The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 29, 1940, Page 3

THE CAPITOL HAS THE BIG PICTURES LAST TIMES TONIGHT A New Universal Picture with Shirley Demnis Mischa ROSS *O'KEEFE " AUER ALSO—Selected Short Subjec’s i' | IGHT “12 CROWDED HOURS" and IEW “FIRST OFFENDERS” Scranton critic declared, ‘As an actress and also for the great beauty and richness of her voice, Ellen Repp as the gypsy Azucena, fairly out- shone all her coleagues, making a living scene out of de La Vam- pa.’ and her farewell duel with Manrico, ‘Home to Our Mountains.’ “Another event of importance will be a Finnish Relief Concert in New York March 3, when Miss Repp will share honors with Jussi Bjorling Karin Branzell and Lauritz Melchoir, all Metropolitan opera stars.” HELP AN | ALASKAN * Telephone 713 or write 1 The Alaska Territorial 1 Employment Service 1 CLERK-LABORER—Young man though she is fam- | single, age 22. Two years of col- ov of the East as | lege; has worked in sawmills, drove trucks, clerked in grocery stores : her performance, the Call for ES 59 DEBUT IN EAST Repp, known in Juneau 1 contralto voice that has ore in concert, recently ic debut in the East v comment from a f the critics was won by Repp, Northwest con- her interpretation of the a in Verdi's ‘Il Trova- by the Scarnton Civic 1 in Scarnton, Pa., Fri- 2, according to word frien from the East marked Miss Repp's p | | | od Sights And Sounds | By Robbin Coons - Feb. 29 follywo £ £ NOOD, Cal., I'm not quite sure there is an an been talking to het, but I'm still not quite sure. She just aren’t movie stars like that in Holly- LY There just it She’s here, and she is real, and she ything else in town seem more than slightly phoney. k on the screen, some months ago in That was her first Hollywood movie, ht to it—in addition to esting talent and personal wn eyebrows. As I may have remarked at the time, was sensational. The girls around here don't wear they toss aside what nature gave 'em and go Westmore or Max Factor. They wear eyebrows fresh glamour assembly line. Not so Ingrid. Ingrid wore maybe he s as great a surprise in person: girlishly slim, friend- ningly sl and a little bewildered as she talks blushes—yes!—so that the natural roses in her cad to her white forehead and neck. There isn't vlexicn like hers in Hollywood. And there isn't either I diserming unawareness of what Hollywood is all about. really met Hollywood, or vice versa. I called roat -Wilshire suite, where she was merely paus- ather than stopping a few days before hurrying back to On her previous visit, her first, she¢ had time only All the excitement over her work and per- hasn't i New York to make her picture. COME! charming hostessess glive thoughtful guests who bring gifts of delicious Van Duyn Tandies. Little attentions make you & "must come" guest. Try {ti VAN DUTN CHOCOLATE SHOPS NOW AT Percy’s exclusively onality came after she had departed, quietly, for Sweden to be with her husband, Dr. Peter Lindstrom, and their 15-months’ old daughter Pia. A picture of Pia, little blonde beauty, was on the mantel. Pia is in New York now with her nurse. Ingrid wanted to hurry back—"to see the shows,” as she explained hastily in a manner that wouldn’t fool anybody. When Ingrid returns to Hollywood to make “Joan of Arc'—a role, incidentally, which has been rumored for Hepburn and Colbert and many other local greats— she will bring Pia. 3 To Ingrid, Hollywood is a place to work. She knows so few e re, and has found so little to do—except work—that she prefers New York. She likes to walk, hates the local practice of taking a car to go two blocks. She walks, rain o shine, which seems to be an old Swedish custom, as Garbo does, too. In Stockholm, she said, everyone walks, and as it rains about nine months of each year, everyone walks in the rain. . . . The girl is so completely natural, and so naive about star- dom, that she is almost certain to be misunderstood, perhaps ac- cused of aping Garbo. This trip she has made her first visit to a super-market, which excited her. She made purchases: canned soups, some ice-cream powder, nine packages of chewing gum—all to send to her husband in Stockholm She tells of it as the average star might relate her purchase of a diamond tiara or a spare chinchilla wrap It's almost too much to hope that Ingrid Bergman will re- main as unspoiled as she is, but I for one am betting on it. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, FEB. 29, 1940. COMEDY DRAMA, | CAPITOL SHOW, ENDING TONIGHT 'UnexpedeEF_ather' Stars Baby Sandy - Two Others Featured When you t to combine babies and comedy anything- might hap- pen—and usually does. Charles Lamont discovered that while directing Universal's “Un- expected Father,” now at the Capi- tol and for the last times tonight This picture brings baby Sand: to the screen for the second time, | her initial bow having been made in 55 Side of Heaven.” And 1t teams her for the second time | with Mischa Auer, one of Holly~ wood's foremost comedians | When they get together there's a riot—tempered with a cuten that belongs only to Sandy. An when they aren't together a doz:n | other players keep things moving | along at break-neck eed, Inothe words, there’s always something | happening. Dennis O'Keefe and Shirley Ross {who are featured with Sandy ani Mischa, supply the romance. They're so much in love they can't get along at all | Supporiing those four person- | alities is a group of hand picked players, among them Joy Hodge Donald Briggs, Mayo Methot, Richard Lane, Dorothy Arnold, Anne Nagel. Anne Gwynne, Spen- cer Charters and Jane Darwell - - OLDSLIDES OF CITY 10 BE RUN OFF Lusty Juneau of Pre-KIon-E3 dike Days Comesfo | Capitol Theatre ‘ Theatre-goers will get a rare treat | at the Capitol Theatre Sunday,| Monday and Tuesday when Man- aager Charles Beale runs off a ser- ies of Winter and Pond photo slides | that show the raw heart of a Ju-| neau that has been buried in his- tory and progress. The slides, made from early pic- tures taken for the most pary by Lloyd Winter, are dedicated to a hope that “happy memories will be recalled by these old inspiring pic- tures, strengthening the courage and optimism of our community.” 40 Year Stride And seeing the strides Juneau has made in forty years and mor2 makes the speed of the city’s de- velopment an amazing reality. The slides show the first photos of Juneau in 1886, a rambling ca- bin village strung out on a rocky beach adjoining a great mud flat at the mouth of Gold Creek. There are pictures of Juneau's first log church, the first fire de- partment—"fire chief” Dan Ken- nedy, the patrolman who rang a bell and called volunteers to a shed housing a Yukon sled and buckets. “Swiftwater” Bill There is a slide of “Swiftwater” Bill Gates, famed Klondiker who cornered the two-dozen eggs on the Dawson market at $100 an egg. Other slides show gambling halls, amusement houses and early day | business houses of Juneau. Winters |himself is in a photograph taken {in 1893 before his photography and curios store. First Dairy | Louis Lund's first dhiry is depict- |ed at Lemon Creek, from where Ju- |neau milk deliveries came—if the tide was right. Another picture shows Mendenhall Glacier covering |the present rifle range, and still {another slide shows the iceberg clut- tered beach of Juneau—which was also Franklin Street, the icebergs |flooding in from once-more-lusty \Taku Glacier. But prize winning picture of the collection is of a lovely native girl from Auk Village, wearing a corset on the outside of her dress—“so the people know I got on - Trinity Guild Plan Members of the Trinity Guild will meet at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the Seventh Street residence of Mrs. Wellman Hol- brook. Plans will be perfected for the |food salé to be held on Saturday at” Bert's Cash Grocery. e Business Meet fo Juneau Ladies’ Aux. All members of the Juneau Ladies’ Auxiliay are requested to be present at tomorrow night’s meeting which will be held in the Union Hall. The session will start at 8 o'clock Senior Girl Will Reign Over Food Sale Saturday, arising out of an automobile acci-|friar explorer Escalante. F,M:(I]"l”ltc! Byrd Expedition Greeted to South Pacific Lates of the sea warfare, JUNIOR PROM AT HIGH SCHOOL GYM FRIDAY EVENING Festivities at An- nual Affair With the election of a Prom Queen whese name has not yet been reveal- ed, plans for the Juniors’ annual dance in honor of the Class of 1940 will be an event tomorrow eveniny; in the Juneau High School gym- aasium A crowded ticor is expecled anc music will be furnished by Wesley Barrett and his orchestra. Special intermission numbers will be pre- sented during the evening and the gymnasium will be decorated for the occasion. All committees are busy and w about completed. The very import- ant decorations committee is headed by Lee Lucas, assisted by John Clau- son and Jim Glasse. All members of the class have been helping to transform tife gym, however. Excit-| ing entertainment in keeping with the theme will be provided by Alex-| ander Miller, with Bob Scott and Dorothy Larsen helping. Beatrice Mead heads the “food and punch committee” assisted by Gloria White and Dorothy Fors. Taking charge of patro is Marjorie Snell and Lila Sinclair. Doris McEachran, Mil- dred Kendler and Betfye Kemmer have charge of the invitations, while | Isabel Parsons, Maydelle George and Marian Dobson are on the program committee. | DOLLAR JUDGMENT | AWARDED BY JURY IN TRAFFIC CASE A verdiet awarding Sam Konoff | $1 judgment in a damage suit dent on the Glacier Highway last| fall was returned by a jury in the| court of U. S. Commissioner Felix | Gray yesterday. Tony Campus will| pay the $1 and costs. | Members of the jury were J. S.| MacKinnon, Mrs. Arthur Adams, | Sigrid Walther, Jack B. Daltor Mike Seston, L. Kann, Ida P.| Bathe, Mona Orme, Trygve Hage.-| up, Mrs. C. E. Rice, Mrs. Robert| Bender and Mrs. John Rogers. | S e An example of industrial wastes put to commercial use is slag wool It is made from iron, copper or lead blast furnace slag, alone or mixed with flux materials. | R and regular business will be dis- cussed. i Empire ciassifieds bring results ceremony as the North Star crosses the Equator. Wiener’s hirsute chest. Admiral Richard E. Byrd (left) and Captain Isak Lystad (center) are welcomed to Rapa Island, 3 dfkl'eey _SOulh of the Equator in the South Pacific, by Vicomte R ; Expedition ship North Star. At right, Murray Wiener, expedition member, undergoes the traditional “Neptune’s barber” is cutting a Scuthern Cross on (Official photos—U. S. Antarctic Service) e de Victim of Sea Warlare H. M. S. Daring The H. M. S. Daring, 1,375-ton destroyer, is the latest British victim The Daring was {orpedoed and sunk. a complement of 157 men. It carried ALASKA HIGHWAY IS CRITICIZED BY CANADA ARTICLE Project Called "Absurd, In- folerable’ by Writer in Maclean’s A Canadian opinion damning the Alaska Highway as “not only ab- urd, but intolerable” is set forth in an article by C. M. Campbell in Maclean’s Magazine of February 15. Title of the piece, which an- wers one recently published in e Canadian periodical, is “An- other Opinion on the Alaska High- way: Forget It” Campbell writes that the high- way would cost much re than it would be worth, that few travel- ers would use it and that it could not compete for convenience, speed and beauty with the Inside Pas- sage water route. “This does not mean,” the ar- ticle states, “that ultimate justi- fication for the road may not be disclosed, but it does mean that justification is mnot in sight and that this generation would do wefl to banish the idea from its dreams and concern itdelf with actualities that are facing it on all sides.” SPANISH TRAIL IS NOT A PLACE FOR ANY SISSIES ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., Feb. 20. —A day in the saddle, western history, is worth 3 armchair. That's the conclusion of Dr. George P. Hammond, adventur- ous chairman of the University of Mew Mexico history department, who led a party across southwes ern deserts, re-tracing part of the trail taken 150 years ago by the made a valiant attempt to find a way from Santa Fe to Califor- nia. 0 arm chair -historian could pessibly have the slightest con- cept of the hardships faced by the early Spanish explore said Dr. | Hammond afterwards Deserts without holes, torturing thirst, slopes so rocky and precipitous they skin the rumps of horses sliding down water ply are words between commas and periods in the history books —until you try living history, Dr. Hammond learned. sl - The carp is one of the oldest fish known. A description of it was printed in 1496, isubject is the ‘human hand, [ FILM TALE OF EARLY RAILROADERS PLAYS | AT (OLISEUM SHOWL The the building continental sweeping drama of of the nation’s first tr railroad and the lix | ing of two oceans is brought to the | sister | railroad. McCrea 1. 1. N. Phonephoto Verniex, aboard the Byrd Antarctic COURT GAME IS DEVELOPED BY JAPANESE in Features Combine Tennis with Bit of Baseball Slugging PEIPING —Japanese oped a ne the main la bit of Unable Inis balls t import restrictions, | diers have Ma | North China, Feb. 29. ingenuity has devel- court game combining ures of tennis with| baseball slugging. to obtain standard ten- of the wartime Japanese sol- substituted a soft rub- | ber-covered sphere with a mini- mum of bounce. A wallop which !would send a tennis ball a quarter | |of a mile, barely drives the new | |ball over the net. A high lob | bounces about two feet off the | court | To e ause keep the ball in play, the players have to slug away a la Di Maggio, hitting with one or two |hands in what vaguely resembles | a side-armed volley. The low bounce |requires quick action and wide, | court covering | The new ball will never be wel- comed at Wimbledon, but it pro- vides the Japanese with plenty of for a 11 sum. The balls | I | 10 cents each in local currency, ;rump.m-(( with the price of $16 for three imported balls. - | cost Triple Play Is Revealed NEW YORK, Feb. 29. — Jack, Sturm, first baseman purchased from Kansas City by the Yankees, probably is the only player who| ever made all three putouts in a triple play with each put out being made at a different base. Sturm was playing first for Jop- | lin in 1936. Gray of Muskogee was | lon third with Mele on second when Summers hit to short. Sturm took the throw at first, retiring Summers iund then threw home to head off Gray The latter tried to regain third | while Mele raced back toward sec- ond. Gray was headed off at third, also tried to score and was tagged | by Sturm who covered the plate.' Sturm then dashed to third and tagged Mele for the third out. A 5| ManKills Sister, Commils Suicide| LAS CRUCES, N. M., Feb. 29,—| Pedro Murga, 36, shot and killed ! his sister, Consuelo, 32, and then | killed himself before horrified wit- | ness in what authorities termed murder and suicide because of the er's efforts to make her broth- “tidy up.” Murga shot his sister, a school' teacher, through the heart as she| stood on the street, and then, be- fore bystanders could interfere, put a bullet through his head. SR N G BURGLAR FAILS 0 TAKE TIP FULTON, Ky, Feb. 20. — When Harold Owen awoke to find a negro| ransacking his bedroom, he told the | inttruder poltiely he had no money but offered him a watch. ! “Get your head under the cover | them, and tantalizing hunger sim-!before I kill you,” the burglar re- plied. He continued his search, found no money, refused the watch and left wi any losot. - | LIKES HANDS 1 Priscilla Lane's favorite camera | | Mille, | any | Mollie Monahan, a lusty girl of tae | trouble-shooter, | ington that master of spec-| and romance, Cecil B. De in his latest production “Union Pacific.” The picture, which | impressed filmgoers at the Coliseum ' Theater last night, when it was| given its first local showing, is al thrilling story of human titans who clamped a continent together | with bands of steel “Union Pacific two stars Barbara Stanwyck and Joel Crea, giving the outstanding formances of their careers. Miss Stanwyck, in a role different from she has previously played screen by tacle are Mc- ! per- frontie “Union Pacifl tress of of daughter of the first engineer, postmis- ‘end of track” and i the men building the plays Jeff But- sturdy and handsome whom the Wash- government sends out o disturbances. -0 - ler, the quell CiviL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS The United States Civil Service Commission has announced open competitive examinations for the positions listed below .Applications must be on file in the Commis- sion's office at Washington, D .C, not later than April 17, 1940, Specialist in Social Group Work. $3.800 a - year, Senior Specialist $4,600 a year, Associate Specialist $3,200 a year, Children’s Bureau Department of Wabor. Applicants must have had certain responsible experience in a social group work agency, must have completed a four-year college course, and, ex- cept for the substitution of addi- tional experience, must have had _ post-graduate study in an accredit- ed school of social work. Appli- cants must not have passed their 53rd birthday Specialist in Exhibits, year, Extension Service, ment of Agricuiture. Applicants must have completed a four-year college course leading to a degree in architecture and must have had professional experience in planning and designing exhibits. Applicants must not have passed their 53rd birthday. Technical Expert in Design and Distribution of Educational Publi- cations, $3.800 a year, Office of Education, Federal Security Agency. Applicants must have completed a four-year college course and must have had experience in advertising research and in developing adver- tising techniques, including or sup- plemented by experience in design- ing informational media concerning educational publications and their distribution. Applicants must not have passed their 53rd birthday. Full information may be obtained at 311 Federal Building. Martfié;fieft Officers Iomorrow Election of officers will be held tomorrow afternoon by the Martha Society and all members are urged to be present. Prior to the business session a 1:30 o'clock dessert luncheon will be served in the parlors of the Northern Light Presbyterian Church. Host- esses for the occasion will be Mrs. Charles Sey and Mrs. A. F. Knight. ' Plans will also be furthered dur- ing the afternoon for the food sale which will be held the day before Easter. 53,800 Depart- R HEADS WRANGELL C.C. Leo McCormack has been elect- ed President of the Wrangell Chamber of Commerce for year TEACHERSa... ;s v, Ui OWNED “AND. OPERATED B W,0.GROSS. Juneau’s Greatest Show Value NOW! 2nd BIG DAY Barbara Stanwyck i Joel McCrea vin Akim Tamiroff - Robert Preston Lynne Overman - Brian Donlevy First Show Starts 7:15 P. M. Second Show Starts 2:45 P. M. u NO ADVANCE IN PRICES Banker Robbed G. E. Mergenthaler Looking at you through the bars of his teller’s cage is G. E. M thaler, acting manager of a ban Baltimore bank. When a bandi{ shoved the business end of a between the bars and demanded eash, Mergenthaler handed over $1,600, but managed to withheld $10,000 also on hand, MEDICAL ADMISSIO! Paul Jenson is at St. Ann’s Hos- this pital receiving medical care. He was admitted today. SCOTCH WHISKY What you've been looking for in Scotch . . . mildness, smoothness and delicious taste. Teacher’s has outstanding quality . , , 86 PROOF sOLE . s. AGEnTs. Schieffelin & Co. 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