Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 23, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba Page sixteen Deanna s newest role by Frank Morriss Deanna Durbin develops a dash at sophistication in her newest film. Its a Date and while the results prove disconcerting to those who like to keep her in a state of dewy innocence there is no question that she takes to her hew role like a Duck to water. 7 it s a Date is another variation of the theme of adolescent problems but while first love was a frankly sentimental confection a retell ing of the cinder Ella Story the present film i conceived All ii the interest o fun. In it Deann plays the Daugh Ter of a celebrate stage actress daughter know the ways of Thi theatre she i Deanna Durbin aware of the value of a Gooc Entrance and like most actresses her bump of ego has been developed to alarming proportions. Deanna gives us All these moods and she also is Able to bring her Owr delicious sense of fun to the proceedings. The results Are eminently this reviewer s standpoint at any rate. It s a Date has a feathery Story Wuth a number trite situations but its scenario is an inventive one and there Are dozens of Bright touches in dialogue and character development. Kay Francis gives a smooth account of Hersill As the Mother of Deanna. The plot has to a with the complications that arise when the daughter is Given a role that the older woman wishes to portray. There is a Triangle Situa Tion too with Deanna becoming her Mother s rival for the affections of a financier suavely played by Walter Pidgeon. Or. Pidgeon is another Canadian by the Way Hail ing from Saint John . There is not a great Deal of music in it s a Date but Deanna s voice never has sounded lovelier. Among other songs she does Musetta s Waltz from la Boheme and the ave Maria of Schubert. Winnipeg free press saturday March 23, 1940 Jeanette Macdonald who will be teamed again with Nelson Eddy in a musical. New Moon which has plenty of Sigmund Romberg music and Romance. Alto Gether a Field Day for the Macdonald Eddy they Are legion. Silver wedding of Alexander couple Alexander man., March 23. Spe and mrs. John j. Jeff cry received congratulations wednes Day on the occasion of their Silver wedding. Or. Jeffery came to Alexander from Yarmouth n.s., in 1909. Mrs. Jeff cry formerly Florrye Day mayor Daughl or of John e. And Euphemia Mae mayor of South Shields England came to this District in 1910. They were married by Rev. S. Twain on in Brandon March 20, 1915. The Veteran actress Cecelia Loftus does a Fine piece of work As a Friend of the family and there Art also Good performances from Eugene Pallette and Henry Steven son. It s a Date safely can be chalked up As another hit for a Winnipeg girl who made Good. Miss Anne Hladun medallist Teulon man., March 23. Special Anne Hladun Gimli was presented with the medal for proficiency in the homemaking Section of the youth training plan con ducted Here during the Winter. The closing exercises were held tues Day. Other awards were cookery miss Lily Ellison Teulon sewing. Miss Joan Tustin Narcisse note books miss Elsie Peterson also recommended misses Betty Hall. Mary Bailey and Mary Heale. Alloi Teulon. C. H. Lowe superintendent of education delivered an address and presentations were made to mrs. F. Iddins. Principal and miss p. Held assistant. Holden players Ivill close season with mystery show for the final week of their pres it Winnipeg engagement the John Holden players will present spooks a laughable mystery play that has been acclaimed As one of the Best of its Type Ever written from the time the curtain goes up until it descends in the third act there is never a let up in excitement and laughs or. Holden promises. More than one critic has said that spook is funnier and More mysterious than the Bat or the cat and the Canary. The Story has to do with an Cecen Trie old Man who Dies leaving a will stipulating that his four heir nephews John Holden Anc Leonard Patrick and two Niece Betty Kelley and Yvonne Castle remain for three nights in the House occupied by him of Many years and which has the reputation of being haunted. Fail ing to stay in the House the inheritance will go to an old Secretary William Needles and a Coloret servant Francesca things begin to happen from the moment the heirs put in their appearance and they keep right on happening until the final curtain the old Secretary is1 choked to death by unseen hands revolvers Are snatched from out of space Anc other weird complications ensue not until the final moments of the play is the real culprit brought to Justice. It out thrills and out laughs any show you be Ever according to one critic. Or. Holden promises a bang up production. There will be performances each evening with matinees wednesday and saturday. Smuts candidate wins a diff Trent stalled at appears in each Lambui Advt. If your name a fears in any Advt. Just clip and mail Tai Adit to Shirriff s uni Ted Toronto and 6 Jiuhui desserts Tali by Sens to you free. Have you heard about the Ricc As Rich fruitier flavour of Lushus Jelly desserts have you tried them if you Haven t Here s a flavour test that you can make serve similar portions of Lushus and other Jelly powder dessert to your family. If they do not agree that Lushus has i Richer livelier flavour return both Box tops to Shirriffs limited Toronto and Purchase Price of lath packages will refunded. This test will prove to you just Why the a Juhuns flavour Bud with its sealed in favour makes Lushus different try the test today Johannesburg March 22. Up Reuters prime minister Jan Smuts United party won another by election Victory in South Africa yesterday Over the opposition coalition headed by or. D. F. Malan and he former prime minister general j. B. M. Hertzog. The Smuts candidate won in the Carolina country constituency where 95 per cent of the voters Are Aff Rikans speaking. The vote was for Prinsloo United party candidate and for Andries Buetenbach nationalist. Red Cross supplies Souris man., March 23. Special and Glenwood Branch of the red Cross has sent 21 bed Jack ets 12 pillows lips three dressing gowns nine Hospital gowns 12 pairs socks 29 scarves 31 sweaters and 10 pairs wristlets and a donation of yarn to the Manitoba division As its second shipment. Arita rejects demand Japan join dictators Tokyo March 22. Bup for eign minister Hachiro Arita rejected today a demand that Japan strengthen ties with the Rome Berlin Axis in order to prevent possible British pressure in the far East in the event that the allies win the european War. Japan s policy of non involve ment in the War is Arita said. Japan must abandon its non involvement policy and join the Axis in order to help establish a new Shoichi Miyake said. After the world War he said Britain put pressure on Japan and he same thing he added would happen again with United states assistance. Gen. Shunroku War minister said the army was following government policy regarding the nine Power treaty which is supposed to guarantee China s sovereignty. Government policy is that the treaty ought to be revised at least but that the moment has not arrived for Japan to denounce it. Hata added i believe that the holy Campaign in China is above the nine Power treaty which should not be allowed to restrain military Shoal Lake electors hear James Ewbank Shoal Lake man., March 28. Spe with Patron age and graft have contributed More to bring agriculture to i Knees and must be abolished declared James Ewbank independen Farmer candidate for Marquett constituency at a meeting her tuesday evening. A March blizzard resulted in a Small crowd attending or Ewbank outlined his platform vigorous prosecution of the a with no conscription of manpower but elimination of War profiteers financing of the War he said should be done at Cost through the Bank of Canada. He seeks adequate debt adjustment Laws As Well a the marketing boards with pro Ducer representation As Well a elimination of the speculation it Grain. He urges also taxation b based on income with inheritance taxes and a Levy on All profits mad by foreign investors in Canada. H urged a National system of health and Accident insurance scholarship and bursaries to deserving students w. C. Wroth president of the Marquette Independent association presided. Ilk. Labor warns against patched up peace March 23. Up the labor speaking through its chairman sounded a warning last night against influences which Are at work to Stop the Patch up a peace settlement which would have no lasting qualities mrs. Barbara Gould of the party s National executive committee spoke at the annual conference of the co operative party political organization of the co operative Union of great Britain which is a close ally of the labor party said a satisfactory and lasting peace cow be negotiated with a German government pre pared to substitute deeds for words to restore the Independence of the austrians Czecho slovaks and poles to give effective guarantees that Force will not be used As an instrument of National policy for aggression and be pre pared to co operate with All other nations in building up a reconstructed league or federation of Alfred a abbr de livering his presidential address said the National must carry a measure of respond Sivility for the unhappy state of affairs in Europe today. The mis takes of our own government monday store hours 9.so , to6 Ftp. Dial a few y must not however be permitted of obscure the fact that the in Herent urges of nazism to Domin ate the world by Force is the Root of the turmoil in Europe Russia through the partition of Poland with Germany and her unprovoked attack and harsh Dic ated peace Tenns enforced on Finland has become an aggressor Tate. Her Alliance with nazism has certainly not won Over Hitler to communism. Rather it appears that Hitler has infected Stalin with the virus of aggression and Ribbentrop has converted Zolotoff to the tech Lique and methods of nazi diploma commenting on the fact that the British communist party turned to coat at Moscow s bidding or. 5arnes said this was the most contemptible episode in the whole history. Of the British working lass the Only instance of an organization claiming to exist to Urther the emancipation of work is of this country which submitted to its policy being changed t the direction of a foreign Power acting contrary to the. Declared policy of the British co operative Rade Union and labor old timers to hold reunion first annual reunion of old mers of the local freight depart Lent of the Canadian Pacific rail a company will be held Satur a night at the Marlborough Otel. It is sponsored by the brotherhood of railway clerks Reight handlers express and station employees Winnipeg Lodge 613. Mrs. John Hay Jock Whitney is reported to have reached a settlement under which she will receive in her divorce from her husband millionaire sportsman and movie producer. Mrs. Whit Neys Nani Ehas been linked that of Gene Autry Cowboy ii Jug Star with whom she has been seen frequently. Haig a Russell Russell man., March 23. Spe of laxity in govern ment contracts and failure to Grap pie with problems of the country after War had broken out were levelled against the Mackenzie King government before a Large Audi ence thursday night by senator John Haig. Everett Boulton was in he chair. Canada needed a a ional government representative of the Best brains in the country senator Haig said speaking on be half of John Peden National gov rement candidate in Marquette constituency. Military Microscope Mcnaughton casts his Eagle Eye on Canadian brigade at Aldershot Aldershot March 22 up Cable after Row of steady eyes and steady bayonets paraded smartly past major general a. G. L. Mcnaughton yesterday As he inspected the second Canadian infantry Bri Gade from cellar to attic. With bands playing each unit swung by at full Battle strength with the general officer command ing the Dominion s first division taking the Salute. There was no need to ask what he thought of his men after a dozen weeks of training overseas there was in his Eye the look that comes to a general seeing the accumulated result of a programme Well con ducted. After 1he March past the looked on while members of his staff each an expert in his own line conducted a foolproof Check 01 each battalion s proficiency me inspection was foolproof be cause the troops were picked at random by staff officers to carry out their various military tasks from the orderly room to the Rifle Range. In the next several Days the novel inspection instituted by Gen eral Mcnaughton will bring every Branch of every unit in the division under the gaze of himself and his staff experts. Flaws detected will be remedied promptly. Princess Patricia s Canadian Light infantry and the Edmonton regiment were under the micros Cope of the Soldier scientist yester Day. Their Drill past showed the results of their intensive training. The brass band of the . Played the Medley of airs of Thuc first great Mademoiselle from arme Tieres has anyone seen the colonel. And the familiar strains carried Home the thought that in the March past were Many Soldier sons of Soldier heroes of the last world conflagration out to mop up the Job started against the Germany of the Kaiser 26 years ago. Of 29 retired employees of the Reight department who have been invited 18 will attend according o a. P. Hancock the chairman. About 115 old timers Are expected o attend. Toasts will be Given by r. A. Amble terminal superintendent w. Ettkin freight agent c. Mcennan past general Foreman and Pateman general chairman of be brotherhood Western regions. Firemen kept Busy in Cathedral City six fires Good Friday afternoon kept the St. Boniface fire depart ment Busy. Largest loss reported was on a dwelling at 307 Archibald Street when fire starting in the attic resulted in damage. The loss to the Home owned by mrs. A. Maher was fully covered by insurance. A Chicken House was destroyed at 465 Des neurons Street brought under control by the fire depart ment. Fight to win plan studied by Reynaud Paris March 23, Paul Reynaud s new inner War Council met for the first time today to plan its fight to win strategy with Gen. Maurice Gamelin chief of the National defence and Admiral Francois Darlan commander in chief of the Navy attending. The meeting was delayed an hour while Gamelin conferred with edouard Daladier War minister at the War office. Renaud pledged to a vigorous prosecution of total War had summoned the inner Council meeting As soon As he decided to remain in office though the chamber of deputies yesterday had Given him its Confidence technically by a majority of but one vote. The new Premier after telling. The chamber that his government would arouse assemble and direct All French energies to fight and conquer was Given a 268 to 156 vote of Confidence while 111 deputies abstained from voting. The thin i margin foreshadowed a possible new Cabinet crisis in the near future. Rightist deputies complained i inclusion of socialist members j might make the government lean dangerously to the left. France expected a War Cabinet and instead it got a smart Patchwork Deputy Galicand said. Louis Marin chamber Leader of the extreme rightist Republican federation led the attack on the Reynaud government and claimed the Cabinet was not fit for wartime leadership. With evident reference to Italy the Premier emphasized that France s Alliance with Britain does not obliterate in us the feeling of latin describing the allies partnership in arms As the Camp of he said Lei us Hope that other Peoples will come to join this Franco British e. B. Gagnon Leo Independent six candidates the largest assortment in any1 Manitoba con Stit Mericy Are before the electors of Provencher. Rene Jutras St Norbert school teacher was chosen Liberal candidate at a convention of at Dominion City or. Johnston a Dominion City merchant is a Veteran conservative. Or. 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