The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 7, 1939, Page 3

+ MOTION PICTURES ARE YOUR BEST £, 7o 570029228227 7 » HEATRE TIMES i SHOW PLACE OF JUNEAU MIDNIGHT PREVIEW The Shining Hour with SHORTS: SLEEPING DEATH HIS BEST FRIEND Cartoon NEWS OF THE DAY Melvyn Douglas Joan Crawford SChllllng PONDER For finer textured cake with lasting freshness, use Schilling Baking Powder! Itis double-acting, made with pure cream of tartar. No “'baking powder taste!” For MONEYBACK To show our unbounded faith in this CREAM OF TARTAR Bak- ing Powder, your grocer will re- turn your money at our expense, and will also pay for the eggs. buster, flour, etc., you have used, if you find ‘any fault whatever with it. over half a century, good cooks have preferred Schilling—knowing that only successful baking is true economy. Hollywood Sights And Sounds By Robbin Coons. “NURSE EDITH CAVELL.” Screenplay by Michael Hogan. Directed by Herbert Wilcox. Cast: Anna Neagle, Edna Mae Oliver, George Sanders, May Robson, ZaSu Pitts, H. B. Warner, Sophie Stewart, Mary Howard, Robert Coote. HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Sept. 7.—Here is a beautiful and moving recital of the tragic story of the English nurse in Belgium whose death before a German firing squad during the war aroused the civilized world. The picture is the first American-made by the British star- producer team, Neagle and Wilcox, and it retains the essential flavor of the.pair's British productions—unhurried, quiet, con- vineing; it is an important story, told with direct simplicity. Miss Neagle's Cavell is a performance brilliant for its lack ~f flashiness, for its quiet sincerity, its scorn for acting pyro- technics. She makes the martyred nurse a eredible, human per- son, duty-bound and humanity-loving, humanly fearful but doing her duty regardless. The performance is the more heroiec for its lack of heroics. Suspense is admirably maintained throughout, especially in the scene of Cavell's assistance to Allied prisoners eseaping Brus- sels—the “crime” for which she paid with her life. In the supporting cast the meatiest role is Miss Oliver’s, and it is played with somewhat less harrumphing than is her wont. Miss Robson (which is unusual) frequently “acts” too hard Miss Pitts, although her voice is the same and may inspire laughs, has a fairly “straight” assignment, experimental for her. Others spotlighted: Sanders, excellent as the Cavell nemesis; PERCY’S IS BETTER THAN EVER NOW — MORE MODERN MORE ATTRACTIVE — INSIDE AND OUT AND EVEN THE FOOD IS BET- | TERTOO! l Y Warner as the American embassy attache, Gibson; Miss Howard as the American nurse; Coote in a memorable bit as a wounded Cockney; Henry Brandon as the German informer on Cavell; Lucien Prival as a sympathetic German officer. Notable feature of the production is its lack of bitterness, successfully projected through the reels as well as in Nurse Cavell’s final words: “I must have no hatred or bitterness towards.any- one. , ...} “GOLDEN BOY.” Screenplay by Lewis Meltzer, Daniel Tara- dash, Sarah Y. Mason, Victor Heerman from Clifford Odets’ play. Directed by Rouben Mamoulian. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou, William Holden, Lee J. Cobb, Joseph Calleia, Sam Levene, Edward S. Brophy, Beatrice Blinn, William H. Strauss, Don Beddoe. The search for a hero for this film can now be pronounced a success. Young Holden, in virtually his first screen role, gives a sensitive, convincing performance of the Italian-American youth who forsakes music for the prize ring and its wealth, then tears himself apart emotionally over his desertion. The tragedy of the play has been softened somewhat for the screen; at least the boy, having killed an opponent in the ring and in despair and disgust turned back to his violin, can be pre- sumed to be heading toward happiness with the girl. The dis- cerning, however, will find the tragedy perhaps more poignant: the hands which moved the bow have been battered and hroken in the brutal, money-giving fights. ‘The picture is brilliantly dialogued, fast-moving, searching and highly dramatic. Most of the comedy is contributed, and splendidly, by Levene as the boy's brother-in-law. Miss Stan- wyck, Cobb, Menjou, and others deport themselves convincingly. Mamoulian, probably too concerned over his find, Holden, let Calleia’s gangster go overboard toward burlesque—the picture’s one glaring fault. |among the | tures. | | I situation THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, SEPT. 7, 1939 DRAMA PLAYING AT CAPITOL TO END RUN TONIGHT “let Us Live” Has Final Showing at Local Theatre The relentlessness with which cir- cumstances can seize upon and smash the life of an individual wa never more brilliantly brought to the screen than in Columbia’s “Let Us Live,” which ends tonight at the Fonda and Ralph | featured roles Sullivan, Bellamy Henry in the sensitive direction of John Brahm, | “Let Us Live” will be ranked high year’s best motion pic- The new film, with its suspense- ful and drama-filled story, is excel- lent motion picture entertainment. It is the story of real people, in a which might suddenly rise in the life of any member of lits audience. It is, in addition, aj story of human error, of tender young love and of desperate dramat- ic action. - - Mrs. Worley Hosto | World Service Group, Members of the World Service| | circle and all women who are in-| terested in its work, are invited to the business and social gathering which will be held tomorrow after-| noon at 2 o'clock at the Fifth Ave- nue Apartment residence of Mrs. J. | F. Worley During the session Mrs Cook will give a reading, “Drum- mond’s Greatest Thing in the| World,” and Mrs. Robert White will present several piano selections. -+ — FALL DANCING CLASSES Now enrolling. Phone Dorothy S.| Roff, Red 199, 315 Third St. adv. Russell For the trip of a lifetime ¢ « « | ] Go EAsT on the electrified OLYMPIAN The Milwaukee Road offers everything to make traveling more enjoyable: Accommodationson the air-conditioned OLYMPIAN include club - observation car, bedroom car, standard and tourisf| sleeping cars and Hiawatha-type' coaches. 656 miles of electrificatior through glorious mountain country. | OLYMPIAN meals are famous, anc! surprisingly economical—-as little a 50¢ in the beautiful dining car. Als | economical Off-the-Tray service at you | seat in tourist cars and coaches. Low fares every day to all Eastern citles. No extra fare on the Olympian For further information inquire of your nearest Steamship , any | Travel Bureau, or R. E: Carson, General Agent Ahite Bldg., Fourth Ave. and Union St. Seattls, Wash. a ure your ticket reads vi MILWAUKEE Roap Capitol Theatreé with Maureen ovfi Alj stirring narrative, filmed under the | 3 | after both sides rested. ACROSS 1. Stair 5. Not In har- niony 8 Cooks with dry heat 14. Sandarac tree 15. Forecast Daily Crossword Puzzle Solution of Yesterday's Puzzie Put new soles on shoes Masonic 17. Full of minute openings . Pertaining to a_particular place Behold doorkeeper Meadow mie Peer Gynt's mother Chum mZN\vjoimimis Iosect's bite Talk with en- thusiasm Roman road Pluck Epoch Repetitions Lack of tona or vital energy Russian czar 7. Mxistence Anger Porcite animal Purticles Mr. Marner's first name 3y 53, Palnts of & cértafn kind Oil of rose petals: var- lant Yawns . Artifictar language Volunteer 68. Radio anten= na Becoming 60. Minus After song . Curved strue- tural mem- Natives of a gertain con- t writer Shepherd's vipe DOWN mitting mo- 1. Weakens J tion 2. Allowed var- S. Mediterran- ean sailing vessel Leaf of a calyx wild dog found in Australia Falve fruit of the dog- rose . Three fix Amerlean Indian City in llle inols Line fasten- ing the corners of awning pre- Abraham's birthplace Anatomical fruf Aim high masher Couches Edible tuber King in Scan- dinavian mythology Note of the scale 64. Vehicle on runners Swamp Ripen . 101 . Negative iations from exact specifica~ tions V/ amdan P I! B I% Forresls Are Grandparenls A boy baby was born to Mr. and | Mrs. Leonard E. Forrest at Everett, Wash., on September 2. The new Forrest has been named Kenneth Roger. This is the first grandchild of Mr. and Mrs. Albert J. Forrest, pioneer residents of Juneau. The father is well known in Ju- neau, having spent his childhood days here and growing to manhood. He is now employed in Everett. Incidentally Wolland Forrest an uncle now. e is UNDER ADVISEM! The William L. Paul versus Nick Bez suit over ownership of a fish trap at Fishery Point was taken | under advisement yesterday after- noon by Judge George F. Alexander NEWS BROADCAST JOINT FEATURE SERVICE ON THE AIRI By The Daily Alaska Empire and KINY 8 days’ every week at 12:30 p.m. 9:45p.m 8:15 a.m. 7:00 p.m. Oldest Bank in Alaska Commercial Safe Deposit Savings mp sms nmvm AS TRAIN HITS CAR SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. T—At the same spot where two women were killed recently, Edward John- son, Oakland, narrowly escaped death when his auto stalled on the Western Pacific tracks in Oakland. Johnson leaped from the car a few seconds hefore a freight train, bound | demolished his ma- | for Stockton, chine. 'KANSANS TO EAT TURKEY NOV. 30 TOPEKA, Sept. 7.—Thanksgiving in Kansas will be observed Novem- ber 30, notwithstanding the an- | nounced intention of President Roosevelt and several state gov- ernors to proclaim a date one week | earlier this year as a stimulus to business. SCOUT COMMITTEE MEETS TOMORROW The District Committee of the Boy Scouts will meet tomorrow night at 7'0’clock in the City Council Cham- bers to make plans for the coming year of Scouting, Charles Burdick, District Chairman, announced to- day. R IS RAILROAD PIIYSK,IAN Dr. Rex F. Swartz has been ap- pointed resident ph; ian at Fair- banks for the Alaska Railroad. RS oy T BAGS CARIBOU The Duke of Sutherland bagged a pair of caribou on his recent hunt- ing trip in the Circle district out of Fairbanks. Banking by Mail Depariment The B, M. Behrends Junequ, Alaska ~ MATERIAL FOR NOVEL | DEVELOPS Career of Mspaperman Who Turns to Writing Plays Is All That By GEORGE TUCKER NEW YORK, Sept. 7—You look- ing for material for a real-life novel? | T'll tell you what. You walk down Broadway till you come to that the- atre which sa “Nancy Carroll in ‘I Must Love Someone'—a New Play | by Jack Kirkland.” . Then you do some digging into the amusement files of the newspapers, and some talking to actors and producers around town and you'll have it It's there, all right—plenty of ro- mance, plenty of glamor, plenty of hitterness and fist fights and public | face slappings, and critical jeers,| and an equal amount of success and | failure. at’s enough meat for | a good stor . And it’s all con-| tained in that marquee legend that | floods into light every day at dusk ! on Broadway. | “I Must Love Someone” is Jack | Kirkland’s third play on Broadway, | and Kirkland, an ex-newspaperman, is now ma:ried to his third wife. But starring in the is Nancy Carroll, who was Jack's first wife. Before he got around to writing “I Must Love Someone” | “Tobacco Road,” which sometime | next November will eclipse “Abie's | Irish Rose” and all the other long | run plays in Broadway history. It sixth year now, and still going strong. But 24 hours after it opened a re- | sentful and rebellious Kirkland wouldn't have given a dirty hanky for its chances. The critics were flaying it. The Puirty League were calling it vile names. That was six years ago. Nobody knows how much money it has earned, but it has been | a play or destiny for more people than you can remember. It brought | Sam Byrd into prominence and earned him enough money to di | continue acting and became a pre ducer in his own right. It made stars of Henry Hull, James Batron, | James Bell, and Eddie Garr. It {gave Kirkland enough money to abandon his career as a reporter and | became a playwright-producer. Road companies began sprmdlng‘ iutx' the continent, welcomed in | | some cities, barred in others. Sally Rand, the fan dancer, always in- sisted that the play “sickened me” every time she saw it, which prompted some people to wonder why she went back to see it so often. Chicago banned it until a judge gave the producers a green light. ‘Then Kirkland wrote “Tortilla | Flat,” an abrupt and dismal fail- |ure. The critics were so outspoken against it that Kirkland, meeting one of them in a restaurant, prompt- ly indulged in a knockdown, drag out brawl. Then he left Broadway “never to return,” but he came back with “I Must Love Someone,” which | immediately was labeled the vul- garest of the vulgar. Kirkland promptly made use of this public- ity, calling attention in his ads to; the fact that it was he bawdiest| show on Broadway. When “Tobacco Road” first op- ened the bankers controlling the theater where it was stationed read the sour reviews and urged them to move. “Tortilla Flat” wasn't open long enough to have anybody try to oust it. “But I Must Love Some- one” has not escaped. It has been involved in litigation, the outcome of which is pending. Plainly, ex-reporter Kirkland can never be accused of leading a dull life. He may be kicked around in print, and occasionally in the late hour restaurants, but he has fun, and he makes money. Mrs. Casper Elligen, 56, died in Fairbanks recently, following a pro- tracted illness, She had lived in Alaska for 34 years. Her husband is mining at Nation, near Eagle, on the Yukon, F e Empire Want Ads Bring Results. he adapted | i 0 o oing off half-cocked and learn MUSIC CALENDAR TO BE MARKED BY COMING CONCERT Berne-Ehler Musical Wil yw Be Strictly Informal- Public Is Invited Marye Berne and Ernest Ehler will again present a concert of most melodious arrangement ashas characterized their former musi- cales, when they appear in the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel next Monday evening. A platform has been erected for their appearance and the acoustics in the Gold Room are said excellent One of the outstanding on the evening's program a duet ‘“Tales of the Vienna Woods” from “The Great Walt There will be many request selec- tions presented by the two popu- lar singers, whose concert appear- ance will mark the musical calen- dar this month The affair will be strictly infor- mal and an invitation to all music- lovers of Juneau is extended, R RETURN FILM PLAYS FOR LAST TIMES AT COLISEUM THEATRE “When you get to be 40, your mind sort of begins to chew its cud. You numbers will be moderation. That's when you begin to live!” Such is the rural wisdom of the two-fisted, tender-hearted country | editor played by Will Rogers in one of his greatest films, “Life Begins at 40" a return film. Suggested by the famous Walter B. Pitkins book, the 20th Century-Fox film ends to- night at the Coliseum Theatre, The sage editor adds: “At 20, we don't care what the world thinks of us. At 30, we worry about what it thinks of us. At 40, we're sure it doesn't think of lul" BATILE GIVEN BY HUGE SHARK EASTPORT, Me., Sept. 7.—The feature event of the sardine fishing season in the Passamaquoddy Bay area took place at Harbor de I'Outre, Campobello, when a thirty-foot shark was taken from a weir by fishermen after a battle lasting sev- eral hours. It is believed that the hark followed herring into the har- | bor. Unprepared for such an emer- gency, boatmen and their workers attacked the shark with a hay scythe and boat hook, and succeeded after great effort in taking a half-hitch about its tail with a stout rope. The rope parted under the strain as the |shark lunged about and a larger rope was obtained. Finally, the shark, weakened by loss of blood from wounds inflicted by the scythe and boat hook, gave up the struggle and was taken ashore. The immense liver of the shark, filling three oil barrels, is now being processed by a Deer Island concern with the expectation of extracting approximately 100 gallons of oil. ———————— MUSIC CLASS Carol Beery Davis is resuming her fall music class today. To secure de- sirable time, call Blue 306 for ap- pointment. adv. - e — Empire classirieds pay. 2 " @M Pz, SPECIAL TREASURETTR 8 ELIZABETH ARD ESSENTIALS ' * Ardena Cleansing Cream * Ardena Skin Lotion ¢ Ardena Velva Cream * Ardena Velva Cream Mask ® Ardena Cream Amoretta ® Ardeno Specio! Astringent ® Poudre d'ii'usion * Comeo Powzer Wendertu! 1g g e — wonaerfu’ (o nove arry Race, SQUIBB STORES OF ALASKA to be ! Juneau’s Greatest Show Value Last Times Tonight ¥ o 10 58 | u\\“ ““ In Your True Adventures Comedy News Fi m;);\v LUNCHEON ‘ | Balkeed King Salmon and Drawn Butter at the BARANOF T —— | . [ SR Are You Tired of Ordinary Food? 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