SECTION TWO
Thursday, August 30, 1956 JESSEN^S~WEEKLY
ENTERTAINMENT - • - MOVIES - - - DINE AND DANCE
RADIO AND TV PROGRAMS FOR EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK
'BUS STOP' STARS MARLYN
AT NEW EMPRESS SUNDAY
Marilyn Monroe returns to the screen of the New Empress
Theatre on Sunday in “Bus Stop”, Twentieth Century-Fox’s
CinemaScope-De Luxe color version of William Inge’s successful
Broadway play. After an absence of 14 months the screen’s num
ber One glamour girl emerges with a new acting technique ac
quired at the famed Actor’s Studio
in New York but with the same
curves and beauty she has always
displayed.
Opposite Miss Monroe will be
Don Murray, a new and exciting
Broadway actor, who will be mak
ing his screen debut. He was select
ed for the important cowboy role
over thirty-odd young actors who
were tested for the part Producer
Buddy Adler surrounded them with
, top talent—Oscar nominee Arthur
O’Connell; Broadway actresses Bet
ty Field and Eileen Heckart; Rob
ert Bray. Hope Lange, Hans Con
reid and Casey Adams.
George Axelrod, who wrote “The
Seven Year Itch” and “Will Suc
cess Spoil Rock Hunter?”, two high
ly successful plays, adapted Inge’s
comedy romance between the chan
teuse of the Blue Dragon Cafe in
Phoenix. Arizona and the naive,
but brash cowboy from the Susie-Q
ranch in Mofltana. Their hilarious
love-making is carried on in a bus,
at a roadside diner, in the cafe and
at the Jaycee World's Champion
ship Rodeo.
Joshua Logan, who directed the
screen version of Inge's "Picnic,"
handled the directorial duties on
“Bus Stop.” To give greater scope
to the picture than the play had,
Director Logan took his company of
80 players and technicians on loca
tion first to Phoenix, where the an
nual rodeo was in progress, and to
Sun Valley, Idaho for scenic back
grounds. For the rodeo scenes Lo
gan used 10,000 spectators as extras
to cheer Marilyn and Don Murray,
who does some bronco riding of
his own. Top riders, including Case>
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Tibbs, World’s All-Around Rodeo
Champion, participate in the au
thentic round-up. Moving his
troupe on later to Sun Valley, Lo
gan made use of the vast expanse
of snow-covered mountains for the
i equally realistic snowbound out
j door scenes that keep the “pas
I sengers” marrooned at the “Bus
Stop” for several hours.
Milton Krasner, ASC, who photo
graphed Miss Monroe in The Seven
Year Itch” handled the Cinema
Scope qameras for “Bus Stop”
which emerges as a handsomely
mounted film treat.
HAMILTON ACRES GARDEN
CLUB MET LAST WEEK
The Hamilton Acres Garden Club
met recently in the music room of
the Nordale school. Hostesses for
the evening included Mmes. Wil
i liam MacMartin, Larry Schull, and
! Thomas Hering.
Don Dinkle, horticulturist from
the University of Alaska Experi
mental station, showed a full
length feature film on “Farming
in Alaska,” and conducted a ques
tion and answer period on farming
in the Tanana valley.
Special guests included members
of the Fairbanks Garden Club and
husbands of many of the members.
The next regular meeting of the
group is slated for September 11.
KING CHIN’S 5-course dinner for
! 2 or more—$2.75 ea. Includes For
i tune cakes Jasmine tea.
(Paid Adv.)
Fidalgo Island
Packing Company
Claims Paid
Unemployment compensation
claims involved in the Fidalgo Is
land Packing company case are now
being processed for payment, an
nounced Merrill E. Weir, acting dir
ector of the Alaska Employment Se
curity commission.
Claims of the cannery workers
which had been filed between July
5, 1953 and July 3, 1954 had been
witheld pending final decision of
the courts regarding legality of a
seasonality regulation covering can
nery workers. About 3,000 claimants
and 17,000 weekly claims are in
volved. All claimants involved are
cannery workers.
Weir said that any cannery work
er who had payment witheld on
claims filed between the above
dates may now be eligible for pay
ment. All claims involved have
been kept on file in the benefit
section in Juneau, and will now be
processed for payment.
Any claimant who had payments
witheld and who has changed his
address or who does not receive a
communication from the Employ
ment Security Commission within
two weeks should write to the ESC,
Box 2661, Juneau, giving his name
and social security number. The
latter is particularly important,
said Weir.
Most payments are estimated to
be paid by the first part of Sep
tember.
Margarita Simpson, with the trav
el department in Wien Alaska Air
lines’ downtown office, flew to Bar
row Sunday to act as a Wien tour
guide there for about two weeks,
i Miss Simpson will be a senior at
the University of Alaska next fall.
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YOUR HOSTS:
Frank Caruso
Jack Tiemeyer
“Satch” Blanchi
3 - Big Shows Every Night - 3
DIRECT FROM CONTINENTAL TOUR
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Television, Stage and Night Club Favorite with World-Wide Reputation!
★ ILONA GARDA
(RECENTLY COMPLETED EXTENDEDTOUR OF EUROPE AND THE ORIENT)
AUTO RACING SUNDAY—TIME TRIALS 1:00 P.M.
HELD OVER - The Old Skipper - ELTON LEWIS
Make a date to catch this fine new show while eating one of Betty and Jack
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E. C. SMITHS TO TEACH
IN ALLAKAKET SCHOOLS
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Smith and
their two children, Sandy and Kurt,
passed through Fairbanks last week
end en route to their new home in
Allakaket.
Smith will teach in the Territor
ial school there this year. Formerly
residents of Fairbanks, the Smiths
have lived for the past year in Bel
lingham, Washington, where he has
been working on his master’s de
gree.
They left for the Koyakuk vil
lage Monday with Wien Alaska Air
lines.
LACEY STREET THEATRE
SUNDAY - MONDAY - TUESDAY
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NEW EMPRESS THEATRE
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SUNDAY - MONDAY - TUESDAY - WEDNESDAY
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