The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 17, 1940, Page 3

unday fonday Tuesday IF NS LRl iz g e AND THE LATEST NEWS Midnight Preview || 1:15 A. M.—TONIGHT Matinee SUNDAY—2 P. M. (ARY RoSainp GRANT S5 i \ TO HER...he was the | “Big Chief"every day in the week...TO HIM she was only ..."His Girl Friday” | the "I'IIS GIRL RIDAY" with RALPH BELLAMY GENE LOCKHART . PORTER HALL ERNEST TRUEX HELEN MACK March of Time Ameri “Hidden P« “There Always a Woman” T?]MEHT 8 PR o et “We Are Very Good Friends” Norma Shearer, blonde and chic, is shown in her New York hotel room, as about rumors of romance friends, the arrived for a brief vacation. Questioned with George Raft, also of the screen, she said: “We are very good that’s all.” |ley. she husband over made the with the trip Mrs. Sullivan s Back from Interior y to ¥ weeks in the Interior. to for weeks, headquarters the Al- Mrs, O. S. Su 1, wife of nternal’ Revenue Collector for irned to her Juneau home teamer Mount McKin- D , ret board the Subxcxmn lm Tl\c Empire. Vnur world will be u better ploces ta lwe in. ey q/ Lowest Price in General Electric History FOR A BIG FULL-SKIRTED G. E. WASHER Come In and See It! Alaska Electric Light & Power Co. PHONE 616 THE featuring s Youth—1910 ASH CAN FLEET LATEST NEWS e COMEDY FiLM TO OPEN SUNDAY AS CAPITOL SHOW | | ""His Girl Friday”’ Featured| with New March of Time | and dirgcted by How-| ard Hawks, based upon a play by 3en Hecht and Charles MacArthur, | and starring Cary Grant and Rosa- lind Russell, with Ralph Bellamy heading a stellar supporting cast| which includes Gene Lockhart, Er- nest Truex, Porter Hall, Cliff Ed- wards, Helen Mack, Roscoe Karns| and others small wonder, then, Wt “His Girl Friday” is the raci- est romance in years, a sparkling, gay and hectic comedy, a wild, witty whirlwind of exciting action against a background of joy- Produced |E. J. E. | America | prepared sketches of the s THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE bATURDAY AUG 17 1940. WomenAid PeaHarvest Matanuska When the fishing season opened and when additional employment opportunities at the airbase attract- ed Matanuskans {rom their Valley farms, the fear was expressed that there would not be men enough left to take care of the crops when har- vest time arrived, says the Weekly Alaskan, of Anchorage And the fear was well sence of masculine brawn has not had serious results, thanks to the founded, | but up to the present time the ab- | . Metal . .Press for payniant Sea bird Colonist Scoft . Aerial rallway: colloq Goddess ot ACROSS Kind of wood City th Florida . Incision . Huge wave Plant used as soap Unrefined motal . Poorly Member of & Mongolle tribe . Negligent Charity . Put on Young horse Distribute equitably . ExIs( . Rumanian cofn . Massachusetts account . Take off . Guido's high- est note Components of molecules Rubber tres Make into leather cape . Symbol for tantalum . Soldering flux . Kind of duck Solution ot Yesterday's Puzzle DOWN rgest cone ent Part with for . Tinder c o i monly ealled punk en members of the They have come to he front, as they always do in an emergency with tie' result that the farms are looked after and crop: being well are being harvested much as they farm fam- | - Small engine . Common_weed 11 moun= would have been if the men folks | had remained at home. The women wel when the peas began to ripen and Co-op vinter started on its rounds of fields where (here was harvesting to be done. Tt w work that had to be done on schedule and it was up to the w the crew in order And to their credit not. onlv gave willing 1 the call came, but also ¢ in the w wr that has tandard for achievement the valley. The virer makes the rounds of the tracts where peas are grown, and the harvested crop is cannery at the Civie Center, where Matanuska vegetables are canned for marketing under the Matanuska Maid hl‘lml set a in - Hedrals Duewith 5 Pilots Al Monson and Dick Haws Jey are due in Juneau this afternoon with five passengers aboard a PAA Electra Those due in are Ray Robinson Oyster, J. S. MacKinnon, Major aham and F. Slaven - "Second Childhood’ Is to Be Presented Here August 26, 27 Because the time is more favor: able, the Juneau Drama Club pro- duction Chilhood,” spon- sored Ly the Catholic Daughts of has been moved ane nd will August 36 and 27, Rehearsals are progressing under | the able direction of Seymour Flax- man, new arrival to this city from New York. Mrs. B. R. McDonnell is super- vising the preparation of scenery, Mrs. A. M. Geyer is in charge of the st will arrange for the and Miss Garnetha Rulaford age has set and listed props. e rushed to the | forward | be presented on | ge furniture, Mrs. Tom Parke | hand props, | irbanks and spent several sullivan will not return here several ous A Frids itol ture requi est” merr; ' ent Richardson High- Presents thou guy Russe fire to be Theatre to prove itself a pic- love and hilarious laughter! Columbia picture, “His Girl, P si N bl G d 1y opens Sunday at the Cap- \' a 0 e ran s that meets every conceivable‘ - M at Gardners rement for the title of “greats| 4 n comedy of the season:. A mad, | y whirl of husbands—past, pres=| and future—“His Grant as A meeting of jthe Past Noble| Grands' of the Rebekah Lodge was| held last evening at the Glacier| heartless, ‘ Highway home of Mrs. Tom Gard- perfectly shamel ner. Thirteen members were pres-| till pretty grand; Miss| opn¢ 11 is a stubborn, stunning spit- | The group is making a study of of a sob sister who Iefuses|ino congtitution of the Rebekah “His Girl Friday” Saturday| | degree as a project and after the a ghtless, who's ool 'l'llIS i *, | GENMERAL ELECTRIC ;E(s SORBY RITES J] - DOES YOUR WASHING AT CHAPELTODAY Sunday and every other day, and| Mr. Bellamy is the fretting, fuming| Lothario of an insurance salesman| to whom she turns for “protection.” “America’s Youth--1940", the lat- est March of Time film, is also to| be featured. One of the most im- portant and entertaining issues that The Mareh of Time bas yet pro-| ducedl, “America’s Youth—1940"" pie+ tur the absorbing story behing| the lives and problems of the 21 million young men .and women growing up in the U. 8. today. Ending tonight is the double at- traction “There's Always a Woman” and 'H:ddeu Power il Funetal Servicks’ Tort Nels hm’ well known Junea man who pa. away Wednesday afternoon, were held today in the chapel of me Charles W. Carter Mortuary. The Masonic ritual was used and Dean C. E. Rice delivered the eulogy. Vocal ttibutes were given by Mrs. | | Marye Berne Ehler. Interment wasi lin. the Masonic plot of Evexvraen | Cemetery. Pallbeavers ineluded M. L. Mac- Spadden, R. W. Mize, Paui Rudon, | F. Alexander, Dave Davenport and Harold Brown. S e 2 Subscribe to Tue Tally Alaska | Empire—the paper wjth the largea paid circulation, | business session, sewing was en- Jjoyed. Announcement ' was made ~ that the next meeting would be held Eeptember 20, at the home of Mrs. Vera Mead. ALHMMO@E{OI Miss Budwin Today R or West Seventh Street residence as a compliment to Miss Theodora Budwin, former Juneau teacher who is' yisiting ‘here. ;Covers were laid for twelve THREE FLY TO THe riar: HISTORIC CITY Shell smm;: 4 noon flew thi s 108l and Alex Holden flew to Peten.- burs, . Simmons took: Jaek-Shanks, How ard Hunter and-Maxcine Willian: to Sitka, and took E. E. Murray to| P*wrsbu.rx vh Kake. HAVE leHEAI QONTIACI‘S At least. some ‘of the 216 skilled workers who arrived recently at ments and entertainment provided. bles of bridg Anchorage on ithe: Army itranspert called into action | el tains Printed matter o A pige Thin pleces split off Easy in mind Wreithig Im- plement . Tavern Go up men to join | to save the crop. | it is said they | By NAM JA( KSON AP Feature Service BERKELEY, Cal, Aug. 17 A miniature jungle In the home of |Dr. W. F. Gericke forecasts a day when even the most cooped-up apartment dweller may have 2 garden 1t's another step in the develop- ment of “hydroponics,” the scien- tist’s widely advertised system rowing plants in water In his home here, hag a' series of growing basins, resembling thing from a saucepan to a e, Mg’ n-outdoor water-culture, the |unit consists of a tank to hold water and a wire-mesh tray to hold the plant. The wire is cov- ered with vegetable fibre—shred- ded redwood bark right now support seeds and growing The roots grow down into the | water. About once a month the grower pours in powdered chemicals that supply nutrients plants nor- mally would obtain from soil. Gericke is cultivating some 30 kinds of plants, some edible, some oramental, studying their develop- {ment and apparent needs. All the plants are doing well. “It appears physiologically pos- sible to grow any field, ¢ or floral crop without soil,” says Gericke, “But with some the cost of equipment or of chemicals pre- cludes economic production, “Crops like potatoes and toma- | tces, which are composed pre- dominantly of water can be grown - economically,. and that ap- pears true of various floral crops. When Gericke announced his lexlx‘rimem.s in 1938 he told of heavy~bearing tomato . vines 20 | feet tall, giant tobacee plants and potatoes - growing so thickly they crowded each other, with' one crop succeeding ancther imme- diately, Curious gnrdeners believed the secret must ‘lie in a closely guard- ed chemical formula. But in a book he has just published Gericke says the ingredients are ten common chemicals—and that the real secret of success Is cor- rect” procedure. - THREE INITIATED ‘BY MOOSE LEGION of Dr, suit- Ball Team Members to . 'Be Enferfained Three -candidates were into the Legion of the Moose last night at the meeting in the Fellows Hall. Those receiving the degree were Orlando Godfrey, Mau- rice Johnson and Hans Pollowing the initiation and busi- ness session, the 27 in attendanc ‘udjourned for a supper at Percy's Cale, 'The three initiates | speeches during the affair Next Friday night, the Moose iI.I.udge will have as guests, the mem- | bers of the Moose Baseball of the Gastineau Channel League and there will be suitable refresh- - e St. Mihiel are under contract rur‘ a year'’s work and bave been as-| The Dally Alaska rmpire has the to stalks. | initiated | Odd | Jensen. | lible fungus othes moth . Watchful . Habitual drunk 3. Sofr mu . Metrie m rd Yellow ocher . Roman priest . Mischievous trick . Wear away ourse 4 ex letter Alack Insect Be afrald Hydroponics May Ye Apariment-Growx: ¥egelables standardized | any- | team | : day production | tocratic | envy es xclamations ompass point oi Bring Virginia unqhn sizes up a lofty | qornstalk produced in Dr. Gerieke's outdoor hydroponies garden. BEITE DAVIS SCORES "IN "THE OLD MAID" "AT COLISEUM SUNDAY One of the outstanding motion picture productions of the new eason will be featured at the Sun- of the Coliseum Theatre. Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins | are starred with George Brentplay- | ing the male lead, Next Friday Night Moose “Phe Old Maid” is Warner Bros.' sereen version of Zoe Akins' Pulit- zer prize-winning stage play, The story deals with two cous- ins, Charlotte and Delia Lovell, who live in the same old house in aris- Philadelphia in the period 1861, when the Civil War and the 1880, and wealth with which surrounded they hate and ch other for 20- odd years. A double bill ending cludes “No Place to Go” ver on the between broke out, the luxu they are and “Sil- - = JEAN GALLAGHER BRIDGE HOSTESS Hostess with <Iu~4-rt and three '.u- , Miss Jean Gallagher entertained last evening at her apartment in the Assembly. High honors were won by Miss Despite,| sured that changes are good that|largest paid circulation of any al-|Mary VanderLegsy and Mrs /W, c- their jobs -will last five years. | aska newspape: | Qperby -won second prize. world’s largest Illinois, co If whiskey WALKER'S DE LUXE made in the Juneau's Greatest Show Value! PREVUE TONIGHT 1:15 A. M ATINEE SUNDAY 2:00 . M. LISEUI GWNEG Adb _OPEAATED WHIGHOSS Sunday - Monday - Tuesday She's guilty of the one thing no man ean forgive! But she's heppy in the memory of one man's lov IH IT! MIRIAM DAVIS - HOPKINS "THE OLD MAID’ -4 GEO. 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Funny thing is that Nat Karsen, the young Broadwayman who wants to co-star Shirley with Bill Robiuson in a musical version of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” (aud has won at least the Temple interest), is sentimental too. . “It's a question of a little girl and what's best for her,” says Nat. “I know it, and I can't high-pressure them while I know it.” ment - school mates after to uproot her. . Not that it matters much at the moment, bui film men are worrying about what theyll do five years from now when they need background scenes of old Eurepe. . . has been to keep camera crews abroad replenishing libraries of canned shots for use in “process” work as need. . . Fven if Nazl authorities permitted American cameras to take shots in the new Europe,” the scenes would be ehanged — Nazi baaners flying, old landmarks gone, trees missing, new buildings replacing bombed ones. . . . Paramount is using “old -Paris” scenes left ever from “Midnight” for the ‘old Paris” of Claudette Colbeiis “Arise My Jave” ‘but is hard pressed for backgrounds in Compiegne forest, in Poland, Spain and Finland, all required for the stery. . . . Laird Cregar, who plaved “Oscar Wilde” hLere on the stage, PERCY’S CAFE OPEN ALL NIGHT e . Established practice STOP at PERCY’'S ANY TIME for Dinners or Light Lunches that all Juneau is jalking about. TRY OUR FOUN- TAIN, TOO! will be in “Hudson’s Bay Company” with Henry Fonda. ... It’s hard to believe, what with Frank Capra's interest in modern life, that bell do “Don Quivote” after “Meet John Doe,” but that's the word from headquarters. . . satire on chivalry, of course, will have modern implications or it won't be Capra. . . . All was not roses between James Cagney and Anatolé Litvak, his director on “City of Conquest. After the fiuish, Cagney shook hands and said sincerely, “Working with you, Tole, has been quite an experience!” ... Is therc a better diplomat in the house? . . . on (he “Go West” set, discourses on the sad fate of “poor Marion,” his wife for 20 years. “A comedian's wife hears over and over. in all sorts of locales and before ali manner of people, the same nifties her husband tosses out to study audience reaction. . She not only must listen with appar- ent interest and amusement, but often she must leap into the breach to become the foil. . .. She knows al lthe answers to his merry quips . It's the comic’s curse that lhie has to be ‘funny’ around other people Unless he tries they say he's funny only ‘when someone else writes his materipl That's ruinous. . S0 he struggles to be a merry fellow and his wife suffers. » (Groucho is sobbing now.) “No wonder she becomes a great home lover and shudders at going oul In public. At home the comic doesn’t have to hé funny ” CGiroucho Marx,