The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 30, 1943, Page 3

TUESD, ", MARCH 30, 1943 o "SYNCOPATION" IS ' MUSICAL OFFERING ; (OMlfli CAPITOL Brilliant Cast, with Plenty ~ | of Jazz by Noted Or- | chestra, Soon Here The development of popular mu sic from jungle rhythms to “boo | gie-woogie” is built into the grip- | ping drama and romance of “Syn- copatior William Dieterle pro- | duction for RKO Radio, coming tc !the Capitol for showing Wednesda: land Thursday With Adolphe Menjou, Jackis Cooper, Bonita Granville and Georg( | Bancroft heading its brilliant cast, 3 | the film covers the period from the |early 1900's up to the present time | tying its appealing human story tc background with a wealth o with Adolphe MENJOU Jackie COOPER its & / songs typical of the various eras Bonita GRANVILLE o These songs, ranging from negrc —Also— | spirituals and “blues” tunes to old- PICTURE PEOPLE LATEST NEWS | PREVUE TONIGHT 12:30 ' (Continued from Page One) |time rag-time and modern swing hits, are said to be the most exten- | sive ever presented in one picture Some of them are played or sun by Miss Granville, Cooper, Ted¢ Duncan, the famous negro bari tone, or Connie Boswell; other: [ are played by jazz bands and mod- i ern orchestras, with the climax of- ) fering a unique “jam session” of THEATRE the nation’s most popular swing- | SHOW PLACE OF JUNEAU sters as chosen in a Saturday Eve- ning Post poll. E - - i INJUNFAE N PACIFIC | SR | | S 3 Or- R H H | Little Movie Starlet Arrives i< ay Is Hit Again by, Here for Special Enfer- | E"efl‘_V hBombers in . " " | tainment of "Boys” | ight Attack P | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, March 30.—Six Jap | | bombers slashed at the Aliied base | chain, including Unimak, Dutch (gt Oro Bay, New Guinea, yester- Harbor, and Fort Morrow, as Wwell igay {he High Command reports, as Anchorage and other sites. The gtaping the second successive at-| mq;l beaullfuld;l‘lg‘ U;(‘ r{g{{“’p:::i’ tack in two days and giving more said, was ma n e t i St vl between Kodiak and Unimak, which/| Doy, 5 Tecent weriings of in was also accompanied by plenty of | T:hv Sordbers ‘ll "k i it excitement when the fifty calibre | S et o S g guns suddenly began to roar and .causing slight damage but no casu- | the plane filled with smoke, it being *Ities- | several minutes before Miss Rey- | PR (U R nolds was told they were practicing | and had not been attacked by the | lplAN | Japs. | Approaching Cordova on the n-ip; out, her plane ran into a blinding | 5 snowstorm and circled the field for | ! about 45 minutes before finding a break and being able to land, she! | said. | Obviously tired but not depressed | by her long trip, Miss Reynolds | bounced eagerly as she spoke of the appreciative interest shown by AV G ’ soldiers at the camps and said with * 1 | conviction: “No one needs to thank Amendmen' to Sklp Year S| me for making the trip; I've gained e e - expovionss a1 Income Taxesls | could never have obtained in any| | other way.” | DEfeated Tired and mussed from her long; WASHINGTON, March 30.—By a trip but very happy at being able!rol call vote of 215 to 198, the to do her share, Miss Reynolds could | House rejected a Republican spon-| never have made a more ap})flfllng*sorul amendment to the pending| sweet appearance than she did Upon pay-as-you-gé tax bill which would | her arrival at the Baranof Hotel have cancelled one year’s tax obli- | today. 3 |gations on individual income for| Accompanying her on the Alaska | America’s taxpaying millions. ;flrcl\(ut rht:; bfins“(;flDD!e-( Rflbegon?»“ Just a few minutes earlier, work- | eck, of the Ala ense - ling as a Committee of the Whole, gmnd, r’ho is also stopping at the the House had adopted the amend- arano -e |ment which embodied the princpj - HILDEGARD HUBBELL EB R-I fi“s | { HERE AFTER SPECIAL | STUDY IN STATES since last September, Miss Hilde-}v gard’ Hubbell, nurse with the Of-| fice of Indian Affairs, arrived in| a short time. | NEW YORK, March 30.—An Al- Miss Hubbell, who was Field |glers radio broadcast, recorded by Nurse in charge of health work at|CBS tonight, said the “British| went south last fall and on Octo-|%R the route of Rommel's retreat ber 1 entered the Henry Thitts In-|to Tunisia. i — e, e——— stitute in Philadelphia where she field work and tuberculosis. ALASKA (oASIAl After completing her work. in Philadelphia, Miss Hubbell entered ¢ I she studied for four months, tak-| " I T! ing a post graduate course m‘ | sobigol nursing. Arrivals in Juneau with Alflskai out of Juneau as Nurse at Large!, . 5 . yesterday afternoon were Major | for mg Office of Indian Aifglrs H. K. Beach, Vergne Hoke, James| and will leave soon for her first|p cton Vincent Brown, Topi Pe- dez. Later in the season she _wm; Leaving here today for Excursion work out of the Richardson High-|(Inlet with ACA were R. H. Bara-| . way. |{low, Kenneth P. Nelson, Eddie time at the Juneau hea,dquaners’L, D. Kretzmeier, Walter Iverson for orientation and to outline her and arriving in Juneau from Ex-! program. |cursion Inlet today were Verrill | Outgoing to Sitka with Alaska As late as 75 years ago, there|Coastal Airlines today were Amy were less than 150 hospitals in the Hill Loftus, Miles McGraw and E. | ples of the Ruml Plan. | After being .absent from Alaska ‘ AT SFAX Juneau yesterday and will be here | the Eklutna School for two years,|N2vy has landed at Sfax.” Sfax is took a four months’ course in | the University of California where | H'IES To S"KAy | | Mias Huhbell 15 to ‘be B'ssxg“ed‘Ccmsml Airlines from Excursion In- assignment which will be in Val-|kone william McNabb. | She is now spending a short|Swope, P. Corpuz; R. O. Shumote, i i A e |Kunes, Ramon Coras, Jim Paul. entire United States. K. Rushton. Meat was plentiful and cheap in Seattle in 1916 In 1916 No Meat Rationing; But 27 Years Laler A o i R - ¢ | tre (top) at John Drivis’ meat market. Note the prices! But 27 years later the low prices were first to disappear, then the meat but the proprietor was willing to sell the remaining bottles of milk. 'be conquered, and it proves fts theme with such mounting drama- the strongest anti-|ti¢c force, with such wealth of in- Nazi film yet is “The Moon Is ecident, that its climax is like ’ r Down,"” in which the Nazi charac- thunder. (ters, while never admirable, are . | still projected in shades of black- and-white. They are people, and “The Steinbeck Century-Fox FOR ROLE By ROBBIN COONS ze version c Lelievable people. Moon Is Down work paid a price of $300,000, only to have the SEAL FURS ARE SOLD is the John which 20th then record | for within da collap HOLLYWOOD-Here's the tale r the movie sale. This was an of a producer with sledgehammer | embarrassing development, but Pro- I finesse. His studio wanted a cer-|ducer Nunnally Johnson, who wrote tain actor to play opposite Bettyihe s \ play, said he was not Grable in “Sweet Rosie O’'Gra dismayed. Neither, apparently, was TR but the producer wanted another.!director Irving Pichel OP (: ili H R i He told the studio: Tl talk toyour, patween them and a cast “,).“ A ellmg P”(es Eand They met at lunch—the producer and the actor he didn’t want. ng talent, they have turned out | l H tures,” he producer began his sell- oo i opon TR ing job, “and I didn’t like them. I ST. LOUIS, March 30. — Fur didn't like your personality. Very Hitler and gang would have buyers had plenty of ready cash objectionable.” |nightmares over this picture, as| for the Government’s auction of That,” said the startled actor, they mu be having over the sealskins, but it took more than might have been the character.” | country whose heroism is detailed money to do business. It took good “Maybe,” said the other coldly. Norway. It says, in the war luck aplenty. ‘Now about this picture. Your |story of one small village, that free- A total of 23,000 skins were of- forte is singing and dancing. Well, in this picture Betty Grable does! all the singing and dancing.” The luncheon didn't last long. The studio’s man was “sold” out of | the role. It goes to Robert Young.| Sometimes Hollywood is a very lovely place Along the awwa VES,” defined Charlie McCarthy, sailors who go down to the sea in slips.” . Red Skelton: “My tires are worn so thin the air is show- ing.” McCarthy to Carmen Miranda: 5 Carmen, where’s that Brazilian hat you usually wear are S0 THS —the one with all the stuff on T SWOW 400 COAN GET @ BEAWTIEN it?” Carmen: “Well, pineapple is T NEVER SEEN VIEW OF THE PANORAME hard to get now.” . . . | S0 MNANY FROM THERE, The OWI wants the movies’ Nazis \IE\-?&Q:\_L?&‘?ES aRD B\RD painted blackest ' black, so actor BORNED DS Kurt Kreuger -died several times for a scene with Humphrey Bogart | in “Scmewhere in Sahara.” After | several rehearsals, Kreuger went; down with his arrogance changing | to whining, desperate pleading and | fear. Zoltan Korda, the director, complimented him: “You died | beautifully. When you closed your eyes, you hadn't a friend in the | ADMISSION ADULTS $L10 SERVICE MEN CHILDREN 55¢ men may be defeated but cannot | BERMLDY * Rotar N W DONT NOB GET & GU\DE 10 TAKE Nou AN G\B8S W\ L\GHTHOWNSE 2 \S 'STRONG CAST " INAPPEALING LOVE STORY Newcomer Joseph Allen,! Jr., Stage Star, Makes | . Debutat 20th Century | | | The manly art ot self defense| | furnishes a theme for the dashing | |20th Century-Fox film, “Right to |the Heart,” playing the last times tonight at the 20th Century Thea- | | starring trim Dblonde Brenda | !Joyce and promising Joseph Allon.“ |Jr., the story deals with a society | playboy who turns to the manly | |art as a last resort and in the; process finds not only himself but | his future—in the person of lovely Brenda Joyce. i The playboy surprises )umwu" with his aptitude along those lines, | and provides the dramatic high- | lights with his unusual reactions | in the situations which pop up. To detail the unusual plot would be to, spoil the enjoyment of the film- but suffice it to say that “Right {to the Heart” proVides enjoyable entertainment. 1 |record of $1,078,000. | About 95 percent went at OPA ceiling prices, and to satisfy buyers, | many of whom submitted ceiling bids, auctioneer Phillip ~ Fouke formed a lottery of luck | Al identical bids were numbered \and placed In a hat, shaken up and ' one was drawn. The bidder whose number was drawn was allowed lo! buy a lot of furs. One buyer lost on 33 draws and was unable to buy a single pelt. | New York fur men had $225,000 to spend, were able to get rid of only $15,000. The furs were part of 95,000 taken | off the Pribiloffs in 1941 The/ Government is releasing the re-| stricted furs in small numbers to conserve the supply. Prices on each pelt ranged from §38 to $56 for black dyed skins, and from $50 to $52 on brown matara -+ QGood News; Army Turns " Back Goods Twelve Miiigfi Cases of Canned Supplies Re- verts fo Civilians WASHINGTON, March 30.—The Army has turned over to the Food | Distribution Administration about | 12,000,000 cases of canned fruits, | juices and vegetables to be released {later to meet the food situations, |the Agriculture Department an-| |nounced this afternoon. ered in yesterday’s semi-annuall The Department also stated that | ternational g a5 i R A c\'mch") (in B T e 1= 7 i Wright, . A TWENTIETN CENTURY.FOX PICTURE. 30 —— MINUTES LATEST NEWS — 30 ‘mmv than 1,000,000 cases of the “turned back” supplies will be re- to augment civilian leased soon supplies. The release of the - o BRITISH IN POSSESSION, GABES BASE New Zealanders Chasing Germans Toward Sfax, Report (Continued >rerr; Page cerned. “The German Panzer divisions in | | particular were remarkably mauled | LISLE F. HEBERT IN and enfeebled,” Churchill ed, adding that a portion of the| Italian 20th and 21st Army Corps were left behind, but that thesize | of the abandoned forces been determined. A British STOCK QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, March 30. quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 5'%, American Can |al Kephart had bayoneted a 8174, Anaconda 29 7/8, Bethlehem |probably the first case of its ki Commonwealth | Southern %, Curtiss Wright 9, In-| Stee! 674, Harvester 69 SMLS 0' FIRE ™ g d £ i Rk canned auction and they went for a near roods is made possible by the ap- Iproach of the new 1943 pack. broadcast recorded in New York this afternoon said Rom- mell will establish new headquar- | ALL NEW SHOW TONIGHT 1 eral Motors 50, Kennecott 34%, New York Central 17%, Northern Pacific 13%, United States Steel 57, Pound $4.04. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: industrials 136.82, rails, 33.88, utilities 18.35. PRICES MONDAY Alaska Juneau mine stock closed Monday at 4%, American Can 80%, Anaconda 29%, Bethlehem Steel 66'c, Commonwealth and Southern 4, Curtiss Wright 9, Internation-* al Harvester 60, General Motors 49%, Kennecott 34%, New York Central 16%, Northern Paclfie 127%, United BStates Steel 56%, Pound $4.04. % Dow, Jones averages Mondayy were as follows: industrials 136.10; rails 33.78, utilities 18. B e- . MRS. T. J. DONOHOE 1S 3 ON WAY TO ANCHORAGE Mrs. T. J. Donohoe, whose hi band is a well known attorney Anchorage, was in Juneau this afs ternoon on her way home from extended stay in the States. 1 o e——— - One) TODAY FROM KETCHI Lisle F. Hebert, merchandise bro< ker, returned tc Juneau today f a business trip to communities i the southern end of the Division, | OWDEER announc- has not | ¥ ters in Eldjem, 40 miles north of COLORADO SPRINGS—The Sfax, toward Sousse night was dark. The soldiers There appears still to be about |crouched with fixed bayonets onim: 40 miles between the Americans, | practice raiding drill in the moups | smashing through towards the taln country west of Colorado coast, and the British. Springs. j 8 . g | 'Suddenly a dark form dashed at the soldiers. Corporal Floyd Kephart lunged out with his bayonet instinctively. And then' when they turned on a flashlight, a fellow soldier 3 ed, the soldiers found that s —Closing | and on hunting or military records. Empire Classifieds Pay! e, Gen-| ByBI T DONT SEE W\ HWAR O v Minstrel 20th CENTURY THEATRE EQUIPMENT TO ISOLATED ARMY CAMPS. Wednesday-Thursday — March 31-April 1 Proceeds to be used in adding NEW BOOKS to the CHILDREN’S SECTION of the PUBLIC LIBRARY and to continue ROTARY'S project of TICKETS NOW ON SALE BY ALL ROTARIANS DE NER N0 PANORAMN JPPLYING RECREATIONAL