The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 17, 1945, Page 5

R senasaaneneang gamrnrpeer "DRAGON‘SEED- IS AT CAPITOL; FINAL SHOWING “Dragon Seed,” the epic story of | China and the valiant Chinese peo- ple in their struggles against the invading Japapese marauders, is at the Capitol tonight for the final showings. Katharine Hepburn is starred and others in the cast are Walter Hus- ton, Aline MacMahon, Akim Tamir- off and Turban Bey. . A man is convicted of a murder he didn't commit because he had allouses on his hands, in “Sum- mer Storm”, stirring drama of . il- licit love, which comes to the Capi- tol tomorrow night. George Sanders and Linda Darnell . are co-starred and Anna Lee and » Edward Everett Horton play im- ' portant featured roles. \ The picture was produced by Sey- » mour Nebenzal and directed by + Douglas Sirk for United Artists fe- i lease. A e - t-‘nflflfibfl!w IST.G y Waltee Aime M Teka HUSTON - MacMAHON - TAMIROFF - BEY. STARTS TOMORROW! Nothing so beautiful was ever so deadly! e it MORGENTHAII WIRES APPRECIATION FOR ALASKA BOND SALE Secretary of the Treasury Henry | & Morgenthau, Jr., complimented | Alaska’s showing in the Seventh War | E:,Loan campaign just completed in a #'wire to the Alaska War PFinance ¥ Committee, received here this morn- ing. The Secretary stated: “I wish to recognize with deep appreciation the outstanding record made by Alaska in reaching its E, |Bond quota and all other Seventh War Loan quotas. You and your co- = workers and all of the people of your "' Terntory have fulfilled a covenant | with our fighting men and rca,frlrm- your funh in American freedom.”| D | wanr-ags bring vesults! BEEENEEEE Geonge SANDERS Linda DARNELL gueyes 258 Anton Chekov's ANNA LEE Hugo Haas 4 Edw. Everett HORTON IIIIlllllIII|IllIIIIIIIIHIIIIIlIHIIIIIIIIIIII| GOOd beer The happiest days are picnic days. Be cool and refreshed with a glass of light OLYMPIA. AIRLI ES erwing Southeasten Daily Scheduled Trips Sitka Wrangell Pefershurg Ketchikan Also Tripsv TO HAINES SKAGWAY ° HOONAH AND OTHER SOUTHEASTERN PORTS For Information and Reservations Phone 612 Just Received A Large Shipment of COFFEEMAKERS CORY GLASS Four, Eight and Twelve-Cup Sizes ALSO SPARE BOWLS Alaska Electric Light and Power Company Phone 616 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE Todays Motion Pictures Are No Sexier -JUNEAU, ALASKA Than Old Silents, Says Lillian Gish By VICTOR GUNSON Central Press Correspondent <~HOLLY W OOD-Lillian Gish took a deep breath, looked back boldly at her 40 years on the stage and screen, and promptly pro- claimed that the future can be as thrilling as the past. Right now Miss Gish, still de- mure but still forthright, is set- tling back happily into a new screen career—but, f she should become bored, there still is the Broadway stage—and the radio. “We really have three wonderful mediums now,” she said, her blue eyes sparkling. Miss Gish returned to Hollywood 30 years after she soared to fame with David Wark Griffith in the classic “Birth of a Nation.” It is just 40 years since Miss Gish made her first appearance on a stage. She was five then. It was in & real old-fashioned melodrama called “In Convict's Stripgs,” pre- sented at Rising Sun, O. Miss Gish is a native of Ohio, with Springfield her birthplace. In between that first bit and her present role in Dave Selz “Duel in the Sun,” a rip-roaring hell-firing, sex-laden Texas saga. Miss Gish has rolled a dozen ca- reers into one. Screen Debut in 1913 Lillian danced in a Sarah Bern- 1ardt play, she appeared in a Davi Belasco play, and she made her first movie appearanace in a Mary Pickford picture, “Unseen Enemy,” in 1913. After “The Birth of a Nation” set records never to be broken, Miss Gish starred in such smash- FILM STARS—New Star Jennifer Jones chats with Lillian Gisi, ri ing screen successes as “Intoler-|out batting one of those big Gish|in Vermont, and we found that al- ance,” “Way Down East,” “Broken | of the | Blossoms,” “Orphans Storm,” “The White Sister,” “The Scarlet Letter.” When Miss Gish returned to the New York stage in 1930, her pic- tures had rolled millions of dollars Into Hollywood coffers, where any- thing with less than five ciphers is chicken feed. In 15 years on the stage Miss Gish ran the range from “Camille” and Ophelia in “Hamlet” to “Life With Father.” It was a year and a half in the latter which sent Miss Gish scur- rying back to Hollywood. “The first 12 months can be sur- vived,” Miss Gish explains, “but when it goes beyond that I think the pressure of doing the same thiug over and over again becomes too great.” She found that one thing hasn’t changed in pictures—the sex motif Did they make them way, way back then? and “Oh, my yes,” she replied, with- orbs. “We made them all the lmm whenever we needed money."” Just as sultry, she added, as the plot in which she is momentarily participating. “It was the same sort of wlr»ry but with a slight difference,” she explained. “It was a sex story of the last century, you might say. We cloaked it. The girl always had a baby without a wedding ring and was ostracized. It was a sex story just the same. Now they don't bother with that paraphernalia. They just tell the story. “We made ‘The Battle of the Sexes,’ in 1917, in five days and nights. I guess it was the first. They've been making a ‘Battle of the Sexes' ever since.” Miss Gish looked thoughtful a moment. “I remember when we made ‘Way Down BEast',” she recalled. “It was so old-fashioned that we all told D. W. Griffith that he was crazy to try it. Then we went on location to White River Junction, GREAT ROLES—Lillian Gish in “Scarlet Letter,” left; “Birth of a Nation.” though the natives didn't know anything at all about the movies they knew every scene and char- acter in ‘Way Down East.' After that we knew his audiences.” Miss Gish remembered some of the financial facts. Griffith ;mid $165,000 for it. It made about $14,~ | 000,000 on the domestic market and something more abroad. “Oh, yes," said Miss Gish, “we knew about money then in the movies, too. People today in Holly- | wood quote astronomical figures and think they are something new. Griffith’s ‘Birth of a Nation’ cost $91,000 and brought in a profit of $18,000,000. It made more than any | other picture ever made.” Biggest Money Maker The biggest money-maker cf the present day, “Gone With the Wind,” is estimated to have taken in over $15,000,000. It cost some- thing more than $4,000,000 to make. Miss Gish does not think stars can be created synthetically, that they cither have what it takes to hold the public or they just haven't. “D. W. Griffith used to say that it took .10 years to make a star. Money and influence could make a star sooner, but she always faded quickly. His idea was that if we wanted to be the star, we took the responsibility of the position. Con- uently, I always had to work | e as hard as anyone else in the | picture I appeared in. “It's easy now—and so nice—to | be a star. You don't do anything but act. We had to pick out our own stories, help cut them, help with the sub-titles, write the ads and then go to the censor boards to help sell them.” The censors, it seems, sometimes quite a problem. were “Why,” Miss Gish said, “we sim- | ply went up to the projection room to run the pictures with the censors, and when the questionable | scenes came on, we tried to attract their attention to something else. We even had the babies born on | the screen in those days, know.” She doesn’t think that people you will ever really grow beyond sex | pictures. “How can you,” Miss Gish asked, | “be superior to sex?” concluded that Griffith | {Chaplin Ordered fo oo i pesomnetservins | quizzed on the amount of his wealth | Chaplin was the father of Miss | ments need not be made. |"THE UNINVITED' ON LAST TIMES AT 20TH CENTURY Paramount’s 'l'hc Uninvited” at the 20th Century playing its last chowings tonight unfolds some of the weirdest supernatural effects ever seen on the scheen. The pic- 'ture provides a field day for de- | votees of this type of film fare. If ghosts were looking for rooms UNPRECEDENTED | DECISION MADE, | MARRIAGE CASE, By RICHARD KASISCHKE (Associated Press Correspondent) LONDON, July 17—In an unpre- cedented decision laden with social implications, the British Court of Appeals today annulled a 13-year marriage as ‘“‘unconsummated” on grounds that the husband insisted upon using contraceptives. in Hollywood, they'd feel very much The decision was delivered by a|at home in Windward House, the three-man court—the highest in the cottage perched on the edge of a| land under the House of Lords. It/ cliff in “The Uninvited.” No- veversed a lower court verdict and body else felt at home there during annulled ' the marriage of Brenda|the filming and that includes Ray Lee Cowen, 35, of Surrey, and Law- Milland, Ruth Hussey and Donald rence Gordon Cowen, 45. Both are Crisp, stars of the picture; Gail Rus- members of the Church of England.|sell, heralded as the next female Mrs. Cowen's petition stated that| heart throb of the country after this during the first five years of their initial feature role and Cornelia Otis | marriage, when they lived in Iran, | Skinner, the fine actress who is ap- \ they had used contraceptives by mu- |pearing before the sound cameras tual agreement, but that in 1937|for the first time, she begged her husband to abandon precautions and “live a normal mar-| ried life” with her so that she might have a child. “He ignored her pleas, she stated. ! They separated in 1944. Today's decision, the Court said, was based on the “generally recog- nized truth that one of the chief ends of marriage is the procreation | of children.” (20 ENTURY LAST NIGHT! IT'S A REAL HIT! FIRST LOVE “Shadowed ‘Alwoys near them 3 #THE UNINVITED' ~malignant spirit of | fascl- nating — terrifying ~destroying! Umfi'imfl Screen’s strangest love story since “Rebeccal” ‘The reason was that the atmo- sphere created for this story of | ghosts and spirits was eerie, weird, mysterious. It is easy to under-| stand, after seeing “The Uninvited”, | |why even hard-bitten skept ru influenced by the mood of the film.| {The story, widely-read in the best-| selling book of the same name by Dorothy Macardle, relates the terri- | fying experiences of a beautiful The Court sald that it was satis-|young girl whose dead mother's fied that Mrs. Cowen had consented |snivit returns t o influence her in @ to the practice of which she ulu—:p?wnomenfll way. it mately complained “for reasons! which sufficiently explained her con- sent and for a limited time only.” Her reason for consenting to ‘lm-VSEva(EME" (AN [ perfect intercourse” from 1932 to| 1937, Mrs. Cowen stated, was that| GE'I' DIS(HARGES | during those years they lived inj Arrangements previously in e[rm: Ruth HUSSEY llmmltl CRISP cornalla (ms Skinner and introducing lovely Gail Russell Directed by Lawis Allen * Screen Play by Dedie . Smith and Frank Partos * A Paramevat Pictere g —————— i S o 38 Iran wherc “we agreed that the! danger of child bearing for a Europ- | ean woman was very great.” S P A RN IN TECHNICOLOR EXPEDITION TO TOP OF MT. McKINLEY in “yP IN THE CLOUDS” COLOR CARTOON—NEWS ¢ |in Alaska may be discharged within; the Territory if the dischargees so desire, have now been extended to members of the Alaska Division, Air Transport Command, Gov. Ernest| Gruening revealed today. \ Pay for Support of " Daughter Carol Ann' LOS ANGELES, July 17.—Charlie Chaplin, sporting a new mustache, appeared in court yesterday and after a stormy verbal duel with Joan Berry’s lawyer was ordered to re- sume payments of $75 a week for support of her child. The 55-year-old film comic was The discharges within Alaska nrn‘ cleared through the Governor's 0(-\ fice, here. ’ Having ascertained that the sys-| tem s mtactorly workins win | 2 FEATURES 2 charges, Gov, Gruening had propos- “CHARLIE CHAN led its extension to ATC personnel! AND THE in a wire to Brig. Gen. Dale V‘ . and after parrying with Attorney | Gaffney, ATC Alaska Division com-| CHINESE CAT” Joseph Scott admitted that it ap- mander at Edmonton, Canada. Gen- | —PLUS— proximates $3,000,000. Gaffney wired his agreement to the; i Last April 12 a jury declared that | procedure in a message received here “TEXAS TROUBLE today. SHOOTERS” Berry's daughter, Carol Ann, 21 PREREAE: 5th S8 T S 2 months, and the court ordered the | BUY WAR BONDS comedian to pay $75 weekly for the e child’s support. Rectanihipomiio Qhaplin’s counsel argued that pending an appeal the support pay- Chaplin | stopped the payments April 19 to Miss Berry, his former drama pro- | tege. | we do a little better grade of f PAINTING and PAPERING Many people have asked if we did Residence work and I wish to say we do and arc taking care of these jobs as fast as we can possibly get to them. JAMES S. McCLELLAN Phone Douglas 374 P. 0. Box 1216 ——eeo SEATTLE MEN HERE R. O. Plerce and Henrik Valle,| jof Seattle, are guests at the Bar- | anof Hotel. Yesterday's Favorite Today's Leader Tomorrow's Pioneer 0il Burner Authorized Sales and Service JUNEAU PLUMBING and HEATING CO. THIRD AND FRANKLIN STREETS Phone 787 JUNEAU WELDING & MACHINE SHOP Are Announcing Exclusive Dealership for GRAY MARINE ENGINES ATTENTION Now is the time fo place your engine FISHERMEN orders for the coming season. ALASKA DISTRIBUTORS Edco YELLOW Shielded Plu:;l;er Bronze Electric Welding R MARINE SUPPLIES GBAY mmn ENGINES — sales and service