The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-11-06


cycle for us-not Barbara Bannister,
but the kind that accompanies
stairs. In Birth of the Blues" six
year-oId Carolyn Lee p0wer-dives
down one, smack into Bling Crosby.
In ''The Great Mans Lady" Barbara
Stanwyck slides down another, in
crin0Iines. For 'aThe Wizard of Ar
kansas Bob Burns shoots the ban
mister chutes, but Burns, of course,
is different; he picks up splinter
on the way. And this, it is felt,
will definitely end the bannister
cycle.
Richard de Rochemont, managing
editor of The March of Time, says
that filming ''The Story of the Vati-
can" was like vacation. Since
1884 he has been chasing film scoops,
and more than once he's escaped
death by a narrow margin. "At the
Vatican had good crew of tech
nicians, all our locations were In a
small area, and there were no in
trigues or Subversive movements
to be dealt with" says he.
The latest March of Time is
Sailors With Wings" which traces
the development of the navy's air
service and how it operates in part
nership with the fleet; it's vital and
absorbing, one of those pictures that
you won't want to miss.
The manager of an RKO theater
on Long Island heard patrons ini-
tating the voice of the RKO Pathe
rooster so often that he finally ar
ranged contest and let them crow
for cash and poultry; several hun
dred persons mounted the stage and
crowed Like mad.
Glenn Ford almost sailed off to
distant ports the other day as a way
of getting into the right mood for
Martin Eden," his next picture.
He was just stepping on board a
freighter, believing that its next stop
was San Francisco, when a produc-
ton assistant raced to the dock and
stopped him. He wanted to sign on
as a seaman and see what it was
like. But-five minutes later the
freighter sailed-for Honolulu.
The radio scoop of the year is the
signing of Shirley Temple to do four
programs for one of the big watch
manufacturers. For the first time
In her career she'll be on the air
regularly-Friday evenings, Decem-
Der 5 to Is, 10 to 1890, Eastern
Standard Time, on CHS. She viii
do a series of four Christmas pro-
grams, in which she will sing and
present Christmas playlets, and her
salary for the months work viii be
$50, 600. Radio sponsors have been
pursuing the young star for years.
ODDS AND ENDS-"Hold Back the
DarUn is holding back other pictures; the
alter oiUners hare found It so popular that
they're extending its run, and it's running
neck and neck In receipts uUith Caught in
the Draft" Puanounfs top grosser of the
year Oscur Leranf, of Information
Please" and couple of pictures, has been
signed TO a term contract by Paramount
=. Ber,Oyn, Okla, wiH appear ON neu
maps as Gene Aurey, Okla. ;. Jeanette
Macdonald and Nelson Eddy are reunited
again in Il MuTied ana Angel Milton
Berle can tell fire jokes minute and keep
up THAI pace for tsUo hours Without repeat
ing himself, If Gnybody'H lef him.
"Myrt," the Wistful Vista phone
girl whom only Fibber MCGEE ever
hears-Mrs. Wallace Wimple, an
other "unheard'' member of that
same cast-George JessePs mother
and Oracle Aliens brother Willie
they're some of radios best known
characters, yet they never appear
on the air. Ilka Chase often refers
to her mother but Mrs. Chase has
been seen and heard by plenty of
people; as editor of one of Amer
ica's smartest fashion magazines
she was famous In the days when
Ilka was just young actress.