The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-06-20

comedy stars; she played the lead
in 'Balalaika" on the stage there
you'll recall that Nelson Eddy and
Iona Massey did the picture YER
sion. She has been in this country
for two years; last year, while sing
ing on the New York stage in ''The
Boys From Syracuse, she was
signed up by Paramount, and "The
Light That Failed" with Ronald
Colman, was her first picture. Then
she did ''Safari' and ''The Way of
All FLESH" followed them with
Down Went McGinty."
When John Barrymore seemed to
be unavailable for the role of John
Barrymore in "The Great Profile, :"
at Twentieth Century-FOx, Adolphe
Menjou was engaged for it. Then
Barrym0re's plans changed, he took
the part, and Menjou took his sal
airy, as the studio had no other pic
ture ready for him.
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Rod Cameron, young, six-foot
Canadian, went to Los Angeles a
year ago to learn the dime store
business. That didn't work out
very well, so he quit, took up little
theater work, and now finds himself
acting for Paramount.
Death brought him his first role,
that of Corporal Underhill' in
Cecil B. DeMille's Northwest
Mounted Police" Earl Askam, a
former stage star and war hero, was
to have played it, but he died recent
ly of heart attack, and young
Cameron (whose real name is Rod
Cox was summoned for it. By a
grisly coincidence, the role includes
a death scene, but he's so elated
over getting the part that he can't
afford to be superstitious.
Now that they need passports to
sail for tour of South America, it
has been discovered that many of
Toscanini's NBC Symphony must
clans are men without a country.
1t seems that there was a general
impression among them that all
they had to do to become American
citizens was to file their intentions
of doing so; now they're not Amer
leans, and, as they renounced their
native lands, they don't legally be-
long anywhere.
George Brent, working in Warner
Brothers "The Sentence" offers to
put up $4,000 at 10 to 1 odds that
he won't marry for another three
years. "That's no reflection on
Ann" he says, meaning Ann Sheri-
dan, whom gossips have him we'd
ding soon. cts just that Pm going
to wind up my picture contract
then, and Pm not making any mar
riage plans until / do"
Miss Sheridan working in ''They
Drive by Night" same studio) is
equally vehement. George and
haven't even discussed getting mar
ried," says she. Butts the kind
of buildup that so often leads to an
elopement, in Hollywood!
Carl Hoff, on the CHS Al Pearce
show, drew an impressive crowd the
other day and wished he hadn't. He
parked his new coupe and then tried
to get out of it, and couldn't. He
went through assorted acrobatic
commissions, thrusting his feet and
arms out of the windows in all pos
sible combinations, while the crowd
offered advice hilariously. The new
coupe has patent thief-locks on its
doors. Only after he had struggled
till he was limp did it occur to Hoff
to pass the key to one of the
amused bystanders.
ODDS AND ENDS.-Tpelue Warner
Brothers employees, named by the studio
to select ttpo contract actresses for future
stardon1, picked Jane lyman and Bren.
da Marshall James Cagney and George
Murphy hare coIIaborated on story
called "Where Starts My Lore" =. Vii
liam BOYD broke t,oo bones in his righi
leg during a chase" on location, in scenes
for Doomed Carapan." Boyd, ,oho came
through 81 "HOpalong pictures unscathed
mas one consoLation-itt Uas he-man scene
in tUhich he tcas hurt, and the only other
time that he ,oas injured it happened in a
boudoir scene, in which he tois sea-
With Monte Blue!