The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-07-17


ans Face" and Miss Carson from
Blossoms in the Dust" Robert Tay-
lor will be the fought-over male.
Edgar Kennedy, the "slow-burn"
star of RKO Radios shorts, is pre-
pairing to leave on his annual per-
sonal appearance tour. He will be
accompanied by his wife, his son
and Chester Conklin, and he will
play Midwest theaters and fairs.
Katharine Hepburn, whose per-
Torrance in philadelphia Story"
put her back where she wanted to
be at the box Office, will start work
soon on another picture. AT present
it's called "The Woman Of the
Year; she'll play newspaper col
umnist who's married to a sports
writer. Metro feels that it's good
title for Hepburn picture because
of the comeback which she staged in
Philadelphia Story"
Miriam Hopkins withdrew from
bad Lands" recently, giving two
reasons, one ordinary, one unusual.
The ordinary one-she felt that the
part did not suit her; probably it
didn't. The title doesn't sound like
Miriam Hopkins vehicle. The un-
usual one-she felt that Robert
Stack, the leading man, was too
young to play opposite her. Few
feminine stars would admit that!
Jack Hollis offspring are doing all
right for themselves in films - as is
Papa. Tim is scheduled for six
outdoor dramas"-Gust Westerns
to u.s. for RKO for 194142, and his
sister Jenny, who's 20, has been en-
gagged to play the feminine lead IN
"Stick to Your Guns" Hopalong
Cassidy picture in which that vet
eran Of Westerns, William Boyd,
plays the lead.
Every so often somebody has the
bright idea of trying to persuade
Maude Adams to come out of retire
ment and make a picture. Moth
ing ever comes of it. The latest to
try it is Frank Capra, who wants
her to star in a film called Meet
Jane Doe, Mother of John Doe"
If she could be tempted to make a
picture the opportunity of working
with Capra should do it.
Edmund Lowe and Victor McLag-
len, who impersonated marines in
the movie version of 'What Price
Glory" years ago, have become
Sergeant Quirt' and Captain
Flagg" again; this time on the
air. They're doing radio program
designed to promote recruiting by
showing modern life in the corps;
it's a weekly feature, and should be
welcomed by those who remember
"What Price Glory"
Jack Smart, of CBS's "Meet Mr..
Meek" met a Judge last week, not
once but twice. Picked up for
speeding, he didn't have the money
for the fine, so the judge let him go
home for it. He hurried so fast,
wanting to pay the first fine and
get to his radio rehearsal on time,
that he got another ticket for speed
ing. But the Judge let him out of
the second one.
ODDS AND ENDS-Cleo Manning
made her debut as a motion picture actress
by being kissed BY Clark Gable, in "Honky
Tonk" Metros putting lot OF its
most talented youngsters into "Dosgn in
San Diego; they're amateur detectives
plio uncover a Nazi band amid defense
activities =. Lii Damita and pery young
Sean Leslie Flynn hare left the hospital
,ohere he arrived and gone home to Papa
Enrol Mona Muis, of Wuner Bros
"Lu0 of the Tropics" yiu make tuo pic
nues in her native argentina Ann
Sothern has nero Metro contract !.
Richard Arien is booked to do three
n,eIodramas for Paramount.
Olivia de Haviland's nominated
an assistant prop man as the most
considerable man she knows; he is
Glen Daniels, assigned to Para
mounts Hold Back the Dawn"
She did hospital scene, in which,
apparently dying from auto crash
injuries which included a crushed
chest; Daniels tucked her IN with
sandbags, such as surgeons use IN
such cases, to relieve pressure on
the patient. Daniels had taken the
chill off the sandbags by warming
them beside a foodlamp, so that
Olivia would be comfortablel