The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-15
Romance Depicted i'm Colors
GOOD NEWS TO END; HERE IS
 LOTTERY BRIDE
Tunefh Dramatic Operetta
 Heads Sunday Bill at Capitol

SfOO1 NSWS WILL pS oAiVWA lO4 the last times tonight at the Capi- tol theatre. The Lottery Bride" will headline tomorrow's bill, the first presentation of which will be at the Sunday afternoon matinee. The Last Parade" will be given at a midnight matinee Monday night. as. :.
 In Good News" Bessie Love has the leading feminine role. She is the only member of the cast who did not come into talking pictures from Broadway.
 In the Metro-Goldwyn-M a yle r feature are Mary Lawlor, Gus Shy, Stanley Smith, Lola Lane, Cliff (Ukelele Ike) Edwards, Dorothy McNulty, Billy Taft and Tom Jackson, none of whom ever ap- peared in films before the advent of talkies.
 Edgar Mac Gregor and Nick Grinde directed the picturization of the famous stage hit from Fran ces Marion's adaptation of the original musical comedy. Abe Ly- mans Band plays the musical score.
 Lottery Bride"
 Lottery Bride" Is a United Art ists production, arranged by tAr- thur Hammerstein. It is dra- matic operetta that skillfully joins it's theme and melody.
 Its songs and melodies are by Rudolf Frirnl, composer of light opera.
 Jeanette Macdonald is the lead ing lady. She is not only a song stress of charm but an actress of ability. The cast in general is of excellent quality. John Garrick, the young English actor, plays opposite Miss Macdonald.
 Others in Cast Joseph Macaulay and Robert Chisholm, both well known on the New York stage, are in the cast. A comedy trio consisting of Joe E. Brown, Zasu Pitts and Harry Gribbon produce many laughs, and excellent characterizations are giv- en by the youthful Carroll Nye and the veteran Max Davidson.
 A striking feature of the produc- tion is the artistry of the settings by William Cameron Menzies. In designing the backgrounds, which range from scenes in Norway to the ice fields of the Arctic, he has given an illustration of how well mod e n ist ic and impressionistic settings are adapted to the new type of musical screen play.
 Nature of Story
 Lottery Bride shows skillful direction by Herbert Stothart and was adapted by Howard Emmett Rogers. It concerns the love of Chris and Jennie whose romance is temporarily shattered by the jealous of Alberto, an aviator, and the lawless act of Jennie's brother in stealing from a bank to cover up his gambling debts. Jennie sac-s rifices herself for her brother and Chris leaves her. She goes as pie ture bride to a northern mining camp to be won as 9 wife by some miner on the spin of lottery wheel. Chris's own brother wins her and from this point the story develops into an intense drama which includes dirigible crash and rescue by dog team and ice breaker of Chris and other victims of the disaster.
 A sequence in color shows law ish pageants, fetes and processions in various romantic European cities.
 "The Last Parade" demonstrates that the code of the underworld is not to squell. A rackeeter takes re- porter for a ride because he writes a story revealing the gangster's shady activities. The leading play CTS in this Columbia picture are Jack Holt, Tom Moore, Constance Cummings, Gaylord Pendleton and Robert Ellis. Erie 0. Kenton direct ed the production.