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Two Reel Comedy
HARRY SWEET
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“DUMB BELL"
Sunday Matinee
TOM MIX jn
“TRAILING”
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i Attractions
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ATTRACTIONS TONIGHT
COLISEUM—Comic opera in three
acts, “The Garden of the Shah,”
presented under the auspices of
the American Legion.
PALACE—Herbert Rawllnson in “The
Millionaire.”
COMING ATTRACTIONS
COLISEUM—Zasu Pitts in "Seeing It
Through.”
PALACE—Tom Mix in "Trailin’.”
“THE MOLLIONAIRE”
AT PALACE TONIGHT
| 'All tides of life ;irs allown in "The
Millionaire,” tha Universal feature
which brings Herbert R.iwlinson tj
the Palace Theater tonight. Itawliu
si.n's role is tlfht of a young man
who suddenly inherits wealth from a
■man who had once loved his mother
and who was assassinated by a gang
r.f cut-throats. The young heir is
led bv these circumstances to sus
pent that" a so-called “protective"
, body (is nothing but a collection
agency for a band of blaekh mders.
He determines to tiring them to time
and avenge his benefactor’s death.
He is supported in bis determination
to do this by the fact that his sweet
lir-arCT who declined to marry him
when the heard of ills inheritance—
on the grounds that wealtli might
change his outlook on life, his ns
turo and his attitude towards her—
has consented to change her decision
when, lie is successful in his under
taking.
j The mystery chase leads through
j cellars, ball rooms, apartments, bid
den doors, boles that open and close
in the twinkling of an eye, and secret
passages and halls that were built
by the old man for his own safety
in which purpose they failed. For
another character of the story, Bobo
Harmswortb, a role (Interpreted by
Bert Roach, it leads to a woman who
is a highly accomplished crook and
a lovable woman at the same time, j]
ZASU PITTS AT
COLISEUM SATURDAY
Zasu Pitts, an appealing little mo- |
tion picture actress, who lias creat
ed on the screen a particular place j
for herself, will be seen at the Coli
jseum Saturday matinee and Saturday j
j night ‘in "'Seeing It Through,” her ,
| new Brentwood picture. Her role of ]
Betty Lawrence in this production ,
| fits very closely the type of part i
I she made distinctive in such l>ic-11
| tures as "Poor Relations,” "Better ■
| Times” and “The Other Half."
I .Aliss Pitts is at her best in the I
'role of a girl who meets the hard!
i knocks of adversity with an optimism!
(which makes her refuse to be con-j
qmired, lit “Seeing It Through” she
is a girl who is put out of her own|
home because of the illness of her I1
mother, forced to live with a skin-!
flint of an old money lender, and' in
addition see her own home terribly
treated by a tenement family to
I which it has been leased.
TOM MIX AT
PALACE SUNDAY
Tom Mix is to open at tlie Palace
i Theater on Sunday in a Fox picture, j
! “Trailin'." The story involves a deep I
| mystery affecting several lives, and j
is based on Max Brand's novel of .
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APRIL 26TH—27TH—28TH
HAROLD LLOYD
IN
1 “Grandma’s Boy
1 (The star that has pleased the United States—ran
1 19 \veeks in Los Angeles.)
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Price* 1
Adults .40c—Tax 4c—Total 44c. |
Children .13c—Tax 2c—Total 15c. g
Loges .45c—Tax x5c—Total 50c. §
REMEMBER YOU HAVE THREE NIGHTS TO CHOOSE FROM |
APRIL 29th and 30th j
STARTING WITH SUNDAY MATINEE, WE WILL PRESENT THE r!
HIGHEST PRICED ATTRACTION EVER BROUGHT TO JUNEAU 3
D. W. GRIFFITH'S
"ORPHANS OF THE STORM” 1
(By arrangement with Kate Claxton)—(In 12 Reels) S
By An All Star Cast, including LILLIAN and DOR- 1
OTHY GISH, MONTE BLUE, CREIGHTON f
HALE and PORTER STRONG |
Price* !
Adults .50c—Tax 5c—Total 55c. |
Children .22c—Tax 3c—Total 25c. s
Loges .......68c—Tax 7c—Total 75c. ~
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Wage Fight to Prevent
Boy’s Deportation.
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Govsrnor Al Smith it ml United
States Senator Royal S. Cope
land, of New York, have joined
in the fight to prevent the de
portation of 15-year-old Sammy
Goldman, of Syracuse, New York.
The boy came to the United
Stacts with his mother and sis
ter. He was classed as a mental
defective, but permitted to enter
the country on a year's proba
tion. Ho soon became equal in
proficiency with other students.
■Respite this, however, an order
was issued that lie be deported to
Rumania. President Harding lias
temporarily halted the deporta
tion, and it is likely the boy
will be permitted to remain.
ho same name. Mix is first discov
ered in a drawing room with Inis
vealthv father, and those who never
lave seen the Western star in a Tux
slo will be curious to see him in
his picture. Hater ho goes to tlie
.Yost and is mistaken tor an ordln
iry tenderfoot, but the folks out
hero soon discover their mistake,
dix shows them a fe>w things about
lorseman: itip and fighting.
There is plenty of gun play, pretty
lorsemanship and snappy action in
Trailin',” to say nothing of a love
omance in which the beautiful Eva
iovak figures.
Mix is credited with another win
ter In this new vehicle.
tfRS.’ LEAH LAWSON
WEDS SYLVESTER HOWELL
Airs.. Lea.li AT- Lawson, of Seattle,
■epresentativo of a Seattle calendar
md novelty house and other btisl
less concerns, who was a Juneau
risitor in February, was married at
Venana April 5 to Sylvester 'Howell,
vno of tlie best known mining men
»t the Interior, who has extensive in
erests in the Hot Springs district,
drs. Lawson has many friends in
luneau.
The Nouana News contains the tot
owing account of the marriage:
“Sylvester Howell, one of the most
widely known and highly respected
niiiing men in Interior Alaska, and
Mrs. Leah K Ai Lawson, of Seattle,
verc unit .1 in marriage in Nenana
in Thursday evening, the ceremony
>eing performed by Commissioner C.
i>. Leckie. The contracting parties
were attended Is,' Mrs. Louis Morrell
>f Fairbanks ami Al. J. Cooney.
“The bride is a comparatively re
’ont arrival In Interior Alaska but
the made many friends during her
arief residence, in Fairbanks and Ne
lana. Air. Howell ions been
identified with the mining industry
in the Hot Springs district and otiiet
sections of interior Alaska and has
i wide circle of friends who join
the News in wishing him and hit
aride a long and happy voyage on
he sea of matrimony."
BELLINGHAM TO RUN FROM
KETCHIKAN TO RUPERT
The motor boat BeHlngham, which
ms been recently rebuilt and im
iroved, will cperaite between Kotehl
tan and Prince Rupert, beglunlnfs at
mco. She recently arrived at Ket
•hik.v.i with a lull cargo of cannery
supplies an:l oquipment.
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Call Berry's taxi Tor that closet
ear comfort; day and night service
Stand at the big hotel—the Gas
tlneau. —&dv
Main Street is going to be Chang'
ed to Dream Street.
A -mass meeting may take up thii
proposition about Dream Street.
GOOD WORK AT
A FAIR PRICE
is better than poor work
at any price.
Estimates cheerfully giv
en free of charge.
GEO, B. RICE
Forrset Building:
Plumbing Heating
Phone 314.
BIG MUSICAL
COMEDY GIVEN
HERE TONIGH1
! American Legion Will Pres
I ent "The Garden of Shah"
at Coliseum Theatre.
(Amusement fan on GastLneai
Channel will have an opportunity o
witnessing a roally big-timo miisiea
comedy show at the Coliseum tonlgh
and tomorrow night. . The vomit
opera ds in three . -is, jammed fttl
of catchy songs, pretty girls, dance!
and everything gWlny to. make up i
big production.
There are also a -.ring of special
lies which will I) introduced will
many novel cd'feets. T ie curtain wil
go up sharp at S> o'clock and thi
musical offerings si ,,■> once. Tin
comic opera will tic over by 10 01
10:1a o'clock.
The cast of ch in.-.er- i- as fol
lows:
/olid ill. daughter ct the Shah
.. Irene Nelson
XoWhboli, Zohduh’s mu - ', a hcllov
er in i cint arnat ion
Mrs. Alaska Y. Kleitisohiiiid
Liohl.in, Zolulah’s friends and con
fidant.I. "gia Kaslievarof
Ted Harding. American mining cn
I glneer. William Frj
i Billy C’limmiiigs. Harding’s assist
ant and friend . .1. It. Bernhofe
Samuel Johnson Jackson, a gentle
man of color from the li. S. A.
. Wilfred J. Lriver
Pcninah, the Shall ...Grover 1’. Davi.
Soniecrabn, an Arab Sheik
. Wi G Culvei
CHORUS OK GIRLS
Miss Lillian ColHns. .Miss Katlierliu
j nickels, Miss Dorothy Haley, .Mrs
N’ina Ford, Mrs. Horace Adams ami
Vliss Dorothy Olson.
CHORUS OF MBN
Harry J. Fisher. George Os well
Homer G. Nordling. J. Saul;. W. J
Beach, Leslie White and R. J. Dyer
The musical numbers are:
l‘Tn This Persian Lind of Flower*”
. Chorus of Girls
i "I Am a Persian Rose Bud” .
. . Zolidah and Girls
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Prophecy" ! ,
Nowobeh, Ted, Hilly and Girls —
“Wlint the Dickey nird Said to Mo" E
Nowobeh and Sam ;
“My Persian Rose" r
Ted and Glrks, assist- z
ed by .facnuelin Higgins in dance |r
"Pre-tty Zohdah" . Hy Zohdah|E
“Since Year Eyes Itav. Told .Mo’’ z
Zohdah and Ted z
“De Tamin' oh da Shrew" Sam z
“Persian Lullaby". Nownli. h and Girls z
“Chains of Love" Lchla'h and Billy z
"Bow How" Chorus jz
“Two Royal Nibs" =
...,1’eninnh. iSomeeraba and Chorus z
'Soon the Wedd'ing Hells You’ll z
Hear" Entire Company z
‘For Yea Are Love" Z
. Zohdah and Gill, z
'If Life Is Mk ■ a Story Bonk"
.Zohdah. laahlah nnd Someeraba ]
‘What We Were an I Wa it W >
Arc" Novvohe'a and Sam
l Hid Not Know" Ted and Chorus ]
‘The Silvery Moon" Zohdah
and Ted 1~
I Am King of My Desert
Throne lz
Someerab.. , z
‘Two Little Honey H
Lohlah and Hilly
"To Jail, To Jail"
Principals and Chorus
■My Life Is One Hugo Joke”
Pomuali and Girls i~
Moon Raws” Zohdah z
Finale
Entire Company i —
LITTLE ADDITION'S
‘Children of the Snow"
Hy the “Snow Birds"
Renee Guerin, Helen K! insihmidt.
Hetty Bnrragur, JacfliteUn Higgins.
‘A N'osl That I've Built for You”
k.. .. . Helen Klein
sch.midt ami Buddy Martin (Y.mci
Russian Dance .. Mr. William Bigol'f
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KETCHIKAN FIREMEN ELECT
OFFICERS FOR NEXT YEAR
II. M. Stack-pole has hem elected
Cl •:< ;' of tho Kcu h'ikan Eire Depart !
ment far the eighth successive year.
L. 11. Bubley was chosen to he As |
sistant Chief; Stanley Adams, captain,
of litre chemical depart ment; N. R
Walker, captain of Company No. 2;
D. C. Cannon, cr.plain of the hook jS
land 1 tlder company, and .1. IT. Da ,z
vies, D, H. Hunt and Oe rg,Mor-15
i rlson. -trustees. E
U. & I. TAXI. =
7-Passenger Car. jz
Twenty-four hour service Stand =
In front of U. & I. Cafe. Phone 64. 7;.
—adv. 'I
First Comic Opera Presented in Juneau for Months =
“The Garden |
of the Shah” I
THREE BIG MUSICAL ACTS
26 Song Hits, 10 Different Danoes, Costumed Chorus E
See the Persian Dance—See the dance
of "the Snowbirds £•
See the Russian Dance, direct from eastern, circuit =
Special scenery— special lighting effects §
MUSIC - MUSIC -- MUSIC 1
ALL SONG HITS 1
This big production is given under the auspices of =
THE AMERICAN LEGION j
The biggest and most pretentious feature ever given ■£
in Juneau. Curtain sharp at 8 o’clock; be m your E
seat so as not to miss anything. |
Reserved Seats, $1. General Admission, 75 cents E
Reserved teats on sale at Cutler, Hauro Drug- Company. E
Reserved seats at bex office each night at 7 o'clock.
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