The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 20, 1939, Page 3

Midnight Preview TONIGHT—1:15 A.M. THEATRE SHOW PLACE OF JUNEAU THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE; SATURDAY MAY 20 |939 Afternoon Matinee SUNDAY—2 P. M. THE POLICE DARED NOT CAPTURE HIM..-DEAD OR ALIVE.. .BUT TWO EXOTIC WOMEN CAPTURED &gt Walter Wanger presents CHARLES BOYER . SHBORTS: SURF HEROES SIGRID GURIE HEDY LAMARR (A Pete Smith Specialty) NEWS OF THE DAY CLAUDETTE COLBERT WARREN WILLIAM Released thru UNITED ARTISTS LAST TIMES TONIGHT —w “Imitation of Life” DAYLIGHT TIME FOR CITY WILL BE PETITIONED Former Cimngineer to Ask Council for Earlier- fo-Work Plan Daylight saving time will be ;nh- tioned for before the Monday session of the City Council rding to Frank Metcalf, former City En- gineer. Metcalf said a petition is being circulated urging the change that would put Juneau on Seattle time. “We're losing the use of too much daylight,” Metcalf said. “We have five hours of daylight before most people go to work in the morning and we have only about three hours of daylight after finishing up in the evening. We might as well even it up.” Baseball and “all sports from ten- nis to bridge at the beach” will bene- 1it, Metcalf claims. Several years ago Juneau went on daylight saving time, but gave it up after one summer of trial. The Council is meeing Monday night to make up the meeting post- poned last night because of the Rotary convention. >+ - Methodist Choir Elects Officers. At the rehearsal last evening the choir of the Metropolitan Methodist Church completed its organization for the coming season with the elec- tion of officers. Jim Gibson was el- ected President, Burns McCoskrie, Vice-President, Mrs. G. Edward Knight, Secretary - Terasurer, and Mrs. Burns McCoskrie, Librarian. The choir decided to schedule the last Friday of each month for the social and business meeting. RODEN RETURNS ON STEAMER TONGASS Senator Henry Roden returned to Juneau on the Tongass after several weeks in the Pacific Northwest on business. Roden, President of the Pelican Cold Storage at Lisianski Inlet, now under construction, said financing of the project is nearly completed and that the plant should be in operation by mid-summer, DANCE SIGN PROJECT BYJW.CLUB IS COMPLETED Mrs. Walter Hellan, Chairman of the Civic Improvement Department of the Juneau Woman's Club, re- ports that the sign project being carried on for the past several weeks [ | has been completed. | | Forty-six of the 48 signs directing | tourists from the docks to the T(}—i | ritorial Building were posted Thurs- | day, along Franklin, Main and Sew- | ard streets, under the direction of | Mirs. Hellan. The remaining two | signs will be placed at Seward and Front when the thoroughfare is| | again available to traffic. | This project was initiated by the | | Juneau Woman’s Club and a )ughf school vocational training class of 21 boys under the supervision of| Henry Harmon, instructor, who de- signed and made the signs. The City Council provided for the mater- ials and posting. - e Colors for Autos | Favoredin Wesi; DENVER, May 20.—People out West like their automobiles colored. | A study by Rocky Mountain Mot~ orists, automobile club, disclosed that in the southwest only 16 per cenf of all cars purchased are of con- ventional black. The gaudier colors | are preferred. California folks like light hues | for their cars, while in Washington |and Oregon the drivers prefer dark ones. Blue is the favorite color in the prairie states. The study also disclosed that color | tastes change from year to year.| Significant was the discovery that in | the “depression” years more somber | colored cars were sold. { -~ — 'FAMILY OF PAA EXECUTIVE MAKE S.E. ALASKA TRIP Mrs. R. O. Bullwinkel and Mrs. A, Bullwinkel, wife and mother of Bob Bullwinkel, traffic manager for| Pan American Airways in Seattle, are round trip passengers aboard the Mt. McKinley and are visiting| friends in Juneau while the ship! is in port. For the travelers, Mrs. A. B. Hayes was hostess at luncheon today at the | J Bamnor PUBLIC INVITED {town this summer, |in the fall for a trip to the World’s —ELKS’ GRADUMION HAS VARIED PLANS FOR SCHOOL STUDENTS Thirty Seniors Announce Individual Programs for Summer, Fall Plans for the coming sum- mer and next fall are now being completed by the members of the class of ’39. Katherine Torkelsen will leave Juneau in June for Seattle, where she will visit friends for a short time, She plans to enter the Behnke-Walker Business college of Portland, Oregon, in July. Although still uncertain as to his plans for next fall, Jim Lemieux expects to work in a Southeastern Alaska cannery during the coming months. Employed in Juneau for the summer will be Dorothy Ber- tholl, who has, at present, no definite plans for next fall. Claude Hirst will go south sometime during the summer and will enter college next fall. He has not finally decided which college he will enter, or what he will major in as yet. Undecided as to her future plans, Ruth Richardson will work in Juneau this summer. Helen Lorz will spend the summer with relatives in Ton- asket, Washington. She ten- tatively plans to enter nurses’ training next September. During the summer months, Henry Satre expects to work at the Baranof hotel. made no plans for the fall. Remaining in Juneau this summer, Audrey Click will at- tend a business sehool next fall. George Alexander will work in leaving early Fair at San Francisco. He will then go to the University of Washing- ton, where he will take a pre-law coure. Grant Ritter, expects to work injlyn Jackson may take a trip south | |a cannery this summer, and has made no plans for next fall. Fishing will cccupy George Bag- lgen's summer. He has made no exact plans for the fall. Although she has made no final decision, Luise Nielsen ex- pects to remain in Juneau this summer and take a post gradu~- ate course here next fall. Leaving for lhe states for eye He has . | CHARLES BOYER IN "ALGIERS" HERE SUNDAY Feature Opening.at Capito Theatre Stars Hedy La- marr, Sigrid Gurie at the Capitol Starting Sunday ‘Theatre is “Algie: a Walter Wan- ger production starrring Charles Boyer, Sigrid Gurie and glamorous Hedy Lamarr, As the story opens, Boyer and his gang, fugitives from Paris, have liv- ed in the Casbah for never venturing outside its boundar- ies for fear of arrest. In the district they are safe from the police in the adjoining French city, who dare not molest them owing to the ferocity of the natives; though the local in- spector, Joseph Calleia, continually watches the genial crook. The only hope of the officials is that some-' time they may lure the jewel thief outside the Casbah and thus bring about his capture. Boyer, however, is content to re- main in the squalid quarter with his wildly jealous native sweetheart, Sigrid Gurie, and laugh at the futile scheming of the police. But one day the Casbah'is visited by a group of Parisian tourists, in- cluding the glamorous Hedy Lamarr. She happens to meet Boyer and a romance develops. The police in-' spector views the situation with satisfaction, hoping that circum- stances will eventually lure the fugi- tive outside the district. In further- | ance of his scheme, he tells Miss Lamarr that Boyer has been killed, | and she and her party prepare !o sail for France. Learning that his new love is leav- ing the country, Boyer risks arrest to board the ship on which she is about to depart, and the picture reaches a thrilling climax in a series of dramatic scenes on the dock. Ending tonight at the Capitol Theatre is the return engagement of | Fannie Hurst’s “Imitation of Life,” starring Claudette Colbert and War- ren William. treatment immediately after school is out Don Wilcox will re- turn to ‘Juneaw, where he will work the remainder of the sum- mer. He will enter the School of Mines at either the Univer- | sity of Alaska or Colorado next | fall. Louise Hildre will be employed locally this summer and may take a round trip to some | Southeastern Alaska town later She has not made any definite plans for the fall. Working here until August, Mary Fukuyama will leave then for San Francisco, California, where she will visit the World’s Fair. From there she will go to Tokyo, Japan, where she will enter college. Wendell Schneider expects to work at Excursion . Inlet this summer, and will work locally next fall. Louise Adams may take a va- cation trip south or work in Juneau this summer. She may enter nurses’ training next fall. Pete Warner will work at the Warner Machine shop this sum- mer and will enter college next fall, Leaving for Sitka immediately after graduation, Lola LaPaugh will work this summer.. She will enter the University of Alaska next fall. Eckley Guerin will spend the next five months working in the Kenai Peninsula, returning to Juneau late next fall where he will work: during the winter. phone office in late June will be there next fall. Spending her summer in Seat- tle with friends, Olga A Paul fall. Kenneth Lea has made tentative iplans to work with a local carpen- |ter this summer and may go south pext fall. Expecting to make a trip' south | in Juneau this summer. However, her plans for the future are not definite at present. |Helen Ritter will be employed lo- | cally . this .summer. | Expecting to work in town this |summer and next fall as well is Bob Hamilton. Undecided as to the future, Mari- | this summer. Mildred Webster intends to work |during the summer and next fall and winter. | Alfred Zenger will work in town | this summer and expects to con- |tinue working next fall. |scene of Betty Darlin’s vacation, and ,she may alse attend business school there next fall. twa. years, Beginning work in,.the local tele- | Claudia Kearney, who will continue | will | | enter business college there in the next fall, Miriam Puranen will work | Also uncertain as to her plans,| Olympia, Washington, will be the | ;EXPANSION OF TEXAS | SHOWN IN EPLC AT 1 COLISEUM SUNDAY' cmm,L told and c '\mrtrrs out ul the distant past so vividly brought to life in - Paramount’s epic of |the South's struggle for freedom Idurmg the dark days after the War Between the States, “The Texans' i which will have its first local show- ing tonight at the Coliseum Thea- tre! It recaptures the spirit of one of the most thrilling periods of this country’s history and is a powerful story of the men who rebuilt Am- erica after the national destruction of the “brothers’ war.” Lovely Joan Bennett, as a fire- eating belle of the Old South who fights a one-woman war against Northern oppression, and Randolf Scott, as a gallant Southern soldier who counsels a clasping of hands across the bloody chasm after the War, play the romantic leads in the story of the ten-year battle be- tween corrupt carpei-baggers and proud natives for the control of the destinies of the South. The struggle of the Texans for freedom and a new life is mirrored | fin the thousand-mile trek across |three states which Scott and Miss Bennett undertake in order to find a market for their cattle and save (the herd from confiscation by the tofficials who rule the State. Some ‘of the most startling mass action |scenes ever filmed appear in the |eattle stampedes, the prairie fires, the Indian attacks and chase by Northern cavalry. | The double Drummond’s Revenge” and |the Buffalo Roam,” ends at the Coliseum Theatre. 6-YEAR- OlD 5 HUMAN CALENDAR DALLAS, Tex., May 20. — The memorizing ability of six-year-old 8ol Shearn Rovinsky of Dallas ‘umazes his family’s friends. | He can tell what day of the week it will be on May 27 in 1945 six years |hvncr Or he can say, without hesi- Itatmn what day of the week it was {that George Washington was born He is like a football quarter- back calling signals when he be- gins to reel off Sundays, Tuesdays |or Fridays and telling their dates {He can do that for every month up 1m 1945. He never names them in order but mixes them, as: the isixth of May will be Sunday; the seventh of July will be Monday. | Christmas comes that year (what- ever one he happens to be talking about) on Sunday. | He knows the names of the presi- |dents of the United States; the date each was born and died and | took office; he can recite the Dec- | laration of Independence; the Con- | stitution of the United States and Lincoln’s Getfysburg address and many other things although he has studied them only casually. The fact that he is a human cal- endar was discovered recently by accident. His father mentioned that he planned to buy an automobile on a date quite a way in the future. “You can't do that,” said young Sol. “That is Sunday.” The calendar showed he was cor- rect. “How did you do that” asked | his father. . “I don’t know,” said the boy. | just knew it.” | Psychologists who have studied (him say they have no explanation | for his amazing memory. 1 S S B A { > MRS. GUNDERSON ' VISITS | HERE ENROUTE TO CHATHAM ' feature, “Bulldog “Where tonight ‘T Mrs. Andrew Gunderson is a vis- itor in Juneau today while the Mt. McKinley is in port. Mrs. Gunder- | son, wife of Capt. Gunderson, well- | known canneryman, is on her way {to Chatham for the summer. has been spending the winter Seattle. A in COVERED WAGON DAYS ARE GONE—REMEMBER? | Even ‘covered wagons have to ‘obey ! thé traffic rules in Scottsbluff. |~ For three days a covered wagon was parked in front of a theater, advertising a western motion pic- ture. The police chief finally hung an overtime parking ticket on it. | ‘“Automobiles can’t get away with it,” said he. “Why should we let “a covered wagon?” e, — ‘ ATTENTION MASONS | There will be a Stated Communi- | cation of Mt. Juneau Lodge No. 147 Monday evening at 7:30. Work in ithe M. M. Degree. | J. W. LEIVERS, adv Secretary. | ————— DR. STEVE SAYS Comfortable feet are the key to happiness.” Valentine Building — phone M& ady. ADMISSION ONE DOLLAR Klondie Dufresne’s Orchestra HALL- EVERYONE TONITE WELCOME PREVIEW TONIGHT um MATINEE SUNDAY 1:15 a.m. 2:00 p.m. COLI! >WNED ~AND _OPERATED * By ' W.0.5ROSS Juneau's Greatest Show Value SUNDAY meecsen PEDNEPAY mmmean= TUESI)AY THEY FACED A THOUSAND FRONTIER TERRORS " FOR THEIR LOVE! ()ul of the epic romance of a val- iant people...heroic men and women who fought carpetbag government and hair-raising Indian attacks, raging prairie fire and blinding dust storm for their homeland... flames this story of a love that triumphed over war and hate on America’s last frontier. pd woman unofraid, they marched ther to glory on a trail of empire! 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