The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 5, 1943, Page 3

SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1943 STARTS SUNDAY—— TORTILLA FLATS - where the girls are never lonely . .. and the boys are ever bold! Shoncer TRACY 44LA MARR (4,GARFIELD in Victor Fleming’s production of JOHN STEINBECK’S FRANK MORGAN Akim Tamiroff John Qualen Allen Jenkins AN MGM PICTURE P N ENDS TONIGHT ———m ——— CALMOST MARRIED® “IN @LD CALIKF(¢ IA*>° Plata estuary, he has begun issu- surgents MONTEVIDEO, June 5. Dis Drummond has put into Colonia,| Uruguay with ousted Argentinian President Castillo aboard but he HI refused to land. He ‘sent several men ashore to secure food sup- plies, the dispatches state. - > - s endof o GIRLS HOPING Government 10 DEVELOP MAJOR LEAGUE (Continued from Page one) with the rest of the North and South American nations. By DAVE HOFF The arrest of prominent pro-Axis| CHICAGO — Professional girls Nationalists is underway and in- softball, with a $100,000 bankroll cludes the taking into custody of and the brains of two top-notch Manuel Fresco. o | baseball organizations behind it, Deposed President Castillo and hopes after spending this summer his Ministers are aboard the gun-/in an experimental hothouse to blossom forth next year in the na- tion’s big cities—right alongside its & i 3 big brother, major league baseball. When Philip K. Wrigley, the Chicago Cubs’ owner, and Branch | Rickey, the Brooklyn Dodgers’ vice | president and general ~manager, formed the all-American girls’ soft- boat Drummond, from whizh while cruising about the wide Rio de la ball league, they weren’t just do- |ing it to throw away excess cash. | They visualize a day when fans {will jam the big city ball parks to |watch young lady ‘“name” players | perform. Operational Setup This year the all-American girls’ {softball league will operate on a minimum scale, in four smaller |cities in the Chicago area. But the |operational setup is the same that {will be used if their 5 i A e A | couple of major softball leagues and precaution, an increase in |a flock of minors some day comes crashes. One of these may , |true. damage your property | Everything possible is being done d ; B 4 |to keep the girls’ league from re- considerably. | sembling the ‘men’s game. The girls {wm wear three-quarter length | skirts—no slacks, no shorts. Boyish | haircuts are out. And the salaries |being offered are good enough to lassure the finest and fairest of tal- lent. For instance the lowest salary called for in a current contract is $45 a week, more than the average stenographer or factory girl gets, and far above the pay of the aver- age Class D minor league. The best salary is $85 a week, comparing favorably with the pay received by players in the top minor “KEEP ’EM FLYING” means more planes in the air and, in spite of every At very slight cost you can be protected from such loss by extending the coverage of <your fire insurance to include dam- age from falling aircraft. Ask— Shattuck leagues. ABeMECY 5 v e s e girls get all their expenses paid INSURANCE—BONDS while they're on the road | League Signs G JUNEAU | Instead of being under contract to their respective clubs, the girls will be signed by the league which dream of a. "AU ALASKA : THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ISTEINBECK'S | JITTERY. GERMANS BUILD NEW WALL NOVEL MAKES | e wi W GREAT MOVIE i <ot | Spencer Tracy, Hedy la-| { marr Star in "Tortilla i Flat” at Capitol | | Brought to life on one of the| most fascinating settings ever de-| signed for a motion picture, John Steinbeck’s best seller novel, “Tor-| tilla Flat,” filmed by Metro-Gold-| wyn Mayer and starring Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr and John Gar-| | tield, opens tomorrow at the Capitol | | Theatre | Accurately recreated to the last | detail, the set includes a street two blocks long, with the paisano shacks | ;'lm!"x It covered an area {of three The set was built |over a period of six weeks, after set designers and camera crews had JUN | the pines acres (eathered data and materials at Monterey One of the most unusual stories |ever brought to the screen, “Tor- |tilla Flat” deals with the happy-go- | lucky life of the California paisanes | {who live a car existence on { Tortilla Flat . as Pilon, is the leader of a band of paisanos. The youngest and best looking is Danny, played by Garfield. Pilon’s greatest ree |admirer is Pablo, portrayed by Akim Tamiroff They are content until Dolores | (Sweets) Ramirez comes to the flats {and Danny goes to work because he {loves her. Frank Morgan is seen in possible among the four teams. The st games were listed for May 30 with upwards of 100 contests card-| led for each club. Thus this is a full- |time job for each of the players. | There are a few changes made |in the standard softball playing ‘1ules. The pitcher is 40 feet instead of 35 from home plate. There are lonly nine players on each team, v the traditional short fielder .’ ‘("\l:;rl:mulh'd. xnd Sonners may tkEE . end nowsTLIvema. s g : : : proud owner of a different French a leadofl. The pitcher may use a oo ,P'l“]‘"“‘ ,\"‘ facilitate deception In| g\ warq' yeal innovation is in V"l?x‘(“ln\n member cities—Kenosha | (D€, other two operatic. sequences, I_Km(] Raaine Ak WIstahan. S(m[h”;um contrived \\Ill\t)u.I a single |Bend. Ind. and Rockford, Il-.icopyright headache. For one he ; : T e R ok Chopin nocturne, for an- {nave been choson because OF k3% other Teehalkowsky's Folrth. Synls e number of industrial plants ‘tour barrels of an anti-aircraft battery jutting skyward from a iparapet somewhere in the Atlantic Stellung. v | another memorable character from {the book. the Pirate | The film was directed by Victor ¥ il A i o i { Fleming, who directed “Gone With ~ THOUGH FAILURE of the Maginot Line in the ghastly spring of 1940 |the Wind.” proved the fallacy of dependence on rigid fortifications, the invasion frightened Nazis are rushing to completion the Atlantic Wall which ! | ithey hope can block any Allied thrusf at the Atlantic coast of |will distribute the talent at the France. Top photo shows laborers, drafted from conquered territor- {start of the season as equally as les, at work on the new Atlantic Stellung. Lower photo shows the i (Internationaly “We couldn't find the man who |did the translation,” says E “We worked through Lisbon, send- ing letters, cables telegrams, but |never located him. In the end we {found a Frenchman here, who translated directly from the Ger= {phony, both in public domain. T6 [near by. 4 ; i : ; . vood and the ! this music he fitted original libret- _If the attendance is good and the| (o " "ory” there were his ‘mew league shows workability, if “name”| " :‘\llnh.(llwlul;z among ‘[]‘nl f.m,rl:;'! They had everything—fine mu- e B e e Pador|dam’ good tune writer), familiar eague ball flelds, playing at NOMe ' music, but most especially a com- |When the local baseball team 15 OR} a0 a0k of hide-bound tradition | the road, traveling when the major leaguers are home. Wmfifiég iin staging In dickering for established | ope studios have had to an- |swer questions. “How many people |would be on the stage? Who would DAWNA MARIE SHEWELL, 19, |conduct? How many times would &bove, of the Ogden, Utah, Stand- [] | the neva ‘cut away’' from the @rd-Examiner, has been selected , Fllm @F@ oror Woud vou'sier i uise 8 protiest mewepapervaman by | directions in any w " editors in that territory. Miss She- In filming a “Tschaikowsky Well assists with society copy and military page work. Her father, Jack Shewell, is composing room foreman. (International) crusty - i1 a UPSWING_ Not every girl looks exactly like Janet Blair, movie actress, in an upswing coiffure, but on her it certainly looks good. Back hair is swept up to left. At 80V - TH\S SAN Juan- WOTTH LFeE T LOOKS PEADER'®N Q DOOR NO8 | jopera” the camera can take those n rou e {liberties essential to keep the movie istory going, remembering always {that it is a movie theater and not BT i an opera house it is trying to fill ] By ROBBIN COONS | “¢knd" nobody says Edd;’o Ward , HOLLYWOOD — Edward w“"d-y'run criticise the way we stage our {the movie music man, needed a|.Chopin opera’ because we're the {few operas for a picture. He hadifygt to do it—there is no |studio money, but he couldn't buy|precedent to ba observed.” |them. And out of his difficulty is! y |coming something new in screen music. | | 1t is the war that has nompu-gPICNlc AT THANE {cated the screen-operatic situation., |Before the war, Hollywood for a| FOR TOWNSEND”’ES {price could gain permission to in-| %cm'pomw scenes from famous grand ' gL operas into its films. It usually took Weather permitting, members of a deal of negotiations, much legal|the Juneau branch of the Town- research into titles and copyrights,isend Club will picric tomorrow at and Hollywood's consent to treatirhane, with departure scheduled {the opera with full -reverence but for 12 noon from tae Triangle Cor- it could be done. iner. Cars will be present at that Copyrights on the more POPUIAT|¢ime 5 take picnickers to the site, are held today mostly ini.,g win again be on the spot at oFe, »and naly. Even‘when L,he 5:15 pm. to pick up any xrénmvu music itself is in public domam,|Who are not abls -to maks ““ there can be various copyrights,i - il ERE e ear- |stemming from the original which ’ {are jealously guarded—copyrights 3 B T {."2 the hbretto: on' the manner ofl Empire Classifiecs Pay! |staging, the production in general. ot In peacetimes, these can all be {traced, the holders located, and a ceal made. In war, it's another | matter. i | Fascists armies have not been| | squeamish about plundering in oc-, |cupied countries, but there is no, | temptation here to plunder music! |in revenge. Come peace, and in- {fringement suits would pile up just |as if there had been no war. i : i | Eddie Ward, needing operatic se- quences for Nelson Eddy and Su- sanna Foster in “Phantom of the| |Opera,” chose von Flotow’s | “Martha,” a property in public do-| main. But it is written in German,| and as the “Phantom” setting is in the Paris opera house, the French translation was necessary.| This translation was copyrighted.! Fried Chicken SERVED ANY TIME Broiled Steak and DINE AND DANCE ac. Prettiest Newsgirl? BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH OONT 8E S0 \GNORANT, SNIEFY - TS 1S T Tive TO S\eSTa ~ NEW MYSTERY - ADVENTURE AT 20TH CENTURY Michael Shayne Comes Here in "'The Man Who Wouldn't Die” A new mystery adventure with that ace of private detectives Michael Shayne, is due at the 20th Century Theatre Sunday, when The Man Who Wouldn't Die opens This new 20th Century-Fox pro- duction stars Lloyd Nolan as the wise-cracking Shayne, in what has Leen called the best of his films The story centers around a “dead man who walks and talks,” mysti- fying everybody except Mike Shayne—he's just scared stiff. But his ready Irish wit and his acute mind produce a solution—but good. Mike (Lloyd Nolan) Shayne is d ent from other movie detec- tives in many respects. He gets con- fused readily, and is often led away from the task at hand by a pair of flashing ankles. Socking the wrong guy is a habit and generally making a mess of things, usually with hilarious results, is the rule But like all good detectives, he al- ways his man—and provides topnotch entertainment. Marjorie Weaver, who is fast be- coming a favorite, is said to add a fine comedy and romantic touch to the film in her role of a dizzy young heiress, and supporting play- | er: Helene Reynolds and Henr Wilcoxon,. according to advahce re- ports are excellent D - DOUGLAS NEWS SCHOOL BOARD HAS O VACANCY TO BE FILLED The receipt of close to $800 in extra anticipated revenue for Doug- las Public Schools gave special in- gets terest to the regular meeting of the School Board which was held Thursday evening. Supt. Eleanov Warren turned in $121.25 made up by 25 received for tuition of two out-of-town students, $21 for work books and $15 for use of the gym-! nasium. Reimbursement from the Territory for 21 highway pupils at- tending school here during the term in amount of $558.41. Receipt of $50 from the Douglas Island Woman’s Club as donation toward a set of encyclopedias was acknowledged Due to the resignation of Ernst| Oberg as seventh and eighth grade | teacher on account of his induc- tion into the Army, applications for that position are being sought | and his successor will also be shop| instructor, Consideration was given th 5 given the mat- | | | also for next term. Parents having pu- pils in prospect for the elementary grade, qualification as to age a child must become five years old by next February 1. Such par- ents should see Miss Warren as| early as possible so plans can be| made. i Plans were made for general| repairs to building, floors, walls windows, stops, leaks,” etc., were!' made. TO PELICAN | Arvo Wahto left during the week | for Pelican City where he wilil {work during the summer. His wife |and child who are visiting with her parents in the States will return! | shortly to join him at the cold | storage metropolis. | | | i | | l NOTICE TO PAY SCHOOL TAX‘ Notice is hereby given to all per- sons within the City of Douglas| who are liable for the payment of school tax as required by Chapter| 38 of the Territorial laws: that the | tax is now due and payable to L. W. KILBURN, .+ School Tax Collector. YOUR BROKEN LENSES Replaced in our own shop. Eyes | Examined. Dr. Rae Lillian Carlson. Blomgren Bldg. Phone 636. adv. R - BUY WAR BONDS THE DOUGLAS INN * OPEN UNTIL MIDNIGHT | Hotel ter of a kindergarten department|Skagway, PAGE THREE : Mg TOMBSTONE — The TONIGHT Town Too Tough fo Die” b tuy STARTS 0wl Show Tonight 12:30 a.m. SUNDAY Matinee Sunday . . 2:00 p.m. (U Aamn OMETHING NEWIN CHILLS! MIKE SHAYNE v{lEETS S ¥ L q it ot M.ARJORIE WEAVER Mis o« g "y Wilcoxpn A 20h Contury. py i Richard gy, and SHORT SUBJECTS “Men of the Sky*°® ———In Technicolor—— ““The Storki’s Mistake® ——Cartoon—— L) “Indian Temples* ——Scenic. 20-MINUTES LATEST WORLD NEWS-20 A. D. WRIGHT HERE and is at the Gastineau Hotel. # A. D. Wright, with the Icy Straits z B L Salmon Company, came in from Hoonah and is at the Baranof OLD-AGE ROMANCE DURHAM, England. —“You're & e - very bold man,’ commented Mr. IN FROM SKAGWA Justice Hallet when he granted 72- Louis Rapuzzi, Deputy Marshal at | year-old Henry Neil a divorce - arrived here yesterday' Neil wants to re-marry. Passengers to Alaska That is the 1942 record of Pan Amer- ican Airways’ Alaska Service. But every passenger is now priorited by the Armed Forces, selected for his importance to the war effort. When Victory is won, we will pio- neer new standards of service for our friends in Alaska. LPAN AMERICANV NI 1) S By BILLY DeBECK NOW, DONT | /"1 SWoW Y SPRWNKLE TRET | JE TOOK CORN A8BoWT. Q' \NORDS Y WAS ESTHER RUGHT 0UWT'N GoT @ . G\RL FR\ENDJ ectric Hammond Organ Music DINE AND DANCE