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The Wrangell sentinel., 1935-10-11
COLUMBIA RIVER PACKERS
 ASK FOR REORGANIZATION

The Columbia River Packers as- sociation. one of the largest fish ing corporations Tn the United States with holdings in Alaska. filed a petition in federal court at Portland, Oregon, the first of the month, for permission to reorganize financially under the amended fed eral bankruptcy laws.
 The company declared that while it is not insolvent, it is in financial difficulty and that a reorganization is necessary to obtain a $5O0,O00 loan from the Reconstruction Fin ance corporation.
 The company last spring sold its cannery holdings at Lake Bay in the Wrangelll district to Karl Thiele.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1935-10-11

E. J. Hamacher, pioneer mer- chant and photographer of White Horse, was marooned at Lake La
The Wrangell sentinel., 1935-10-11
HERRING SEINE FLEET ON WAY
 TO HOME PORTS IN STATES

The last of the herring seine boats which operated during the past season in southeastern Alaska have left for their home ports in the sou,h. A lew of the vessels went ahead but 2S. the bulk of the fleet. vent out together. The 2s herring boats carried 225 men as members of their crews.
 The herring plants had a poor season this year. it is reported. noticeably below the average. Due 10 an increase in herring operations this season. however. the total pro duction of the industry may be about the same as in the past few years. only distributed through a larger number of operators.
 Several plants ineeased their ia cilities this season and new plants. or plants long idle, were pressed in. to service.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1935-10-11

Capt. S. Pete Sather of Seward says he needn't worry about food for his foxes for the next two years as he estimates that the S0-foot whale that he towed into port a few days ago will last that length of time. The mammal was sighted IA miles out in Nuka straits and the tow was such a cumbersome one that it took the MS Rolfh III ! hours to transfer it to shore. It was estimated that the whale had been dead two years. but was well preserved.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1935-10-11

The truck trail being built by the Forest Service between the Moose Pass highway and Cooper Landing at the outlet of Kenai lake, near Seward. is now about so per cent complete, it is reported The work is being done by CCC workers and covers about 12 miles. Construction of a dock at the Kenai lake ranger station Is among the work planned for this winter, according to MT. Burdick, who inspected timber sales and improvements through the Chugach National Forest. He visit ed Anchorage and took time to look over the Matanuska project.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1935-10-11
FORMER ALASKANS ARE
 MARRIED IN SHANGHAI

Miss Edith Hill, formerly of Ket- chikan and Anacortes, Washington, and Thomas K. Smith, former pub fisher of the Ketchikan Chronicle and now editor of the Shanghai bu- reau of the United Press association. were married in Shanghai August 29. The ceremony was performed at the American consulate-general by Judge Milton J. Helmick.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1935-10-11

A move to revive interest in a ear ferry to operate between Ket- chikan and Prince Rupert where the terminus of the Canadian Ma tional railroad is located has been started by the Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce. J. H. Rolie, at whose suggestion the move started, was named chairman of a committee to work on the issue. with J. W Men denhall of the Ketchikan Cold Stor- age company and NJ. J. Bueey, ga- rage owner, other members. The meeting of the club was well at tended. some 30 members taking part. It was presided over by W. K Spaulding, president J. R. Heck man, local industrialist and banker addressed the club relative to the desirability of a road into the Unuk river region where mining has recently attracted considerable attention
The Wrangell sentinel., 1935-10-11

Charged with malicious destruc- tion of property" Hageman Olsen, fisherman, was arrested at Ketchi- kan after he had allegedly made two attempts to wreck the Sham rock bar Evicted by barkeepers af- ter the first attempt. he returned to finish the job only to find police and federal officers on hand to take him in. It is charged that he be- came incensed with the bars man agement when he was refused liq- uor. He is O be tried in the Unit ed States commissioners court.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1935-10-11
ALL-ALASKA REVIEW

Berge last week, the engine of his launch breaking down. Mir. Ham acher had secured a large quantity of ducks and was preparing to start the journey home when a connect ing rod broke in the engine. Hav- he had to subsist on ducks, more ducks and then more ducks until four days later when Chester Ham ilton, Northern Commercial manag- CT. acting on advices from s. Coul- ter, the head of the customs staff, went by gasboat to ascertain the delay in returning.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1935-10-11

Investigation of stove popes and chimneys for fire hazards by mem bers of the Fire Department of Fairbanks show that the defective chimney is one of the most frequent causes of fires in homes, and such fires are strictly preventable, the Fairbanks fire chief said. He said that all chimneys should be built from the ground up and none of the weight should be carried by any thing except the proper foundation. They should extend three feet above a flat roof and two feet above the ridge of peak roofs Two connec- tions to a single flue have caused many fires by one communicating to the other He suggests to test a chimney simply build a fire in the stove or furnace and while the smoke is flowing freely from the chimney close it tightly at the top. Escaping smoke through the walls or through poorly stopped flue holes will indicate openings which should be made tight.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1935-10-11

A skaters cabin beside Menden- hall lake near Juneau, has been started by the forest service. The building. an 1Sx24 foot structure, will be built of broken granite nor tised with concrete. It is to be built on the east side of the road about 400 yards toward Juneau from the rifle range. A crew of eco workers is constructing the cabin.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1935-10-11

The Petersburg CCC camp began work on October 1 with 15 men em- ployed on the Sandy Beach road. All of the men are married.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-09-02
'ToDie atDawn'
For Roadside

The Roadside Theater has with.
drawn American Songbird" from
their production schedule for this
summer. Instead of opening that
play on September for two.
week engagement, they will pre-
sent a return engagement, for one
week only, of '''To Die at Dawn, -
the popular melodrama hit of the
summer.
Thus that nefarious counter
feiter and murderer, George
Drake, impersonated by Harold
Stepler, will have one more week
in which to defy justice and the
law, and the many who were
greeted by the S. R. o. stand may
yet hiss his efforts to murder 1.-The
best gal in Kentucky" and cheer
Ralph Fowler as Silent Dave, 1.-The
bloodhound of the law" as he
breaks down the wall of Nam
moth Cave just in time to prevent
the deed. Likewise Gail Dennis
and John Edwards will try again
to outWit the archcriminal, though
until Silent Dave came in, they
met with scant success!
1.-The Henrietta,' current COM
edy attraction is scheduled to
close Saturday, September 7, and
ITO Die at Dawn opens again
the following Monday, September
9, in a final windup of the sum-
mer season. And so the Roadside
Theater will close with the same
favorite type of drama with which
it began the season, melodrama.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-09-02

pool. Or even a private dancing
studio.
sprightly is the word thai
seems to fit TOP Hat" Its fran
tic dancing begins with an AStaire
sand solo. moves on to the frs,
Rogers-Astaire slick team w0rk ir
Check to Cheek" against a rhyth
mic background of rain drops
includes a machine gun produc
ton number in which Fred'S fly
ing pedals stimulate the bark Of the
lethal weapon, touch the fina
high in the deliberately staged
"Piccolino." Dancing with a cap
ital Cd" all of it.
Smoothly embroidered into the
story weave are the Berlin songs
mentioned above, and. possessing
the most beguiling quality, "Tor
Hat, White Tie and Tails" ano
mo Strings"
BrOderick Smiles
The meringue story Of "Tor
Hat" is something about Ginger
Rogers, an American dancer, mis-
taking Fred AStaire for a married
man; repulsing his advances by
frequently slapping his face. Ed,
ward Everett Horton is the mar
ried man dragged into the mix
up, with his butler: the latter a
gentleman's valet, who sulks about
which tie is right for the occa.
sion. Since the dancers must have
time to catch their breath, the
authors are permitted to intrude.
Helping out the comedy are:
Helen Broderick. mistress Of dry,
and biting sarcasm, who makes
much of slim chances: Eric Blore,
Erik Rhodes, and the afore-
Horton.
"Top Hat" is a positive MUST
for those who like dancing. And
who doesn't?
ANDREW r. KELLEY
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-09-02

September 80, originally assigned to the Lunt-
Fontanne "Taming of the Shrew' which the
Theater Guild will present later in the sea-
son. Oracle Barrie has signatured con-
When Katharine Cornell presents a %Romeo
and Juliet here in October, the part of the
nurse will be played by Florence Reed. {.
One reason why Carlo always insists upon
William Daniels as her cameraman: The
PROV of the boat shot in "Queen Christina"
and in her latest, Gamma Karenina" the open
ing glimpse of the glamorous Swede observed
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-09-02
M OWE
O'CLOCK

EARLE-Hugh Herbert, Joan
Blondell, in Were In the
Money" 10 a. M, 1920, 2:40,
sos, 7:45 and 1905 p. m.
Stage-11:10 a. m, 1885, 400,
$40 and 9 p. m.
PALACE-Greta Carlo, Fred.
ric March anna Karenina,"
1l:25 a. M, las. $3.50, $3.50,
1885, 9:3 p. m.
COLUMBIA Norma Shearer.
Fredric March in "smilin'
Through" 11:15 a. m, 1:15,
3:25, 5:25, 1880. 9:35 p. m.
FOx-George Burns, Oracle
Allen, in Here Comes
Cookie" II a. m, LAS, 4:3O,
7:25, 1910 p. m. Stage
12:45, $3.50, 6:25, $40 p. m.
Observation-Disclosures Gag.
ney, Pat O'Brien in 1.-The Irish
In U.s." 1885 a. M, 1885, 3:35,
5:35, 7::35 and 9:35 p. m.
RKO KEIT H'S-Fred Astair
Ginger Rogers in "Top Hat
$50, 1850 a. M, 1850, $3.50
$50, 1850, $50 p. m.
HOWARD-Pat O'Brien, jose
phine Hutchinson in coil for
the Lamps Of China" 1890,
1855, 7:05, 1910 p. m. Stage,
2:4U. $50. sos p. m.
BELASCO-Clive Brook, Made
leine Carroll in "Loves of a
Dictator" 1900, 2:O9. 400,
6:09. 500, 1000 p. m.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-09-02
Wendy Barrie Turns
abIes on Jokester

A "breakaway" suit worn by
Jokester Jack Oakie in 1.-THE Big
Broadcast of 1886" at Paramount
was the means by which Wendy
Barrie finally revenged herself for
the many practical jokes she has
suffered at the comics hands.
Clad in the suit, Oakie was put
ting on a great show for a group
of visitors to the set. Wearing her
most ingenious smile, Wendy
walked up to him and said, "Oh,
Jack, there's a thread on your
coat" at the same time pulling
the string that held the suit to-
gether.
In less time than it takes to tell
1t, the "breakaway" suit fell into
pieces about Oa$ie's feet, leaving
him clad in a pair of brilliant
blue and white shorts and an en-
barraSSed grin.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-09-02

ASta1re Is Great
Fred Astaire is not a new dane.
ing phenomenon. The stage ele-
waited him to full stardom seasons
ago when he danced with his sis
ter, Adele (now Lady Cavendish) !,
to the complete satisfaction Of the
SIS customers. It took only "The
Gay Divorce" and Roberta" to
make movie audiences conscious
Of the fact that an extraordinary
hoofer had arrived, to make Holly
wood dancing something more
than series of Busby Berkeley
artistic geometric tableaus in mo-
ton.
Upon Dancer Astalre is bestowed
the highest honorS because he
not only originates the taps and
the whirlS which are executed
with such bewildering grace, but
because he can make endurable
the flimsiest kind Of mistaken
identity farce story, in top Hat"
stretched far beyond the normal
bursting point. Also aiding the
feeble authors are such lingering
Irving Berlin tunes as isn't This
a Lovely Day" and "Cheek to
Cheek" and a production that
reeks with. opulence and class.
If I reserve a belated second
mention for Miss Ginger Rogers
it is because I think that without
the partner who guides her so
skillfuIly through ball room rou-
tines the little lady would be
fighting for her place in the cine
ma sun.
Some Fast Dancing
Miss Rogers Is attractively
curved, can wear clothes becom.
ingly, has a drug store type OF
beauty and very ordinary talents
as an actress. When she takes
the hand of Fred Astaire and
moves with evenness and high
speed charm through the intrica-
cies of 1.-THE Piccolino," Ginger
glides automatically into the
ranks of those who can demand
a contract to support a swimming
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-09-02
China Seas Coming
Back to Columbia

China Seas" the blazin g
MG-M drama Of the Orient with
its multi-starred cast headed by
Clark Gable. Jean Harlow and
Wallace Berry, continues it's two
weeks Palace theater excitement
with a third week at Loew'S Co.
lumbia starting Friday.
Clark Gable Is the two-fisted
skipper Of On Inflated China
Seas" liner aboard which occurs
some of the most absorbing ad-
venture, romance. and entertain
ment Of the current movie year.
Jean Harlow. as China Doll, and
Wallace Berry. as the head Of a
pirate crew, top the cast that in
cludes Lewis Stone. RoSalind Rus
sell, Robert Benchley and a host
Of others.
News, comedy. and short sub
jects will augment the screen ad-
venture film.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-09-02
ICOVer HOu yWOOd
By LLOYD PANTAGES
Copyright, 1885. King Features
Svn6icofa IneN

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 2.-snap-
shots collected while hanging over
a transom: BY way of reminiscing
over the quaintness of the eX-
movies for CARLOS "Mata Hari,"
Is writer's worked on Is scripts
and when all Is were handed in
the producer decided to have
them all read off and then pick
the best excerpts from each one.
The reading marathon took four
days and at the end of that time
they discovered, much to their
chagrin, there had been nary a
secretary in the room taking down
notes on the portions they wished
to retain, so they listened in vain.
But there was one bright gentle
man at the conference who re-
tanned all the notes in his memory
so they promptly closeted him
with a secretary for II days so he
might put his memory on paper.
When he had finished, someone
thoughtlessly breezed into the Of
flee and all of his notes breezed
out into the hall and, on account
of the pages weren't numbered. it
took another two days to get them
together again-and that's how
"Mata Hari" was born.
BY the by, in the same picture
the late Alec Francis was given
speech to memorize that was but
pages long. Every day when he
came back to the studio after mas
tering his lines, they would
change their mind and give him a
new speech. After he had learned
four complete speeches they de-
cided to use the original one after
all.
It is highly unbelievable that
this condition will continue, but
at any rate Diana VINEYARD, the
lovely star of "Cavalcade," has an
no,mced that she is giving her
screen career back to the Indians
because she feels that she does
not photograph well enough.
And what will happen If child
prodigies get any brighter? Sybil
Jason (Warners' five-year-old Shir-
ley Temple), has just written a
play. Furthermore unlike Shirley,
she reads all of her own scripts.
Miss It's mama reads them to
Miss Shirley and then she memo
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-09-02

Andrew Kelley through dsolVng clouds Of steam rail-
way depot This is the art of the lens and shutter at its
finest Glimpse the Top Hat front which the artistic Joe
facade and see flash that is worthy of bangup picture.
When you Don Bestors band at the Fox class band
don't leave without hearing that very clever finish The
Bstor band goes into the French Casino in New York in
fortnight Jimmy Lakes Gayey will take off for the
season beginning September And Norma Shearers
'Smin Through did normal weeks business in two days
Friday Saturday. Which gives you idea Of the
lartv of the Columbia Theater revival.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-09-02
Bros.
Have 10 Ready
to Show

With ten features completed
and awaiting release, five pictures
currently in work and seven in
preparation, the Warner Bros
First National studios are operat-
ing far ahead Of production
schedule.
The first of the completed
films to be seen in Washington
will be Bright Lights" starring
Joe E. Brown with Ann Dvorak
and Patricia Ellis. This will be
an early attraction for the Earle
Theater.
y Among the other completed
productions, to be shown locally
at either the Earle or the Metro
politan, are 1.-THE Goose and and
the Gander," with Kay Francis,
George Brent and Genevieve
Tobin; 1.-THE Little Big Shot, -
with Sybil Jason, Robert Arm
trong and Glenda Farrell; "The
Pay-Off," with James Dunn,
Claire Dodd and Patricia Ellis;
'Dr. Socrates" starring Paul
Mum with Ann Dvorak; II Live
for Love-" which introduces Ever
EFT Marshall with Dolores Del
Rio; Living Up to Lizzie" with
Margaret Lindsay and Warren
Hull; Moonlight on the Prairie"
with Dick Foran and Sheila Man.
nerS; 1.-THE Murder of DR.. Harri-
gam" with Kay Linaker and Ri
cardo Cortez; and "Shipmates
Forever" the Dick PowellRuby
Keller production made at Annap-
oils.
Now in production on the West
Coast are Captain Blood" with
Enrol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland
and Guy Kibbee; 1.-The Frisco
Kid" starring James Cagney and
Margaret Lindsay; "Stars Over
Broadway" in which Pat O'Brien,
James Melton and Jane Frohman
appear; Broadway Hostess" with
Winifred Shaw, Phil Regan and
Lyle Talbot; and THE Case of
the Lucky Legs" with Warren
William and Patricia Ellis.
Pictures in preparation for early
shooting include Enemy Of Man"
with Paul NUM- and Josephine
Hutchinson: Green Light" from
the best selling novel by Lloyd c..
Douglas; Money Man." starring
Edward G.. Robinson; Anthony
Adverse" starring Fredric March;
"A Present from Margate'' with
Josephine Hutchinson and War
rem Williams; IT Found Stella
Parrish" starring Kay Francis;
and I'm In the LEGION" with Joe
E. Brown.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-09-02
Dictator Love
Reopens
BeIasco

Redecorated and refloored, the
Belasco Theater opened it's Lafay-
cite Square doors on Saturday
with Gaumont-British feature,
Loves of Dictator" that is good
enough to begin any season.
Here is a handsomely mounted
and brilliantly acted picture. It's
settings and costumes are elabo-
rate. It pluckS a story from the
royal court of Eighteenth century
Denmark and makes it's historical
significance entertaining. It's mar
rative pace is far from being a jog,
and the producers were courageous
enough to diSobey the diehard
cinematic rule of happy ending.
Principals in the cast are Give
Brook as Struensee, a shrewd, am
bilious, high-principled Bavarian
doctor; Madeleine Carroll as the
unhappy Queen Caroline Mathilde
Of Denmark; Emlyn Williams as
King Christian, childish, weak
willed and untutored monarch of
20 who is merely figurehead in
the royal court; Helen Haye as
Juliana, the Queen mother, and
the real force behind the throne.
King Christian appoints Struen-
see as his personal physician
because the doctor has bold per-
sonality and an uncanny skill in
understanding statesm n ship.
Christian obeys Struensee's sug-
gestions and quickly angers the
stanch Queen Mother and the
whole royal council.
Struensee becomes the dictator
behind the scenes. He soothes the
rebellious populace by banishing
taxes and levying tolls only on
the rich. He turns over a palace
to the sick and needy and gives
freedom to the serfs.
In doing all of this the doctor
wins the confidence of the queen,
who had been forced by royal
wishes to become Christians wife.
But Struensee wins not only the
queens confidence, but her love
as well. The queen mother and
the royal council, dismissed by the
king at the advice of the doctor,
resort to intrigue to have the
queen and Struensee arrested as
conspirators.
Their plot succeeds and Queen
Mathilde and Strueness are i'm
prisoned. The king had been con-
WINGED that the two had been Sc
cret consorts. The ending shows
Struensee's sacrifice to enable the
queen to escape to her native
country, England. 1t is touched
with pathos.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-09-02
SOME AMUSEMENT GLEANINGS
Dizzy and Daffy Dean to Tour
With Fat Johnny Perkins;
About Peq-Leq Bates
By ANDREW R. KELLEY

Labor Day roundup of loose items Cecil B. De Mile
The Crusades will be early $3.50 top attraction the
National Theater with reserved Probably the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-09-02

rizes them. Before we get off the
subject of Miss Jason, she is nav.
ing sixteen milimeter movie
made of her play and Mervyn LIE
Roy, her director, will play a part.
According to the little lady she
wishes to get out of the acting
class and do something construc.
tive, like being a director.
If had my way about a couple
of things, Nick Long, jr., who prac.
tically did a Nijinspi in Broad.
way Melody" would get an MC1M
contract and Bob Taylor would be
tested to play Romeo opposite
Norma Shearer's Juliet.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-09-02

Top Hat" Record
In the middle of the night,
Western Union dropped this mes
sage at my domicile, calling me
from the first lap of a Labor
Day beauty sleep:
1--WE done it today stop Fred
Astaireand Ginger Rogers Top
hat broke every existing record
and on a short day too stop
this includes Little Women as
well as previous Astaire Rogers
pictures best to you"
Hardie.
There is, it seems, no stopping
Mr.. Meakin. More anent TOP
Hat"
Take this straight from Ginger
Rogers, who ought to know: MY
real name is Virginia Katherine
McMath Aver. I believe some
studio publicity has given my real
name as Virginia Rogers, but that
is a mistake. Rogers is the name
of my stepfather, while my legal
name is McMath. My husbands
real name is Aver, not Ayres."
Fred Astaire never kissed Gin
ger Rogers in the pictures until
they made ''Top Hat" When they
made the osculatory scene in their
latest Mrs. Fred Astaire was on
the sidelines watching the shoot
ing. She fell in a dead swoon.
Managing the Deans
Fat Johnny Perkins, emcee Of
the Earle show this week is the
official mascot Of the world cham
pion st. Louis Cardinals. that
bunch Of diamond hooligans un-
der frankie Frisch who appear to
have the Giants number, but may
stub their toe trying to trip the
Cubs.
Rotund Mr.. Perkins wears dia-
mond as big as cabbage which
the Cardinals presented him after
knocking off Mickey Cochrane's
athletes last fall. Next to the
stage, roly-poly Perkins loves base
ball. I think he would love to be
an acrobat also for he manages to
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-09-02
Paramount Selects
New Film Directors

Paramount studios announce
that Alfred Santell will direct the
Barbara Stanwyck picture tenta.
lively titled 1.-THE Baby Market, %
and Frank Tuttle, after his New
York vacation, will direct the
Charles r. Rogers production,
Easy Living" featuring Jean
Arthur. The latter is scheduled
to start about September /.