The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 16, 1946, Page 5

= S | wbewid it sl slatcoraidetalbn i E“Ds TU“IGHT! VYOMING \\';LD(‘ AT" AT 7:10— 9:30 “STRANGLER" WHO was this man love—or MURDER—that DON'T MISS John Loder as “THE BRIGHTON STRANGLER” ATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, ., yet so terrifying? Was it urning eyes? ADDED FEATURE DONALD BARRY in “Wyoming Wildeat™ TOMORROW COMES A SUPER-NATURAL for LAUGHS! pirited Adventure of a live, jealous Ghost: . s his fickle “widow” . . and a crooning Wolf! A MERRY, MAGICAL . \ K¢ ADOLPHE ME INJ ELLEN DR:WOU EXTRA, A Superb program of Short Subjects ® by METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER. ” o @ o 1. Purgfy fiquafi = RACKETEERING CHEMISTS EXPOSED IN THIS REALLY CITING . “CRIME DOES NOT PAY” subject. 9 James Fitzpatrick brings you more Lechnicolor e beauty in his latest travel-talk— \ “MODERN GUATAMALA CITY” . LAST—BUT NOT LEAST—THE INIMITABLE TOM and JERRY in “ZOOT CAT” in color. SUNDAY | CUMFLELE SHOWS! 1:30 SCHEDULE “MAN AL 2:10 | Special Tonight Roast Prime Ribs of Beg!g au Jus T-Bene . . Fillet.. Club . . New York Open Until 10:30 123 SEWARD OPEN MONDAY—ARMISTICE DAY at —————=8:20—10:40 / | cess St F st » I o ot Messersebmidt. Bros. || “CALL of the WILD" || | ’ | o ) tizpad Y Q ‘ A i d B | R Y IR Tattiell i s ; : : : THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE— momuncomov“'l "STORK CLUB" IS AT 20TH CENTURY, Reappearance of a wife's old ad- “The Stork Club,” a name mirer from her college days starts synonymous with glamour and the hilarious complications in “Man galety, is no longer only the name; Alive,” a co-starring vehicle for of the most exclusive night spot in| Pat O'Brien, Adolphe Menjou and the world, but also the name of| len Drew. Rudy Vallee has a Paramount's newest Betty Hutton, featured supporting role in the per- starrer, which opens tonight at (he" son of the admirer This feature 20th Century Theatre. According to, at the Capitol starting Sunday. reports emanating from the mm} Husband Pat forgets wife Ellen's|city, this B. G. DeSylva production tirthday. Rudy doesn’t. He comes|lives up to the promise of the best to tewn and smothers her in red in entertainment that its title im-| f|roses. Ellen makes a fuss over him|plies. | and invites him to stay at lht-{ Appearing in support of Miss Hut- | bouse. Pat gets mad, goes on a|ton is an unusually strong cast of | binge, has an auto crash and winds favorites, including Barry fim:er-‘ up in the river, from which he is{ald, Don DeFore, Robert Benchley rescued by a showboat troupe which Bill Goodwin, Iris Adrian, includes a magician, Menjou {Rasumny and Mary Young. Special | Next day, in the papers, Pat/mention must be given to the movie reads of his “death,” and Menjou,|debut of Andy Russell, America’s| who fancies himself a champion newest singing find, who makes his| fixer of other people's prnblems.:bow in “The Stork Club." ’ undertakes to restore Pat to the| “The Stork Club” tells a super- arms of his wife. All kinds of Cinderella story, spiked with many| schemes emanate from Menjou's hilarious situations. It concerns the fertile brain, all of them bad! Pat|amazing things that happen follow-; falls for them. He becomes his own|ing Betty's rescue from drowning of | ghost at a fake seance, warns Ellen|an eccentric millionaire, played by | against Rudy, makes violent love Barry Fitzgerald. Betty, a hatcheck to her. It does no good; Ellen pro- girl in the Stork Club, finds her- ceeds with plans to marry Rudy. self the recipient of anonymous Impersonations, and the old amne-!gifts that include charge accounts a gag, also fall down badly. It islin all the best New York shops, a cnly after a wild climax that Pat is sumptuous suite in one of the finest able to get Ellen into his arms & hotels, a limousine and chauffeur moment before she is about to com- always at her disposal, and other mit bigamy such insignificent trifles. The plot il The story lends itself to riotous reaches riotous proportions when comedy as a vehicle for the (hrm-jhgr Marine boy frend, Don DeFore, and the others in the big cast jreturns from the war, looks agound ——————— ——~—————— at Betty's setup, and raises a sus- — 11 | picious eyebrow. ! ALASKA HUSKY lEI | Fitzgerald, highly amused at first | because Betty, thinking him a poor, lE' ;sweeL thing, gets him a job as bus- loosE IN SEA " iboy at the Stork Club, finally tells COMEDY BILL AT CAPITOL SUNDAY 'her it is he who has given her| HoleD All N‘GHI the boupty—but Betty pooh-poohs the idea as a ridiculous attempt to help her. SEATTLE, Kov. 16—An Alaskan How it all works out in the end Husky dog, just arrived from Tell- is said to make “The Stork Club” er, Alaska, was loping the Seattle one of the most delightful comedies nhills today, freed in the early hours seen in a long time. by some sleepless or Lo, o 0 o oul who wielded a his cage. sympathetic | hacksaw on i AMERICAN LEGION = Lester F. Lammers, of Walla Walla, received the four-year-old Malamute yesterday and confined MEETS MONDAY P.M. him in a cage tied to his auto- | Preceding the 'regular business downtown gequion Monday night at 8 o'clock in the Dugout, the American Legion Residents of nearby apartment ;. ..., gost No. 4 will u":m“ houses and hotels said the dOB ypreq offjcers-elect who were unable howled and cried throughout the to be present at, the regular in- night. : stallation last month, according to Mary Sliger, a waitress, said she oo mander Max Lewis. | saw the Husky “hightailing it Up A o004 turnout of members and, ' toward the Broadway district about ; roucing business meeting is an-| [i9:801 ‘this™ morning, _ ticipated, Lewis stated, and he add- | “But I didn't see who let him oq that the ciffee jug is still in the, mobile, parked in a parking lot. out. “I raise Huskies for a hobby and = T've never had anything like this| only 12 circus elephants have| | happen- before.” ‘been born in captivity in this| | Lamers said he has 12 more country since the first was im- ;Malamutes at home. - WATCH FOUND HERE; | SEE JUNEAU POLIC Juneau Police Department has received a letter from Sto. 1-¢ A. Sell it with an Empire Wantad V. Bourne, E, RCN, on the HM-/ — < LS ©S Uganda, stating that he has in' his possession a 21-jewel Hamilton watch which he found while the ship was here in Juneau. If the owner can identify the watch by its serial number, the E kitchen, and will be hot. | | B | | ported in 1796. ——————— | METHGsIS: BAZAAR | WSCS Bazaar, Tei and Bake| Sale, Nov. 16, 1 pm. in Methodist | Church Parlors, Start Christmas | \‘shopplng here. | e o COLISEUM DOUGLAS TONIGHT police will send for it. Otherwise, atter a reasonable length of time, | | | | [ \ | { | | “TRUE TO THE || it will be finders, keepers. 1 4 | | i i | | " g | ARMY NOTIC] | Outstanding accounts due the San Francisco Bakery are to be paid at the purity Bakery (suc- Laffs from Start to Finish SUNDAY CLARK GABLE { MOTOR REBUILD and MARINE SERVICE Machine Work — Welding ENGINE REBUILDING—HARDWARE 1012 West 10th Street PHONE 863 _——————— YELLOW CAB CO PHONE 22 Courteous Drivers — Dependable Service —— 24-HOUR SERVICE Dancing Every Night MUSIC BY: JIMMY GREGG MERV PLUM and ROY EATON at the _ CAPITOL Cocktail Bar | UNEAU, ALASKA Stork Club, Famous Night Spot, Accurately Re-Created for Film One of the best known of New the Yorks’ after - dark landmarks, the Stork Club, was duplicated exactly by B. G. DeSylva for his production, “The Stork Club,” starring Betty Hutton. The motion picture replica is certainly not the most lavish nightelub set built in Hollywood, for the excellent reason that the original plushy place. The Stork more for the company it keeps —for the celebrities of the thy- the movies, politics who go there—than for the luxury of its precincts. atre, However, to reproduce in painstaking detail the ley place of business was a more difficult and expensive project than the building of imaginary and far more pretentious-look- ing movie bistros. set builders will tell you that it is always harder to match and something than it start from scrateh and create a piece of fiction. copy licating co fabries and both the artists who painted the materials required reference to originals and from the beautiful The carbon copy shows both hundreds of samples which were models who posed for them. shipped to the studio from the club, mounted on boards and labeled to guide the interior dec- orating department in matching the furnishings. Ye host Billingsley came to the rescue when the studio was unable to locate a duplicate pat- tern of the floor covering. He forwarded from his reserve stock inside and outside of the Stork Club. The front and cano- pied doorway at No. 3 East Fif- y-third . Street have been dup- ted. Inside the door is a full-sized, inch-by-inch facsimile of what the customer sees when he visits the Stork. Blueprints for the movie con- struction were drawn from the actual floor plans of the Stork enough of the carpeting to cover Club gent to Hollywood by Sher- the set. He also provided from man Billingsley, the owner and his own stores menu cards, wine extraordinary host. Paramount’s lists, food and drink checks, New York office took 400 photo- cocktail napkins, match folders, graphs showing every nook and ashtrays_and other accessories. corner of the foyer, the barroom, The studio matched the silvar main dining room, the exclusive ice, table vases, water pitcl.- Cub Room, the pantry and Bil . erockery and glassware used lingsley’s private office to guide at the Stork. the film builders. Art Director In making the screen doyble Earl Hedrick, who designed the of the Cub Room, the ¢lub’s kig- set, made a trip to New York to ney - shaped rendezbous for make a study of the premises Broadway personalities and dis- When he returned he made a tinguished visiting firemen, De- scale model of the Stork Club in va had to obtain formal per- miniature before starting work mission te reproduce the colorful on the life-sized reproduction. illustrations which line the walls. The tremendous task of dup- *~ Permission was received from specially s known is not an e society and Billings- Hollywood is to =y ALL THE THINGS ., YOU LOVE TO SEE! Y A seoesoeave’ Al the and M gudee N O Hear these wondarful SONGS wonderfully sung! - | . “1 Had A Dozen Heagts" +“Love Me® A Square In The Social Circle™ “Doctor, Lawyer, Chief” STARTS TONIGHT! Keep Your Eye on 1:20 T4l i COURLENTURY s Matinee Sumlay -=2:00 P. M. Shows at Stork Club