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--- LAST TIMES TONIGHT NORMA TALMA DGE IN “The Eternal Flame” Jack Dempsey “All Swell on the Ocean” Two shows 7:15-9:20 FRIDAY NIGHT ONLY Elmer Reed , ectures on Eskimo life for the mnefit of the School Track Meet ?und under the auspices of the Parent-Teacher Association. SATURDAY NIGHT ONLY A Rip Snortin’ Western Feature JACK HOXIE IN The Man from Wyoming’ Just the kind of a production everybody will like. Attractions at Theatets ATTRACTIONS TONIGHT COLISEUM—Kenneth Harlan In "The Virginian.” 1 ALACE—Norma Talmadge in “The Eternal Flame.” COMING ATTRACTIONS . PALACE—Elmer Reed in illustrat ed lecture on Eskimos tor Benefit of Track Meet fund Uneer auspices of the Parent Teacher Association. COLISEUM—Claire Windsor in "The Little Church Around the Corner.” "THE VIRGINIAN" IS AT HE COLISbUM TONIGHT "The Virginian” one of America's best known novels and plays, has been filmed and will be presented at 1'ie Coliseum tonight and for the re i lainder of the week with the usual matinee cn Saturday. "The Virginian” is a western pic ture with the west depicted as il v as in the good old, early days. Kenneth Harlan, Florence Vidor end Russell Simpson, have three of the leading roles, Harlan playing the t tie. Pat O’Malley is also in tht cast, playing The Virginian's pal. There will be only one show each night of “The Virginian.” “THE ETERNAL FLAME" LAST TIME AT PALACE “The Eternal Flame” the master piece feature of Norma Talmadge, is < n at the Palace theatre for the last two time tonight. I.trge and sat i died audiences have greeted this production. Conway Tearle plays tue part of He Montriveau to per faction, this role affording him per l-el ease in a splendid delineation. “The Eternal Flame" is a costume ] reduction and one of the best seen in Juneau for months. Jack Dempsey is seen in his fifth '_1_k......... series of “Fight and Win" pictures and this is a good comedy entitled “AH Swell on the Ocean.” “THE LITTLE CHURCH AROUND THE CORNER" COMING Claire Windsor, the radient screen artist, Is featured in “The Little Church Around the Cornor,” the War ner Brothers production announced by the Coliseum for Sunday. This is the young actress who in two years has climbed to the top rung of stellar success, beginning very low and reaching the top. “The Little Church Around the Corner" Is a screen adaptation of the stage play of the same name by Charles Blaney, known in every cor ner of the country either in its Uage version or novel form. ILLUSTRATED LECTURE AT PALACE I-- ROW For the benefit of the trac;k meet fund, Elmer Rood will tomorrow night give an illustrated lecture m the Eskimos oi_Far North, un ler the auspices of the Parent Teaeh ar Association. Tickets are being told by pupils of the Juneau schools ml indications are that Mr. Reed vill be greeted by a large audience. MAN FROM WYOMING” AT PALACE SATURDAY That real western cowboy. Jack Hoxie. will be seen at (lie Saturday i attraction at the Palace in “The vlan From Wyoming” which is the screen version of the great western lovel "Wyoming." This feature i. in authentic narrative of the lif • ■ of the western range. Pretty Lil ian Rich, who attracted favorable oramcnt in '‘The Kentucky Derby" with Reginald Denny, is the girl in his rip-snorting western feature. LOCAL LEADERS ARE FAVORABLE TO CRIER BILL Local Sentiment Favors En actment of Literacy Bill of Anchorage Man. The literacy lest bill yesterday in- j troduced in the House of Represent-1 stives by Grier, of Anchorage, was I he pause of considerable favorabV ] ■omment from local leaders, both Democratic and Republican, as be ing simple enough to he workable and , with a test not too stringent yet at j the same time broad enough to meet the situnlion as it has developed in j Southeastern Alaska in the past two j years and which threatens to spread n the near future to other districts. I Among members of the Legislat-1 ire, who naturally are not ready to I commit themselves definitely until ifter a study of the hill, there seemed | o be a strong sentiment favoring its mactment. A number of the mem bers of each House, who had been ;iven an opportunity to examine it ; j :ontents before introduction, endors 'd it heartily. Provisions of Bill. The provisions of the bill follow: "Section 1. That from and after he passage of this act no person shall become or be an elector or /oter at any general election, any ipecial election, or any primary el ictlon, held In the Territory of Al iska for the purpose of electing or lomlnating any person or persons to >r for the office of Delegate to the louse of Representatives of the Un ted States from the Territory of Vlaska. or to or for the office of Sen itor or Representative in the Alaska .legislative Assemtilly, or to or for my other elective territorial office, unless such proposed elector or voter at the time of any such election md prior if) voting thereat., shall he able lo read in the English language the Constitution of the United Stales and to write in the English language; provided that the requirements of tills act shall not apply to any per loh who is incapacitated from com plying therewith by physical disabil ity only. "Section 2. That no person with .... miimimmiiiimmimimimimmiiMiiMiiM .. _ | SPECIAL FOR SATURDAY | | , NIGHT I | PALACE THEATRE | First Time in any Juneau Theatre § 1 RADIO PROGRAM | 1 from 7 to 7:30 and 9 to 9:30 o’clock g | Come and hear concerts from all g 1 parts of the world. | I Instruments furnished by Coats Electric Co. f = Remember SATURDAY NIGHT only = 1 at PALACE THEATRE | Miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiuimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiu Many Puzzling Crimes for Yea •s Plotted in Beautiful Buffc ’o/ Home Norman Ilapgood, writer, re cently entered the house in Buf falo in which some of the most heinous crimes in years have been planned and, unarmed, faced the “master mind” whose well laid plots have puzzled millions—the foremost living American writer of detective stories, *nd a woman. Anna Katharine Green, whose “Leavenworth Case” and thirty other detective ^tories have thrilled readers for many years, including such notables as Lord Bryce, Wilkie Collins, James / AnhA, KXTHARiME GREEM, l-\ER_ AOME AtiD GACDEK (>. Blaine, Theodore Roosevelt Thomas R. Marshall, and others now at the age of seventy-eight lives quietly in her home in Buf falo, tending the flowers in the garden where many of her great stories have been written. Writing in the March issue ol the newly corhbined Mearst’s Inter- [ national and Cosmopolitan, Mr Hapgood tells of a day spent at the ! home of this greut writer, when ; she told him in detail how she | plans her “crimes,” her methods of writing, the source of her plots us well as of the four-page letter of advice written her by Ralph Waldo Emerson which, she says, was largely the secret of her sue- j 1 cess. _ __ out the ability to road and write an herein provided shall vote at any such election; nor shall any election officer knowingly permit any per son without such ability to vote at i any such election; nor shall any other person knowingly induce any person without such ability to vote at any such election; and that the inability of any person to so read and write shall constitute a suf-J ficient ground of challenge to such person's voting by nny qualified elec tion officer, or qualified elector, or duly appointed watcher. Method of Test "Section 3. That ihe ability to so read and write as herein provided shall be evidenced as follows; Every person desiring to vote at any such election, before being permitted to vote, shall, without the aid or as sistance of any person whomsoever, legibly sign liis or her own full name and write his or her own sex and address in the registration or poll hook, and, if ho or she appears to tile election officers or any of them not to have the ability to read and write as herein required, or if lie or she be challenged upon the ground of inability to read and write as herein required, then he or she shall be required, before voting, to read in the English language, publicly and in tlie presence of the election offi cers, and under the direction of ill • election officers or some one of I hem la passage of not less than ten lilies chosen at random by the.election of ficers or some or one of them, from the Constitution of the United States and to legibly write in the English language n passage of not fewei than twenty-five consecutive woie.s chosen at random by the election of ficers or some or one of them from Ihe Constitution of thUnited States, and dictated by one of the election officers to such proposed. Section 1. No person claiming to be exempt from the provisions of this act by reason of physical disab ility shall be permitted to vote at any such election, unless il Is ap parent to the election officers that such physical disability exists, and that except for such physical dis ability the proposed voter would be able to read and write in the Eng^ lislt language as herein required. “Section f>. Any person who is refused permission to vote at any election in any precinct by the elec tion officers of such precinct on the ground that the proposed voter is unable to read and white in ilj? (English language as herein required, shall not again attempt to vote, or be permitted to vote, in the same or any other precinct at the same elec tion. Ballots Are Fraudulent. Section 6. That no ballot enst at any election by any person with out the ability to read and writ • as herein required, except as herein provided, shall he counted,, return; ed or canvassed, and every such v if er or ballot shall be deemed fraud ulent and illegal. Section 7. That any person who violates any of the provisions of this act •shall be deemed guilty of a mis demeanor; and upon conviction there of shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in jail for not more than siz months, or by both fine and imprisonment. “Section 8. That this act as a whole shall not be or become invali dated by reason of the inability of any particular section or provision hereof, or by reason of the inrali % dity of Iho act with reference to any; elections herein mentioned; and it is the hereby expressly declared intent Ion of Ihe Legislature, that the In-; validity or adjudication us invalid, of| any particular section or provision of this act, or of the act generally and as a whole to any of the elections herein mentioned, shall not effect, the validity of any other section ot provision hereof, or the validity of the act as a whole to any election or elections to which it may law fully apply.” lowellTreek PROJECT READY FOR congress! Report Recommending Re-; pairs Creek Flowing Thru , Seward Is Approved. The project for Ihe control oft Lowell Creek, Seward, for the pro tection of government property and the town from floods anil overflows.) is now in shape for Congressional , action, according to Colonel James i (!. Steese, President of tho Alaska ! Road Commission. The report o' | Colonel Steese, recommending the ! ; expenditure of $120,000 for a flume) to divert the waters of the creek i has finally been approved by Ihe War Department and the. Department < f the Interior, and a fovorabln re I 1 port to Congress lias been ordered) by the House Committee on the Ter-1 1 ritories. j "Chairman Curry of California, is' ) strongly in favor of the work, and will push Ihe bill introduced by Del-' legate Sutherland.” said Colonel I Steese. "Had Mr. Curry not been | | confined to his bed bill illness during I !all of January and February, I be-1 j lieve the bill could have been gotten |through this last session In spite of) , the legislative jam." i "The first report upon this pro-1 Jject was submitted in ...8 by Mr. Walter W. Ltikens. who was then employed by the City of Seward. In [DC2 (ho Alafekan engineering Com j mission made an elaborate surv." and submitted a report, signed by j Colonel Meats, recommending a rock fill dam. tunnel, and flume, at a cost ! of $2411,5(15 for tile first construct .ion. The House Committee on the! Territories l.'dd beatings in 1922 and 1921, at which General Richardson.) 'Major Gotwals. and I appeared. Fin !ally, at the suggestion of Mr. Curry.) ithe Secretary of the Interior asken | ; us to make a new report at the ex-) jponse of The Alaska Railroad. This, I was done last fall and has now ftr j ally been approved. It contemplates i that the work will he done under the I supervision of the Alaska Road Com mission. "During Ihe past ten years the Citv I of Reward has expended $12,000; the | Seward Light 'Power Co. an equa amount; and The Alaska Railroad. | over $41,000. or a total of over $125 000, to repair flood damage to the vagaries of this stream. In addition to the City4, the Light Plant, and Th* Alaska Railroad, government proper ty perfaining to the Department of Justice, the Alaska Road Commis sion, and the oignal Corps, lies with in the endangered area.” j> J* j | Thursday—Friday—Saturday and Saturday Matinee * * THE GREAT AMERICAN ROMANCE “THE VIRG MAN” r ‘: i> ,! ' v J J I you call me that, smile!" ^ X n 1 ' I * RUSSELL SIMPSON AND KENNETH HARLAN IN “THE VIRGINIAN"—PREFERRED PICTURES * \ For twenty years "The Virginian” has been It’s a mighty epic drama that will thrill called the Great American Romance. nn-J inspiie a hundred million Americans! I The novel has been a best-seller for twenty f INow it’s the Great Romance of the screen. years. The play rsn steadily for over a decade. And all the familiar, beloved char- < The biggest western picture ever made acters are played in the picture by as fine but it’s more than a western— a cast ns you ever saw. “ONE OF Look Thcm 0ver! One Show ! THE CAST ■ The Virginian Kenneth Harlan cj THE Molly Florence Vidor Each | Trampas Russell Simpson Steve .Pat O’Malley N' It FAMILY" Shorty ... Raymond Hatton nlgtlt I ; 1 / Judge Henry. , Milton Ross Uncle Hughey Sam Allen f't Spanish Kd llertram Hadley . j Patlir Comedy Drummer. Fred Gamhol g o Clock * ’ 10—20—50 cents FOX NEWS Loges_6() ce„ls Prompt J « - jl- -;- -f Coming Sunday ( ,f “LITTLE CHURCH AROUND THE CORNER” V Courts May Tell Whether Dublin Has a Lord Mayor DUBLIN, March -Dublin is discussing whether or not it has a Lord Mayor, and opposite opinions are held. The practice in the past lias been that the Lord Mayor holds office until his succesor is appoint ed. and Lord Mayor O'Neill believes that, us no successor has been ap-' pointed, he is still the Lord Mayor. But the Lord Mayor is an official, of the corporation, and there is now i no corporation. The entire Municipal Council wasj suspended by the Free State (iov eminent, which put in its place Commissioners who are now actual ly administering the city. The Lord Mayor must ,be an Alderman or. Councillor, and there are now noj Aldermen or Councilors. The solu-; tlon of the difference will, it is said, lie submitted to the Supreme Court. NOTICE. Positively no visitors allowed on National Alaska Fur Farms until after July 1st. MAS. JOHN B. MAUSII ALL, Man-j ager. HOY H. OSBOHN, Assistant! Manager nnd Keeper. adv. , Bundles of old newspapers at The 1 Empire, 25 cents u bundle. r— SHEET METAL WORKS ALL KINDS OF SHEET METAL WORK DONE TO YOUR COM PLETE SATISFACTION W. C. JENSEN WINTER & POND BUILDING Phones—Res. 4042. Shop 24. a-T--■ i.' NORTH TR ANSFER I. BATTEXXO, Piw STAND: Alaska^Furiutnre Stare 211 Seward Street nos* Ml. F. 0. Box SM, Jnnean. 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