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The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-09-20
SALLY PLIERS
 GIVEN DIVORCE

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Sept. 2O.-- Sally Eilers, screen actress, said today she had been granted a Mexican divorce from Hoot Gibson at Chihuahua on August 28.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-09-20
Ganging Up On Gangland


America pays a staggering toll to it's crooks. Yearly the tribute grows as criminal traffic rises to the magnitude of big business. What are the remedies? How should they be applied? Should we have a Scotland Yard? This is the first of three articles dealing with the crime problems and suggested solutions.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-09-20

Mrs. Mark Carter of Goose Creek, Tex, won a dress-making contest with a model she created from dis carded fertilizer sacks.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-09-20
HARD LIQUOR
 CONTROL BILL
 IS NOW LAW
Two Temporary Measure. Co Into Effect When
 Repeal Achieved

ALBANY, N. Y.. Sept. 20.-Bills to control and tax the manufac- ture, importation and sale of hard liquor in New York State as soon as prohibition repeal is achieved became part of the law when Gov ernor Herbert H. Lehman signed them.
 The bills, of which there were two, are designed as temporary measures, to be in effect until Ap- Til 1, 1894, by which time the reg ular 1884 session of the Legisla- ture is expected to enact per manent system of control.
 Both bills which became a law were recommended by Governor Lehman and passed during the extraordinary session which re- gently adjourned One of them, the Herman bill, gives the State Alcoholic Beverage Control Board the same authority to control and license hard liquor which it now exercises in the control and H. censing of beer and wine. Local authority similarly is conferred on the New York City Board and county boards upstate.
 Tax Is Levied
 The other bill, which was ad- vocated by Senator John L. Buck ley, of New York, levies a tax of $l a gallon on liquor, 10 cents
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-09-20
ENGLAND MAY ENTER INTO
 COMPETITION British Officials in London Give Out Their
 Explanations BAD IMPRESSION
 BEING CREATED
N a val Race, It Is Said, Would Be Three Corn
 cred in Short Time

LONDON, Sept. 20.-Offi- ciaIs of the British Govern ment told Norman H. Davis, American representative to the Disarmament Conference, on his recent visit here that the American naval building program might make a bad impression on other countries on the eve of the Disarma- ment Conference.
 This is the authoritative explanation advanced for re- ports in Washington, D. G.. that Great Britain has re- quested the United States to defer it's construction pro- gram.
 This is qualified by the statement there might be ap- prehension in England if a naval race developed between Japan and America in which case Great Britain might be forced to enter competition.
 WILL GO AHEAD
 WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.-Presi- dent Roosevelt intends to go ahead without restriction on the $283,- GOO ,000 naval building program des- pite reports abroad and suggestions made to Davis, Americas rowing Ambassador, that there be some abandonment or curtailment o1 that program.
 It is asserted at the White House no such suggestions actually have been received by the Presi- dent.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-09-20
NEW MEXICO GOES 3 TO f.;
 IDAHO CLOSER
States Number Thirty and
 Thirty-one Against 18th Amendment
ONLY FIVE MORE
 ARE NOW REQUIRED
Idaho Splits Ballot, South Counties Dry, but
 Northerners Wet

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. -Repealists t day counted on Idaho and New Mexico as States number 30 and 31 in t h mounting anti Pr0hibi- tiOn column on the basis of substantial leads in yester- days ballOting.
 New Mexico voted wet by better than 3 to 1.
 One hundred and ninety eight of the 7S5 precincts showed 25,021 for repeal and 7,43S against repeal.
 The Idaho vote is closer. From Al of the States d44 counties the vote shows 47, 074 wet and 34,636 dry.
 The Southern counties, set tied by Mormons, were the driest counties while the Northern counties, W h ere miners and lumbermen are settled, were the wettest.
 Only five more States fav- bring repeal are required to k ckout the Eighteenth Amendment.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-09-20
LATEST RETURNS

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. Ac- cording to latest returns, received at o'clock this afternoon, Idaho repeal figures give 52,800 for and 38,779 against; New Mexico 31,219 for repeal and 9,843 against.
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Evening star., 1933-05-14
What Stock VIII Do.
GEORGE BRENT has the reputat

GEORGE BRENT has the reputation
OF being the fastest study at the
studio. He possesses what is popularly
known as a photographic memory"
mace SO by years of training in stock
companies.
During the production Of Lilly
Turner" George and Frank McHugh.
also a member of the company, en-
gagged In memory test to determine
which one could get the dialogue of
scene by heart in the shortest time.
Frank Is no slouch, either, when it
comes to mopping up the "sides" Of
part.
By agreement, they chose a sequence
In Lilly Turner" that was three pages
long, neither Of them had ever read.
Miss Chatterton and the other PLAYERS
went on with their scenes under the
direction Of William A. Wellman, while
George and Frank retired to another
section Of the big stage and began to
cram"
When the showdown came, George
Brent beat Frank McHugh by almost
five minutes. Georges exact time was
2412 minutes. Franks was trifie over
% minutes.
There's nothing like few years In
q stock company to cultivate and i'm
prove ones memory" laughed George
afterward. You're carrying two plays
in your head all the time-the che
you're playing that week and the
one you are rehearsing for the follow
ing week-and studying third in your
spare moments"
Evening star., 1933-05-14
Facts About Film Folk

writes music and likes to sit up all
night. Green is her favorite color.
She has an English butler. So, in fact,
has Barbara Stanwyck and Frank Fay.
Aline MacMahon likes to wear pic
ture hats. She cannot drive a car.
She says she bothered" her way into
the theater. Kept at a family friend
who was q producer until he gave her
q chance.
Joe E. Brown has Just bought very
fine and a very large grand piano Tor
his Hollywood home. He now has the
biggest car, the biggest piano and the
biggest mouth in the film capital.
George Brent almost died once as the
result of an accident which occurred
while he was playing basket ball. He
once fought for an hour inside cab
on the streets of Dublin. He wears
bright -colored silk pajamas and dark
glasses.
Kay Francis likes to watch six-day
bicycle races. She hates diamonds.
She has frogs for pets. Her husbands
legal name is Milziner and he Is the
brother of a well-known artist.
Lyle Talbot has the smallest hands
among "heavies," but he can do tricks
with them. He is the. only actor in
Hollywood who has had rocks broken
ON his chest.
Dick Powell used to collect nickels
out of nickel telephones for living
He was working for the Little Rock
Telephone Co. and that was his job.
He once went for four days eating moth
ing but bananas. He gained weight
doing it.
Bette Davis would rather wash dishes
than cook. She had an appendicitis
operation during her honeymoon.
Evening star., 1933-05-14
Pulitzer Award Committee
Considers Our Washington
Affairs of the Nation. in Song and Dance, Won
Prize Last Year. While Drama of Congress
sional Affairs Is This Year, Winner.
By Percy Hammond.

by the mortuary antics Of "The Mask
and the Face"
The guild may have thought, in pro-
ducing The Mask and the Face" that
it was being symbolic Of the death Of
the old-time drama, celebrating its
worms and decay. If so, 1t succeeded
excellently, for nothing in the theater
has ever been more of a cemetery
than this collaboration of Chiarelli,
Vaughan and the Theater Guild. Into
its grave are tossed such funereal re-
marks as Its harder to chose a drink
than WIFE" that fidelity is an ig-
norance, not virtue" and that
the only happiness in marriage is di-
vorce. Still, despite my frowning on
this phony Theater Guild exposition,
must put plume upon it and declare
that it is a better circus than the grim
and incompetent "Hilda Cassidy" or
that worst of all bad plays, from Thespis
to Sidney Howard, last weeks most
miraculous perversion, the imbecile and
crippled comedy entitled, 1T Happened
Tomorrow" Now that Both Your
Houses" is on its pioneer way through
the farms and forests, 7 plead with it
soon to come back to Times Square
and to expose and clarity further the
crimes and racketeering that are said
to go on beneath the Capitol's COM
placent dome at any rate, Both
Your Houses" Is a Stalwart, honest and
tricky evangelist, and it earns the dead
Mr. Pulitizer's alive approval.
Evening star., 1933-05-14

her and send the other Scuf1ing
away into the arms of his wife.
She may be a greedy old tyrant,
full of horrific guiles and unpre-
possessing graces, but the fact Is
that she is the "Star" of the film
by sheer length of speaking time
and by virtue of her acting ability.
X X 4 x
WHAT now will Irene Dunne's
w admirers think Of this?
Those many, many thousands
who laughed and cried with her
in Back Street." the countless
hundreds who prefer her now to
any of the screens heroines, the
greedy public which expects to
be satisfied no matter at how
great a cost-will they take this
and like it?
They should, of course, because
the film is adult entertainment,
faithfully translated from Sidney
Howard'S play and magnificently
acted. But they won't, because
the vast majority of, screen pa
irons don't 60 to see famous
play well adapted, but rather to
see their favorite player in that
particular story which has been
chosen for them. \
The story is not the kind Of a
vehicle that will please Miss
Dunne's admiring legions. Peo-
pie will say: What business
have they starring her in it, when
she has such a small part?" The
fact that she plays this brief role
with distinction and charm
doesn't matter. When they 60
and see Irene Dunno they want
to see her-and not some one else
whose assignment in the film is
so important as to drown out the
featured player.
We don't suppose that "The Sill
yer Cord" will do Miss Dunno
much good. It should, naturally,
help to create a following for
Laura Hope Crews. Unfortunate
ly, however, Miss Crews will have
difficulty in finding roles suitable
to her years, and films in which
she will find such dramatic posi-
bilitieS. That she can be occa-
sionally funny was demonstrated
here last week in the Pitts-Sum-
merville film, "Out All Night"
But that she Is better as a real
actress than as burlesque artist
is also true.
+ + \ y
is there any use, t.i1en, of star
ring Miss Dune in "The Silver
Cord" or Liorel Barrymore in
Looking Forward? Definitely,
no. While the names may at
tract a few people into the the
ater, it will also send many others
out shaking their heads. Why
not give credit, after all, where
credit is due? Both Lewis Stone
and Miss Crews deserve more
than they have received. When
they reach out and grab them
selves a small place in the stellar
world, why not give them the
credit?
Personally, we believe that they
deserve lot.
Evening star., 1933-05-14
End of Horror Career.

1--WE horror motion pictures in row.
l And nightmares while working on
each Of these productions. But now
Fay Wray, auburn haired screen star,
is all through waking up in the dark,
terrorized.
"And what a relief that is" Miss
Wray commented with a sigh of relief.
IT honestly believe I am the best hor-
ror expressionist in the industry today"
She started in Doctor x" But she
was scheduled to meet somewhat OF a
calm death in that film. She was only
to be strangled by a maniac. Then came
"The Wax Museum" The Most Dan
gerous Came" 1.-THE Vampire Bat" and
"King Kong, in which she faced obliv-
ion through various ghastly means.
In Coluutsa's Below the Sea-" Miss
Wray is caught at the bottom Of the
sea in a diving bell by huge octopus,
who tears the air hose from the bell,
leaving her in a rather precarious pre-
dicament.
But alasl There must be an end
to everything and Miss Wraysis prob
ably at the end Of her horror career.
All she has to do in 1.-THE Woman I
Stole" is to be unfaithful to her hus-
band, who Is Donald Cook.
Evening star., 1933-05-14
ELISA lANDl a0dDAViO
MANNERS -MJhe Warriors
Husband" Fox
Another Language"

REGINNING Monday. May %, the
- National Theater Players win bring
to Washington theatergoers another
New York success Of the past season,
Another Language" which just missed
this years Pulitzer Prize award by a
hairs breadth" The players were sup
posed to open their season with this
play, but when the producers found out
that it was so seriously being considered
for the prize they withdrew it from
stock releases, for, If it had been chosen
as the best play Of the year their in
tentions were to again send it on tour
This is q story of an average, middle
class family-the Hallam family-and
all their chickering's, resentments and
hates. Every sister-in-law. brother,
mother and wife is readily recognizable
It is amusing, stirring and at times a
tragic picture of a mother who insists
upon dominating all her sons and their
wives,
Evening star., 1933-05-14
Has Gone Wicked.

CHE might have known she couldn't
keep right on playing sweet, low
able roles foreve.,, so Gloria Stuart, the
statuesque blond is doing something
radicaEshe is playing the faithIess
wife. In short, she has gone wicked" as
you will see in 'The Kiss Before the
Mirror"
In the adoption of Ladislaus Fodor's
play by William Anthony MCGUIRE,
this role appeared to be one of the
most important and SO utterly differ
ent from anything that Miss Stuart
had ever done, James Whale was un-
decided about her ability to do it. but
she said: "As the director, Mr.. Whale.
I know you know what the role de-
mands. But I'd like to play because
I'm anxious to play something I've
never before attempted. Let me try
it-if I'm not the person to do 1t, III
step aside"
She tried out for It and won, for Mr.
Whale agreed: "You can do it-and
shalt"
Evening star., 1933-05-14
Does Star Make Picture,
Or Picture Make the Star?
Recent Examples of Featured Players Slipping
Into the BACKGROUND on Account of Better
Performers In the Casts.
Bv E. de S. Melcher.

IS it a good policy to star a
player in a film in which he
or she obviously is not the
L star? Is it wise to put a
name" at the top of picture be-
cause that name is supposed TO
mean more to the box office than
the person who actually carries
the burden? Is it, in other words,
the star who makes the picture,
or the picture who makes the
star?
Discussion of these matters
took place the other day in one
of our local high schools. An in
telligent movie patron OF some
16 summers voiced his diSappolnt-
ment at going to a film and find
ing that the "star'S" role was con-
fined to a few brief "Sides" and
that most of the picture was in
the hands of other players. SAID
he, wisely: "When I 60 to see
a star expect him to behave IKE
a star" And by that he meant
that he counted on the star nav
ing star material.
An example Of this was evi.
denced in Looking Forward"
Lionel Barrymore, still the best
of the Barrymores, although
brother John since his perform
ances in "Topaze" and the cur
rent Reunion in Vienna" may be
said to be no longer loaflng on the
lot. was given the top billing. The
picture was launched as Llonel
Barrymore attraction. Across the
marquee of every theater at
which it was featured was the
word Barrymore"
Patrons upon entering the the
ater were then entertained by a
film "a good film) which unques-
tionably belonged to Lewis stone.
Mr. Stone was the be-all and the
end-all of it. He waxed and
waned and ultimately spun out
his interesting existence with a
finesse that was little short OF
miraculous. He was helped IN
certain excellent scenes by Mr..
Barrymore. Mr.. Barrymore, too,
was given a few scenes of his own.
But the film lay in the hands of
Stone and Barrymore came in
only as a foil-accompliShing his
work in the manner expected OF
him, but not as the films major
domo, or the grandee who rules
the picture by the might OF his
wisdom and acting.
X X 4 X
EvEN more striking is the case
~ of "The Silver Cord" The
film is advertised as an Irene
Dunno starring vehicle. The film
belongs, however, body and SOU,
to Laura Hope Crews, one OF
Broadway's shrewdeSt actresses,
who creates one of the most
notable character studies of the
season. Miss Dunno slips in
occasionally as the biologist (re-
ferred to continually as geol-
ogist) and is quite bright and
charming and very easy to look
upon.
The fact remains, however, that
the star of the film is Laura Hope
Crews.
Miss Crews may be an unpleas-
ant character as she parades her
green-eyed jealousies throughout.
She may be old and bitter and a
monStrously nasty witch. She
may tear at the heart strings of
her two boys through means
which are utterly foul and unfair.
She may keep one Of them with
Evening star., 1933-05-14
Where and When In Local Theaters

NATIONA1-Natonal Players in ay Fever" tomorrow at
$3.50 pm
GAYETY-Ann Corio company, buresque at 2:3o and
$3.50 pm
EARLE"Iy Turner" at 2:15 450, TBS and 10 pm. Stage
show with Dick Powell in person. 345 $40 and 1855 pm.
R1ALTo-The Kiss Before the Mirror" 2:ss 42s $780, 500
and 9:51 pm. ~-t.
R-KO KEITFTS-"The Stole" at $3.50, 558, TAT
and 9:56 pm.
COLUMBA-After the Ball" at 240 43O 615 and $50 PM
LOEws FoX-The Warriors Husband" at 43e, 731 and
10:07 pm Stage show, with Will Mahoney in person, at
1928, 6:24 and pm.
PAIACE-Reunion in Vienna at 1885, ass 7:15 and 935
MTROPOLrTAN-"song of the Eagle this afternoon and
evening"
Evening star., 1933-05-14

front and once lost It in the
middle of a performance.
Warren William learned to chew
snuff one Summer day when he was
II years old. He was cured of the habit
the same day. He likes checkered caps,
but has never been allowed to wear
one in a picture.
James Cagney suffers occasionally
with neuritis in the right arm-the one
he punches with. The close Of a pic
ture always upsets his digestion.
Barbara StanwyckS childhood was
spent on bare floors and worn carpets
The dining room of her Brentwood
house is carpeted with dark red one
piece carpet not less than two inches
thick. It Is her favorite room.
Edward G. Robinson once made soap
box speeches on behalf of William Ran
dolph Hearst, candidate for mayor OF
New York. He was Ia then. His first
cigar made him i'll but didn't discourage
him. He Is heavy smoker.
Joan Blondell was once lost in the
Grand Central Station in New York.
She had on a new red coat and was
fed bananas while she waited for some
one to find her, so she didn't mind.
Her first real love affair was with a boy
in Santa Monica, Calf Recently he
wrote her that he was to be married.
Richard Barthelmess likes rocking
chairs. He has a .dachshund pup
which he has named Weymeyer, after a
man he met in Europe a year ago and
didn't like. The old rifle he carried in
'Tolable David" is q fireplace decora-
ton in his beach house now.
Ruth Chatterton plays chess and
Evening star., 1933-05-14
His Act Remains the Same.

WILL MAHONEY can't change his
w act. His public won't let him.
The famous comedian and dancer has
any number of tricks and songs up his
sleeve besides the grand routine he
does four times a day on the stage.
But can he vary his familiar course
one bit? The answer is empnaticaliy
no!
One time he told of how he tried
to introduce new numbers. "Out on the
Coast I put on a program, principally
vocal, with new comedy songs" he
said. cat once I started receiving let
ters-'Why don't you sing Shes My
Lilly, I'm Her Willy"?' Why don't you
do your dance with fall?' Why don't
you use the xylophone number?
There you are! I thought ia give
them something different and 1t took
only one day to persuade me that the
public wanted the old stuff"
Evening star., 1933-05-14
'Three-Cornered Moon Cast

MARY BOLAND, Richard Arlen and
~ LYDIA Roberti have been assigned
leading roles in B. P. Schulberg's Three
Cornercd Neon" which goes into pro-
duction this week at the Paramount
studios under the direction Of Elliott
Nugent. Miss Boland, who has been
appearing in Face the Music" on
Broadway, left New York for Holly
wood late last week, as did Miss Roberti,
who recently completed stage appear
ance in Pardon My English"
Evening star., 1933-05-14
Every Man for Himself. "

PARAMOUNT has annunced produc-
tion plans for Every Man for Him
self," a back-stage comedy by AL jack
son and Joseph L. Mankiewicz. It will
be released during the Summer. Jack
Oakie, Sari Martha, Harry Green and
Skeets Gallagher have been assigned to
the cast. No director has been selected.
Evening star., 1933-05-14
Green Dice" for Rogers.

THE FOX FILM CORPORATION has
announced the purchase Of Green
Dice" the Saturday Evening Post story
by Anne Cameron, as starring vehicle
for Will Rogers following his appear
ance in his next scheduled film, "The
Last ADAM" from the James Gould
Cozzens novel. Mr.. Rogers is in New
York, at present for series Of seven
Sunday night broadcasts.
Evening star., 1933-05-14

FORGE ARLISS was born
4 George Augustus ArliSs-An-
l T drews. He has a peg tooth In
~ front and once lost It in the
Evening star., 1933-05-14
RIVER TRIPS POPULAR.

THE love which Washingtonians have
for boat trips on the Potomac was
adequately proven the past three days;
for the Wilson Line, which began
Mount Vernon and moonlight trips last
Thursday, has already carried several
thousand passengers.
The trip down the picturesque Poto-
mac is one of the most famous trips
in the world. since such historic land
marks as Anacostia Flying Field, Naval
Submarine Base, Alexandria, Fort Hunt,
Fort Washington, ETC., are passed en-
route. On the moonlight trips these
points of interest are picked up by the
powerful searchlight on the S. S. City
Of Washington.
Evening star., 1933-05-14
Outdoor. Amusements
GLEN ECHO PARK.

"\NHEN better fun is to be provided,
w Glen Echo will provide it.
This Is the slogan Of that popular re-
sort, and week end merrymakers will
find it 50. This year the star attraction
Is the new Spanish bali room. Beauti-
full lighting effects, striking archi-
tectural design, and an enlarged orches-
ira under the direction Of MacWilliams.
makes this place a big. drawing card
for the dancers every evening except
Sunday, from $3.50 until 11:30 pm.
The coaster dips, the dodgem rides and
the old mill have all been greatly i'm
proved, but lose none Of their thrills
and charm. The swimming pool Is to
be opened May 81
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-02-10
REDUCED PRICES
| AT LONGS SALE
MANY RARE BARGAINS IN
FURNITURE NOW BEING
OFFERED

o. S. Longs February Sale on
furniture is now going on with
prices lower than they ever have
been. Low prices and easy terms
are being featured in an advertise
ment appearing in The Citizen to-
day.
Convincing proof of ouI
ability to give more quality fol
less money is given in this SALE
says Mr.. Long. eve are offering
bargains which cannot be equaled
elsewhere and giving our Gus.
toners a chance to refurnish Their
homes while prices are low"
Beautiful 8-piece Walnut Din.
ing Room Suites, deliberately
finished with deep routing line
decorations and attractively
shaped top and bottom can now be
bought at prices which Mr.. Long
thinks should look good to any.
body.
Because Mr.. Long is closing Out
on all radios, he is willing to make
greater reductions in this line
These sets represent the best
makes of radios on the market to.
day and include Stromberg-C Carl.
son, Thomas A. Edison, Fada and
others.