SEATTLE SENDS TWO
TONS OF XMAS GIFTS
TO ALASKA GIs
More than two tons of Christ
mas gifts were sent to servicemen
stationed in Alaska by people of
Seattle this year, it was revealed
v as the last shipment of Christmas
boxes collected by the Victory
Canteen of the Seattle Civilian
War Commission left this week
via Pan American Clipper for the
Far North.
Approximately 1,500 boxes to
taling more than two tons in
weight were shipped to Alaska
during November and December
by Pan American World Airways
without charge, as their contribu
tion to the fifth annual Christmas
Gift Drive, thus insuring the ar
rival of all packages by Christmas
time.
The Christmas boxes, each of
which contained worthwhile, sub
stantial gifts for servicemen who
would otherwise be forgotten this
coming holiday season, were do
nated by residents of Seattle
through the Victory Canteen
Croup of volunteer women who
have collected special presents for
men in Alaska for the past five
years.
The gifts were delivered by Pan
American Clipper to Ladd Field,
Fairbanks, and will be distributed
by army officials to the men who
will receive no other remembrance
at Christmas. '
THE STARS SHINE BRIGHT AT CHRISTMAS
By ADELAIDE KERR
(/P) Newsfealures Writer
Stars of stage, screen, radio and
opera have planned gay gifts and
| celebrations with a novel slant for
the first peaceful Christmas in
five years.
i
When actress Cornelia Otis
i Skinner, now starring in an NBC
! show, serves Christmas eggnogs to
the John Mason Browns, she says
she will serve the first one in an
antique drinking glass in which
Mark Twain and Joseph Jefferson
used to toast each other once a
year . . . Greer Garson plans to
center her Christmas dinner table
with a big red cardboard chimney
topped with little gifts, each at
tached to a red satin ribbon which
trails to a guest’s place . . . The
guests at Lucille Ball’s Christmas
dinner will find their placecards
tied to the backs of their chairs
with a holly-spiked green satin
bow . . . Smorgasbord, much like
her Swedish parents used to serve
back in Minnesota, will be the
piece de resistance of radio actress
Alice Frost’s Christmas Eve mid
night supper.
Helen Jepson, songstress, will
give her Christmas party in honor
of her small son, presenting her
young guests with big bright corn
ucopias stuffed with popcorn,
candy and small gifts . . . Lizabeth
Scott has given some thought to
the Hollywood girls who live
alone, and invited the same nine
who shared her Thanksgiving tur
key to a Christmas afternoon tree
and gift party . . . Kate Smith has
begun to bake dozens of cookies,
cut in the shape of Christmas trees
and dusted with multicolored can
dies, destined to be brightly boxed
and added to her regular Yuletide
gifts as holiday flavoring.
Little Margaret O’Brien of the
movies is also at work on holiday
preparations, making little net
bags to be filled with candy and j
nuts, and later to be given as gift
greetings to her family’s Yuletide
callers . . . Deanna Durbin plans :
to trim her Christmas tree as ■
grandmother used to do—with
strings of old fashioned popcorn,,
cranberries and big red apples . . . I
Anne Elstner. radio actress, will
make her annual visit to the vil
lage school in her home town of
Stock, N. Y.. and present each
child with a gift book ... Rita
Hayworth likes to make her own
holly wreaths.
When it comes to gifts and
greetings, many of the stars favor
those with a musical slant . . .
Ruth Webb, singing comedienne
of “On the Town,” is giving Betty
Comden, who wrote the show, a
musical typewriter that plays
tunes when a certain combination
of keys is struck . . . For friends
who are Caruso fans, songstress
Rose Bampton has collected a
number of the famous tenor’s re
cordings and assembled them in
albums of five . . . Helen Traubel, j
Wagnerian soprano, plans to sur
prise a couple of friends with
musical alarm clocks which play
“Oh How I Hate to Get Up in the
Morning!’’ . . . Kathryn Duffy,
producer of night club shows, is (
presenting her small daughter j
with a record player and 20 sides
of music by American composers.
From her USO tour in the Far !
East, movie actress Jinx Falken
berg brought back lots of Chinese
silver filigree ornaments which!
she will use as gifts . . . Jane
Powell, singing actress, is going to!
gladden the hearts of her young
school chums back in Oregon with
leather autograph books, already
bearing famous movie signatures
. . . Scarfs splashed with bright
requin monograms are going to a
lot of friends of Louise Fifth, star
of a CBS show. . . . Barbara Stan
wyck says she is shopping for a
four-passenger plane for husband
Robert Taylor . . . Gracie Allen,
whose daughter Sandra loves to
draw maps, is giving the young
ster a set of mechanical pencils1
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with bright leads . . . Chanteuse
Hildegarde is going to present a
lot of her friends with the same
kind of big bright ’kerchiefs that
she carries herself.
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TO COUNT ON YOU
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