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Seward daily gateway., 1928-03-17
LEGAL. NOTICE
NOTICE OF REGISTRATION

NOTICE OF REGISTRATION
 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That at the hour of nine o'clock a. m. on the 24th day of February 1928, the reg istration books of the City of Seward will be open at the office of theMunI- cipal Clerk for the purpose of regis trating all qualified electors, 21 years of age or over, who are citizens of the United States and who have resided continuously one year next preceding the date of the election in the Terri tory of Alaska and six months next preceding the date of election within the corporated limits of the City of Seward. Ali electors must, before vot- ing, register hteir names and qualifi- cations with the registration officer. Registration books will be open every Udyg CNSCPl 00HdayS 0HA ioha6ySs SS ginning February 24th, 1928 during the following hours:
 Until Friday next preceding the first Tuesday in April; 9 a. nn. to 12 noon, p. m. to 5 p. m.
 On Friday and Saturday next pre- ceding the first Tuesday In April; a. m. to 12 noon, p. m. to p. rn., p. m. to 10 p. m.
 The said registration books will be closed for such election at 10 o'clock Q. m. Saturday March 31, 1928. That said election will be held on the first Tuesday In April 1928 for the purpose of eleeting a Mayor, three members of the Common Council and member of the Seward School Board.
 Dated at Seward, Alaska this 2oth day of February 1928.
 J. p. HANNoN,
 Municipal Clerk. Publish February 24, March 3-to- 17-24.
Seward daily gateway., 1928-03-17
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

FOUND-Portion of skid-chain. Owner may have same at Gateway office.
Seward daily gateway., 1928-03-17
SUCCESSFUL SEASON

Guy Groat, Naknek, Alaska, is re- ported as having very successful year getting large amount of vari- ous kinds of fur, with many new cus- tomees coming from faraway points to trade at his post which he is operating at Livelock.
Seward daily gateway., 1928-03-17
NO TRAIN TONIGHT

No passenger train from the h. terior will arrive in Seward this evening, nor is it thought, at this time, one will arrive tomorrow ow- ing to the tremendous fall of snow all along the railroad belt.
Seward daily gateway., 1928-03-17

When you want a good steak or roast, give Carstens a call.
Seward daily gateway., 1928-03-17

A Fordsom tractor and a gang of shovelers greeted early risers today. By 10 a. n. the streets and walks had been made possible for traffic thru the heavy snow which came down over night.
Seward daily gateway., 1928-03-17
DON'T MISS rHis!

Take in the big St. Patrick's Day ball tonight in Odd Fellows hall. It's bound to be good. Under the auspices of the Seward Athletic Club. The best music and fine dance floor.
Seward daily gateway., 1928-03-17
U. s. COMMISSIONER BUSY

U. s. Commissioner Wm. Began has been somewhat busy this winter with various kinds of business that comes under the jurisdiction of a commissioner, but reports all is fine and dandy. Mrs. Began was in bed week with a very bad cold, but Is up and about now. So sayeth the re- port from Illiamna. @
Seward daily gateway., 1928-03-17

Harold Foss, fur trader and trader, sent his furs out on the S. S. Discov- erer. He expects to go in after bea- yer this season also.
Seward daily gateway., 1928-03-17

Samuel Foss, post master at Illiam- na and big game guide for that sec- tion, reports over five feet of snow on the level at Illiamna this winter.
Seward daily gateway., 1928-03-17

Sgt. Probasco has moved into the residence recently vacated by Mir. ard Mrs. Geyer.
Evening star., 1928-12-23
Leading Men E Feet Tall.

another of the array of giants Para
mount has on its pay roll. The top hair
of his head waverS between the six-foot
one and Six-two mark. Not so many
people suspect that William Powell is a
six-footer but the measuring rod In
Casting Director Fred Datig's Office
proves that he is, with Just fraction
Of an inch to spare. A two-fisted bad
man is expected to carry considerable
bulk, and Fred Kohler does, strung
along six full feet of sturdy frame.
Among the rising young leading men
a six-footer Is nothing to shout about.
Four of them on the Paramount con-
tract list measure a good two inches
above that mark. They are Gary Cooper
and Lane Chandler, who hail from the
bracing airs of Montana, and John
Loder and Robert Castle, recent arrivals
from England and Vienna. Give Brook,
Jack Luden, Phillip r. Holmes, the
erStWhile Princeton University student:
Paul Lukas and William Austin, the
comedian, are all six-footers. few of
them coming a fraction above that
height.
Of the four other players, who with
Menjou comprise the short minority on
the Paramount contract list, Neil Ham
ilton and Richard Arlen just miss the
magic Six-foot mark. Both of them are
feet II inches tall
Chester Conklin is the shorty of the
lot with his 5 feet inches of con-
centrated laughs, and Jack Oakie. a re-
cent comedy find" is another stunted
youth feet 10 inches tall.
In this asSemblage of young giants
Frenchman might be expected to be lost
in the lower levels. Not so with Maurice
Chevalier. latest arrival at the Para
mount studios. He is exactly six feet
tall.
Evening star., 1928-12-23
Children at Christmas.

criticism he wrote at this time brought
him in contact with David Belasco. He
was prevailed upon to go into theatre
Gals and did so. For Is years he
worked with Belasco. and these, he says,
were the most profitable years in his
experience. Belasco is his ideal.
He also has many plays to his own
credit. One which made a big impress
sion In its time was called Red
Feather" and was produced by Zieg-
field. Another was 1.-THE Rose of the
Alhambra."
Mr.. Cook believes that actors and
actresses, like others possessing the Gre
ative gift, are children at heart--that
the less they are managed" the more
manageable" they are.
II wouldn't give anything for an
actress without temperament. If they
aren't temperamental, they rarely can
portray their emotions. The players IN
my company are my children. I watch
them closely for talent, and always
trust them with big role If think
they show ability. The entire cast with
me now is like one big family"
Mr.. Cook believes that Washington
is challenge to any producer; that the
public here is discerning and yet appre-
ciative of talent. BY that belief he is
prepared to stand or fall. He looks
like standing
Evening star., 1928-12-23

"NIoTH1NG is so precious as the gift
of being able to see life as little
child. The great geniuseS of all time
have possessed this priceless alchemy to
a high degree.
"So-called practical human beings
men and women of important affairs
deceive themselves into thinking that
this quality is q handicap in their
worldly advancement, and 1t is only
once in while that they permit them
selves the luxury of enjoying the care
free, charming joys associated with
childhood.
Christmas is such a time" is the
opinion of Charles Emerson Cook, pro-
ducer of the musical comedies at the
Belasco and responsible for bringing to
Washington 1.-THE Gingerbread Man."
truly an ideal Christmas singing and
dancing fantasy.
Mr.. Cook, by the way, has the repu-
tation of being one of the few Broad
way notables who has his finger on the
public pulse to learn what 1t wants in
the way of amusement. He has angled
with the public often and made many
catches. About eight months ago he
saw the handwriting on the wall con-
corning the public's rebellion against
the high prices charged for big musical
hits-prices prohibitive to all but the
wealthy-and he conceived the idea Of
musical comedy stock company.
Organizing q troupe Of Broadway and
London talent, with beauty chorus re-
cruited from the front ranks of the
New York hits, he inaugurated Sum-
mer season at His Majesty's Theater in
Montreal For Is weeks he presented
the biggest hits at popular prices, and
the theater was not big enough to hold
the audiences. Prior Fall bookings at
His Majestys prompted MFR. Cook to
take his now famous company to To-
ronto. After a 10-weeks' stay there he
learned that the Belasco Theater was
available, and wave Of homesickness
for American soil influenced his deci-
sion to bring his company to the Capt.
tai. He is winning over Washington
audiences, who are known for their dis
elimination.
Mr.. Cook was graduated from Har-
ward some 80 years ago. While there
he made quite name for himself in
amateur theatricals. Then he was as
sociated with the Boston Herald as dra-
matte critic. A constructive piece of
Evening star., 1928-12-23
|DAYs of the short motion pi,
leading man are gone.

IeaQlng man are gone.
The film queens and the public, 1t is
suggested, want to look up to their
heroes, and Hollywood is fast becoming
q city Of giants.
Rudolph Valentino, the great screen
lover Of few years ago. came well
under the six-foot mark. Douglas Fair
banks, one of the dominant figures in
the film world. can't stertch himself to
that height. Maurice Costello. one of
this FIRST greats of the industry that
made celluloid famous, was far from
being tall.
Now, however, the mere six-footer
more often than not has to look up
rather than down on his fellows.
SHch young skyscrapers as Gary
Cooper, Nils ASther, John Loder, Johnny
Mack Brown and Lane Chandler not
to mention a few of the older heads in
the film game like Reginald Denny
Richard Dix and Edmund Lowe, are
raising the level of the screen industry.
1t has long been considered the thing
for the Western heroes of the wide
open spaces to tower over the ordinary
mere man. Jack Holt is Stalwart, six
feet and a fraction. Col. Tim Mccoy
makes the six-foot mark look ashamed
and Fred Thomson easily passed that
figure. In these modern times the ro-
mantle and character stars, the leading
men, the villains, and even the comedi-
ans, are looking down upon the COM
mon crowds.
At the Paramount studios 16 of the
Il male players under contract are six
footers, some with few inches to
spare. All but one of the five stars fall
into this category. Adolphe Menjou is
the sole exception, and he does not fall
far short, just shading the tape meas
ure trifle above the 5-foot 10-inQh
mark.
George Bancroft towers up to a
powerful six feet one. Richard Dix Is
just six feet in height, and looks taller
Emil Jannings comes q fraction above
the even mark, but does not look quite
so tall because of his bulk Charles
Buddy" Rogers, newest of the stars.
just reaches the Six-foot mark with
neatness and dispatch. Wallace Beery,
ioyial bad man and character actor. is
Evening star., 1928-12-23

MO wisecrack ever .levelled against
the movie by the modern reformer
eager and anxious for its uplift was
: ever so deadly as the insinuation that
1.-The modern movie star. as rule-that
as rule is very important, because
( like all rules, it has its exceptions
, the j., bright and beautiful heroine of
: shadowy romance, taken all in all, in
the final analysis. is intellectually
merely "dundora."
Few if any of the dictionaries define
the word "dumdora," unless they take
a fling at modern slang, an auxiliary
to the English language in America that
Il Is language in itself.
But it didn't take long for the densest
intellect to figure out that the dun
/ part of the word was really dumb
and the ''dora" part merely a feminine
synonym to represent all womankind
whether she was named Dora or not.
Bebe Daniels is very popular movie
star. She has appeared in many pic
TIRES. some of them wofully dumb. But
Evening star., 1928-12-23
Televiisiion Used in Film.
UTHE LONE VOLTS DAUGHTER

WTHE LONE VOLTS DAUGHTER y
third of the popular Louis Joseph
Vance mystery series starring Bert Lyt-
ell, which have become an annual Of
fering from Columbia, is the company S
latest release.
Unusual innovations both in story
and technique vie with prominent
cast for the high lights of the produc-
ton. Television is used for the first
time on the screen in "The Lone VOLTS
Daughter" not only as a novelty but
also as an entirely new factor in the
solving of mystery plots. One Of the
unique camera shots necessitated IA
exposures, record number of expo
sures for the same negative.
Evening star., 1928-12-23
Moving Picture Album
BY ROBERT e. SHERWOOD.

never stepped forth on the cleaning
pavements of Hollywood Boulevard.
A great many new faces are certain
to be introduced to the movie fans
within the next few months. Even tho
Marx brothers (four-count en-four)
have been lured to the Paramount
plant, where they are scheduled to romp
through talkie version of THE Cocoa
nuts" with all of Groucho's wise-crackS
Chico's keyboard tricks, Zeppos ''yesses'
and Harpo's speechlessness.
y X II X
George Abbott, who helped to write
and direct such brilliant successes as
writing and directing talkieS in Astoria.
He has already made one short picture,
1.-THE Bishops Candlesticks" can epi-
sode from Les Miserables." which has
seen long service as a vaudeville play
Lett. He is to produce another two
reeler and then embark on full
length feature picture.
1t is probable that Mr.. Abbott will do
great things in the talkies. THE
Bishops Candlesticks," while not an
especially inspiring specimen of drama,
indicates that he has brought to the
vocal screen the sort of alert imagina-
ton that 1t has so sorely needed.
Mr. Abbott has introduced in this
picture the first sound dissolve" as
the scene fades QUIT is church bell
ringing--the sound fades with it. He
has also introduced a trick which is
sure to be widely imitated-a characters
secret thoughts are communicated to
the audience by means of vague whis-
pers, which come from nowhere and
which supplement, but do not interrupt
the action on the screen. This makes
possible an expression of thought in a
manner that is infinitely more effective
than are the lengthy ''asides" in
Strange Interlude."
* X X
Many persons have expressed the be-
lief than the talkies will deliver the
final death blow to the already decrepit
theater. This, of course, is a debatable
point, but there can be no question of
doubt that Broadway will be robbed of
most of its finest talent If the present
recruiting drive continues. The theater
can't afford to lose dramatists like
George Abbott, Bayard WELLER, Owen
Davis, Sidney Howard, George S. Kauf-
man and James Forbes. It can't afford
to lose the legions of valuable actors
and actresses whose names are now be-
ginning to appear on motion picture pay
rolls,
At the same time, the theater evi-
IDENTIFY can't afford to support these
artists as handsomely as the movies can,
and in view of the fact that theatrical
managers themselves are no more high
minded and monumental than are
the celluloid magnates, the theater has
no particular right to complain because
most Of its former supporters are now
going the way of all flesh, to Astoria
and Hollywood.
(Copyright 1929
Evening star., 1928-12-23

MOVE audiences In and around
A'A Los Angeles are being analyzed by
an emotional response meter. This devel-
opment OF talking pictures was used
for the first time at preview of Para
mounts all-talking comedy drama,
1.-THE Dummy" and was employed TO
check up the number and degree OF
the laughs received during the running
Of the film.
One OF the most difficult phases of
talking films lies in timing the actions
of the players In relation to the audi
ence's reactions. Whenever player,
for example, says or does something
humorous, time must be allowed for
the resultant laugh to die down before
he resumes his action and speech, 9TH
erwise the audience will drown out the
words coming from the screen.
For the first previewing, or "prehear-
ing" of 1.-The Dummy" sound en-
gineers from the Paramount studios
in Hollywood installed microphones
throughout the small neighborhood
theater where the show was being held.
These microphones were connected to
a sensitive meter in the projection
room. The louder the laugh the more
1t moved.
In this manner an observer was able
to gauge the degree of response to each
given situation and also note the length
Evening star., 1928-12-23
Strong IN Screen Lovers.

EOR a comparative newcomer to the
L screen, Marceline Day, it is said,
can lay claim to not only the greatest
number but also the greatest variety of
screen lovers.
Her latest in this wild aggregation,
which includes both comedy and dra-
matte stars, is Ralph Forbes, with whom
she is featured in Columbia's Restless
Youth" Among the others were Charles
Chase, Harry Langdon, William Des-
mond, Ben Turpin, Hoot Gibson, Edwin
Cobb, Robert Frazer, Norman Kerry,
Lionel Barrymore, Billy Bevan, Karl
Dane, George K. Arthur, Johnny Har-
ron, Lew Cody, William Haines. John
Barrymore, Buster Keaton, Lon CLANCY,
Tim Mccoy Lewis Stone, Lars Hansen
and Don Alvarado.
Evening star., 1928-12-23
Shakespeare Revised.

Various playwrights agreed with aus,
attempted the task and gave it up.
Finally James Plaisted Webber, play
wright, poet, actor and scholar, brought
us the first draft of the manuscript, and
it is this we are disclosing on our stage
as the second production Of our first
season.
"To Webber's text Brian Hooker,
keenly interested in the project from
the start, has contributed the happiest
lyrics he has ever written, and to Hook
er's lyrics Porter Steele has composed
music similarly inspired by the gay, roll
licking, devil-may-care mood OF the
days Of Eiizabeth-and our own"
This dramatic experiment will be
watched by many with interest and
who can say?---it may lead to further
revisionS that may succeed In bringing
the once great Bard Of Avon into mod
ern popularity. Literary folks are very
particular these days.
Evening star., 1928-12-23
Warnings Pennsylvanians.

EBO'S dialogue and song special
stepping High" temporary title)
has gone into production at Sound
Studios, New York, with Barbara Ber-
nett and Bobby Watson playing and
speaking the leading roles under di-
rection of Bert Glennon.
But the news most interesting about
1t to many Washingtonians is that
Warnings Pennsylvanians, now featured
in Hello, Yourself" George Choos'
musical hit at the Casino Theater, New
York, will be featured in Stepping
High" They will begin at the studio
working double shift during the three
weeks stepping High" is expected to
be in production.
Evening star., 1928-12-23
Not a Dumdora.

it is doubtful withal if any one thus far
has had the temerity to class Bebe with
the dumdoras of the screen.
AS If to leave no doubt on the sub
iect, however, her press agent leaps for
ward to say that Bebe, Notwithstanding
the movie drawback, is one OF the
shrewest real estate operators in Cali
fornia, adding in support that she has
erected and sold some of the finest
homes in Santa Monica, the noted beach
resort on the West Coast and that her
business property in Los Angeles has
scared four times it original value since
she bought it.
And to further prove his intention,
he saws: "Bebe has Just announced plans
for a 'new-idea' dormitory apartment
building to be erected near the campus
of the University of California at Los
Angeles that will provide for its 200
girl students real home according
to Bebe's own peculiar notion Of what
a real home should be-"
Bebe, it may be inferred, therefore,
is not really a dumdora.
Evening star., 1928-12-23

~ YER the river from Manhattan
in that unlovely community OF
- factories and shabby dwellings
that is known as Astoria,
there stands massive struc-
- ture which was once erected by
Adolph Zukor and Jesse Lasky as
., producing plant for their feature pic
:, lures.
y Like all opulent movie magnates,
: The Messrs. zukor and Lasky have their
, executive Offices in New York City.
They found it necessary to commute
frequently between these Offices and
: the studios located 5000 miles away
.r in HOLLYWOOD, and this cost them a
: great deal of valuable time and some
,. what less valuable money.
:" Figuring that it would be e. lot
= cheaper to go across the river than
to go across the continent. they ac-
Quired the property in Astoria and built
thereon the Paramount East Coast
Studio. They kept it in operation for
several years. producing there many
pictures, with such stars are Gloria
Swanson, Rudolph Valentino. Thomas
Meighan, Mae Murray, Richard Dix,
Elsie Ferguson, Richard BarthelmesS,
Bebe Daniels and John Barrymore.
They spent several fortunes in the
attempt to bring their production center
" and their home offices together. within
the range of a Scent telephone call.
. But the scheme didn't work, princl-
pally because the sun that shines over
Astoria is not nearly so friendly as
the sun that shines over Hollywood.
Indeed, from the Paramount East Coast
: Studio 1t was almost impossible TO see
the sun, even on a clear day.
/, So the huge Paramount plant was
ultimately shut down and the official
recorder of the Los Angeles Chamber
of Commerce cfalked up another signal
triumph for the California climate.
x X x x
Now, however, as result of the
profound change that has come to pass
in the movie business, the Astoria stu
dio has been reopened. With the ad-
vent of the talkies, it has ceased to be
a cumbersome white elephant on Mr..
Zukor's hands; it has been the scene CT
many important tests and experiments
with the movietone, and is now being |
used extensively as a factory for the
manufacture of talking pictures.
The studio is presided over by Monta |
Bell. one of the most conSpicuously |
skilfull of the younger movie directors. |
The only previously prominent star In |
evidence on the lot is Richard DIX, |
whose first talkie is to be Nothing |
but the TRUTH" directed by Willie Col |
lier, who played this famous farce on |
the stage some i2 years ago.
Mr. Bell and Mr.. Dix must feel bit |
: lonely now and then, as they are almost |
the only remnants of the old silent era. |
They are completely surrounded by ac-
tors, writer's and directors, who are
comparative strangers to the screen |
men and women who are well enough |
known along Broadway, but who have |
Evening star., 1928-12-23
Crandall Treats Newsboys.

THE newsboys of the city will be the
guests of Harry M. Crandall We'd
nesday morning at the Metropolitan
Theater. Promptly at 10:45 am. and
for is minutes prior to the running of
the picture the boys will entertain
themselves with songs, led by the
popular song leader, william Schmucker
accompanied by the organ, and Mrs
Ida v. Clarke, piano-accordion soloist.
The public attending Is invited to
join with the boys in the singing and
festivities of the occasion.
Evening star., 1928-12-23
Rio Rita on FBO Program.

TOSEPH I. SCTINITzER. newly
elected president of FBO produc-
tions, Inc, Immediately upon taking
control of the destinies of the film
company. 1t is announced, purchased
the screen rights of "Rio Rita" the ia
nous Florenz ziegfeld musical show. to
be made as the first special on FBO's
1929-3O program in afiliation with
Radio Keith -Orpheum Corporation, the
newly organized and gigantic motion
picture, vaudeville and radio combine.
Contracts for transferring the ziegfeld
show into talking and singing motion
picture were signed yesterday between
Mr.. Schnitzer and Florenz Ziegfeld.
."Rio Rita" one of the most colorful
musical plays in the history of the
American theater, will be the first
ziegfeld show to be transferred to the
screen with its songs and dialogue in
tact The original Rio Rita cast
headed by Ethelind Terry and j. Harold
Murray. will play and sing the leading
roles. Others in the original cast will
include Bert Wheeler, Ada May, Walter
Catlett.
Evening star., 1928-12-23
As Funny as of Yore.

noes any one recall Flora Finch,
~ one-time costar with the late
John Bunny in comedies that rocked
the world with laughter in the early
days of the pictures?
Well-Flora is as funny as ever, as
you will find when you see her in "The
Haunted House." a First National mys-
terry comedy now current screen at
traction in Washington.
Chester Conklin, another old timer,
plays opposite Flora. Thelma Todd IS
leading woman and Larry Kent Is juve-
nile lead.
BENJAMIN Christensen was the direc-
tor of this laugh-provoking chill-dis-
pensing picture.