The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 22, 1940, Page 3

* A Juneau business man writes: “The THE CAPITOL HAS THE BIG PICTURES S| SHOW PLA DAD FOR A DAY JADIN' WITH REYTHM b NEWS Prairie (iRCus COMEDY EXDS TCNIGHT AS 10CAL FiIM Marx Brothers Starred in | Picture af Capitol Theatre such as only those can bring about ends the Capitol Theatre in at the Circus, From h it proved of uccessful comedies out inze the last Marx- rthquake ny at one wood fields the Merry overrun many ¢ ticn ek ben eamlined ¢ wudience comedy se- Interm with the and their streamlined circus thrilling act clown. and animal now rur Top of a ard their pags and with are all th icroba equestrienne circu; 1 tory T the of 3k circus owner, who yeing his circus through the cooperation of Groucho,” Harpo and Chico, which is accomplished {hrough a chain of hilarious epi- Beautiful musical numbers, with Harpo and Chico contributing pictur th harp and pic are woven through the comedy. It was pro- duced by Mervyn LeRoy and di- rected by Edward Buzzell To tr credit it ‘atided that the picture is one that every lover" of top comedy must put on his must- tee..list, look means {hat Harold New- $ Worreietn i houser, 19, Detroit southpaw, is ATTENTION CONTRACTORS piotting bad news for somebody. Specifications for the remodeling otee '”‘“"}“”" "%'"", in the CUly 4o Red Sox to seven hits. all iall and the furnis un.;, 4\!\(! in- of them singles. tallation of a new boiler will be at the office of the City e kil i Thursday, August 22, ai 9 Bossy Holds Up W H. J. TURNER, OSSy O S p 0 adv, City © el g ’ - e A See “Second Childhood,” Parish Hall, Menday, Tucsday, 8 pm. adv. -oe Today's news toaay M The Empire Alaskans favor / the electrified OLYMPIAN g OLYMPIAN gives me everything I expect of a fine, modern train plus the unique advantage of 656 miles of smokeless, sootless electrified travel over the mountains. And it offers all the small niceties that make travel pleasant— courteous service, a distinctive air of hospitality, barber, valet service, show- er bath, radio and library.” We appreciate this expression of satisfaction on our service. Accommodations on: the air condi- tioned, roller bearing OLYMPIAN are designed to suit those who wish all the luxuries of travel at reasonable cost or comfort without frills at economy prices. Equipment includes club-observation car, bedroom car, standard sleepers, modern tourist sleepers and luxurious Hiawatha - type coaches. Appetizing hot meals in the beautiful dining car cost as little as 50¢. In addition, there is an economical Off-the-Tray service in tourist cars and coaches. LOW FARES EVERY DAY TO ALL EASTERN CITIES ' R. E. Carson, General Agent ‘White Bldg., Fourth Ave. and Union St. Seattle, , Wash. | si04A_ | 2 {J o) recruiting station OF JUNEAU Last Times Tonight Fome on the EY EF U L_That calculating He’s shown the oldsiers some hurling tricks. He recently held V‘lost effective tank trap at the Ogdensburg, N¢ yar games proved to be a belligerent bossy whi at Melbourne, Australia, signs D six brothers of one family whlcg is be!!eve& to THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, AUG. 22, 1940. KING BOREAS |8 6. Term of address s 1L Famous bridge 32 . enice § 12 Fatty frults. 1 " * 15. Lon abusive Collector of Customs Flew ‘:él*i".‘.%,' i . 1 Jown: prefix 41 Across Circle, But Not | 2 gzsereher mountaln 4. Otherwise Those having 45 for First Time Percelved through the Biblical tower Scuttle Corroded Note of the scnle Musical work: abbr. Firearm Crossword. Puzzle Solution of Yesterday’s Puzzle DOWN Before any= thing else 2. Take on cargo 3, Leaf of the palmyra palm 62. Musical studies 1 6. Prophets 64. Restrain . through fear . Useful . Principle of key in muste Religlous com- positions . Bring into a row . Loose earth . Topaz humming bird . Busybody Put to flight Oozed nerous Enlarged an opening . Having wings 24. Entangled 6. Practiced swordplay . Distress signal . Domestic fowl . Became friendly Company or band 3. Eple poems List of actors in a play . Profuse talk . Vestiges . Rallroad flare signals 41. Large stream 42. Flush with When Collector | of tom. again ¢: J. Connors flew over the (11T Ci a few weeks ago with Pilo Crosson, the Pacific ays Manager gave Jim ea ex” ¢ ificate commem- ing the occasion But Connor had been north of I Circle, w out benefit of cer- tilicate many times before He y lived at Kotzebue, Deputy Collector Merv Sides lied Connors and a en on the flight e into the Arc- also received a certificate. the new PAA Electra, Crosson the party from' Fairbinks Acros the Arctic Circle west of Fort Yukon, back to Fairbanks for retueling, past Mount McKinley, over Anchorage, up Tuarnagain’ Arm ) Port Wells on Pince William Sound to view the site of the pro- « I Portage Bay cutolf of the Alaska Railrond and back to An- orage, all in a period of four Connors inspected work on the Tawbanks Army field and was much impressed by the speed with | - ¥ which the concrete runway was being laid down. He reported great iy s o e ShOWeEr Honors both Anchorage and Fairbank: <> TRITON IS BACK FROM ISLAND RUN and Mrs. J. J Dr Mrs. R. H turned last night from in the islands combined Miss C Honoring n, bride-elect, a v was given 1 the Frank Olson re houn Avenue by Mi and Miss Marjorie Many love gifts we the honoree and the spent playing cards door game Mr Meherin and | 4 and jams re- everal days during which with Meherin pleasurs, Making the trip on Meherin’s boat Triton, the party stopped at Warm rings Bay and enjoyed good fish- busines st evening Miss Brostrum pe Last Evening RAILWAY EXPRESS - aldine Bros- miscellaneous at nee on Cal- Lillian Olson Snell. sre opened by evening was and various in- g “Beautiful weather” ked Guest e Misses Lila Sinclair le. trip that took the party| gpirley Olds, June Powers, Sophie S Bitks, Harris, Borghild and Solvig Hav- Y T dahl, Doris Balog, Beryl Marshall, N McKECHNIE Pat Gullufsen, Kay McAlister, Ber- ON VACATION TRIP nice Mead, Dorothy Wilms and Miss Ellen McKechnie of the Un-| Gloria White, employment Compensation Com-| Miss Brostrum will be married mission, sails today on the motor-| Saturday evening at 8 o'clock in ship Notthland enroute to Seattle,|the Methodist Church pars were she will vacation as the to Mr. Ray E. Look. The attend- guest of Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Rugg, ants will be Miss Gene Rulaford | former Juneauites and Mr. Verne Moore. A reception > J will follow at the couple’s residence Subscrive for The Empire. in the Capitol Apts, A iiabill 10 b e B, At ashio ek il be a record in volunteer enlistments. brothers are shown together. rk at the U. S. War Game: The six | | | | | | i i | | | succesa 45. Smoking device 46. Lateral 48. American | general MULVIHILL GIVEN RELIEF MAN FOR E. 0 Harter, of Railway Express ame in on the Columbia from the company altle offices to giv temporary relief in the Railway @ press offices here for Roy Mulvihill, recently appointed Adjutant Gen eral of the Alaska National Guard Harte Expres pany for 31 years He is stopping at Hotel is a veteran with Railway and has been with the com- in Seattle the Gastineau - Miss Owen Married To Lee Morrison s Billie Owen of Childress, lexas, became the bride of Mr. Lee' Morrison of Juneau, at a ceremony performed this morning in Douglas at the home of United States Commissioner Felix Gray Attendants were Pauline A. Hayes and Louis C. Neiderhelman. The bride arrived from the S this morning on the motors Northland. Mr. Morrison,_ is a re dent of the Capital City. - Leota Russell Back From _Bflyiflg Trip Mrs, Leota Russell of Leota's Shop, returned on the motorship Northland from a seven weeks’ buying trip to the East and Cali- fornia. she niece, attle. M her Se- was accompanied by Miss Leota Robinson of > oo YOUNG MEN BACK FROM CANNERIES Five young Juneau men returncd from work at the Peril Straits Ps ing Company Thos Geyer, were Dallas Wey returning Tom Powers, and, Eddie Saloum and Jim Hickey.' - D INSPECTOR BACK R. C. Sheldon, U, S. Postal In- spector, ‘came in by plane from Sitka yesterday and is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. didate ! The reason? It's a matchless blend of the world’s choice coffees, skilfully roasted to briag out delicious full flavor Tww Coffeas— Percolator and Drip EMrsl Fred Orme at Todd yesterday,| flying_fn_ with, pilgt Alex Holden. | Robert | Entertains or Mre i ) 1 ) g v ke i i t- Mrs. Bu triy The hostess w refreshment 1 ever 1 be spent i 1 fair are M Grant'1 v } 1 Ins' Gray, I DeW Cie Larsson, ¢ Lel A Jchn Halm 1 i Catheri Chene m mer and after 1 bricf t Petershur SALESMAN yraduat d in gen ien wd in ; 3 CHINESE AIRMAN —While his father, Chiang Kai- shek, directs . China’s armies, Lieut. Wego Chiang has been Studying “aviation 'tactics Maxwell field, Alahama. frrr ot e ZENITH RADIOS 1941 Models Now on Display REPAIRS and SERVICE JUNEAU RADIO SERVICE Phone 464 Bill Hixson WHAT GETS THE VOTES OF COFFEE LOVERS? SCHILLING COFFEE OF COURSE/ hera to | | ling at | lodrrrrrrererrerromeeeed | (CHILD STAR PLAYS I ADVENTURE HIT AT (OLISEUM SHOW high Drew ends Theatr COLISEUM OWNED AND _OPERATE! | WG Juneauw's Greatesi Show Value! Lasi Times Tonight it has im at N which the ' Coliscum bullseye right in the In other word third latest film of 5 bas Warner Bros. on the popuiar Nancy Drew storic arol Keene is even miore exciting and amusing entertalnment than the rst two pictures about the adven- this enterprisir and y engaying M of cour: ag highly mark to rouble tonight a hits the center. . and of of ugl who i by the ville young 56, played gilted Bonita Extra! Love finds Nancy Drew...up to her neck in trouble! > Mrs. Hansen [s Honored Guest At Luncheon} For her guest, Mrs. Arthur Hansen | of Portland, Oregon, Mrs. A. E Glover enfertaine yesterday after- ncen at her' residence on Main | | Street with a bridge-lunche B Honors for ca were won by | Mrs. Harold Smith, Mrs. H. L. Faulk- | | ner and Mr 1 McGinty ‘l Asked for the occasion were Mes! | [ 5 Wellman Hclbrook, Harold | ! Smith, Earl McGi G. F. Alex ALSO— ndex 2 er, Frank Me! ) it e s et B T BN R e V. R. Farrell, C. M. Hirst COMEDY —— NEWS Smith, L. E. Witt, Roy H i £ Ralph Mize, William NOTICE William Parke, W. S. Pullen, George| AIRMAIL ENVELOFES, showing Felta, John A. Glasse, M. D. Wil- | air rou from Seattle to Nome, vn liams and Langdon White | sale at J. B. Burford & Co. adv. > X ) R R Finpire Try a classified ad in The Empie 1rieds MAY WE TOOT ? ? ll“rl‘l)‘)lN Oldest and Largest Electric Range Manufacturer B A Y LARGEST BURNER n A Y MANUFACTURER These companies GREW this"way by making something GOOD! Juneau Representative: RICE & AHILERS CO. Third and Franklin 4 Tesults. PHONE 34 Hollywood Sights And Sounds SIS E—— T Y Y 7 S ———— HOLLYWOOD, Cal. Aug. 22.—“BOOM TOWN” Screen- Fdward Grant. Principals: Clark Cable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert, Hedy Lamarr, Frank Morgan, Lionel Atwell, Chill Wills, Marion Martin, Minna Gombell play by John Lee Mahin from story by James Directed by Jack Conway. This is a double-feature all by i of wild-catters in the oil f. a lusty fields. It's for melodramatic panorama who fans crave doublebarreled action, salted with laughs, romance and ithe liberal spice of hokum. v It's friendly-enemy or without each other. Tracy. stuff, the pals who can't get along with They're Big John Gable and Square John ) clasing the black gold across coun- try, hitting it rich and hitting it broke, fighting it out wherever they go The 1918 boom town of a crazy mad town where the two Johns a fall in the mud and a saloon b row” their drilling They're wildcatter Burkburnett i seal their friendship by the opening locale— al’s whera tha equipment {rom Mc: salt water, hit the ralls for a stake to try agein. That's hit where the girl (Colbert) comes looking for her near-fiance Square John, meets Big John and is bowled over — so that Square John, rush- ing into town to report the well is a gusher, {inds them married. oli Pran || Thats where he's a good sport about it, until he finds Big John trifling with the damce hall dame, and that's the end of a beautiful friendship — for the time being. It's a picture with actoin right up to the end, when Big and } Square fight it out in New York's oil market and then with fists. PERCY’S CAFE | OPEN ALL NIGHT e sTorp at PERCY'S ANY TIME for Dinners or Light Lunches that al! Juneau is lalking about. TRY OUR FOUN- TAIN, TOO! s a grand, movie-wise movie, with pace and rip-roaring atmo- sphere and good sound acting. 3 Miss Lamarr No. 4 — shows up belatedly as the other woman, out to take Big John from Squar mairr, extremel, fast company. — Star Joln. Miss La- decorative, gives the impression of a filly in too “THE LADY IN QUESTION.” zer from story by Marcel Achard. Dirccted by Charles Vidor. Principals: Brian Ahernc, Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, Irene Rich, George Coulouris, Evelyn Keyes, Edward Norris, Curt Bois. Screenplay by Lewis Melt- This is what happens when a nice old juror a ta murder trial in Paris takes the pretty, acquitted defendant and begins to tell innocent lies about her to his pleas: puzzled wife (Rich) Morestan (Aherne) is a delighiful character, too generous for his bicycle-and-music shop’s good, too sympathetic for his After water into his home— nt but the show: all (Hayworth) time — up, old Morestau is in hotter especially because anaother juror (Bois) insists on returning Lo ver the tria! and thus heightens the danger of exposure. When Papa Morestan's dau learns that her fiance (Norris) Is the sort of nog love to the lady in question,’and his son (Ford) falls own., girl the ghter (Keyes) ! who'll make in love with for an elopement, Papa begins to he- 1sisting on acquistal, her and tries to rob th lieve he was wrong in in \ & aed (8 e 6 4 7