The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 10, 1940, Page 3

man, H. B. Collier, has been named | THE BIG PICTURES and LATEST NEWS are at the CAPITOL STARTS HEATRE W TONIGHT SHOW.PLACE OF [UNEAU, IT'S ONE THING TO GET A MAN... AND ANOTHER THING T Miljan *Lee Bowman M-G-M Pic’ur- Community Sir{ginq and News of the Day Plumb Crazy - Novelty — SHORTS H.B. COLLIER GIVEN BOOST SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, July 10, A prominent West Coast business | of the California. is now President Company of Collier, who was notified of his by cable. The post was left vacant by the death of liam H line for the appointment as Sen | Vice-President of the company. -~ - 0 AR od Sights And Sounds By Robbin Cooms HOLLYWOOD, Cal, July 10.—John Barrymore says “The Great Profile” is not--definitely not—a life history of John B ymore. He admits, with a lift of the screen’s most expressive eycbrows, that the character does bear coincidental resemblances. “In the first place,” he says with a sardonic chuckle, “the hero is a ham actor. In the second, he's nuts. In the third, he is forever hearing the clank of jail doors and begins to miss them when they stop. They become like the music of symbals to him, ha! I myself have lived lately amid so much noise—the sound of the city—that when I sought quiet I couldn’t rest. ... But no—it’s not the story of my life. This picture—and it's very funny—is a compendium of all hams.” John is attired as Hamlet, sitting on the sidelines of his set, but he's not ‘doing it straight—“a ham Hamlet,” he explains. The “great profile” is not the heroic figure he once was, but there's life, and plenty of it, in the old boy yet. And his fund of stories—related with gusto and liberally sprinkled with picaresque, inimitable profanity—has not been depleted. Mention of Winston Churchill sets him going, recalling the first time he met the man who is now Britain's war chieftain. It was at a party in Scotland, at which they played charades, and Churchill —“really a great fellow for fun, with a marvelous humor,"—got himself up as a buxom scrublady, complete with red nose and generously padded chest. Hollywo Speaking of Churchill reminds him—"I saw an old friend of mine today. Tiny Jones. . Tiny is a bright-eyed, diminutive Welsh woman, who plays bits and parts and is a long-time Barrymore favorite. - When John was making “The Man from Blankley's” 10 ycars ago the PERCY’S CAFE OPEN ALL NIGHT A , at PERCY’S ANY TIME for Dinners or Light Lunches that all ‘Juneau-is about. - -TRY OUR FOUN- TAIN, TOO! same Winston Churchill, visiting in Hollywood, called on Barry- more on the set. It made guite a good story at the time, be-’ cause John presented one friend to the visitor and casually. ignored the others—his fellow actors, the director, and all else but Tiny. “Tiny,” recalls John, “was all a flutter when she saw Churchill and asked if she might shake his hand. They sat down together and talked a while. All I could hear was Tiny sayingz, ‘Oh, no, Mr. Churchill!"” John asked Tiny later what they'd been discussing and Tiny said, “Fruit, Mr. Barrymore. Fruit. He was asking if it were true what he heard about the fruit out here, and I was telling him it wasn’t.” Mrs. Barrymore, the famous Elaine, is not in “The Great ' Jrofile.” Mary Beth Hughes is the girl, and one of John's con- * freres in comedy is Gregory Ratoff, temporarily abandoning di- rection to resume his old career. > Ratoff thinks John is “wan-der-vull” and John thinks Rat- off is “marvelous.” Ratoff is cast' as the great ham’s manager, and they have a scene in which Ratoff expostulates violently with his Hamlet for his latest escapade. It is interesting to watch Ratoff, the genius of the sputtered accent, pitted against Barrymore, the genius of the genus ham. more — with eyebrow-lifting and imperious gestures — will be funnier. Standard Oil | inJapan, | appointment recently | wil- | Berg. Collier was next inj i, {ated, of course, in honor of the. |2 dirty white horse, and the “Sym- ANN SOTHERN FRANCHOT TONE TEAMED HERE "Fast and Furious” Opens Tonight af Capifol Theatre One of the season's pieces of entertainment . is “Fast jand Furious,” which opens to- night at the Capitol Theatre team- ing Franchot, Tone and Aun Soth-' |ern, fresh from her svccess in | "Maisie,” as bibliophile-amateur | detectives Joel and Garda Sloane, | the picture presents a novel com- 2dy-mystery story which complete- ly engrosses. the. audience. Laid against the pageantry of a seaside beauty parade, it tells of Joel and Garda. Sloane gefting mixed in a murder mystery when Joel's best friend is falsely held for the killing. Comedy and thrills are interspersed with gorgeous bathing | beauties as Joel and Garda start untangling the conflicting threads of evidence at the risk of their own lives. As suspects there are the slain promoter's jealous secre- | tary, the revengeful big-shot racke- teer, and the beauty winner who was two-timing him. The eventual |solution is as unusual and arresting as is the rest of the picture. | Lending splendid support to, the fine work of Tone and Miss Soth- ern are Ruth Hussey, Lee Bow-| brightest Bernard Nedell Beth | | Hughes. and Mary SRRl s s Lty ot HOLLAND DAYS ACROSS . Gluts . Hit: slang Exclamation Chubby Shyly Rescinded . Ged of love ’ Pronoun . % 7 9.Gaze 4 20. Western clity 7 Shrub’ with Lragrant ——YRT ] | man, Allyn Joslyn, John Miljan, |’ flowers small tumor . Southern con- stellation Entreat Contradlet | Landed prop- ertieN Youth beloved by Venus safe Barly Forgi s European finch Officeholders . Upper. limb . Reduced in rank Country con- uered by “aesar . Baseball teams . Masculine nickname 55. Qperatic solo ~Bolution.of Yesterday's Puzzle an uncert: event or 58. Permeate 0. Inventor of telegraph ending . Velocity DOWN . Nimble . Onposllehof of B4 d\‘lverr . Genus of sticklike insects. DD BEING TOLD BY VANDERBREGGEN (This is the third of a series of articles on Holland being written for the Daily Alaska Empire by Cornelius breggen Jr., writer and turer, who spending three lec- is My year in Holland was filled since it's usually at such times that the Dutch really let down their 1hair, I had a good opportunity to | become. acquainted with Holland’s | gayest moods, The day after I arrived in Rijn- | zaterwoude a great deal of activity |started in the meadow in front of the dike on which our. house was located. The cows were driven away. “m great quantities, Huge coils of |wire and boxes of electric light| bulbs were piled up under a big| (tent that had been erected. | “Feest dagen,” my aunt informed me as I looked on with interest.| That meant “holidays’—but I could not conceive what the event was. But soon it was explained to me, Rijnzaterwoude had failed to stage a celebration on 'September | 6 in honor of the fortieth anni- versary of the Queen's rule, so a belated two-day celebration was to| be held! For a whole week the men worked in the fields and the wom- en prayed in their hearts — for| clear ,weather. There is a so-called | “Orange sun” (named for the House of Orange) which allegedly never fails to put in its appearance on a royal holiday. But I think the people of Rijnzaterwoude feared that although they had seen, fit to stage their show. two weeks behind _ time . the sun might not claim the same, prerogative. But the first day of the 'feest” dawned bright, and even befare breakfast there appeared on they ‘dike road—the, only road. in the village—more than, a dozen two- wheeled carriages drawn, by care- fully brushed work horses, each |driven by a beaming farm boy. ac- | companied by_a proud and rosy- | cheeked girl friend. The carriages themselves, even the wheels and poles, were completely covered with blankets of flowers: carnations, | dahlias, asters, zinfa, roses. In the| way of additional crepe paper dec- orations the color orange ptedomin- Queen. v | Every house along the dike had| hung out its red-white-and-blue or red-white-and-orange flag. (The former is officially ocorrect, . butf many people like the other better| so they stubbornly, persist in -using| it). And in, addition many folks had hung their chestnut trees with orange lanterns. At 10 o'clock .a parade consisting of the burgomeester, the village cop, the carriages, some 60 schgol children, the village half-wit on phony Orchestra-Band of Leimui- den” started along the road. After a short stop at the town hall for a speech by the Burgomeester and patriotic songs by the school chil- dren the procession proceeded . to- ward the meadow, which had been converted into a carnival ground and sports field. P e All the school children were treated to big plates of poffertjes, miniature pancakes served with| heaps of powdered sugar., ‘Adults were privileged to buy poffertjes Vander- | } weeks in Juneau.) I f |Canvas and poles were hauled in! ]DELIVERED WITHOUT DELAY TO MARJORIE WEAVER, POPULAR FILM STAR!/ PAUL BUNYAN" AND"BABE " THE BLUE OX.... Paul was Minnesata Grarrt- lumberyack. h % Formedthe | Try a classified ad in The Empire, | With unprecedented. holidays, .and | | | || e e/l . Depending on contingency . Comparative e % 14. Pulled . Organ of sight 15, Nluminating :3 aweather, 3. Falling welight a pile Low gaiters a1l [ 11 7 6. Unproductive alp 7. Breadth 8. Exist 9. Row 10. Unaccompanted the 11, Kind of green 3. f speech 42, Not any 44. Gaping Swollen Ireland Hardens Romantie might musis Figures of 32, 33, 4. 36. device 21.Frill or ruffle of lace 48. 22 Diner 24. Asiatie native 4. 25. Interpret: 61./B: archalc | 63, Gaelio . Fresh-water ' B4. Colored fish 7. Native metal ingle thing bearing . Noted the compound duration of 60, Forever DeLuz CAL. HAS THE. WORLD'S SMALLEST COMDLETF PQSTOFFICE P! N delicacy could not be: procured within fifteen miles of Rijnzater- woude. Interest soon shifted, however, from poffertjes to ring-sticking, On the sports field several ‘“gallows” had been erected from each which a small iron ring had been suspended. As the main sports event of the day the two-wheeled carriages drove one after. another toward the hanging rings. The girl in each carriage took a stab, in passing, at the dangling ring. If she speared it successfully a point was chalked up to her. If she missed her escort was given a chance to prove his chivalry by smiling sweetly—even though he knew that he had maneuvered the carriage into just the right posi- tion, The whole , afternoon , was filled with typical carnival spor S racing, -three-legged racing, obstacle racing, egg racing,.and—most fun of all—haby carriage racing. In the last-named event each. con- testant, was . given ,a. three-wheeled baby carriage containing a baby doll. At the ge signal the partici- pants started off on a 50-yard course, pushing their baby car- riages before them. Three-wheeled navigation, however, is not easy, as the racers inevitably learned— though a few did succeed in going the length of the course without dumping the doll out of the car- riage. 4 Night time was welgome.. for.the dancing and for games of skill such’ as knocking over tin cans with baseballs, tossing rings over the necks of bottles, and lighting 20 -candles with a single match. None of these attractions failed to interest - all the village folks, and many a farmer and his wife sneaked home at 4 o'clock to dd the milking, grabbed a few hours sleep, and then return:d to enjoy every minute of the second and last “feest” day. There was nobody in Rijnzater- woude during . those festive days who.did not wear an orange bow, an_ orange button, or an orange flower on his shoulder, just as to- day any Dutch person who remem- bers. that happy festival still wears an-orange ribbon “in his heart.” (At 3..pm. Friday, July 12, Mr. Vanderhreggen is presenting an il- lustrated program on Holland for will be no admission charge. For the illustrated adult program, “This Is Holland,”. to be held at the for 25 cents, and most of them did, for except on a holiday such & same place at 8:15 pm., Friday and Saturday, July 12 and 13, re- of | children from 6-12 in the social} room .of the Lutheran Church. There| at tickets may be pro- the d cured . at. the cigar stand of | Baranof Hotel.) MEETING CALLED .~ FOR FRIDAY HERE Session fo,Be Held ‘at City Hall at 8 o’Clock in Evening Public = health problems . will be discussed Friday evening in a meet- |ing which has been called for 8 o'clock at the City Hall, | Among those to be present will be | Drs. W, W. Council, Courtney Smith \and W, S. Ramsey of the Territorial Department of Health, Dr, Carl | Buck, Field Director of the Amer- |ican Public Health Association, rep- resentatives of the Juneau Health Council, Douglas Health Council, {rectors of the Alaska Tuberculosis Association and interested citizens. | Drs. Smith, Ramsey and Buck re- | turned by PAA Electra Monday from |a trip to the Westward and Inter- ior, during which they held similar mee s at Cordova, Valdez, Sew- ard, Kodiak, Seldovia, Kenai, An- chorage, Palmer and Fairbanks. Dr. {Smith and Dr. Buck also flew to Nome. ———————— DIVORCE CASE Suit for divorce was-filed -in Dis- trict Court today by Leona Sebenico against Cesar -Sebenico. of Deuglas on grounds of cruelty. . -« | game is, however, merely inciden- | tal | picture, which is to, garner laughs. | Nothing | rected even at | who | every respect except that he. does {for a u'| T ATl T ROM KOKOMO™ Some of the racketeering. thab} | goes on behind the scenes of the | prizefight game is hilariously ex-| |posed in “The Kid from Koko- | mo,” the Warner Bros, comedy | opening tonight at the Coliseum | Theatre, featuring Pat O'Brien,| | Wayne Morris and Joan Blondell. Exposing evils of . the boxing the to the. main. purpose of and the en- is the most film's characters gaging rascals. In the new picture every char- acter and every twist of the plot| is humorous, laughter being di-] the virtuous hero, altogether admirable in taken seriously, dishonest of are rather even is seem to be just a bit dense, even country . bumpkin who has heen slickered by a crooked fighty manager into leaving his native heath 'to become . a professional fightor. - AL ud ¥ 4 L Enrollees Fitted for Serv-| ice by Peacefime Adtivifies Field work of the Civilian Con- | servation Corps in Alaska has since | its inception in 1933 included need- | ed conservation work -which fits| men for real service during any| naticnal emergency, should one oc- | cur, Most of CCC work is the same as engineer troops perform in wartime. Evidence of the broad training in this field can be seen | from the accomplishments. Within | the past year the Alaska CCC has, | | among other things, constructed | two emergency airplane -landing | | fields, 40 miles of minor roads and | | trails and 60 bridges on roads and | | trails. Eighteen buildings have been | | erected, two dams have been built, | | and two water supply systems in-| stalleds C | | Mechanized Equipment | The Alaska CCC uses more than 60 pieces of equipment. including | 48 trucks, nine tractors and three power shovels. The operators . are | *requued to make minor repairs| |and. ‘operate skillfully. often under | | extremely . difficult conditions. Three | camp garages are maintained where | an average of three cnrollees re- pair and maintain CCC equipment | under the direction of a skilled| mechanic. | In the line of communications, the Alaska CCC last winter built| 11 miles of telephone lines. Certain | camps and five of the Forest Serv- ice launches have short. wave. radio receivers -and transmitters which: give enrollees assigned to the boats as deck hands and those in camp| an opportunity to become opera- tors. Cooks . and bakers are being trained in each. subsistence camp.} Safety Program As a part of the safety program, which is stressed in all COC opera- tions, courses in first. aid are given each winter. -Instruction has been given. in cooperation with . the . U. S. Bureau of Mines. Other con- servation activities of the Corps which fit into the national de- fense picture include surveying, blue print ;reading, office clerking, draft- ing, concrete and rock construction, drainage, use. of explosives, fore- man_ and leadership training, use| local Tuberculosis Association, dl-[ E and care of tools, and logging. | CCC entollees in Alaske have in reality been getting training in most of the elements of “the school of the soldier” with the exception that they get no drill, manual of arms, nor target practice. They have been learning by doing work | which fits them for real service during any national emergency— fire, flood, or war. el | i i g S il Constipated? “For years F had occasional constipati | swful ras bloating, hearlaches and. hack v Adlerika always helped right away. Now eat _sausage, p want, | Neyer fel F vt Eeiiots ADLERIK Butuer-Mauro Drug Co.—in Douglas [ jby Guy's Drug Store. —adv. I z [ MAY | Third and Franklin P | ' TOOT 2 ? 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