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e THE DAILY ALAS B e e The Capitol has the F BIG Pictures (6fiibv H" ‘l’ } i CAPITOL LAST TIMES TONIGHT Turnabout’ Is Now Show- ing at Local Theatre SHOW PLACE OF JUNEAU LAST TIME TONIGHT THE SCREWIEST FARCE- ' THAT LOVES...the % [ | uT WAIT! | | THEY (00K Sanr. with Star Cast Hal Roach’s urnabout,” whica |ends at the Capitcl Theatre, is | one of the gayest and it h 15 screen comedies r ed in months. Directed by Roach self, the new picture is beauti- (fully staged, brilliantly directed and | expertly acted by a cast of impor- | ou ' cent ADOLPHE MENJOU' CAROCLE LANDIS JOHN HUBBARD | Williom Gargen | Mary Kster | tant players. oot | “Turnabout,” which was filmed frem the best-selling novel by |'Thorne Smith, co-stars Carole Lan- dis and John Hubberd in the ro- mantic -roles, and features in the, | supporting cast such notables as Adclphe Menjou, Mary Astor, Wil- liam Gargan, Donald Meek, Ver-| |ree Teasdale and Margaret Roach. The story of “Turnabout” con-| cerns two wealthy moderns, Tim|e | and Sally Willows. Tim is an ad-| ! vertising executive, Sally a society| | matron. While they are complaining | ‘bm.erly about their respective lots Songs by Alaskan (ommended by lin life, they are overheard by the| igcd ‘Ram. who decides impulsively | this materializes provides the screen with hilarious situations, H Four songs written by an Alaskan | oyt moving action and crackling I ures o composer and musician, Mrs. Cay | giajogue. A smash climax, filled Hufman, of Fairbanks, are com- 4 1 mended to Alaskans by Delegate | Anthony J. Dimond in a recent letter to The Empire. | The songs are “Denali,” “Song of | an Old Sourdough,” “Will We Re- Latést News of tne pay Preview 1:15 A. M. Tonite “GIRL FROM GOD'S COUNTRY" brings the = Alaska Are e and Lo e Marght 'Miss Guenthner Is 'I'o Be Shown Ho"ored by CIUb At the Bethel Mission on Main Says Alaska’s Delegate, who has !street, at 7:45 o'clock this evening, listened to the songs “with much | Lester Sumrall will show 1,000 feet pleasure,” “The one called ‘Song of | an Old Sourdough’ is, in my judg-| At yesterday's noon luncheon and of scenes on Interior Alaska, taken cn his recent tip. Colored slides, also ment, truly excellent and ought ?D‘memin‘; of the Business and Profes- ' taken of scenes on the trip will also be popular in Alaska. The song | -jcnal Women's Club, held in the called ‘Denali’ is unique and of par- |y, Room of the Baranof Hotel ticular interest to Alaskans because |ziss Adelheid Guenthner was hLon- it is the story of a mountain—one |oreq with a dishtowel shower by P¢ flashed on the screen. The public mountain—and that one in Alaska.” members present, is invited. Copies may be obtained from Mrs.| Miss Guenthner, Vice President of v’[’ho«'r who have seen the film and Hufman who lives at present at 19 tho club, will leave for Anchorage slides pronounce them splendid and Baum Street, Ashland, Oregon. |shertly to become the bride of Frank the ‘hest (o fax exhibited here, i > h unexpected turns, cture to a laugh-filled, - < | Pauls. | B% T w Y | Plans were also made during the| oo ‘no:n ":"“01 f-" WAKE “P v u business session for the postponed | .. . ;;;1 fl“i"l'fnwmc to the which has now been o gislature from the card party, Second Divisi v ® |scheduled for April 18. The affair | WP SVV SO ML R i“,m o i R e ’,:11 z( "numu this morning hound _— " for Nome. Without Calomel—And You'll Jump Out o held at the American Legion Bed in the Morning Rarin’ to Go Dugout. The liver should pour out two pints of R A SR Herb Oliver, representative of the Yiquid bile into bowels daily. If this ) N 3 : Hithi TS "ot Nowing freely, your food may D AR NORAD General Electric Company, arrived digost: Tt may just decay in the bowels. | After arriving from Seattle yes-|in Juneau from the south today bloats up your stomach. Yoy get consti- | terday on the mnorthbound PAA|ang is stayi i = You feel sour, sunk and the world | X |and is staying at the Lodestar, Mr. and Mrs. Art Brown,| ge), : Fairbanks jewelers, are in Juneau Yttle Liver Pills to get these two pints of ¥ i Cresly S0 make vou fecl “up and |today for a short visit. They are| ' Amaazing bile flow freely. istopping at the Gastineau Hotel. nything clse. I'rice: 25¢. | —————— © Empire Classifieds Pay! G.E. MAN HERE ooks punk. It takes those good, effective Carter's - - - GOES TO WRANGELL K. Louring, well known left aboard the Northland on the trade at Wrangell. to call In Printed Word and Picture The 1941 Daily Alaska PROGRESS EDITION NOW ON SALE! ® History @ Indusiries ® Vacationing ® Mining ® Fishing © Hunling ® Defense ® Mountaineering and Many Other Arficles, Too Numerous io Mention! . Mail It to Your Friends 25¢ St NRapeED: ALL NEWSSTANDS and THE DAILY ALASKA ENPIRE | Baranof- Ho- | ment hospital The Complete Story of Alaska! night club entertainer. HOSPITAL NOTES Mrs, J. H. Likens and baby daugh- ter were dismissed today from St Ann’s Hospital and are at their home on Fifth Street. Dave Dishaw was admitted to St. Ann’s teday for surgical attention. Affer receiving medical care, Fred Greag was dismissed today from St. Anr Mrs. Harvard Brown underwent an appendectomy today at St. Ann’s. | A medical admission, Martha Kas- ko, is at the Government hospital. Mable Sce was dismissed from Government hospital after r medical care. civing | A mcdical dism was aismissed are at hte Gov 2l Alice Osh me spitar & | Shirley Sinclair was dismissed | from the C nment hospital today | after receiving surgical attention.| nson was dismissed ¥ at the T*overn- | Lawrence At from medica! cz today. >oe ° Coffec plants yield their first crop in their fourth year as a gen- broker, { eral rule. e e — Try a classiliea ao i ’{Ne Kmpirs Fagerson chose an golden toast color. Alfreds in KA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, APRIL 8, Win Fashion Academy Medals as Best-Dressed These five women are among thg best-dressed in America, each one leading ir her particular field, it was announced by Fashion Academy judges in New York. Left to right are Alice Frost, who won the crown for radio; Rise Stevens, opera; Vivien Kellems, business; Lucy Monroe, all-American; and Adelaide Moffetf, Marriage of Fagersonsin ; (aq{leligh The marriage of Daisy Lane of Woodburn, Ore., and N. Floyd Fag- is contained ia (Ore-| newly- Juneau on th ss Norah last Friday evening| in the Coli erson, of Juneau, an article in the Silverton gon) Appeal-Tribune. The weds arrived in Pri n at home its 1 are now rartm The ays Th y Lane | Woodburn ar Floyd Fagerson of Junea solemr a ca Wednesd evenin, (March 5) at the of the bride’s siste: Mrs. N. Kromling, 4404 35th Ave Portland, with the Rev. Thompscn N. Shannon officlating Attendants were Mr Warren Boullister of Sl y Lou Lane sang “I I ily,” preceding the cere Larry Keith Kromling ring bearer. T of the Firs acted and corsage matching and of orchids. accessories, Mrs. with cor: vardia. o a hiteh-hike d Jaan Ma cost | Scl M. Wurtzel, executive producer. | picture, i Hollywood i chance | v | casting home N.|idea, and it hurts a great many and Mis. erton. | tremendously: You 1ony an e bride wore a navy blue cos- tume suit with hat of dusty pink Boullister | wore a suit of paler shade of blue 1941. TWO BILLS ON SCREENNOW AT 20TH CENTURY Romantic Drama Plus De- | tective Play Billed ' for Tonight | | “IHeaven with a Barbed Wir ; Fence,” the 20t Century-Fox hlm‘ which opened tonight on a double | bill at the 20th Century Theatre | is picture that fills an impor- ta void in the screen's treatment of medern youth and its prob- An ex fent entertaining duzticn, this film is a story of girl and boy on the d. Al of us have heard of 1o ters like these; here is the yortunity to ream with them and ver just what they are like.| Rogers, Raymond Walburn, ie Rambeau, Glenn Ford and 3 Cente ave featured in the Ricardo Cortez directed, with | N “Frivate Detective,” the second one of the gayest, snap- murder mysteries to be seen in ny a moon. The new War- ner Bros. thriller features Jane Wyman, Dick Foran, Gloria Dick-| son and Maxie Rosenbloom. | Jane Wyman, comedienne star of| Rat,” The Kid from | kemo” and “Kid Nightingale,” plays (he role of a private detec-| tive and really plays it to the hilt, getting in and cut of more dan- gerous situations than Dick Tracy.: >eo - Sights And Sounds By Robbin Coons HOLLYWOOD, Cal., April 8 -— am Wood, large, tweedy though not in tweeds, a pipe kind of man hough not smoking, was pacing the floor of his wood-paneled office nd putting his finger on some- thing wrong with the movies. “Casting,” he said. “Too many ‘tures are handicapped in their for success by improper -by people who think any an play any role. Tt's a false actor ¢ pictures.” He cited two recent films of his own in which casting the right ople in the t spots mattered In ‘Kitty Foyle' I s Morgan and James Cralg .were ideal for their parts. T couldn't ses Robert Cummings in either of those roles, and I couldn’t use him at all in the picture. Then I did ‘The Devil and Miss Jones. The boy here had to have a certain gay youthful quality. He's fight- ing for the underdogs in the de-/ thought Denn age of rosebuds and boud-|partment store, and he has to do {it in a gay, youthful manner—not After the ceremony a dinner was as if he were a veteran labor or- Mr. Mrs. and M Warren Boullister, i.scrved at Simmons Hill Villa with ganizer. I couldn’t see Morgan or |covers for the bride and groom, Craig here, but I was practically Fagerson, Mr. and|on my knees to get Cummings. I of Sil-|got him. . . . i | verton, Mr. and Mrs. N. N. Krom- | |ling of Portland, Mary Zuber and|entirely in pantomime, I had to | Ben Robb of Woodburn. After an extended trip through “For the ‘Kitty Foyle' prologue,’ have exactly the right people or| the point was lost. I couldn’t use the south, Mr. and Mrs. Fagerson just anybody who happened to be| | will leavé April 1 for their home | under in Juneau. For traveling, ensemble contract. 1 needed actors Mrs.| who could put over the scenes on of | their personalities and ability to ! hold attention, I got Heather Returning from their honeymoon| Angel and Tyler Brooke, and it! Silverton, b RETURNS HOME trip to California, Mr. and Mrs. cost us money, but I think it was| Fagerson were given a reception worth it. at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred|and cut down its gross—to save |a few hundred dollars? Here the | players | parts they played—they did 1t be-| Why ruin a plcture—‘ were bigger than the Mrs, W. Temaree, who has been cause T personally pleaded my, ARG il Empire Classifieds Pay! " Aids U, S.-Mexican Friendship | wenerar Maximino Avils Camacho, brother of. the President of Mexico, | He turned to it. | note of the English attitude ward roles. In casting visiting here for several weeks, left|case with them.” aboard the Northland for her home | in Wrangell | thinks, he said, that profitable to- “Goodbye, Sam Wood Hollywood - could take 5] Phonephoto steps from a blimp after a twenty-minute flight over Miami, Fla. The general, his wife, four of his ten children and his staff are making an wnofficial’ good-will tour- of " the-United - States, \ WHERE THE BETTER BIG I‘X(‘:,'T‘ff-fils PLAY | GA0S5 ALL NEW SHOW S fi"j}fiflwfil‘fl TONIGHT { 2—BIG FEATURE PICTURES —2 FEATURE NO. 1— You've heard about kids like these! You'll like themli ) ) y | \ \ \ ll ! \ ) | \ ) \ \ ) y FEATURE NO. 2— She’s just one step ahead of a killer! \ N ) \ ) \ ! \ \ \ § \ ) { 4 ) y | with ok JANE WYMAN"T DICK FORAN /' ; GLORIA DICKSON - MAXIE ROSENBLOOM 7~ u-a.--n.”muunun—-u—-.n---m--—-l-ul--u- LATEST EDITION OF WORLD NEWS THEATRE Lo r et ACROSS 30 Island In the Pacifie 1. Coarse flle 4, pronoun T 6. Hop kiln 41, Early Greek EEB 9. 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Matched HL/BERK7/, Ek/ EERRE7/ 2 1117 HENEE EREEL7/ I.Elfif//fi-.fifi////ll which he made in‘He‘s a name, yes—but it's his é Mr. Chips,” Wood noted the general sonality, not so much his England, sk willingness of players, even of that I want. He fits. Names? u stars, to accept roles in their| hear it all lie time, not em merits rather than the number of|names to go around. pages of script involved. The doc-| “I say there aic enough p tor appearing briefly in the Mrs.;almes—nnd thats what is im Chips death sequence was then| tant. It's better to use a star of a London play. In London, ality that can make you be said Sam, you took your script|role than a ‘name’ which do backstage to see a star about a o role, and it was read with noj ' thought of the part’s “size.” Greer | DUNLAP TRAVELS Garson, who played Mrs. Chips, had been in Hollywood long enough to Herb Dunlap, salesman, left foF S stersburg aboard the North wonder about the relative "small-:::;u: W“;‘g"l;’lp ness” of her role but was reassured| izt 5 | (yightly, as it developed) that the character would live as long as the film itself in memory. Subscrie vo thc Deuy | Empire--the paper with the | paid circulation. “The smallest part,” in Sam | Wood's philosophy, “is as important as anything else in a picture. Every sceneshas to be kept alive, regard- less of whether the star appears in it. Unfortunately, some o four peo-| ple, who have been very good in uch minor roles, become too ‘big’ to do them again. It's good that they get ahead—but I think it's unfortunate when they become stars. Some people are kiiled quick- ly by being pushed into starring ! positions when, as characters, mey‘ B e could go-on for years at good sal-| r m : aries.” | | Wood was still pacing the floor, —the script of his next casting problem, “King’s Row,” on his desk. b CLOTHES that are CLEANRD OFTEN—Wear Longer! Sen YOUR GARMENTS to Triangle Vour appearancs "‘ Assured When Yeéu Have Them Cleaned Herel “There's one boy in this town! for this and I'm going to try every-“ thing ‘I know - to get him for nLl

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