The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 29, 1940, Page 3

hee he SHOW PLAGE OF JUNEAU Last Times Tonight' THEATRE THEV'RE AT IT it COMEDY-MYSTERY fflMNOWPlAYllIG AS CAPITOL HIT ! Mywna Loy and William Powell Star in "An- other Thin Man” | Its story topping beth preceding pictures of the “Thin Man" series ACROSS Citrus fruit u b ionan nin coating 4. St 16, coloring" cheese and butter: | 4 | | | | | emote Close forcibly Swiss moun- tain Mineral ! Thems . it Bronaés in the uf KB F B2 EEHRR O 7 AOAON THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY JULY 29 1940 JUAMT A2A A for hilarious moments and intrigu- e ) ¥ P le: ing mystery, “Another Thin Man" ‘Dnrbgimm' . incarnatior brought Nick Charles, that ‘ace| % jESpeeation ////fla.% | sleuth of the screen, and his witty| 40. Note ot“the K wife, Nora, to the Capitol Theatre| 41, Gy 1o fl“..g// William Powell and Myrna Loy, 6 Ntmmrn:xc fl. , g I an® 9 reunited as the “Thin Man” pair,| 45 part of a shos S AT excel in the sort of merry, marital| 49. Head cover- ; “-' ES banter, half-quizzical and half-| g, Gergs of the S tender, with which the picture pro-| (. honey bes NEWS vides them, and this time thege| g5 Bos 86. Botore: profis 4. Rubber” 3. Representa is a Junior Th I ¢ - Wrinkle 7. Cheats: slang s ! nior in Mnnt “e, "‘YV_ Solution of L g.”) a.,.,c,.w o - 82 sxrblke ana re baby of the Charles family, who is s the con | { aturday’s Puzzle tmn.r 9. Kin¢ of drug 34 Retards ’ {good for almost as many laughs| 68. Footba 10. Private teach- 37. Tier HE'S GOING TO SEE | DIVORCED-LATE :% i e e 4 - A first-rate cast supports the 66. Lonk low seat 42, Reburr | iy e i 4 § | | stars, including Virginia Grey, Otto DOWN 13 Prfsate tar WINONA, Miss., -July - 20.—He's| HOUSTON, Texas, July 29. — A‘Kxuger, C. Aubrey Smith, Ruth L Roughly ellip- $33toatlan 59 n telling all about it, now Negro complained to Judge Ben| Hussey, Nat Pendleton, Patric, tical B ot aeciiagie nis to see what it's like. | Wilson that he was plagued hy|Knowles and Tom Neal Asta, the. L Ol an New. 23 daze fixedly 58 g;:;e,g pert Ringold, an attorney and in-laws and wanted a divorce. waggish little wire-haired terrier 8. Genos of 2. South Ameri- 85 Dispatched mer professor of politieal sci-| Judge Wilson granted his plea. The| who was inseparable from the & 'rfl'n'fit'.wur- o :l&’e& 3 é.x‘r:':lnut:x;! is a candidate for mayor. Negro was 90 years old. | “Thin Man” pair earlier in the pic- tenance idly 68. Otherwise { ST T 7 SR W SR SRS AT ‘;;m;( soé-}l:s,l is present again, and| iy elyl‘hm Do, EALES | ic) arles, Jr, is played by ! | elght-months-old William Poulsen,{ ==~ PR o 6 BE ‘7 an outsanding juvenile screen find helped his candidacy at the right|committee in Philadelphia, WiS Eé 'D'l’ N'..c" 's 0."' in a year of infant actor dlsmv-lmnmenl expected in return .that the E& | erles. e publicans would avoid advocating Al »> .) “Another Thin Man” brings the amendment of the National L:xbor‘ ameraa 07 t [ X Charles family back to New York, NAMING SITLER Relations Act in their labor plank. o LA A, it's worth that much to ne else, too—someone who may manage to take it without your knowledge. A Camera in- surance policy would quickly re- imburse you if your camera were stolen or damaged or destroyed by fire or other camse. .Doesn't nuch. Phone for details. SHATTUCK AGENCY Office—New York Life Telephone 249 Well, some C Hollywood Sights And Sounds By Robbin Cooms. HOLLYWOOD, Cal, July 29.—I think Walter Wanger has his dander up. He's sifting in his office, and he’s talking about the current trend tow: pist” entertainment people flocking to . exhibito) ndvertising newsreels minus war scenes, cus- avoiding serious films dealing with current world tragedies. And he’s talking impersonally, not as a producer, because his own current movie pets are adventure yarns. They have war “Foreign Correspondent” and “The Long Voy- fears nothing on that score. music tomenr: backgrounds, both age Home,” but he says he This is his argument: “It's understandable, the demand for out-and-out escapist entertainment at a time like this, but let’s have a sense of pro- portion. Nobody wants to make the theatre into a schoolroom or a fountain of propaganda. On the other hand, I think the psychol- ogy of America is demanding to know more of what's going on in the world, and we have a right to see facts reflected dramatic- ally in our screen material. If the public isn't interested, why does so large a part of it keep its ear glued to the radio?” “I feel,” he goes on, “that pictures should offer a varied program since. just like the stage, they could thrive on variety. From the talk you hear, you'd judge trat Hollywood plans to make all its piotures for children. Hollywood needs a varied audience, and a variely in pictures would let exhibitors find new If we're getting an audience of 65,000,000 a week now, Let's audience, we could get 85,000,000 and that would mean prosperity. PERCY’S CAFE OPEN ALL NIGHT STOP at PERCY'S ANY TIME for Dinners or t Lunches have escapist pictures by all means, but let’s not be foolish enough to make nothing but escapist films. “You say that the public has turned thumbs down on most of the so-called anti-Nazi pictures. You'll except ‘The Mortal Storm.” I say that most of these pictures were received coldly because their producers plunged in to the subject with in- sufficient background and study, They didn’t bother or know how to make the pictures entertaining. They wouldn't dream of making an animal picture without calling in animal experts, but some of them went into these pictures without the necessary preparation — hence, they missed. . . .” “The public,”. says Wanger, “is far more attentive to current events than it ever was before. I remember a gag in a Ziegfeld show ten or twelve years ago about Czechoslovakia. It was a gag for the reason that nobody knew Czechoslovakia except as a funny name. What a difference today! “The trend for next year? Most important, I believe, is that next year will see the ostrict supplanted by the American -Eagle once more. We can look for a boom in musicals, but we can expect a reasonable number of films that face realities. I don’t can propaganda films — but pictures which are cognizant of the times in which we live, with characters affected by these times. . ..” I think Wanger not only has dander up, but that hell do something about it. He's the man, you know, who made “Gabriel Over the White House” and “Blockade” and a couple of others that oiled the wheels of controversy. scene of Nick’s first and well-re-| The rival groups in the Platform membered sleuthing triumph, and| Committee had a hot time of their plunges them at once into the my‘_‘uun when they tried to put the tery of a murdered tycoon, It moves cOmpromise formula into swiftly through a succession of Senator Bob Wagner, tense moments, laughs and shrewd | deductions against a background which ranges from palatial Long Island estates to Broadway clip Joints, the words Senator David- I. Walsh, L it s L words. committee 'chairman and anti-isolationist sub- mitted a draft about aid for vic- times of aggression that contained “totalitarian aggressors.” Massachu- cetts isolationist who is up for elec- the said Under Alf Landon's urging plank as originally drafted nothing about revision, But big industrial contributors demanded no pussyfooting on the issue. In the end Landon was over- ruled and the plank as adopted declared for amendment of the law. Lewis was burned up. New Deal ers, gravely concerned at the pros- | aE ey o the M“‘ggflu 1§, very, sa[iiflllm 0 Next move is 4 personal meeting between Lewis and Roosevelt for the formal burial of the hatchet. The man who will turn this trick i Henry Wallace, whom Lewis greatly admires and helped put over at the psychological moment. MERRY-GO-ROUND | Attending a convention banquet given by Mayor Ed Kelly, John| L. Lewis smilingly permitted a Roo- | sevelt button to be pinned on his! . The secret of the Presi- message to the convention was kept well from 6 p.m., when it was received, until Senator Bark- ley read it hours later, but one| other person kriew its contents, She | was Miss Shirley Clepatch loaned 'to Harry Hopkins by| Mayor Kelly, who took the message| i shorthand ‘over the phone from| Wachington as dictated by “Missie” | LeHand, the President’s secretary| ured, petite Miss Cle- | rienced at keeping se-| was formerly secrets a sec-| She to Senater Sherman Minton of ]||~ dicna and to the late Mayor A.| J. Cermak, Kelly's predecessor. , 1940, by United Fea- , Inc) { AR | ASST. DIRECTOR OF TERRITORIES | T0 VISIT HERE Mrs. Hampia,kfiruening's; Former Aide, Making | First Alaska Trip | Mrs. Ruth Hampton, Assistant Di- rector of the Division of Territories | and Island P sions of the U. S. Department of the Interior, will leave Seattle tomorrow for her first trip to Alaska. | Mrs. Hampton, who was assistant during the time Gov. Ernest Gruen- ;uu- guiding genius of a top-flight | Her Washington | |Merry- * |Go-Round (Conunued from rage One) | would face economic disaster, The Bahaman population is 90 percent black, and already the sour economic situation abroad and its| reflex in Nassau, have caused riot- ing. The Negroes are a prolific people, increasing the economic strain with every increase in the \populallon_ One solution: mights be birth con- | trol, and the Bahamas would offer | ‘fln interesting laboratory for this | experiment. A similar experiment’ has been discussed in ‘the heavily | over-opulated * island of Puerto | Rico, but there the Negroes are' | Catholic while in the Bahamas| they are Protestant. At any rate, the Duke of Wind- sor is likely to have his hands full,' {and with a problem which is not entirely British. For the United States, because of Nassau's proxl-‘ mity, would be vitally concerned, with any rioting which brought a| native demand for German con-' trol. Nazi ‘agents already ‘have' been working among West Indign' Negroes' to this end. ROOSEVELT VS. WHEELER The real fight over the Demo- cratic platform did not take place in the locked room of the pat- form makes, but over the long dis- tance phone between Chicago and Washington. “The issue was isola-! tionism and the struggle was be- tween the President and Senator Burfon K. Wheeler. Wheeler demanded an out-and- out isolationist plank, under threat of bolting and heading a thlrd party ticket. Roosevelt flatly re- fuséd to accept this, under thrent to refuse to run if it went into! the platform, He agreed with Wheeler on a declaration against sending t.raops‘ abroad, but”insisted on 'a‘ stand! for defense of the Monroe Doc- trine and for aid to nations re- sistinjg Nazi-Fascist aggression, * The two battled via long dis-) tarice phoné for three days, finally | were’ brought ‘together on ‘a’com:| promise by ‘Secretary Heriry Wal- lace,’ a miember of the commttec‘ The ' Iowan's masterly handmg played a big part in his d\ntoe for the Vice-Presidericy. He won amtonudosrmmbocnsmuthm tion this “year, protested. “I think we ought to realize” he pontificated, “that there are many naturalized Americans from these two countries who have strong feelings for them and will be of- fended. They mount up to a lot of votes and I'm against throwing them away.” In the bitter clash that ensued, Wagner declared that personally he favored naming Hitler in the denunciation. “How would you name him?” shouted a member. “Far as I am concerned,” shot back Wagner, who was born in Germany, “I'd call him a — 1 EX (?) SENATOR GLASS Senator Glass of Virginia, who made headlines by taking a bride at the age of 82 and by nominat- ing Jim Farley at Chicago, may make headlines again by resign- ing from the Senate. This is the shop talk in Virgina political circles, where the story is so well advanced that Glass’ successor has already been picked —namely, Douglas Freeman, editor of The Richmon News-Leader. Freeman is one of the most bril- liant men in Virginia, and far more liberal in thought than the crotchety but much loved octogen- arian he may succeed. He is author of a four-volume work on Robert E! Lee which won the Pulitzer prize in 1934. On obstacle stands in his way. Glass, though he wants to quit the Senate, doesn’t want to give Governor Jim Price the chance to appoint his successor, Glass was last elected in 1936 and has two years %0 go. Even though Carter has nothing against Douglas Freeman, he mneéver misses an opportunity to be offensive 'to ‘the pro-New Deal Governor. Virginia opinion is changing just a bit on the subject of its veteran !Benafor. The reasoning runs like this: If “Cyarter” is young enough to get married, he is mo Ilohger an antique, and need not be treas- ured so. ‘"LEWIS' FOR F.D.R. Even though John L. Lewis has three times declared that if the President ran for a third term he would be leated,” behind' the ‘scénes the '“fix'1s in" for ‘a’ reconciliation between them. Intimates have been wdrking .on both for several weeks—ever’ since the GOP' platform opened tbe wily for a face-saver for Lewis. - ‘When he thréw his' brickbats at the hwldmt before ' the phfinnn pect of labor’s ranks divided in the|ing was Director of the Division, | campaign, were delighted. They plans to spend several days in Ju-! saw a heaven-sent chance to patch neau before going on to the Interior. up peace and they got busy. Eager-| She will be accompanied on the ly helping them were Phil Murray,|trip by Miss Bess Beach of Wash- Tom Kennedy, John Owen and ington. They sail on the steamer othér CIO leaders, who had dlsnp- | Yukon, proved of Lewis’ pot-shots. At Chicago the two groups worked out a way for Lewis to save face.| It'’s the Democratic platform plank promising a national anti-third (erm DOGS KILL DEE D‘:'ERS MONROVIA, Cal, Juy 29.—Wild unemploy- dogs roving the foothill country are ment conference of goverhment, in-| plamed for the death of many deer dustrial, leaders. “Bhis s, a pet idea’ of John L's. Hes bgen after msuch . pow: labor and agricultural py Game Warden R. E. Jeffries About fifty have been found killed in the last few months. i R b e oSS I Todai's news toaay m 'm.f FEmptre | velt to con- R‘zlc'aw‘ !Lr several SONNY, MORE THAN 11,000 ALASKANS DR THEIR PAY FROM 0L’ WiAN CANNED SALMON! TEAE BB awp b may X S ALASKA’S BIGGEST BAYMASTER, the Canned Salmon Industry gives employment to mere'than 11,000 ka workers and fishermen. During the fishing season canneries alone give jobs to more Alaskans than anylother industry. As Alaska’s blzgest locqlcuatomer. the Industry spends over fl0,000.NO;nnudbepurclnsmg ¢oal, lumber, wire BBINGHG UP FATHER 1 KIN DO MORE HERE e ) THAN AT THE OFFICE- IMALWAYS INTERRUR e LLOYD (. DOUGLAS NOVEL AT COLISEUM; GREAT HUMAN DRAMA Paramount’s new “Disputed . Pas- sage.” film version of one of -the| Akun Tafiflfoif most thoroughgoing studies of al doctor’s life ever written, opened DorOthY Lamour to an enthusiastic audience last| J’ | night at the Coliseum Theatre. hhn Howud Based on the recent best-seller| in by Lloyd C. Dou it is brought| to glorious screen fulfillment by| "m virtue of the inspired interpreta- tions of Dorothy Lamour, Akimn Tamireff, and John Howard and director, Frank Borzage. Dorothy Lamour seen as an American girl who has been reared| in China by native foster parenus.| work in behalf of the invaded Chinese has brought her to Amer-| Famous COSMOPOL.ITAN ; NOVEL ica where she meets and falls in! {love with Howard, brilliant young| = s i doctor. 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