The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 10, 1944, Page 3

DIL0T M0, OPENS TONIGHT, CAPITOL SCREEN A dramatic character study of |what makes an American pilot tick Eis presented by employing a flash- |back method against the \timely background of Java under Jap fire| in. M-G-M's “Pilot No. 5, open-| |ing tonight at the Capitol Theatre. | ; Starring Franchot Tone, lovely| |Marsha Hunt and Gene Kelly of |“For Me and My Gal” fame, the | screen unfolds the life story of the Ipilot who has just departed on a |sure suicidal mission against the |enemy. Franchot Tone is the daring ;pilot. The recollections of the men |who knew him point him up as a |brilliant lawyer who becomes in- |volved in fascist politics and loses |his sweetheart, played by Marsha |Hunt. When he realizes his mis- }take. he helps break the grip of the fascists on his state government, although this action wrecks his |career. But when he stands ready |to give his life for the cause of |democracy he again finds a brief /moment of happiness. | Franchot Tone is at his best as |the misguided lover who finally |comes to his senses. Marsha Hunt |is outstanding as the girl who sees |the man she loves change into a |stranger while she is powerless to, |help. Gene Kelly plays a weakling who reforms into a thoroughly lik- |able character and emerges a hero. | > i | TWO 4-H CLUBS ~ ARE FORMED IN . JUNEAU,DOUGLAS fGainneau Channel Chil- dren fo Grow Home Gardens | Two 4-H Clubs have been organ- ized this week in the Gastineau Channel area—one in Juneau and one in Douglas, and Mae Stephen- son, district extension agent from the University of Alaska, has left for Skagway to organize a club there. She will return to Juneau later this week to complete 4-H Club work in this area. Officers elected Monday for the .|Juneau Boys and Girls 4-H Club are: Tom Hughes, president; Eddie Heisel, vice-president; Josephine Hared, secretary; Thomas Horn, treasurer; Dick Keithahn, reporter. Officers elected yesterday for the Douglas 4-H Club are: Mae Cuth- bert, presidnt; Shirley Edwards, vice-president; Patsy Balog, secre- tary; Phyllis Andrews, treasurer; Jimmy Sey, reporter, and the lead- er is Miss Eleanor Warren. The first meeting of the Douglas club is set for tomorrow aftérnon at 4 o'clock. * FRANCHOT TONE MARSHA HUNT GENE KELLY VAN JOHNSON ALAN BAXTER FOR YOUR ADD “BOOMTOWN, D. C.” Washington as it is today! ED ENTERTAINMENT: Color Cartoon “TROTTING KINGS” LATEST NEWS | | THE DAILY ALASKA EM | JACK BENNY AND ANN SHERIDAN IN COMEDY AT 20TH Jack Benny and Ann Sheridan head the cast of the 20th Century Theatre’s new comedy, “George Washington Slept Here,” starting tonight, which the management promises as one of the funniest things on film. from the Broadway success by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, is the tale of a citybred husband whose antique-hunting wife goes Colonial and buys a pile of ruins which is supposed to be a -house where George Washington slept. Jack Benny and Ann Sheridan play the urban couple, Bill and Connie Fuller. From then on, trouble doesn't come in three’s but in six’s ‘and seven's. In the midst of moving {in, a telegram announces the arrival of Connie’s rich uncle, portrayed by Charles Coburn. And to make mat- ters worse, Connie’s young rascal of a nephew is there to make it hot for everybody, including the next door neighbor. Unfortunately, the neighbor is also the banker, and Connie and Bill cannot pay the mortgage. A talented supporting cast in- cludes Percy Kilbride, Hattie Mc- Daniel, Willlam Tracy, Joyce Rey- nolds, and others. DAN AMERICAN DOES WHAT ARMY (AN'T DO ‘When the U. S. Army Engineers, having tried unsuccessfully for weeks to send by surface transpor- tation five tons of plate glass, ur- gently needed in Alaska for control tower windows and long overdue, had turned in desperation to Pan American ‘World Airways in Seat- tle, twenty kid-gloved airline men went to work. Pan American cargo handlers, ably assisted by plane service and line crew men, working under Sec- ‘tor Express and Mail Superintend- ent J. D. Boushall, set to work. It took three and one-half hours to load the first plane with sections of the fragile glass, each measuring seven by eight feet. The remainder Ioi th 10,000-pound shipment was |distributed on two successive flights, requiring one and one-half hours to load aboard each plane, Thanks primarily to careful and secure packing of the shipment be- fore it was delivered to Pan Ameri- can, the glass arrived at its destina- tion in a matter of a few hours, without so much as a surface scratch! ; ——— EMPLOYMENT OFFICE OFFERS POSITIONS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS ol FAIRBANKS CUSTOMS MAN HAS RETIRED " Passing through Juneau todag, George M. Tuttle, for several years Deputy Collector in charge of the Customs office at Fairbanks, is en- |route to Seattle, having retired from 1the Customs Service. He is accom- ‘panied by his wife. Talking over Mr. Tuttle’s duties date more than 86 percent of the Alaska Juneau miners have reported ‘; and more than 65 percent have been | placed on jobs. There is no doubty that when the sawmill shortly re- Everett Freeman's screen story,j | CHARLES COBURN Screen Play by Everett Freeman. 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