The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 30, 1944, Page 3

——LAST TIMES TONIGHT— “THE SON OF DRACULA” “KLONDIKE KATE” 5 TOMORROW! N gives her . ALL on the —PLUS— PLUTO COLOR CARTOON "SWING SHIFT MASIE” STARTS AT CAPITOL Timely as its title and dynamic- ‘ally showing the work of American |women at war, Ann Sothern’s lat- |est adventure as the effervescent |showgirl, Maisie, begins Sunday at ithe Capitol Theatre. ! In “Swing Shift Maisie” the star | deserts | { i | | overalls when she takes a job on| the assembly line of an aircraft factory in a western town. When James Craig, handsome | test pilot, gaes to a night club to | cool off because his boss has block- |ed his enlistment in the air corps by declaring him essential, he ac- | cidentally breaks up a dog act in the floor show. With the result John Qualen, the owner, and | Maisie, his pretty assistant, are out of jobs. Craig manages to get them‘ jobs at the factory and settles down to a romance with Maisie. | All goes well until Masie saves | the life of glamorous Jean Rogers, ;who proceeds to steal Craig right {nose. But when, in an effort to |get Maisie out of the way, she ac- cuses her of sabotage Craig realizes he has made a grave mistake, and | 'all ends happily for the lovers. Last Rites for Famous Evangelist Be Held in Angelus Temple Oct. 9 {Continued from Page One) favors as the jurist’s foes claimed. The judge was cleared by a legis- lative committee. Again there were the tales of her three marriages, her quarrels and reconcilliations with her mother, Mrs. Minnie (“Ma”) Ken- show . business and dons| jout from under her very pretty‘ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASK WITH EVERYTHING AT 201H CENTURY From vaudeville, night clubs and ‘musmal comedy, as well as from ‘Hollywood‘ 20th Century-Fox has ment headliners for their top-notch |musical, “Stormy Weather,” which |opens Sunday at the 20th Century. Scmething new in musicals, |“stormy Weather” has a film-full |of stars combined with a story that lis a cavalcade of rhythm. Boast- |ing the best tunes of all, its pro- !duction numbers are among the |finest ever filmed. “Stormy Weother” is the story of swing on the upbeat * * * from the era of Jjazz, ragtime and blues to the tor- rid, tuneful tempos eof today. | Lena Horne, Bill Robinson and Cab Calloway and his band top the cast of the tune-packed film. The story, which covers the per- Iiod right after the last war up to the present day, sets the stage for the musical numbers by ingenious |use of the flash-back device. Lena Horne, who burst on the |horizon of the show world last year, handles most of the vocaliz- |ing, and she can sing with the best. As for Bill Robinson, there never was a tap dancer who could touch him — and that holds true in “Stormy Weather.” In addition, |Bill proves himself a talented ccmedian by his deft handling of the key role. Cab Calloway, renowned for his |band’s music as well as his own singing, stands out. His capers are aimed at bringing smiles, and his music sets one's toes a-tingling as they play. Other headliners in the cast in- clude Katherine Dunham and her troupe, Fats Waller—whose magic at the keyboards is sensational— and the Nicholas Brothers, masters of the art of terpischore, Ada assembled an array of entertain-' i SUNDAY L NPT D Z g S~ o= = ZOT +DZ=~ZEmTTprD | STARTING }'TSfORfiY WEATHER"! AN NSRS MATINEE BILL ROBINSON CAB CALLOWAY and his Band * win L. KATHERINE DUNHAM and her Troupe FATS WALLER « NICHOLAS BROTHERS ADA BROWN « DOOLEY WILSON (20 It’s Gay --=- I’s Grand ---- It LENTURY & Groovie.’ o L 1 L) S | VA N It's all laughing, singing, and dancing—in this musical hit made for your heart! LENA HORNE } LB=Z =S 20T+ pZO == NZB R +QZ— o Brown and Dooley Wilson. Directed b) L by Frederick LATEST NEWS — TASK FORCE — “TIMBER ATHLETICS" COLISEUM --- Douglas/ | THERE’S ALWAYS i SATURDAY ONLY SUNDAY ONLY A GO0D SHOW KINGS OF BASKETBALL NEWS I Andrew Stone » Produced by William LeBaron ¢ Screen K’:‘:{l nedy, her crusades against New | Jackson and Ted Koehler « Adaptation hyu. 8. York and Paris night life, world | tours and international episodes to keep her in the public ken. Religious Rearing Born on a farm near Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada, October 9, 1890,‘ she was baptized Aimee Elizabeth Kennedy and was reared in a home ! SUNDAY—FEATURE AT— 2:30—4:30—6:30—8:30—10:30 PREVUE TONIGHT SHOWPLALE oF 13 e and finally the case was dropped.‘ World Tours ! The evangelist undertook several world tours. In thespring of 1930 the British Administration of Pal- | estine asked her to leave Jeru-' salem because it was feared that Moslem troubles then going THE FRENCH RETURN HOME CapiT Tt "MORNING THi)UGHI" PROGRAM RESUMING ON KINY BROADCAST Beginning Monday morning, Oc- tober 2, the “Morning Thought” program will be resumed over radio stauion KINY. This program is will sbe presented each week day, except Sunday, at 8:30-8:45'a. m. |ings. She explained in later life | ‘The plan for the coming year is that each clergyman in his turn will take a full week of broadcasts. The aroused her interest and she soon| where religion dominated. School- | ing was obtained by riding horse- back into Ingersoll and it was while she was in high school there that she took the first step that 1]ed her into evangelistic work. She was attracted by a sign ad- 1under the supervision of the Ju- vertising a Pentecostal mission and neau Ministerial Association and against the wishes of her parents| attended one of the revival meet- that she was actuated only by | curiosity, but the proceedings opening week’s broadcasts will be pecame a worker in the mission. presented by the Rev. Herbert Hu—; lerman, the President of the As-| sociation. SMAILY TROPICS CAFE Open 24 Hoursa Day Serving American and Chinese Dishes OPPOSITE JUNEAU COLD STORAGE DINE and DANCE M. ISAACS——Building Contractor REMODELING — REPAIRING CABINET SHOP 270 South Franklin Street. HARRI MACHINE SHOP Plumbing, Heating, Acetylene Welding, Blacksmithing PHONE 799; Res. Black 290 GIFTS OIL BURNERS Phone 319 CORY COFFEE MAKERS Table Lamps Asbestos Electric Range TOP MATS For General Electric, Mixmaster and Hamilton Beach Models Alaska Electric Light and Power Company JUNEAU Phone No. 616 Broiled Steak and BOWLS DOUGLAS jdren she met Robert Semple, a tall, |her radio station, Married At 19 At the bedside of two sick chil- fair-haired Irish preacher. They were married when she was 19 years old. Through the states of the middle and far west and finally to China, they traveled as missionaries. In the Orient, both fell ill of an epi- demic, Semple died and shortly thereafter a daughter, Roberta Semple, was born to his widow. She returned to the United States {with her baby, continued her evan- gelistic work and, in the south, met and married Harold McPher- son, a grocery clerk. To them was {born a son, Rolf McPherson. This marriage ended in a divorce. Her first visit to Los Angeles was in 1917. Five years later she and her mother had collected more than $500,000 to erect Angelus Temple. There “Sister Aimee,” as she became known, rose to the heights as expounder of her “four- square gospel.” Kidnaped The first big sensation of her career came in the night of May 18, 1926. Clad in a green bathing suit, she walked into the breakers at Ocean Park, and was not seen to reappear. Searchlights glared across the waters all night and thousands of her followers pa- trolled the beach for weeks, pray- ing for her safety. A week after the disappearance, a reward of $25,000 was offered for news of her. This offer was with- drawn June 12 and on June 23 she stumbled into a border settle- ment near Douglas, Arizona, say- ing she had escaped from kidnapers who had been holding her in old Mexico. There were stories that she had been seen in a vine-covered cot- tage at Carmel-By-The-Sea with Kenneth G. Ormiston, operator of disappeared. Hundreds flocked to the spot and some claimed to have glimpsed ‘the couple, but there never was definite verification. The story of the evangelist was that she was lured from the ocean by two nondescript persons, “Rosie” and “Steve,” on pretense that they needed help. She said they im- prisoned her in an automobile and drove her hundreds of miles away to a shack in the Mexican desert. Phone No. 18 Grand Jury and Court investi- gations failed to shake this story |broke. For weeks she was locked jand upon her return she married who also had | | gelism. In November of that year she! |figured in another official episode ! when she was refused permission | to land in Balboa because she had traveled from Port Limon, Costa Rica, under the alias of “Betty Adams, British governess” and could not produce a British pass- port to go with that cognomen. | IShe had to return to Costa Rica,| where she suffered a nervous {breakdown requiring medical at- | tention. ® | The vigorous pursuit of life be- | gan to wear and in 1931 her health | in a seaside cottage near Los An- | geles. In hope of regaining her| heaith, she again toured the world | David Hutton, a plump, good- na-| tured choir singer. | Breach Of Promise They went to Central America on a honeymoon and she contracted | a tropical illness which nearly cost | her life. Then Hutton was sued for breach of promise by a nurse, Myrtle St. Pierre, who claimed he Jilted her for the evangelist, and won a $5,000 judgement. When “Sister Aimee” hedrd of | the verdict, still weak from the illness, she fell in a faint and suf- fered a brain concussion. Far some time her doctors were frankly per- turbed over the probable outcome. After weeks of illness, she slipped away and finally was discovered on & world tour boat bound for China with her daughter, Roberta. On this trip, the daughter fell in love with the purser, Willlam Smyth, and the young people were mar- | ried in the temple by the evan- gelist upon their return from the world tour, About this time, romance spread rapidly in the evangelist’s family. Her son married Lorna Dee Smith, a student in the Temple Bible school, and her mother married Guy Edward Hudson after a troublesome romance in which he | was threatened with bigamy charges, later smoothed over by a divorce from another wife in might be aggravated by her evan-' ""TRUCK BUSTER'' “WATCH ON RHINE" Women Viar Workers Present Problems in Making Postwar Plans (Continued from Page One) wer policing and rehabilitation probably will keep millions abroad far into 1945 and others will be poured into the war in the Pacific. Even with the end of the global war, demobilization plans call for a long, slow mustering-out process. If, however, great distuptions arise in employment, it 1is true that women workers may find themselves faced with-greater dif- fictilties than men. In such an event, the priorities provided by law for veterans and the seniority system used by most employers and unions in laying off surplus labor would militate against them. 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