The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 26, 1939, Page 3

i THEATRE ! SHOW PLACE OF JUNEAU Last Times Tonight NINE STRANGE PEOPLE! | Al rode this stagecoach, shoulder-to-shoulder in i ing story of 2 women and 7 men... EXTRA! MARCH OF TIME ‘Midnight Preview “Fishermen's Whar{" e——————— STALEMATE LIKELY ON WESTERN FROKT (Continued from Pag Oue) more tragic figure than the general who had lost 500,000 men—and failed to win his battle, The effect on the morale of the people on the home front would be almost di "STAGECOACH" IS | ENDING SHOWING | TONIGHT, CAPITOL Thril IingnStory of Early|§ Western Days s Exciting Film , A chapter cut of the making of | is “Stagecoach,” showing | the west for the last time tonight at the| Coliseum. This new production, an| epic of frontier life ‘and courage concerns the adventures of a band | f men and women in the days when 2» was young. The produc n co-stars Claire Trevor and John Wayna, with prominent roles played | by Andy Devine, Louise Platt,| George Bangroft, Donald Meek, Tim Helt, Thomas Mitchell and John Carradine. The picture opens as the Overland | stage is about to leave Tonto for | Lc urg’ Driving it is Buck Ricka- baugh, who is accompanied by Curly Wilccx, traveling with the coach shot-gun guard. One by one the sengers board the stage; ther Lucy Mallory, going to join her army | officer husband before she becomes | a mother; Mr. Peacock, a clerical- | [looking ~whiskey ~drummer; Doc | Boone, a dipsomaniac doctor; the | mysterious Hatfield, a notorious gamb! and Dallas, played by | Claire Trovor, an unfortunate lady | f the town who is being forced to| leave by the members of the law | and order society. This heterogene- ous group is joined at the outskirts | of the town by Banker Gatewood, | with the funds of his bank nestling vy valise, and, a few miles in his he further cn, by the Ringo Kid, played by John Wayne, a young fugitive frem justice who is on his way to Lordsburg to settle a feud of long standing | Thrown together by the exigencies of stagecoach travel, this strange | assortment of passengers soon finds itself involved in a series of dra- These are the reasor you'| matic adventures, have heard so much speculation that the Franco-British alliance| = o S wére” seeking anothet way around [lines. are composed of. PUIDOXES.| 0 tanks and one or more thr A T o Th parbed wire, and protruding tank . . before they really got going. That's|PPrHeC Te Bn ' O L0 pout | inch, rapid-fire guns, with a ran; why military men are wondering =", \i; f“)\m s |;,mj‘ o "_(mi"‘l of five miles or more. Often there about little Belgium and the Nether- | 7/ w; B -(q‘-l o oy | &7 10 miles of block-forts. lands again, and Switzerland. Out- |~ * “ B ‘““ s ')",‘” s o "; 3 flanking the enemy is an old mili- :“-QW t‘“l 1_”mvm x;:o ,I’"“'\ a {1( A LITTLE WAY BACK .. . tary custom, as old as war itself. To ‘?‘1‘ “I"‘“’J"_ L AL L e I assume that the Franco-British dip- |filade fire on the enemy, which| 4. still further back, and care- | lomatic ‘and military commands are|Means a criss-cross of bullets,| fully screened on convenient hill- | not also trying to figure a way “,‘mrih pl]!box protecting its nmgn- sides the secondary’ hea outflank the German West Wall, is|POT against assault, and shooting | defenses, spaced well apart, le to assume they are not attending to|Straight' ‘ahead as well. A half| than one to 20 miles their business. dozen lines of pillboxes, each line|more, = containing veritable a {a mile apart, and all connected sepnals and complete electric TOUGH? LOOK by trenches and telephone, pro- power plants. They are linked I Why . are. these lines on the|vides a withering pattern of fire tunnels and protected by & Franco-German frontier so for- SIX miles deep aircraft guns, anti-gas apparatus midable? Here are five.good mili-| 3. Back of the pillboxes are the within are three to a dozen bat- tary reasons: so-called Block-forts, some 10 to tepfes (4 guns) of 10, 12, or 16- 1. Both the Siegfried and Magi- |12 feet square—or round, or oblong jnch cannon. The: 1-day not lines vary in.depth from five —four to six to the mile, and cam- guns have a range to 25 to 40 miles, depending on the ouflaged as villas and farm houses 5, and thelr accuracy up to 15 type of terrain they are defending. Like the pillboxxes, they are made is uncanny. In the mountains of the Black For-|of concrete and steel, and con- 5 gtill further back th est and the Vosges range on either | nected by tunnels or trenches, thick yyajor heavy for! 1ch side of the Rhine, they are mini-|with machine guns. Frt‘_pm’x-d to' great forts as Verdun, Metz and mum in depth, for attacking forces|meet the enemy with enfilade fire, Belfort, on the French side, and . must not only fight but also climb.|the block-forts also contain a one- aaachen, Hunsruch, and Kaiser- 2. The fronts of the opposingpounder, the gun capable of stop- |styhl on the German side Around | 2 T b R R TR = them, interspersed all along the 3 line at the rear are anti-aircraft Al y ToSsSWworc uzzie batteries and underground aviation fields. ACROSS Solution of Yesterday’s Puzzle 17. Feathered That’s the stuff the western 1. Vapor vertebrates front is made of—and it's tough. 4 Twist and 0. Walked i T, x turn around B 7 Emudly with Most experts agree that 3. Kind of rock s} igh steps French Maginot line ar v 12, Knack E . Mineral spring roian Siegfe 13. Bxpertness ZN| 0 Steps for than the German Siegfried line, 14. American crossing & but they don't like t ks of pioneer A L fence ol ‘ 15. Original . Self-ceritered either for attacking purposes. . Tropic: s it R Al 29. Paradise g 18 very wet E [R} 30. Manufacturea | 19, Imperial or« Sound of . ugukmzalmns S 7 N mall waver (ol lIN BER H L Marks left b . Native metal- lows: var- 7|8 boaring 8 lant fl{?] compound 13. Takes Into . Balad plants N N E custody X One who kills 25. Game. bird or tries to 27, Put with CIE Kkill secretly flaa | Inhabitant of: or treacher- : T Seot. 2 83, Tiat tant ol E[D R WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 anuscript: S »Ch-:ced with Charles A. Lindbergh is reliak 3t Baiensular . Ask: Scotch ported today to be attending a slrat- frgures 54. Either of two 4 Kind of snow 4L Oriental ing at the Capitol of the 34. Wife of body shoe commander isol t Senators 0sing re- Geraint muscles 5. Cover the in- 44 The chosen isclaticnist Senators opposing re 3. Coyered or | §6. Having a " etde . Sucmieieon peal of the arms embargo b g ooy S 6. Body of Mo- rounding Lindbergh was guided by Senalor 37. Killer whale E - the sun 5 % " g : 38 Corner L e priests & wiisssm. " |Byrd of Virginia through a maz 39, Table utensfl 61 Minute simple 7. Type of rafl- tendant on of little known Capitol corridors as 40. Piloted organism way: coliog. an Anglo- the famous flier sought to elude the 42. Type measure 62. Feminine 8. Musical Saxon king ] 43, Engliah letter nickname ' sounds 4. Surgical, [newsmen, Lindbergh replied to all ni q . rea t -« G pr S s Yot BN TTEERN) Hver ogKIRE bY A7\ pirmish mnew | Questions with the statement: I sian coin 65. Conjunction 10. Massachusetts crew for have nothing to sa 41. Having the cape 63. Take the chief g head uncov- DOWN 11. Bdible seed meal 3 e . 1. Openings {e ’Fanshlondnblo o .E'?."‘"““ | G ey, B S 7 SR | . Smac . Dart . Expose . Behave 82 Wekving o cer- & In zoology, & 16, Perainingtos b1, Negative || HosPITAL NOTES | tain article stalk or ‘European 59. Uncooked | - — of apparel stem country 61. Mother | i ] FITF &7 | u 7] L umEE EJEN// AN ANEE/dEENdE RS AN N/ i ANANN/ ANNEN// JEEN///dNEE | Mary James was admitted to the Government Hospital today for med- | ical treatment. | H. Stephanus sailed this morning on the Columbia for Seattle after | spending sev: days in St. Ann's Hospital for medical treatment. Lea, of the Reliable Trans- fer Company, was admitted to St. Ann’s Hospital this morning fox treatment for an injured hand. He is expected to be able to leave this evening or tomorrow. Harr Jesse Nelson was dismissed from St. Ann's Hospital this morning af- ter being there several days for medical treatment. McKinley who is recover- an operation at St. Ann's will be dismissed tonight. Harold ing from Hospital Arnold Folsan was admitted to St. Ann’s Hospital last night for medical treatment. Percy Luca of Tulsequah was ad- mitted to St. Ann’s Hospital last night for surgical treatment, THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR STEEL BOOM BRINGS ]JOBS_Swamped domestic buying, steel plants are recalling workers. Here’s typical view of Carnegie-Illinois, Chicago. jith orders, whish “Iron Age” attributes to ! TUNA SALAD: NO DRESSING_A new worlds record is believed set by this 868-pound bluefin tuna caught off Liverpool, Nova Scotia, by J. Frank Johnson of Whitestone, Long Island. It measured 10 feet two inches and took two hours 27 minutes to boat. The record mark made last year by Alfred Kenney of Shelburne. N. S.. was an 864-nound tuna. Victims of “Cat Man” «Laddie” Sanford, socialites, are the latest victims of the “cat man” who is blamed for more than a score of robberies at Mr. and Mrs, Stephen fashionable North Hills, L..1. The burglar left no prints in robbing the Sanfords of more than $3,000 in jewels and cash as they slept. . TUESDAY, SEPT. 26,1939. |CLAUDETTE COLBERT IN "IAZA” ENDING " RUN AT COLISEUM, i : | Claudette Colbert,, as, the daring {darling of the music halls, Herbert Marshall, as a man torn between un- | controllable infatuation and his| family’s honor, Bert Lahr, as a hii arious vaudeville trouper, and Helen | Westley, as a tippling duenna, play version of .the play which | the top roles in “Zaza,” Paramount’s screen ‘lluum.mls Miss Colbert in her f screen role since the | “Bluebeard’s BEighth Wife" a sea | son ago, will be seen as the beloved and colorful character whose love turns to tragedy when a little child her the meaning of a higher The immortal story was script- | teache | duty ed to by Zoe AKins the one of country’s ! eleverest writers and author of the | stage hit, “The Greeks Had a Word | for It and Garbo's “Camille.” This | feature is at the Coliseum in the | final showings tonight - e - HOW DO COOTIE LIKE WAR, NOW RAGING EUROPE! iy C4R Columnist Wanders from | shocked theatregoers by the tens of | sensational | uit Miss Colbert's personality | Chamberlain’s Speech fo Little Things | | | By GEORGE TUCKER | | | NEW YORK, Sept, 26—If T were a Shakespearean actor, or better than that, a director, I think T would possess myself of a recording of | Prime Minister Chamberlain’s speech | to the British people’ when he told | them that Great Britain was at| war, and study it gain and again. | All through his speech I had the | impression of listening to some- | thing that Shakespeare had written. | I thought some fine, intelligent actor | who had schooled himself to a su-| preme moment, was approaching | the climax of a great tragedy, and | almost automatically T wonden-di | how Maurice Evans, or Charles Laughton, or Leslie Howard, or any | | of those English actors would have | come off with those same lines. It is certain they couldn't have done | any better. ; i One thing this war will do for fiction and for the Broadway stage s to close out one school of wrmng: and usher in another., From now on such plays as “Journey's End"; and “What Price Glory” will be “dated.” 1t will be almost impos- | sible to think of 1914-18 as drama material, except in isolated ln-‘ | stances, as the Civil War is now | used. The terminology will be dlf-‘ | ferent. I am already wondering | about the cooties. Cooties were a | | part of the Poilus and the Tommies | and the Doughboys in the trenches. | | They belonged, somehow, as a part | | of the scene. But how will the | cooties like the new, streamlined | Maginot line ,or Germany's West | | Wall? Of course, it took the cooties | |a long time to make any headway im the World War. Right now the boys are well fed, and their uniforms are well tailored, and clean. All this may change later. Then the| cooties can move in. We will have | to wait and see. Already the World War is re- membered through a twilight of | Hollywood unreality. I seem to see | John Gilbert limping home on one leg. Against a background of male | voices singing “Mademoiselle from Armentieres” is Sergeant Flagg thumbing his nose at Sergeant Quirt. You can close your eyes and see Gary Cooper climbing from the wreckage of a plane. You can see Jean Harlow and all of Hell’s Angels | {ading into a background of Vienna waltzes, and the mist-like appari- tion of dirigibles dropping bombs over London. Well, it's a new day. The play- wrights and the scenario writers will have to wait a little while be- fore the New Order shapes itself in their imaginations. For instance, only the old-fashioned governments like England and France bother to formally declare war any more. The Kaiser was a past master at provid ing the drama writers with material. 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