The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-06-27

the story Will De SnppeQ In Win the
ones shot on the American location
and it won't be surprising if the
Baldwin lake shots are the more
convincing.
More than 100 boys are being paid
for having the time of their lives;
they're portraying real-life cadets
in Columbia's Military Academy"
and much of the action calls for
them to disport themselves on the
track and football field of a local
military academy. They sprint, put
the shot, pole-vault-and the checks
come rolling in. Tommy Kelly,
Bobby Jordan, David Holt and
Jackie Scarf are in the cast.
Four-year-old Dickie Lyon, son Of
Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon, (and
don't tell me that you don't remem-
Der those two picture stars!) is
worried. He's working in "The
Howards of Virginia." and doesn't
want his parents to find it out.
''They told me pictures was bad,"
he declares.
Bebe and Ben have been starring
in a stage play in London, and they
sent the boy back to California to
live with his grandmother several
months ago, because of the war.
Frank Lloyd, who's directing "The
Towards of Virginia." persuaded
Mrs. Daniels to let Dickie take the
role of the young son of Cary Grant
and Martha Scott, and Dickie is do
ing remarkably well-except that
he's worried. He's afraid of what
his mother will think when she sees
him on the screen.
Maybe she won't like it." he
says, ominously.
But Lloyd's not anxious. Some
time ago he told Bebe that little
Dickie was good picture prospect,
and she said, ''I'd trust him with
you"
Uncle Ezra (Pat Barrett) of ra-
dos National Barn Dance is highly
enthusiastic over making movies in
Hollywood, but the most difficult
thing he had to adjust himself to
was the delay in starting. He re-
Gently returned to Chicago from the
cinema city after making Coming
Round the Mountain" with Bob
Burns; later he'll go back to Para
mount and do two more.
ODDS AND ENDS-Cary Cooper has
q photograph of his tUo-year-old daugh.
ter, Mary, encased in the dashboard of
his car agnes Moorehead used
train and three planes in a frantic effort
to get to NeU York from Miltoaukee for
Big Sister" broadcast, landed in Wash
ington, and had to give up; tchen she
found the Net0 York plane grounded in
Milwaukee because of bad toeather, she
fetO to Cleveland, then to Pittsburgh,
then 10 Washington, only to find that there
toasn't enough time left to reach Ne,O
York for the broadcast Virginia Dale
and Lillian Cornell, ,Uhom you've seen or
perhaps tCiH see in "Buck Benny Rides
est in Touchdown" Uith Wayne Morris.
Frances Langford finished a
broadcast, then drove 700 miles to
the Navajo Indian reservation in
Arizona to spend her second we'd
ding anniversary with her husband,
Jon Hall, who's starring in exit Car
son." an Edward Small production.
There are $4,000 Navajo Indians
on the reservation, but the role of
Indian chief went to Al Kikumi, a
full blooded Hawaiian. After numer-
Gus tests Producer Small came to
the conclusion that Kikumi looks
more like an Indian chief than any
of the Indians do.
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Sinclair Lewis offered Raymond
Gram Swing the leading part of
"Doremus Jessup" in his summer
theater presentation of at Can't
Happen Here"-even offered to re-
write the play so that Swing could
do his actual broadcasts from the
stage. Lewis said Swing looked the
part of the small-town Vermont edi-
tor as he visualized the man.
But it just couldn't be done. For
Swing writes every line of the ma
terial that he broadcasts-that
means that he puts in a 12-hour day
at his desk.