Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 26, 1945, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg trek arms Thutt tact apr. Face danish explorer Here for lecture underground strategy related by Freuchen playing hide and seek with the nazis is not an easy Job says Cap Tain Peter Freuchen danish explorer and fighter for Freedom. No one could miss wooden leg and Beard were too Well known to the germans and eventually the Freedom Council told me that i had better get out of Denmark and serve elsewhere he said wednesday evening As he arrived in Winnipeg to give lectures. He told How he was shipped to Stockholm in a packing Case labelled machinery. Nazi inspectors opened the Case from time to time to look for illegal shipments but did not find him. For four months during one of his imprisonments by the nazis in Germany he lived on nothing but Oatmeal and water. His prison was a German the germans had filled with danish prisoners As insurance against at tack by danish saboteurs. But the Barracks was target for another kind from Allied bombers who emptied Satin in ooh dries a icky never or Sticky scented Olive Oil hand Cream tvs Tab the popular wheat germ Cereal delicious nourishing economical la. Package in. A superfine Cleanser for faiths basins paint work and porcelain so smooth cannot scratch. Dodds kidney pills acts at once to relieve night cough when thousands of prescriptions Foi Fer Tussin have been filled by druggists to relieve such must be Eood Well known herbal cough Only relieves your coughing spell but also loosens and easier to raise. Safe and for both old and Gung. Ssi in capt. Peter Fket Chen their loads on German objectives in Denmark after raids on Ger Many. It is quite annoying to sit be Hind bars and be bombed by your admitted the Captain. In the underground his main Job was the publishing of an under ground than 000 copies weekly. That Job was done by 15 to 20 Small presses operated in different parts of the country the nazis managed to obliterate at least one press every week. One new machine from eng land was dropped by Parachute. Others were seized in raids printing presses in German control. Involved great risks but even More difficult than the actual publication was the distribution of the newspapers. Naturally it involved great the penalties were of the most severe. Sometimes we even resorted to putting the papers in the Luggage of Gorman officers who were tra Velling and removing them before the destination was he said. The Freedom one that sent me to he said was a Union o All political parties in Denmark with just one purpose to fight the germans. It directed All the underground activities. After the War the Council will disband and it is better that nobody should Ever know who they he explained. Greenland is the Captain s destination after his present speaking tour. There he will serve the danish government in Thule the Colony that he founded in 1910. That was the country of his earlier life. There he plans to write another Book. Thirty years Green land its past and its future. There two Manitoban whom the Captain asked about wednesday night. One was a former sergeant of the . At Chester Field Inlet w. Douglas now Man Ager of the Hudson s Bay fur farm at Bird s Hill. The other was Dia mond Queen a lady of the country North of be Pas whom he made the Central character of one of his books. While in Winnipeg Captain Freuchen will address a Public meeting in the orpheus theatre thursday at 8.15 . Speaking to the Lions and Vik ing club s thursday at a luncheon in the fort Garry hotel. Captain Freuchen. Took As his subject the Arctic telling of experiences Dur ing the time he lived there. Profitable villainy by Frank Morriss if you want to be a Success in Hollywood it s a Good idea to re member the verse about the Little girl who had a Little curl right in the Middle of her forehead. When she was Good we Are informed she was very very Good. But it adds when she was bad she was horrid. Bette Davis who had been getting nowhere by playing a series of pallid heroines remembered this when she was Given the role of Mildred the sluttish character in w Somerset maugham s of human bondage. Bette made screen his tory and she s been in screen de Mand Ever since. You la be surprised if you sit Down and recall the actors and actresses who climbed to stardom up the Steps crime leaving ruined corpses and sobbing mothers in their Wake. Myrna was typed take Myrna Loy for example. Myrna is now regarded in cer Tain quarters As the Ideal wife Type. She got that reputation playing Norah in the thin Man series and she is pretty Well typed in that sort of thing by Jiow. But just cast Myrna Loy your mind Back a Lew years. Do you remember when Myrna was in demand every time a film was produced thai called for a scheming Oriental lady when she. Or the producers got tired of that sort of thing they let her play a Catfish female in society dramas. One of them was the other woman in when ladies meet when Ann Harding suffered and suffered As Myrna had an affair with her husband. Of the de Chest Dye William Powell who plays opposite Myrna in the thin mar stories also used to be a villain of the deepest Dye. Bill was such a Good bad Man. Though that he detracted attention from the hero Anc heroine and the first thing you know he was being starred. The newest candidate for being the screen bad girl of the year is Eleanor Parker. You la Recal. Eleanor who has been satisfactory enough in Mission to Moscow and the very thought of you. Now she has been Given the Mil dred role in the re make of human bondage. It is a pretty revolutionary step on the part of Warner Brothers her Bosses. But perhaps Eleanor has some villainy up her pretty sleeves. We shall see. Bass fined for failing to collect ration Coupon in provincial police court thurs Day Sam Bass owner of the Derby garage. 46 Derby Street was fined and costs by magistrate t j Murray for Selling three Gaj Lons of gasoline to a customer without collecting a ration Coupon the Sale was made on credit and because this is also an offence under the regulations the Magis trate reprimanded the accused but imposed court costs. Man and woman fined in too High rent Case pleading guilty to reaches of the wartime leasehold regulations a Man and a woman were fined by magistrate t. J. Murray in provincial court thursday. Josephine Dulko 362 Wardlaw Avenue was lined s25 and costs for collecting a higher rental than was just for accommodation in Ner Home and another for making a false statement to the wartime prices and Trade Board. George Middleton 303 Edmon ton Street who also was convicted of charging a higher rental than was reasonable for rooms m his Home was fined and costs. Offer no longer Good London april 26. Prime minister Churchill said in the House of commons yesterday that we offer of Complete Union Between France and Britain made by him just before the time of the collapse of the French armies in 1940, no longer is the policy of the British or. Churchill was replying to a written question from Owen Evans Liberal As to whether the offer of Union still held Good and the prime minister s answer was the one word wishing Well profits will go to red Cross Ottawa april up the wishing Well in Banff National Park yielded in last season and was taken from the Well in Riding Mountain National Park Manitoba. These pennies Nickels dimes and quarters dropped by Visi tors hoping for a wish to come True will go to the red Cross. Gilbert and Sullivan company give Gay pirates of Penzance a performance that bubbled Over with plenty of life and gusto from beginning to end is the was to de scribe the Gilbert and Sullivan opera company s rendition of the pirates of Penzance. Presented at the playhouse theatre wednesday night. William Gilbert s verse which reaches new Heights of ironic humor in this libretto found Able interpreters in the cast. Perhaps it might be said that things were a Little too Lively at times with the humor Beine Laid on in a heavy handed slapstick style but All the same it was warmly received by an appreciative audience. Kathleen Roche As Mabel proved to be the outstanding vocal treat of the evening. She has a Fine Soprano voice which is particularly Beautiful in the upper registers. Her vocal talents plus a clarity of Dic Tion rave her role an appealing Charm. Her singing of the Well known poor wandering one was one of the highlights of the eve Ning and her rendition of learn me not to Pine alone was Sunc with deep feeling. Humor and vivacity Ralph Riggs was the perfect Model of the modern major general and played his role with plenty of humor and vivacity. Robert Eckles made an excellent pirate icing while Robert Pitkin As the poor suffering police sergeant was outstanding. James Gerard As Frederic the pirate apprentice while he warmed to Bis task As the performance went on lacked sufficient authority in the earlier part of the evening. Cath Erine Judah As Ruth brought new life to a sometimes secondary Char Acter. The tuneful choruses were Given a Lively rendition and the orches tra under the direction of Louis Kroll combined with the chorus on the stage in near perfect team work tonight s performance will be patience while on Friday the com Pany will present the sorcerer. Trial by jury and . Pinafore will be Fiven saturday afternoon and Argentine plotters held in custody Buenos Aires april 26. A number of persons were held m custody today following discovery an extremist plot which the government said was designed to nullify Argentina s recent action on International policy. The action referred to presumably was Argentina s declaration of War on the Axis and its signing of the Chapultepec act. A government comm Maue is sued last night described the plot ters As thoroughly reactionary Al though they attempted to give their activity a semblance of a demo cratic movement. Erford Gage Dies on Brookfield. Mass. April 26. Cap set. Erford Gage Young film actor who frequently has portrayed arrogant nazis died in. Action on Luzon. March 17. He was 32. New members initiated by clothing workers initiation of members into the local amalgamated clothing work ers Union. C.i.o., took place Mon Day night in the auditorium at 230 Selkirk Avenue. 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