The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 4, 1949, Page 5

THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1949 TONIGHT AND FRIDAY Complete Shows 7:17—9:30 Feature at 7:36—9.49 Opening Tonight (thru Saturday) “TAP ALL THE FLAMING FURY.OF AMERICA'S MOST DANGEROUS DAYS! from James Street's B tempestuous story! 5w‘«} Directed by ROOTS” VAN HEFUIN +»BORIS KARLOFF - JULIE LONDON-WARD BOND RICHARD LONG and Zntraducing WHITFIELD CONNOR GEORGE MARSHALL * Screenplay by Alan LeMay - Additional Dialogue by Lionel Wiggam Produced by Walter Wanger Pictures, Inc. -+ A George Marshall Production « A UNIVERSAL-INTERNATIONAL RELEASE one. {night, continuous performances . . | Saturday closing the booking. It gives new meaning fo Tech- ||| ‘ 4 ? There is violence and tender- m(OlOI’. ness, heartache and paced excite- | i |ment in the thrilling spectacle’| It has battle scenes you'll never §ladevted to the scrcen trom the now famous novel by James Street. torget' |Heflin is highly convincing as the A 5 suave renegade newspaper pub- It gives you the year's greatest ||usner, while Miss Hayward's per- | formance is rated better than the |°ve 'eam' | Academy Award nomination she It is a picture of epic proportions. NAME known on the WALTER WANGER o Is a spectacle unsurpassed since "'GONE WITH THE WIND."” It has enterfainment for every Boud of the rip and rake THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE COLORPAGEANTRY | FOR THREE DAYS, CAPITOL THEATRE It strikes into one’s heart with the impact of an atom bomb, sO |great is the force of the flaming ]“I‘eLhnicn]ur production, “Tap |Roots,” a highly combustible film |story of a county in southern Mis- EXTRA! Walt Disney’s “Frank Duck Brings ’Em Back Alive” sissippi during the days leading into the Civil War. The Walter | Wanger presentation released by | Universal-International has lovely | Susan Hayward and handsome Van |Heflin in the co-starring roles. “Tap Roots" will open a three- |day run at the Capitol Theatre to- earned for her acting in “Smash- | up.” Boris Karloff leaves off fright- ening people with a smooth por- trayal as a Choctaw Indian. Whit- field Connor, a newcomer, shows great promise in a supporting role. that was to every river! presents MACHETANZ LUCKY IN MAKING ALASKA MOVIE | carried on to Headhunting of some tribes is| Fifty-two collect soul matter U.S. insurance com- JUNEAU, ALASKA Mrs. Morrow-Tait I | At Goose Bay on Her | Round the World Trip | MONCTON, N.B., Aug. 4A1M—h Mrs. Richarda Morrow-Tait, British housewife flyer, completed another leg of her long round-the-world flight yesterday when her single- engineq plane landed at Goose Bay airport Airway traffic control at Monc- ton Airport said Mrs. Morrow-Tait landed at the big Labrador air base at 2:02 pm. completing a non- stop flight from Old Town, Me. Mrs. Morrow-Tait had asked an American escort over Canadian territory and said Canada had re- | fused her transit privileges. There | was no immediate word of what action Canadian officials would | .take at Goose Bay. The base has| been Canadian March 31 when umited with Canada. territory since | Newfoundland DEPARTMENT | TO MEET TONIGHT "Lars Sorensen was buty today preparing another of his famous “fec for the monthly meeting of the Fire Department. Firemen will gather in the Fire Hall at 8 o’clock. FIRE ‘The state flower of Florida is the orange blossom. ek GUS GEORGE Superette DOWN GO | day. | Transport Associates, which oper- | ate the plane. 'WONDER HORSE . IN SCREEN DEBUT AT 20TH CENTURY | CAB HEARINGS OPEN; SEATTLE PLANE WRECK SEATTLE, Aug. 4—(®— Both en- gines of a C-46 transport plane which crashed July 19 and killed sidered impossible makes its initial seven persons were functioning ex- screen appearance in the new cellently before the takeoff, but M-G-M picture, “Gallant Bess.” | trouble came as the big craft began The picture will be shown to- to lift into.the air, a Civil Aero- night at the 20th Century Theatre, nautics Board panel was told to-|where it opened yesterday. | ‘The horse, “Bess,” trained by Joe B. Atkinson of Florida, is a thor- oughbred Arabian, and has won prizes in shows throughout the nation for its remarkable feats. Most amazing feature of its train- ing is the horse's ability to actually | use its thought processes by per- forming stunts obviously impossible to do without thinking. “Bess” also understands words and, unlike most trick horses which will obey only | their trainers, will follow nnymm‘s; A horse which seemingly thinks, and performs tricks hitherto con-| “One engine began cutting out on the takeoff, with continuous backfiring and sputtering,” testified Amos E. Heacock, president of Air He was aboard. The plane had arrived from Al- aska earlier that day. The transport tore through two power lines, smashed through the top two stories of a three-story rooming house and crashed across the street, demolishing a brick instructions. home. | In “Gallant Bess," Heacock's testimony was given to | forms tricks with Marshall Thomp- a five man hearing panel called to son and enacts unusual scenes with | investigate the accident. Russell A.| other cast members, including Potter of Washington, D. C. pre- | George Tobias, Clem Bevans, Jim sided. | Davis and Don Curtis. The story deals with a Seatee on a South Pacific island who discov- At one point Hell's Canyon, erg g porse, the life of which is |Idaho, is 7,000 feet deep—consider-|p,yng yp dramatically with the jably more than Grand Canyon'sjjes of the servicemen. maximum depth of 6,100 feet. PRICES | the horse per- W PAGE FIVE (i [ IO CENTURY LAST TIMES TONITE . Gallant Bess is Back with New Thrills! Great " adventur ¢ in | 8 n Cineco“'" i with GALLANT BESS, the Wonder Horse CAMERON MITCHELL AUDREY LONG FUZZY KNIGHT A Crestview , ...Plus... |CARTOO NEWS o SHOW | DOORS | OPEN STARTS 7:00 STARTING SATURDAY BING JOAN CROSBY ¢ FONTAINE | "The Emperor Waliz" Color by TECHNICOLOR ;illIlllllllllllllIlllll||IlllIIlll|II||IlII|IlllJ 7:25 and 9:30 panies have home offices in Con- necticut and more than two mil- |to add to the stock in the village— Lady Luck has ridden right along |soul matter w':i~h is believed neces- | . with Fred Machetanz and his wife, | sary for the propagation of animaj | lion dollars in cash premiums pour| Sara, his “associate photographer,” and cereal life. into the state daily. in their expedition to take an Al-| % Z s . aska documentary movie. The noted photographer, who checked in at Juneau yesterday, re- | ported weather - ‘“breaks” every- | where they went. For instance, they had an appointment to take pictures of ‘ciaz:ziing at Cordova. The day had been dark. 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