The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 16, 1940, Page 3

THE CAPITOL has the BIG PICTURES and NEWS that is NEWS \HARDY FAMILY | unday Monday Tuesday MARCH OF THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, MAR.. 16, .1940 Meet Miss _Florida ™ Midright Preview 1:15 A. M.—TONIGHT Matinee SUNDAY—2 P. M. —Z ~N TIME IS FEATURED IN BILL AT CAPITOL Latest Storflgs Judge En- tangled with Crook- ed Promoters “Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fev to be shown at the Capitol Sun- day, Monday, and Tuesday, pre- sents a new, and the most inter- esting to date, phase of the ex- periences of the Hardy Family.| Caught off-guard by the spell of| spring, Judge Hardy falls prey to| the schemes of a pair of swindlers who trick him out of his savings, confronting the family with disgrace and ruin until' the Judge tricates himself. Mean- while, a new and pretty dramaties teacher has come to the Carvel High School. In competition, Andy Hardy's play, “Adrift in Tahiti” is accepted as the class play and Andy plays the star, a task that plunges him into numerous embarrassing and hilarious situations. Meanwhile, | he falls in love with his teacher,| proposes marriage to her and floats cn the clouds until all his dream | castles tumble, The story unfolds | in its entirety within the town of | Carvel in settings depicting the courthouse, Carvel's business streets and steres, its residential streets, | the interiors of the Hardy and| other leading citizens' homes, a beautiful garden where romance overpowers Andy, the high school | and the school auditorium in which the class play is presented Again Lewis Stone is splendid as the Judge, Fay Holden as Mother ’ Hardy a Haden as Aunt Milly, and Cecilia Parker as the sister, | E = X-T- R- A= 2 Marian. Mickey Rooney’s Andy is| but another proof—if one were ever needed—of this young ability to sway audie man’s rare s to s Featuring Uncle Sam-—The Farmer or laughter at will. A newcomer ALSO LATEST NEWS to the cast and to the screen is| Helen Gilbert, who plays the role | LAST TIME§ ry H and "Flaminq of the teacher, and seldom has a| i arlan In s a on T first performance shown such real| TONIGHT Frontier talent. A word of praise should| s > y also go to Terry Kilburn for his ———————= fine portrayal of the pathetic, yet | funny “Stickin’ Plaster.” PO | e NAZI BOMBER BITES ENGLISH DUST = mystery produced by the Juneau High School students las tnight was both enter- STUDENT PLAY WINS APPROVAL BY FINE ACTING Joe Kennedy Gives Good Interpretation of English Detective-Others Star | Holding the audience in suspense until the last few minutes, the play, “The Ghost Train” life's | taining and a financial success. The action of the play took place in a dismal railway station where 6 passengers who missed train con- | nections were forced to spend the| night much to the dismay of a group of smugglers who were using the 'pranch line and the company’s roll- I ing equipment to ‘run their contra- | band, The smugglers had safeguard- | HosriTAL NOTES Harry Mullons was admitted yes- | terday to St. Ann’s Hogpital for medical treatment. M O. J. Anderson who has At Ann’s Hospital, is returning at St. Ann5's Hospital, is returning to her home today. Mrs. Chester Loop and baby daughter, Beatrice Mary, are leav- ing St. Ann’s for home today. Baby Christopher Nelson is a new patient in St. Ann’s Hospitla, ad- mitted for medical treatment. [ — Try an kEmpire a& WHO'LL PA for the [ l SToCK QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, March 16.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock at today's short session of | the New York Stock Exchange is 6%, American Can 114, Anaconda 27'%, Bethlehem Steel 72 3/4, Com- | monwealth and Southern 11, Cur- | tiss Wright 9%, General Motors 53, International Harvester 54 3/4,! Kennecott 34%, New York Central| | 15, Northern Pacific 7 3/4, United| ‘Sbales Steel 54'4, Pound $3.72%. | | DOW, JONEs AVERAGES | The following are today’s Dow,! Jones averages: industrials 145.76, | rails 29.78, utilities 24.02. Y DAMAGES Can YOU pay for the damage? Can you afford Elks Dance To Feature | Iris_h Music "Wearing of the Green,” Other Melodies for St. Pafrick’s Affair Good old Irish melodies, always | popular with dancers, will' be fea- tured by Stan Cox and his orches- tra tonight at the annual St. Patrick’'s Day ball to be given by the Elks in their ballroom. The dance, which is open to the public, will begin' at 10 o’clock and | continue to St. Patrick’s morn. It| Before the first act the high school |pe back in three weeks. is going to be a gay evening and the dance committee, headed by Arthur Adams, promises everything will be done to make the evening a big success. Besides the Irish melodies, many jrefused to be frightened out of the other popular dance selections will be played during the affair. ed themselves by frightening neig bors into believing they were hear-| ing a ghost. train. Cemplications Start When the stranded passengers station complications began. Joe Kennedy, as the jolly Eng- lishman, Teddy Deakin, who in turn exasperated and convulsed both the cast and the audience, and later| was revealed as a detective Irom: Scotland Yard, gave a fine inter-| pretation of a difficult part. Jim Glasse gave an able presen- tation' and sustained his character | throughout as the business execu- tive, Richard Winthrop, Lanore Kaufmann, as bis self-sufficient wife; Tina Lepetich, as the exg:it- able spinster; and Edwin Messer and Doris Cahill as the newly mar- ried couple gave excellent support. Skillful Performance Violet Paul, as Julia Price, in| with the smugglers, handled with | skill several highly emotlonal scenes. Bob Thibodeau, as the old station master, dupe of the outlaws; Bob Philips and LeRoy Vestal as smug- | glers and Chee Hermann and Frank | Parsons as_detectives played their | roles capably. i | orchestra played one selection, “New Moon" by Sigmund Romberg. Much credit for the success of | the play is due Miss Ruth McVay, director, and ‘to the untiring ef-| forts of the production staff. | ———t— i Empire ciassifie@s br resulta i | Posing prettily with her trophy is CSecille Perkins, 21, of Miami Beach, who won title of Miss Florida in bathing beauty contest in Miami DOUGLAS | NEWS | as JOE BRADY MAKES AN | ATTEMPT AT SUICIE In an apparent, but unsuccessful | attempt to kill himself, Joe Brady | sent a bullet through his neck at| his home on St. Ann’s Avenue in| Douglas shortly after 9 o'clock last night. | L; on his bed he propped a 22| caliber rifle up with the muzzle| against his neck and pulled the| trigger. The lead bullet passed |s clear through, coming out in the| back without causing any immed- | iately noticeable injury except for considerable bleeding Hearing the shooting, Frank E.| James who with his family, occu- pies the second story of the Brady | ho communicated with Philip| Joseph living next door, who noti- fied City Marshal Schramm and the latter” immediately investigated to find the wcunded man not much the worse for his experience and | calmly asking for a cigarette, After gathering all the evidence he ‘could, the Marshal took Brady | to the Government hosptial in Ju- | LIVELY TRIANGLE IS ON SUNDAY AS | SHOW AT COLISEUM Loretta Young and Warner Bax- ter romp through a blithesome. blissful, catch-as-catch-can ro=- mance in “Wife, Husband and Friend,” the 20th Century-Fox comedy, which opens at the Coli- seum Theater on Sunday. The film, which marks the sec- ond appearance of Loretta and Warner as a co-starring team, is based on the novel by James M. Cain, : The sparkling story casts Lor- | etta as a gay, beautiful young wife and Baxter is her debonaire and ardent husband All is bliss until Loretta's friend and music teacher Cesar Romero, convinces her she can and should sing, She does, to hubby Warner's dismay. Then he finds a friend in need of a beautiful opera singer, ayed by Binnie Barnes. Because she convinces him that he can ing—and should, if only to turn e tables on friend wife. Things+ get madder and madder from this point on, until the per- fect marriage is almost sacrificed on the altar of music. But all ends well in one of the funniest climaxes the screen has ever shown. The fine.supporting cast is head- | ed by Binnie Cesar Ro- moro, George [ J. BEdward Bromberg Eugene Pallette and Helen Westley rew hall will be equally popular as in years past ->-oo — TEA IS GIVEN FRIDAY AT GOVERNM SCHOOL On Friday afterncon the Gover ment School at Douglas was the scene of a lovely and unusual tea The girls of (%e home-making class, sted by their teachers, enter- tained: the parents of all the stu- dents at the scheol. In the receiv- ing line were Mrs. T. A. Allen, Mrs. James L. Hobgood, M. Demmeck, and three eighth grade girls, Ma- bel Williams, Helen Williams and Clara Kinch. The tea tables were gay with green and white checked -cloths which the girls had 1ade them- selves. Mabel Williams and Helen Williams poured. The large var- iety of fancy cakes and sandwiches ed were made by the girls at the school After the tea, each girl who had made a dress modeled it. They had not only made their dresses but had also washed and ironed them, so the mothers might see how nicely they have learned to Jaunder. Each girl oke briefly, telling in her own words how she had benefitted from the course, and giving an estimate of the cost of the dress. There were also on display aprons, underwear, and embroidered lunch clothes which were the work of the girls who had not made dresses. The tea was such a success, and neau where it was believed he will |s0 much fun, that both teachers and recover easily unless infection oc- curs. | An Alaska native, and resident of | Dguglas for mo than 30 years. Joe Brady has suffered from recur-| ring fits of despondency ever since | the suicide of his brother William | about three years ago when ne| dove off a boat in Juneau and drowned, according to some of his| iriends. . Other affairs of a personal | nature may have been responsible, they said. A fisherman by trade, | he has been working on the Fifth Avenue project under PWA. — e, - FOUR H CLUB ENTERTAINS A gay party for twenty boys and girls resulted last night at the City Hall in Douglas when the Four H Club girls entertained for the young people of Douglas. Club leader, Mrs. | Clyde Bolyan and Mr, Bolyan were the chaperons. A St. Patrick Day event, the| Shamrock was in evidence through- out the affair. Prize for one game, | “Hiding the Shamrock” was won by | Kenneth Shudshift. Another game | played was clap in and clap out.| Patsy Fleek scored highest for a| prize_in a word contest. Dancing 0. phonograph music added to the| entertaniment and a prize for the| best dancer went to Frank Cashen. | Lucile Goetz was awarded a prize| for the most comical bonnet. | Refreshments were served at the | close of the evening | — e GAVRIL ON TRIP Mike Gavril is taking a vacation from duties as lineman for the Ju- neau<Douglas Telephone Co. and| last night he embarked for Seattle | on the North Sea. He expects to S BOWLING ALLEYS AR PLANNED FOR F.O. A feafure of the new Eagles' Hall of Douglas, just being started, are bowling alleys which have been in- cluded in the plan of ground floor | construction. | Twenty or more years ago bowl- ing was one of the most favored z = pupils hope to make it an annual affair | =l o nil ; TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: 3~ i CARTOON NEWS LAST TIMES TONIGHT BONITA GRANVILLE, JACK RANDALL SRR RS PREVUE TONIGHT OwWNK SR - DRRTED PN MATINEE SUNDAY 2:00 P. M. ® Tuesday Two delightful stars in vheir liveliest, most light-hearted roles. .. and a host of your orites o make the fun unrestrained...in the year's gayest laff-hitl with BINNIE BARNES CESAR ROMERO GEORGE BARBIER J. Edward BROMBERG EUGENE PALLETTE HELEN WESTLEY irected by Gregory Retoff Associate Producer (and Screen Ploy by) l ‘NANCY DREW REPORTER’ - ‘TRIGGER SMITH" — - - S — P e o . | work most of life; experlenced at ‘ IIE[JP /1N I\\'-mnx:, and writing mdvetising sopy. Has owned and operated serv- | Telephone T13 or write j/jove call ‘ror.‘r‘:.fig' | The Alaska Territorial | | 1 The year 1940 is the 600th an- Employment Service From this date, March 14, 1940, niversary of Chaucer’s birth, the y v ; i I will not be responsible for any CLERICAL WORKER—Age 25| onienary of the first postage debts contracted by my wife, Anne married, two years of college Lr:urrl stamp and (approximately) the Karlson. ing in business; bookkeeping and |centenary of the first practical adv. photography. (Signed) KARL KARLSON. 680 To Take Part in Annual Passion Pla); typing ability. Has done clerical | An American Oberammez:gnu is | the Easter ceremonial held annually in Utah’s Zion Natiohal Park. Now in rehearsal, it is performed with a cast of more than 300 persons, as- sisted by a chorus of 300 voices and :n eighty-piece symphony orches- Ta. Unlike most FEaster sarvices, | which are held at dawn, the Zion Easter Pageant, which is non-sec- tarian, is staged at dusk on Easter | Day ‘in the shadow of the great “Altar of Sacrifice,” a majestic pin- nacle in a natural amphjtheatre sur- rounded by the cliffs grpd canyons of the Wasatch mountain range, Roles of the principal characters are played year after year by the same natives of Utah. They use direct quotations from the New In Utah’s Zion National Park on Easter Night l |sports on the Island, there being | fine alleys both in Treadwell and | Douglas. Contests were frequently | staged then and considerable in-| terest manifested. It is believed that alleys in the | the cost of a prolonged law suit with its attendant risks of even more expense? Why take a chance? Drive carefully, and carry liability and property insurance. We would be glad to help you. In- quire about these policies today. Testament in their dramatization of the life, crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Starting as the last rays of the sun leave the color- ful Zion Canyon, the spectacle reaches its climax as dusk changes to dark. Then the resurrected Christ For Cabins — For Summer Homes SMALL OIL BURNING RA ; with coil, 53 $69.75 | L (installation extra) s SUNDAY and MON appears on a cliff ‘high above th d MONDAY % d e Canb with or without fan. | 2 spectators, His white robes lumin- SHATTUCK AGENCY T | COLISEUM-DOUGLAS | 5; . iotiens g ove afe-es Tk iio RICE & AHLERS (0. SERLECE | Db naten PHONE 34 7 " 'Third and Franklin | “THE LITTLE PRINCESS” | *chyear, is similar in appearance e Christus (Grant H. Redford), in custody of the Romans, starts his j ney to the court of Herod and Pontius Pilate. Right, He meets m to the rough, unsheltered hills of Palestine where the original Easter story was unfolded nearly two thousand years ago. The peaks and canyons of the Wasatch range, which « ‘tends north to Salt Lake City, are known for their great height, sheer drops and brilliant coloring. They were/givsnpb_ifliga_l_ Joy F. Dunyon) and saves her from the mob Let him who is without sin, cast the first stome. i the ! s titles by the early Mormon settlers who founded Salt Lake City undér’ the leadership of Brigham Young, in 1847. Y The book of the pageant was written by Grant H. Redford, in-! structor in speech at Branch Utah! State Agricultural ' Collége, who) plays the Christus, ~ ¥