The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 20, 1942, Page 3

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1942 my WP VEIEY LADY i§ WLl PENYN}'\rE ;'fflfil'wkpg fi A i}iet It FA and REBECCA ILAKVUD LU in this most thrilhing mystery! SET FOR (APITOI. Marlene Di;frikh and Fred MacMurray Love Team in Screwball Show The long-awaited “The Lady Is Willing,” Hollywood’s current fav- orite for comedy honors, opens to- morrow at the Capitol Theatre. The Columl laughfest was delayed sev- eral weeks during production when Marlene Dietrich, who is co-starred with Fred MacMurray in her first screwball character role, broke a leg during filming of the hectic hilarity. Miss Dietrich’s accident occurred while playing a scene in a nursery when she tripped over a toy fire engine. With a baby in her arms, Miss Dietrich frenziedly twisted to prevent falling on the infant. She managed 4to protect the child; but the resultant hospitalization and production delay tied:up work on “The Lady Is Willing” for several weeks, and made the glamorous star one of Hollywood's pet heroines Small wonder though. The baby Miss Dietrich was holding, captivat- ing Baby Corey, is a seven-months- old youngster whose gurgling smile DAVY TAMES the wondex baby and laughing eyes have cap(ur«- THEATRE the hearts of all filmdom, as well & Show Place of Junead of motion picture audiences Mlu ever “The Lady Is Willing” ha g been shown. The infant already is TIDB IoMoRRow regarded as Hollywood's “Wonder -eos Low tide 5:42 NOTICE " wyone but my- [ * o Harbor Herring | art foreign ( d the Gasboat ‘ v rege “Wilson.” Wi T JACK DUNN. t THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA ey ———— 2 ' "B{RTH OF BLUES" IS SET T0 OPEN AT 207H CENTURY Bing Crosby, Mary Martin Stars of Musical Com- ing Here Tomorrow | MOVIES—BIRTH OF BLUES pnW | If ever a picture showed more | promise of being hit movie enter- | tainment than Paramount's aus- pldo\l'\n—.l\n\t hed saga of indigo rhythm, “Birth of the Blues,” which | we're going to have an opportunity to see when it arrives tomorrow at the 20th Century Theatre, then we don’t know of it This commentator, for once, is floored by the impressive list of names in the ¢ Each name fairly screams its entertainment power Bing Crosby, Mary Mar- tin, Brian Donlevy, Carolyn Lee, Jack Teagarden, the bandleader, and Rochester. What a lineup for laughs and music! Directed by Victor Schertzinger, who, was at the megaphone on such rousing hits as “Road to Singapore,” “Road to Zanzibar” anud “Kiss the Boys Goodbye,” “Birth of the Blues” is a tribute to those trail-blazing bandsmen who opened their hearts to the blues rhythms played by Negroes and worked for years to convince the country this music ought to be listened to, danced to, enjoyed. That's how come such songs are now beloved to us, such songs as “St. Louis Blues phis Blues,” “St. James Infirmary Blues” and a host of others NURSE'S AIDES HONOR TEACHERS AT DINNER HERE Members of the Red Cross Nur: N v - > e PAGE THREE Where the Better BIG Pictures Play?!? PREVIEW-.- "ON1G T FURATENTURY ARTS ‘“\gflam!fgl S",“ WEDNESDAY ‘s\g\ o \\ \ ‘N\\\ s\\‘“ M 4 Sl lflIIIS llll[:"/ “w . Ti6eR RAG"/ and Wal lhlm~$lmlymlw_ " N OVER HER SHOULDER" Mld by VICTOR SCHERTZINGER « Screen Play by Harry hmni LAST TIME TONIGHT ——— "MO0 ] e e————————————— CHAMP RHYTHM SWIMMERS — Martha (left) and Patsy Brown, 16-year-old identical twins of La Jolla, Calif., claim the Pucific coast duet rhythm swimming championship, Rhythm swimming is swimming in time¢ with music, ay Robso Is Dead in Twanted to do, she refused to fly 1 made my first and last trip over the English channel many years ago,” she said once, “and my daughter-in-law, who was with me, had given me a crucifix. I held that the no: e of your furnace burner is b AR By in one hand and a bottle of smel- pinpoi ole throagh which oil sprays. ling salts in the other. We hadn'i Clog this noz bon or any res [ been underway very long before urnace——incomes the serviceman rief! 1 was smelling the onanS.0.S. call. Standard Furnace Oil S Sy Sl salts will eliminate this coid-day hazard, be- cause its double-checked cleanliness and Neckties, Christmas Gifts Miss Robson’s hobby was making neckties. She averaged about 16| Stage and S(_rt;n Character Aide Corps, who recently completed eir studies under Mrs. Lillian and their practical hospital work under Mrs. C. C. Carter, last evening held a no-host dinner party in Percy's Cafe honoring the two volunteer instructors. Mrs. Nelson and Mrs. Carter were each presented a gift in apprecia- tion of the time they have donated to supervise the training of Nurse's Aides The 16 Aides who are now doing volunteer work in the Hospital at- tended. They include Mrs. Josephine DeGanahl, Mrs. Ida Hanson, Mrs. Grace Montgomery, Mrs. Rae Pat- erson, Mrs. Amy Rude, Mrs. Faith Schmidt, Mrs. Anne Sheldon, Mrs. Phyllis Maynard, Mrs. Jean Ware, Nelson THREATENTO FUND FOR BUYING PUNISH U.5. ‘L"sfli?'&fik‘z‘ifio, AR PILOTS Territorial Commissioner of Mines B. D. Stewart announced | today that the Metals Reserve Com- | Japs Toss Sinister Warn- ing; Still Claim Prisoners From Big Raid pany, a subsidiary of the RFC, h.|- authorized an increas of from $10,000 to $30,000 in the ])uu])(l\(' fund for buying strategic metals in| Alaska on the spot. Mr. Stewart fs the purchasing| agent for the government company, and offices at Fairbanks now are| SUNRISES | THEATRE! "Border Vigilantes" The following ar¢ sunrises sunsets for duck hunters: Tuesday, Oct. 20 -rit&ri * purity assure complete com- Actress Passes Away After Long Career (Continued from Page One) bustion, with nonozzle-clogging carbon deposits to annoy you. did, quickly and without any suf- fering. I want to keep on working right up until the final curtain. I've got to work—I can't be happy unless I am working.” | Miss Robson was born April 19, 1864, in Melborne, Australia, to Capt. Henry Robison of the British navy and his wife, Julia. Miss Rob- son dropped the “i” for phonetic reasons when she went on the stage. She was the youngest of four child- ren. Her father died when she was six and her mother took her and the other children to Europe, where May was educated. A Great-Grandmother Soon after being graduated from a school in France, at the age of : Ann Waynor, Jane Alexander, dozen a year, to present to as MANy | povviois Graham, Cecilie Livie, Mrs. men friends at Christmas. To Keep| poine” McLaughlin, Mrs. Gladys on a schedule, begun each January, | pocrolgs and Mrs. Nadja Triplette. she had to average four ties a week. May was still little more than | a bride when she expressed the then daring thought of going on the stage. Telling her desire to some theatrical friends, and bolstering it - NOTICE I wlll not be responsible for any | debts contracted by anyone unless authorized by ‘me. Oct. 16, 1942. with a little instruction on the adv. HENRY A. NELSON. side, she got her first job, appearing — —_— in Brooklyn as “Tilly” in “The|ing, Arnold Daly and Leo Dietrich- stein. She had parm in such memory- stirring plays as “Jim The Penman,” “The Charity Ball,” “The Import- ance Of Being Earnest,” Lord and Hoop of Gold.” She was associated with Charles Frohman, great pro- ducer of the 90’s, for more than 20 years “and there never was a line of contract between us.” Lady Algy,” “Make Way For The She appeared, during this time,|Ladies” “Are You A Mason?” with William Gillette, Viola Allen, and “Dorothy Vernon Of Haddon William Faversham, Sir Guy Stand- Hall.” Coming fo 20th (enlury NEW YORK, Oct. 20.—The Japs, for some devious propaganda pu pose not immediately apparent, have reported that United States airmen captured in the raid on Japan April 18 from planes under Gen. James Doolittle’s command will be “sever- ely punished for their inhuman (acts.” Doolittle declared aiter his return from the raid in May that not one plane was lost over Japan. The Jap maneuver became known when the German radio broadcast the announcement of the Jap Home Defense Headquarters. The an- nouncement was given wide atten- tion throughout the day on the Tokyo and Berlin radios. | The wording of some broadcasts suggested, however, that Japan's actual purpose might be to hold certain captured airmen as hostages under threat of slaying them if Japnn is again bombed set up ready to purchase antimony, | tin, tungsten and mercury. Anchor- age and Ketchikan offices of the| Territorial Department of Mines | are now able to purchase concen- | trates, or material ground fine| enough so that regrinding is nut required, and mercury. \ The Metals Reserve Company also | has agreed to extend the purchase ‘agreement for one year so that pro- | ducers and sellers will be assured of the price scheduled now in effect lasting until December 31, 1943. - - A. P. WALKER RETURNS FROM INSPECTION TRIP After an absence of two weeks during which he made inspection of labor conditions in Ketchikan and Petersburg, A. P. Walker, for Labor, returned to Juneau Monday, on his own small boat. Inspector | the Territorial Department of | 4 Sunrise 7:44 a.m. Sunset 5:41 pxlg Wednesday, Oct. 21 £ Sunrise 7:46 a.m. Sunset 5: :wp,xfll Thursday, Oct. 22 i Sunrise 7:49 a.m. Sunset 5: 35pnl Friday, Oct. 23 Sunrise 7:51 a.n. Sunset 5: npm Saturday, Oct. 24 Sunrise 7:53 a.m. Sunset 5: aop* Sunday, Oct.25 " Sunrise 7:556 a.m. Sunset 5:28 p.m, e — BIRTHDAY PARTY ~ GIVEN FOR TW! Mrs. Albert Peterson, 437 Street, entertained last even! for a small group of friends, oring her husband, Albert, and son Gustav, 15, on their doublé birthdays GO A PR b5 Men in America’s fighting Iorc- get about 35 eggs a momh e Your Eleciric Toaster Has Gone Off to War! The electric (ua.aler you now have is the ONLY one you'll he able to get 1ill the Axis gets the materials used in it are war mater- ials now. This means you must keep Axe! — the , hicles 16, she married E. H. Gore, a young inventor, and they came to this country, making their home in New York. One son was born to them, E. H. Gore, Jr. When 'a daughter was born to May's grandson, in 1934, and named May Robson Gore, she was the proudest person in Holly- wood, “because I'm the only great- grandmother in the movies.” | Gore died a few years after their marriage and in May, 1889, Miss Robson married Dr. A. H. Brown, a New York physician. He died in 1919. Miss Robson played supporting roles for more than 20 years before she was starred. Her starring ve- besides ‘‘Aunt Mary,” in- cluded “Mother’s Millions,” “Tish,” “The Making Over of Mrs. Matt” and “The Three Lights.” For many years she played one-night stands and it was her boast that she had appeared on stages in every town of 4,000 or more population in Am- erica. Bing Crosby and Jack Teagarden exchange those billiard cues for clarinet and trombone respectively, when Rochester brings them, the Lived in Bungalow " udlnn that he found the hottest jazz trumpeter in Dixieland, who Miss Robson lived in a modest our own Carlson, Blomgren Bldg. Phone 636. S e EYES EXAMINED and BROKEN LENSES replaced in shop. Dr. Rae Lillian 10 MEN WANTED Wood Splitier Riggermen Hook Tender Signalman Bull Cook Fallers and Buckers Juneau Logging Company PHONE 358 = 6 R AR BUY DEFENSE BONDS Chockermen TRIANGLE CLEANERS New Location Juneau Laundry Building * ¥ “for better appearance” PHONE bungalow in Beverly Hills, sur- ownded by hundreds of birds. Her | companion was Lillian Harmer, who became her secretary in 1910. ed with it clean, rhm‘!l let it get ele Alaska Eléctric Power Company crumbs, and let the Light needed repaiis! We YValce ALE Electrical Repairs? and make everything and go places amazed her friends, who marvelled at her great vitality. Although she arose at 6 a. m. when she was working, |night. Some of her friends were worried after a party celebrating {her 50 years in the show business. |She was kept going at a terrific |pace that day and several persons | to inquire after her health. to a movie. If there wasn't a new picture to else to do. She made frequent trips, but always by train. Although she | sald life was too short to do all she | Her ability to get around and see Miss Robson went some place every ' | telephoned her home that evening | The maid reported she had gone | see or a banquet to attend or a |mend to visit, she found something | turns out to be Brian Donlevy. All this goes on in Paramount’s “Birth of the Blues,” opening Wednesday at the 20th Century with Mary Martin. BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH SRAN - T HEBR |\ NEAM - THEY ~HEY P CHOSEF | ToOK TW oN & '(Rorp TRAM | KANGBROO QN HE'S HERDWY | AN LEET FOR t—\ BORT OF SAREE) EnBaRKATION { BEW HES HEART-BROKEN TTHEY WERE JUS' UKE TWO PERS N @ POD - W CORPORAL \S QUER 'w:{ m%{ THERE THERE, oL PAL - DONT TAKE \T S0 WaRD By BILLY DeBECK — g GN\E - T DONE PROMISED | A 0L \NOMBN BACK W Ty BIG SMOKIES 1D SEND HER a PURTN KONGAROD RuG <0 WIER WP T CRACKS W T PARLOR FLOOR ——— ¥ e