COPYRIGHT UNDERWOOD * UNOERWOOO, N. V.
"ALMOST AS MUCH FUN AS RAILROADING, FINANCE,
OR POLITICS."
Nine y years young and staying that way by taking a lively inter
est in everything new, Chauncey M. Depew starts the day right with a
cross-word puzzle to exercise his brain in his office as Chairman ot the
Board of the New York Central, at the Grand Central Terminal in New
York City. The Grand Old Man of the Grand Old Party is seen looking
for a five letter word meaning “what the Grand Old Party did to the
other parties,” vertical.
GIANT SET BUILT
FOR MOVIE PLAY
HOLLYWOOD. Calif.. Dec. 23.—
Every once in a while ont at Univer
sal City, across the Cahuenga pass,
live miles to the north of Hollywood,
they burst forth with a production
which makes all of studio town stand
back and gaze with interest.
Out there on a rambling ranch of
several hundred acres, Carl Laemmle
and a host of employes have plenty
of room to move about and when they
plan a set for an unusual production
they are not limited to the confines
of a glass-covered studio or the boun
daries of a lot which is but little larg
er than that.
At present Universal is working on
“The Phantom of the Opera,” Gaston
Leroux's mystery story, based on the
strange personage who in the middle
eighties lived in the cellars of the
Paris opera house.
The play as does the book, clothes
the ghostly fugitive with romance
and a spectacular production is being
made under the direction of Rupert
Julian who completed “Merry Go
Round" after it was started by Erich
Von Stroheim.
Lon Chaney, master of grotesque
make-up is the phantom, and in his
picturization is even more weird than
he was as the cripple in “The Miracle
Man,” or the demoniacal figure in the
“Hunchback of Notre Dame.”
The reproduction of the Paris opera
house on the Universal lot is built
in the first steel and concrete set to
be constructed for a picture. It cov
ers an area equal to that of six ordi
nary office buildings and is a high
as a six story structure. It houses
foyers, promenades, stage and huge
auditorium, all built according to
scale and drawn from architect’s plans
of the original.
There are five cellars, one above the
other, in which the phantom lurked
These have been dug into a hillside
on the Universal ranch, all full sizes.
Mary Philbin plays Christine, the
opera singer, for love of whom the
phantom staged his wierd career ol
terror and Norman Kerry is her lovei
and rescuer. Several thousand costum
ed extras will have parts in the dra
ma, it is said.
Another unusual film is in the pro
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I cess of production by Universal, but
the set is the great outdoors and the
studio is on rubber tires. It is a mo
tor caravan which left the home base
some weeks ago to film “California
Straight Ahead,” a tale of transconti
nental motor traffic by Byron Morgan
with Reginald Denny starring.
The principal item is the traveling
bungalow. This is a trailer built on
the lines of a Pullman car and con
taining every possible adjunct to a
home all in folding form. The rear
! of the car has an observation plat
form. Within is a living room equip
ped with a folding piano, furniture,
radio, and phonograph. At night fold
ing beds are let down to transform
it into a bedroom.
Beyond this a dressing room with
a folding bath, lavatory and other con
veniences, supplied with water from
an overhead tank. A folding kitchen
is at the front and stairs lead to the
roof on which is a railed-in dancing
platform covered with collapsible
i anwing.
The trailer is drawn by a roadster,
which despite its appearance is built
with a truck motor. A lesser engine
in the rear generates electricity to
light the Pullman and furnish current
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for the electric stove, heaters, fans,
etc. A telephone connects the trailer
to the movie car ahead.
The whole equipment is said to
have cost $80,000. Behind the travel
ing residence, a caravan of trucks
carries the cameras, a portable labor
atory for developing film, and other
necessary equipment.
The trip started at Victorville on
the edge, of the Mojave desert where
the first scenes were taken. From
there the caravan is traveling the
highways picking locations for the
different incidents in the story as
they go.
One Man Draws Four
Life Sentences and
40 Additional Years
LOS ANGELES, Calif., Dec. 23.—
Four consecutive life terms and an
additional forty year sentence were
imposed upon Lawrence Culver, con
victed on seven counts charging stat
utory offenses, when he appeared in
superior court today for pronounce
ment of judgment. In imposing sen
tence the court explained Culver whs
“passed hope” and that drastic meas
ures were justified to “protect socie
ty from him in the future.”
OWNER OF "LIQUOR”
RANCH IS CHARGED
SEATTLE, Dec. 23.—Clarence High,
lessee of the Himount “poultry”
ranch on which Sheriff Matt Star
wich made a sensational $100,000
liquor haul Saturday, was charged
| in a justice court complaint yester
j day with possession of liquor with
1 intent to sell.
His attorney, Edward Chavelle,
posted $1,000 cash bond for his lib
erty pending trial. Mrs. High, the
lessee’s wife, who was arrested on
the ranch Saturday, is at leberty un
der the same amount of bond. They
will be tried jointly, it was said.
Starwieh yesterday expressed the
belief that High and his wife were
merely custodians of the valuable
liquor cache and the couple were
either cogs in a commercial booze
ring or employes of a group of
wealthy Seattle men who had ar
ranged the cache for holiday distri
bution.
High and his wife, the Sheriff
stated, had declined outright to dis
cuss their connection with the cache,
although six cases of whiskey and
a bottle of champaign of the same
brands seized in the barn were
found in their dwelling fifty yards
away.
LONGVIEW’S $250,000
THEATER NEARLY READY
LONGVIEW, Dec. 23.—Longviews
new $250,000 theater and apartment
building is 65 per cent complete,
Pacific Coastwise (Service
^admiral line
I.F. ALEXANDER.
S. S. ADMIRAL WATSON
Sails From Arrives South From
SEATTLE SEWARD SEWARD
Dec. 10 Dec. 18 . Dec. 21
Jan. 7 Jan. 15 Jan. 18
Calling at all regular S outheastern and South
western Alaska ports in eluding Seldovia and
Kodiak.
WAYNE BLUE, Agent
Telephone Main 81 Res.. Madison 40
STEAMSHIP STARR
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S. S. STARR SAILS JANUARY FOURTH
San Juan Fishing and Packing Co.
G. C. HENDERSON, Agent
PHONE MADISON 13». 8EWARD, ALASKA
HCVSTONE VIEW C0-. NEW YORK
DEAN OF FOOTBALL
COACHES
Amos Alonza Stagg, dean of fool
ball coaches, and coach of the Uni
versity of Chicago team, who, for the
first time in eleven years, has won
u Big Ten conference football chaiv
pionship. His team held Wisconsin
to a scoreless tie, thus retaining her
string of undefeated games. Stagg
has completed 32 years of coaching
at Chicago. It was the Chicago team
that upset the “dope” by starting an
offensive of its own against “Red”
Grange and the Illinois team, holding
them to a tie.
George Purvis, Seattle designer and
builder ,said today. The 1200 seat
theater is to be ready in January and
the thirty-six furnished apartments
will be ready for occupancy in March.
The building is owned by the Co
lumbia Amusement company, compos
ed of prominent Longview business
men. Provision is made for the larg
• est road shows, in addition to movie.
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CAN USE A FEW MORE CUS
| TOMERS AT THE 0. K .BARBER
SHOP.
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88-STORY BUILDING WILL
COVER NEW YORK BLOCK
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NEW YORK, Deo. 22.—New York's
88-story office building, outranking in
height even the famous 51 story Wool
worth building will be started as soon
as possible in the spring. The new
structure will occupy an entire block
it is said.
Hundreds of French war tanks have
' been converted into farm tractors and
i shipped to America.
Shipwrecks throughout the world
average one a day.
Gas Launch
KENAI
FISHING AND HUNTING
PARTIES CARRIED DOWN 0
LAKE KENAI FOR THE
DAY OR TRIP. TELE
PHONE ARRANGEMENTS
TO MILE TWENTY
Louis Bell, owner
Swedish American Line
“Only line between America and
Sweden." Direct over the Atlantic.
I and the North Sea in Large, Mod
ern and Comfortable steamers.
Frequent sailings.
Christmas Excursions to Sweden^
and Finland
S. S. STOCKHOLM—From New
York December 2; from Halifax
December 4.
S. S. DROTTNINGHOLM—From i \
New York December 10.
Also Earlier Sailings
For further information and res
ervations apply to
WAYNE BLUE,
Agent for Seward, Alaska
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
SOUTHWESTERN ALASKA
ROUTE SCHEDULE
Vessel
Scheduled
Lv. Seattle
Alameda.Dec. 13th
Northwestern. Dec. 20th
Alaska.Dec. 27th
Scheduled
Arr. Seward
Dec. 2Cth
Dec. 27th
Jan. 3rd
Scheduled
Sail fm Seward
Dec. 20th
Dec. 27th
Jan. 3rc
NOTE—Ships In above schedule sail from Pier Two, Seattle, at 9:00
a. m. each sailing date and will call at Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau
Cordova, Valdez, Latouche and Seward, both north and southbound.
Northwestern and Alameda will also call at Petersburg both ways.
Steamers leave Seward at MIDNIGHT on sailing dates shown.
Steamer Redondo is scheduled to saial from Seward December 6
and 13 for Seldovia and Halibut Cove.
J. H. FLICKINGER, Agent
PHONE MAIN 125 SEWARD, ALASKA
drreting!
In extending the Season’s Greetings to all its friends and patrons,
The Alaska Railroad takes occasion to announce a
CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR’S
EXCURSION FARE
of one and one-third for the round-trip, between all stations. Reduced
rate tickets may be purchased at all agency stations December 20th to
January 1, inclusive; final return limit January 6, 1925. Passengers
boarding trains at non-agency stations may avail themselves of this
Special Excursion Rate by purchasing reduced rate tickets at first
agency stations.
It is the sincere wish of The Alaska Railroad that the year 1925
will be the most progressive and prosperous for all Alaskan activities,
and towards the accomplishments of this purpose The Alaska Railroad
» will continue to lend its earnest and whole-hearted co-operation at all
times.
THE ALASKA RAILROAD
McKinley park route
ANCHORAGE ALASKA