The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 20, 1944, Page 3

- LAST TIMES TONIGHT! “Buckskin Frontier” | | with i CAPITOL RAILROAD EPIC ENDS TONIGHT AT CAPITOL How a mgtion picture producer can make a film -about the late |1860's and still put in modern touches is illustrated by Harry 'Sherman whose “Buckskin Fron- jtier,” starring Richard Dix, is being !shown for the last time tonight at| the Capitol. | The film tells about the strug- gles of the early railroad men with |the pioneers. Today newspaper {headlines tell about the sabotage of | enemy agents here. In accordance with current news, incorporated into the script, meth- |ods of sabotage used in the last Richard Dix—Jane Wyatt 2 SWELL FEATURES! IT'S WACKY! IT’S DAFFY! IT'S WARTIME WASHINGTON! | sHE'LL MAKE lcentury by the angry wagon- F?';KENNB:-:EG 'freighters who wanted the rail-| e lom |roads stopped. “And,” he claims, |“there is a similarity between the ifist fights, thievery of essential ma- terials, and track destructions of |that period and present day sabo- | tage.” e e f DOUGLAS Juneau Local of International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America WILL HOLD SPECIAL MEETING at the A.F. of L. Hall—-TONITE at 8:00 o’Clock NEWS ON 30-DAY FURLOUGH Sergeant Hjelmar Savviko arriv- ed at his home on Fuesday evening and intends to spend a 30-day fur- lough granted him. He has been in the Army Transport Service for more than two years and is first mate on a vessel of which his brother is captain. SCHOOL PLAY MAY 5 “Rumpel-stilts-kin,” grade school operetta by Alfred Scott-Gatty, is to be presented May 5 by the Douglas i School. Music of the production is | being directed by Mrs. Eugene Nel- | son. Each member of the grade school faculty is assisting with some 2 phase of the production. Cast for Joe Green DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOUR-YEAR TERM for SENATOR Primary Election April 25, 1944 (Paid Advertisement) the play follows: . Rumpelstiltskin, Herbert Bonnett; Old King Cole, Benny Havdahl Jan, an ambitious miller, Billy | Logan; Janette, wife of the miller, | Janet Jensen; Sophie, daughter of | the miller, Louise Grant; Goldstick, | king’s aide, John Jensen; Page, Dicky Anderson. FIRE DEPARTMENT DANCE Saturday night, April 22, the | Douglas Fire Department will glve’ ,another .of their annual dances which have always proved one of . the biggest and best attended oc- | Jcnsions on the Channel . The dance | ywill be held in the Douglas Na- | {tatorium with Bob Tew’s Orchestra ! | providing the rhythm for the eve- | |ning. The hall has been put in| {first class condition and will be | { heated with the new unit only re- | { cently installed. A live wire com- | | mittee composed of Arne Shudshift, | | Thomas Cashen and Earl Miller are | |in charge of the dance and will be | | assisted during the evening by other | fmembers of the department. |ing firemen, especially those of the | Juneau Fire Department, will be | Dry (leanind Brings Back Lost Beauly TRIANGLE CLEANERS | most cordially received and their | badge will be the admission. This | annual event is the only funhd-rais- Visit- | SO0 - SEND CLOTHES BACK GOOD AS NEW ing event sponsored by the depars- |ment and all contributions towsdrd ciated. SCHOOL BUDGET UP Mrs. E. E. Engstrom, Clerk of the Douglas School Board, announced | | JUNEAU'S USO NEWS Interesting ltems for Everybody PROGRAM THURSDAY, April 20, 9:00 pm.— Regular Thursday night dance in USO. FRIDAY, April 21, T7:00. pm, — Meeting of Servicemen’s Council in USO; 7:00 p.m.—Roller skating party at A. B. Hall (leaving USO at 7 o'clock); 7:30 p.n.—Movies in USO lobby; 9:30 p.m.—Game and Candy Making Party. Sadie Hawkins Party at USO. (Note: Servicemen are asked to wear fatigue clothes). SUNDAY, April 23, 1:30 p.m. (or later at convenience of service- men)—Trip to Mendenhall Gla- cier; 5:00 p.m.—Coffee and cook- ies, with music; 9:30 p.m.—Ves- per Service in USO lobby; 10:00 p.m.—Singing around piano. | | MONDAY, April 24, 8:00 p.m. For- um Club meeting at private home; 8:30 p.m.—Movies in USO lobby. TUESDAY, April 25, 8:30 pm— Quiz Contest, broadcast over KINY (Minnesota All-Stars ver- sus The Quizmasters); 9:30 p.m.— Customary Tuesday night games in USO. 3 WEDNESDAY, April 26, 7:15 p.m.— Movies in USO; 7:30 p.m.—Ads journed meeting of Patronesses; 8:30 p.m—Card party on second floor of Club; 9:00 p.m—Old fa- shioned dances in USO lobby. SADIE HAWKINS PARTY Gingham dresses and pigtails’ for the girls and fatigue clothes for the servicemen will be the uniform- of-the-day for this Saturday night at the USO. The occasion is the big Sadie Hawkins Party and Barn Dance that the Girls Service Or- ganization is giving all the fellows. We're not at liberty to tell you everything that is planned. There are some surprises—but the biggest surprise by far would be for the party to be anything less than a grand success. Really, though, its success is assured, for (this is Leap Year, you know) the girls are spon- soring the whole affair in tradition- al Sadie Hawkins style, with home- made cakes and cookies, clever de- corations, games, dancing and spec- ial entertainment features. Saturday night from 9:15 a big time is guaranteed all you service- men. Come and enjoy it. A WELL-DESERVED BOUQUET It's very nice (we assume) to have a bouquet of flowers beside your tombgfone. It's much nicer (we're sure) to receive the bouquet while your eyesight is good and you are in a condition to enjoy it in per- Anyway, today we are picking (verbally speaking) the very nicest | flowers obtainable and are present- ing the corsage ‘to someone who doubtless will be embarassed to see her name in print here. For Mar- garet Femmer is as modest as she with her many friends. Because she is the oytstanding girl in the Senior Class at High TUESDAY NIGHT GRUDGE FIGHT | It's going to be a knock-down-| drag-out affair, with no holds| barred and no quarter asked ori |given, at the USO Quiz Contest| next Tuesday night when the Min-| 720" CENTURY NOW PLAYING nesota GI All-Stars meet The| | Quizmasters. The affair will be s | broadeast over KINY at 8:30 JAMES CAGNE Y “the J-Bird,” the school newspnper,‘o.dmkv | and of “The Totem,” the school| ! annual. She also is one of the four| Intellectually speaking, it o e girls in the High School honored by membership in the J-Club. Fur- thermore she is by far the most distinguished student in the class, and one of its best musicians. Despite these and her other many school responsibilities, Margaret manages to be a constantly-helpful Sherman had|SATURDAY, April 22, 9:15 pm.— member of our Girls’ Service Or- ganization, Recently she was paid the compliment of being elected to its ceuncil. Perhaps by this time you've guess- ed that we have a pretty high opinion of this capable and at- tractive young lady? If that's your impression, it is absolutely accur- ate TOP-NOTCH ENTERTAINMENT The advance dope was that “The Frosty Follies of 1944” was a first- class show. Actually, however, the entertainment presented on Monday night by the combination of the four girls from USO-Camp Shows and the ten GI's was even better than we had any reason to expect. | There can be no doubt about the hit made by them with that over- flow crowd. It seems to have been unanimously agreed that the “Fol- lies” was exceedingly fast-moving, cleverly-written and well presented, a variety shcw with several excel- lent voices and with sketches put over with comedy skill far above the average. The individual talents .of the girls and the servicemen cer- tainly had been molded into an effective unit. The arrival of the troup marked the welcome return of an old friend of the local USO, in the person of Soldier Hank George, from Steu- benville, Ohiv. Anyone who listened in on the broadcast of the first Skagway-Juneau USO Quiz Contest last fall will remember the delight- fully witty job done by Hank as quiz-master that night. Since Mon- day he is being remembered by .everyone in the large audience as the partner of that clinging, loose- Jjeinted “dancer” whose antics were s0 enthusiasticaily applauded! | A number of the members of the cast stayed in our dormitory while |they were in town; and they proved ,m be popular companions and ex- |eellent entertainers at several USO Jam sessions and song fests. Out- standing for his playing of the piano on these occasions was Ted Peltych, from Chicago, who ‘cer- tainly knows how to handle that ‘keyboard. As pleasing as it is to have pro= |fessional civilian entertainers jn the person of the usual USO-Camp Show' Troupers (and there can be no question about their ability as entertainers), it has seemed inev- itable that there would be even more in the way of morale-building if a lieved in advance that it would Je a fine idea to try such a combina- tion show as this one. Certainly | fisticuffs, anything from the use of |down the gauntlet to the Messrs | Hilleary, lmaster of ceremonies for this con- ‘t,est is Signalcorpsman Chuck (As- | A-Quizmaster-He’s-Got-The | position-Of-A-Drill-Sergeant) Hues- | iMr. Hilleary above recorded had its | {lieved, lowered the ashtray—only “anything goes” at Tuesday's vocal old-fashioned brass knuckles to a post graduate course in 1944 com-| mando tactics, both inclusive. Each | team has won a close contest from the other since the All-Stars threw | McGowan and Gordon. (In case you tuned in too late, it was two weeks ago that the GI's suddenly challenged these three| peaceable citizens to a contest,| taunting them for smugly hiding in| safety behind the sheets on which | all the quiz answers yere written.| Their challenge promptly accepted, | for this impertinence the boys lmd{ their so-called all-star ears pinned| Iback the first night;* but Tuesday | jof this week The Quizmasters n; turn suffered a humiliating defeat. | Hence next week's battle ought to be REALLY SOMETHING!) | We'd be inclined to designate this | GI team, with its vast IQ bulk,| the “Minnesota Mastodons,” but we' understand that the mastodon is extinct even in that remarkable| State, and these fellows proved| themselves anything but extinct on Tuesday. Their outfit consists of Leslie (The Blonde Brain) Swan-| son, Ralph (He's-From-More-Head, | Minnesota) Erickson, and Lou! (World - Almanac-And-Encyclopa- | dia-In-One-Volume) Heusser. Their battle-toughened opponents, the! erstwhile quizmagters are Captain' (In-The-Quiz-Team - Sense-But-In| ~The - GI - 'Sense - He's - A-Pfc.) McGowan, Perry (Smoke-Gets-In- His - Eyes-Not-Infrequently) Hill- eary, and Zach (Philadelphia-Law- | yer-On-The-Loose) Gordon. The - Dis- tis, under normal conditions a very well-liked GI from Seattle. | ‘The rather extraordinary alias of origin in an incident which will not soon ,be forgotten by the | Messrs. McGowan and Gordon. At a crucial moment Perry was asked to indentify the piano number that 1s one of Jerome Kern's best known compositions; his shocked team- mates were aghast when he hesi- tated, puzzled. Whereupon, in the interests of group loyalty his pals’ practically choked him with a smoking tray of cigarette ashes| thrust into his face. Breathing deeply and thoughtfully for several seconds, Perry suddenly said, “Oh, yes, sure!” and his teammates, re- to note with dismay that Perry' kept peering down into the smol- | BRENDA MARSHALL . ALAN HALE m “CAPTAINS of the CLOUDS” Filmed in Living Technicolor PLUS LATEST WORLD NEWS OWL SHOW TONIGHT — 12:30 A.M. "Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour” ten precious seconds, seemingly in- tent upon identifying the brand of | cigarette or the embers for their possible lyrical significance. Then, while George and Zach prepared to abandon all hope, in a voice re- vealing a continuing state of great uncertainty, Perry hazarded a tim- id guess that there was at least a| possibility, .if not a probability,! that perhaps the name might be! “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes." Don't forget folks: It's next Tues- | Mighty Mentalities look like in the day night at 8:30 over KINY. if|flesh, you'll be welcome to come to any of you potential listeners-in|the USO that night and see for would prefer to see what these yourself. CouZEu] | BEST SHOWS LOWEST PRICES ik Announcementg TO MY FRIENDS AND PATRONS: g 1t is with regret that I must announce having to leave Juneau and my friends and patrons here, but domestic conditions make ity necessary. After May 1st, I shall be located with my husband in the Com- mercial Building in Ketchikan, Alaska. We shall be happy to have you call and say “hello” and chat awhile wkenever you happen to pass thru Ketchikan. For the time being I hope to make periodic trips to Juneau. I wish to thank you all for your patronage and good will during the eight years of my residence here. Sincerely and Cordially, DR. RAE LILLIAN CARLSON. P. O. address after May 1st—Box 468, Ketchikan, Alaska show were to be presented by and| {its success will be greatly appre-|is charming. Perhaps that is one of | with the GI's themselves, in asso- the reasons why she is so popular |ciation with some girls. So we be- this morning that a special meeting will be held next Wednesday eve- !8chool she will receive a lot of |the results achieved by “The Frosty praise around commencement-time; | Follies” have more than justified ning to prepare the budget for the Phone 1944-45 school year. | ‘The regular meeting of the board was held last night at the school. An application ‘was received from {Georxe Lempke, of Saline, Michi- 1 gan, to teach science and math. o — DESSERT CARD PARTY Friday night in Parish Hall at |7:30. Bridge, whist and pinochle. Awards. adv. 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