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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Dec 31, 1943
Page
3
Judy Garlang stars in M Gats For Me and My Gal at Tropical Theatre. Gere Kelly George Murphy head a vaudeville cavalcade with Len Carolin Andy Devene and Dan Dales as World War I era entertainment supports.
Hollywood style ice spectacle Rhetnm On Ice stars Ellen Drew and Richard Denning with the Ice Capades Revue at the Palace Theatre tonight. The program promises swellegance and romance between the film favorites, supported by Char Stevens and Irene Manning in Spy Ship.
The Plate Theatre showcases The Adventures of Martin Eden starring Glenn Kur Clare Trevor Evelyn Keyes and Start Erwin in a thrilling adventure romance adapted from Amighty novel. Brenda Jover and Richard Travis co star in a powerful screen version of the tale.
Kay Kyser stars in My Favorite Spy as a bandleader drawn into Uncle Sam’s secret service. He woos and misleads enemies in a wartime thriller with a fashionable night spot setting and a dangerous alliance with a blonde confidant. Also shown is The Glass Key with Brian Keith, Veroneca Lake, and Alan Lad.
RKO rerelease Ball of Fire will be screened in the Ace programme at Ave Theatre Freshwater. Stars Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck star in a heart warming and uproariously funny story of a sedate professor who knows dead languages yet knows nothing about ladies.
The Aquatic Dance Palais hosts a last old year dance tonight arranged by management. A gala 56 50 program features novelties and prizes for each dance with a Marion Jenkins dance band trio providing music. Dancing runs from 8 30 PM to 2 AM.
Saturday event at Aquatic Park features old-time dances as Marion Jenkins band provides music. Program includes monte catie barley tap and dooty miller dances with three quicksten extras. Patrons expect a lively floor and good time for visitors and dancers.
A fragmented OCR passage describes a wedding ring and a woman murmuring, with garbled phrases about Creme Charmosan and a young beauty. Names and places are unclear, but the scene hints at a romantic or ceremonial context involving a ring and admiration.
The advertise line promotes Creme Charmosan essence in 2/68 tubes sold widely for stage and tiny stars, claiming it is a favourite product for performers and beginners alike.
A newspaper letter discusses protecting primeval scenic areas after the war, noting limited resources and urging local citizen support. It cites fires near Brown Bay Mount Sheridan Gordonvale and outlines a future policy to reduce bush fires. The piece also includes Francis Ratcliffe on reef herons and their possible instinctive timing, plus a curious anecdote about tame doves near Cairns and Willy Waettsil feeding seabirds in Adelaide.
Christmas Day at the Toc H SCF Hostel Cairns featured guests from ACF YMCA ACP- WC hostels with free meals funded by Toc H Australia and the Australian Comforts Fund. Officers led prayers, toasts honored absent friends, gifts included cigarettes and plum pudding money, and representatives from Allied forces joined in. The event ended with wishes for 1944 to bring final victory.
Rh. L. Stevenson laments a youth whose bright intellect could backfire into folly. The speaker urges caution as the brainy young man contemplates bold, risky actions that may undermine his own judgment.
Iris May Slater of South Johnstone married Sam Prandolini of Bartle Frere on December 1 at Sacred Heart Church Innisfail. Ceremony by Rev Feather McCarthy O8.A. with Ka Richardson on organ. Bridesmaids in green taffeta. Best man Peter Prandolini. groomsmen Harold Crouch and Jack May. Reception at Criterion Hotel. Honeymoon spent on the Tablelands.
Over 15 months the Martyn Street Welfare Club at 110 Martyn Street Cairns entertained servicemen with billiards ping pong cards and a series of fortnightly parties staged at the home of Mr and Mrs Lindsay Earl. From September 1842 the gatherings grew with cake coffee and a sit down supper. A final Christmas party on December 17 marked the end as ill health forced closure and funds will be donated to the Red Shield.
Round the Red Cross Clock invites Yank and Aussie friends to a New Year’s Eve ball at the Special Services tent in Sheridan Street. Activities include dance from 8:30 pm to 1:30 am, Victorettes transport, and a no-dance tomorrow with a New Year’s program tonight. Sunday picnic at Ell Beach. weekly events listed thereafter.
Mrs. M. C. Leahee received word les. Another son Sergeant Beverley Lee formerly a schoolteacher at Parramatta will join in E Le Flying E Jim Purdon Christmas with parents in upper Lake Street. He left for Winton on Sunday where his marriage to Miss Leta will take place in the Church on January 2. Jail Office leaves on Saturday accompanied by Mrs. Sinton and family for a several weeks holiday in the Ingham district. Mr. Sinton has served 18 years at Innisfail in his present position.
The Mossman Methodist Girls Comrades held a successful social evening at the church on Monday December 20 after reopening. Prizes went to Miss V Morgan Miss I Pettersen and Miss O Donoghue Ted Voyser and BR Smith. A humorous monologue, guitar music, solo performances, and a dainty supper followed, with praise for the Comrades’ fine management.
Commonwealth Health notes meat shortages and urges home cooks to buy untrimmed cuts and trim sparingly. It highlights wasteful trimming of rib chops, where fat and bone are removed leaving small, dry pieces. Conserving meat saves both food and manpower.
December 6 fines totaling £700 were imposed on three women for possessing corama. Sylvia Comtelle, 36, and Jean Morris, 26, were each fined £73 and cents in default six months’ imprisonment, while Jeanie Ades, 30, was fined £3 in default four months’ jail.
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