The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 27, 1941, Page 3

THE CAPITOL'HAS THE BIG PICTURES SHOW PLACE OF JUNEAU NOW! Rogers, cere Tracy gives Edison a sin- p understanding that ne real greatness, the th humanness and the sparkling sense of humor of the celebrated American inventor. ry itself is so filled with real dra that it is almost un- believable that all of it actuaily could have happened in the life of one man. Truth, it is proved again, ig really much stranger than fiction, Although Americans remember the beloved Edison as he was in later this story is of the inventor young man—a man who is a outhful genius because he was only 30 when he invented the phon- ograph and 32 when he achieved the electric light. Tracy does a few brief scenes as on as we remember him—at 82—but the body of the story is of a young man's | NVENTOR'S LIFE IS DEPICTED IN CAPITOL MOVIE pencer TrafiPIays Title Role in "Edison the Man” Marked by another sterling per- the part of Spencer who again demonstrates the leading Man” opened Theatre. y ha and de jormance on racy, that he is Hollywood's Edison. at the the Capitol dison, Tr erday \s Tho! a le that fits him like a glove. career. becoming a trite but true de- R VTN, ! of Tracy's screen Work, difficult to remember a NGTICE Tracy hasn’t made fit! AIRM.IL ENVELOPES, her it is the kindly Father air route from Seatie to Nome, anagan or the super-man Major sale at J. B. Burford & Co snowmg agv | Hollywood Sights And Sounds e By Robbia Cooms . HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Jan. 27.—“THE INVISIBLE WOM- AN." Screenplay by Robert Lees, Fred Rinalod, Gertrude Purcell. Directed by A. Edward Sutherland. Principals: Virginia Bruce, John Barrymore, John Howard, Charlic Rug- gles, Oscar Homolka, Edward Brophy, Donald MacBride, Margaret Hamilton. unlike “The Invisible Man” the Liks “Topper” and its sequels, and follow-up, this picture you-don't device for comedy. Barrymore the eccentric scientist who, subsidized by a wealthy playboy (Howard), invents a formula for making humans Bruce is the pretty, and how, dress model with a peeve against her grochy boss. It's a real pevee, urgent enough that she velunteers as guinea pig for the invention, the better to ' el | rom there on in, the possibilities of invisibility | to a young and beantiful woman are thoroughly explored for | acky comedy, and they don't forget the scenes in which the who to preserve her state must shed her clothes, catches Alcohol, you know if you're its uses now-you-see-it-now- is invisible. as applied heroin cold and downs a few spots of brandy. up on these invisibility outfits and their workings, tends to | prolong the condition. And things become even more embar- rassing after the fugitive gangster (Homolka), hiding out in ico with a yen for the U. S. causes the now-you-see-her us to be stolen. It's schewball, but funny. AISIE WAS A LADY.” Screenpaly by Betty Reinhardt and Mary C. McCall, Jr. Directed by Edwin L. Marin. Prin- cipals: Ann Sethern, Lew Ayres, Maureen O’Sullivan, C. Aubrey Smith, Jean Perry, Paul Cavanagh, Edward Ashley. This new chapter in the adventures of the amazing Maisie PERCY’S CAFE ([ sTOP AT PERCY'S CAFE Breakfast, Dinner or Light Lunches ® DELICIOUS FOOD ® FOUNTAIN SERVICE © REFRESHMENTS | may fill the Maisie-fancier with forebodings. It wouldn’t have mattered so much after “Congo Maisie,” but after this one it would be a shame to see Maisie join the “Thin Man” and “The Jones Family” in the limbo of finished series. At the end, here, our wise-cracking, big-hearted Maisie is i in a clinch with Ayres talking wedding bells, and all, in short, seems lost — for the essence of Maisie is footloose, romantic adventure. In this episode Maisie begins as a carnival’s headless woman, | progresses by quick stages to “maiding” in the vast palace of | drinking playboy Bob. In quicker time he’s resisting Bob’s sister’s no-account fiance (Ashley) and trying to mind her own business. | Then she sees what a mess the family’s in. With what money | to burn, no mother, and a father who never finds time to come- home from his wanderings, Bob and Abby (O'Sullivan) are in | a bad way. All they have is a delightful old retainer (Smith) and | Maisie, who keeps quiet as leng as she can (which isn't long if you know Maisie) and then lets loose. It's a pleasant yarn, Cinderella-tingled, with Maisie at her crackling, down-to-earth best, and Miss O’'Sullivan appealing and genuine as the lovelorn heiress who doesn’t like jewels but wants her daddy. (Well, I said it was Cinderella-tinged, didn't 1?) The only hope I can see for more Maisie (a married one being out of the question) is for playboy Boy, reformed by love, to return {o the bottle or allow himself to be diverted by one of the bevy of shallow nitwits cluttering up his estate. Be a sport, Bob? | vo | 12 PRIZES FOR BIRTHDAY BALL - BRIDGE PLAYERS . Chairman ME Wallis S. George Announces Arrangements Arrangements for the bridge party which will be held Saturday evening at the Baranof Hotel as part of the celebration of the President’s Birth- day Ball were announced today by " DRAMA Mrs. Walllis George, Bridge Commit- tee Chairman. Assisting Mrs. George R. H. Williams, Mrs. O. S. and Mrs, Stella Young. Two types of bridge, progressive and pivot, will be in play in the Baranof Gold Room and Saturday evening starting at 9 o'clock. First, second and consolation prizes for both men and women in both types of bridge have been pro- vided by the following Juneau mer- chants: Fred Henning, Sabin’s Men shop, Nugget Shop, Alaska Elec- tric Light and Power Company, Thomas Hardware, Juneau-Young Hardware, Leota's, Jones-Stevene, Juneau Drug. Butler Harry Race, Drugs, and the B. M. Behrends Co. Birthday ball tickets are good for either the dance at the Elks’ Hall or for the bridge session. Those planning to play bridge are asked, however, to make reservations with are Mrs Sullivan any member of the committee be- | fore Friday night. ->-o - OLD AGE WARRANTS T0 BE MAILED FEB. 1 Beginning February 1, and con- tinuing thereafter, Juneau recipients of old age assistance will receive their monthly warrants by mail through the local Post Office, it was announced by the Department of Public Welfare today. The change is made necessary on account of the large volume of work now being taken care of by the local Juneau-Douglas office. Crossword Puzzle ACROSS 36, Long narrow 1. Harbor boards 5. Mineral . Depart 9, Seaweed Sheep 12. Employer Indolent 13. At a distance . Cry of the cat 14 Stake once . Harpooned used in . Iterate sword . Bristle practice Exist 15. Story . Winglike proe. 16. Greek letter ess of a fish Slender finial Couples Musical shake 58. Equality Steep 9. Biblical Decay country Ancient Greek 61. Melancholy city 62. Japanese . Discount statesman 6. Informed 63. New Zealand 9. Groove tree . Viaducts 64. Sidelong Company of glance players 65. June bug . Note of the 66. Killed scale 67. Gaelic W e A NEW FAD ADDRESS YOUR FAVORITE STAR BY USING POST OFFICE CANCELLATIONS FOR THE FULL NAME / Lounge | A patrolman Averue. beside W am when the latter dying peliceman. cornercd and captured. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, JAN. 27, 1941. OF DEATH ON BUSY FIFTH AVENUE | and a civilian were killed during a holdup and ensuing chase on New York’s busy Fifth ! Here pedestrians rush to the aid of Patrolman Edward C. Maher, 52, veteran officer, who was | fatally wounded by Wiliam Esposito after the latter had been shot in the leg by the patrolman. Maher fell " Pasersby drag William away from the In the foreground lies Leonard Weisherg, a taxi driver, who had been shot and wound- ed in the throat when he attempted to intercept William. Anthony Esposito, William's brother, was later The brothers were indicted for murder. turned on him at close range. HOLZHEIMER APPEARS | Elizabeth Murphy, IN WRANGELL TRIAL, U. S. Attorney Wiu.am A iemer left on the steamer Alaski for Wrangell tc appear at a pr iminary hearing in which a pris-| oner is contesting a charge of con tributing to the delinquency of minor. The name of the defendant /i was not mentioned in the brief ac- ount received here — e ied au Try a czassif :n The Empire Solution Of Saturday's Puzzle DOWN Support for 1. Golt stroke a vine 2. Glaclal ridges 5. Tally: collog. 3. Alleviate 6. The southwest wind . Tardler Mouth of & volcano Work . Transfer to another flower container . The chosen . Tips to one side Vends Except . Oriental tree . Tie game . Distributes the cards Halts Malarial fover . Casting form . Precipitous . Monarch . Perceive . Odious Less firm or durable . Thin cakes Fast ‘ One of the Muses Pertaining to the motion of the sea Written prom- ise to pay Regrets . Withered Animal's stomach A. S. Heydek Will i Wed This Evening Mrs. Elizabeth V. Murphy and Mr. a Alexander d this evening at an 8 o'clock ceremony to be performed at the | Orpheum Rooms by U. S. Com- missioner Felix Gray Attending the couple will be Mrs Anna Anderson and Mr. Andrew Ericksor epticn will be held after 8:30 > call Mr. Heydek. a well-known mink farmer, will take his bride to Tena- kee during the week where they plan to make their home. E B KNIGHT GOES SOUTH Harold' Knight, manager of the Alaska Dock and Storage Company, iled Sputh on the steamer Alas- bound’ for the States and a nth-long business trip. Knight will as far south as San Francisco S. Heydek will be mar-| c'clock and all friends are "“"“'di CLASSIC TALE | PLAYING NOW | AS LOCAL HIT “The Blue Bird” Seen in Technicolor at 20th | Cemury Theatre | Maurice Maeterlinck’s “The Bluei‘ Bird” came to the 20th Century Theatre yesterday to fulfill every | prediction made for it by preview | reports and roadshow reviews. The studio is completely borne out in| its prophecy that “you will re-| member ‘The Blue Bird’' as the most beautiful picture ever made {and the most human story ever | told.” It is exactly that. | To enjoy it to the fullest, the| picture should be seen from the | beginning | It is brilliantly played by a bril- Hope Crews, Russell Hicks, Cegilia nolds. Walter Lang, who carries the epi- sodic story through some of the (most beautiful settings yet seen on the screen. In addition to the greater fidelity of color values' achieved by the new Technicolor,' there is an amazing fllusion of three-dimensions that makes the ple portraying the roles. COURT SETS HoseitalL NOTES Loftus, Al Shean and Gene Rey-, It is as brilliantly directed by/| screen,seem a stage, with real peo-| e ————— e Where Better Big Pictuges Play! Tonight and Tuesday Only We predict that for many years to come, you will remember this picture as the most beautiful ever made . . . the most human, story ever told. Abstie MAETERLINCKS THE BLUE BIRD in TECHNICOLOR 1y Shirley Temple - Speing Bylngton Nigel Bruce + Gale Sondergaard Collins + Sybil Jason * Jesste Ralph + Helen Ericson « Johany liant cast, featuring Shirley Tem- Russel! - Laurs Hope Crews * Russell ple, Spring Byington, Nigel Bruce, Hicks + Cecilia Loftus « Al Shesn Gale Sondergaard, Eddie Collins, ;Sybil ason, Jessie Ralph, Helen | Ericson, Johnny Russell, Laura LAST TIME TONIGHT ‘20,000 MEN A YEAR' charged with alleged grand larceny is set for February 3. The case of Charles Robert Mec- Clellan, who is charged with con- tributing to the delinquency of a minor, is set for February 5. Judge Alexander deferred setting | the date of the trial of Willie Horton because physical condition of the A. J. Forrest is at St. Ann'’s Hospital receiving medical treat- ment. | M | | Judge Alexander Makes, Schedule for 8 Civil, | 5 Criminal Cases | | In the Federal Court, Judge| | A. J. Forrest was admitted to St. |George F. Alexander has set dates' Ann’s this morning and is receiving | for 13 trials, eight of which are civil medical care. | suits and five criminal cases. il | The case of John Jacobsen vs. J. John Williams, an employee of ,1 Conway is set for 10 a. m.| the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining March 3. | Company, was dismissed from St.| The case of L. R. Hennings, Wash- | Ann’s today after receiving medical | ington lawyer who is suing Bertha ' | care for a foot injury. Rennan for services rendered, is set for March 4, and the case of J. P.| | The infant child of Mr. and Mys, | Lovett vs. Bertha Rennan to col- ! Marcus Sisson was admitted to St. | lect on a mortgage is set for March Ann’s for medical attention, |'"~ - The case of Owen Swensen Vs, | Elsie Murphy Jones, a suit in which | The first modern olympiad took| the plaintiff is attempting to col- | place at Athens, Greece, in 1896. |lect on a lien is set for March 13. | — | An alleged claim jumping suit, filed by Mike McKallick against After receiving medical care, Mike Lyons was dismissed today from St. Ann’s. T | Forrest Pitts, an Alaska Juneau | Mine employee, was dismissed to- | day from St. Ann’s after receiving | | care for a fractured ankle, | | | defendant prevented entry of & plea. | DA I ES FOR | The prisoner is charged with the | | first degree murder, alleged shoot- ing of Willie Mills at Excursion Inlet several months ago. Horton made a suicide attempt shortly after the fatal shooting and has not yet suf- ficiently recovered to enter a plea. An old case of the City of Juneau vs. Betty Baker was dismissed for lack of prosecution. NDS JUNEAU VISIT Mrs. J. Goding, who has been visiting her parents, Capt. and | Mrs. B. Aiken of Sixth Street, left for her home in Skagway aboard the Mount McKinley, AN e 2 e FHS KARSTENS GOES WEST Louis Karstens is a phssenger aboard the Mount McKinley for Kodiak where he will be employed. BROADWAY NIGHTS - By AXEL The week’s theatrical fare con- sisted mainly of turkeys and near turkeys, so we'll take into account only one of them and go on to matters of greater mo- ment. Our task for the present is “First Stop to Heaven”, the comedy at the Windsor Theatre < by Norman Rosten, and we're sorry to say that despite the presence of Alison Skipworth, Taylor Holmes and James Bell the evening was as nearly a total loss as we've had in the theatre this year. The play is about an elderly childless couple. The woman uses her city home as a rooming house, to satisfy her longing to mother someone. The man wants to retire to the country and raise chickens. There's a variety of persons for the woman, most ably played by Miss Skipworth, to brood ) ATCHERY OF DECATUR,ILL.MAIL 18,000 BABY CHICKS BY PARCEL POST DAILY IN THE SPRINGTIME! @ [ 3 The worp, CADDY ", ORIGINATED INTHE BRITISH POSTALSYSTEM Reg. U. 5. Pal. Office 334-566, May 5, 1936, by Kational Federation of Pos! Office Clerks Most of us associate the word “Caddie” as to one working on a golf course, yet oddly enough “Caddies” were used to carry the mails when the first private penny post was established in Scotland. ZXhese caddies carried the mails to different sectors of the city. Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Ine.: STORM Falla’s “Nights in the Gardens of Spain” is a swell job (Album M-725). The recording is made by Lucette Descaves, pianist, and the Paris Conservatory Or- chestra under Eugene Bigot. Technically it's as good as the “Don Quixote”, and a treasured addition to any good record library. Mlle. Descaves is no mean pianist and knows the idiom of Iberia. There is 2 monumental record- ing of Gustav Mahler’s 9th Sym- phony - (Album M-726) which throws some light on the rel- atively obscure master of a gen- eration ago. A long and some- times noisy work, the first and fourth movements show - an amazing versatllity in orchestral color and a corresponding pauc- ity in melodic development and contragunml ingenuity., But who Per! in ten | and cluck over. A WPA|knows | musician; an. elderly ramx_"-blade years there will be as much a salesman, ggnurse, a writel, a|craze as there is for small time ter, two young | Sibelius. We Ahat lads about to get into trouble be- cause of lack of work, and an elderly harridan who distrib- utes Fascist tracts. Providential- 1y, the city is building a subway under thé house, condemns it, pays ten thousand dollars for it, and they all go to the country to raise chickens. Just as foolish as it sounds, so we'll go on to the business at hand—a review of the classical music records for the month.] We've threatened to do this for some time, but the theatrical season somehow took up most of our effort, and with the new development of high fidelity sound reproduction and the slash in the price of records we feel that it’s as much a service as anything we could tell you about the entertainment world. Victor’s January issues are imposing. They lead off with a brilliant” if somewhat _literal Masterwork album (M-720) of Richard Strauss’ tone poem, “Don Quixote”. Critics and mel- omaniacs generally believe_thls to be one of the greatest pieces of program music ever written. With Emanuel Feuermann's cello to sing the Don’s woes and ambitions, it's worth owning. Alexander Hilsberg, violin and Samuel Lifschey, viola, both section leaders of the Phila- delphiu Orchestra, play the solos for their respective instruments, and Eugene Ormandy does a right good job of conducting. We said the reading was literal, somewhat, but of a technical ex- cellence approaching perfection. Another favorite, Manuel De- you hear this work. Some of the outstanding Vic- tor records of the month include William Primrose’s playing of the Boccherini Sonata in A Ma- jor for viola. Primrose is to that instrment what Heifetz is to the violin. The work itself is a fine example of Boccherini's sweetly melodic use of the short sonata form. '(Victor 17513). Kerstin Thorborg, contralto gem in the diadem of the Metropoli- tan Opera, sings Max Reger’s “The Virgin’s Slumber Song” and Lundvik’s “A Swedish Lul- laby” sweetly and beautifully. (Victor 2133). For lovers of voice it's a must. Of Columbia’s January list we recommend without stint Set X-182, which presents Gregor Piatigorsky, one of the great-| est livin cellists, playing the Saint-Saens A Minor con- certo with the Chicago Sym- phony Orchestra under Fred- erick Stock: a superb recording of the Beethoven C Sharp Minor Quartet, Opus 131, by the Bu st String Quartet (Co- lumbia M-429); Felix Weingart- ner conducting the Orchestre des Concerts du_Conservatoire de Paris in the D Major Suite No. 3 of Bach, (Columbia M- 428) and three Brahms rhap- sodies (Columbia X-183) played by that great Swiss master of the piano, Egon Petri. Next week looks -pretty good for the theatre, but you never know until the last curtain is rung down. So we'll report on it when next we meet. {Jack Ballinger and Ole Twedt, is set for March 15. McKallick states | | that the defendants “did trespass |and eject McKallick” from his min- ing claim on Chichagof Island. | The case of Charles Lesher, who | is suing Charley Waynor for false | arrest, is set for March 10, and is | a re-trial of a case a year ago which resulted in a hung jury after 50 hours of deliberation. | The date of the case of Joe Kelley i vs. E. P, Pond for collection of rent | is set for March 17. | In a suit to quiet title, the case | of Everett Nowell vs. H. O. Sanders is set for March 24. Five criminal case defendants who had pleaded not guilty to charges | in Pederal Court were given dates for their trials by Judge Alexander. Charged with violation of the Al- aska game laws, Cornelius Hoogen- dorn will be tried January 29 on a | per license. Arminta Osborne will be tried January 29 on a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon, will be tried on a carge of polygamy on February 3. The case of Jan King, who is ”, 2L Only Medicine1 Ever Used and now I'm 81! Kept ADLERIKA on hand the past 27 years.” (O. G.- Tex.) ALDERIKA contains 3 laxa- tives for quick bowel action, with 5 carminatives to relieve gas pains. Get. Mauro Drug Co., — in Douglas by Guy's Drug Store. —adv. THE “DOUBLE-RICH” BOURBON charge of buying furs without pro- | Barbara Kaniannen Ernestvedt’ ADLERIKA today. Butler- | ICE CREAM A DAILY DELICACY Juneau Dairies Ice Cream is one dessert that remains ever popular —~ no matter how often served! Every- one enjoys the zestful flav- or—the pure richess. Serve JUNEAU DAIRIES' tonight. Made Under Perfectly Samitary Conditions and Slow Frozen. L J JUNEAU DAIRIES u‘ . Ine. | | l STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY, 90 PROOF @ SCHENLEY DISTILLERS CORP, N.Y. €