The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 11, 1949, Page 5

SATURDAY, JUNE 11,.1949 ("THE PIRATE" IS ENDS TONIGHT || opryiNG SUNDAY, ' The Bishopis Wife COMPLETE SHOWS 2:00—4:46—7:14—9:42 FEATURE AT 2:57—5:22—7:50—10:01 SHOWPLALF or Judy Garland, Gene Kelly and Cole Porter are the three big names | associated with M-G-M's big Tech- ricolor musical, “The Pirate,” with pressly for Porter. This feature opens at the Capitol Theatre Sunday. Swashbucking tale of a roman- tic girl who dreams of a bold pi- rate and finally wins a facsimile thereof for a husd:and, the story is laid against eye-filling settings SUNDAY-MOND of a Caribbean island in the nine- BIGGEST SPECTACULA TECHNEOLOR | USICALS W B HITORY... the stellar duo by| The picture is based on the S. N.! Behrman play (as produced by i{the Playwrights Producing Com- | ipany and the Theatre Guild) in which Lynn Fontanne and Alfred | Lunt scored one of their greatest Broadway successes. The screen play is the work of Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich; the pic- ture was directed by Vincente Min- I the producer is Arthur Freed, whose last was “Good News.” ! The supporting cast is ‘topped by Walter Slezak, Gladys Cooper, Reginald Owen, George Zucco, nnd‘ the dancing Nicholas Brothers. | Thé Cole Porter songs include| “Love of My Life,” “You Can Do No Wiong,” “Mack the Black,” “Nina,” “Be a Clown,” and the “Pirate Ballet.” FORMER CHIEF OF LITHUANIAN ARMY IS WORKING INUS. CULVER CITY, Calif., June 11— (M—A onetime commander in chief | of the Lithuanian army goes to ‘ work today assembling airplane hy- draulic valves in a little back shop | here. p | But Gen. Stasys Rastikis says he| is “happy as a bird” behind a work benéh at the Hartwell Aviation Co. | The 53-year-old general starts| work at the bottom less than a month after he and his wife, Helen Marie, 46, arrived in New York as Displaced Persons. They were sick and exhausted after nine years of iighting, hiding, running and im- prisonment at the hands of the| Russians and Germans. Underground reports say that one of their three daughters is dead.| From the other two, also whisked away to Siberia, has come no word. | Mrs. Rastikis, arrested with the girls, was imprisoned but eventually released to rejoin her husband in . the Lithuanian underground. | HOSPITAL NOTES Admitted to St. Ann’s hospital 'yesterdny were Harold O. Hanson and Marian Jensen. Discharged were Katherine Livie, | | John Livie, Mae Cuthbert and Mar- cel Ethier. | Admitted to the Government hos- | pital was Marleen Fred of Angoon,! ol N i i;\\\ O] "Life With Grandpa” Late News COMPLETE SHOWS 1:356—3:26—5:38—7:53—10:08 Feature at 1:44—3:56—6:08—8:23—10:38 Watch ‘for "nm nlvm" Coming Soon - - ; For Estimates on that New Basement, House or Fireplace—PHONE 416—Evenings We have enough PUMICE and CONCRETE | BLOCKS for several houses i EARL CRASS AND SON | {gets through “only in spots. LAUNDRY VALUE! ALL THE HEAVY IRONING DONE FOR YOU! ALASKA LAUNDRY, Incorporated Phone 15 NBE § IHR HO i 1% d§erving Jumean Since 18957 THE DAILY ALASKA E ARWAYS BATILE OVER RUSSIA IS (By The Assoclated Press) The battle of the airways over Russia continues. U. S. State De- partment officials said in Washing. the songs sung by Miss Garland,|ton that Russia is jamming Ameri- Harvest." danced by Kelly, and written ex-|can and British official news pro- | the Western news, grams effectively. But these officials said Russia is paying a stiff price for victory. The Soviets have crippled ‘“sub- stantially” Moscow's own domestic programs, the U. S. officlals report- ed. Deporfation Faces Former Official of Yugo_s I_av Govl. NEW YORK, June 11 (—Depor- tation charges have been lodged jagainst Toma Babin, former Yugo- | (.. things don’t go according to slav government official who came i to this country as a United Nations | employee in 1947. He was arrested yesterday and taken to Ellis Island to await a hearing. Babin was accused in the depor- tation warrant of failing to main- tain the status of an accredited of- ficial of a foreign government recognized by the U. S. Skinner Is Coming North Aboard Yacht SEATTLE, June 11.—®— G. W. Skinner, President of Alaska Steamship Company, is enroute north on a business trip to Alaska or his yacht Leonore. He plans to transfer to plane at Seward to complete a swing from Sand Point, Alaska, to Bristol Bay and back through Southwestern and South- eastern ports. MPIRE JUNE WILD HARVEST” ] OPENINGTONIGHT CAPITOL THEATRE STILL ON, REPORT AT 20TH CENTURY A ing combine that should great deal of interest among film fans is that in Para- ount’s new action thriller, “Wild The film, due tonight at 20th Century Theatre, boasts starring roles filled by Alan Lad | Doroth# Lamour, Robert Preston ! and Lloyd Nolan, supported by Dick | |Erdman and Allen Jenkins. ' arouse a | “Wild Harvest” is, in Ladd's own | word “The toughest and the| est picture I ever made,"| which ought to satisfy his count-| |less followers. For the first time he is teamed with the sultry, stun- | ning Dorothy Lamour, who has a| straight dramatic role in the tilm; that is set in the great wheat Lelt of America. She is called upon to portray a predatory female, deter- |mined to get off her uncle’s farm | | by fair means or foul. To accomplish her purpose she | first attaches herself to Ladd and her plan, she marries Robert Pres- ton, Ladd's friend. The romantic ipm'l of the story comes to a fist- | fighting climax as a result of | Dorothy's playing one friend| ’apalm-l the other. | The love story runs parallel to the interesting and vital business of harvesting wheat. Ladd, Preston, | 1and Lloyd Nolan are members of la rugged harvesting combine crew that gets into all kinds of trouble, | | including a spectacular wheat fire, | brawls with rival combines, and a set-to with irate farmers. i et i | | | CDA DEVOTIONS AT SHRINE ON SUNDAY | | The bus for the Catholic Daugh- | ters of America day of recollection | at the Shrine of Saint Terese leaves tomorrow morning at 8:30 o'clock | |from the bus depot. The Rev. | | James Conwell will conduct the ser- | vices at 10 o'clock and will have| ! charge of the program. DOUGLAS Coliseum SUNDAY — MONDAY PULL UP A CHEER...AND WATCH THE LAUGHS WHIZZ BY! and the ANDREWS SISTERS Produced by Directed by Norman Z Announcement Having completed the installations of New Sound Equipment, the management of the Doug- las Coliseum Theatre wishes to announce that hereafter this theatre will operate SIX DAYS A WEEK, BRINGING YOU THE BEST ENTERTAINMENT. There Will Be No Show on Tuesday Nights SHOW starts 1:45 Daniel IN The Management EYES EXAMINED DE. D. D. MABQUARDT LENSES PRESCRIBED PASSENGER SAILING SCHEDULE ALSO FREQUENT FREIGHTER SERVICE For further information confact H. E. GREEN, Agent — Phone 2 SOUTHBOUND 8.S. Aleutian| 8.8, Baranof June 12 June 19 for for | | Ketchikan | i | ‘Wrangell Ketchikan Beattle Seattle ALASKA S rucag ad NORTHBOUND 8.8, Baranof | S. S. Denali June 14 June 12 for Seward for Haines Skagway ’ Kodiak Seldovia I_ j Seward G SHOW START 7:20 and 9:30 STARTS TONITE SUNDPAY and MONDAY . When LADD loves... | he writes his own rules!} "LADD o2 LAMOUR— the screen’s new thrill team v a picture that will set your heart pounding! »Y % “You're a one- way ticket to trouble. .. but I'm buying!” * Dick Erdman- Alen Jenking Produced by Robert Fellows o TAY GARNETT- 5575021 JOE McDOAKES COLOR FREDDIE MARTIN'S COMEDY CARTOON ORCHESTRA MATINEE SUNDAY DOORS ADULTS SHOW - OPEN STARTS = brand new —-FLOOR SHOW - - at the 'COUNTRY CLUB featuring ~ PAT WARING exotic ® rhumba @ fan ® bubble dancer direct from Hollywood after having completed a tour of SOUTH AME}BICA 3—-Shows Nightly—3 finest ONLY | delicious T-BONE STEAK .2.50 FRIED CHICKEN also a selection of tasty seafoods Open at 6 p. m.—Stays open all night