' split the Democratic party wide open. That's all there |is' to it; it’s happened before that |way, and it will happen again.” % | in the There you have a fair cross sec- tion of opinion in high places. Note the variation of views. Yes, you've | guessed it. They are no more sure { of what it’s all about than you ano your neighbor. They argue just as much as you and your neighbor. And which of these men are closest to being right? That's any- | body's guess. But remember that {both the Demoeratie and Republi- | can opponents of the President in | the rebellious House this year | agree that the Democratic party can kiss and make up before disas- P | ter occurs, with little harm done to either' side. Those opinions look pretty fair to the experts who pro- fess no interest in the fate of either The 160th ansiéériacy of (Hié Péhich Révolutioh has inspired a number of winter, ‘theni"fs ¢l pstiton-‘of oYa-fishiloned beaver,s whose color Is vivid “revolu red.” From the side of ¢ ‘crown shoots a tall quill striped in brown-black and white, and from the back falls a long-tailed bow of black satin ribbon. I party next year, —_———— The Book ALASKA, Revised and J Enlarged, Now On Sale; $1.00. I | I Juneaw's Greatest' Show Value Last Times Tonight That lunatic Lloy dashing madly from one' ds 1 to another! 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