The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 30, 1939, Page 3

L —— THE CAPITOL HAS THE BIG PICTURES! The Show Place of Juneau * NOW! W. C. FIELDS AND i CHUCK McCARTHY CLASH IN BIG mr‘ ACROSS Hard wood Containing boron Tarn to the right Copy Godgess of pence ™4 rm "You Can't Cheat an Hon-| Gypsy Solution of Saturday's Puzzie . Daily Crossword Puzzle wax 9. Explosive device Goddess of dawn Type measures Lashan Obtuined Roghr TH'W n. tal [lasl (urfain RunDownon ~ Alice Brady OWNID A Juneau’s Greatest Show Value COUSEUW RNOW! JOEL McCREA . Fruit Liberal gify \th of a “THREE BLIND MICE” With David Niven—Marjorie Weaver—Stuart Erwin ALSO: Popeye———Mumcal —News est Man" Playing at Capitol Theatre Hilarjous comedy sequences deft- SEE THE SAWDUST AND SARCASM FLY... In the Funniest Film gear wheel Note of the 1Ce|ebr_a!ed Star of Stage and Screen Dies in | Fields, and has to do one of his acts !won't be noticed. 1y woven into a powerful story stamp Univ al's “You Can't Cheat An Honest Man” as a good offering Reriacren fat of $wins 3. Anit riak cat Heading the t of the pigcture, whiclk opened yesterday at the Capi- cl Theatre, are W. C. Fields, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy. They are rated as Hollywood's top comedy combination Highlighting the film, as one might suspect, is the bitter feud be- tween Fields and his wooden neme- sis, McCarthy. Their battle reaches) | hew heights of potency and comedy |in this feature. One will laugh when Charlie pops{ up with a black eye, instigated by | 1. June b 1. Checkered wonlc Blaek i 3. Animal in- closure Blant of the veteh family in blackface so the discolored orb The attractive Constance Meore, playing her first major role, gives W.C. FIELDS od you EDGAR: SEE! CANT & CHEAT AN | CHARLEY BERGEN M.[ARTHY A" Univérsal ) Picture ' NEWS OF THE DAY that is only 15 days old' ROBERT BENCHLEY and PETE SMITH A WALT DISNEY CARTOON HosriTaL NoTES Don Clark is at St. Ann’s Hospi- tal receiving medical care for burns about the face and hands. Mrs. J. S('Illkf'n was admitted bo St. Ann’s Hospital for surgical care. | After receiving medical super- vision, Fred Dahl was dismissed yes- terday afternoon from St. Ann's Hospital. Mrs. Julia Steven and her son and daughter, Lenora and Frederick, are receiving medical care at the Gov- ernment Hospital Hazel Denis was a surgical dismis- sal today from the Government Hos- pital. — e DR. STEVES, CHIROPODIS Air Réid Prbiedibn For Great Brifain Is Now Facing Big Tes (Continuea from ing on the water of the Thames, a dead giveway. Additional precau- tions will help remedy that. Not yet remedied is how to dim the glare of factories that must work at night. The General says the anti-air- craft guns ked well—in prac- tice. Moreover, the numbers, qual- |a brilliant performance. Mortimer |screen for Page One) ) Snerd is back again too. A brand new face seen on thei the first time is that of Princess Baba. Another new- comer is Blacaman. Hindu ani- mal hypnotist, who performs some | amazing feats with lions and croc 0-| diles, ’ Mary Forbes and Thurston Hall| are cast as James Bush's parents. John Arledge gives an excellent ac- count of himself as Fields' son. Charles Coleman in one of his never- to-be-forgotten butler roles. Edward Brophy, Arthur Hohl and Eddie An- derson are good as & union represan- tative, bill collector and Fields' col- ored helper respectively. e BARBER KEGlER MARKS 596 FOR { ! Weekend bowling honors at '.hc Brunswick went to R. Galao of the play Beglns Barber trio, his 596 tally being far and above the best score of Saf urday and Sunday matches. \ Baskethall Players Must Sign Register af Of- fice of Empire The Barbers won two of three from the Signal Corps, New Alaskan won two of three from Irving's Market, Home Grocers lost three to California Grocers, and Rainier Beer trio won the entire slate from the Independents. | Tonight's games are Juneau Flor- sts vs. Barbers and Signal Corps vs. George Brothers, while tomor- ity, range and power of the guns row, Case Lotters meet New Alaskan are increasing. Home defense planes, too, got many a “raider.” The most effective weapon against air raids could not get into effect at all. England expects that, the mo- ant a German squadron comes and Druggists meet Royal Blue. Weekend pin results are as fol- | lows: Barber Shop Trio Mangalao 202 181 Freeburger 165 147 134— 517 166— 479 | .Iunenps baskatball season has, |rolled around again. | President of the League, Jack Fowler, announced today that sign- ing ‘up ‘of players begins immedi- TWO BOWLING TEAMS EVEN IN ELKS' TOURNEY Release of bowling team stand- ings for the Elks pin tourney, shows the Luckies and the En- gineers setting the pace with eight wins apiece and but one loss each. However, tourney officials say “anything can happen” and it is likely some of the teams in the lower brackets, now reorganized, will be hauling towards the top of the heap by the end of the week. A A pumber of prizes for tourney winners are to be selected and placed on display to spur kegling efforts soon, Standings as of last Friday are ‘ lORHTA VOUHG SIAIS WITH JOEL McCREA IH New York (Commucu 1w Pua» Ohc) name of Mary Rose in the Graus- tarkian romance, “The Balkan Prin- cess,” and wrote her father that if | he made a fuss, she not only would play under her town name but would | bill herself as “the daughter of the great Wiliam A. Brady.” A few week: later the play reached Broadway and she did play under her own name, but without the reference to her parentage. Sparkling, scintillating and gay, with all the vivacity that is so much \ part of gorgeously feminine Lor- tta Young, “Three Blind Mice." her | newest romancing portrayal of | modern. American girl, opened yei- terday at the Collseum Theatre with Josl McCrea sharing the star hionors | Beginning in inauspicious AT overalls, Miss Young and her two screen’ sisters, set forth on the ga) Miss Brady was depressed by (he|sadventure in. quest of millionaire quick failuure of the play, But she|husbands—on funds from a bequ:t immediately sprung up again to sing | | by a departed relative. leads in “Thé Mikado,” “Pirates of | “You can fall in love with'a wil- Penzance” and other Gilbert and]lionaire just as easily as a plumb- Sullivan operas. In 1012 this dark-|er,” opiges lovely Lqrettq, gs she haired, bright-eyed actress won her \ establishes her coterie at g [nh&on- first lasting success as Meg in “Lit- »ubh‘ hotel. They've dmw{x ts and tle Women” and this took her into]Loretta becomes the 'lufil,v Maj- silent plctures where she quickly{jorie Weaver her “lady's maid,” became a star in such films as{Pauline Mdore the “wrrrmr\' “Bought and Paid For” and “The| In a kt\lrklnwr)plc array of gay Gilded Cage.” (She was “the bird"|dancing parties, beach scenes, fies- in the latter.) tas and ranch barbacues—lavishly In 1018 she returned to the stage|deluged with the splendiferous in her most successful part, that of j BoWns which Miss Young reveals Jennie in “Forever After.” It mmm no one else can—Loretta meets for two solid years. handsomely exciting Jpel McCrea, Back to Hollywood | Marjorie Weaver finds & romance Hollywood producers sought her|with Stuart Erwin and Pauline again in 1831 when she scored a|Moore meets her man in the per- resounding success as Lavinia Han-|scn of the insouclant David Niven non in Eugene O'Neill's trilogy,| Niven, by the way, provides a third “Mourning Becomes Electra.” This of a diverting triangle with Loretta highly emotional role set Miss Brady | and Joel hefore the—well, that would on the high road again, for it was|spoil the story. entirely different from the fluttery,| camedy parts in which she had won early fame, to quit two other plays because of So back to the movies she went,| injuries to her legs. this time in talking pictures, and | Always she revealed great cour- played both her customary comedy| age in the face of unfortunate | parts as well as serious tragic roles.| breaks. At one time she had twelve Even this new success was attended | failures in a row, but she kept com- by such ill luck as when she was|ing back in play after play, ever making “Goodbye to Broadway” in|hoping to find a hit. She didn't 1938 and broke her ankle in the| mind appearing in half a dozen midst of the shooting. It was neces- | plays a season, if the sixth one sary to rewrite some of the final! proved good. scenes so they could be filmed with{~ She had too a keen sense of her sitting in a chair. humor. Once when she was playing The return to plotures was cli- “A Most Immoral Lady” in New maxed in 1038 when she won the|Haven, Yale students in the aud- Motion Picture Academy award for!ience became a bit waggish and her heart-warming performance as| started booing. She stepped to the Mrs, O'Leary in “In Old Chicago.”| footlights and, in her most mirth- This was one of her favorite parts, | provaklng tone, stopped them cold but it was given to her only aner‘wnh “Don’t be annoyed boys just some trepidation, for the producers because Maryland beat you Saturday feared that audiences were 80 ac- In the football game' The play customed to see her in comedy| went on,and she was then warmly parts that they would start to laugh | applauded throughout, the minute she appeared on the Miss Brady was brilliantly edu- screen. Instead audiences wept at|cated, especially in the arts. She her portrayal of the woman whose not only sang, but played the piano In Gilbert and Sullivan Excited by the Broadway debut, and " FILM AT COLISEUM SWELET?--Sugar Heiress Geraldine Spreckels, socialite: divorcee, carrled a fur cape on Mer swuods of No X. night'spots.. rounded by them and was an ex= president of the Tailwaggers' Club, a Hollywood group devoted to pro= tecting stray oanines Miss Brady was married in 1920 to James Lyon Crane, an actor who 'played opposite her in several dramas. They were divorced in 1822. A son, Dopald Crane, was born March 10, 1922. 244— 596 ately and practice sessions will get Makes Arch Appliances to measure— | i over, her own raiding bombers will R, Galao . 172 180 — under way tomorrow night in the office, 10 Valentine Bldg. Phone 64% | wing their way over Germany. That s i iy = would compel some of the raiders to Totals 539 508 5441582 High School gymnasium. | get back home promptly to protect U. S. Sngnal Corps | Al players who plan to take | the fatherland. Further, the English McVey . 127 166 166— 459 part in the City League play this {raiders have an advantage. They Tabor 133 156 188— 477 year are to sign a register at The don’t have to get home, They can Stevenson . 171 141 200— 512 Daily Alaska Empire office, be-. land in France. i she — —— ginning tomorrow. The register ! > Totals 431 463 554148 closes November 4, and all players| ] MURPHY GOES SOUTH | Handicap 2 2 2— 6 new or of previgus experience here, GIVES OLYMPIA ITS =r E (DuPont) Murphy is a —_ must sign. as follows: ST Team Luckies Engineers Butchers Snipes Tailors kicking cow supposedly started the|and the zither. She spoke French, great Chicago fire. Italian and German and was well- | HARRI GOES SOUTH Not Downed by “Flops” versed in Latin. Often when she got| Oscar Harri, of the Harri Ma~- Miss Brady’s mishaps Inclufled a! home after the theatre she would | chine Shop, and also councilman, nervous breakdown in 1030 wk}lcmplay th_e piano for hours, for she left on the Yukon for the States. kept her out of O'Neill’s nine-act, always found it difficult to sleep. \_ - e - hit; "Blrangefllntbflude- 8he ‘had qun! dogs, she always was sur-' Empire classifieds bnng rcsults MHHIIHIIIIIHHHHHIMIIIIIIIHIHIIHHIH!H!IllllfllllllmlllllIIIlIIllllllllllIIIIIIlIlIIIlllllllIIlIIIIIIHHIIIIIIIIIHMIIIIIII < § Totals | . CQNSTANT PUR'TY?;Z?;;:M aboard the Yukon for| 453 4&5 556—14M‘ The register does not bind any % | “It’s the Water" A rare and apecial type of natural brew- | ing water, combined with skill and fine | ingredients, has made certain European ers world famous for quality . . . 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Gross is a onj R /[the Yukon from Juneau to Ket- es { pose, of. iperating himsels.t chikan on @ husiness trip. . Chamberlin, y | aska broker, left on the Yukon to call on the trade at fe}ergvlzur e dor sale at The Ewmple Citice. 43—512| | beenltl?‘\tmxzwm policemen break- s i any t.eam, buL facili- uqfiivg f power’ n coxlerences m ayer having the _register gligible to the gym qomgrmw night for Practice a.nd agde\q that practice schedule will be unced later, almoueh the ‘gym Be available hts 2. week for w ce, time will be , only. player to thmuxh ¥ Fowler Brewers Grocers .. Fosters Physicians Jewelers Humpies a fey. v irom 7 .to B\ 30, p. 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