The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 19, 1950, Page 3

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE-JUNEAU, ALASKA P PAG. THREB VERA ELLEN DANCES|HOPE ROMANCES "Sing?:’DSpurs" }IA';:ITSLAA#: AI(RIEOI":! Rl?-l-s%lfil ?:'E‘:fim‘“' v Check Your Newest and Largest Theatre Rusty Saves a Life"” ) 4 | At one time, the height of Vera-| Bob Hope, whose biggest romantic [[ ” T” fiy Ellen’s ambitions was to dance on|film problem to date has been win- IT°S BRAND NEW! SATURDAY COMPLETE SHOWS 7:20 STARTS ol e T | oo et s . i SUNDAY Playing Day and Date Flaymg ,y ; with Seattle’s Music Hall SUNDAY €1 B E YOU'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT! SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1950 b\ FOR ENDS TONIGHT! DOUBLE THRILL HIT! STARTS TONIGHT! Continuous Shows SUNDAY FROM 1:45 P. M. SHOWPLALE or sic” and again in “On the’Town." |hands in his current laugh riot, a l’l‘hen she wondered if it would be|Technicolor spectacle of the old too much to hope for to dance with west, “The Paleface.” Fred Astaire. She recently reanzed‘ Not only does he fall in love with that ambition as well in “Three the hard-to-handle beauty of the Little Words,” M-G-M's big Techni- | wide open spaces, Calamity Jane, in | 1 :30 — FEATURES 7:55-10:05 SHOWS at 3: RES 1:45-3:50-5:55-8:00-10:05 color musical based on the lives|the lush person of Jane Russell, but and songs Kalmar and to win her love Bob has to spirit her Harry Ruby. away, somehow, from the blood- “Now there's nothing left to hope | thirsty Indians who hold her cap- for except one thing—to dance with | tive. Considering the fact that Hope them both in the same movie,” says | plays a timid dentist scared of his Vera-Ellen. “And I've got news for | own shadow, he is faced with pull- you. I'm working on that right now!” | ing the neatest trick of the movie Vera-Ellen got the dancing habit | year. when she was all of nine years old. | e Paleface,” now showing at That was when her mother was told | Gross 20th Century Theatre, gives by teachers that her daughter would | Hope an opportunity to break into turn into & book-worm unless she an entirely new field of film action spent more time at some exercise. | for him—America’s beloved Western. She became the star pupil at & Cin- | It gives him a chance to emulate cinnati dancing school and by. the | those stalwart exponents of Western time she was sixteen had dmced.‘ heroes—Gary Cooper, John Wayne, of Bert 1ike Icing On a C: "Paramount SHOWS at 1:30—3:42 5:54—8:11—10:02 FEATURE at 1:30+3:51 e s 6:03—8:20—10:32 There Is No Substitute for Newspaper Advertising! EYES EXAMINED LENSES PRESCRIBED DR. D. D. MARQUARDT OPTOMETRIST Second and Franklin PHONE 506 FOR APPOINTMENTS Juneau (ATHHIHTRT . BT Chirepractic Health Clinie Dr. John M. Montgomery Dr. Geo. M. Caldwell Main and Front Streets Phone 477 A N T R SR S S PP — ELLIS AIR LINES DAILY TRIPS JUNEAU TO KETCHIKAN via Pefersburg and Wrangell With connections to Craig, Klawock and Hydaburg Conveniert afternoon departures, at 2:30 P. M. FOR RESERVATIONS PHONE 612 Alaska Coastal Alrfines enables you fo arrange —through your local ticket agent—your passage o the States on Pan American, and then fo any spot on the globel And for you who buy tickets in Sitka, Hoonah, Tenakee, Skagway, Haines and similor communities, ACA reserves a special block of seats so that its passengers share equal priority with those who buy tickets ia Juneaul amsn 9 @» % % %%IBU ES ehwing fehn l HURRICANE MOVES ON CAPE HATTERAS MIAMI, Fla., Aug. 19—»—The Cape Hatteras area of North Car- olina was advised to remain on the alert today for a hurricane moving northward past Fernandina, Fla. The storm warning service in the Miami Weather Bureau reported the big tropical storm containing 140-mile winds is moving northward at about 10 miles an hour. CAPT. DAVIS AND SONS LEAVE FOR FISHERIES Funter, Freshwater Bay and Cape Bendel will be the route of the Vagabond which left Juneau yester- day with Capt. James V. Davis and sons Jimmy and Rolly aboard. Capt. Davis and his sons will spend the next two weeks at the Davis fish before almost every fraternal, char- | itable and service organization in Ohio and Kentucky. When the Dancing Teachers of America made her a delegate to their New ¥York convention, Vera-Ellen decided to stay on and to make dancing her life work. After her discovery by Major Bowes, she worked with Ted Lewis and Billy Rose and then in such broadway musicals as ‘“Very Warm for May,” “Higher and Higher,” “Panama Hattie,” “By Jupiter” and “The Connecticut Yankee.” She made her Hollywood debut in “Wonder Man” and followed with “The Kid from Brooklyn” with Danny Kaye. Then came “Words and Music,” “On the Town” and a long-term M-G-M contract. e s |ALASKA INDIAN RELEASED AFTER |16 YRS. INASYLUM 3 WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 — (B — | Gilford J. Kriska, 27, an Alaskan + Indian, was ordered relesed yester- day from St. Elizabeth’s hospital here, 16 years after he was ruled | insane. | District Judge Edward M. Curran jruled that Kriska should be freed immediately. His attorney, Louis Lebowitz said he is arranging for Kriska to take 4 job as plumber’s helper. I Testimony brought out ' that Kriska was an 1l-year-old orphan ! when a hearing was held in the fishing village of Nulato, Alaska, to find out why he had been fighting with other boys. Krisk was declared insane and | sent to a hospital in Portland, Ore. On several occasions, he escaped. Kriska wanted to join the Army in 1944 and it was found that his in- ‘mlligence quotient was 10 percent above average. But he could not produce a birth certificate. Kriska was transferred to St. Elizabeth’s hospital a year later. Once he broke out, got a job in Baltimore, then was returned to the hospital. CIVIL DEFENSE IS T0 MEET AT ANCHORAGE | BEGINNING MONDAY Anchorage will be the site of the lAlaskfln civil defense meeting orig- inally scheduled for Mount McKin- ley Park, according to Territorial defense officials. Authorities said lt.he sessions will begin at 9:30 a.m. on Monday at the American Legion l Log Cabin. ! Subjects to be stressed at the one- day session will be the medical as- pects of civil defense, biological and chemical warfare, and emergency | treatment, of war casualties, accord- 'ing to Dr. C. Earl Albrecht, deputy director of civil defense. National aythorities originally i traps, “familiarizing the boys with scheduled to appear at the meeting the fish business,” Davis said. | were unable to attend, officials said. ARE Your Deposits & \ SAFE BUY and HOLD UNITED STATES SAVINGS BONDE A DEPOSITS IN THIS BANK ARE INSURED FIRST NATIONAL BANK of JUNEAU, ALASEA FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSTRANCE CORPORATION et | Randolph Scott, etc. And his way of interpreting them results in a | really riotous performance and one | which critics believe to be his fun- niest DR. GRACE FIELD IS NEW HEAD OF CITY'S SOROPTIMIST CLUB | Dr. Grace Field was unanimously elected president of the Juneau So- roptimists at the club’s meeting Fri= day noon in the Baranof Terrace. At the meeting, presided over by vice-president Bernice Morgan, Dr. Field’s name was presented by Alice Thorne, chairman of a nominating | committee which selected a candi- date for president to replace Miss | Gertrude Wetzel, president of the club, who has recently accepted a position in California and moved | from Juneau. Dr. Field is assistant director of communicable and preventable di- | sease control for the Alaska Depart- { ment of Health. | In a report of her personal ex- | periences at the Soroptimists’ na- | tional convention in*Seattle in early July, Mrs. Thorne, assistant chair- man of the Alaska delegation, made her club sisters aware of the tre- | mendous job the Alaskan delegates accomplished in preparing fof Alaska’s part on the program. The Alaskan delegation was host | for the opening reception at the | convention at the Olympic Hotel and | was accorded many honors by the | national officers. “The convention made us afl proud of our club. The Olympic hotel people who entertain convenfions nearly every day of the year, said ours was the best convention the Olympic had ever had,” Mrs. Thorne said. MISS MIZE LEAVES FOR WINTER IN ARIZONA Joining Miss Bertha Tiber of the Alaska Native Service for the trip sough, Miss Mitzi Mize left Thurs- day by Pan American for Phoenix, Ariz., where she will spend the winter. She has been in St. Ann’s Hospital for several weeks, with a severe case of asthma. 4 In Phoenix, where the Juneau girl is enrolled in school, she will be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Earl McGinty until classes start. Miss Mize is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Mize. | Poduced by ROBERT L WELCH Diected by NORMAN Z.M<LEOD —Hillbilly Hic Of The Year! PLUS — COMEDY and LATEST W GENERAL CONTRACTORS PHONE 857 Glacier Construction Co. New Building — Remodeling — Cabinet Work Plastering — Concrete Pouring Sand and Gravel Hauling WEEKEND SPECIAL AT TAKU LODGE All-Expense Fishing and Sightseeing Excursion $25 per person includes meals, lodging, boats, guides and trans- portation by boat and plane for groups of 3 or more. Bring own fishing gear and hip boots. Pishing licens2s may be purchased and gear and tackle for rent at lodge. Boat Redwing leaves Juneau each Saturday afternoon. Return via Alaska Coastal Sunday evening. Reservations, schedules and tickets available at Alaska Coastal Airlines Office — Baranof Hotel — Phone 202. 15-HOUR SESSION HAMMERS OUT (10 N. Y. NEWS STRIKE NEW YORK, Aug. 19—(®—The two-month strike of the CIO Ameri- can Newspaper Guild against the New York World-Telegram and Sun was tentatively settled today. An agreement covering “all is- sues” was hammered out in a 15- hour, all-night bargaining session with the help of federal mediators. Guild delegates said they would recommend the settlement to the 400 strikers, but said the terms will not be released until the member- ship votes on acceptance Tuesday night. % IT'S STAR-RIFIC % IT'S SHOW-STOPPING % IT'S BIG-TIME WHING DING presents 5««@ Clrisry and Her Daring, Dazzling, Exotic Dance Creations TWO SHOWS NITELY — 11:00 P. M. and 2:30 A. M.