The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-07-04

JOEL McCREA
posite Claudette Colbert. (2) That
meant that Virginia" wouldn't
start on time. (3) That meant that
Franchot Tone, who was to have CO.
starred in Virginia" had to with
draw from the cast, because he had
another commitment, and could ap-
pear in Virginia" only if it started
on schedule. (4) That meant that
Fred McMurray stepped into the
role for which Midland had been
scheduled, playing opposite Made
leine Carroll, but 90 She flew TO
England recently; at the moment Of
writing there's no telling when she'll
be back.
Dorothy Lamour traded SIC, 000,-
900 (according to her studio) head
of hair for 80 cents worth Of calico,
and it wasn't just stunt in a movie
scenario either. Seems she's been
wanting to bob those 40-inch tresses,
which played quite part in estab-
fishing her as a draw at the box
office. The studio wanted her TO
make some more pictures IN which
she wore sarong, and she was de-
termined not to. So both sides gave
in; she had her hair bobbed by
Wally Westmore, head of the make
up department (and cried little,
as most girls do when they hear
that first snip of the shears) and
consented to do three South Seas
pictures - Moon Over Burma"
"Aloma of the South Seas" with
Jon Hall, and South of Samoa"
with Bing Crosby.
A custom has been initiated dur
ing the rehearsals of the Rudy VAL
lee show to mark the scripts with
asterisks to denote the laugh Nal
lowed. The reason for this is TO
clock for timing when the show is
actually broadcast. Four asterisks
are tops in laugh pauses.
The other night someone in the
cast asked scriptwriter Sid Fields
what it meant to see five asterisks
instead of the customary four. Re-
piled Fields, "Then you know that
you have the Fred Allen script by
mistake"
When you see the Bing Crosby
picture, Rhythm on the River"
you may be surprised to find that
Ken Carpenter, Bing's announcer
and chime ringer on the air, plays a
radio announcer named ken Car
penter." It's the result of an acct
dent. Scenarists had given Carpen-
ter another name in the picture,
but John Scott Trotter, who's Bing's
broadcast band leader and plays a
band leader in the picture, made a
long film take in which he called
Carpenter by his real name. 1t was
simpler to change the name than to
do the scene over again.
Arthur Lakes desire for realism
on the Blonde" radio show nearly
disrupted the program recently. In
one scene he had to fall down, with
the proper accompanying sound ef-
fects; usually that just means that
the sound man makes the noises.
But Arthur insisted on doing his own
fall. The show was on fol. the east
ern broadcast. Arthur fell wrong, the
script few in all directions, and Pen
ny Singleton had to rush over with
her script and let Arthur read his
part from it until his script had been
reassembled.
ODDS AND ENDS-A FOLSOM, RUBY
KeeIer, Martha Raye, Lionel Sfander and
Jack Khiting are abandoning the movies
emporariIy-fhey're rehearsing in Neso
York for a nefc musical, Hold On to Your
Hats ~Scaffergood Baines," radios
best-knoton storekeeper, makes his screen
debut early in the fall in the first of
series OF pictures :. Fibber MCGEE and
MoIIy's first film, to be made IN August.
sciI hare the fotcn of -Eisffui Vista" as
It's locale, and iUiH feature the other men,
bers of their radio troupe =. Joan Vim
tiers, OF Girl Alone" is organizing a
Mothers in Radio Club; she herself has
ts0o children.