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zanita on Revilla Island in tht Ketchikan district a colony o1 beavers can be seen at work keep ing their dams in repair. The at- traction proves of great interest to visitors.
 To tow the hydraulic dredgc Portland from Seattle to Seward is the mission of the tug Akutan Capt. L. H. H. Jennings, of the Alaska Salvage Company, which recently left Ketchikan for Se- attle. The dredge, which is owned by the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company, will be used inside the breakwater at Seward. When the dredge shall have been brought north, the company will have equipment worth approxi- 'rnately $5O0O0O engaged in con- tract work in Alaska waters.
 When Mayor Norman R. Walk CT of Ketchikan heard the British naval vessel Dragon was to visit Ketchikan in August he cabled Sir Roland Lindsay, British ambassa- dor at Washington, expressing Ket- chikan's unqualified delight" at the news. The ambassador re- piled acknowledging his apprecia- ton and declaring he was sure the officers and crew of the Graz on will greatly enjoy the visit to Ketchikan. The Chamber of Com merce has appointed a committee to entertain the visitors.
 Ketchikan's Champer of Com merce is trying to have the United States cruiser Detroit visit Ketchi- kan after its visit to Hyder and Stewart in July. The Detroit carries a crew of 500.
 Thirteen trolling boats known as the Lucky Thirteen" which
  stay together when fishing, have left Sitka for Seattle because the prevailing low prices for king salmon, their captains say, make operation of the craft unprofit- able. The boats and their cap tains are: Heron, Louise Henning- sen; Blanco, E. Petterson; Sharon, T. Breivfk; Arctic, S. Alsos; Lin- coln, Fred Stanes; Pacific, J. Sum- Ethel S., J. Sanberg; l. Jacobsen; Christie, Ole Johnson; Argo, Christ Anderson: J. Strand; Puritan, Cap tain Colstrand; Advance, J. Sand nes.
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ALASKA NEWS

July Fourth will be celebrated in Wrangell and Petersburg. The l chairman of the executive commit ! tee for the observance in Wran- j, gell, is Mayor c. P. Kirtland. At
 Petersburg, A. B. Holt is executive committee chairman
 J. A. Talbot, Sr., of Ketchikan, 67' years old, is believed to have been drowned June 13. He has not been seen since then. His hat was found floating in the water of the Ketchikan harbor.
 At a meeting of the Cordova c h a mb CT of Commerce, H. I! |O'Neill asked the Chamber to give thought to problems affecting the keeping in town of all money pos sible instead of permitting it to leave Cordova, whether in the form of fines on law-breakers, or other sources.
 Details from Naknek of the death last winter of the two-year- old son of Martin Haugen have been received at Seward Oscar Xyander's dog team, which had been driven up to the Naknek Red Salmon Cannery, where Haugen is chief winter man, was tied some distance from the house. Missing the child a short time later the father discovered the nangled re-, mains among mass of snarling dogs and tangled harness in front of the sled. The dogs, of the same half-police breed which killed a small boy year ago, were all shot immediately, with the excep- tion of the leader
 There are more than 100 auto mobiles in Seward and at least 50 of them are expected to take part in the Fourth of July parade, which will be held in conjunction with the celebration of Indepen- dence Day.
 Moose, sheep, black bear and brown bear abound in great num- bers on Kenai Peninsula, declare Arthur w. Johnson and Ralph R. Reeser of Fairbanks, who recently completed a hunting trip on the Peninsula. Moose on the Penin- sula are almost as plentiful as caribou in the Interior. They counted 33 moose in walk of two hours.
 Fire in the Ca m p b Il Apart ments near the baseball park in Ketchikan caused a loss of $500.
 For L. Peters of Cordova, "bowl-picker, or one-man gill net boat of the Columbia River type, has just been completed by the Lindstrom Boat Shop of Astoria, Ore, and will soon be sent north. The craft is 29 feet long.
 In a river entering Lake Man
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doors knows them and loves them they being revived Tinpin Alleys idea of Hawaiian music is declining in the face of the popularity of the real native melodies"
 Authorities Hawaiian lore predict that the envening influence of the tourist will bring about the resurrection of much more of the original Hawaii.
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Col. Woodcock has announced that July IS he will lead his army of 1850 Prohibition enforce ment agents into action to make the United States dry How many times in the last ten years have we heard similar announcements? Heretofore the enforcement army has been led bravely up the hill and then brave,y down again.
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| It's funny that France should turn down Tex Guinan after admitting those visiting American Mayors Cincinnati Enquirer.
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How those Berlin communists expect to get lower taxes by destroying public property is very hard to understand Pavement that is torn up must be replaced and replacement cost must come from taxes.
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The Government ought to jail Capone in museum it's so rare to get "bg shot" behind the bars-( Cincinnati Enquirer).
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Presidential asprant Clifford Pinchot would make Government the greatest American industry. No wonder he wants to be President that he might show Mussolini the difference between himself and small potatoes
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Col. Woodcock says Prohibition can't be en- forced unless the public helps Well, long, en- forcement take keer yourself.-( (Macon, Ga. Tele- graph)
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Mayor Roberts of Reno advocates barrel of whiskey and dipper every street corner He should blush with shame at his effor ito bring back the unsanitfry, common dipper.-(Atchison Kan Globe).
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New York reports dog that looks like daschund and makes the noise of a bird Seattle promoters report fighters who roar like lions and fight like sheep Seattle Tmes)
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Radio engineers say they expect to eliminate fading Have heart! In many homes it's the only chance of relief.-t Portland. Oregonian)
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Look sharp when you go for country week end Agriculture is dead, but the poison ivy is still on the job.-(Boston Transcript.
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Fraternal Societies Castineau Channel
B. P. o. ELKS

E. P. o. ELKS Me ting every .t( 2nd Wednesday in Nf. ,.A month during sum- @~ mer at o'clock, Elks' Hall. 4 Visiting brothers welcome. M. s. JORGENSEN, Exalted Ruler.
 M. H. SIDES, Secretary.
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Sets Raised Like Windows

SETTINGS with walls that can be
- raised like immense windows is an
invention of Paramount technicians
used for the first time in filming up
Pops the Devil" at the Hollywood
studios
They are said to mark the latest de-
velopment in efficiency and time saving
in the making of motion pictures, in
facilitating the speed with which a set
can be lighted, or a motion picture
camera can be placed for a long-shot.
In the early days Of motion pictures
all camera work was done with direct
or reflected sunlight. But artificial
lighting was evolved and sets were built
within stages. Immediately the prob
lem of lighting and photographing on a
set representing a room arose. With
four walls and two or three doors and
windows there was no place to put the
arc lights and the camera without over
crowding.
So sets were built with removable
walls. But much time was lost in re-
moving and replacing walls as the
cameras were moved about. Fifteen
minutes was about the average time
needed to make the change.
With the new invention of window
like walls, it is claimed lighting can be
more evenly distributed, cameras can be
moved with great rapidity and more
beautiful photography will result.
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Stage Show at Palace.

SILVIA NELSON featured in Riviera
Revels," the Capitol Theater, New
York, stage show at the Palace, Is a
student of the opera.
Miss Nelson is demure young lady
Of 10, 5 feet inches In height, has
taken lessons on the violin and piano
for several years and is accounted an
accomplished musician.
After finishing her schooling In high
and prep schools. she attended the
School of Music at Hunter College with
serious intentions of becoming q piano
teacher. These plans were spoiled when
Earl Carroll saw and drafter her for his
musical comedy "Fioretta." Later she
again worked for Mr.. Carroll in "Vani-
ties" She also has been seen and
heard in several talking pictures.
Appearing with Miss Nelson this week
are Mitchell and Durant, Dolores. Eddy
and Douglas. Louis Barrison and the
Chester Hale Girls.
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with Ricardo Cortez, Dudley Digges,
Una Merkel, Robert Elliott, Thelma
Todd and many more in the cast. This
Is mystery picture adapted from a
story by Dashiell Hammett for years a
Pinkerton detective.
Richard Dix and Jackie Cooper, the
famous little "Skippy." will be twin
stars in young Donovans Kid" the
Radio Pictures production announced
for R-K-O Keith's which starts next
Friday.
Hell Bound" q James Cruze produc-
ton Of intrigue, romance and pathos is
announced for the Rialto Theater start
ing next Saturday
William Powell in Ladies Man" is
scheduled for Loew's Palace next Sat-
urday. with Kay Francis playing oppo-
site Mr.. Powell and with Carole Lom-
bard and Olive Tell in supporting roles
1t is announced that there will be "a
auburn haired lassies in the in-the-
flesh stage attraction"
Norma Shearer and Robert Mont
gomery in Strangers May Kiss" is the
announced feature next in succession at
Loews Columbia, following "Dishon-
ored"
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Filming Street Scene

FINER RICE has moved into his
Samuel Goldwyn studio Office for
the final intensive work in preparing
the script Of his Pulitzer prize play,
Street Scene" for the screen. and he
and King Vidor. who is to direct, with
Mr.. Goldwyn, are arranging the pro-
duction details.
In general Goldwyn's screen produc-
ton of Street Scene" will follow the
spirit and letter Of the Elmer Rice play
The camera will not go into the house,
nor will there be any close-ups of the
scene that precipitates the tragedy.
Capt. Richard Day and Willy Pogany
art directors, plan to keep the camera
in motion as "a rowing eye" never stir
or stationary for moment.
Nancy Carroll will have the part Of
Rose Maurrant, played on the stage bv
Erin OBrien-Moore, and Buster Collier
will play the role of David Kaplan. the
Jewish law student.
Production is not to begin until late
in May. The screen Street scene"
viii be released by United Artists.
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A Quick Worker

HOLLYWOOD may be appIesauce to
some New York stage stars hut II
appears to be caviar to Robert Williams,
latest Broadway recruit. After finish
ing his first film role, it was exactly 2
minutes, the time it took him to walk
from one stage to another, before he
was IN another at the R-K-O Pathe
studios.
The actor was brought from New
YORK to play his original stage role in
tne MN version of Rebound" which
STARS ina Claire: Before he had finish
ed the part Charles r. Rogers. head
OF R-K-O Pathe production, signed him
for THE Common Law" Constance
Benefits new picture. Immediately
after he had completed his last scene
in Rebound" he walked over to an adj
Jacent stage and joined THE Common
Law" cast in rehearsal.
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BY MARK BARRON.


n YEW YORK, May Is "a
: s5.E h.; ;ss:s% R;ss':s e
Summer with Paul Green's
play. THE House of Connolly" The
project is being directed by Cheryl
Crawford. Smith College graduate, who
is casting director for the Theater
Guild. No performances will be given,
but the whole Summer viii be spent
in rehearsing actors for the play and
revising the script into more forceful
drama. If the experiment succeeds the
play will be brought to Broadway in
the Fall
1.-THE House of Connolly Is from the
pen of the author of the Pulitzer prize
winner, In Abraham's Bosom" Where,
in the latter play. Green treated of
Negro folk life In the South, in this
new drama he writes Of the disintegra-
ton Of old Southern arStocracy.
Miss Crawford and her co-workers
plan to experiment with other plays,
also, testing them thoroughly before
exposing them to Broadway premiere.
1t marks the beginning of movement
to give longer and more careful prepa-
ration to productions. The usual Gus
tom has been to give most plays merely
three weeks rehearsal and two weeks
out-of-town tryout.
MORE and more the barrier between
AVA Broadway and Park avenue Is
being torn down. Society is inviting
theatrical folk into its exclusive salons,
and many holders of the social register
accolade are turning to the stage as a
career.
The movement began when debutante
Hope Williams became star In 'Hol-
iday," following her amateur perform
ances in exclusive Shark Club shows.
And through Miss Williams Philip
Barry and Donald Ogden Stewart have
become the favorite playwrights of Park
avenue. ANY premiere Of their plays
or those produced by Gilbert Miller,
will find most of the 400" present.
Now Ethel Borden, of the socially
prominent Harrimans, has joined Lady
Viola Tree in the forthcoming edition
of Ziegfeld's "Follies" In turn zieg-
field and Earl Carroll are often given
royal commands to present their COM
plete shows in outdoor theaterS on
Long Island estates. Mrs. Vincent
Astor, Clarence Mackay and E. r.
Hutton are among those who book
Broadway shows for their private
parties.
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Persistence That Wins.

industry became what it Is today by
supplying the demand.
Representatives of Paramount spent
several weeks visiting livery stables in
New York State in search of 10 white,
housekeeping Dobbins, or prancing
white steedS, If you are particular.
The important question is, did they
md the horses? Well, this is what
happened:
After almost a month three single
teams were found and one of the prop
erty men located a four-horse team, but
the animals were not available at any
price. They were prize horses of a very
wealthy New York family, which had
pensioned them to green pastures, never
to be used for work again, but simply to
live out their lives in idle luxury.
A cable was dispatched to the owners
at their villa on the Riviera, and after
untold dickering the owners finally
agreed to lend them on condition that
their pets be driven by their own coach
man, who had handled them for years.
And so 1t goes. The movies want
what they want when they want it,
and they usually get it.
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Hughes Flying Again

HOWARD HUGHES is rounding Up
! : another feet of wartime air.
planes. They are to be flown in an
aviation comedy which he will produce.
with Edward Sedgwick directing. Half
a dozen type ships, including American
and French fighting planes. have been
purchased and are being reconditioned
for use in the picture, which has been
tentatively titled Ground Hogs"
But here's the catch. These are Diff
ferent type planes from those flown IN
'Hell'S Angels" because original plans
to use "cut-outs" from "Hell's Angels"
had 10 be abandoned And you may
believe it. because the announcement
says it's true.
Spencer Tracy will have the leading
role in the picture, which already has
gone into production. with air sequences
being filmed at March Field, Riverside,
Calf.
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Lights, Shadows, Moods.

dramatic CITY Streets" the current
screen feature at Loew's Palace Tfeater.
In Applause" the director caused
amazed comment in professional and
fan circles alike for the strange effects
he produced with shadows. In CITY
Streets" an underworld picture, he en-
phaSizes the sinister feeling Of the plot,
the quick moving excitement of the ac-
ton by atmosphere creating lighting.
Lee Garmes, exponent Of low-key
lighting for the motion picture screen
and by agreement of critics and tech
nicians alike the foremost camera art
list OF the day. photographed city
Streets" under Mamoulian's direction.
Garmes' work was seen in Morocco"
and "Dishonored," the two Won Stern
berg pictures in which Marlene Dietrich
was starred. His outdoor camera work
was considered especially effective in
Fighting Caravans"
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Washington Players
What Various Dramatic Organizations Are Doing
and Propose to Do

Mabel Owens as the fascinating widow.
Others will be Harry Wilton, Jeff Rog-
ers, Tudor Wilton, Frank Norton and
Donald Thomas. Paul D. Gable will
conduct the beautiful score and Kath-
crime Fowler will direct the dramatic
end Of the production.
JACK, THE GIANT KILLER"
THE Brookland School pupils as
sisted by James Nolan, basso, will
present Harry Wheaton Towards ju-
venile classic, Jack. the Giant Killer"
Thursday at $3.50 pm. and Friday at
8 pm. in John Burroughs Auditorium,
Twentieth and Monroe streets north
east. The cast will include Ellis nietz
as Jack, June Keesee as the younger
princess, William Dietz as King, Eleanor
Rinaldi as Queen and George Scribe as
the Jester. The princesses will be Vivian
Blake, Louise Mann, Dorothy Ferguson,
Virginia Brondt and Mildred Babbitt:
the princes, Donald Kester, Hugh Fiie-
gins. Ralph Hoagland, Frank Spur and
George Green; pages, Ruth Green and
Audrey Helm, and the knights, John
Kester and Arthur Wheaton.
There will be a chorus Of 43 BOYS and
girls
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OUT OF DOORS

This year the big park offers many
new features. including new old mill,
a thing of beauty, with ride that is
different; a thrilling "dodgem" ride,
with 20 cars of front-wheel drive; a
shooting gallery with diving fish, ami
mails and moving trains to test the skill
of the shooter. and new dips to the
coaster, along with the aeroplane swings
Ferris wheel, carrousel, midway and
other fun producers. No finer place for
a picnic may be had. with shade trees
and benches and chairs a-plenty.
A new 100000 crystal pool Is rapidly
nearing completion, and when opened
on May 80, 1t is said, will be the finest
pool in this section
Every week night McWilliams and
his enlarged orchestra play for the
dancers in the ball room.
Glen Echo is free-admission play
ground. The ride by electric street car
along the Potomac is delightful, and
motorists will find plenty of free park
ing space at the resort
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Starts With a New Thrill

FLOYD GIBBONS, THE Headline
Hunter" now in the movies, appears
to be always on the spot"
The night when the s. S. New
York hit and sank the motor dredge
Trimount in Long Island Sound, Glib
bons is said to have been aboard the
former en- route from Boston to start
his new R-K-O Pathe series, Floyd
Gibbons Supreme Thrills
Accidents at sea are nothing in the
thrilling life of Gibbons. He was en-
route to London as World War CORE
spondent of the Chicago Tribune aboard
the s. s. Laconia when the Cunarder
was torpedoed by German submarines
which were endeavoring to blockade the
British Isles. The thrill hunter was re-
ported lost at sea.
Picked up by a steamer, however,
from q lifeboat after tossing about all
night, Gibbons reached Queenstown
Harbor, Ireland, and there cabled
4,o00-wcrd story Of the sinking to the
Tribune a few days after his obituary
was read in American newspapers.
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I'm OLD VIENNA" or PICKLES.
Tuesday.
Breaking In a New Star.

CHESTER MORRIS, United Artists
- star. it has been announced, has
Just devoted SO days to crossing and re-
crossing the Atlantic in search Of au-
thentic atmosphere for his next picture,
in which he will be seen as a modern
pirate in white fiannels. The story is
from the novel "Corsair," by Walton
Green.
When Morris completed work in Feb
ruary on 1.-The Bat Whispers" It is said.
he was informed that his next picture
would be "Corsair." so, being q thor
oughgoing young man, he set out to
capture its mood. With Mrs. Morris.
the former Sue Kilborn Of Paramount
Pictures, he went down to the Los An
geles docks and boarded the motorship
Oakland q freighter which plies between
the California port and Bremen via the
Panama Canal. The next 80 days were
spent in lazy crossing Of the ocean.
All the way Chester studied the WAYS
of sean1en and listened to yarns of the
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Has a Singing Voice

DOLA NEGRI has developed ravish-
Ing singing voice, looks better than
she ever did before and is due TO give
Hollywood tremendous surprise when
she steps out on R-K-O Pathe sound
stages to resume her motion picture
career.
That is the word brought to the film
city by Malcolm st. Clair, screen direc-
tor, who has Just returned from a va
cation in Paris.
Mr.. st. Clair saw the continental star
while in the French capital. He
prophesies that she will be a sensation
in talking pictures.
Miss Negri left Hollywood, after a
disagreement over the stories given her,
shortly before the dawn CT the talker
era and has been absent from the screen
since,
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Paramount Lands Vicki

NICKI BAUM, the VienneSe writer,
whose novel, "Menschen i'm Ho-
TEL" was dramatiZed into the Roadway
stage hit Grand Hotel" is now a mem
Der Of the scenario staff at Paramount's
New York studio.
Miss Baum. it is now announced, was
brought to New York from Europe by
the film producers to write directly for
the screen. Her initial assignment will
be an original story for direction by
Ernst Lubitsch, who recently completed
the Maurice Chevalier picture The
Smiling Lieutenant"
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Late New York News.

IVA LIE GALLIENNE has closed her
civic repertory tf1eater for a year,
but she withheld "Alisons House" for a
revival in q commercial Broadway
theater. Awarding of the Pulitzer prize
aroused new interest in Susan GlaspelPs
play, which is based. on the life Of Emily
Dickinson. the poetess.
New York critics are fairly unanimous
in condemning the choice Of the
Pulitzer Committee They feel the
honor was deserved more by "Once In
a Lifetime" Five Star Final" "Tomor-
row and Tomorrow" and Green Grow
the Lilacs."
PRODUCERS are finding it dificult
to cast players for their road
shows since the increased activity IN
talking picture studios on Long Island.
Actors currently appearing on Broad
way spend their mornings working In
movies and their nights on the stage
hence drawing two salaries at the same
time.
AS pictures usually pay larger sal
aries than the stage, the actors choose
to stay around Long Island studios
sather than go touring with a play.
True. there is an abundance of unem-
ployed actors. but the trouble Is they
are not the competent ones.
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ONCE upon time, king offered to
~ trade his realm for a horse. He
didn't specify the color, however, 50 the
bargain should have gone through in a
hurry.
Ernst Lubitsch, directing Maurice
Chevalier in 1.-THE Smiling Lieutenant"
was more exacting in his equine require
ments for he demanded not one but ten
cream white carriage horses for one Of
the important scenes.
In this day and age, when carriage
horses are almost as rare as dodoS, the
task of finding three single teams and
one tandem that had been properly car
rage broken looked like a superhuman
lob. Add to that the fact that Lubitsch
specified white horses. But the movie