The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 8, 1942, Page 3

SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1942 STARTS TOMORROW! “LADY BE GOOD WITH ELEANOR POWELL, the Queen of Taps ANN SOTHERN, ROBERT YOUNG You'll never know how much sheer enterlainment can be crowded into a musical joy show till you thrill to this star-spangled darling! More songs . . . livelier dances . . . greater spectacle . and more entertainment than you ‘ve ever seen in one picture before! ALSO-MARCHOFTIM PREVUE TONIGHT—1:15 A. M. TONIGHT "Burma Convoy" "They Meet Again” n Cartoon News THEATRE Show Place of Juneau An oil flare of the type used by trucks when making roadside repairs i8 used by Sergeant D. L. Ray, of Ashville, N. J., to deposit soot on the sights of his rifle during firing practice of the U S. Marine Corps at Quantico, Va. Rjie soot eliminates glare and reflection. |March of Time film throws new THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASKR "L ADY BE 600D,” MARCH OF TIME NOW AT CAPITOL Ann Soihern_,EI—eanor Pow- ell, Robert Young in Film Here Sunday A talent-filled cast, discerning direction, and a gay, sophisticated screen play studded with ‘some of ‘m. most delightful \ingmg and um(. (‘()l)!blll[‘ to mflkr\ Lud) Be Good,” which opens tomorrow at |the Capitol Theatre, a musical treat which patrons will want to see not once but twice. M-G-M has gone ‘urmy of talent for this picture |which stars Eleanor Powell, Ann ‘smmm and Robert Young, with |Lionel Barrymore, John Carroll, Red Skelton and Virginia O'Brien adding topnotch talent in featured |supporting roles. | Argentina’s difficulty in making |clear the re: ns underlyipg her ',decision to remain neutral for the ;nresent forms the basis for the |March of Time's latest film, “The }Argenlnw Question,” scheduled to share the bill opening at the Capi- ‘Lol Theatre tomorrow. j | ::EADS ?OV{N —fve:‘!’n Portraying the color and varied SYES, HOUVIE ROSOS Who NS Jc?i\'l(ies of this South :I\mfl'l.um" ::"‘::’:ga:‘a'"a‘::s l:dhl:a; ir:.:;s‘ neighbor nation, the film gives | Miss Keyes says this exercise is audiences an insight into the effect| & quick way to stimulate the a declaration of war would have on | circulation of the skin and to {the vast industrial and agricultural | “all out” in its . train the muscles for balance,’ program of Argentina. Photo- | — graphed throughout Argentina in | the past ten months this latcst & > L Immigration Chicf light on Argentina’s dilemma and | ,. % opens the way to greater coopera-| | tion between our two nations. | -ee | WELL-BABY CLINIC Native mothers not under the| FOR NATIVES SET | “Qdeite’ B a. Letter” ACROSS . River flowing 1 Asserts as fact h into the Baltic Sea. . Became Clipped 39. Norse flower goddess Toward . Recurring uniformly 7. Floods Bond held by a third party until some condition is met Little tube .- Bar . Muse of ntronomy 45. Like . English letter 8 Intricate Pinch . Egyptian sun 3 ommea . Bar of a soap- frame . Polnt ', Sheeplike . 502 . Type of electrlc current: abbr. . Belleves thetical o EREE REEE SE0EE PU‘mll'fl)fl‘Il“D BO . Support for furniture . Plunge into Solution Of Yesterday's Puzzle 60. Metric land 2. measure 61. Imperfect paper g water . Sensitive plant 56. Article of apparel 58. Bird of the hawk family . Herons Largest existing bird Discard as worthless . Rainbow . Highest polnt . Turn aslde . Beautlful: slang . Soft murmur . Arablan garments - Adjustea the pltch . Suppression of & sound in pronouncing Shore of the ocean . Itallan opera . Arranged | Everlasting DOWN . Spanish colns Bes Freeze lo!llhar again 3 Coukad with water Vapor . Unfriendly . Fop . Artles: . Slandei . Loiterer . Kind of shrub . Saltpeter . First name of a famous A u . WEd AN d il N Vi supervision of the Office of In-' |dian Affairs are eligible to attend {the well-baby clinic which will be beld this Monday from 1 to 2 o'clock !in the Juneau Public Health Center. | Mothers with infants or pre- | school children may aftend this| : clinic. Only well babies should be‘ { brought. Monday afternoon, the Public| Health Nurse will continue with! ithe preliminary examinations for 1 school children, between the hours | of 2 and 4 o'clock. = D KODIAK JOKE | | RS | the sta- | The following appears in | Williwamns, Kodiak Naval Air tion newspaper: Are you the girl who took m\ asked the welder. politely replied the ¥S. senate has confirmed the | nomination of Earl G. Harrisun of | Pennsylvania to be U. 8. comm | sioner of immigration and nat- “Well, } welder, er.” I'll be damned,” said the “you don't look a day okl-] uralization. He succeeds James L. Houghteling, who resigned. Rescue of Fllers in Channel One of the unsung branches of the RAF is its sea rescue service, It is composed of planes and fast motorboats and has saved the lives of many friend and foe by picking up downed aviators in the English Channel and waters adjacent to the English coast. This photo shows a fast motorboat about to pick up the crew of a desiroyed Halifax bomber in the channel from a tiny rubber dinghy. COWBOY, BLONDE | STARS OF SHOW AT 20TH CENTURY Mary Beth H—ughes Shares Honors with George Montgomery Here Cupid does all the hard-riding and quick shooting in. “The Cowboy and the Blonde,” the 20th Century-Fox | production coming Sunday to the | 20th Century Theatre. And the two |top featured players, Mary Beth Hughes and handsome George Mont- gomery are caught before they can get out of range — not that they wanted to. ¢ This is a different sort of cowboy picture. There aren’t any cattle rustlers, there aren't even any cat- tle. But there is a blonde, and a beautiful one at that. She’s a tem- peramental movie star, who goes on 2 book-throwing “blitz” because her | leading man can't act. | Her director and producer are tearing their hair out by the hands full, production is delayed, and to top things off, the financial backer | has “discovered” another “star.” | Mary Beth Hughes is the beau- | tiful blonde actress, and George Montgomery is the “discovery.” But he’s alsd a cowboy. This ex-Montana | rodeo rider portrays a rodeo champ in his first top featured 20th Cen- | tury-Fox role; the cowboy who | brings love to the much loved, but ‘unlovm;, movie queen | FINE MUSICAL [PROGRAM PART OF FLOWER SHOW | Klong with the Juneau Flower | Show, now being held in the Scot- | tish Rite Temple, with rours from 2 to 5 o'clock this afternoon and 7 to 10 o'clock tonight, a Iine musi- | cal program is being carried out. | Yesterday afternoon’s program fea- | tured Merle Janice Pitts singing | three numbers, including “I Know Where a Garden Grows,” “Lilacs” and “My Little Batteau.” She was accompanied by Ruth Popejoy. | On the program last night were songs by Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Ehler, accompanied by Ruth Pope- | joy; Mr. Ehler sang “Trees,” Mrs. | Ehler sang “Last Eve He Bmughz! Me Roses” and as a duet, they |PREVIEW TONIGHT —L:15 A. M. BETTER BIG PICT( 120" ENTURY | ] PAGE THREE JRES PLAY MATINEE SUNDAY 2:0 LS00 SUNDAY o MONDAY o TUESDAY 0 .+.then he met a beautiful blonde blitzkrieg . .. and the battle of the sexes began! FINAL SHOWING TONIGHT “Tumbled Down Ranch in Arizona" “Bride Wore Cruiches” with MARY BETH HUGHES GEORGE MONTGOMERY ond Alan Mowbray ¢ Robert Conway * John Miljan ¢ Richard Lane * Robert Emmett Keane TIME: News presented “Thank God For a Gar- \ r den.” Present Service Men ‘ This- afternoon’s program is fea- | turjng Frances Paul as vocalist, ac- |compknied by Mrs. Willlam Paul. |She is singing “Morning,” “The |Lilac Tree” and “In the Time of | Roses.” |, As a special feature of the flow- |'er show, tonight’s program will be | presented entirely. by service men. | Opening the program at 8 ‘oclock will be Private Walter Searle, U.S.A, singing “In the Garden of Tomorrow,” “Annie Lau- |rie” and “Twickenham Ferry.” Els- |peth Douglas will be his accom- ‘])umsl From the U. 8. Coast | Guard, Hiram Shumway with his ‘m.cordlon will accompany Joe; ;Wheeler, steel guitarist and hill- | billy singer. Special Numbers | A string trio from the Army, con- | sisting of Ellis Levi, pianist, Jack |Cohn and Orville Hansen, violin- ists, will present a group of semi- classic numbers; including “Song | of India,” “Simple Confession” and “Tales From the Vienna Woods.” Many of the flowers from the show are to be taken to St. Ann’s Hospital after the exhibit is over tonight, it was announced this {morning. Tickets' for the display are on sale at the door and pro- |ceeds will go toward the Juneau | USO fund. RIFLE CLUB HAS ANOTHER PRACTICE| About 30 shooters met yesterday afternoon at the Mendenhall Rifle | Range to take part in the rifle | practice of the new Juneau Rifle | Club, and following the afterncon | practice, many of those present met at the cabin of the Rober’ Simpsons for supper. Best shooting of the afternoon | was done by Mrs. Howard Button, ‘uho made a score of 198 out of | a possible 200. COMING ““The Shepherd of the Hills*® OH, DARNIT! NEW YORK, ou.; =7~ ™ vins in your stockings worry you more, nov’ that the hosiery shortage is no joke? Eleanor Quirck, Rockefeller Center cmce worker, has found an answer. SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUI in this Soundphoto examining a piece of Nipponese flying equipment known as the “belly tank.” [ s | bright embroidered rosebud. When Whenever a hole appears in her sheer hose, she covers it with a a run rages rampant, she neatly backstitches a stem with leaves and petals. The more runs, the more decoration. shortage is the mother of invention.’ Cartoon Feature Wings of Steel Added Attraction It all goes to show that | | in 1 Technicolor National income in the first quaffs ter of this year reached an annual rate of $1088 billion, an all-time high. ~ Church bells weighing more than 22 pounds are being requisitioned by the Germans for conversion into wqf materials. Examines Jettisoned Jap Gas Tank A—An unidentified member of an Allied repair and salvage un‘t is lhown Used extensively on Jap zero fighter planes as an auxiliary fuel container, the “belly tank” is cheaply constructed of wood, a not-too- tal war material in Japan. As scon as its fuel is drained the wooden tank is released from the plane at the touch of a button. A spring attachment hurls it clear of the line of flight | BRINGINGUPFATHER 1 GUESS MAGGIE WON'T BE GETTIN' P THIS MORNIN' €HE GOT A KINK IN HER DOIN' HER EXERCISE TO KEEP IN TRIM FOR THE WOMEN'S ARMY - | WILL TAKE HER BREAKFAST TO HER- \ \ WITH IT'LL. BE OKAY ME- IF By GEORGE McMANUS