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HURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1950 ENDS TONIGHT Feature at 7:556—10:05 ... in him, women see the kind of man they want . .. but shouldn’t have! e TOQOMORR @ W mnnan An Exceptional s Double Bill \\Never ‘ Program! Gont Golops andl i anything fike &\ 1ol Aderyy,, this in the & % ° history of sporfs!” =N.Y. Times < * “Flawless!” =N.Y.Sun L4 b THE wesy LYNNE ROBERTS STERLING HOLLOWAY 5 DAMIAN O'FLYNN and b, CASS COUNTY B0YS s e X = UNITED ARTISTS A REPUBLIC FICTURE % S Call RAY RICE for “ausiicy PLASTERIN G ooneive "MAN OF EVIL" IS - FEATURED STORY, - CAPITOL THEATRE | i Once again we can thank the British for dispensing with the conventional sweetness-and-light to present a dramatically realistic and | gripping story of an evil web spun by a gros: dissolute adventurer around a helpleess girl who does not feel free to strike out against im because of the traditions ot he Victorian times and a bar sinis- ter in her background. This feature, | “The Man of Evil," is at the Capitol | Theatre for the final showings to- ight. James Mason, the film’s star, has built up a reputation tor thespian | brutality and his vivid and startling performance as Lord Manderstroke, the villian of the piece, will prob- |ably pile up still more admirers among the feminine sex who seem amazingly susceptible to the iron | hand. Phyllis Calvert is entrancing and appealing as Fanny, his victim anc | from her first word, she establishec | herself convincingly a difticult i part. As the young tocrat who wants to marry Miss Calvert despite strong family disapproval plus ac- tive interference, Stewart Granger | shows why he is the matinee ido | of the British cine nd Wiltrid | Lawson #s magnificently Cockney as | 2 potman turned pub-owner. In addition, film goers will see ! for the first time, a true picture | of the seamy side of Queen Vic- | toria’s London, the notorious Evans’ ‘Suppcr Rooms in Covent Garden, | "Hopwood’s Shades,” an expensive | Haymarket haunt of the well-to-do where gaslight flickered against the | palms and mutfled chuckles were iheard from behind ci ned re- cesses, the Gaiety Theatre and Le- ‘ceister Square—a Queen | Victoria tried her to pretend |dxd not exist. in Lc best ndon, Wour rooms refinished with the plaster that leULATESf Free Estimates — Phone Douglas 21 'MEMBERSHIP SALE B el R : pi | IS REOPENED FOR Plumbing ® Healing ; Oil Burners Telephone-319 Nights-Hed 730 Harri Maechine Shop, Inc. Now you can banish dishpan drudgery . . . save seven hours a week ... for only four cents extra a day! Come jn and see how the amazing new Hotpoint AUTOMATICALLY washes dishes hygienically clean and dries them electrically. 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In response to many inquiries about at-the-door single admissions, Association officers have decided that these will be available. How- ever, in the light of the price of membership tickets for the season, they offer no advantage. Single admissions for the Scha- piro concert will be $2.50 plus tax for adults, $1.00 plus tax for stu- dents. At the April recital of Ken- neth Spencer, door admissions will | [ | i | | be $3.50 plus tax and $1.50 plus tax, respectively. On the other hand, memberships in the Juneau Concert Association !are scaled at $5.00 and $2.50, both | including tax, for adults and stu- | dents, respectively. Membership | tickets will be available at the door, lor as the sale has been reopened, | may be obtalaed before the con- | | Fred Henning’s, Vic Power’s or the | Baranof Hotel. Concert Association members are guaranteed two concerts. If a suf- | ficient number of memberships is sold to permit the sponsoring of a third concert, that will be done at | no additional cost. A move is under way in Greece to make the moderate leftist leader Nicholas Plastiras the country’s Premier. The move came today after liberal and leftist groups held a meeting to talk about a new ceali- tion government—a coalition of the A o e SIS B e S S S BRI R T cert date at Juneau Drug Company, | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNFAU, ALASKA SOROPTIMISTS AND GUESTS WILL HEAR { ABOUT (OSTA RICA Members of the Soroptimist club ! and their guests will gather tomor- row ncon in the Baranot Terrace lRmvm to hear Miss Enga S. Miller |~el\ of the part women take in [3&.\(.\ Rican affairs. Miss Miller is well the subject, for she was resident auditor for 15 years in Costa Riea !3:1 the Pan American Highway for the Bureau of Public Roads. This program meeting will be a special treat for the club, as the last several meetings have been de- voted entirely to business. Club natters have filled the agenda to wvertlowing with reports on service activities, planning participation in civie affairs, in regional and federa- don activities and discussions on slub policies. SERVICES SUNDAY AT CHAPEL-BY-THE-LAKE | The Chapel-By-The-Lake will have regular services Sunday et 11 o'clock a.m., at which a group of young people from the Westmmster‘ Fellowship of the Northern Light have informed on Presbyterian church will charge. Those taking part in the service program will be Tom Morgan, Jr., ! Donald MacKinnon, Janu and Zvangeline McConnel, Janet Flint, David Clem and Marian Jackson. ! HOSPITAL NOTES Elmer Brady, Mrs. William Re- | gan, John LeRoy Bradley, Donald Hastings, and Mrs. Barbara Davis were admitted to St. Ann’s hospital today. Mrs. N. Sorrels, Mrs. John Dodge, Reinhard Bermel and Mrs. James Barras were dismissed. Doreen Jacobs of Haines was ad- mitted to the Government hospital | yesterday. Mrs. George Katzeek of | Juneau and her infant son were sed. The child was born Mon- TRINITY GUILD HAS | MEETING; IMPORTANT | ANNOUNCEMENTS MADE At the meeting of Trinity Guild Tuesday night, several announce- ! ments of interest to the Guild and | o0 the congregation as a whole were | made. The doll clothes committee which met at the rectory Monday night | will continue to have work meet- | ings until further notice on the first and third Monday of each! menth, and they will be held at the Barrington residence on Seventh! Street, All members who enjoy working on doll clothes are invited to attend. The Rev. S. McPhetres will go to Skagway this week and will hold services at St. Savior’s Church there the coming Sunday. On the following Sunday, March 19, mem- ( bers of Trinity Guild will have a Corporate Communion at 8 o'clock followed by breakfast at the home | of the President, Mrs. Wm. M.]| Whitehead. It was further announced that a record was on hand of the talk by presiding Bishop Sherill on “One World in Christ” and this will. be {heard at the morning service Sun- {day. It was also announced that a “Ninth Hour” service will be r¢ld from 2 to 8 o'clock on Good Fri- day instead of the three-hour ser- | vice held in former years, and plans for the Sunday School Easter Day observance were discussed. * Two candidates were initiated in- Five d s was voted for the Red Cross Drive + Mrs. Don Skuse and Mrs. James L. McNamara were hostc for | the evening and ed ref | ments at the close of the busine i session after which a social hour was enjoyed VFW AUXILIARY T0 SPONSOR LIBRARY, Taku Auxiliary No. 5559, of the Veterans of Foreign Wars held their regular rheeting at the CIO Hall, Wednesday evening, March 3 with Mrs. John McCormick, Pre- sident, presiding to the Auxiliary. The need for book§ for the child- ven who are in St. Ann's Hospital ‘n the chronic disease ward which is part of the Crippled Children's program was told the Auxliiary. They - voted to sponsor a library of children’s books for the ward Anyone having a‘ book or books which they would like to contrib- ute may call 547, Blue 820 or Red 509 and the books will be picked up. These books are very much needed as the children are in bed. | was musical director. The group is from two yearsi to 16 Sev five dollars is being sent the memorial library committee as the first payment on the pledge of $250 made by .the Auxiliary. The hospital committee reported on the visits made not only to the veterans but also the children in the chronic disease ward. Valentine cookies were taken both groups. A letter of interest was read from one of the veteranseat the Seward Sanitarium in response to a Valen-; tine greeting and a gift was sent to him by a member of the Auxil- iary. All veterans were remembered Names of Alaska veterans in the Veteran’s hospital at Walla Walla Wash., were distributed among the members to be remembered at Easter A $5 contribution to Red Cross was voted and members of the Aux- iliary will operate the booth at the federal building on Wednesday, March 15 from 10 am. to 5:15 p.m. Committees for the silver tea to be held Saturday, April 1 in the Methodist Church social hall were named. Mrs. John McCormick is general chairman with Mrs. Emmett | Botelho, Mrs. E. P. Chester, Mrs., Geo. Taylor, Bob Anderson, Mrs, Henry Cropley, Mrs. Dan Ma- honey and Mrs. Lorraine Mix in charge of the various other fea- tures besides the silver tea which is in commemoration of the found- ing of the national home at Rapids | Eaton, Mich. Nominations of officers for the| new ‘year were made, election to! take place at the next meeting. Mrs. Bob Anderson and Mrs. Lorraine Mix served refreshments at the close of the meeting, 30 MILLION RUSS ARE GIVEN CIViL DEFENSE TRAINING WASHINGTON, March 9—(#— Some 30,000,000 Russians have re- ceived basic civil defense training | in preparation for an emergency, a report by the Senate-House Atomic Committee indicated today. In a pamphlet on civil defense inst atomic attack, the commit- observed that the Soviets are tee planning to train additional civil | defense “volunteers” at the rate ot 5,000,000 annually. The pamphlet was prepared by Although alterations aré in pro- gress in the undercroft of the| church, a space had been cleared last week for the first of a series of pot-luck dinners followed by a study class and these will continue during the Lenten season, it was | stated. Other activities will await the completion of the alterations. left rather than the right. Yakutat $30.00 | Homer $87.00 Paciric NOrir NOW — NEW — from JUNEAU 10% Reduction on Round Trip i *Plus Tax Daily Scheduled Flights Anchorage — Cordova — Kodiak Homer — Yakufat Connections at Anchorage for all Interior and Westward Points LOW —FARES "Cordova $ 53.50 Kodiak $105.00 Tickets and Reservations BARANOF HOTEL Phone 716 RV AIRLINES, INC. the committee staff for use of the 18 members of the group, who are studying U.S. civil defense mea- sures as related to atomic and hy- COOGAN, COOPER IN FILM TONIGHT AT20TH CENTURY Operations of a black market in foodstuffs are exposed in Mono- gram’s “French Leave," co-starring Jackie Cooper and Jackie Coogan, and due tonight at the 20th Cen- tury Theatre. Many laughs and exciting mo- ments are promised as the two formers boy stars get mixed up with racketeers and gendarmes | when they go overseas with the Merchant Marine. Cooper and Coogan are supported by a large cast in their second co- starring motion picture. Renee Godfrey and Robin Raymond are the girls who help involve the boys in trouble. Others in the cast arc Ralph Sanford, Curt Bois, Larry| Blake, Charles La Torre, Billy Dam- brosi, John Bleifer, Claire Dubrey, George Lloyd, Frank Scannell, Jimmy Cross, Dick Winslow, Billy| Synder, Manuel Paris, Vivian Ma- on and Robert Coogan. wnk McDonald directed the | screenplay by Jameson Brewer and | Jack Rubin, adapted from an orig- inal story by the former. Sid Luft was the producer, and Edward Kay | LUTHERAN LADIES’ AID | MEETS THIS EVENING | The Lutheran Ladies Aid will| 10ld its monthly meeting this Chursday evening. Devotional meet- ng will consist of participation in'! the Lenten Service at 8 o'clock. After the service a business and ocial meeting will be held in the chool room adjoining the church. | Miss Virginia Long will furnish | the musical program and refresh- | ments will be served by the hosi- csses, Mrs. Bert McDowell and Mrs. Edward Dick. All members are re- | quested to answer roll call with | 1 Bible verse containing the word, ‘believe.” Guests, as always, will be | welcomed. 16 ARRIVE BY PAA, 16 OUT SOUTHBOUND Besides passengers getting off | at Annette Island and Ketchfkan, | Pan American Airways carried 16 passengers from Seattle yesterday.| On the southbound flight, PAA took three persons to Ketchikan and 13 to Seattle. Mr. and Mrs, Joe Willlams and Della Ridley went to Ketchikan, and these passengers continued on to Seattle: W. C. Arnold, Willlam | Odell, Earling and Mrs. E. Oswald, | Mrs. L. M. Baker, Mrs. Walter Stutte, E. G. Rasmussen, R. Bern- ell, Arnocld Schyler, Mrs. lis Frank McConaghy, Howard, and Whitie Thorpe. Arriving from Seattle were Nor- | man Banfield, Fred Beal, Erick Carlson, Dorothy Halling, W. Gallo- F. Gorsuch, Lisle | way, Mrs. John Hebert, Reggie Kleweno, Edward | L. Laurie, Mrs, E. Parsons, Peggy and Ruth Penrose, D. Publow, | Clint Sever and Sybil Teague with | young Michele, Holly trees are a good soil-holding | crop. EXTRA SWEET. EXTRA TENDE drogen bomb warfare. You'll like it, too! ICE CREAM you taste the rich flavor of soon.. Now at Percy’s SWIFT'S ' You'll look pleased toe when 1 Swift’s Ice Cream! It's creamy smooth right down to the last spoonful. Try some .find out why 8o many prefer this better ice cream. " PAGE FIVL TONIGHT and [0 TENTURY & & &' A v Complete Showings — 7:30 and 9:30 OO-LA-LA-L’AMOUR! | The gals are frantic about their romantic antics! Jackie ~COOGAN 1EA Jackie COOPER RENCH o RENEE GODFREY RALPH SANFORD * ROBIN RAYMOND 1 MONGGRAM PICTURE Produced by SID LUFT « Directed by Frank McDonald Screenplay by Jameson Brewer and Jack Rubin 4g/981-200 FOR “Port of New York” ADDED Musical—Carloon ENJOYMENT Latest Worldwide News ' EYES EXAMINED I LENSES PRESCRIBED DR. D. D. 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