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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1950 Let’sGoTo A WILL HOLD YOU IN ITS SPELL! HYPNOTIZES BRIDE Movie Tonight!? BURIES HER ALIVE! THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA S T T | A TOAST! To the Champagne of MUSICALS!? "Please sing together forever, Oh, songbirds so wondrously rare. Kathryn and Mario, we toast you! Your romance and song fill the air."” GALA ALASKA PREMIERE SUNDAY - NOV. 5th Day and Date with Seattle Music Hall 3DAYSONLY @ REGULAR PRICES M-G-M presents GALA Nsy! .'vdUSICAI. TecHNicoLorR DUMAS STORY OF "BLACK MAGIC' IS CAPITOL MYSTERY If the ghost of the fabulous char- latan, Cagliostro, is still hovering und, he must have gotten a big Kick out of what went on in Rome y when Edward Small pro- duced the film spectacle, “Black Magic,” starring Orson Welles and Nancy Guild. The film is based on Alexandrr‘ Dumas’ famous character, Cagliostro from “Memoirs of a Physician,” and tells the story of a man whose hypnotic powers kept all Europe in a political and social turmoil dur- ing the later part of the 18th Cen- tury. United Artists made “Black Magic,” which opens at the Capitol Theatre tonight. Gregory Ratoff, who directed KIWANIS (LUB ELECTS | LARRY PARKER PRES. Larry Parker was elected Presi- | dent of the Juneau Kiwanis Club | for the coming year at a regular luncheon meeting of the club at {the Baranof Hotel this noon. Don, Burrus was named Vice Pre- sident; Ed Hinke, Secretary; and | Archie Betts, Treasurer, Chosen for the board of directors were: John Griffin, Dr. John Clements, Wayne Richey, Robert Furst, Dr. H. C. Harris, Norman Steinig and Gene | Vuille, 1{ Dr. Harris, chairman of the Christmas Seal Drive committee, urged all members to start today ;to cover their assigned business districts. * Burrus reported that a total of |$278.73 had been realized from the ;Johnny Holiday show for use of jneedy and underprivileged child- I ren. PAGE FIVE BIG FIRE SCENE IS } , IN207H CENTURY'S | LAST WESTERN FEATURE ”{f’ A midnight fire and explosion that runs exactly 42 seconds in Seymour Nebenzal's “Montana Mike,” show- ing for the last times tonight at the s 20th Century Theatre, took seven weeks of planning and twe weeks of actual preparation to the tune of $100,000. In actual per- formance, it rocked Hollywood anc echoed, indirectly, as far afield as Colorado. At 8 pam. that night Director Al- bert S. Rogell shot a preliminary scene with the front of the Pair-a- Dice Casino ablaze. After the firc extinguisher went to work, a three hour cooling off period neces- sary before the special effects men could safely place inside the ex- “Black Magic,” shot a number of | The Kiwanians joined the Alaska Plosives necessary to blow the sa- STABTS 'rfl“onnow! important scenes in front of the Church of Trinita dei Monti, perched on top of the famous and staircase of Piazza dijmeet with the new manager of the ' . This site, chosen for the wedding of Cagliostro, played by Welles, and Lorenza, played by Guild, rates with the Coli- seum and St. Peter’s as the most Crippled Children’s Association 100 | percent. | A committee was appointed to | Baranof Hotel to discuss an ad- Jjustment regarding the price and {amount of food for the luncheons. of the Native Arts and Crafts loon skywards scientifically., The switches were thrown at midnigh and Hollywood rocked to the blast edm/ A NEW WORLD OF ADVENTURES “Montana Mike,” a United Artist M A WORLD OF 60, release, also stars Robert Cummings g TR N e Brian Donlevy and Marjorie Rey- nolds and features Edgar Kennedy Robert McKay, assistant manager and Stuart Erwin. Adveniures of the fabulous Cagliostro! SORTRIE TRRRING A MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR SPECTACLE . .. OF A MAN (requented spots in the Eternal City. | By picking Trinita dei Monti, Di- | cector Ratoff had both the advan- tage of using one of the most beau- | clearing house, was a guest, { Ed Hinke will be in charge of the program for next week. | US. Coast Guard headquarters here reported that a search is under !way in Carrol Inlet out of Ketchi- | kan for three hunters missing since a the | orc, i aso weing tastn o nis- | MCKINLEY PARK tory. The scene will look, on the | WHO MADE SLAVES OF | Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Cocken EUROPE’S LOVELIEST WOMEN! SWORN TO VENGEANCE /¢ His Strange, Unheard-of Powers iad to R Violence, Intrigue, Advcnlun_f P NANCY GUILD Akim TAMIROFF Frank LATIMORE SHOWS at 7:19—9:30 FEATURE at 7:42—9:53 WHERE THE FALL FILM FESTIVAL IS IN FULL SWING! | BLOOD TYPING CARDS ' ARE REPORTED READY | The last of the blood typing cards | for those who participated in the | service have been received from the | Department of Health and should be called for promptly. The office |of the Juneau Chapter, ARC, will | be open for that purpose from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. tomorrow and Friday land on Saturday from 10:30 to 12:30. | A total of 736 persons, 604 in Ju- neau, and 132 in Douglas, took ad- . vantage of the opportunity offered. Six evenings were'devoted to the work here and two evenings in Douglas. Dr. Frank Maresh and Dr. J. O. Rude went to Douglas for the sec- |ond evening. They were assisted by the Rev. J. E. Porter, Douglas chairman of the project, Mesdames Hartman, McCormick and Richards and Edith Wellington, Terry Sniet- hen and Margaret Pearce. Dr. Wm. P. Blanton and Dr. J. W. Gibson were on duty for the final evening in Juneau assisted by Gloria Frasier and Rosalyn R e ) | Rarick.Mrs. Karl Alstead, Mrs. J. N. Bidwell and Mrs. P. D. Merritt furnished the clerical help. All work connected with the pro- ject, professional and otherwise, was furnished without cost to the sponsoring agencies. Juneau and Douglas citizens volunteered their services, and supplies were fur- nished by the Juneau Chapter, ARC, Race Drug Co., and the Department of Health. Halloewe'en Fun Ends in Hospital For Nfl York Miss TROY, N. Y. Nov. 1—{P—Gail Seymour, 11, huffed and puffed mightily on her Hallowe’en horn | and wound up in the hospital, Gail, who lives in nearby West Sand Lake, swallowed the noise- maker in her horn as she tooted at a costume parade here. She was admitted to St. Mary’s Hospital. FROM - CALIFORNIA | Dorothy R. Winninghoff of La Canada, Calif., is stopping at the| Baranof Hotel. JUNEAU DRUG COMPANY Prescription Pharmacists screen, exactly as it did in the sighteenth century, when the action takes place. The Piazza di Spagna staircase is crowded with memories. The famous English poets, Keats and Shelley, lived in a house at its feet, while the late Italian poet and patriot, Gabriele D’Annunzio, and the Ger- man philosopher Frederich Nietsche, lived in a building overlooking the staircase. 4 TOASTMASTERS 10 MEET THURSDAY AT BARANOF GOLD ROOM Taku Toastmasters will have its regular meeting at 6 p.m. Thurs- day in the Gold Room of Baranof Hotel, Speakers will be 8. H. Lorain, speaking on the subject, “Minerals or Else;” Leo Saavela has chosen “Free Market on Gold;” Irwin Carter is speaking about “Let’s All Get Rich;” W. J. Manthey will discuss “The Redwoods.” Urban C (Pete) Nelson will make the impromptu speech, the subject to be assigned a few minutes before he is called upon to speak. Mayor Waino Hendrickson will conclude the table topics. Comdr. E. P. Chester is toast- master for the meeting and Lt. Comdr., E, C. Hawley will be chief critic. ENROUTE SOUTH J. Millos of' the Polaris-Taku mine at Tulsequah, was in Juneau today at the Gastineau Hotel. He will go out on the southbound trip of the Princess Louise to return to his home in Vancouver for the winter. SCHWINN BIKES AT MADSEN'S ALASKA DAY FETE ‘ REPORTED SUCCESS | Visitors to the fourth annual Al- aska Day Celebration, staged at |road, reported the affair a huge success. Inaugurated by Col. J. P. Johnson, manager of the Alaska Ralilroad, the Alaska Day com- mémorations have become well known throughout the country. A special train, carrying the cele- brants, left Anchorage at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, reaching the park at 5 p.m.. New roadbed and trackage having greatly improved operations, the Alaska Day Special reached speeds of 70 miles an hour over | parts of the route. | The weather was clear and sunny | with snow on the ground and a temperature of about 30 degrees. { The park hotel was full to capacity. | The Alaska Day program started "Snturdny night with a dance at | the hotel, followed by a weekend of entertainment and funmaking. Mr. Peterson and Mr. Duryea of |the Alaska Steamship Company were among the guests. One of the biz events of the we nd was the Alaska Steamship | Company’s cocktail party Sunday | afterncon. Decorations followed a | traditional shipboard theme and ’guesw were provided with balloons, paper cups, noisemakers and all the trappings of a Captains party on the last night aboard. Winding up the festivities was the Days of '98 masquerade Sunday night. Prizes for costumes went to Mr. and Mrs. Don Rozelle, An- chorage, who went as Jiggs and | Maggie. Maggie’s rolling pin, auto- graphed by all the guests, is Mrs. | Rozelle’s souvenir of the occasion. | The return train left McKinley |Park at 1:30 Monday afternoon, reaching Anchorage at 9:15. u McKinley Park by the Alaska Rail- | land Matilda Dalton left Ketchikan 'on October 28 in a 14-foot outboard | skiff to go hunting and did not re- turn on the 29th as scheduled. A Coast Guard cutter is searching !the afea. FROM SEATTLE Dewey R. Thibeau of Seattle is registered at the Baranof Hotel. SALES and SERVICE CHRISTENSEN BROS. 909 12th Phone Green 279 O R T I SRR IC O | Your Deposits ARE SAFE BUY and HOLD UNITED STATES SAVINGS BONDS bank is tive oper ; of depositors’ funds is our primary consideration. In addition, the bank: is a mem- ber of Federal Deposit Insur- ance Corporation, which in- sures each of our depositors against loss to a maximum of $10,000. ARE FIRST NATIONAL BANK of JUNEAU, ALASKA i MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION They're out of this world . . Juneau, Alaska PHONE 357 || GENERAL CONTRACTORS Glacier Construction Co. New Building — Remodeling — Cabinet Work Pl(astering — Concrete Pouring Sand and Gravel Hauling ATTENTION-AIl Eastern Stars and Masons DANCE - SCOTTISH RITE TEMPLE Saturday, Nov: 4th-10 P. M. For All Stars, Masons, and Their Invited Guests Semi-Formal SPECIAL PRIZES Cards for those who don't dance Straight from New York comes a collection of stunning new formals . . . They're new . . . They’re outstand- ing in originality. October 25, 1950 To the Women of Juneau All Post Office Box Holders Juneau, Alaska Dear Mrs. or Miss: Regardless of what makeup you wear its success depends a lot on how you apply it, and the correct color shades for your individual complexion and facial structure. 2 Yours to wear to the Masonic Dance this Saturday. MAY WE INVITE YOU TO TAKE ADVAN- TAGE OF THE free services of Mrs. Toby Patton, expert cosmetician, who will be glad to help you select your most becoming color tones and aid you in determining the most flattering way of apply- ing your makeup. Juneau Drug Store carries a large and complete selection of cosmetics made by the world’s leading manufacturers. Sincerely yours, JUNEAU DRUG ST¢ )RE Kenneth Shaffer Manager Music by Manson's Band Admission: $1.25 plus tax