The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 5, 1941, Page 3

THE DAILY;ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 5, 1941 THE CAPITOL HAS THE BIG PICTURES SHOW PLACE OF JUNEAU STARTS TONIGHT Steese Goeslo _ Panama Zone Writes Letter fo William Hesse on Proposed New Highway System | James G. Steese, former Presi-| dent of the Alaska Road Comimis- gicn, is back in the Panama Zone | again, according to a letter received by William A. Hesse, Territorial En-| cer. Mr. Steese, writing from San An- tonio, Texas, January 27, says: “I should have acknowledged your special pamphlet on a proposed {highway systein for Alaska some time |ago, and I now want especially to | thank you for a copy of your cur- I rent biennial report, just received. |1t makes splendid reading and ‘bl'.ngs back many happy recollec- | tions. “It takes a discouragingly long time for some of these plans to Il come through, but as T see many of the dreams of 1920 of Joe Gotwals land myself now realities, it makes | (one more hopeful for the future. | “With Alaska now definitely |adopted by the War Department, | i progress should be speeded up. It/ looked for awhile as though T might | be sent to Seattle to reorganize the Alaska District, since the Engineers have taken over the airfield con-, |struction, the Portage Bay Tunnel, | lete., but they finally decided I had been to Panama first, so I am leav- | \inu this Friday to resume active| duty as Assistant Engineer of Main- tenance of the Panama Canal, pos- |sibly to build the third set of locks. “That is getting back home, as! |T spent most of the period of 1907- | |12 en the construction of the Panama | Cénal and Relocation of the Pana- |ma railroad. | “Best wishes to all my friends in directed' Fy's HERBERT WILCOX range As 1t May Seem—LATE NEWS SHORTS—St p HISTORICAL PLAY IS PICTURED ON a host of herces of the past, politi- cal and military, comes to life. The young royal lovers ripen into ma- turs the wedding scene of the Queen and Albert is later followed | by a similar ceremony marking the| (APITO[ S(REE" marriage of Pri Victoria toi — lington, elderly and autocratic, first 4! HeL L inclined to resist the royal authority Queen of Destiny” Opens e o e e it e IS QORGANIZED BY | most devoted adherent Tonight with Anna Neagle as Star Crimean War efforts of | to pre- JUNEAU DOCTORS e e o masaeinns. nowe. Officers are Drs. Courfney! the British cavalry rushing like human avalanche on (lhe Ruqsnuv:‘ Sm”h, w. M. Wh"ehead guns. The massacre of General Gor-| and J. 0. Rude ‘ | don and his garrison at Khartum in the Sudan at a later epoch, is| alsc recorded. | A Juneau Medical Society was| The passing of formed today by all doctors of | !Duke of Wellington,” the demise of | Juneau in a meeting at Percy’s Cafe. Aims and bylaws are to be drawn| {up by a committee consisting of Dr. the Prince Consort, and the se- quences surrounding - the fateful i | W. P. Blanton, Langdon White and | L. P. Dawes. moments when all Britain waits in suspense to hear the tolling bells an- wounce that Victoria's life is ended| Dr. Courtney Smith was elected tcuch the extreme of Lm(,tmm\i‘P; sident of the new organization, Dr. W. M. Whitehead, Vice-Presi- | dent, and Dr. Joseph C. Rude, Sec- . Roorbed ; retary-Treasurer. Dublin, Neutral, Bomb Target | Time rells on, the breaks out, despite the Queen and Prince Con. serve the peace. The cha torical pomp, dignity and scen- randeur have been combined ith sincere remantic b appeal “Qucen of Destiny,” the great matic presentation of the inti- mate lives of Queen Victoria, played Ly Anna Neagle, and the Prince Consort, played by Anton Walbrook, vhich opens tonight at the Capital “heatre ainst such splendid back- ounds the intimacies of Victoria’s reign are swiftly unfolded in Tech- nicolor. Great historical figures crowd the stage. Sir Robert Peel, Duke of Wellington, Disraeli— in the grand old The Society will meet the second | Tuesday in each month at 8 o'clock iin the evening. Charter members are Dr. W. P, Blanton, Dr. Langdon White, Dr. L.| P. Dawes, Dr. W. M. Whitehead, Dr. | Courtney Smith, Dr. Joseph O. Rude, | |Dr. W. 8. Ramsey, Dr. C. C. Carter, | Dr. W. W. Council, Dr. Palmer Cong- don and Dr. E. F. Vollert. e s Juneau Guests Are Entertained ; By Mrs. Glover For Mrs. K. C. Brownjohn of Los Angeles, and her daughter, Miss Ida Brownjohn of St. Paul, a bridge luncheon was given this aftérnoon by Mrs. A. E. Glover at her Fifth Street hmoe. Carrying out the valentine motif, the individual tables were decorated with red hearts and tapers. Mrs. Glover's guests were Mes- dames Ernest Gruening, Ruth Noble, Lynn Forrest, Earl McGinty, Frank Dufresne, Oscar Olson, Thomas Gardner, Fred Geeslin, Langdon White, Courtney Smith, Thomas Haigh, Ray Ward, C. R. Farrell, G. F. Alexander, Harold Knight, Wil- Ham Parke and H. L. Faulkner. T et Pioneers, Auxiliary Plan Next Meeting At last night's meeting of the Pio- neers and Pioneers Auxiliary, plans were made for the entertainment of he Legislators on February 18. After the regular business sessions ‘he two groups combined for a social ind bridge, whist and pinochle, pro- V'iged entertainment for the occa- ston. e - 3 s 1 « i View of O’Connell street in Dublin Dublin, capital of neutral Ireland, has been bombed several times, according to reports from Europe. Some of the explosives dropped in the attacks were identified as of German tvpe bv Irish officials. First Lady A Hit With the > - | (M-1) on the steamer Baranof for ACROSS 33. Caustle L Mouth of a 86, Anclent Greek volcano 5. Booy l:' e 38, Alternative - Become less go. Metal fastemer 10 C1tVere, 4. Targe net 1 qp]‘om'";“ ® 41 Australian bird Ii Appenes 4% Hypotetical 17. Winglike 3. Medleval 18. Flash Venetian 19. Morning: abbr, ot 20. Metal 44 Ireland 3l Quality or i mpoons 35 i'm",:}'“""“ 48. Prepated for 3 Threchod . hublication 2. Internal decay ks W b« - in fruit 81, Determi 26. Confident Al 28 Sait water 20, Among 30. Grating 31. Considered FOR N. G. UNITS arrival of 47 Garand rifles The use of the National Guard units sta- tioned in Juneau, is announced by Major William R. Mulvihill, the Ad- jutant General. He said the model 1903 United States rifles now being used by the Guardsmen here will be crated and shipped elsewhere. Seven of the new, and much-dis- puted Garands will be used by the headquarters detachment here, and forty of them will be issued to Com- pany A, 297th Infantry. The rifles will not be fired, said the Major, until each Guardsman has received a thorough course in mechanical training of the new weapon. The U. S. rifle, cal. 30, M-1 (Gar- and) is a self-loading - shoulder By LEONARD HALL Pursued from country to country by the Nazi tide of hatred, Bruno Walter, distin- guished pianist-conductor who gave a lifetime of good music to Europe and the world, is cur- rently conducting a series of fourteen concerts for the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Society, and will make his debut at the Metropolitan as a conductor when he directs Beethoven’s “Fidelio”. soon. The “debut” is a rather odd term to use. It was Bruno Walter who nurtured and raised the top-flight musical event of the world—the Salzburg Mozart festivals — which drew music lovers from every part of the globe to Austria every year. It was at the instance and the in- vitation of Walter that Arturo JACK LANG VISITS FRIENDS IN JUNEAU Jack Lang, active in AFL affairs n Juneau during his residence here, ‘ame in from the south on the Al- 1ska and is remaining here, visiting riends, for perhaps two weeks. Lang went to the westward last June where he has been employed He took a three months’ leave, wen ‘outh and is now returning to hi westward position ———— Subscribe for The Zmpire, Mdvie star Mickey Rooney appears to have gotten off a funny one as he chats with Mrs, Franklin D. Roosevelt at the pre-inaugural party in Constitution Hall, Washington. In background is Mrs, John Boettiger, the President’s daughter. In foreground is actor Charlie Chaplin, one — of many. notables to entertain the gathering, . Toscanini went to Salzburg to lend his great art to the festi- vals—and the superb joint di- rection of Toscanini and Walter made the Austrian city a veri- table musical shrine to Mozart. Between Mozart and Walter there is a slight parallel. At four, Mozart was a musician. At four, Walter attracted the attention of musicians and be- gan his musical training. and at nine he composed, for his father’s birthday, a duet for piano and violin. Eight years later, when he was seventeen, i® 8%00d o1 his first podium, Crossword Puzzle LTETT] V[E] E s T A | E| | S Al D E IN Solution Of Yesterday's Puzzle B Sasculing €. Right: abbr. | vears, the 20th Century-Fox film| 4. Lacerate 7. Cover the in. | “Star Dust” stars lovely Linda Dar- | . Adjective and nside agalb | o o serifiity Theatre o uend: % ‘Absn ncll at the 20th Century Theatre |§ antelope . Diplomacy . City Paraguay . Recaptured 2. Hermit Vegetable organism . Reduce to powder . Plait 22. Avalanche . Notes the speed of . Newly mar- ried woman . Ancient language Fractured Concede . Rested 32 Part of a surveying instrument . Masculine name . Inconsiderable 3. Philippine tree . Send forth . Nervous twitching . Monkey . Pluri] ending weapon. It is gas-operated, clip-fed and air-cooled. It weighs approxi- mately nine pounds, about the same weight of the Springfield, and the bayonet, an additional pound. The ammunition is loaded in clips of eight rounds and ammunition ban- doleers for this rifle have six pockets with a total of 48 rounds and weigh three and one-half pounds each, The principal characteristics of the wea- pon is its mechanical operation which enable the individual, or group of riflemen, to deliver a large vol- ume of accurate fire upon any designated point or area within range Mulvihill said that all weapons and equipment for the local units are now on hand and that range practice is not far away for the outfits. - eeo X tc the Dally Alaska Empire—the paper with the largest paid circulation. Bruno Walter rehearsing the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra. orchestra with Toscanini, and last year he replaced his friend, directed his first major work, Lortzing's “Der Waffen- schmied” in Cologne. A year later he was coach at the Ham- burg Opera, and he met there Gustav Mahler, greatest oper- atic conductor of his time and a composer whose works arge now beginning to be recognized as truly great by connoiseurs. Walter was the first German to conduct in London and Paris after ‘the World War, and in that period he appeared as guest conductor with orchestras in Brussels, Barcelona, Stock- holm, Warsaw, Budapest, Mos- cow, Bucharest and Prague. A great authority on the music of Mozart, he frequently conducts Mozart’s plano concertos while seated at the piano as soloist. He first went to Salzburg as con- ductor of the festival in 1925. There he surpassed even his own great achievements of the past as conductor and soloist and became the guiding spirit of the festivals until, four years after his return to the Vienna State Opera as chief conductor, the Ni took over. Fleeing to France, he was immediately invited to become a French citizen and was dec- orated as a commander of the Legion of Honor in recognis tion of his achievements as a musiclan. In the seasons of 193839 and 193940 Walter shared the NBC symphony! . Roll on small Gay and charming, it has mo- . Wi trom Ments of strong drama and sus- a unkon pense. Previewers agree that Linda Mlore Certain | oitdoes herself, while 20th Cen- it ‘Robeflso;i;p;fls podium of the Los Angeles Philharmonic when the latter had to relinquish his duties because of illness. LINDA DARNELL IN "STAR DUST” AT 20TH CENTURY Lovely Young Star Plays Lead in Original Enterfainment Boasting what has been called the mest original entertainment idea in tenight in a thrilling story that \\vll‘! might be the story of her own excit- ing rise to fame. Linda is cast as a plucky small- tcwn girl in Hellywood scrapping | her place in the sun. In the t adventure that is the mecca g screen hopefuls, she meets | <ome John Payne, another hepeful. Together they share heartbreak and happiness—and find | cut about A With the odds a thousand to one against them, they won't take noj| for an answer. They enlist the help of talent scout Roland Young and| dramatic coach Charlotte Green-| wecd. And when things look dark-7 est they stage a stunt that stands Hellywood on its ear. tury-Fox Produotion Chief Darryl| ¥F. Zanuck awarded John Payne al Jong term contract as a result of | is work in the film. Increasing Adivity | Pugef Sound Cifies Returning on the Motorship Northland after a combined business trip and vacation of over a month | Attorney R. E. Robertson stated to- day that small towns In the State of Washington were being drained of skilled workmen as men and their families, flocked to coast cities, call- led to or seeking work on vital in- dustries speeded up by defense pro- jects. The shipyards in Seattle and in Bremerton, and the Boeing Airfield |have drawn so many new families {to Seattle that city schools, which |had faced a decreased enrollment |in recent years are now over- crowded. “The Seattle School Board,” he Bruno Waltér, 64, to Make **Debut® ] As Conductor at Metropolitan Opera good Otto Klemperer, on the Walter's current series of concerts with the New York Phi) onic marks the tenth anniversary of his first ap- ‘péarance as an orchestra con- ductor in America, and at the Metropolitan, where he will wield a baton for the first time in his 64 years, he will conduct revivals of three op- eras for which he has become especially famous—Beethoven's “Fidelio”, Mozart’s “Don Gio- vanni” and Smetana’s “The Bartered Bride”. The latter will ‘be presented in a new English translation and will star, in the title role, the beau- tiful Czech soprano, Jarmila Novotna. - Among musicians Walter 1is especially esteemed as a con- ductor because his perfor- mances are notable for their refinement, subtlety and tonal balance. 'His readings have always been noted for their polish, poetry and the fidelity to the ‘composer’s intentions. World famous artists, among them the great operatic so- prano, Lotte Lehmann, have testified in glowing terms to the inspiration his conducting affords, WHERE THE BETTER BIG PICTURES PLAY Ml TORIGHT . . . and THURSDAY ONLY oy as the song that inspired it!, bif as the beauty of its lovely star! John Payne ~ Roland Young Charlotte 6reenwood COMING SOON “Grapes of Wrath” Last Time Tonight THEATRES 2-FEATURES-2 “CRASHING THRU” and “THE MAN WHO DARED” tated, “finds itself obliged to prm'Alasknn defense and increased sym- vide new buildings and temporary | pathy toward Alaskan problems and structures to take care of the over-|needs. flow.” | Mrs. Robertson and Miss Carol Robertson also visited Tacoma and | Robertson accompanied him, Mrs. Portland which were booming in| Robertson remaining in Seattle proportion. while he attended to business mat- War was the common subject of | ters for the Columbia Lumber Com- conversation with the majority pany of Alaska and the Sitka Mu- greatly in favor of extending all nicipal Bond issue. Miss Robertson pessible aid to Britain but wanting went south to San Francisco for a to stay out of actual war while ad- short visit with friends in the Bay mifting at the same time that the City. United States is virtually at war with | dictatorial nations. | Robertson found great interest ml Empire Classifieds Pay ¢ IR U S Hollywood Sights And Sounds | } By Robbin Coome — HOLLYWOOD, Cal,, Feb. 5—The setting was the voluptuous barogue boudoir — gold supids, satin, furry white rugs, tulle | draperies and valances — of a lady who was no lady of old New | Orleans. Theresa Harris, the sepla-toned comedienne, was having a closeup made of her feet and the floor. Theresa plays Clementine, the nolady’s maid. Theresa wore a voluminous blue-chcked ging- ham, and a mammy's turban adorned un-mannyishly with two big gilt ornaments. Theresa was shaking and lifting her skirts, and as hse did so a handful of coins showered on the fur rug. It was not so simple as this, however. There was an invisible star, one Louise. Louise was Theresa's stand-in, also in blue- checked gingham. Louise was crouched behind Theresa, hidden. In her hand, held between Theresa’s calves, were the coins. On signal she dropped them, so that they appeared to fall. But the coins didn’t fall right. And again something was wrong here, or there, or the other place — and so Rene Clair's first day on a Hollywood movie set was typical of any day on any movie set. But Rene Clair is not typical of directors — he is ac- knowledged as France’s foremost, and it took a war to drive him to Hollywood. He was coming anyway, he says, en a good-will mission for the government. He got away the day the Germans took Paris, "PERCY’S CAFE o STOP AT PERCY'S CAFE Breakfast. Dinner or Light Lunches ® DELICIOUS FOOD © FOUNTAIN SERVICE © REFRESHMENTS and he came with pocket money, the rewards of 20 years in pic- tures left behind in France. He is starting from scratch, and his first picture is “Flame of New Orleans,” the Marlene Dietrich starrer. Rene Clair is the sort of guy you like from scratch., Slight and dark-haired, he works calmly, with no fuss — and no feathers other than those inevitably surrounding Dietirch. The' head man, he takes tips and suggestions from his fellows. He's forty-odd, and he’s been in the movie madhouse since the day, as a journalist on L’Intransigeant, he went out to see movies made at a Parisian studio. For a long time Rene Clair shunned Hbllywood's offers. “I was happy in France, and knew I could make pictures there— why should I have left my home? Then, too, Hollywood at the time was making pictures tite Thalberg way, which was fine for Thalberg but promised little for me. The directors seemed to me then little more than a head cameraman, under a chief with many other directors and pictures to oversee. Now that is changed, and a director can make pictures his way.” One of his first “radical” steps in Hollywood was the signing of Bruce Cabot, the “heavy,” for the romantic lead. “But his test was the best,” said Rene Clair. ‘And it seems to me it is good to give actors a chance to do different things. We need new. leading men, . We cannot all have Cary Grant and Clark * Gable.” &k e e .