The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 25, 1942, Page 3

#/'WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1942 2] MUSICAL WITH ~ ARGENTINE SET | wut o s of silks, r s | liable to prove just plain (cen- sored) to burlesque. But Valerie Parks, one of the better-known footlights charmers — and no dumb blonde either — is pre- pared to carry on with whatever materials are available. "They Met in Argentina” | Opening Tonight af Cap- itol, Engaging Story Love versus duty is the thematic frame around which the engaging story of “They Met in Argentina,” which opens tonight at the Capitol Theatre, has been woven. With Maureen O'Hara, James Ellison, Alberto Vila, Buddy Ebsen and Diosa Costello heading the cast, the gay new filmusical has its set- ting in Buenos Aires and at a vast baronial estate on the pampas. Ellison plays a young American whose employer cables him to buy a noted racehorse at any cost. Knowing the fierce old Don who owns the animal has no intention of selling him, the Yankee visits the estate in the guise of a cattle-Duy- er, and pretends an interest in the Don’s lovely and spirited daughter. However, the interest soon turns to the real thing; a stormy ro- mance follows when the girl learns his real purpose, and the old Don : INFORMATION PLEASE GOING PLACES KNOW YOUR MUSIC LATEST NEWS ——— NOW SHOWING —— e Mors of Tonecty and a young Argentine rival take| a hand in the affair. with stirring| results. i Ten catchy Rodgers and Hart! songs, brilliant native dances and| a gay fiesta enlivened with color- ful gaucho games and customs ac- cent the glamour of the picture For the first time on the screen,| the noted game of “El Pato” ‘])l yed for American audience: game so dangerous to the parti ZSeven ans Sen' io Pnson pants that for many years it was |banned by the Argentine govern- | Replacing the zipper was easy —Valerie simply went back to mother’s day and used snap in- But if everything goes, Valerie may be forced to use a liquid powder and paint her costume on. ... stead. ALASKA PAGE THR g THE DAILY ALASK_A EMPIRE— JUNEAU, Introducing the Priori-Tease Or she may have to try out a new liquid which holds cloth together — long enough, she hopes. '| Program at 20th Cen- "NIGHT TRAIN" AMONG 10BEST FILMS OF YEAR |Featured on Americanism | | | tury Theatre Tonight Hailed by New York critics n.'»‘ |“one of the ten best pictures of ithe year”, “Night Train”, a 20th | Century-Fox release comes tonight | to the 20th Century Theatre on| {the special Americanism program| | being sponsored by the American | Legion Auxillary. Tt is loaded with |thrills, laughter and romance. argaret Lockwood and chi on are stors of the exciting! spy melodrama. She takes the | part of the harried daughter of an inventor wanted by both bel-| ligerent countries while Rex Har-{ | rison portrays an Intelligence agent| with superb nonchalance. When | |they meet adventures start with {a bang and they are off to strange i"d enture with secrecy, capture, es- |€ discovery and rescue, all aboard “Night Train.” Preceding the news reel and fea- ture picture, the Jur High! Sehool band, under direction of Robert White, will present several popular patriotic selections = and during the intermission, an excel-| lent and varied musical and pat-| riotic program will be given. Mrs.| Mildred Hermann will act as Master of Ceremonies tondght, in-| troducing the six numbers on the [ program. Outstanding on the patriotic pro- gram will be several solos by Mrs, Lola Mae Alexander who will be accompanied by Carol Beery Davis; several selections by the Singing | Harr WHERE THE BETTER G STARTING TONIGHT AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY Sponsors The Technicolor Short Subject ‘Flag of Humanity’ The Story of the Red Cross ON THE STAGE AT 9:15 - Special Patriotic Program FEATURING: High School Band Sons and Daughters of American Legion Cello Quartet and The Singing Deb The Feature Picture on Our Screen “NIGHT TRAIN” with Margaret Lockwood—Rey Harrison Thrills! . Secrecy! Laughter! Coliseu Last T:;g’f*nft— S‘O(K ouojl'A"o“s "I(:IE};l '1“3 4—‘ “}{ACKET‘;EE;I:: OF THE RANGE", NEW YORK, Feb. 25 — Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mlnc; ok oy 22 Ao s FIRST AID CHIEES TO MEET THURSDAY 8 . " S TTERE A b SEUA RS sl £ AL S, . ment. !Debs and a cello quartet; band|60%. Commonwealth and South-| i —conv!de,q on Prep The supporting cast includesl o . | selections by the High School band|ern 9/30, Curtiss Wright 7%, In- 4 arahon Charges | Robert Barrat, Joseph Buloff, An-| ea' er ureau In s | |and a color drill. ternational Harvester 48, Kenne- Evimm A' 1:30 2 | tonio Morenso, and Fortunio Bon- | | Following the program a special|{cott 34%, New York Central 9%,/ 4 : . |anova. | feature of the Americanism evening | Northern Pacific 6'%, United States y HELSINKI, Feb. ?5.—D1 Juké.x?h e | will be the showing of the “Flag!Steel 51%, Pound $4.04. | Al .First Aid’ Chixs will meet 'H Helo, former Treasurer of the City| BROK‘EN‘L’ENS‘B_S of Humanity”, a technicalor short tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'elock toof Helsinki, and six expelled mem-| depicting the history of the Ameri in the Fire Hall at Fourth and xibers of the Finnish Parliament, At prompuy replaced in our owu| ! e ot o e, AmeTl | DOW, JONES AVERAGES | \oin "gireats, Dr. Courtney ‘Smith, sihave been sentenced to prison!shop. Dr. Rae Lillian Carlson | o benutitully done, edically and| The following are today's Dow.| pyirman ofeFirst Ald for-tHe Civ- y/ years after conviction on charges [ rails 27.58, utilities 13.57. at the meeting which all chiefs toof “praiparfa}{oil ,,I,or,,m,g,l? ,“:iasm? o BUY DEFENSE BOND ‘ 3 jflrst ald post:ure m‘“h\“ '00":{ {Eae SoRMEERL? ! PRICES TUESDAY | tend. Nt e 5 S ] | What weuld happen to power The weather burcau has goneni WASHINGTON, Feb. 25—Secre-| Among the business to.be pakén {ormt?lc[?hge or ldlelegtml?l}d ctomf around thllast‘ pro}:lc:m—but _“".h"fitnry of the Navy Col. Frank Knox Closing quotation of Alaska Ju-‘“p is. the, completion o s 3 e ey could not hold their a_job. ~They are ‘“advising” the|ioday reported that during January | neau mine stock in Tuesday's| holding practice drills for all 1 ACROSS 3% Wrinkle P1U] dme me: s r:’)"dmes; tol_repair‘ tthe a“m"ctdh cum'r:am&s. hI‘hey dont"‘lnd February, 56 attacks were made trading was 2'%, American Can|who have been assigned to § Rladtan river 42, Otter 2 e e B et toee e v aUHer eoresask|on enemy subs in the Atlantic, re- | 60%, Anacanda 267, Bethlehem|twenty first aid posts throughout 9. Pronoun boundary of ISIEME 1 LIVERE NS - A y Just advise what precautlons|guing i the sinking of three and, Steel 60%, Commonwealth and|the city. I 12. Mathematical a plane figure WAL ] <‘would Jhappen to transportation it might be well to take. e damikging o 10T ’ i ratio 16 nitorm TAIRIN] companies if they had no warn-| That means that where news- ping g Southern /30, Curtiss Wright 7%, —— : 1t Nalive metat- 45, ‘Act out of [GIA[S] ing that the elements were going papers and radio used to carry the| A Navy communigue disclosed, International Harvéster 26%, Ken-| o prevent waste of food do pot bearing - sorts MIE[TIE] to blow their schedule to pieces? news to all, the weather bureau|that a total of 114 ships of United necott 34%, New York Central 9,|overload the serving plates. It'ls 15, Learning - Metident EMAIR] | What would happen to water sup- now has to treat with each in-|Nations' registry were attacked by —_ "0"“1”"%"““‘0 6/, United States| better to let the family comie baok 17. Kind of lettuce 52. Edible seed A |plies and dams and aqueducts if dividually and be positive that on-|enemy subs west of 30 degrees A [P Steel 51%, Pound $4.04. for “seconds.” § o 18 Relieve 34 Pronoun [RIAIL] p ! ch ttagon D frict f B 19. Extinct bird 55. B: the cloudbursts were permitted to ly known persons get that “ad-|longitude. The meridian roughly di- | Ina |$ ricr o p¢|——— s Stiles ey - iL Note o the & Tz‘;lfifoe“"‘ % gm {fall without an advance word of vice." FoiRes et Atlahe: E gong d. Mad ‘ B g 8. : % EE | B T In a recapitulation of losses in- va(ua‘e . Maaras Buvs Bo"”’ TOO 5 | . Wrat hrough: | 3 3 v erivative 6 Eternity ves ‘ 2’%‘ %‘7"21‘1' Hd 68 {;'g“‘?“, British 1. lnqtl,noryn - s‘:";,".:,m. eglans ‘sels were sunk and three believed o R 3 33 Pleasire ot laureate 2. Descent st | " |sunk. Two, including @ battleship| MADRAS, Feb. 25—Certain areas o uee)aer‘u o 9"3 !rzelnoll in timber : ;Yx,th“ constellation of the Kongo class, are believed in the Chittagong District, Indian 4 3 . | Stitches 37 Chief Norse gad 71, Cast off 5. Employ 8. English city ! e o r' o n SA v[ D A TE damaged or sunk, Also included was POTt district neflre]st rBurmn, will . f:‘e"n d‘:;"‘:""" | ione aircraft carrier sunk and an Ke ebvci:xceuflli:gda Sh‘z"{"“{. m‘" "l::’ pub: e e 7 - Teat away | . |additional carrier believed sunk. |hc Denelll, an g ot Lived | ] M ek # a5 (ment sald today. 4 nt ves sunl | -..%. HiRiian | or edoln HEA Y ST s cx‘xcom 4 . "u"’“ ¥ r 3;, The announcement added that wreath merican naval action were put at there was no reason for panic and -./ . l{ta‘::n‘lement = } { 38, with four more believed sunk that the move is purely precaution- Syllable used | T PR and three damaged, giving an over- ary. i in cheers Iogs p 11 total of 53 Japanese vessels —— ! Guided with |a e imes 1| Six Survivors Tell Story of | Two U. S. Navy Boats Are jsunk. seven believed sunk and five ~LEGION AUXILIARY SHOW Zdible tuber e 3 e . damaged. 20th Century, Feb, 25-26. adv. Worshiped | &3?1 : i Smklng Without Warn- Smashed on Newfound- | —— - s 5 ng ste : 7 3 | Pinch . i . | by Sumarie | “idstadystoe | Seen on Screen Here nd o muffin | | . Periods of time 1 | | Spontaneous BALTIMORE, Feb. 25—8ix mel.| o ;04Ng, Newfoundland, Feb.| public the only known survivors of the p y > < acclamation A 25—On swaying bosuns chairs ?(Tnél ,,',,,,, torpedced Norwegian freighter slung over a 200-foot cilff, 43 men L. U Blink, the sinking o!: which Was| o' the United States destroyer sy jannounced by the Navy De"“"'l’rruxmn and the naval supply ship| . Understood but not expressed Malt liquor. . Was carried . Book of the Bible . Western state, 2. Some Y . Buddhist pillar ! . Color 1891—Hall a Century of Banking—1941 ij The B.M.Behrends | H Bank Oldest Bank in Alaska COMMERCIAL SAVINGS | [ S —— ment, told haltingly today of a 66-|pglux were rescued after the ves- | hour fight for life in a swamped|gels were smashed to bits against | lifeboat in shark-infested waters. |the Newfoundland coast in a rag-| ‘The 2,700-ton freighter was wr‘iing storm. | pedoed without warning off the| 4 the story of the rescue reached Allantlc Coast, with '4° probable|nere, it ‘was learnad, that a third! loss of 24 lives. . ‘Unned States ship had struck shore | The six survivors were brought| put was floated clear and made to Baltimore by an unidenl,ifled‘harbor safely. One hundred and| vessel last week and taken to thejeighty-nme other seamen perLs-hedf United States Marine Hospital. in the pounding seas. | ANNOUNCEMENT! FRANCES HANSON, formerly of the Baranof Beauty Salon, is at your service at Special This Week Shampoo and Finger Wave $1.25 PHONE 318 e Here are’ Maureen O'Hara and James Wilson who are starred in “They Met in Argentina” showing Enlmlnf.ln the Army wasn’t enough for hcav,ml Joe ‘Louis. Above, he shows promoter Mike Jaco Bond which he purchased at the Army’s induction office, | Jay, Governor’s Island, right after taking his physical tion recently, ? Wny oo WAIT =« at the Capitol Theatre. THERE'S A COPY OF THE INVITATION THAT (| DEAR GENERAL THE JIGGS*® DESIRE YOLIR COMPANY ~AT EVENING - DO NOT FAIL LIS~ GREAT HEAVENS/! |55 { THOSE MEN. BE: HIND YOU 2 By GEORGE McMANUS THE BOYS THAT DIDNT COM Call STAR Cabs GO WHERE YOU PLEASE WITH YOUR MIND AT EASE g 0 o NPHONE N | Ride STAR Cabs DON LOZZIE—Owner * *