The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 3, 1941, Page 3

s e THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 19 et e e e e e e e 1l The CAPITOL has the BIG Pictures and News that Is News NOW! BERT YOU ""FLORIAN" 1§ BEING SHOWN, CAPITOL FitM ‘Spectacular Sequences, Hinging on World War, Produced on Screen A thundering cavalcade of world turmoil and the collapse of an em- SHOW PLACE OF JUNEAU Last Times Tonight NG Gilbert "e'en pire, against which is traced a tender romance, is now showing at e 4 < the Capitol Theatre, in “Florian, - ‘I\,l‘.‘:()'“;-.. Preview Tomghi LISA. M. ong-heralded adaptation of Felix Suva, rl ef) m “BLACK FRIDAY” Salten’s famous novel of the fall Trifles at ‘ of the Hapsburgs following the Late News News Nofes From Sitka SITKA, Alaska, April 1.—(Special Correspondence) — Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dyer and son Robert left on the U. S. S. Spica, Navy transport, | for a short vacation trip to Seattle, where they will visit relatives. Mr. Dyer is Chief Personnel Officer for the contractors at the Japonski Island defense project. Mrs. J. B. rue also left on the transport for a visit to her parents, who reside in Tacoma. Superintendent Eiler Hansen, of the Pioneers’ Home, will fly over to Juneau this week, where he will confer with government officials concerning matters regarding the Home. Following these business * THERE’S SATISFACTION IN PAYING A M for this Truly 100 Proof National Distributed by NATIONAL GROCERY COMPANY Seattle, Washington “HOUSE OF SEVEN GABLES” World War. Filled with spectacular sequences | showing the pomp of Imperial Aus- tria before the war, the picture follows the nation’s fate through the World War, revolution, and col- lapse of the Empire, tracing their , | effects on a pair of lovers and a magnificent stallion, once the steed | conferences Mr. Hensen expects to | embark for Seattle, and California | where he will indulge in a brief, | but well-earned vacation. | Two large oil tanks have beer towed in from Saginaw Bay by Scott | Lynch and Frank Fisher. The tanks |0f_the Emperor. |are of the type used on railroad | Robert Young, as a groom in the flat cars, and the towing into Sitka | Imperial stables, and Helen Gilbert, was accomplished without mishap. Enm\' acting” discovery, fall in love & | despite their difference in station, Dr. and Mrs. William C. Charteris | drawn together by mutual love for recently purchased the well known | the horse. The girl, a royal duchess. W. P. Mills island home, and expect | i5 betrothed to an to hold a housewarming in the very | Played by Lee Bowman, by order | near future. Mr. and Mrs. Mills'are of the Emperor (Reginald Owen) | expected to leave Sitka shortly for The archduke has an affair with 'an extended vacation trip in the a ballerina, played by exotic Irina Stites. | Baronova, brought to the studio | — - from Europe for the picture. The war, revolution and fall of the Napolins Bonaparte originated the idea of odd and even house numbers for different sides of | street. Hapsburg dynas y wipe away sociai “m‘bm'uvrs and solve the problem of the lovers. | The picture brings to the screen an amazing horse actor in “Flor- |ian,” a Lippizan or Imperial horse | presented by the Austrian Govern- ment to Maria Jeritza, opera star. The animal is seemingly human in its intelligence. | e, — FIRE DEPARTMENT | MEMBERS TO MEET - g The for Emple Suvscrine ODERATE PRICE Great Whiskey Members of the Juneau Volunteer Fire Department will hold their regular monthly meeting tonight in the Fire Club quarters in the City Hall. The meeting will be called promptly at 8 o'clock. - .- | HELP AN ALASK AN | Telephone 713 or write | The Alaska Territorial Employment Service for this qualified worker. | SALES CLERK—Woman, sing’e, | age 38, business college training. Experienced as sales clerk in | stores, also waitress and cashier I experience. Call for ES 281. Distillers Produc The Complete Story of Alaska! In Printed Word and Picture PROGRESS EDITION archduke, | They Are I\Ictropolimn Opera Contract Winners Being handed checks for $1,000 by Arthur W. Steudel (second from left), president of the Sher- win-Williams Paint company, radio sponsor, are the three winners of the Metropolitan Opera com- mezzo-soprano of pany auditions—Mona Paulee, Woman's Club to " Hold Rummage Sale. The Juncau Woman’s Club is holding a rummage sale beginning tom ow and continuing through next Wednesday. Those having rummage to con- | tribute are asked to call 357 and arrangements will be made to pick |up the articles. The sale will be held opposite the Juneau Motors on Main Street. -~ > Moose Women Hold | Meeling, Plan Party Women of the Moose held a busi- | ness meeting at the I. O. O. F. Hall last night. Plans were made for a ihnwu pa | planned card T It was repo i that the members 45 dresses and turn- The | et em to the Red Cross ¢ ove | work was done under the s lion of Mrs. Leona Sebenico, Chair- man. After the meeting a luncheon was | served by the committee and a social hour was enjoyed. Empire Classifieds Pay! The 1941 Daily Alaska Empire NOW ® History ® Fishing ® Defense 25¢ @ Vacationing and Many Other Articles, Too Numerous to Mention! Mail It to Your Friends MAILED . . . and GIFT-WRAPPED! ALL NEWSSTANDS and THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ON SALE! ® Indusiries ® Mining © Hunting ® Mountaineering ON SALE AT- y to take the place of the | 41, B Edward Johnson, Arthur W. Steudel, Mona Paulee, Mary E. Van Kirk and Lansing Hatfield Edmonton, Alberta, and Los Angeles; Mary Van Kirk, contralto, of Cleveland, and Lansing Hat- field, baritone, of Franklin, Va. At extreme left is Edward Johnson, Metropolitan Opera impresario. The trio has been given Metropolitan contracts. A IN A ACROSS Insect o1 | 1. Bntire quantity 3. Winged = . Pile = 4. Out of danger 35 Comes in again s - 8. Appointment EInA o DR 3 12. Pronoun Alack © 13. Malayan out- Grown girls [ rigger canoe Dighwivy Jere X | 14. Sheep 43, Festival L 15. Flow back 44. Style of poetry C 16 . Having & A * toothed mar- |~ i gin T | 18 . Geometrical E | olid IE | 20, 5 uline name S | 21 Black 51 23, Homiclde 52 ! , i 24. Lure port, Solution Of Yesterday’s Puzzle | 26. Mass of floating § v 5 66. Vehicle on run- DOWN 1. Ages co ners . Afirmative 28. Freezes home 57. By birth LA . Lower part of the ear . oil . Spirited or | plucky . Deck out . Loving . Rights of using others' prop- | erty . Cleanse icise hereal salt 1 of Seth I I S ] V Dirt removers Vivacity . Crippled Team of horses Giant in_an Icelangic | saga Coming into existence Heroine of “Cavalleria Rusticana™ 3 a1 B ter BONg ergreen treea < wood Sights And Sounds By Rebbin | fhum Young across the plains in the | (OMEDYBEING FEATURED NOW, 20TH CENTURY "Those Were the Days” Is| Rollicking Story of Hec- | fic College Days When Geo Fitech wrote his famous Siwash Stories for the Sat- urday Evening Post, he couldn't have had one eye on Hollywood which was just beginning to feel growing pains. Nor could he have | had an idea that his yarns would be adapted in grand style for screen as “Those Were the Da ro- mance which came last night to the the new Paramount comedy Century and is to be seen for the last two times tonight. With Willlam Holden ,Bonita Granville, Ezra Stone, Judith Bar- rett and Vaughn heading the cast, “Those We the Days" shapes up as a successful screen synthesis of all the Fitch stories. The cast brings the famous Siwash haracters to life gloriousl shows them at their prankful be n, as the renowned “Pete mons, Miss Granville t e courts, Stone ¢ lden’s fellow prankster, arrett as Allie 3irl, and Glaser s Judge Scroggs are all the living, reathing counterparts of the char- iwcters as he described them. | The story of this picture need not be told in any detail to con- vince the moviegoer that the pic- ture is worth seeing. It is suf- icient to say that it starts with Petey arriving at college as a Freshman, and starting right off on a hectic career which leads him to upsetting trollies, annoyir sirls, battling sophomores and in- dulging in every kind of mischief, which college boys of a robust era could devise. MORMON (HURCH BOOK SOON T0 BE AVAILABLE HERE Through the newly adopted mis- sionary system of the Church, the residents of Juneau wiil | 1 l deeply affected the lives of millions gince its publication. Known throughout the world, the “Book of Mormon” has been printed in 17 different languages and annually ;sells over 85000 copies after 110 | years fits publication. The effect that the book has had on the lives jof many people reads as a story | book. Shortly after its publication and introduction into Europe, thou- sands migrated to America that they might be closer to this religion. Many were killed because of their belief in the book, including the “American Prophet” Joseph Smith, | who translated the book from an- cient records left by a deceased race | of people on the western hemi- | sphere. forth in this book that thousands of Latter-Day Saints followed Brig- epic making Mormon migration to the West, and there in the wilder- ness set forth to build up a civiliza- tion that would respect their re- HOLLYWOOD, Cal, April 3. — He can't be erased because he'’s co- | Hollywood is getting along. There giar | is no stopping progress. | | Once (I take the word of a cyn-| In “Sergeant York,” the Gary jcal friend, doubtless dyspeptic) | Cooper film, audience old-timers | there were producers who made may not recognize an old familiar | pictures with no idea what they blackface—now washed as white as were doing—from start to finish. the minstrel shows it once madei Today there are a couple of pic- happier. | tures in progress whose producers Lee (Lasses) White, now 52, have everything in hand except has stored away his blackface and| one—the finish. They have ideas is trying for a character niche in on that score, too, but they haven't the movies. Pictures, he says, did| e up their minds. | away with his specialty. Minstrelsy needed intimate theaters, not pic- “Tom, ‘Dick and Harry” is one. George Murphy, Burgess Mere- ture palaces, and it lost its footing dith and Alan Marshall are the when the loudspeaker era dawned. three men in Ginger Rogers’ life. In his year here 'Lasses, who got Ginger can't decide which to the name from his fondness for marry. You won’t know until the hot cakes and syrup, has appeared end of the picture which she in 20 pictures and he thinks he's chooses—and to make the sus- doing well. pense genuine, Ginger isn't know- 1u nas been five years since he ling either. Neither is anybody| took out a minstrel show — con- else as the shooting progresses.| densed for picture houses — and |12 years since he had a “real | show” on the road. but for four “The Night of January 16" is the ! years down in Nashville he had a |other. Elen Drew is on trial al-| minstrel program on the air. ready for murdering somebody, but 'Lasses today is a plump, | who h#is been murdered hasn’t been bright-eyed, stocky little fellow with decided yet. The killing occurs at the map-of-Ireland face behind his |the start of the film, but the pro-| (temporary) red whiskers. In “Ser- | ducer hasn’t selected the victim.|geant York”™ he plays the moun- ! In the play, on which the script 15 tain mail-carrier who travels mule- pased, the audience by jury vote back and sings mountain music. | had to decide the guilt or xnnnncncc!1 > leaving her | It's to be decided later. of the heroine, thus i ¥ ate i goust o eriormance 2, Carmichaels Are The screen play, Wwhich has . changed _the plot considerabiy, | Commg Here '0 now has half a dozen possible| . | endings from which one will be| S d V ' chesen—but not before it's de-; pen a(a lon | cided who is to be killed. | Mr. and Mrs. Burford (Bud) Car- | So here's Ginger not knowinglmichael and their daughters, Mar- | whom she's to marry, and Elen ¢ha ann and Sheila, are expected not knowing whom , she’s killed, {5 garrive in Juneau from Sitka and the* suspense is killing us all.| ghoard the North Coast. If Robert Taylor were Tom Or| Mrs Carmichael expects to re- Dick or Harry, there'd be DO main here for a month, awaiting !doubt, but with a trio like Mur-|the arrival of her mother, Mrs. phy, Meredith and Marshall, none Charles Sey, from Seattle. of them fore-ordained girl-win-| Mr. Carmichael will spend his ners, Ginger has a problem. El-|yacation here, then return to Sitka, |len’s s, on the whole, simpler.| where he is Assistant Manager of | She knows, at least, that the killee the Sitka branch of the Columbia |is not going to be Robert Preston | Lumber Company. ligious beliefs. The contents of the book is an| ancient record containing the story of a civilization on the western hemisphere before the discovery of America by Columbus, recording the events of their religious and tem- poral activities. i g <oty NOTICE ATRMAIL ENVELOPES, showing air route from Seattle to Nome, on sale at J. B. Burford & Co. adv. | GR It was because of the beliefs set| Where Better Big Piotures Play! O ENT LAST TIME TONIGHT A Paramount Picture with WILLIAM HOLDEN BONITA GRANVILLE EZRA STONE JUDITH BARRETT Produced and Direcied by JAY THEODORE R®;D THEATRE STARTS TONIGHT : ZANE GREY'S "HERITAGE OF THE DESERT"” 'FORMER ALASKAN HAS PASSED AWAY Albert Fink, 67, who has tried many important cases in Chicago during the last 30 years, including the Al Capone income tax ltiga- | tion, died at his winter ranch home near Tucson, Arizona, March 25, Mormon | according to word received here. Fink is remembered by sour- soon have the opportunity of read- ' doughs of Alaska as a former resi- ing the book that is said to have ' dent of Nome. RegurlarrMeeting 0Of Guild Friday The Trinity Guild will hold the regular meeting Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Trinity Hall. All members are urged to be present to aid in the repair of choir garments. Choir rehearsal will be at 8 o'clock tonight. - Try a classified ad in The Empire CLOTHES that are CLEANED OFTEN—Wear Longer! 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