The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 31, 1940, Page 3

The Capitol Has The BIG Pictures Preview Tonight 1:15 A, M. Matinee J New Year's—2 P. M. S TO ORROV\’ WITH 2 P. M. MATINEE It's the lafftime of a lifetime!.. as “Wild Bill” Fields tries to tame the West! b [ ] HEA" g_z STAR SHORTS = . l THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, LOVESTORYAT | CAPITOL SHOW ENDS TONIGHT 'Rebecca’ Co-stars Laur- ence Olivier, Joan Fontaine An exciting e\'enl in the history of motion pictures takes place fo; the last times tonight at the Cap- itol Theatre where David O. Selz- nick’s production of “Rebecoa based on the best selling Daphic du Maurier novel. unreels in all its moving brilliance and dramat impact. Directed by the brilliant and gifted Alfred Hitchcock becca” is one of the most and suspenseful pictures to re the screen this season. It is only excellently and thrillin staged, it is acted by a cast of top-noteh actors who were chosen carefully for their special talent Heading this line-up are Laur- ence Olivier and Joan Fontaine, who play the starring roles, in their support are Judith e son, C. Aubrey Smith, Geor ders, Nigel Bruce, Florence and Gladys Cooper. Olivier as Maxim de Winter, a prominen society man who is famous for his vast Tudor estate called Mander- lev. To this house he brings his second wife, played by Miss Fon- taine, a shy and unsophisticated person who can hardly be comparad to the glittering and orilliant form- U.u: s is cast er mistress of Manderley, Reb now d But though Rebe is NS 'I‘I Dreum&l dead, her forceful personality and § = ennie wi dramatic beauty still continue to Joseph Calleia the Light dominate Manderley and to haunt . Dick Foran Brown Hair” the lives of those who wander Donald Meek [ ] (hrough its immense room UNIVERSAL LATEST Judith Anaerson, as the sadisti- & PICTURE NEWS ul.. cruel Mrs. Danvers, turns in = sereen portrait which is unfor- ok G AT s il tably brilliant, and the | LAST TIMES TONIGHT—— First Show 7:10 P. M. ances of Olivier and Miss 6 ‘ R E B r C C /‘ 9 , must be rated as being unsur- passed on the screen this season -ee There is no substitute for Newspaper Advertising 1Greenhorns HO”YWOOd Slghll And Soundy % By Robbin Cooms S — HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Dec. 31—Sale of Clarence Buddington Kelland's “Scattergood Baines” stories to the movies brought 1 €100,090 to the novelist’s two: sons, ‘Tom and- Horace. He had | given them the film rights to 5. Similarly, the pictures i ¢ll the fortunes of the iren of Guy Kibbee, who { title role. Kibbee is using half of his salary to form { rust fund for hi e-year-old daughter, Shirley Ann, and it c-year-old son, Guy, Ji H Tamarr is burned (o a crisp about those reporis she John Howard as soon as her divorce from Gene Markey I queried her on “The Great Ziegfeld” set and she insisted she hasn't scen Howard for a month my work and my adopted baby,” she told me. “That’s encugli, I swear to you I am not thinking of marrying any- b The mother of Jane Withers, unfailingly courteous, answered the door the other day.. expecting another autograph seeker £he lan't have been more surprised. The stranger was a T ci 1 who cifered to buy the Withers’ home, allowing them , four and cne-half acres, is not for sale. The probably have put about $100,000 into it. Hollywood's craze for Latin American locales is the break that Barry Norton has been waiting for so long. His real name is Alfredo Biraban and he was born in Buenos Aires. PERCY’S CAFE e STOP AT PERCY'S CAFE Breakiast, Dinner or Light Lunches e DELICIOUS FOOD ® FOUNTAIN SERVICE © REFRESHMENTS t, he gets “thé ‘second lead in R-K-O's “They Met in ntina.” 1f Gracie Fields' concerts continue to pack theatres like they have so far, the actress probably will enrich British war chaities by 6500,000 before her tour ends in April. 1l paying all her expenses, too. The receipts are Gracie is clear profit The Christmas decorations at the Wallie Beery home this car were of Carcl Ann's devising. Wallie was at Gallup with the “Bad Man” troupe, so the youngster had a free hand. The living room was covered with drawing: she made herself. Phil Harris and Marie Frey, one of the cuties in M-G-M's “The Ziegfeld Girl,” are seeing a lot of each other. . . . A costume jewelry necklace worn hy Carmen Miranda in “Road to Rio” has a price tag of $2,000. . . . Twentieth Century-Fox already has paid $5,700 just as RENTAL for the jewelry used in this film. . . . Metro is looking for an actor to portray Fort Worth Publisher Amon G. Carter in “Blossoms in the Dust,” They ought to try and get him to play the part himself. I saw him step out on the stage and do a great m. c. job at the Fort Worth premiere of “The Westerner.” . Gene Towne and Lady Furness were a luncheon twosome at Romeo's. . . . George Murphy has a neat idea for his baby son’s playhouse. . . . Is having the youngster’s ahnd and foot prints embedded in the doorstep. . . . Elaine Barrie and Roy Randolph were a Palm Spring twosome before she left for the east Get ready, Broadway, Judy Garland is headed there after she finishes her current picture. Shé went to the Big Town to make a personal-appearance with Mickey Rooney but didn't get any time for sight-seeing. ‘Learning o Be Soldiers Private Plink’s Thinking Cap Is His Most Use- ful Equipment AP Feature Service ST. LOUIS, Dec. ‘—What Peter Plink doesnt know about army rou- tine would fill enough books for a five-foot shelf, but he's learning fast. The fictitious Peter is a typical greenhorn soldier. And with thou- | sands ~f Peter Plinks around such a place as Jefferson Barracks, the gen- eral atmosphere is reminiscent of | the opening day of foothall prac- tice. One of the oldest infantry posts west of the Mississippi River, Jef- ferson Barracks recently was con- \verted into a major Army Air Corps recruiting and training center, and likewise will serve as one of the receiving stations for draftees. Peter Plink was sent here to be outfitted and receive a few weeks of preliminary training before being transferred to a permanent base. More than a hundred new men larrived here the same day. They were “shot in the arm” and ordered {out to learn the rudiments of drill- ing. Some went out to drill dressed in just what they wore from home. |One lad who hailed from western | Kentucky wore a green pin stripe | ‘suit and cairied his ragor and | toothbrush in a pocket. Another had | |army trousers and shoes but still sported a white shirt. Others had ! the new, stylish pants — and old | fashioned “choker” collars coats of | 1917 vintage. ° Peter couldn't remember which &compnny he belonged to, and it | caused a little confusion. And he insisted on wheeling to the right and walking off alone every time the sergeant shouted “column left!” All' one morning Peter and 49 other men marched back and forth across a plot twice the size of a toothall field. Music came from rec- {ords and loud speakers on parade grounds. Finally, after a “pep talk,” a kindly lieutenant ordered: “Men with sore feet fall out.” 1t looked like a mob scene. Guns and anfmunition are at hand, but eter didn’t get them at first. ‘I’s mainly a safety precau- tion,” one officer admitted. Among the things Peter has dis- covered is that in order to be a good soldier he must be able to roll his own cigarettes. One of his buddies from Indiana mourns frequently “for throw away.” A free lance photographer has been doing a rushing business tak- m individual pictures of the boys in’ unl!orm to. send home. Peter wishes he could manage to look like officers do. noted with interest that the guardhouse was closed for repairs, Most of the recruits were some of those long butts T used to | i After the Blackouil America Is a Marvelous Place BRG], 1940. HOLIDAY ToNews Man Back from London AP Feature Service TLondoner out in the bright lights. Milo Thompson, chief of the Lon ciated Press for the last two years, is a city could be without a blackout. Traffic lights seemed blinding. In London the light shines through narrow crossed slits, well shielded. Thompson found he had developed cat eyes. People in New York seemed never to go to bed, never to stop shouting, laughing and talking. Auto- mobile horns were a night- long nuisance. It was hard to sleep and, for one forced so long to retire early, it was hard to keep awake. He saws— [ UNRATIONED MEALS—“When one sits at a table ther n ur about it which makes it seem a dream. The menus are amaz- ing and the presence of bowls full of sugar and plates of butter make find oned things.” FAUCET dering mew ch, for taken for WELL-DRESSED WOMEN—"The women of New York seem to be amazing creatures. The women of the blitz area are so seldom painted ently barelegged and so given to adapted to shelters that they in a world completely alien to up, so freq wearing clothe on time. seem (o belong this at all.” TIRE FOR GIANT DOUGlAS one. sto have the world’s largest wheel as- wmbhes—am‘l here ls one of them. Built by Firestone for the Douglas aircraft plant in southern California, tire and wheel are 96 inches in 100, befuddled to get into seripus mmhle n-nmay Mgwum'melmpm diameter. weigh 2,700 pounds, just about 23 times the weight of Dorothy Rush, above. The monuster B-19, for which the tire was built, will have 4 maximum cruising range of 7,000 miles. HESE pictures tell the story of a fish out of water—of a don bureau of the Asso- the self-styled "fish. He returned to New York to find he had forgotten how noisy “BRIGHT LIGHTS, in (homsdves are not so shocking, because underground and blacked- out London is often one accustomed to unlighted streets and pas- ageways finds himeelf approaching dark stair- m(ho..l 'Iunkmg to switch on a light.” WORK — faucet without a sense of adventure, won- hether water will come and feeling brilliantly lighted. But “T still cannot turn a elated that it does come. The same prevails when T approach a light ing that I cannot risk a station only a few minutes before train time. It startles me egularity in these services is granted." iving at a railroad to find things move exactly Clothes come from the presser, ! sonic MEETING OF FIREMEN shirt from the laundry in what seems no time SCOTTISH RITE RECEPTION SET From to 5 o'clock tomorrow afternoon the Scottish Rite Masoms‘ will hold their annual open house in the Scottish Rite Temple. ‘ The ballroom will be turned over| to the DeMolays and Rainbow Girls| for dancing. | There will be a general program‘ during the afternoon of music. All Masons of whatever degree and the oizanizations affiliated | with them and their families are| invited to attend this annual gath-| ering of friends to celebrate theg New Year. A eeial invitation is exLended\ to visiting Masons and their| families to go to the Temple so‘ that they may be welcomed and become acquainted with the Ma- members of the Gastineau| Channel, | >>o | POSTPONED TO JAN. 9 next w!,u]dr monthly mee the Volunteer Fire Depar will be held on January The ing of ment The usual meeting date comes (mi a the first Thursday of the month; but as t date falls on January| |2, one day following the usual New Year doings, bas been taken. i ln;lhh post insist on having a | a postponement| A T T D Where the Better Big Pictures Play! TURY LAST TIME TONIGHT BETTE DAVIS ERROL FLYNN OBSERVED NEW YEAR Offices and Practically All Places of Business Will Be Closed Entire Day Juneau will observe a holiday tomorrow All offices, city, Territorial and Federal will be closed, in fact forces in several offices took this afternoon wih 0L|Vl Stores will be closed but m s et Wi S Hkvimn stocks will be taken although in ALSO some places this has been practi- Late News Cartoon cally completed. Drug stores will observe holiday, hours, tomorrow afternoon only. Restaurants and eating places in general will be opened and many dinner parties have already been planned and reservations, made Open houses will be held residents in the afternoon usual home dinner parties gage the attention of many TONIGHT and WEDNEEDAY Joe E. Brown, Marthe Fuye in ¢%1.000.00 Touchdown HISTORICAL HHT HAS FINAL SHOW SUGGESTED BY AT 20TH CENTURY ROTARY CLUB Davis- Flynn Stars in "Pri- Developmem of Winter, vafe Lives of Elizabeth Sports Center Here | and Essex” IS DiS(USSEd Telling a highly dramatic and — - essentially human story against the A suggestion that a road be built | magnificent pageantry of the Eliza- from the Douglas Highway to the|bethan court, “The Private Lives ski bowl prompted a spirited dis-|0f ElEizabeth and Essex,” ending cussion at today's Juneau Rotary|tonight at the 20th Century Thea- Club meeting of the possibilities|tre, stars Bette Davis and Errol of development of Juneau as ajFlynn. winter sports center. It deals with the cne great love Ernest Parsons, former Presi-|in the life of England’s most fam- dent of the Juneau Ski Club, said|Ous queen. The role of Elizabeth is Juneau has wonderful possibilities|one which Miss Davis, universally to develop a type of skiing which|acknowledged to be the screen’s would interest people from al|8reatest dramatic actress, was des- over the country. Ski terrains here|tined to play, and atcording to are as good as anywhere in the|advance reports, she is every inch world, he said, and snow condi-|and fibre the Queen! “The Acade- tions allow virtually year-around|my may as well start shining up skiing 1f roads could be built tol@another award for Bette. She'll get the proper areas it again for her magnificent, awe- A Committee consisting of Par-|inspiring portrayal,” wrote the Los Lou Hudson and Lu Liston|Angeles Evening Herald and Ex- by many and the will en- Juneau- ites Tonight the big public event is| the Elks annual High Jinks in the Elks Ballroom - oo SKI BOWL ROAD sons, will meet with the Chamber of|Press. Commerce, the Ski Club and the| Side by side and pace by pace Forest Service with the aim ul':wm‘ her, strides Errol Flynn as developing skiing here | Lord Essex. It is the type of role Cold Weather Road | precisely suited to the handsome The road suggested for Douglas| Irishman—that of a dashing sol- Island would be a low grade trac-, dier, victorious in defeat, irresis- tor road;, whish would carry traf-|tible in all adventures of the heart, fic only in the winter months when | the hero of the populace—truly a it was frozen, Skiing members of | Man among men. the Rotary Club complained that! > most winters, when snowfall is| N R e light, it is almost impossible to get }{OQ?AT.‘L NoTtES up through the mud of the lowe:| stretches of the trail to the ski-| ing areas. | F. E. DcDermott, who recenily nr.c Rcbert Lindquist was ad- returned from Anchorage, report-| ..iiicq to St. Ann's today and is re- ed on conditions at that city. | ceiving medical attention. District Governor Nig Borleskm will arrive on the Northland next! aqmitted to St. Ann’s Hospital, Tuesday to be joined by a PAIty|prank Steack is receiving medical of Juneau Rotarians and their|ga¢tention. wives for a visit to Sitka to in- stall the charter of the new Sitka| Club. —— L b Mrs. Susan Ralstead was a medi- |cal admission last night at St. Anp's. | For Gunners’ Luck f - Mrs. M. J. Bass of Yakutat, is at St. Ann's receiving medical care. | A surgical admission, Mrs. & itrudc Treloar is at St. Ann's. Douglas Falk was dismisse _Ifrom St. Ann’s after receiving cal care and sailed for Sitks on the | steamer North Sea. Mrs. Joscph Rizzards and baby ¥ son were dismissed today from Bt. ‘Ann's, ! WAKE UP YOUR Though Britain’s anti-aircraft gune | mry is carried out on scientifie | es, the gunners of a western black eat for good luck, or perhaps for bad luck to“da t;-dn. Her name sz..um .-.- NOTICE te=- Effective January lst, 1941, the interest rate on savings accounis will be one and one-half (1%) per cent. !‘irsillalinnallnhd.llltll 1 (oo !