The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-05-09

Birthday greetings from Gary Cooper to
May Robson.
the most strenuous parts Of her long
career, that of a salty old lady who
looks upon modern Texas peace Of
ficers as poor successors to the ones
she knew in her youth.
You'll be able to see Pat O'Mal-
ley, of radios "Alee Templeton
Time" on the screen before long.
His first picture will be Captain
Caution" in which he will play a
Cockney sailor who is captured dur
ing the War of 1s12-and in which
he'll sing the "Apple Song" which
he has already performed on the
TempletOn program.
When you see "a Night at Earl
CAROLS" you'll also see what was,
two years ago, the community S
most expensive night club. Remem-
Der when it opened, with a special
section for movie stars? Nowadays
it's a dine-and-dance emporium in
the evenings, but during the days
it's been returned to its former glory
by Paramount Ken Murray and
Rose Hobart play the leads In the
picture, Cobina and Brenda, radios
comedy team, and some of the
much publicized Earl Carroll beau
ties will support them, and Earl
Carroll, besides acting as producer,
will play himself.
The Philadelphia-LaSca Opera
company wants Deanna Durbin to
make her operate career under its
auspices next season. James Mel
toms already signed with the COM
pany.
Ben Grauer has grabbed off the
most coveted announcing assign
ment In radio. He's been selected
to introduce Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
when she takes the air. Oddly
enough, he and she will be in studios
hundreds of miles apart, since she
will be on the go most of the time;
she'll broadcast from a city con-
venient to her schedule, and he'll
chime In from a New York studio.
He is an energetic, jovial young
man, who, since he joined NBC 10
years ago, has been working toward
iberating the announcer from his
iff-necked, plush-voiced makeup.
He's been trying to sound like a
human being, and deserves a medal
for the way that he has succeeded,
and inspired other announcers to
unbend.
Radios Uncle Ezra" (Pat Bar
rett) a confirmed bachelor In his Ma
tional Barn Dance air show, found
on his arrival in Hollywood recently
that the screen expects him to have
a wife. In the Bob Burns picture,
Comm Round the Mountain"
"UncIe Ezra" will find himself we'd
ded to a movie actress, whether he
likes it or not.
Nine years and 40 weeks ago Joan
Blondeu decided that she might as
well leave Hollywood and 60 back
to New York, because she'd never
get anywhere in pictures. She was
working in Sinners Holiday" with
James Cagney, and she made up
her mind that she'd stick it out till
the picture was finished.
But she never got away. In fact,
she's been so much in demand that
she's had only few trips to New
York to do shopping, and the one
she made with Dick Powell on their
over-ballyhooed honeymoon.
ODDS AND ENDS Ray MiILand has
turned morie director and cameraman;
the star Of his first production is hi, six-
,reeks'-old son, the location the babys
nursery II you fall in lore uith Baby
Qintanilla in Eddie Cantor's Forty LittIe
Mothers" you Gun look for1Uard to seeing
him as the son Of ClGudene Colbert and
Clark Cable in Boom Totun" loan
Crarforfs fans turned out literally By
the thousands to s1eIcome her uien she
arrived IN Nes0 York on her vacation
MurieI AngeIus has been trying to get
acquainted rith Madeleine CAROLS pet
lion cub.