The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 23, 1944, Page 3

| THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1944 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE- JUNEAU, ALASKA - COMEDY MUSICAL CAPITOL SCREEN Go to the Capitol Theatre if you want to see the smartest, merriest and funniest musical picture of the season It's Columbia’s “What's Buzzin' Cousin?,” with such a bright array of talent and such a tuneful lot of swingy music, that you'll for~ get all the troubles you have or think you have. It's a gay plot that houses the 'antics of that dusky zany, Roches- ter, the pert beauty and tip-top dancing of Ann Miller, and the tor- rid rhythms of Freddy Martin and |his orchestra. Along with these stars doing their specialties in a very special way, they act, and right well, in a story that is original and | clever. \ At the beginning of the picture |we find Freddy Martin and his boys, |assisted by thefr handy man, Ro- MILLER { Rochester ~John Hubbord PROGRAM | THURSDAY, March 23, 9:00 p. | m.—Regular Thursday night dnnce‘ |in USO. i | FRIDAY, March 24, 7:00 p. m.—| | Meeting of Servicemen’s Council in| USO; 7:00 p. m~—Roller skating| | party (leave USO at 7:00); JUNEAU'S Inferesting Items for Everybody USO NEWS an ever-better club for the Service- men. Congratulations are due to 4ll concerned! MEMORIES: MARCH, 1943— MARCH, 1944 Hardly a day goes by without our 7:30 p. getting at least one or two letters, ventures stands out conspicuously but rather by steady succession of thoughtful acts as to make them a| matter of course in the Club’s life| ® ® ® and the stories told by Dr. ! S ) g Robert Simpson of his early days| in the Territory, good stories made better by the sense of humor and the sense of the dramatic possessed | by that genial host * * * and the| comradeship of Soldier Bob Porter- ‘fleld. important. figure in the Am- erican theatre, but more import- jant to all of us as a really rare friend, giving us the Forum Club levening most to be cherished in memory when he recounted his ad- on the stage * * * and 50 a m.—Movies in USO lobby; 9:15 p.! from fellows who have enjoyed the|the hospitality of Betty Nordling |m.—Game party. | Club, have moved on, and want us and her mother that night, cre- "BLACK SWAN" IS ATTRACTION | AT 207H CENTURY. For entertainment at its zenith, be sure to visit the 20th Century Theatre, where 20th Century-Fox is presenting Rafael Sabatini’s “The Black Swan.” This Technicolor ad- venture triumph, starring Tyrone Power and Maureen O'Hara, is far and away the most outstanding film of its type the screen has seen this or any other season. | ‘Tyrone is In a role that is hand- tailored for him. As Pirate Cap- SATURDAY, March 25, 8:30 p./to know how pleasantly they hold | ating in their home an ideal setting tain “Jamey” Waring, he gets every 'm.—Movies in USO lobby; 10:15 p. m.—Dance in USO. SUNDAY, March 26, 1:30 p. m— (or later at convenience of service- men)—Trip to Mendenhall Glacier; |5:00 p. m.—Coffee and cookies, with /music; 9:30 p. m.—Vesper service in USO; 10:00 p. m. — Smgmg} around piano. | it in memory. Most of these letters come from men who were stationed }for that Qenju_\ ment nearly perfect evening's * and the friend-| opportunity to display those quali- tles that have kept him at the top in this area for many weeks; but| liness of u single girl who repre- of the heap for the last five years. some of them were written by fel-}sented a whole townful of girls,|Paired with him in the romance lows, who although in town for oniy a few hours, seem to have been deeply touched by some act of hos- pitality (usually by one or another of the girls) that might have pass- chester, stranded in a ghost town| \ONDAY, March 27, 8:00 p. m.|ed unnoticed by a casual observer. when they run out of gas. Next Imorning we see four lovely ladies, headed by Ann Miller, coming to —Forum Club meeting at prwm.ef home; 8:30 p. m—Movies in USO lobby. | TUESDAY, March 28, 8:30 p. m.| |—Quiz contest, (broadcast over It has been just a year, plus a couple of days, since the writer of this column walked into the club- house for the first time. So we've been acquiring many memories for lage reduces them to tears bUl gINy). 9:30 p. m. — Customary our personal collection for the years everybody, ln.cludlng the boys, stays claim the property Ann had inher- ‘and tries to put the town on its feet. ited. The sight of the deserted vil- Tuesday night games in USO. | WEDNESDAY, March 29, 7:15 P to come. A number of them, among the most delightful, are trivial A gold rush. brought on when|,, wovies in USO lobby; 8:30 p. measured by objective standards. ;Rochesm- finds a nugget in his vic- (tory garden, brings on a boom. The |picture, as well as the town, steps iup to a dizzy pace, then. A few |ccmplications set in but they are |ironed out in merry fashion. | LA o 1NOTICE OF HEARING ON FINAL | REPORT OF EXECUTRIX {In the Commissioner's Court for the ‘Territory of Alaska, Division Num- | ber One. | Before FELIX GRAY, Commission- er and ex-officio Probate Judge, ‘ Juneau Precinct. {In the Matter of the Last Will and Testament and of the Estate of HARRY EDWARD BROWN, de- ceased. | NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that | Mrs. Alice Brown, Executrix of the ‘cs!atc of Harry Edward Brown, the above named deceased, has filed her |Final Report herein and that a —AND—— Richuri Lane &® llnlmo:.l:' Irene Hervey - W, §argnn Preview Tonight Show Place of Juneau ONE CANDIDATE INITIATED, ELKS m.—Card party on second floor of | Club; 9:00 p. m. — Old fashioned dances in USO lobby. COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT ELECTIONS It has been with great pleasure that our Club staff learned of the results of the election of the new members of the Committee of Man- agement which took place on Fri- day. We are comparative newcom- | ers to Juneau oursclves, so we rec- ognize our need for as much help as possible from men of the com- munity who are well established | here. For this reason we are de-! |lighted with the selection of Frank | Boyle, Jack Burford, James C.| Cooper, Jack Fletcher, Perry Hill-' No happy memories acquired in war time, however, are insignificant to the men who possess them. We vénture ‘to list a few of our mem- cries today, not because they are ours but because the recording of came or quite similar fond recollec- tions for many another man who will remember that once upon a time during World War II a kind Fate brought him to Juneau A poem entitled “To a Graduat- ing Class,, begins— “What will you remember of these happy days? Memory returns ways: *© And so, if and when we “grad- uate” from this war, some of us to you in little when Jeanne Winther stood all by herself on the dock for an hour one| Saturday afternoon in July and gave USO cigarettes and ice cream (to some 300 young Seabees, mostly | homesick boys from the East coast headed for the Aleutians, not al-! |lowed to leave the ship and realiz- | {ing that this was probably the last |girl they'd be talking to for many! {a long month * * * and the sight of a member of the Ketchikan| Coast Guard boxing team, slender- | {ly-built Ervin Cape, in the ring at the local ball park last summer, so jrugged and skillful a competitor land so outstanding among all those fighters as to make one wonder if| iperhaps we were watching a lad |who would some day become a na-| itiouul champion * * * and the en- | {them here is likely to stir up thethusiasm with which the First Mo- "llon Picture Unit soldiers, from the moment of their arrival at the Club last fall, tock our Alida Matheson |to their collective hearts (and kept | her there, too, for the many weeks 1ot ** *and the ex- |traordinary zest with which every- Ibody present, as participants or spectators, enjoyed the USO street Idnncv last July, a truly unique af- fair * and the sound of the 'music of Charley Reichert’s Coast- | guardsmen, playing for the Septem- g & {will be remembering things as little, ber dance in the Scottish Rite eary, Charles E. Naghel . o 5 G. yY()ung f’: . 3‘:&}‘ “:':e "Ol;:‘no more significant (and no less‘Temple, producing music that can who have comprised the Committee significant, if you just happen to be described as nothing less than set very hi rtain tremendous boih in its volume and | hearing will be held thereon before |for the past vear. We regard the/Sth & ‘Or¥ WEh value on certain ‘ . | the undersigned at Juneau, Alaska, At the regular meeting of the ‘A! . Juneau Elks.last night, Major W. B. ?&‘ M“y':r“g‘-i‘““- “; 110 001‘1’;* A. Alexander was given antlers, It was | M. at which time and p e s also announced that Past Exalted [SONs interested in the estate may Ruler Henry Messerschmidt will be | &ppear and file objections in writ- | the installing officer on April 5 when | Ing and contest the Final Report. fficers are placed in their| GIVEN under my hand the seal _,l.:f;i?:w s st a !c( the Prcbate Court at Juneau, Al- i g, | aska, March 22nd, 1944. ! FELIX GRAY, Largest early immigration to this Commissioner and ex-officio country was the Irish, who were! Probate Judge, Juneau Precinct. driven from their homes by potato First publication, March 23, 1944. op faflures. Last pubication, April 13, 1944 * | different ways. I choice of the officers also as a very | happy one, Elmer Friend (Chair- Iman) and Robert Simpson (Vice- | Chairman) and T. A. Dyck (Treas- | urer) having repeatedly evidenced our initial night at the club, our catching sight of the smile of Katie |sentimental things!) than for ex- itS power to stir up the dancers to |ample, the only thing whatever that'® near-fever of enthusiasm, leav-'remark we have recalled frequently | [stands out of the haze surrounding Ing everyone a bit limp though sti) 85 & classic example of understate- | excited when it was all over * * * and the sense of distinct loss to | their keen interest in the we“flmr’l‘orkelson that spelled a rainbow-)the USO with which we learned in |of the servicemen and their loyalty to the USO. At this time we gratefully ac- | knowledge how much help each of ‘us has received in the past from |the retiring officers, Chairman Harry Sperling, and Vice-Chairman Henry Harmon, who have never - i‘been too busy to confer with us and |to be of assistance in numerous Though giving up | their positions as officers they will |continue to serve as members of | the board. LADIES’ CHOICE! On the subject of the choice of leaders, we think the Juneau USO |was exceedingly fortunate in an- other election, too. This one was ! colored “Welcome” to a fellow a long way from home as nothing else and the friendliness of Lila Sinclair and Ardys Stiles at the first of the game parties at a private home, un- counciously and automatically set- ting a standard for charming eom- panionship by GSO girls beyond anything which we (in our ignor- ance as a stranger to Alaska) had imagined at all likely * * * and the thoughtfulness of Don Skuse <one of the busiest men in town, but its servicemen) friendliness evi- denced by no one instance that the summer that two of the local girls, Sylvia Anderson and Doris jcould have done just then * * * Cahill, were leaving for the States 'to be gone an indefinite time, this feeling of loss being acute even though one of them had been in the clubhouse only once or twice and, the other was not yet old enough to join the GSO, but each \glrl in her own way seeming to us | extraordinarily gifted as a potential | friend of our servicemen * * * and |the festive spirit of reunion tnat pervaded the clubhouse one Aug- never t0o busy to help the USO and |ust night when- nearly a hundred Canadian soldiers just off a boat, rushed in to spend a part of a few that is smoothly superimposed over the basic adventure story is creamy complexioned, gorgeously appor- tioned Maureen O'Hara. | This is in addition to the com-! pelling action that dominates the film. - The settings are magnificent, replete with salling vessels whose grace and beauty strikes a respon- sive chord in everyone's heart. There's a terrifically suspenseful— and realistic—duelling sequence be- tween the versatile Power and burly George Sanders; the spectacle of a town being captured by ruthless pirates; and a climactic ship battle that strikes a new high. minutes' leave with a charming girl named Mary McCormack, whom they had met comihg up trom Wrangell some wecks whom they were greatly surprised to find as a USO hostess, but as a matter of fact not much more sur- prised than she herself was, inas- much as she had had no idea unti! three days before that she would be invited to be our hostess and had walked into the clubhouse to begin her work just exactly ten minutes prior to the arrival of her company of Canadlans * * * and hearing the remark made by ‘someone (though the words are vivid in our recollection, the identity of the per- son is not) soon aftey we came to Juneau that “Those Nielsen sisters are two very loyal GSO girls,” a ment, it being a4 fact that one year later we can go on record as stating that we could fill this column full several times over simply by enu- merating occasions within our mem- ory when éither Luise or Emma, or both together, have done something in’ the life of the Juneau USO of sufficlent “significance to make it stand out in memory! ! We note ‘that we've mentioned less than twenty names in Jotting down thesé random recollections. | Obviusly this list is little more than | fragmentary. If space permitted, we could multiply its number over at least twenty times—and even then it would be subject to con- stant addition as other episodes would keep coming to mind. The fact is that as long as servicemen ‘tional GSO Service Bars. " PAGE THREE WHERE THE BETTER BIG PICTURES PLAYI [ZDANTURY Dy i The Hit Show of the Weel!? STIRRING ADVENTURE! FIERY ROMANCE! ROARING PIRATE DATTLES! SABATINI'S MOST ROUSING STORY ;LORIOUSLY BROUGHT TO THE SCREEN IN Tt LING TECHNICOLOR IRIL Tyrone POWER Maureen OCHARA m THE BLACK SWAN . . . . there is no tale more thrilling! Rafael Sabatini's greatest story ofall . . . . Plus— Color Carioon—Arizona in Color LATEST WORLD NEWS get together in the years to come and reminisce of the Alaskan days of 1942-1944 there will be fellows talking still gratefully of those friends and many more and vmdly‘ remembering why they continue to cherish their names in deep grati- tude. BEST SHOWS LOWEST PRICES | MISSIONARY. 8OCIETY MEMORIAL CHURCH I8 | MEETING THIS EVENING ‘The Missionary Soclety of Memorial Church, through its . dent, Mr§. Amy James, announces § meeting will be held at 7:30 o'c!ng tonight in the manse and all mems bers are requested to attend. - Mrs. Ruth Meyers will serve hostess. COMING EVENTS Make a note now of some of the Club's special events during the next several weeks, and don't miss them: Friday, - March 31 — Minnesota state night. (For further detalls, watch thé Empire.) Saturday, April 1—April formal dance at Scottish Rite Temple. Friday, April 7—Award of addi- Saturday, April 22.—Sadle Haw- kins’ Party. | — . . . . . WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. Bureau) —————— | WELLMAN HOLBROOK ¢ BACK FROM WESTWARD Wellman Holbrook, Assistant Re= glonal Forester, returned yesterday by PAA from Anchorage, where he ® was called three weeks ago as a wit« ® ness in a court case. [ L] . . ol ol Temp. Wednesday March 22 Maximum 38; Minimum 24 ® o & 0 0 > 0 0 o -~ s s U S — |held at Tuesday's meeting of the |Girls' Service Organization. i | It has been said, you know, and | | widely recognized that the female |of the species is more deadly than | |the male. Whatever the wcumcy; |of this proposition as a generality, | at least the young ladies of the| {G8O could hardly have been sur- =Basketball Tournament=- CARRY TRAVELERS CHEQUES TONIGHT and FRIDAY War-time travelers and the men and women of ourarmed 878% More . forces always have a feeling of confident assurance when their funds are protected by American Express Travelers Cheques. 5 These Cheques are recognizable everywhere, and ;jou can spend them as you do cash by just countersigning for identification. Further, if your Cheques are lost, stoler or destroyed uncountersigned, American Express will re- fund promptly. Yes, protect l{our money by changing our cash into safe American Express Travelers Checues cfore you leave. American Express Travelers Cheques are blue— the size of a dollar bill—and are issued in denominations of $10, $20, $50 and $100. The cost is % of 1% (75¢ on each $100 purchased), minimum 40¢. Obtainableat banks. 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