The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 9, 1949, Page 3

SHOWPLALE or CApITUL ENTERTAINING " o w ' *RECORD CROWDS! Hurry—Leaves Tomorrow! usea, WARM! HUMAN! LOVABLE! he swellest FIRST iy movie anyone "‘""‘WGEST would ever want Then, a Bgsy. to see! Sflun NOVEL Then, 2 2.ygap 1 HIT ON THE YORK sum co-starring BARBARA BEL GEDDES & OSCAR HOMOLKA - PHILIP DORN -~ with SIR CEDRIC HARDWICKE - EDGAR BERGEN - RUDY VALLEE - BARBARA @'NEIL Executive Producer and Director GEORGE STEVENS - Produced by HARRIET PARSONS Screen Ploy by DeWITT BODEEN -Based Upon the Play by JOHN VAN DRUTEN CHARMING FILM IS SCREENED AT CAPITOL THEATRE | Overflowing with a warmth and| nostalgic charm that make it one| of the real screen events of the| season, “I Remember Mama,” with Irene Dunne in the leading role, is now at the Capitol Theatre, | Co-starring with Barbara Bel‘ Geddes, Oscar Homolka and Philip IDom, Miss Dunne delivers a beau- tiful performance as the hard‘ working Norwegian housewife who‘ schemes and struggles to bring up| Ler little family in the alien at-| mosphere of the San Francisco of| forty years ago. ; and on Kathryn Forbes’ novel,| Mama'’s Bank Account, from which the play was derived. SRR TR ! | Stars of Sunday games are ns‘l fcllows: Batting—Ralph Kiner, Pirates, collected six hits in Plt%burghs' doukle win over Boston, 8-3, and| ing his fourth home run, one of kees, pitched two-hit shutout ball as the New York Yankees walloped the ’I‘lgel‘s in Detroit 12-0. e | lEADERS INB.B. Leaders in the Major Leagues through games of Sunday are as HOLLYWOOD The charming film is based on|Mmay have been snubbed in the Pa- John van Druten’s successful play,|cific Coast League pennant predic- |tions, but right now they're riding hgher than a hoop skirt in & wind- | stoxm, {lyn apparently was all the Twinks B B SIA {needed R ;thc sixth ‘place position they held L] L] at the close of the 1948 season. me-down who gave the Hollywoods their first of two victories in Sunday's twin bill with Los Angeles. |of the season, pitched two-hit tall 11-8—three in each game—includ- to thump the Angels, 6 to 1. That J incidentally, was . the longest ever hit in Braves field |cey Fur incidentally o Pitching—Tommy Byrne, Yan- o Frankie = Kelleher’s three-runl! homer in the first frame put the Stars in front to stay in the night- cap, when they won, 10 to 2. Thus Hollywood increased its lead to 2% games over San Diego. Sacramento and Oakland. meanwhile, TAKES SPURT INPCLEAGUE By JIM HUBBART Hollywood’s rejuvenated Stars A working agreement with Brook- to hoist themselves from In fact, it was a Dodger hand- named Willie Ramsdell Ramsdell, making his first start RAINIERS DROP BEAVERS At the other end of the line, Portland dropped EXTRA! ""Henpecked Hoboes" A New M. G. M. Cartoon COMPLETE SHOWS AT 7:06— 9:46 follows: NATIONAL LEAGUE Batting—Kazak, St. Louis, H. Walker, Chicago, 377. Runs Batted In— Campanella, Brooklyn, 18; Torgeson, Boston, 17. .389; further into the cellar by splitting a doubleheader with Seattle. Eddie Basinski's triple with two on in the ninth gave the Beavers a 2 to 1 triumph in the opener. Southpaw Roy Helser held the Rainiers to | FEATURE STARTS AT 7—10:05 l Home Runs—Gordon, New York, 6. 10 players tied with 4 each. Pitching Branca, Brooklyn, The Baya Weave-Birds of !ndmfthe nests aown with clay to pre- build nests on tree branches over- | vent them from swaying in the 4 hanging a stream and then weigh breeze. Hartung, New York and Heintzel- man, Philadelphia, 4-0, 1.000. AMERICAN LEAGUE Batting—Groth, Detroit, .381; Di- Maggio, Boston, .365. |four hits. cit in the second game and won, 9 to 8. The Rainiers collected three {homers during the fracas. righthander, uncorked a one hitter to give the Padres a 3 to 1 win over Sacramento in their second Seattle, overcame a six-run defi- Xavier Rescigno, fiery San Diego 1.000. i In WAl % ws";‘;, ‘;‘::g:e:s" B?:?zlo‘na,m:i Bos-| ame. The Solons, battling with Home Runs — Stephens, Boston San Diego for second place, cop- and Graham, St. Louis, 7. Pitching—Raschi, New York 4-0, OLYMPIA WILL NOT RUN IN FREAKNESS; PONDER TO ENTER LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 9—®—|up. Oakland took the game, 7 to 2. Olympia will not start in the Preak- ness at Baltimore Saturday. His trainer, Ivan Parke, said the|Angeles, favorite that finished sixth in last|Oakland at Seattle and Sacramento ped the curtain raiser, 6 to 5. SEALS SHUT OUT San Francisco and Oakland also split a pair Sunday. Elmer Single- ton produced a six-hit 11-0 shut- out for the Seals in the afternoon |game. In the morning game, played at {San Francisco, Oakland pounced cn Seals hurler Jack Brewer for five runs in the first inning and Lefty O'Doul’s boys couldn't catch PCL teams do not resume until Tuesday with San Diego at Los Hollywood at Portland, flown to New York instead. “We just decided to pass it (the Saturday’s Kentucky Derby will belat San Francisco. A seven-game series is scheduled in each case. Preakness) up,” he said. STANDINGS OF THE CLUBS Meantime, crafty old Ben Jones, Pacific Coast League the Missourian who trained Ponder, W L Pct. the surprise Derby winner gollflouywood 5 35 17 595 ready to take his latest pride and|San Diego . .22 19 537 joy to Baltimore for a crack at the|Sacramento .. 22 19 5317 $75,000 added Preakness. Oakland .23 20 535 ‘The Calumet farm oolt trimmed|Los Angeles . 20 22 476 13 rivals in the Diamond Jubilee|Seattle .20 22 476 Derby, including the heavily favored|San Francisco . 20 23 465 1t's a good wind that unveils your Olympis, Portland . . an » Kayser stockings! Exquisitely fashioned NEW HOURS | National League: iy to slenderize your ankles. At Gaines Cafe, near Airport,| . vou 632 A Monday thru Saturday 8 am. w0 Brooklyn 579 & 7 pm, Sun. 10 am, to 6 pm. 90 6t| 5 550 ) . SR | Philadelphia 476 2 6 WM%— Now is the time to put your fur|Cincinnati AT4 coats in storage. We have the only | Pittsburgh 450 cold fur vault in Juneau. Come in|St. Louis 412 § to our ,office. Chas. Goldstein|Chicago 412 HOSIERY * GLOVES * UNDERWEAR and Co. 91 tf PR = - —— ——— — ‘American League A W L Pct. o New York ........15 4 .789 8 Cleveland 8 6 .600 - Detroit . — 7 588 4 Chicago ; 10, 10 500 Philadelphia .10 11 476 ‘Washington . .. 1011 476 Boston ... 8 9 471 St. lfluls 3 1 150 e, (g TIME; UCLA BEATEN " LOS ANGELES, May 9.—®—Mel i Patton’s world record breaking 20.2 running of the 220 yard sprint | is headed today toward the offi- cial record books, but his even more amazing feat of running the 100 yards in 9-1 must be recorded only by word-of-mouth. v The World’s Fastest Human™ shattered the 220 mark Saturday in a dual track meet which his Southern California teammates won v over UCLA 90% to 40%. Patton’s 9.1 mark was nullified 4 Yes, sir! 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Dorothy McGuire has never played does as Phil's girl. is impressive, By JOE REICHLER It's not official yet, but there is a4 strong rumor the American League cluts are planning to ask for a Congressional investigation of the Washington Senators—baseball variety They simply can’'t believe that| the allegedly weak-hitting Sena- tors, riding high ‘on an amazing seven-game winning streak, have been using natural batting power. Washington's: double victory over the Indians in Cleveland yesterday | follows: | Screen Pla Was by far the most simasing stunt | GAMES SUNDAY ! MOSS HART of the young season. Joe Kuhel's| Vancouver 14-5; Tacoma 1-3. | Directed by unpredictables not only whipped| Yakima 9-14; Spokane 4-4. ELIA KAZAN reement the world champions in the opener,| Victoria 9-1; Bremerton 6-6 (1st 7-3, but shut them out in the nightcap, 240 before 49,734 stunned Ohicans puted possession of first place, as the Pittsburgh Pirates socked the Braves twice in Boston, 8-3 and 11-8 The Giants tacked Larry Jan- sen’s steady pitching with a 14-hit attack that included Bobby Thom- son’s three-run homer and Bulyl Rigney’s two-run triple. DODGERS DROP CARDS Brooklyn scored four runs in a wild seventh inning to come from behind and defeat the St. Louis Cardinals, 8-7, at Ebbets field. The defeat, dropped the Cards into a last place tie with the Cubs. Cincinnati and the Phillies di- vided & double header in Philadel- phia. The Reds won the opener 14-7 with a seven-run 12th inning. STIRRING STORY showing for the last two times to- night at the 20th Century Theatre. it is a profoundly moving and dra-| NOW BEING TOLD AT 20TH CENTURY “A Gentleman's Agreement” is SHOWS LAST START ully and widely enjoyed. There are three prominent movie 70 TWORNITE 93 ACADEMY AWARD more effectively than she John Garfield | too. | is of a out to get a certain kind of writeup, | going fully into background, which | of excitement. Saturday and Sunday in the West- i carkness halteq it. ‘The story reporter sent we aoes and wnoicn causes wil sods >-so — WIL BASEBALL Final scores of games played ern International League are as gume 10 innings) 1 Only games scheduled. GAMES SATURDAY YANKSE SHUT OUT TIGERS Lefty Tommy Byrne allowed only two hits pitching the American League leading New York Yankees to a 12-0 shutout victory over the Tigers kefore more than 52,000 fans in Detroit. The Boston Red Sox took both ends of a doubleheader from the lowly Browns in St. Louis, 10-6 and 4-3. The first game went 13 in- nings and the, second eight before The Athletics split a twin bill with the White Sox in Chicago, winning the second game, 3-2,| after Chicago had walked off with an 11-3 victory in the first game. Bill McCahan notched his first success for the A’s in the nightcap.| ). Produced by DARRYL F. ZANUCK P~|\1 at_the time of its conquest &nd Ecuador ana pvu of Ar"cnuna by -Pizarro lncluded all of Boll\'la ang Colombia. PICTURE Celeste Holm Anne Revere June Havoc Albert Dekker Jane Wyatt Dean Stockwell Sam Jaffe CINTURY-fOX GREGORY DOROTAY JOHN PECK-MESIBE - BARFEL G ntlemans Yakima 9, Spokane: 5. GIANTS' WIN STREAK Salem 11-3, Wenatchee 4-9. The New York Giants continued| Bremerton 7, Victoria 3. N N \ to combine power and finesse to| Tacoma 6, Vancover 3. PLUS W be!eete‘l bh“rtsg !humble the Chicago Cubs 10-1 for g R - — their sixth straight. The triumph|The Phils grabbed the nightcap, ALWAYS LATE NEWS gave the Polo Grounders undis-|8-1. MEETING TONIGHT Thke American Legion at 8 o'Clock IN THE LEGION DUGOUT Visiting Veterans Invited CHESTER ZENGER, Post Commander JOHN PARMENTER, Adjutant 7 8, 9_and THAT'S WHAT OWNERS SAY ABOUT THE THRIFTY wew 1s40 MERCURY ! 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