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The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-14
New Emmy Wehlen Play Shows How a Factory.
 Gjrl Became Screen Star

Girl Became Screen Star.
 An unusually wide range of scenes furnishes variety in 'Sowers and Reapers," the Metro-Rolfe feature phctodrama starring Emmy Wehlen written and directed by George D Baker, to be seen at the Coliseum theatre tonight The story traces the life-history of Annie Leigh (Miss Wehlen) from a poor factory girl to a great motion picture star.
 All the activities of great fac tory are shown, including the acci- dent which results in it's being de molished and later is seen every de tail in connection with the filming of feature screen productions
 Many of the scenes were taken i'll Jacksonville, Fla, where George Stuart Christie, the leading man. had Earle Courtney in the story he was spirited aboard the yacht of his mil lionaire father Then he jumped overheard. The steering gear of the boat sent to rescue him was broken. and Mir. Christie foundered about fully dressed in the, muddy waters of St Johns River for some time before help arriaed. Although as Earle Courtney he was much dis gusted at being taken once more aboard the yacht, as George Stuart Christie he was immensely relieved
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-14

There are 2,0SO stars in Pathe service flag including those who have or are seeing service with the foreign armies Of the Allies Of this number 200 have died on the field of battle, 500 have been deco rated for bravery. and many others nave been wounded and have re- turned to their positions. Over eighty of the employees in the United States are now in the service of the United States.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-14
WYNN IN SERVICE

Burdette Vim, son of Mrs Anna Vim, of Juneau and brother of Grover C. Vim. is now an active service on one of the Great Lakes steamers. Vim has been attending the Naval Radio School at Chicago and recently graduated. He was or dered to see actual service for one month on a Great Lakes steamer, af- ter which he has orders to report to Pelham Bay, New York. Alter reaching the latter place he will be subject to call for Naval service at any time.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-14
BOYS GET "SHOT IN ARM"
 AND UNIFORMS ISSUED

Word has been received from the draft boys who are at Fort Seward that they received their first vac cination on Saturday and that yes terday their uniforms were issued tC them. As enc of the boys put it in his telegram to friends. We were shot in the arm Saturday and yes terday got our unles."
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-14

George Randolph Chester and Lil- Han Chester, the passing events keep one in breathlsss suspense as to just what is around the corner.
 This production will be seen to- night at the Palace for the first time.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-14

w. L. Rowe was bound over on the charge of assault and battery by the Commissioner at Ketchikan un der $500 bonds to keep the peace His alleged victim was Houte of Bell Island Hot Springs Walter C. Hall, a mining man of Fairbanks died recently in Southern California
 The Alaska Engineering Commls- sion's saWmill at Fairbanks will op. crate this summer.
 V. L. Cheney. formerly with the Heckman Company, has taken over the business of Otto Anderson of Newtown at Ketchikan.
 Petersburg purchased Libetry bonds to the value of $33,600, and Skagway invested $32,4OO in the war securities.
 The clam canning plant at Tonka which was started February E, clos ed for the season early this month It put up 2100 cases of clans. The clam spawning season is now on. and the clans unfitted for canning
 The Alaska Pacific Herring Com pany's tenders Ocean Queen and Penguin have arrived at Big Port Walter with cargoes and crews for the coming seasons work at that place, where herring will be canned and salted and salmon canned and mild cured.
 It will cost from $1,00O to $l,20o to repair the damage caused by fire to the Federal building at Peters burg, according to the estimate of Deputy Marshal Noah Howell.
 Eric Ness has been elected Mayor of Petersburg by his fellow Council men.
 Brooks in the Tolovana district subscribed $20,000 in Liberty Bonds
 Fairbanks women had raised $2 900 with which to purchase yarn for Red Cross knitters when the last mail left that place.
 The most talked of placer gold strikes of the last Winter in the Interior is on Woodchopper Greek It is said that in addition to the big outfit being installed by Cleveland and Nowell there will be several smaller outfits worked there this summer.
 The Alaska Engineering Comnis sion has commenced the work of es tablishing the construction camp al Standard Creek, near the Ohio road house. which will act as a feeder for the construction work to be done on the Fairbanks-Nenana end of the Government railroad during the com ing season.
 Ed. Stier, who has been connect ed with the Alaskan Engineering Commission in the Store Department for the past year. has resigned his position and will in all robabilits leave for the Outside on one of the first boats. MT. Stier is in poor health and is desivions of seeking medical advice from specialists on the Outside. Frank Cleary. an old timer of the Interior. has taken his place.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-14
Movie Hot Shot

Ethel Clayton has signed with Paramount. Miss Clayton first made her name famous in her stage appearance in "The Lion and the Mouse.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-14
WALTER T. WEST INQUIRED
 FOR BY HIS BROTHER

E. B. West of Neil Wisconsin, has written to Postmaster F. M. Bradford asking for information about his brother. Walter r West, who was last heard from in Juneau twelve years ago. His mother is in poor health and is also inquiring for him. Anyone having information about him please communicate with MT. Brad ford.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-14

TWO IN ONE - The EMPIRES way for everybody. The EMPIRES ads" keeps the housewife informed of all sales and the news colrmns Are right up to the minute on ths 6Ay'e AsUA
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-14
Attractions Tonight

COLISEUM - Emmy Wehlen in "Sowers and Reapers," with Week ly and Comedy.
 PALACE-Nell Shipman and Alfred Whitman in The Wild Strain, y with Travelogue and Comedy.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-14
BASEBALL
YESTERDAYS SCORES

American League At Washington - Washington with Cleveland; rain. At Philadelphia Philadelphia G Chicago 1. At New York-New York 3, Detroit 2. At Boston-Boston :, St. Louis ,.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-14

Twenty choice post pards of Pa- triotic Draft Demonstration at Win ter 6 Pond Store. #**
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-14

Private boxes and banquet rooms for parties. Alaska Grill. "*'
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-14

Howard Hickman, prominent ac- tor both on the stage and before the camera will direct the next pro 1uction in which his wife, Bessie Barriscale will star
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-14

GOLD SHIELD COFFEE always good" because it is the best coffee.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-14

Louise Huff is about to leave Par amount, according to report Her contract has about expired and sev- eral companies are dickering to get her name on a contract.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-14

Frank Mayo has just signed g long term contract with World Productions.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-14

For little chat anc bite to cal there's no place like THE GASTl- NEAU ANY TIME, ALL THE TIME, ANY TIME.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-14

Ole Sandvik of Ketchikan adver tised his property for sale as he would be called away in the selec. tive draft
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-14
ALASKA NOTES

The St Johns Native Mission School at Ketchikan has been closed An exhibition will be given some time in July.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-14
National League

National League At Pittsburgh Pittsburgh with New York; rain. At ncinnati-Cincinnati 2, Brook lyn :. At Chicago Chicago 10, Boston 2. At St. Louis-St. Louis 3, Philadel- phia 3. Ten innings; rain.
 Coast International League At Tacoma 12, Aberdeen 5.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-14

Robert Goldstein, who produced nd exhibited "The Spirit of '76' has been gound guilty of espion- age on two counts of the indictment
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-14

Shirley Mason is the newest star Q fall under the banner of Para mount and Aircraft. She has just signed a contract and will start work in the West.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-07
The Observation-Disclosures
of Miles MCConal:ghy'

1T is with a sense of relief that we lay
Il down The Audacious Adventures of
Miles McConaughy, for so long as that
supermariner is afoat we feel sure that
the menace of the submarine will be kept
well in hand.
Capt. Miles is an outstanding character
even among the many notable characters
that have been featured in nautical yarns.
His hatred for the English is only to be
matched by his detestation of the Irish
and his devotion to the British Empire.
But when his ship the William and Mary
is sunk by a U-boat this anti-English,
anti-Irish Irishman who halls from Bel
fast is willing to bury contention with his
neighbors in order to get back at the Hun.
1t is with no little satisfaction that Capt.
MeConaughy salvages Greek ship and
Greek destroyer, which he tows into port
under an ensign showing the red hand of
Ulster
Capt. Miles gets the pirate craft which
sank the William and Mary, but the Brit
ish navy takes all the credit to itself.
However, they think enough of the Cap
tain's share in the exploit to give him a
chance at a submarine Armed only with
pistols, with his prayer loving, hymn sing
ing crew of Methodists and Presbyterians
the redoubtable Captain boards the under
sea boat, overawes the deck crew and
threatening to swamp the hull with fire
hose compels surrender.
1t goes hard with the conscience Of Capt.
Miles when he is placed in charge of
transport to carry battalion of the West
Galway Fusiiers to Gallipoli. Capt.
Miles makes it as uncomfortable as he can
for the Papist Irish, and by maneuvring
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-07
"a Girl Alone"

THE plot of A Girl Alone is old to the
i point of decrepitude. The young
and beautiful Elliee Mayne comes from
Australia to London in pursuit Of nom
existent fortune and is left fat. But i
is doubtful if this same story has ever
before been eouehed in so much villainy.
Mr.. Evans, in all probability a most re-
spectacle and law-abiding citizen himself,
simply wallows in crime from the moment
Ellice leaves her ship-before she does in
fact, for she has already formed an at
tachment for a youth who is under suspi-
cion by the poEce-right along through
her racking months in the heartless city.
The hand of the law is her most intimate
companion. Where she goes crime and
detection are sure to follow, but they
never change her from the pure, sweet
girl who left her fathers Australian
death bed.
One strange flaw is that after trying
vainly for every imaginable form of work,
from companion to BARNARD, the saving
thought never occurs to her that house
maids and nurses are almost an unknown
quantity and their lives pleasant song.
This same inexplicable flaw exists in life,
however Cloak models are constantly
killing themselves rather than abide the
thought of domestic service.
Unfortunately the excess of excitement
through three-fourths of the book has so
stimulated our appetites that when Mr..
Evans decides to end everything happily
and goes about it with the same zeal which
he gave to crime, we are as unprepared for
it as we would be for a newspaper without
any war news. With the exception of the
part devoted to the general reforming and
cleaning up of the situation, an ordinary
detective story is nothing to this for
thrills.
A GIRL ALONE. By HOWELL Evans. G.
P. Putnam Sons. $1.50.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-07
NewNovels You Mustn't Be Happy Without

mantle attachments with brother and
sister of a well-connected German fam
lily. Count Won Papphelm acquires Ell
dence against Lucy Carew of having sur
reptitiously obtained photographs of the
krupp works Then The Day dawns
and the field gray wolves sweep over
Belgium.
Both Lucy Carew and Allan Thorpe
enlist in the Red Cross, Lucy under the
trieolor of France and Allan under the
black eagle of Germany. Thorpe is hor-
rifed at German brutality. He is wit
ness to the deliberate murder of wounded
who have fallen as prisoners into Ger
man hands. Lucy and Allan met again
on the battlefield.
Lucy is captured by the Germans Ven
Pappheim, holding his evidence, demands
her hand. He decides to send her back
to spy over the lines for Germany. while
Thorpe Is held hostage and subject 10
death in case Lucy fails to return. And
that's only the beginning of the thrills
for the reader.
The fortunes of Thorpe and Lucy
change rapidly as the war goes On. The
battle scenes are described with vivid
realism. The book is war itself. From
every page seep the wonders and terrors
of modern warfare. The ending will ap-
pease the most anxious readers.
THE BLOND BEAST BY ROBERT AMEs
BENNETT. Reilly & Britton. $50.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-07

the ship 50 that it will roll and pitch he
has every one on board from the Colonel
to the drummer boy unhappy. But Father
Cashin catches him in the act, and there
is a broth of an argument, which is not
halted until captain and priest are found
fighting shoulder to shoulder at the Oar
danelles.
One hates to prefer charges of ungal-
liant conduct against so sturdy mariner.
But whether Miss Tabitha McNish is
won or lost the captains reputation is tar
nished by his part in certain transaction.
The story is told largely in vernaeular,
and Mr.. Smith handles Welsh, Scotch and
Irish varieties without reserve and with
keen humor.
THE AUDACIOUS ADVENTURES OF
MILES MCCONAUGHY. BY ARTHUR d.
HowDEN SMITH. George H. Doran Com
pany. $l.35.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-07
"Gossamer to Steel"

WHEN Jan Donnan, handling a
w piece Of copper in the high
school laboratory, chanted "in voice in
tense enough to bear the finest things, her
eyes quite innocent Of sentimentality, 1T
is the most maidenly of metals, coloring
with every contact" you know that Jan
is no ordinary girl. She is not Also
you have a premonition that the book
which centres about her, Gossamer to
Steel, is to prove equally extraordinary.
And it does.
William James found it so fascinating
in manuscript that he sat up late into the
night to finish reading it. He consid-
cred it remarkable and a beautiful
book, and said so.
Except in the bare facts of the story it
is a very original piece of work. The
plot is melodramatic. There is beauti-
full girl, seduction, murder, even a court
room scene. But the plot is secondary
matter, and, melodramatic as it is, it is
shorn of every single shred of the COM
monplace and conventional. About every
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-07

Joyce Kilmer, who left for France
private in the 165th United States In
fantry 1.-THE old Fighting Si1ty-ninth')
writes a letter just received by a friend
in New York:
"To tell the truth / am not at all in
terested in writing nowadays, except in
so far as writing is the expression Of
something beautiful. And 1 see daily and
nightly the expression of beauty in ac-
ton instead of word, and 1 find it more
satisfactory. I am a sergeant in the Regi-
mental Intelligence Section-the most
fascinating work possible-more thrills in
IL than in any other branch except pos
sibly aviation. And it's more varied than
aviation. Wonderful life! But 1 don't
know what I'll be able to do In civilian
life-unless / become q fireman.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-07
"The Blond Beast"

NIHEN Nietzsche, the Pole, filehed
w from Gobineau, the Frenchman,
the theory of the superman-th "blond
beast"-the German people fell for it as
one man. In his new novel, The Blond
Beast, Robert Ames Bennett has sue
ceeded admirably in depicting Nietzsehe's
hero in the person of junker officer,
the Herr Captain Count Wolf Won
Pappheim.
In the days just before the war Allan
Thorpe, a young American student, and
Lucy Carew, an American heiress, find
themselves in Berlin and involved in TO
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-07

thing in the book there clIngS a sort of
psychic twilight, sense Of unreahty that
would make any plot, however hackneyed,
seem strange and new.
Jan, the heroine, is nothing if not IN
like everybody else in the world. That is
due, no doubt, to the fact that she is
hardly of this world.
Speaking of copper again page or
two later on, she says with like precocity,
"Oh, | conceive it a river half material,
half spiritual, flowing from the earth's
penetraia to the great cities, bringing
natures treasure to civilizations use. Oh,
l love the point where many men and
hardest nature meet!' She is II. She
has a vocabulary that Meredith might
admire.
1t is her unlikeness to other girls that
generates the story. She is a gentle,
lovely thing, all keen intelligence and
subtle intuition. She is like the copper
of which she speaks, half material, half
spiritual, colOring with every contact with
the world of to-day. BUT though she may
be natures treasure she Is not ready for
civilizations use. Therefore, she is
beaten.
If, when she speaks in learned lam
guage of earth's penetra ALA, you throw
down the book and cry S"I'm through"
and take up an adventure story with
kick in it, you make mistake. This
book is great adventure, a mental sight
seeing trip, a sort of futuristic presenta-
ton of the psychic life of remarkable
girl.
But you must treat it as a mental ad-
venture You must be content to let your
mind travel for the most part blindfolded,
seldom knowing where you are going, nor
where you have been, nor what it is all
about For either the author, Janet Payne
Rowles, is not sufficiently trained as
writer TO be always articulate, or else she
is too extreme in her scorn for the OBJ
vious; and poor banded about Jan seems
TO jump from mood to mood without mo-
tive.
But you will be rewarded, especially
in the early chapters, by the thought that
you have discovered another Bernard
Shaw. When John barley enters, a
Socialistic superman, you will feel quite
sure of it. He seems to be reincarnation
of the Unsocial Socialist. And there
are other similarities to the early
novels of Shaw. There are, for instance,
lines of Shavian pithiness and brilliance
and a total disregard of conventional
viewpoints. Now and then it sounds, too,
like a novel by Alfred Kreymborg in
mood more serious than that of Lima
Beans.
iOSSAMER TO STEEL. By JANET PAYNE
BowLEs. Dunstan & Co. sl.25.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-07
"Over the Hills
and Far Away"

THE chaste style and unaffected die
Il ton which marks Over the Hills
and Far Awdy would carry a far less
interesting story than the one Guy Elem
ing tells. For although Mr. Fleming's
story is loosely articulated and somewhat
incoherent as a whole, it is told with such
power and is so replete with dialectic and
observational humor as to make the
book notable even among the books of
decade.
The story is written around the life of
Duncan Terrier, brought up in the Castle
but in the housekeeper's apartments, and
swinging between the earth of servitude
and the heaven Of intimate relationship
with the high Duncan becomes
kind of o-between-has the confidence
of every one both above and below stairs.
1t is of lang syne in Scotland that
Orer the Hills and Far Audy tells, when
smugglers piled their trade under the
winking eyes of the authorities, and the
idea of setting up a king from lover
the water was still Pickering before 60
ing out forever. Duncan, "vera discreet
and pawky chiel," has the confidence even
of the smugglers, and almost to his own
undOing is witness of, and in a sense ac-
complete to, murderous affray. But his
connection with the Castle places Duncan
above suspicion. With perfect safety the
"pawky chief is able TO further an affair
between the Earl Of Glencairn's daughter
and the Laird, Iron Grey, suspected and
sought as an intriguer against the majesty
of England. Later Duncan is witness to
and plays no small part in duel between
Iron Grey and fraudulent French count
Throughout the book there are charm
ing interudes of a romantic nature. AL
though but II, Duncan was big for
his age and was Economically inclined
toward Jessie Kerr. But Jessie was shy,
and when upbraided and asked why had
she been keeping away?" she said or
whispered Il was feared"
"'Feared,' the wee cushie doc And
that was just the word that made me put
my arms around her and made me kiss her
bonnie mou' until the breath had gone out
of me, and there wasn't a word about
being feared after that"
Duncan's life, indeed, is life made up
of interludes, most of them of more
virile nature than the soft romance be-
tween "twa weans.' Rebels and redcoats,
highwaymen, and acts of ehivalry in res
cuing ladies in distress fill Duncan's " -
life so amazingly as to divert the reauer
from the story itself and from the char
acters, who become illusory from not
being forced home. Only the unusual
narrative powers Of the author and the
beautiful simplicity of language in which
this story is told hold the reader while
tactical digressions obscure the authors
strategical plan.
One of the most amazing interludes in
the book is the introduction of John Paul
Jones. Duncan is witness to the fight
between the Bonhomme Richard and the
Scraps, and although this Interpolation
has nothing to do with the story it brings
us nearer to the end of the tale. 1t is
happy and satisfying ending.
OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY.
BY Guy FLEMING. LOngmans, Green
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-07
"Worrying Won't Win"

VERYBODY knows Abe Potash and
L. Morris Perlmutter and their de-
lightful manner Of talking over things
in general. If there are by chance
a stray few who have not made their ae-
quaintance there is new opportunity Of
doing so in Worrying Won't Win, a
series Of argumentative discussions in
which they tangle and toss the politics
and economies of the world until the
gloomiest soul is lifted. No book is
surer of a wide welcome than one from
Montague Glass, who is irresistible in
playing upon the very human trait Of
arguing and who sees the funniest side of
everything and loses none of the humor in
telling it.
There is nothing that Abe and Morris
can't argue about from Hooverizing to
Grand Opera, which Abe has attended for
business reasons and so feels qualified to
describe to Morris.
do you mean to say there's death
bed scene in every one of them operasT
Morris inquired.
practically" Abe replied. There amt
many grand operas where both the tenor
and the soprano sticks it out alive till the
end of the last act, Mauruss, which I bet
yer that so per cent of the times 1 seen
Caruso he either passed along about quar-
ter past eleven after an awful hard spell
of singing or give you the impression that
he wasn't going to survive the soprano
more than a couple Of days at the out
side"
"And yet some people couldn't under
stand why everybody takes in the Winter
Garden or Ziegfeld's FOllies," Morris
commented.
1t is a matter of personal opinion
which of the two is the more delightful
character. There are those who incline
toward Abe, who is softer hearted and
gentler than Morris, but our personal
preference is for the stony hearted Nor
ris, whom pity never moves. The dis
cussions are inspired in the main by the
war and its issues and from one on the
saving of electricity we quote brief bit:
"And yet, Mawruss, while l amt got
such a soft heart that / could even have
sympathy for an electric lighting COM
pany, understand me, still 1 am sorry to
see them sky signs CO." Abe said.
"Listenp' Morris interrupted. IF I
would got it such a back-number idees
like you, Abe, 1 would put myself into a
home for chronic Freemasons or some
thing, which l always was in favor Of ad-
vertising, except that l believe there is
advertising and advertising, Abe, and
when an advertisement only makes you
think of what it costs, instead Of what it
advertises, like sky signs, understand, to
me it amt % advertisement at VI It's
just warning"
WORRYING WON T WIN. BY MONTAGUE