The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 17, 1941, Page 3

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1941. HIRED WIFE" IS |THENIGHT CLUBS'NEWERA . . . |ACT MYSTIFIES comeny FuLt oF |What High Life Is Really - AUDIENCE AT GAY SITUATIONS " 201H CENTURY :Ihe Great ViirAgriI Has Many | - ] | ' WHERE THE BETTER BIG PICTURES PLAY!' | o [JONTURY o AGAIN TONIGHT!! P Show Place of Juneau LAST TIMES TONIGHT ROSALIND - BRIAN T \ RUSSELL-AHERNE VIRGINIA BRUCE Humor and InTrigue Mark Action of Fast Moving Picture af Capitol Comedy | mantic intrigue - Universal's Rosalind e and Virginia Bruce. | Preview 1:15 A. M. Tonight . . . : - “CHARLIE McCARTHY, DETECTIVE” ])0-(‘I':Hl)' dvsmnv(]! for the |lu;‘r- » ; X 2 | “GIRLS OF THE ROAD" ars, this picture, playing for the ! i & 2 ; times tonight at the Capitol heatre, is crammed with unusual and unconventional situations. The story is one of humorous intrigue concerning a girl who mar- |ries the man she loves in order to get him out of a business jam; then she tries to keep him away from the girl he loves | Tricky Feafs fo Show- | ‘Golden Gloves' Film ‘; with ro- highlight Wife” which | Brian intermingled is the “Hired Russell, | | 1 | “The Great Virgil,” the interna- | tionally known magician current- | {1y performing in person on the | stage of the 20th Century Theatre | had a Juneau audience amused and mystified last night as he showed a number of tricks. The front rows were filled with many of the youngsters of the city, and in many | )¢ the acts, the magician asked heir cooperation. It was quickly | given, | The act opened with a numbe of magic word formulas which ap-| | parently turned rice into milk uud; “Hired Wife” has an exception- caused oranges to appear on onc" ally strong supporting cast head- fable when they had . ohviousy | ed by Robert Benchley and Jobhn| S 5 o : v R | Carroll. Others in the picture in- & ik > In another trick, Virgll took a | clude Hobart Cavanaugh, William magazine cover, rolled it into a! Davidson, Chestet Clute, Richard | tube, and pushed colored handker- Lane and Charles Smith. | chiefs through it. The hankys came | William Seiter, who won much |out as a flag, all sewed lom‘ther,} praise for his direction of Deanna {to the disbelief of the whole front DOWN | Durbin in “It's a Date,” handled who demanded Umt‘ the . Primrose [the production and directorial opened. ‘The magician | . Purified wool | reins. Glenn Tryon, one of the| d it to show nothing insic L | screen’s top comedians a decade | |and tore it up to show that noth- | ago, was the associate producer. ing was hidden. { | Richard Connell and Gladys One small boy was disconcerted | Lehman prepared the “Hired Wife” |to find that there was a half dol- IN | 8 PREMIER PERSQN INTERNATIONAL: - £ 20-stars ) nicrmation Please Latest News | | | | mo ZPr 0/ <I> \Z N‘) m ACROSS Turned up the nventional . Symbol for sodium 42, For the reason ar Hardens . Horse of a cer- »mz! t English letter Mg m o~ 1 DEEE MEER igor Ignited again 8, Old musical Z[m|o| o|Zim|= . 1sland south of Connecticut: Solution Of Yesterday’s Puzzie AMAZI THRILLING SPECTACULAR ain 59, Place for catch- N NG ing certain & Symbol for tel- 5 Manhattan itself gives the Rainbow Room a setting of sparkling jewels. Entertainment here is on a very high plane—a 65-story level, the poles Less fresh Kind of pl; (Editor’s Note: This is third article in a series on the ew the tables that the crystals used | | are vases on | mind you of re- | interval by rest panese statesman Early part of a8 . Sticks In the mud Lift Took out Pronoun Pl nter t Dress up Born . Murderers Title of Me~ hammed ing roads Flush with sue- | cess Auction 2. Be indls- . Larva of the horsefly finished yet, so yowll understand it's just a game and any em- blance to the 1al quality of the €ilm, living or dead, is purely co- incidental. Someone started, easily enough, with “Nine Lives Are Not Enough. His one-line epitaph: “But nine reels are too many.” “Reap the Wild Wind” was next “Flop crop” won out over “No won- der the farmers need relief.” “Look Who's Laughing!” push-over, Came a chorus: who?” “Out of the Fog” brought out: (1) “Are you sure?” and (2) “They only think they are.” “Underground?” (1) “Why'd it come up?” (2) “Deserves to remain decently buried,” and so on. s possible, playing on the| “We Are Not Alone” an excel- tle or answering it flippantly.|lent movie of months ago, drew Some of these guinea pigs aren’t|“But you will be—except for the In Hollywood BY ROBBIN COONS I 17—Not so a trade paper reviewer 1 a movie about a rich one devastating word: July s got to playing a > of which to wit: there’s ¢ title which can’t be f and acid brush-off titles old and new, and vitriol—with frank dis- the quality of the films The idea was simply to > the film, geod or bad, as was a scarcely given FOR WINDSOR, TOO! SERVE “MEDAL'ROUNDS" WITH WINDSOR A NATIONAL FAVORITE FOR THE PAST 7 YEARS! National Distillers Products Corporation, New York, N. Y. Distributed by NATIONAL GROCERY COMPANY Seattle, Washington Look Here, Folks? OPEN ALL NIGHT Percy Has Thrown the Key Awuy.' It's in the Channel OPEN ALL NIGHT-Every Night! PERCY’S CAFE . PN W {one of | gent tered with hilarious emphasis. mice!” | la wire “Well, | | miral E. C. Freeman, who is in com~ screenplay from an original story by Geor Beck. Milton Krasner, Hollywood’s foremost handled the photog credits go to eramen, Art direction Otterson. The swift action never sags and each reel is punctuated with pun- | dialogue lines which regis- looked tough this emerged: “Take | . Don’t go. Stop. New Orleans”—*Flick- | “Western finally 5t “Flame of ering low.” Union” We all agreed that the acid might |© be weak but th Jimitless. The e possibilities were | ving factor, to the title-thinker-uppers, is always that nobody damns a good movie no| matter how tempting the title. { Add interesting movie debuts: He came to town on a visit 12| !years ago, a third cousin of Will| |Regers from Oklahoma. He had istudied to be a surveyor, but while Ihere he thought he'd-look over the movie lots. He wandered over to a studio, said howdy to the gate-| man, and walked in. He wandere over to a sound stage, and was look- | ing on as an innocent bystande when someone said, “Hold this. He was handed a piece of equip- ment, and he obliged. Next day he came back, and in no time he was helping around the set again. Finally someone asked: |“You work here?” | “No,” he said. But by that tine he was inter-| ested, and they thought he was| useful, so he was offered a job. He | became an assistant-everything, | each in turn, and wound up, six| years ago, as a chief cameraman, | which he still is, Today Lucian Bal- | lard “shoots” all of John Brahm’s {movies, and when Director Joseph | Sternberg is working—as he will| be soon on “Shanghai Gesture” it's| Ballard at the lens. ! But some people plot and plan i for years without crashing. Mrs.E. C. Freeman, | Mrs. Ralph Wood Enterfained Here Mrs. Ernest Gruening entertained last night in honor of Mrs. E C. Freeman, and Mrs. Ralph Wood, who are visiting at the Governor’s House before leaving for a trip through the interior. Mrs. Freeman is the wife of Ad- mand of the 13th Naval District which includes Alaska, and Mrs, Wood is the wife of Capt. Ralph Wood, who is in charge of the Naval | Air Statjon at-Sand Point, Others included in the party last night were Mr. and Mrs. B. D.! Stewart, Mr. and Mrs. Felix Gray, | Judge and Mrs. G. F, Alexander, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Bartlett, Mrs. Simpson MacKinnon, Isadore Gold- ‘sbeln, and Henry Baker. Three Visifors Will ' Stay fler Month Miss Sally Ingram, who is the aunt of Dr. John Weston, tubercu- losis clinictian of the Territorial Department of Health, and two friend, Miss Yols Perrelet and Dr. Helen Gibbons, arrived in Juneau a few days 'ago to spend about a month dnd a half here visiting. The three are staying at the Baranof. Miss Ingram is from Minneapolis and Miss Perrelet is a teacher in Merced, Calif. Dr. Gibbons, from Santa Barbara, Calif., plans to con- tinue writing on a book on education while she is here, — e, Alaska has no, division info counties but has four *“judicial” | words one of th | small York night clubs.) (B {1ar in his hip pocket after he had | i efully held a number of in front of him. The I drew it out with a High Jinks There a chandelier . Christmas tree suspended the oval floor. This floor revolve, when they want it| 0. Sometimes they place a piano | other acts in his repetoire, which W ROOM| [ 1o rim of the oval, and a girl | Will be shown again_tonight en in. New i Foeh | ©n the screen, a film based on stories dbave B8 ings and plays while the floo: orics above et oo o .. In this way, she pass- | the annual amateur boxing contest, York. Sixty-f : right by you, and sings just to called “Colden Gloves,” is showing. feet. But thesej = 1o almost like getting a per-|In the romantic lead are Jean They get YOl . o1 Jotter, | Cagney, sister of Jimmy Cagney, gl When the show goes on you |nd Richard Denning. Both are ¥ co just abeut e hing there | NeWcomers, but their performances is tc see in the way of sophisti- | provide unusually good entertain- v | ment. The Great Virgil comes on cated supper club talent. . . . | : You see ‘the finest of ballroom | At 8:45, immediately following the dancers, the mame feams, the |!irst showing of the picture. Raye and Naldis. . .. You see | e Paul Draper, who is the great- est tap dancer in the world. . . You see the clowning Hart- mans . You see hillbillies, magicians, even table tennis cxperts putting on a match. . . Not all at ence, mind you. . . ~But that is the level, and a bigh level it And there Great magic By GEORGE TUCKER as large NEW YORK-—Night conote tainment! Come on Let's go to the Rainbow The enter club! wine thove gaiety ATt The illusionist had a number let's go! Big It of make It's high 65 sidewalk W 800 fast stories elevator there in fastest eleve g0 1,400 feet Feel that pre 8? Just like swallow to elevator 2o seconds, ors in the a mini 36 ure a plan ’ oD he airs v ght to provide line " tton, or hostesse oL you with ¢ chey “Rainbow cri the elevator ing back the door. Garden in Sky turn vast botanical ing gu the right, operator, slic Room to You into a you walk open lounge that hag ns | behingy In these gar- real flag ed shrubs mnd rig gar plate dens and ivy fountains You can stand in this lounge and see the whole, painted fan- tasy of the city at night. . . Millions of soft, winking light and Central Park, and the river smcke and the haze, . . . You can read neon signs and you can look down and ste uninter- rupted streams of little toy au- tomobiles, far below. Then you turn right you come to the are the always en- ' | terchanging orchestras. . . . Now and swing it, now you rhumba. . One moment it’s Tin Pan Al- ley, the next it's gourds and chants!| - and the inexplicable rhythms of the | West Indies on a soft summer | { night. | That's stor you the way it goes, along with the food and the wine and | | the s . All this comes high too, |50 leave plenty of “Jack” in your | pocket | Yes sir, that !club! New York! Rainbow Room | g orrow: The rise of the itself. I suppose its name comes from its polors, for its decor Is| Rubmbe.) soft rose and gold. The rose is! faint, almost a blush, and there “SPORTS CLOTHES it. That’s night again, and . of Reconstruction Finance Cor- poration Is Charles B, Hender- son (above), who succeeds. Emil Schram. Schram is now presi- dent of N. Y. stock exchange. BUY DEFENSE STAMPS MAKE YOU LOOK SMART AT GAMES 7 (t to right, rayon slacks, printed poplin bathing suit, tennis to let the lack of smart looking clothes spoil the pml?ect of a welle earned vacation, Fashions arc designed to make you look your smartest whether you're sailing, goll- ing, or merely lounging at home. And they can be made at home as well as purchased at your favor- ite sports shop. Slacks must fit perfectly to look well, see model at left above. A good standard pat- tern is simple to alter to your OWR proportions and keep the same trim lines. There is a new rayon that tailors beautifully, holds a'press and launders like a hanky. It .comes in plain colors, with match- ing striped fabric, Cottons arc tops for bathing suits. The suit shown, center, is the new exotic. wailan flower printed poplin. Tennis and golf frocks this year are styled for spectator wear as as ‘active sports. . A short-skirted dress, like the one in'the photograph, ‘right, all-around pleats, _is practical as well as fresh and crisp looking, Make one up in white or natural'linen with turn-back There is no reason this year districts, collar, and ‘action-pleated slecves, With one of the neat zippers to fasten the side placket, and you are ; pleated £ Setito-take part in s game o 10-Walch 038, the ! of | “GOLDEN WE KNOW 3-hour show. GLOVES” you will enjoy every minute of this great A show for all—Young or “old. THIS IS WITHOUT DOUBT GUARANTEED ENTER- TAINMENT. All New Program Friday and Saturda Shanghai fo Forf Yukon, Is Dr. Disosway Interesting and exciiing hl;s been ‘the life of Dr. Lula’ Disosway, mis- ?snonury physician who just rgcent- ly returned from China, where sho | | has been for the %ast 13 years, Dr.| Disosway is now on her way ‘o | the Episcopal Hospital at Fort Yu- | ken aboard the Mount McKinley, | where she will carry on her work. | Disregarding the faet that she| was a woman, Dr. Disosway has/ |been holding down the man-sized job of superintending St. Eliza- beth’s Hospital in Shanghai since 1927. Many was the time that she was the only doctor in the hospi- tal, while the city was under Jap- anese fire, doing all the operations | which numbered hundreds in the course of a week, In one year Dr. Disosway delivered more than 3,000 babies. Miss Disosway came originally from Newburn, N. C. Subscre w (he Daiy Alaskq Empire—the paper with the larges ‘oatd’ ciréutation *OLI/EV Past Noble Grands To Meet Tomorrow The Past Noble Grand Club of the Rebekah Lodge will meet tomor- row night at 8 o'clock in Mrs. Linda Schindler's apartment in the Knight Apartments. The meeting will be the regular monthly social gather- ing, and all Past Noble Grands are invited to attend. ORISR Winifred Sipprell Leaves on Vacation Taking advantage of her annual vacation to get away from the rain and mist of the Gastineau Chan- nel, Winifred Sipprell, who is con- nected with the Territorial De- partment of Public Welfare, ieft on the Mount McKinley for An- chorage today. Miss Sipprell will remain in the Westward for sev- eral weeks. - eee—— BUY DEFENSE BONDS e — G. E. WASHERS " Activator Washing Action Pormadrife Mechani Permanent Lubrication White Enamel Finish, Rust-Resistant OFFER MANY CONVENIENCES at LOW COST! $5.00 DOWN Now — enjoy famous General Electric Washer features at s new low cost. Breeze through washday and get your clothes beautifully clean, white and sofr. Look at the array of convenience features shown below. You'd expect to pay much more! Hurry to our store now for & demanstration! LJ ALL THESE REMARKABLE FEATURES Lovell Wringer with Target Safety Release Modern Beauty G-E Warranty Sediment Drain-Channel Fast Drain : Powerful Pump at Small Extra Charge Alaska Electric Light & Power €s.