The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 23, 1939, Page 3

3 RN DO COLISEU GWNEDT AND - OPERATED 6/ W.C THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, DEC. 23, 1939. 'DEANNA DURBIN ~ STARS INFILM FEATURE HERE "Three Smart Girls Grow ' Up” Opens Sunday at Capitol Theatre What is said to be the most plea ing picture in which Deanna Dur- bin has ever appeared, Universal's “Three Smart Girls Grow Up," comes tc the Capitol Theatre Sun- day Directed by Henry Koster, who di- rected “Three Smart Girls” and “100 Men and a Girl," the current offer- ing is a happy reminder of “Three Smart Girls.” It presents approxi- | mately the same cast—Deanna, | Charles Winninger, Nella Walker,| Nan Grey, and Ernest Cossart, with ! the addition of Helen Parrish, Bob | Cummings and William Lundigan. It will present Deanna as a slight- | ly older youngster who tries to| straighted out the love affairs of her two sisters, with amusing and | amazing results. With this plot it ' much more of a comedy than any | of the 16-year-old singing star's previous offerings In the picture Deanna sings four songs, “Invitation to the Dance,”, by Wbeer, with a special vocal ar-| rangement by Charles an(lvrsnn:‘ “The Last Rose of Summer,” from Flotow’s opera, “Martha,” “La Cap- inera” (The Wron); by Sir Benedict; and “Because,” by Edward | Teschemacher and Guy D-Hardelot. | Ending tonight is the musical film, | “Broadway Serenade” s Jeanette McDonald, Lew Ay Ian Hunter. Daily Crossword Puzzle 10. THE CAPITOL has the BIG PICTURES and NEWS that is NEWS Sunday Monday Tuesday PREVUE TONIGHT 1:15 A. M. MATINEE SUNDAY 2:00 P. M. ACROSS 1. Large mass of . floating ice §. Bo sultable to 10. Small sound 14. Declare 16. Went up 16. Other 17. Bris 18. Faint 19. Landed property 21 Card of a certain suit at bridge calks Animal handler . Bamboolike grass Prickly pear Transgression Ruin The milkfish hout cle of light Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle 1. Midnight Preview 1:15 A. M. TONIGHT Matinee SHOW PLACE OF JUNEAU SUNDAY 2 P. M. It's the Most Comicrtable Loge Chair in the World! GROSS 1 ely Itale fan family . Nobleman . Remain Pertaining to the feet . Winter wind of the Juneau’s Greatest Show Value! Surday ® Monday ® Tuesday Here's Real Holiday Happiness! FIOATING EASE!— LITTLE MISS o n . Harde Thus Bird of the cuckoo family Grown girl Dwelling place Pronoun Kind of snowshoe Make lace . Cut of meat 7. South Ameri- can Indians 8. Article Sta 23. 2. it EVen without a bow and arrow she made Dan Cupid look like an amateur! for P aci. fights a sweet little heartache [ A three 54. Pertalning to the rise and ¢ for a sweet little song from Bing ...who gets that wedding ring? What? That's what you think! L es . Military student 6. Diminutive ending DOWN 9. Near . Vulgar pretender to gentllity Ineffectual Memb Part of a surveying instrument Mountain near Jerusalem . Thin fine silk net 6. Indite Kind of fish 3. Scent Quarter pint Demolish e 60. Term of address 62. Mr. Kringle's first name 65. Officials of aneient Rome 67. Barrier In a stream 69. Former Czar of Russia 70. Move on wheels 71 Astound 8. Distant: murderer Toward . One opposed: collog. Pald public announce- & & LW/ = ment Obstinate Penitential discipline United { Mark almed at in curling SMARTGIRLS™ 3 7&0141 /s with : CHARLES WINNINGER - NAN GREY e Helen Parrish - Robert Cummings William’Lmltd_igan “DONALD'S L‘“l‘K\' DAY” NEWS AS IT MAY ‘M A Paramount Picture with BING CROSBY FRANCISKA GAAL AKIM TAMIROFF SHIRLEY ROSS EDWARD EVERETT HORTON BEN BLUE - irected by Frank Tuttle - Chance Slim For "White Christmas™ Juneau Has Had Snow on Ground All But Two | D ber 25th W December 505 CHRISTMAS T0 BE MARKED BY WHIRL HE BK B e Shorls: UNIVERSAL PICTURE Jeanecite MacDonald in Broadway Serenade FIRST SHOW Dick Tracy . . . . News 7 P. M. R A e R P GRS SIS DISNE STRAN WALT ADDED ATTRACTIONS VITAPHONE MUSICAL FOX MOVIETONEWS POPULAR SCIENCE LAST TIMES TONIGHT PETER LORRE JACK RANDALL and in LAST TIMES TONIGHT DARIS HONEYMOON” | OPENS SUNDAY AT " COLISEUM THEATRE Monday—and the U. S. Weather Bureau says “none in sight"—Ju- neau will be without a white Electra, Vera Kirkham; Bertha Goetz; Marshal, Beatrice Guerin; Organist, Etta | Devon; Chaplain, 0. E. S. APPOINTIVE POSITIONS FILLED Katherine Bal Worthy Matron elect, Nugget Chapter No. 2, Order of Eastern Stars, has announced the appointive officers as follows: Star Points: Ada is Thelma Eng- strom; Ruth, Mrs. J. Hopgood; Es- ther, Elizabeth Fraser; Martha, Leila ROYAL SHOPPER Queen Elizabeth turns her at- | ‘tention from war to toys and does her Christmas shopping early. She bought some teddy bears, toy dogs and monkeys at the Lord Robertson Disabled Ex - Servicemen’s shops in London. SOLDIER-CHEERER French soldiers at the front will have their Christmas celebrations and the United States will contribute. Here's Elizabeth Van Dyke, helping £ill kits for shipment'to Paris. Yuletide News l JACKSON DAY DINNER TO BE " HELD JAN. 8 MISS AALTO HOME | Miss Impi Aalto arrived home this morning from her school at Peters- burg to spend the hlidays with her parents, Bringdale; Sentinel, Albert Goetz; Warder, Elvira Spain. Imstallation of the mew officers will be concurrent with that of the other Masonic Bodies of the Chan- | nel on January 5 in Juneau. .o —— ‘CommiileesTppointed for Baranof Hotel Affair | -Two Speakers Juneau Democrats will hold a $2.50 | per plate Jackson Day dinner at the iBaranol’ Hotel on January 8, it was ‘announced today by the General | committee consisting of Oscar G. D THE TERM Islam is one applied by Mohammedans to their religion. Christmas for only the third time in 23 years. Other years since 1917 on which there was neither snow on the ground Christmas morning nor snow from the sky during the day were 1925 and 1937. Deepest snow on the ground Christmas day was 16.8 inches in 1917. Heaviest December 25 snow- fall honors are shared by 1926 and 1927. Christmas in each year brought 3.5 inches of snow. For the past two years Christ- mas day has been bright and clear here, a rare thing for this time of year. The Christmas record, showing snowfall from midnight to mid- night and depth of snow at the afternoon observation is as fol- lows Year Snowfall Depth OF ENTERTAINING Parfies, Concerts and Wed dings Will Feature Holi- day Season in Juneau | Ohristmas Day, usually a day of family gatherings, is enlivened this year by the extra weekend holiday which is bound to add to the gaiety of the occasion. Juneali will be one round of parties and dinners during the next few days and nights—for this is “open house” season, Members of the younger set, as well as the adults, have made elaborate plans for entertaining and everyone Iis looking forward to an exceptionally A thorough satisfying bit of mo- tion/ picture . engertainment, from evel agle, s the new Bing Crosby | comedy, “Paris Honeymoon,” which {opens Sunday at the Coliseum The- | atre, | Headed by the { himself—at his very best—the cast boasts of lovely Shirley Ross and | Cecil B. DeMille’s “find,” Franciska Gazl, who demonstrates that be- | sides being a wholly charming and| | beautiful young personage, she is| |also a comedienne of n omean abil-| ity. Then there are Akim Tami- roff—in a comedy role which proves him to be one of the most versa- | tile artists on the screen today; Ed- |ward Everett Horton, Ben Blue and many others. | The story concerns the fortunes |and mishaps of a young American | | inimitable Bing JUNGLE TOYMAKER OsaJohnson, widow of the African explorer, Martin Johnson, is sponsoring four toys for Santa’s pack this year. They're reproductions of ani- mals she and her husband caught in Africa. This one is Pantaloon. CANDLE-MOULDER Miss Ella Butner, of Winston- Salem, N. C,, starts the Christ- mas season in North Carolina. She’s official candle-maker for the Morayian Church, South— moulds 10,000 tapers by hand. | Olson, John Walmer, M. E. Menagle and Frank A. Boyle. | Speakers will be National Com-| mitteeman Jack Hellenthal and Na-| ticnal Committeewoman Mrs. W. A. Holzheimer. The ticket committee consists of B. D. Stewart, W. B. Kirk and A. E. Karnes. The program cnmmit-‘ tee cousists of R. E. Coughlin, Har- ley J. Turner and Helen Bender. | - e Christmas Quiz 1. with what were the first Christmas trees in our country trimmed? 2, What locality of the United States is said to use the most | Christmas trees? 3. Where did the Christmas 1938 Tree custom originate, and who first brought the idea to America? 4. What species of tree is mofll’sw'MM' OI' used at holiday time? e, 'o B! D 5. How many Christmas trees| sk are cut annually on National For-| \ " UNDERNEW PLAN 6. Where did holly get its name, | g 2 ! and what is its religious signin-‘Real Sw'mm"‘q 'oBe POS’ cance? sible at Bow! - Work Resumes Tuesday 7. In what States Christmas holly gathered? 8. Do all holly trees grow ries? 9. How old must a holly tree be ¢ before you can tell whether it is Sw‘;‘:}‘r"‘jng"’;wfihfn "é‘v";‘;‘;eeg"‘g&‘:’l | have been altered to provide for a depth of seven and one-half feet at the deep end, City Engineer Mil- | ton Lagergren announced today. Un- 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1920 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 0 0 16.8 Trace Trace 41 0.1 06 01 39 0 16.4 12.3 | | is most red | femivipus “holidey. thitaradt ,.”;huuloned with a couple of million pr % He falls in love with Miss Three weddings of dollars {be pre-Christmas events in Juneau | poic o qivorcee, and is, just about {this year. This evening in Resur-' ., v arry her when it is discovered | {rection Lutheran Church, Miss Ger-| .4 per divorce from a previous aldine Bodding, daughter of M.|y,.hang is invalid. To straighten | jand ‘Mrs. Olaf Bodding, will be-| ihings out, Bing goes to Paris to see come the bride of Mr. Matt War- | p. man's lawyers—and gets his |den Jr, at a ceremony to be Der-|peart enmeshed with that of a| formed at 8 o'clock this evening.!charyming little peasant girl played | Another marriage, that of Miss|py Miss Gaal. From there on things' Evelyn Bailey and Mr. Donald Gra- | pegin to happen thick and fast, cul- |ham, will take place at the Luth-|minating in the marriage of Bing| |eran Church before many hours|to Miss Gaal n a mile-a-minute cli-| |have eiapsed. A bride of Sunday!max which is jus as full of thrills| | will be Miss Margaret Lindegaard,|as it is of laughs. i whose marriage to Mr. Arthur Grif-| 'Tonight ends the double bill “Mys- fiths will be held in the Knight|terious Mr. Moto” and “Drifting ;Aparl.mem.s at 4 o'clock. Westward.” | Music at midnight will be heard | ———— at gne or another of the churches [Bunday evening, affording a very pleasant way of rounding out the day. Tomorrow and Monday the :)'early Yuletide services will be held during the morning hours at places of worship in the city. DR. SAYLOR IN | " FOR CHRISTMAS| Dr. Robert Saylor, who has been deing special tuberculosis work for| the Office of Indian Affairs in| Sputheast Alatka nptive villages, | arrived on the steamer Taku . this! morning from Petersburg to spend the holidays with his family here. - : _ HARD-RUBBER of first quality can be drilled, turned, sawed, machined ished. ('l«tsxi tapped, and pol- YOUR SAVINGS ARE INSURED, ARE INSTANTLY | AVAILABLE AND EARN GREAT- Foods Are Served at the BRBERURNG. WE SE BRUNSWICK CAFE | ALASKA FEDERAL o e Today and Everyday the Better masculine or feminine? 10. Who first ordained that whoever passes under the mistle~ | toe shall receive a kiss? 11. What State has the mistle-| ger the former plan the pool would | toe for her floral emblem? have been only five feet deep at the 12. Has a man any ground for|geepest point. belief the girls should kiss him| wpA workmen are progressing if he stands under the mmleme?;wim the 75 by 30 foot exeavation | (See another page fOr aNsWers) |which is to siope from three feet| N Gy 2 syl |to seven and one-half. Dressing IF YOU CAN, get a contract 0 rooms and shower rooms will be | 8o to work for one cent on the first | provided in the building nearby. The |day providing your salary is dou- tank will be constructed of con- {bled every day for thirty days. crete. At the end of the month your| Today was a holiday for the crews days' pay would be $5.368,709.12. at work on the WPA swmiming pool | S ee-—— \and sewer projects. They will go RADIUM is enoriaously expensive back to work Tuesday, along with because it takes 14,000 tons of ore|an R.J. Sommers crew on the PWA to produce one ounce, worth $700,- | sewer project at the small boat har- 900. bor. s AN !Savings and Loan Assa. i of Juneau TELEPHONE 3 ) hines American Dlxh.el Special Breakfasts, Lunches, Dinners & “Mysterious Mr. Moto" “Drifting Westward"” MISTLETOE IN DRUID RITES ’swl'y. Its whole appeal is to that The use of mistletoe is one of | human sympathy which is common the most ancient pagan customs— |to all people. — (The Coumtry of EngMsh origin. Many cere- | Home.) monies of the Druids took place in | the forests because the mistletoe grew there, | DE D CHRISTMAS TOYS Children are still running tyue to | form in their requests t0 Santa | Claus. The girls still want dolls, play Y | furniture and toy household appli- . " . on- | most human is Christmas. It cen | ances and the boys want cowboy ters in a little child; around the| ... s oys child is a family; and around Lhrfl‘;;:g y:x;? mechopioel i i family the setting of the Christmas EVERYBODY'S Of all our religious festivals the CHRISTMAS 7o b ettt Fire never destroys a house without burning up what's inside of it. Fire insurance pro- tects the building. To protect your household possessions against loss or damage by fire, you need Residence Contents Insurance. It costs surprisingly little. [) SHATTUCK AGENCY TELEPHONE 249 Office—New York Life We Wish One and All A MERRY XMAS VIOLET SINGER, PIANIST and the 'CAPITOL CAFE