The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-05-30

naO a late can LOT WOrR CnaL DAY,
and had spent the early morning
hours riding with his wife, Frances
Langford.
Small met Hall near the actors
dressing bungalow-and now it's
Hall instead of Randolph Scott
whom you'll see as Kit Carson.
In its latest issue, 1.-THE Philip
pines; 1896-1946," the March of
Time pictures the new problems
facing the Philippines as a result
Of today's mounting war fever, and
shows how Philippine independence,
scheduled to take effect in 1916, is
already threatened by Japan's cur
rent expansion program in the south
Pacific.
It's been announced that Joan
Blonden plans to retire from the
screen indefinitely when she fin
ishes 81 Want a Divorce" She has
been suffering from severe colds
and inertia for the past year, and
says that she will travel throughout
America with a road company, "a
novel cure for both severe colds and
inertiaD and later on viii make an
extended tour of South America for
change of climate.
Fred MacMurray has grown to be
so expert at water polo that a COM
pany that makes short features has
asked him to make one on the sport.
Felix Knight, starred on the air
waves ''Au Star Revue" had a bad
moment recently. After he had
sung medley of songs about the
month of May, gardens and apple
orchards, the Three testers strobe
up and down the aisles, tossing ap-
pies and other farm products to the
audience. knight swears he was
scared to death for fear the fruit
would be handed right blackburn
ting through the air straight at him.
If Columbia's Wayne King wanted
to start up in the pipe tobacco bust
ness, he already has large Glen
tele all over the country. For Is
years he has been smoking his own
private mixture, but he won't tell
anyone what it is. It's the result
of four years of experimenting. But
though he won't give away the
secret of the mixture, he does give
away the tobacco-12 pounds of it a
month. When he travels on per-
sonal appearance tours there's al
ways large can of it on his dress
ing table-so if his orchestra is play
ing in your town, and you know any
one who smokes pipe, you might
drop in and get some.
Deems Taylor, the music critic
and composer who acts as master
of ceremonies on Musical Ameri-
cana" has a maid who delights in
taking part in contests of all kinds.
She was greatly excited recently
when she was notified that she had
qualified among the winners in a
national contest, and couldn't wait
to receive her prize. When it came
it turned out to be an autographed
copy of Taylor's latest book on
music!
Bob Trout maintains that during
those first few days after war really
broke loose he averaged only two
and one-half hours sleep out of each
"a, and could have foated a battle
ship on the amount of coffee he
drank to keep awake. Newscastine
isn't all that it's cracked I'D to be.
Republic has arranged to produce
a picture starring Gene Aubrey: the
title will be Melody Ranch''-same
as his radio programmed several
members of the radio cast will ap-
pear IN the picture.
ODDS AND ENDS Since Girl
Alone" returned to the air last fall three
of the girls in the cast hare married-ap-
parentLy the title tUds temptation to
Cupid :. Remember Anna Stem? She's
been signed for an important role in Il
Married Na=i," Uith Joan Bennett and
Richard Greene CLaudefte Colbert
,ciH make Arise My Lore" dramatic
comedy laid IN France at the outset of the
current scar, in tUhich she tUiu pIay a
newspaper scomdn Carl Hof, musical
director of the Al Pearce progrunl, has a
ne1U "scork room"-ifs his cabin cruiser.
and tChen he tUdnfs to Iork he iusf heads
out to sea. establishes his Uffe M niIo,
and gets busy.