The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 28, 1943, Page 3

TONIGHT! GENE AUTRY in nd— STARTS SUNDAY! ® Motner GIN SunG THE CAPITOL HAS FEW FLIGHTS MADE BY ALASKA COASTAL ARE TO BE GIVEN INFANTS flights were made today by Alaska Coastal Airlines planes. Going to Haines this m ing were Margaret Dyer, Vergne L. Hoke, Jane Webb, Mrs. Dan Kelly and Roy O. Dyer. On the return were George W. Falter, Cora M. Houk, Gladys Whelmire, R. E Storhard and Sonia Lowmen. Patrick J. O'Reilly was the only passenger on a flight to Sitka. A plane took off for Skagway with passengers Walter H. Dur- land and Mrs. C. C. Starkey. - .- Few BUY WAR BONDS From the China Seas ...the most hated, hau woman of the Orient... heart filled with hunger and hatred! Suancum GESTURE’ GENE TIERNEY WALTER HUSTON ; VICTOR MATURE i o ONA MUNSON J \ e : RELEASED THRY UNITED ARTISTS MARCH OF TIME “America’s Food Crisis” 5 THE BIG PICTURES! WHOOPING (OUGH SHOTS Whooping cough shots in a series of three doses will be given on Sep- tember 1, 8 and 15, according to an- nouncement. The shots will be given at the Juneau Health Center in the Territorial Building at 10 o'clock in the morning of the afore- mentioned dates. Dr. C. C. Carter, City Health Officer, will administer the doses. Since whooping cough is a disease which is particularly severe in young infants, authorities are anxious that all babies 6 months or over receive | these immunizations before winter. | e Empire Classifieds Pay! HAVE YOU ANY RUMMAGE? GIVE IT WHERE IT WILL DO GOOD? PHONE JUNEAU 238———DOUGLAS 552 SA LE MONDAY — AUGUST 30 —12-3P. M. METHODIST CHURCH “UNDER FIESTA STARS” "SMITH OF MINNESOTA" VICTOR MATURE, ATCAPITOL SHOW Reaching a goal long coveted by Hollywood's leading production com- panies, Producer Arnold Prnssbur-l ger and Director Josef von Stern-| recently completed the film on of John Colton’s famous hit play, “The Shanghai Gesture,” and it is slated for its local premiere at the Capitol Theater on Sunday through United Artists release. “The Shanghai Gesture” has a remarkable stellar cast headed by Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Vic- tor Mature, Ona Mungon, Phyllis Brooks, Albert Basserman, Marie Ouspenskaya, Eric Blore, and a supporting cast of 60 others, There is little to differentiate the movie seript from original play, which at the time it was produced on Broadway by A. H. Woods, ran up a sensational record. The only radi- cal digr on from the play con- cerns a pivotal part written into the script for the super-handsome Mature. In the film version he be- comes a romantic Arab mystic. | Mother Gin Sling, a fascinating, glamorous woman bent on dire |vengeance, is portrayed by Ona |Munson; Gene Tierney plays Pop- |py, & girl who rushes headlong into !disaster; Walter Huston -is the smoothie, Sir Guy Charteris; and !Phyllis Brooks appears as Dixie, |a vivid blonde who doesn't know all |the answers. z berg ver to Singapore nted, hunted because of a . s> HOSPITAL NOTES Nels Anderson, a medical patient, was discharged from St. Ann's Hos- | pital yesterday. 1 —ALSO— e Wiliam George has been discharg- | ed from St. Ann's after surgical LATEST NEWS P ‘ Martin Dahl left St. Ann’s Hos- pital yesterday after medical treat- | ment. FEATURE SUNDAY STARTS AT 2:45 - 5:15 7:45-10:15 PREVUE TONIGHT! Mrs. Jack Frazier and baby boy | were dismissed from St. Ann’s Hos- pital on Friday. | Gust Lundell, a medical patient,' entered St. Ann’s Hospital yesterday. e | Vernon Tomlin has been admitted | to St. Ann’s Hospital for medical | care, i . - | George Warne was admitted to| the Government Hospital this morn- ing. Movie Ador | Has 1 Face, Lillian and Henry Stevens were discharged from the Government | | Hospital yesterday afternoon and Many Facels - | i 'WAR BOND DANCE BY ROBBIN COONS TH'S EVENlNG AT | | HOLLYWOOD—A lot of actors | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASKA i ‘GENE TIERNEY, -/ s ' THRILL-PACKED STORY AT 20TH CENTURY SUN. Played against a background bomb-wracked London in Septem- ber, 1930, “Confirm or Deny” is a thrill-packed story of a newspaper- man who gives up the scoop of a lifetime for love of a girl. The pic- ture comes to the 20th Century Theatre Sunday Don Ameche is starred as the Yankee news scribe, representing a large American syndicate in Lon- don. Playing opposite him is Joan Bennett in the role of a courageous and lovely English girl whose loyalty to her country surpasses her love for the Yank A top notch supporting cast in- cludes Roddy McDowall, as the plucky English lad who scoops the world; John Loder as the British censor fighting the war's strangest battle 300 feet underground, and a { | host of others including Eric Blore, { Raymond Walburn and Arthur Shields contribute an exciting per- formance. “Confirm or Deny” was directed by Archie Mayo and produced by Len Hammond. The story was writ- ten by Henry Wales, internationally noted foreign correspondent, and Samuel Fuller. It is 20th Century- Fox's salute to America’'s heroes of “frent line” news! D SUPPLY MAN HERE M. J. Klepser, with the Nordby Supply Company here from Se- attle, He is registered at the Bar- anof. ‘CHIN-UP’ GIRL_mary Elliott (above), movie actress, was named by somie American fliers in Sicily as their squad- ron's “chin-up” girl who “keeps up your morale.” - BUY WAR BONDS Passengers to Alaska That is the 1942 record of Pan Amer- ican Airways’ Alaska Service. But every passenger is now priorited bv 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. PAN AMERICAN ALRWALYSY whiskers and project weird charac- 3 ! ters so unlike themselves the studio| The public is invited to aligrin [ gatemen recognize them instantly.|tonight's Bond Ball at the Elks One actor who is seldom accused hall, with dancing from 10 until of versatility is Pat O'Brien. And: ! o'clock. Bob Tew and his orches-' | that's a laugh. I've just been going tra will provide music for the affair. | over some of Pat's work and if you| AR award of a $25 War Bond will| ido the same youll be surprised. |Pe made. | 'The big Irishman has done ev-;— erything. Today you can see him in Trinidad”) or a colonel (“Bom-| | opening doors, carrying trays andvbnrdier."r ) serving liqueurs as Franchot Tone’s| very correct butler in Deanna Dur- | | bin's “His Butler’s Sister.” The first| ! time you saw him on the screen he| was Hildy Johnson, fast-talking, | dynamic, anything but correct n| | “The Front Page.” That was a doz- en years ago, and the interim has | been filled with a long series of One of his favorite roles wa: Rockne, another that of Major, Frank Cavanaugh, famed football coach and fighter, in “The Iron, Major,” recently completed. But | janother he remembers with pleusure" was in “Oil for the Lamps of| !China,” indicating that his football | IN WAR ==, portraits—all different and all O'Brien |fever hasn't everything to do with| 4 ) . |his screen life. | 1“su~re'0'1‘;e' may argue, but he’s| pe “always plays O'Brien,” but— iav‘:';iy.s rien.’ “In my opinion an actor should | ell get no argument from P“;domlnate his role, rather than let |on that. Bgmg O'Brien is his busi- it qominate him,” he argues. If he ness, and it has paid off well. He |foloweq the latter course, he'd al- likes to put Pat O'Brien into dif-|ways pe exactly what the scenarists ferent roles, without assuming an imade him. But by injecting his own | entirely foreign personality. personality into the screen char- acter he can make it as good as he is capable of being. Of course that may not always be tops, but at least he has the satisfaction of knowing “I don’t agree with those who insist an actor should submerge BOND BALL TONIGHT Elks’ Hall BCB TEW'S BAND $25.00 WAR BOND NIGHT ¥ $1.00 .10 $1.10 SERVICE MEN Admission | of himself in his roles,” he says. “If the’s done his best.” PAGE THREE —ENDS TONIGHT— GARY COOPER JOAN LESLIE “SERGEANT YORK" TI0"[ENTURY Where the Better Big Pictures Play ® Starts Sunday e —Prevue Saturday Midnite— WAS ENGLAND INVADED? £ TN CONTINENTS | il HAT WL STA AOVENTURE® ! RY 1 T}T'S TT‘:‘EE SS?REEN WITH MAN'S GREATEST 5 v« DON AMECHE - JOAN BENNET L £ o with RODDY McDOWALL . John Loder - Raymond Walburn Arthur Shields - Eric Blore L D BY LEN NAMMOND « DIRECTED BY ARCHIE MA\ TWENTIETH CENTURY.FOX PICTURE 99 OFFICIAL ARMY PICTURES EXTRAZY & i nour or Romve “DESERT VICTORY” ORGAN PRELUDE 7P.M. LATEST ISSUE FOX NEWS BIG DOIN'S ON STAGE 0 .| They were Alexander Smith, Chris | Starvos, Mrs. C. E. Barkes, Aliene Alson, Walter P. Sharpe, June For- | rest, Pat O'Reilly, and L. Jacobin, - > 8 LEAVE TODAY WITH WOODLEY FOR ANCHORAGE yicTORY GALS The Woodley Airlines plane came in yesterday from Anchorage with the following passengers: Tom Morg J. B: James C. Cooper, CORINTH, Mss.—The C. D. Smith family of Corinth might well be dubbed the “V for Victory” family. All of Smith's 13 children have F. R. Mansfield, W. J. McDonald pames beginning with V—Virgil, and C. E. Johnson . | Virlen, Viola, Vadie, Vina, Virl, Van, This morning the plane took off | Vester, Varnell, Vi Verline, Ver- for the Westward with eight aboard. non, and Vandel. | ) wear KAYSER A fosiony . . . you owe | it to your audlionce!” GENERAL ELECTRIC (0. EDISON MAZDA LAMPS The Standard of Comparison * Alaska Electric Light and Power Company Juneau Phone 616 Douglas Phone 18 | " By BILLY DeBECK V{ W, Jes SOME WUTHLESS oL AMQ\L ORDER CRTALOG" FROM TH' NEWNTED STATES | all actors did that, it wouldn’t make |any difference who was cast for | a particular part. The result would D Posrrs | be just about the same.” | Pat has been priest (in “The | Fighting 69th” and “Angels wlf,h{ lN THIS BANK }Dirty Faces”) and convict (in “The | | | Strange Death of Clara Deane”). ARE | He has been a football coach twice | (in “Knute Rockne” and “The Iron N SU RED | Major”). He has been a doctor I ! (in “Main Street”), an oil company |agent (in “Oil for the Lamps of | China”) and a circus clown (in “Night of Nights.”) | Taxi-driver, detective, | viceman—there’s been jof the armed forces, barring the I’WACS, WAVES, SPARS, etcet- era, whose uniform he hasn't, worn, !whether as a private (“Two Yanks BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH T SWOW ! 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