The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 13, 1945, Page 5

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1945 HIT SHOW GIANT ; ENDS TONIGHET? G0000000000000000000000000000000080020000000000 “The Falcon “MyGal in Mexico® :LovesWusic® ON AT ON AT 8:20 — 10:45 1ol The Gay...Glamorous. .. Exciting Days (and nights) of SHOW BUSINESS! daving ONALD 0'CONNO with PEGGY RYAN JACK OAKIE ANN BLYTH s ROSEMARY DEC —~SUNDAY — FEATURE AT 2:30—1:30—6:30 8:35—10:: E-X-T-IR-A!! THE NEW MARCH OF TIME “The WEST COAST QUESTION” "MERRY MONAHANS'| 15 MUSICAL FEATURE OPENING AT CAPITOL with a as A musical extravaganza {heart-tugging story is promised the next offering at the Capitol on Sunday when Universal's “The Merry Monahans,” starring Donald O'Con- nor, Pe Ryan, Jack Oakie and Ann Blyth makes its local bow. | In spite of the impressive fact that The Merry Monahans” boasts twen- | both old and new, report | has it that they are incidental to the very human story of the Monahans, ' , plucky vaudeville family Wwho laughed, sang and danced its way to the top ofethe show world heap. The story tells of Oakie’s love iox'; bis vaudeville partner, Rosemary De Camp, whom he is all set to marry when an unscrupulous chorus girl Isael Jewell, snaps him up and somehow becomes his wife, instead. They have two children. But Isabel, when they are still very young, walks out on them and Oakie, leaving him | to bring them up as best he can. The children—Donald O'Connor .and Peggy Ryan—together with Oak-| \ie, become “The Merry Monahans,” a! song-and-dance trio determined to break into the big time. What hap-| pens when they meet Rosemary Dej| Camp and her lovi young daugh- ter, Ann Blyth, is said to raise “The Merry Monaha head and should- | ers above the average movie story. | The five songs written espacially for the picture by Don George and Irving Bibo are “Lovely,” “Beautiful to Look At,” “We're Havin’ a Won- derful Time.” “Stop Foolin’,” and “Impersonations.” D On Trade Survey | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA SCHOOL'S OUT—A group of students leave for the day at Barber’s Point University, situated at Barber's Point Naval Air Station near Pearl Harbor. Classes started after V-J Day, in order to prepare the students for civilian life. NIP WOMEN GIVENRIGHT CAST VOTES (Continued from Page One) efforts would strengthen the power of the Diet withoui mar- kedly decreasing the position of the emperor or altering his cur- rent status under the constitution his These sources quoted Konoye as saying that Hirohito has been “seriously considering” the possi- bility of abdicati h has been repeatedly rumored here Votes For Women enfranchisement of The women s was one of five major peints which i MacArthur stressed 'in his directive i for social reform, I of U. S. SENATOR Claude D. Pepper, of Florida, chairman of the Small Business Committee of the Foreign Trade Sub-Committee, and his wife are shown as they sailed for Europe on the Queen Elizabeth. The sena- tor will spend eight weeks touring Europe and the Middle East to study the possibilities of expanding foreign trade there.(International but no mention lowering the voting was made then The newspaper Mainichi said that, according to a 1942 census, there would be 21600000 women eligihle to vote after the Diet ap- proved the “two measurés pro- cess necessary to their becoming law. Asahi estimated the lowered vot- ing age would increase the number of male voters from 21,230,000 to 42,920,000 L e RUSSIAN VIEW ONBREAKDOWN age jed in an editorial today. | The Army newspaper said it ap- | peared from the foreign press ac- {counts that the failure was inter- | preted as a triumph of British and | American diplomacy | i | | ADM. NIMITZ (OMES HOME NATIVELAND Oct. 13 W. Nimitz KERRVILLE, Texa Fleet Admiral Chester comes home from the wars to his native hill country of Texas today. At Austin last night, Rep. Lyndon Johnson (O.-Texas) a member of the House Naval Affairs Committee, introduced the Admiral to a cheer- | ing audience of 4,000 as “the next Chief of Naval Operations, the Commander-in-Chief of the United States Navy.” | Nimitz returns to Kerrville, where he spent his boyhood, and Fred- ericksburg, where he was born, for brief day of visiting with kin- folgs and old friends before heading 3 .!u for the Pacific. one " ADVENTURES OF MARK TWAIN" IS ‘ The fascinating Twain, a typically American s of this count s beloved and famou: humori; forms the background for the Warner Bros. film, “The Adven- tures of Mark Twain,” opening to- day at the 20th Century Starring Fredric March title role, the picture tells of Twain boyhood against a Mississippi back- ground and of his friendship with Tom Sawyer (Michael M and Huckleberry Finn (Eugene Holland) three rafting explorers of the who hunt buried treasure and ima- ginary pirate’s gold The film goes along showing how the adventures of the s0 in- trigue Twain that he is lured away from his apprenticeship as a print- er, learns to naviga becomes a full-fledged pilot, takes his own steamer down the river, falls in love with the photograph of a beautiful girl, Olive Langdon, played by co- star Alexis Smith, of his determina- tion to marry her, his quest for money to make this possible and of his recording of a frog jumping con- test which inadvertently launches him on the road to literary fame. Featured on the long and impos- ing list of supporting players are Donald Crisp, Alan Hale, C. Aubrey Smith, John Carradine, Mill Henry, Rokert Barrat, Walter Hampden and Joyce Reynolds. - WILLING METCALF, Tll—Aboard ship off Okinawa, Seaman Hugh Rhode of Metcalf received a summons for jury service back in his home town. “I'll be more than glad to serve if you can arrange for my return,” Rthode wrote to Sheriff Allen Bell )f Edgar County. - - FROM SEATTLE M. Baker, representing the Na- tional Cash Register Company, of Seattle, is registered at the Bar- anof Hotel in the river, river - | Robert R. Burns, of Excursion Inlet, is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. DOUGLAS-Y COLISEUM THEATRE SUNDAY ONLY FRANCES LANGFORD “CAREER GIRL" GREEN GIANT { BRAND PAGE FIVE ANOTHER SHOW YOU'LL SURELY ENJOY! STARTS ONIGHT (SATURDAY) 2 Continucus Shows on Sunday from 1:30 2> RoaRivG WEST! 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