The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-08-22

can glassware and keep expendi-
lures down to $40. The loser will
set table and serve dinner for 16
of the winners friends.
Vivian Leigh and Laurence Oliv-
Ter are to be co-starred in story
based on the romance of Lord Mel
son and Lady Hamilton, an Alex
ander Korda picture. Remember
ing what superb picture he made
of Henry the Eighth" it seems
certain that his version of the ia
nous love story of the famous ad-
miral will be one of the years best
pictures.
Phyllis Kennedy ought to succeed
if anybody shOuld-first she broke
her back, and later she accepted adj
vice that wasn't very good and lost
a grand OppOrtunity-and now she's
started toward the top again.
In 1888 she was dancing with a
troupe in Denver, and fell and frac-
tured her spine. Doctors said she'd
never walk again. Two years later
she was dancing once more. She
was engaged for chorus work in the
Astaire-ROgerS musicals, and her
gift for comedy got her the role of
the maid in "Stage Door," Warner
Brothers offered her a contract,
but she hesitated, let people tell her
what to do, and the chance slipped
away.
She's working now in "Honey-
moon for Three" and Lloyd Bacon,
who's directing, is helping by build
ing up her role. Watch her-she's
bound to get ahead this time!
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. may have
been something of a playboy some
years ago, but now he's nothing if
not solid citizen. Married happi-
ly, and the proud father of a three
year-old daughter, he's not only the
star of Columbia's Before I Die"
but its co-producer as well. That
means being on the set early and
late, whether he's appearing before
the cameras or not.
The girls of Hollywood are wear
ing red, white and blue these days.
Penny Singleton appeared at a bene-
fit in a cotton evening gown hav-
ing white skirt and bodice that
was red and blue; Anita Louise, told
to wear a novelty necklace in '1'm
for Rent" chose silver chain from
which were suspended miniature
flags of the % American countries;
Evelyn Keyes has a red, white and
blue straw hat, and Frances Robin
sons leather handbag has a flag on
either side.
Uncle Ezra's Rosedale Silver Cor
net Band rehearses longer than the
actors on that popular radio pro-
gram, just to achieve those peculiar
off-key effects that drive music low
ers mad. The reason the band has
to rehearse so long to sound so dis
cordant is that each man is an &C
complished musician; eve work
harder than Toscanini," declared
Director Bruce Kamman, "Just to
perfect a musical mistake!"
Param0unt's going to do right
handsomely by Joel McCrea-he's
been assigned to the lead in "Bot-
any Bay" story by James Nor
man Hall, one of the authors of
"Mutiny on the Bounty"
Bottom Bay" is one of those high
ly dramatic tales, laid in the period
just after the American Revolution.
Jean Hersholt's dream of years, a
Hollywood home for aged and in
capacitated film workers, is soon to
be a reality. AS president of the
Motion Picture Relief fund, he and
members of the organization ex-
ecutive committee will soon begin
looking for a site for the home.
They have more than a half million
dollars, earned by the stars who do
mated their services to the CHS
Screen Guild program so that the
money could go into the fund.
ODDS AND ENDS Enrol Flynn's
to have modern role at last in ~Afec.
tionately Yours" Gary Cooper Uiu
sing on the screen for the first time in
Frank Capra's ~Meet John Doe" ). As
Capra has soay OF making exceptionally
good pictures, put that one on your
"Must" list :. Several thousand sets OF
tiOia infants toere inspected before one
pair iOas chosen for Touchdown" the
football picture in phich wayne Morris
stars-they had to be not less than t,oo
Ueeks old, or more than month, on the
day needed-and they'll be paid SIS
day. a day, for them, CiU be exactly
r1enfy minutes.