The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 6, 1939, Page 3

aitern, THE CAPITQL HAS 'IEIEBE ?!CT?RES! SHOW PLACE OF JUNEAU Starting Tonight HEATRE FROM PGLE TO POLE Bigger than the Biggest Tiegfeld show-ON ICE! LEW JAMES AYRES - STEWART Lewis STONE and the INTERNATIONAL ICE FOLLIES AN M.G-M PICTURE SHORTS City of Little Men Maids and Music Hollywood Bowl Late News of the Day TOMORROW FOR | DALLIS WEYAND A service wiil be held tomorrow sn in the Chapel of tomorrow afternoon between Charles W, Carter Mortuary at 3|5 o'clock at which time the : ; 8. (Curley) Wey- mains may be viewed. Ann's Hospital. evening Coast tomorrow North burial steamer for the sire, may 11 at the the ) |and. who passed away yesterday | e remains witl be stipped soun | Annual Community Christ- | friends of Mr. Weyand who so de- | Mortuary | 2 and | re- Hollywood Sights And Sounds By Robbin Coons. Dec. 6.—If T may be so blunt, T dislike And I've never met him I cite it only because I think Holly- I be- HOLLYWOOD. Cal Orson Willes al y. paten unfair. equally unfair—and for the same reasons, wkich I am about to confess. , L s a boy genius—complete with beard He 24. his sensational adventure as an ether Martian, he wed more brilliant and daring deeds in the theatre ive men have a right to do top of that, he wangles a movie contract as producer As producer, he can name his director, and he has named lles. He also has power to select his story (Joseph Conrad feart of Darkness”) and as producer he can take part in the scripting, which he is doing. In his casting, which he began by assigning himself a dual has committed a deliberate affrontery to Hollywood by calling cn associates from his Mercury Theatre. Incidentally, sisted on modeling his sets, and otherwise set himself d of picture-making. rkes these tasks while laboring on his regular Young Welles being is has acecmy than ¢ 1 On and act v rcle, he he has a up as a one-man ba That he unde; air program is the final insult to the local gentry. is highly irregular. He is only 24. Now your reporter is “over 24.” TUnlike Irene Rich, who - That's the reception charming hestessess give thoughtful guests who bring gifts of deltfclous Van Duyn Candies. Littlo attentions make you a "must come" guest. Try {ti Percy’s exclusively admits to “over 40,” he has no limitless supplies of grape beverage (adv.) to keep him ecstatically young, and his expectations of awakening some morning smitten by genius are nil. These deficiencies I share with too large a portion of Hol- lywood, a place not lacking in “geniuses” who, sustained by yes- men, marvel constantly at the kindly providence which bestowed them upen the film industry. Ergo and therefore I—and Hollywood—dislike Orson Welles. 1 recall no single newcomer from Broadway who has been the target of so many barbed and belittlin’ items of gossip. Welles is supposed to have pouted over the grave matter of going to Shirley Temple's house (instead of having Shirley come to Welles) for some still pictures of the two together. Welles’ aides indignantly deny this, citing a denial from Shirley’s mamma. World-shaking items on the man have included his alleged importation from New York of his favorite shaving lotion. Then, with a sanctimonious tut-tut, there’s the one that he has dictated notes while clad only in a bath towel. And didn't he have a god-complex when he paid $150 for a special post-midnight show- ing of a movie he wanted to see? (The Welles Defense Corps, represented by an ex-New Yorker named Herb Drake, says it was $25, the amount he'd have had to pay for a studio projection room showing.) There are more of the same, which will have no bearing whatver on the ultimate quality of the film Welles will make. The point is that, regardless of all else, Orson Welles is being pilloried for his youth and his past successes. You will understand, however, that this is no brief for a man I have never met, I dislike him. Come to'think of it, T detest him. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 6, 1939. "ICE FOLLIES” OPENS TONIGHT ATLOCAL SHOW ‘James Stewart, Joan Craw- ford Star in Techni- color Film, Capitol Back to the type of role in which she chose to stardom comes Joan | | crawford in “The Ice Follies of | 1939,” which opens tonight at the| | Capitol Theatre for a current en- | gagement,. A picture designed for the entire | family, “The Ice Follies of 19: has “everything.” There are breath- takingly beautiful Technicolor skat- ing scenes for those wh olike pag- eantry in the films; a story with a Hollywood background and intimate glimpses into studio life; original songs destined to take first place on the popular poll lists of the country. “The Ice Follies of 1939" deals| with the story of a team of fancy | skaters, portrayed by James Stewart and Lew Ayres. When Stewart mar- ries Joan Crawford and adds her to the double act, trouble ensues. The loss of a job in a skating rink causes | the girl to seek employment on her {own and because of her unusual voice | she lands a film contract and signs it before she notices “no marriage” clause buried in the legal terms The three finally drift apart, Stew- art to seek backing for his dream of staging an ice Follies, Ayres to one night stands in skating rinks, and Miss Crawford to film stardom. - WOMAN'S CLUB | TREE FESTIVAL " PLANNED S0ON | | | mas Program Will Be Held December 17 The Annual Cfln\fnunl(\' Christmas | | Tree and Festival, and a program {given in observance of Rededication | Day, will be December activities of the Juneau Woman's Club, it was decided at the regular business ses- sion of the month held yesterday af- ternoon at the Penthouse of the light company building, Mrs. Harold Smith, President of the organiza- tion presiding for the first time this year. Mrs. Smith only recently returned to Juneau after an extend- ed visit in the South, during which |she visited several clubs, and was featured as a speaker on matters | pertaining to club work in Alaska, at several programs. Community Xmas Tree The Annual Christmas Festival which for many years past has marked tthe official opening of the holiday season in Juneau, will be held on December 17, on a down- |town street, it was unanimously | decided following discussion in which the proposal was made to abandon | this project. Mrs. Frank Harris will | be chairman in charge of this event, acting in behalf of Mrs. George Le- | Veque, Chairman of the Civic Im- | provement department, which an-| nually has charge of this event. De- | tails concerning plans for the fes- tival, will be announced later. A program commemorative of Re- NEWS BROADCAST JOINT FEATURE SERVICE ON THE AIRI By The Daily Alaska| Empire and KINY | 6 days every week at | | | licity 8:15 a.m. 12:30 pam, 7:00 p.m. | 945pm || | ‘Blondie’ Ends At an end is the “perfect marriage” of “Blondie,” laugh-provoking comic strip character brought to Penny Singleton, and her “Dagwood”—Dr. L. C. Once as perfect in real life as the perfect ma geles dentist. of “Blondie and Dagwood” of films and car ended when the actress charged alimony was asked, her attorneys alraedy been made. dedication to the principies embod- | ied in the American Constitution, with special reference to the great guarantess of personal freedom, con- tained in thte Bill of Rights, will be arranged for December 15. This s in accordance with the request eceived from Mrs. H. P. Hansen, chairman of the American Citizen~ ship department of the Alaska Fed- eration of Women's Clubs, who has planned a territory-wide observance of this nature to be sponsored by tthe separate clubs in the Federa tion. Mrs. Haarold Smith and Mrs. R. R. Hermann will work out the details in connection with this pro- gram, concerning which announce- Imt‘x\l will be made at a later date. Rummage Sale Another planned activity for the club will be a rummage sale to be held during the part of Jan- uary. Mrs, Ray G. Day is chairman of this committee. Classes in Home Making Highlighting the reports of the department chairmen were the re- ports of the Applied Education de- partment, Mrs. Harold Knght, chairman, and the Public Welfare deparatment, Mrs. G. Edward Knight, chairman. Mrs. Harold Knight announced a series of monthly programs for girls in the local high school, covering the sub- ject, “Education for Home-making." These will begin in Janua be in charge of Mrs. Ir ers. Seventy girls in the high school have signed up for these classes, which will be held afte heool hours for the rest of the school year. Distribution of Vegetables Reporting for the Department of Public Welfare, Mrs. G. Edward Knight stated that 350 pounds of vegetables had been donated to the club by Mrs. Joe Kendler, and had been distributed among seven needy families on the relief rolls, through her department, Publictiy Class Busy | Reporters on local newspapers had better watch their p's and q's, ac- cording to Mrs. R. R. Hermann, pub- chairman of the club, who stated that her news writing class was having great fun taking stories in local papers apart and putting them back together, as one of the features of their training in writing organization publicity. “We have a whole library full of horrible ex- amples,” she declared, “and are thoroughly enjoying the work.” She announced also the production of a playlet later, entitled “Cousin Min- nie Read It In the Paaper,” which this group will sponsor for a club meeting. Eight ambitious publicity writers are taking this course, fol- lowing a plan secured from the Washington State College, with Mrs. Hermann as instructor. Pioneer Club Women Honored Two pioneer club women will be specially honored by the club as a feature of its Golden Jubilee ob- servance in January, and approprite medals presented to them. One of tthese will go to the club member who has had the longest continuous —— Commercial Safe D Juneau, Oldest Bdnk in Alaska Savings eposit Banking by Mail Department The B. M Behrémis Bank Alaska ‘Perfect Union’ the films in the person of Actress Singleton, Los An- ge »on, the Singleton union “cruelty” in a divorce court. No said, as a property settlement had membership in the Juneau Woman's Club, and the other to the local club- | woman having the finest record of | club service. Both of these will be entered in the Territorial contest to secure the winners for the entire Alaska Federation, and the Federa- | | tion’s winners will be specially hon |ored at the convention of the Gen- eral Federation of Women's clubs | which will be held in Atlantic City in 1941, as a part of its observance of fifty years of Federation activtiy Honoring the Past for the Future's | Enlightenment” will be the con | tion theme, s C. Headquarters An interestin account of her visit neral Federation headquarters ton, D. C. was contained letter from Mrs. R. B. At- wood, Director of the Alaska Fed- eration, who is spending the winter in the Eaast, and was a recent guest in Washington Characler Training Courses Another announcement of special interest was contained in a report given by Mrs. J. P. Williams, chair- man of the Department of Applied Education in 1938-39, whose work along the lines of Crime Prevention | Through Education sved na- | tional mention in club circles last year. Mrs Willlams announced re ceipt of a letter from Mrs, A. H. | Nordale, Vice President of the Ter- | ritorial Board of Education, in which she stated that the plans promul- gated by Mrs. Willlams and her committee, for the incorporation of |character training courses in the | Territorial cowse of study, were be- {ing adopted, and the new course of study would include such counses. | Social Meeting Omitted | Because its regular social meeting date for December falls only a week | before Christmas the club voted to [ omit its social meeting for this allowing the Rededication act | month, | program to take its place. D LOMEN BROTHERS ' TALK REINDEER | WITH BURDICK | Alfred and Ralph Lomen, Nome ihusuwssmvn. passed through Ju- neau last night on the steamer Al- aska enroute to Seattle. While here they conferred briefly with Charles G. Burdick regarding sale of their reindeer to the Government, ‘ - - | Empire Want Ads Bring Results. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GENERAL LAND OFFICE District Land Office Anchorage, Alaska, | October 16, 1939, | Notice is hereby given that Ru- | dolph Sarvela, entryman, together ‘wil.h his witnesses, Guy Edgar Ban- |vard, and Nicholas Trierschield, all |of Sitka, Alaska, has submitted fin- |al proof on his homestead, Anchor- iage serial 08402, for a tract of land |embraced in U. S. Survey No. 2274, |situated about two miles easterly |from Sitka, latitude 57° 02 20” N. {longitude 135° 16° W. containing 36.33 acres, and it is now in the files of the U. 8, Land Office, Anchorage, Alaska, and if no protest is filed in the District Land Office within the period of publication or thirty days thereafter, the final proof will be accepted and final certificate issued. GEORGE A. LINGO, Register. First publication, Nov. 15, 1930, Last publication, Jan. 10, 1940. Eat Out Today! ~ | slightly less. AUDITORIUM | OF SCHOOLS FOR THEATRE U. S. Office of Fducation Issues Statement on Mistakes WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.~School auditoriums throughous the United States are usually not well planned A common mistake is to make the auditorium far too large, the pros- cenium or stage opening too wide, and the stage itself very shallow Because there is an increasing community demand for the use of school auditoriums for plays, con- certs, forums, and motion pictures, and because a school auditorium costs anywhere from $50,000 to $150- 000 or more, a badly planned audi- torium is not only extravagant but defeats the purpose for which it is built. These are the conclusions reached by the U. S. Office of Edu- cation as the result of a study of school auditoriums in 21 states The day is past when auditoriums should be constructed merely as as- sembly halls for opening exercises and graduation ceremonies, the sur- vey report points out. The modern auditorium should be constructed like a theatre. Unfortunately, how- ever, auditoriums are rarely planned or equipped with any sound know- ledge of their technical requirements. The first requirement of a good school auditorium is that it should not be too large, the U. S. Office of Education warns. Auditoriums should not be planned to house the {whole capacity of the school, if the | enrollment is 1,000 or more. Most | professional theatres in New York have a capacity of 1,000 s Very few prof actors can project their trained voi- ces or “get across the footlights in a 1,200 or 1500 seat auditorium, it is pointed out. Much less can this be done by amateurs. The auditor- jum capacity should range from 500 or less to 750 in order to give the intimacy ne ry to an effec- tive theatre where amateurs per- form. The Stage It is in the planning of the stage, however, that auditoriums are most adequate. It is stated that the lay out of most stages is determined by guess with the result that most of them are cramped, wrong in their essential proportions, technically ineff nt, and obsolete almost as soon as they are built. Once built they are too costly to remodel, al- though at the time that plans were drawn they could have been made right at an additional cost that rep- resented a small percent of the to- tal cost of the building. It is pointed out by the U. 8. Of- fice of Education that a stage should never be less than 25 feet in depth, and the width of the proscenium arch 30 to 32 feet. One of the most frequent and most serious faults in the planning of an auditorium is the tendency to provide too little or no off-stage spaace, the survey in- dicates. The acting area of any stage should never be much more than one-third of its total area. The safe rule is that the total stage space from side wall to side wall should never be less than twice the width of the proscenium arch. Lack of such offstage space may impair permanently the usefulness of the auditorium for the many occasions for which the school and the com- munity may wish to use it. None of the 30 auditoriums in- cluded in the U. 8. Office of Edu- cation study met the above re- quirements for off-stage space; only two school auditoriums provided stages 25 feet in depth; and in only 13 was the width of the proscenium arch 30 to 32 feet. Survey Report Alice Barrows, U. 8. Office of Edu- cation specialist In school-building problems, and Lee Simonson, seenic designer and theatre consultant, New York City, are the authors of the U. 8. Office of Education pub- lication. “The School Auditorium as a Theatre,” which reports not only tthe findings of the school auditor- ium survey but also discusses tthe evolution of the auditorium and planning of the school auditorium as a theatre. The report aims to show why the school auditorium exists, describes some of the tendencies to- ward a more organized use of the auditorium for children during the school day, and for adults during the evening. It points out “how construction of the auditorium may help or seriously hinder its effec- tive use,” and offers suggestions for more efficient planning of auditor- iums for school and community use. Development of Auditoriums The publication describes the de- velopment of school auditoriums “from the time they were ‘assem- bly halls sometimes used by the community, but essentially school halls, which after opening exercises in the morning, were unused for most of the regular school day.” They “became festive once a year for graduation exercises or for an occasional ‘special performance.'” Tt mentioons “social and economic han- ges during the past 25 or 30 years which have made the auditorium a more important factor in the life of the community, chief among which is the shorter working day, with the consequent increase of leis- ure time for the masses of people, VUNEAU S ATED 87 W.0.5ROSS OWNED AND 0PI Growing up! Real enter- fainers now. . . singing and dancing, falking and talk- ing, making music and fun! JE SL HE IN s gt ALSO: Color Cartoon Sportlights Musical——News NOTE i Ser Owing to numerous requ IVE OF A KIN our REGULAR SAT "FIVE OF A KIND" STARS DIONNE QUINS INNEW COLISEUM HIT The Dionne Quintuplets are re- aled as real entertainers on the| een of the Cdiseum Theatre in| Fox starring “Five of A| Kind.” ‘The action st when. Cesar | Romero causes Claire Trevor to iuse | her job through the planting of a| phoney story. She makes a new bid for success by trying to sign up the Quins for a series of broadcasts after seeing them in a news reel. Amusing the suspenseful complica- tions develop as she goes to Can- ada to sign up the Quins and is thrown into jail as an imposter as the result of a plot by Romero to snare the contract for himself. The story speeds through a series of ex- | citing and hilarious situations with Claire finally persuading the Quins’ guardian to let them come to New York for a big broadcast in a Broad- | way auditorium. I The wily Romero, however, in al final effort to turn the tables, pu an ace out of his sleeve with t staging of an elaborate hoax to pub licize the fake birth of sextuple Excitement piles on excitement C laugh on, laugh as Caire tries to extricate herself from her difficul- ties. The story builds to a surpri ing and startling climax in which | television p an important part. pleture, who now turn to the school auditor- jum for entertainment through mo- tion pictures, lectures, plays, for-| ums, and the like.” | Use of Auditorium i Can teachers enrich their instruc- tion by systematic use of auditorium facilities? The U. 8. Office of Edu-| cation publication answers this ques- | JOHN QUAL JANE PAULINE MOORE their third and bect 20th Century-| - 3 atest STARTS TONIGHT how Value AN HERSHOLT CLAIRE TREVOR CESAR ROMERO IM SUMMERVILLE NRY WILCOXON EZ COURTNEY EN DARWELL f the Quintuplats Pholographed under the Technical Supervision of Dr. Allan R. Dofos Executive Produccr So! M. Wurizal ted by Herber | n Play by Lo Brasko ds - Or'ginel John Palrick A 201 Contury-Fax ¥igtuce ests the DIONNE QUINTUPLETS Il be shown for the CHILDREN URDAY MATINE IFEYOU WANT (-\{ THE BEST, BUY EAFFERS : LIEETIME PEN W't guarariieed for Life YOUR SAVINGS ARE INSURED, ARE INSTANTLY AVAILABLE AND EARN GREAT ER RFTURNS WITH THE ALASKA FEDERAL Savings and Loan Assa, of Junecu TELEPHONE 3 tion in detail, suggesting also that| “dramatics is one of the most na- tural outlets for the creative spirit of children . that training for' leisure-time activities is one of the responsibilities of the school, that, dramatics, motion pictures, radio and forum discussions are legitimate activities in the school program, . . . e - BRAGAW THROUGH Robert 8. Bragaw, Anchorage Attorney, passed through on the Yukon last night, heading home after a trip to the States which followed the meeting here of the Unemployment Compensation Com- | mission, of which he is a member. | B Today and Everyday the Better Foods Are Served at the BRUNSWICK CAFE hinese and American Dishes Special Breakfasts, Lunches, Dinners e e P DA § Today's News Today—Empire. LUBRICATION IT'S TIME TO CHANGE YOUR THINNED - OUT LUBRICANTS! CONNORS MOTOR COMPANY ettty