The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 15, 1950, Page 3

e N —— FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1950 Qe T 124 and femorrow the greatest spectacle of SHOWPLAIF oF presents " Donthait- of Jennie” ' hurricane and tidal wave set to the ethereal music of ever put on film! CLAUDE DEBUSSY. s“Portrait of Jennie” is indescribable. You must see it. An extraordinary film that deserves to be called . a poem in motion pictures. If you love...or bave ever lpved here perbaps is the.most tender; and yet terry iug, laz'e story- e, « JOSEPH COT'TIN en's most romantic team PLEASE SEE IT FROM THE BEGINNING A NEW SHOW STARTS EVERY TWO HOURS 2:09 — 4:12 — 6:12 — 8:15 — 10:15 e casansanss ENDS TONIGHT'! The Bumsteads’ merriest adventure— “BLONDIE’S SECRET” Plus: “RACING LUCK” DAVID 0. SELZNICK presents Pérl'rait of starring Featuring the music of DEBUSSY * e ver told Jennie JENNIFER JONES - JOSEPH COTTEN ETHEL BARRYMORE LILLAN GISH + CECIL KELLAWAY Dvciod by WILLLAM DIETERLE « From the bech by ROBERT NATHAN + Sevens ploy by PAUL OSBORN and PETER DERNLIS + From on adspivion by LEONARDO BERCOVICI + Auocise producw, DAVID HINPSTEAD. Added Attractions Cartoon—‘Poet and Peasant’; Musical—‘Fio Rita and Orch.’ AT e e T RO RAR O 5 Al EYES EXAMINED Sand and Gravel Hauling PHONE 357 DR. D. D. MARQUARDT OPTOMETRIST Second and Franklin PHONE 506 FOR APPOINTMENTS 'LENSES PRESCRIBED Juneau Alaska Coastal offers you a new service—to speed you on your way. Through your local ACA agent you can reserve your seat on Pan American fo the States . . . and then to any spot on the globe! And now, for its patrons in Sitka, | Hoonah, Tenakee, Skagway, Haines and similar communities ACA holds a special block of seats on Pan Am. . .. giving them equal priorities with those who buy their tickets in Juneaul “ % 9% nmnw%mu ewing S tern ES ka 00000000000 A AR GENERAL CONTRACTORS Glacier Construction Co. New Building — Remodeling — Cabinet Work Plastering — Concrete Pouring SAVE ON FUEL ECONOMICAL HEAT The Sievert Oil Burner burns either distillate or kerosene oil in cook stoves, heaters, furnaces, pas- teurizers, boilers, prune dippers, dairy sterilizers, etc. Safe, odorless, yery convenient and low priced. Very easy to install in any firebox designed for coal or wood. MAKES HEAT FOR LESS THAN THE COST OF WOOD OR COAL. Install it yourself. Write for circular and prices on different sizes. Dealers wanted. Address SIEVERT OIL BURNER CO. 710 N. Main St. - Los Angeles 12, Cal. YELLO “The thinking fellow Calls a YELLOW*” AW@A i PHONE 22 OR 14 FOR A THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA FILM 'PORTRAIT | OF JENNIE' HERE, CAPITOL SUNDAY Its contents heralded as “an ad- venture in time,” David O. Selz- nick’s “Portrait of Jennie” opens Sunday at the Capitol Theatre. “Portrait of Jennie” stars Jenni- fer Jones and Joseph Cotten, and is keynoted by a most unusual kind of love story and the most terrify- ing storm scene ever photographed. The picture is the saga of a heroic artist who, fighting against the strangest kind of overwhelming odds, attempts to paint the portrait of an incredibly beautiful girl. | Especially noteworthy in “Por- trait of Jennie” is the unusual look- in it gives on New York living. Avoiding the glamorous Fifth Ave- nue angle or the depressing “slum” angle, which have become as fa- miliar to moviegoers as their own home town problems, this picture points up the distinctive character- | istics of those middle-class, every- | day New Yorkers whose way of life | is neither to be pitied nor envied This side of New York appears in the “family trade” bars of Third Avenue, the West End garage where a taxi driver garages his cab, i | Washington Square as a boy and girl watch dawn light up lower Fifti Avenue, in Central Park in winter- time with the skaters. CONCERT-GOERS SING PRAISES OF KENNETH SPENCER Jyneau concert-goers went home last night singing the praises of Kenneth Spencer, big negro basso. Spencer appeared at the 20th Century Theatre and, assisted by Jonathan Brice at the piano, sailed through a program that was a me- lodious crowd-pleaser. Beginning with the minorish la- ment, “It is Enough, from ‘Elijah’,” by Mendelssohn, he finished his first group of numbers with the sprightly “Si tra i ceppi” by Handel. The satisfying way in which he put over both the sad and the gay proved his artistry early in the eve- ning. Although his singing of Debussy, Brahms and Schubert were well re- ceived by a near-capacity crowd, it was his singing of the familiar songs which brought him the greatest ap- plause. “Annie Laurie,” a Scotch folk- song, and “Oh, No John,” an old English song sung with fitting fa- cial expressions and voice effects which greatly amused the audi- ence, were Spencer’s two as en- cores after the first half of the program. The second half of the program was begun with three piano solos by Spencer’s accompanist. These gave those persons who hadn’t had a chance to hear music from Juneau’s new piano an opportunity to listen to a finished musician at an excel- lent instrument. Brice played “Pre- lude in G Minor” by Rachmaninoff, “Fairy Tale” by Medtner and “Pre- lude (pour le piano)” by Debussy. ‘The second half of Spencer’s pro- gram was, if possiblé, more pleas- ing to the audience than the first half. It included the “Green Eyed Dra- gon” (with the 13 tails); “Mobile Bay,” a sailors’ song of the sea, and several of the songs of Spencer’s own people, among them “Every Mail Day,” “Michieu Banjo,” and “Roll Jordon, Roll.” With one exception all the en- cores following the end of the pro- gram were songs of the ' colored people, sung by a man whose race and training fitted him to bring the most out of the great songs. “Water Boy” and “Old Man River” were sung with the feeling that was meant to be there—the cheer- ful hopelessness of the chain-gang worker, and the wishful sadness of the worker by the Mississippi. Nightcap for Juneau concert- goers was a cowboy song during which Spencer in good humor aped sagebrush crooners, even to the yodel. FROM SKAGWAY Duncan P. Hukill and family, who arrived on the Princess Norah, from Skagway, are guests at the Baranof. FROM ANCHORAGE Guests registered at the Baranof | from Anchorage are: Arne Michael- son, John R. McLaughlan, H. L. Moats, William C. Manley, Harry Birnhaus, E. B. Colyunger. "FOREIGN AFFAIR' COMING TONIGHT AT 20TH CENTURY| “A Foreign Affair,” which ar- rives tonight at the 20th Century . Theatre, is a laugh-and-love af€air of riotous proportions. Produced by Charles Brackett, directed by Billy Wilder, the Paramount comedy about life among the American | Occupation forces in post-war Ber- | lin is highly original and enter- taining. i Starring Jean Arthur, Marlene | Dietrich and John Lund, it tells of | an over-zealous Congresswoman | (Miss Arthur), who arrives in Ber- | lin with a committee to invesngate‘ the status of G.I. morale. Her sus- | picions aroused by the open frat-! ernizing with frauleins, Jean pre- | tends she is a German girl and learns that the glamorous ex-Nazi: night club star, Miss Dietrich, now under the protection of an American officer. The shocked committeewoman decides to track the man down and expose him. She is given the assist- ance of Captain John Pringle (John Lund), assigned to her by Colonal Plummer (Millard Mitchell). The Captain is, of course, the officer she seeks, and e does everything in his power to stymie her investigation, including the waging of a cam- paign for her love. SERVERS ANNOUNCED FOR GIRL SCOUT TEA AT 2 0°CLOCK TODAY| Girls who are serving at the Girl Scout Tea and Fashjon Show this! afternoon at Elks Hall are: | Carol Davis, Jean Ellis, Donna | Eneberg, Lotse Folette, Ann Fur-| ness, Marion Glafke, Patsy Kadow,‘ Carol Leath, Caroline Meyer, Lo- | nene Shaw, Patricia Sweeney, Jac-‘ quelline Tanner, Joyce Tanner, Page ‘ Whitehead, Edwina Tydlacka, Ruth | Hudson, Rosita Zamora. J On the program will be: Jean-| ette Nelsetti, Arlene Parsons, and Glady Uggen. i Shirley Snaring, who is one of | the models for the fashion show, had her name inadvertently omitted | from the list previously published in The Empire. i Tea hour starts at 2:30 o'clock| with the fashion show to follow. UPSIDE DOWN U.S. FLAG BRINGS AID TO VESSEL| A distress signal consisting of a| United States flag flown upside down brought Coast Guard aid to| a disabled fishing vessel near Tree | Point, 40 miles southeast of Ketchi- | kan, yesterday afternoon. ‘The fishing vessel Ronna, owned | by J. C. Bustnes of Ketchikan, was | sighted by Coast Guardsmen at the Tree Point light station who ob- served the inverted flag and hand flares which were being waved from the deck of the vessel. The message reaching Coast Guard headquarters here from the light station said that the Ronna was making five knots under jury- rigged sails when sighted. The cutter Hemlock was sent to the vessel's aid and towed it to Ketchikan. It had run out of fuel. Three persons were aboard the Ronna, but the messages to Coast Guard headquarter§ here did not reveal their names. | FISHERMAN DIES Ingvald Anderson, a Juneau fish- erman, died yesterday at 6 pm., at St. Ann’s Hospital. He was 63. Mr. Anderson was born in Nor- way. Funeral arrangements are be- ing made by the Charles W. Carter Mortuary. SKATING TONIGHT Shirley Casperson today called at* tention to youngsters that there will be skating tonight at AB Hall start- ing at 8 o'clock. Py with the leader— » Go by Clipper* ® SEATTLE @ Seattle is only a few hours away by big four-engine Clip- per. En route you enjoy good food, relaxing lounge seats, traditional Clipper service. Convenient daily service to Seattle . . . frequent Clipper flights to key cities inside ©00000000000000000000000000000000 ©0000000000000000000000000000000000000 Alaska. For fares and reserva- tions, call Pan American at... H BARANOF HOTEL & Phone 106 WORLD'S MOST EXPERIENCED AIRLINE W CAB ....STARTS You'll g6 "M-m- m!" When Suitry Marlene Sings “lltusions"] c Screenplay by Chorles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Lip-point Bombing . . . When Jean Gets Kissed . . . Right In The File Room! Marlene Cartoon —— TWO FROM SITKA ‘Two Sitka residents are registered at the Baranof. They are H. Mc- Nulty and Richard Aga. NOWELL IN TOWN Everett Nowell, former resident of Alaska now residing in Seattle, is a guest at the Baranof. Nowell is interested in a housing project in Fairbanks. Flash! Special Note Audrey Hansen, our new beautician, will be here Tuesday ready to show you all the new hair styles for 1950. 5 Miss Hansen has been participating in the Seattle Hair Styling Show. e i i 2t Barano Beawty Salon Phone 538 for your appointment . . . now! PO LN TURY TONIGHT.... We Predict:=-- ~ . One Person Will Tell Another: i MILLARD MITCHELLS - produced by CHARLES BRACKETT » ovecea by BILLY WILDER Nylons With John—Her “Target For Toniaht!™ Added Attractions HOP, LOOK and LISTEN e PAGE T' REE MATINEE SUNDAY 2:00P. M. EVENING SHOWS 7:10 and 9:30 “I¢’s the Funniest Picture I Ever Saw?” Brackeft and Wilder do it again! They top their own “The Lost Week- b end” and “The Emperor Waltz''l To say it's “Swell" is the under- statement of the yearl ond Richard L Breen Acts Like Dynamite In Ten Seconds Later—Jean and Marlene Tangle In The ‘Catfight Of The Century! PARAMOUNT NEWS VIA AIR The Eyes and Ears of the World ELLIS AIR LINES DAILY TRIPS JUNEAU TO KETCHIKAN : via Pelersburg and Wrangell With connections to Craig, Klawock and Hydaburg Convenient afternoon departures, at 2:30 P. M. FOR RESERVATIONS PHONE 612 here’s the sensational new creme permanent that’s the talk of the town...it’s called “Super-Flex” (by Rayette) The new “Super-Flex” injection process neutralizes each and every curl from the inside as well as the outside. Each curl comes out soft and natural looking . . . the nearest thing to a natural curl ever developed . . . makes your hair more beautiful than ever.