The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 20, 1940, Page 3

. Fellowing Crilicism ire Herald’s “What WED TIME: Lion Una Merke find everything notion pictures ever produced head in the dir ive him as the greatest ¢ ars on the screen have not be play this picture n. Running t Black, Plaza PUSUSSTES PSSO HERE IS ANOTHER OUR MIDWEEK PROGRAM: WHO IS M ‘ What Dorormer T ONTGHT | AS10CAL FEATURE 1, Beulah on of the cen in vai praising Lionel Barrymore and the greates is his strange [t has tears and suspense, and an 2 Why does i THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1940. Mickey and New Girl Friend? "BORROWED TIME' STARTS 1 15 FEATURED HERE Is Taken from the Motion 5 i the Picture Did for Me.” | 1 Barrymore, Bobs Watson s.r§ \ \ ! § Lionel Barrymore Heads Cast in Capitol The- are Production onel Barrymore, who in his 30 pars of motion pictures has es- | tablished many a landmark, carves of boy |a new niche for himself with his Played October } superb performance of the lovable Neb. Small{ J|old outspoken Gramp, in “On Bor- N |rowed Time,” which opens tonigit et r e eeeeeeeeeees ||| 8t the Capitol Theater BIG FEATURE FOR | Easily the most unusual film >f the year, “On Borrowed Time" is also one of the most heart-warm- |ing and touching. It has every Kkini laughter, from the heartiest r to the most delighted chuckle. Bondi—-From siart to it takes to make one of the best If only Lionel Barrymore could ritics and hear the | he could rest assure If it's the last thing { ill give you no} f stars, Your patroi ime, 99 minutes Inc., Lyons a inspirational life that sends au | ences out of the theater with some- | thing to talk about for days. And | it has Lionel Barrymore in the most | perfect characterization he has ever | achieved. For this simple story of a grand- father who desperately fights Death | to prevent the grandson whom he | adores from falling into the clutch- | es of an unscrupulons aunt, M-G-M interest ? lady. has assembled a unique cast of “actors’ actors.” Beulah Bondi is at her finest as the devoted Granny, Una Merkel was never more warmly human than as the maid, Marcia, and Eily Malyon etches with unerring strokes what must certainly be the most unsym- pathetic role of the year as thc 2ntirely despicable Aunt Demetria With regard to mining, I invite the attention of the members to the testimony of Carl W. Whit- | bam and Mr. Asa C. Baldwin, where- in it was shown that the expense of construction of a road in the Nabesna country did not exceed in amcunt the taxes paid through the operation of one mine which was thereby developed and the working of which was thereby rendereC pos- sible.” WASHINGTON PARADE L] LATEST NEWS Show Starts 7:30 and 9:30 P. M. #* Feature Starts 7:40 P. M. and 9:40 P. M. Den't Miss It! sicoffs At R, K. Change Scoffing at the suggested change of terminus of the Alaska Railroad to Portage Bay, Delegate Dimond said the proposal was “clearly fan- tasti and that instead of the change costing five million dollars, as the general manager of the rail- read has estimated, he has good rea- son to believe such a move “would cost in excess of ten million dollars.” According to the Delegate there is not “the slightest excuse or justi- fication for entertaining such a pro- posal.” He then told the House that “It would wreck the city of Seward. It cannot be defended by the volume of traffic which is now carried on the railroad nor the volume there / EARRYMORE SIR CEDRIC HARDWICKE Beulah BOND* Una MERKEL Bobs WATSO! velegaie Dimond Travel Facilities ©One) om Page to subsidize farm settlers to locate is not necesss y settlers or other and set up their nomes in Alaska. reads and highways are furnish- the settlers will come just as fast as we can take care of them But it is not possible for settlers to lead a comfortable lif2 unless roads are provided. It is no longer prac- ticable for people, particularly wi men and children, to take up resi dence in some remote section where they have not even the simple means of communication with others which is afforded by a road “I have in mind, particularly, Mr. Chairman, the Kenai Peninsula re- gicn of Alaska. In this area the soil is deep and fertile, the climate is which any man can foresee for the next quarter of a century. The in- terest alone on even the lowest es- ind the land generally s well suited | {mate of the cost °{h"l‘1“k"‘¥ isd S it Tl ARd yah 6nly & hahl= | Soe. WO A HING LR Pey | . " . |increased expense of operation over | ul of people live there because of /¥ e B St Bok ‘48 7hikns’ ‘of . fransportation,| It PREE jobHEte me WRICR IS b secause of lack of roads. I have proposed to abandon. It is unthink- ong urged that a road be built the *"’1"! :)" me l”‘:: :‘:‘“vgi'jeg 3';”;;} lenth of Kenai Peninsula and then |Priations cu b octasutod Wikl *iHb "Beward-Moose |SY2UDdS Of semormy, miohey should | % = be appropriated for a project which cmparatively mild, the length of he summer growing season is ample This is the kind of reading were at wi It's th your countr; Pass Highw The construction of A Sach ol of fow lateral €YD N more prosperous times| of pictures and problems designed oads would, in my estimation, lead | OU1d be completely devpld of merit."| do when hie gets into the front line. a patrol. that makes you a swell target. It Mickey Rooney and Rita Quigley Is Rita Quigley, juvenile screen player, Mickey Rooney’s new heart We wouldn't know, but here is Mickey with the young . It is said the two are frequently in each other’s company. Mickey is the No. 1 boxoffice attraction in the films right now. How fo Fight a War Without Being Killed | N WORD AMD PICTUBE. The pictures here show the right and wrong ways of conducting It's wrong to let yourself be silhouetted against the sky— and any other cover—that minimizes the chances of being ambushed. | "NEVER SAY DIE" i§ FEATURED, COLISEUM; IS OPENING TONIGHT Zanier than either of them have been in many day, Bob Hope and Martha Raye pool their con- siderable talents in a‘carnival of fun and hilarity in their new pic- ture together N Say Die,” which opens 1 \ ight at the Coliseum Theater A “natural” for Bc and Mar- tha's unique brand of clowning, “Never Say Die” spotlights the doings of such bizarre characters as a rich hypochondriac who thinks he has only a month to live, a millicnaire’s daught in love with a bus-driver and engaged to a prince, a beautiful and much-ms ried widow w a deadly ability to fire a pistol d wealthy father determined to rry his daughter off to royalty e GRUELLING ATTACK IS Hangars, Ammunition Dumps, and Workshops Shelled During Night (Continuea rrom J’age One) DISASTROUS HOLY WEEK Juneau'’s Greatest Show Value STARTS TONIGHT Color Cartoon Comedy News TONIGHT MUSICAL 9:15 P. M. TONIGHT QUIZ TOMMY and FRED with LEE and BABE. Day, but the children’s service will {be held at 4 p. m. The public will | be welcomed at all services. The final choir rehearsal of Easter will be heid in the church SERV I (ES bl & ay eveuing, 7:30 o'clock for [] Jur and 8 o'clock for the DAl v 419218 HosriraL NoTES | Holy Week will be obeved in Holy Mrs, G. Wendling of the Faulknet R» flying to drop bomb® and mines in | Trinity Cathedral by spo i Banficld law offices, was ad- i | attack on the British coast and Brit- as follows: nitted o St. Ann's Hospital for surs |ish shipping Tomorrow morning, Maund ical care last night : | A cafe keeper at Havenby on the|Thursday, there will be a celebra- ~Mrs. Glenn Edward: her baby tion of the Holy Communion at 10/girl were dismissed (o, from St. Danish island of Romoe said, “T saw two foreign planes come diving down through the clouds with crazy speed | the in the direction of Sylt and drop eight bombs “I saw great pillars of fire leap skyward after the bombs hit. Later 1 heard an explosion from a single bomb and a few seconds later a second explosion came which chang- doubtedly hit the ammunition depot. | Island Afire opened up and tracer bullets strtak- ed across the sky from all directions | of the whole long island.” The Danish mainland city of Ton- | der 25 miles distant, felt the con: cussion of one big blast. Damage Confirmed Air Minister Sir Kingsley Wood told the House of Commons details of the attack and said later flights had confirmed the damage to hang- ars, oil storage tanks set afire and “many hits” on the jetty, the rail- way, and other parts of the big German base. Residents of the nearby Danish | coast had ringside seats and count- | ed at least 82 bomb blasts. \ More Earth Quake They said there were four ter-| rific explosions which made the| earth quake and undoubtedly direct | hits were made on the big ammuni- | tion stores of Sylt. | In Berlin, the DNB, official| German news agency, announced | tonight that several ships convoyed by British cruisers and destroyers were sunk or badly damaged today in a bombing off Scapa Flow. material yow'd be running into if e cover of a London magazine full to teach the Englishman what to Il use of bushes 's right to make ¢ use and of John Lewis McCormick, 21, shown (right) in court at Cleveland, Ohio, slaying of Ted Nichols in the holdup of a Cleveland telegraph office. The state charges McCormick, son of a wealthy real estate man, robbed - for thrills, With him is an officer, ' On Trial in Th‘rill>Siliayin. | interest to Juneau camera |fans will be the third Amateur of lers do not need any grant or sub- | g living is all but impossible without | Exploslo“ “The same thing is the case with BATON ROUGE, La., March 20.— pHOIO EXHIBIT men last night and injured several | upation of the agricul- |others. at a cost of $2,000,000. | H | nounced by Committee Legion Birthda ‘ y the Nirthern Light Presbyterian | taining peace in the Untied States|in charge of Miss Gladys Forrest, to the speedy settlement of the en- sidy from the Government but they| ‘mnilwmwtd T4 Sty 7T T 1 - road facilities. ‘ respect to many other regions of Al- An explosion in the DuPont gaso- | " NEXT wEEK aska. Roads are needed for the de- |line blending plant here killed three | Damage is estimated at| RGN $100,000. s . f Auxiliary Fefes . in Charge of Affair Photographic Display which is to In appreciation to the American Church March 28, 29, and 30. today, members of the local Legion J. W. Leivers and Stacey Norman. tire Kenai Peninsula district, which | can easily support several thousand | seople. Again I insist that the sel-} ¥ do need a road, and truly civilized THlRD ANNUA[ Roads Are Needed velopment of mining and for the| | | . . | The plant is a new one, constructed | De'a”s Of DISplay Are An‘ . Iwenty - First be held in the recreation room of Legion for their efforts in main-| Arrangements for the exhibit are Augiliary were hostesses last even- Those desiring to display their work WHAT GERMANS CLAIM veloped and printed by the exhib- BERLIN, March 20.—The Ger- itor. man High Command, in an official | | CLASS IV—Contact prints of same statement late today, claims one| sizes as Class IIT, taken by exhibitor house was hit on Sylt Island by the | |and vrofessionally finished. British during the air raid last night | Enlargements and most of the bombs dropped Ielli | Pirst, second and third awards of I\:“'L&”i‘l‘]()“h“;?);n One British bomber | merit will be made in the following |~ =~ _ P | Kot . AR D ER k:]laixm?‘canons. : rc’lrltan are !0;0 trmr.su{~ ciently mounted to permit of fast- . ‘ening to display board without in- Chfllr fOl' |jury to the print. (Limit each ex- 3 ‘hibitor five prints in each class.) CLASS V—Enlargements not less than 8%x4% nor larger than 11x14 |from negatives taken and enlarged 'by exhibitor. { CLASS VI—Enlargements of same sizes from negatives taken by ex-| hibitor and professionally made. ( CLASS VII—Enlargements same | sizes, taken and tinted by the ex- | hibitor. (The enlargement may be made by either the exhibitor or a professional). | | Special Displays | 2 Her 3 c'clock. This service, instituted by His death and resurrection, has been held continuously, in some part of the world, ever since its institution. On Good Friday service promptly at noon devotions will occupy the time until St. Ann's Hospital la 3 p. m. a. m. a full choral Holy Communion | | will be celebrated, with appropriate | will hold its regular meeting Wed- “All the anti-aircraft of Sylt then|hymns and anthems. and a wall of fire sprang up along | | Ann's Hospital. They returned to Nelr home in Do Admitted to St. An night, Mrs. A. Elstad medical caic. Lord Himself as a memorial of Hospital last is receiving the three-hour held, beginning Meditations and | will be - Harry Peterson wao. admitted to night and | this morning was dismissed after ;(xl- \”,‘ 3 ,\“u‘\l‘x §3}1n 1:‘!0 (1\\. m:](}:: On Sunda Easter Day, there receiving medical attention. (AR Rk L | will be a celebration of the Holy g o after anothe 4 24 UN=! communion at 8 a. m. and at 11 NOTICE The Group Heal'h Association | nesday, March 20, at the City ‘There will be no morning session | Council Chambers. The public is the Sunday School on Easter |invited to attend. adv, Hollywood Sights And Sounds By Robbin Coons.—. HOLLYWOOD, Cal, March 20—I watched an actor buy a hat today and the deal told a deal about his past Morgan Conway needed the headgear for a scene he was about to do in “The Saint Takes Over.” A haberdashery had sent over a selection. In short order Conway had found the stvle he wanted —in brown, which he didn't want but would do for the picture. The selection included no blue, which he did want. “I'll buy this one,” he sold the salesman, “if T may return it after this scene and exchange it for a blue—when you get a blue in stock.” That was the deal. Nothing sensational about it—except that most actors would have bought the brown, for the one scene, and later bought another blue. Conway had no use for brown in hhe wardrobs which, like all actors in modern roles, he must supply himself for films. He also has no use fo tossing away ten bucks without a thought. Actors do, but no business man would—and business is Morgan Conway's past. It is also his present, even though he is now a full-time actor. “There’s no business like it,” he grins, adjusting his new chapeau to the proper angle for the camera. Conway is a character lead—tall, good-looking, slightly grey- ing, still in his thirties. He has been featured in 20 pictures in the past two years. That is good business in any language. One day in 1932 Sidney Conway ¢his real name) was walk- ing past a New York theatre en route to his reality office, the site of which is now swallowed in the vastness of Radio City. He M— reception S 1) charming hest thougmfyl g bring gifts of delicicus Ven Duyn Tandies. Little uttentions make you a "gust come" guest. .Try i) FRESH 7/@ " @M] o CHOCOLATES VAN DUYN CHOCOLATE SHOPS Bs # Ifinwnrs exclusively | CLASS VIII—Enlargements pro- noted a lobby poster announcing Kal e Cornell and James ing' at the twenty -first birthday party of the founding of the nation- are requested to have exhibits in the | fessionally made from negatives of hands of one of the committee not|the exhibitor and professionally col- later than Wednesday, March 27. ored will be accepted for display Rennie in “Alien Corn.” The title struck his fancy, he paused to study it. “I'll have to see that,” he mused, as a Cornell fan. University of Pittsburgh honor student, is during his trial for the | al ‘organization. Seventy guests were in attend- ance for the covered-dish dinner and during the evening fitting re- marks were made by Mrs. George Gullufsen, President of the Aux- | iliary unit, and George Gullufsen,| Snap Shots Commander of the Alford John| pirst, second and third awards Bradford Post. | of merit will be made by competent Dancing and musical games Were | juqges for displays in each of the enjoyed following the dinner hour|following classifications. Under snap and music was provided by Wesley |shots, a display is to consist of not Barrett, pianist. less than eight nor more than 12 The committee in charge of ar- | pictures mounted on cardboard not rangements included Mrs. Bert Ly-\more than 18x26 inches in size beck, Mrs. Allen Johnstone, MIs.| (Each exhibitor limited to one dis- Harold Jensen and Mrs. Ethel An-|piay in each class. derson. CLASS I—Contact prints of siz e |2%x3%, 2'%x4%, taken, developed ANOTHER GEYER * |and printed by the exhibitor The John Geyer listed as a| CLASS II—Contact prints of the passeniger to Seward on the steam-|same sizes as Class 1, taken by ex- Work should be marked on the back with a class number as well as the owner’s name and address. Reason- able care will be taken to prevent accidents and loss to exhibits. only. | | CLASS IX — The committee in-| } !vites amateur workers of oils and | { water colors to display their pictures lon the last evening of the exhibit.| ¥ |This is done because of the inadvis- | ibility of leaving such work on di play for three days without being | watched. Awards of merit will be | made in each work and there will be no classification as to subject| this year. | - e - | AUTOMOBILE OWNERS ATTENTION | | | | | | All night parking on streets pro- hibited while snow storm continues, as the snow plough will be in op- eration every night. DAN RALSTON, Convicted of the slaying of her | 20-month -old illegitimate son, Mrs. Tillie Irelan is shown as she About eight months later, the Pasadena Community Play- house offered Greta Keller, the continental star. in “Alién Corn™ —with Sidney Conway. It happened this way: “I'd had may own brokerage business for 11 years,” he says. “I hung on until 1933, even after the panic of 29, but I finally had to close my office. I came west, looking for a new start. I thought of oll. T was trying it when I me tan agent who wondered if T'd ever thought of acting. T hadn't. Want to try? he asked. I went into a little theatre production and then di ‘Alien Corn’ in Pasadena. I got by, and got picture m.! Went into ‘Looking for Trouble’ with Spencer Eracy and Jack Oakie. Good part. So my then agent thought I was good—held out for $1,500 a week. I wasn't worth it and we got no takers, - “Nothing happened so fast and so long that I went back fo Broadway—as an actor. It was tough—more than three years of it. Shows that rehearsed, opened, closed. I hung on my insurance. Finally I came back herg, mfim —right away 1 got into a picture at Universsl, and my luek Chief of Police. e - Erapire Want Ads 3ring Results, er Yukon yesterday was not Dr.| hibitor but professionally finished. ady. dohn Geyer, the Juneau dentist.| CLASS ITI—Contact prints of sizes He is at his office here as usual.|3';x4%, 3'4x4'%, 3'%x5'%, taken; de-| | | | ] received sentence of death in the | 1 | electric ctair in a Philadelphia | | court. St » is shown with ber ttornev. hasn't failed since. It's a great business—but I haven't begn fishing yet.”