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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-18
RIKHUS IMPROVING

John Rikhus, IN the Veterans hos
pital at Minneapolis, is reported i'm
proving rapidly, being on his feet for
the first time this week Members of
his family visited him over the week
end.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-18
IN WISCONSIN.

Joe Debevec, assistant manager of the
j. C. Penney company here, is in
Spooner, Wis, where he is acting as
manager of the Penney store there
during the illness Of the manager.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-18

Virginia Gayda, the Fascist editor In
his Voice of Italy, takes President
Roosevelt to task for his shoot first
order relating to Atlantic shipping.
Gayda is a saucy cuSs and he is not
particular what he says about Amer
lea and its participation in the Europ-
can war In fact, according to his
statements the Axis submarines would
continue their attacks on supplies TO
Great Britain in defiance of the shoot
first" order. He is continually whist
ling to keep up his own courage and
imagines his whistling will also have
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IN CALIFORNIA.

Mrs. Axel Carlson is visiting with
her daughter, Mrs Mildred Hollow at
Grass Valley, California She expects
to be away a month or more.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-18

The Commodity Credit Corporation
made available for Lend-Lease oper-
ations in the past two weeks 100, 100
bales Of cotton and 1,345,000 bushels
Of corn. The Red Cross announced
it will send a delegation to Russia to
study and report on most urgent
needs.
Ships Built
The Maritime Commission announced
the largest mass launching of ships
since the World War, will take place
September q when II ships slide
down the ways. -Four other new
merchant ships in the 500-ship long
range program are being delivered to
operators between September IL and
September 10, making a total Of 10
vessels completed under the program
The Navy Department announced
launchings of two cruisers and one
minesweeper The Maritime Com
mission said to meet increased demand
for officers in the merchant marine it
has opened competitive examinations
for cadet appointments Applications
must be submitted to the Commission
before November 8.
Army Safety
The War Department estimated that,
despite rigors of field maneuvers this
fall, there will be a considerably lower
accident and death rate for the 49,
600 troops participating than for a
corresponding number of civilians. The
estimate predicted 236 deaths and
10000 admissions to hospitals for
disease and injury.
Air
The Air Corps announced it is test
ing a new four engine flying fortress
which is bigger and has more fire
power than models now in use by the
o. S. and Great Britain.
Oil, Gasoline
The Special Committee investigating
the oil situation said the only short
age of petroleum products or of trans
portation facilities sis a shortage in
large surplus which is desired" Act
ing Oh Coordination Davies issued
statement saying, "the necessity for
public cooperation continues"
SPAB refused to grant priorities on
steel plates for construction OF a
$500 mile petroleum pipeline from
Texas to New York. Mr.. Davies said the
Southeastern pipeline between Port ST.
Joe, Fla. and Chattanooga, Tenn, will
deliver 100000 gallons of gasoline and
other petroleum products daily to
Georgia and Tennessee within so days.
Prices, Imitation Control
The Labor Department announced
retail fool prices are at the highest
level in 10 years-12.3 per cent higher
than year ago. Treasury Secretary
Morganthau, speaking in Boston, said
Imitation in no longer distant :.
We are facing it."
Mr. Morgenthau said conrtol Of
consumer installment credit, purchase
of defense bonds and stamps and tax
anticipation notes are not enough to
prevent consumer purchasing power
from forcing prices up. He suggested
extension and increase of social secur-
ity benefits, an unemployment COM
pensation wage" for the workers and
reduction in non-essential expendi-
lures in federal, state and local gov
ernments. He aslo suggested release Of
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This Week in Defense

workers and other technical trades
men, for service in England repairing
vital equipment used by the British
armed forces. (See story elsewhere in
this iSsue.)
The Commodity Credit Corporation
made available for Lend-Lease oper-
atoms in the past two weeks 100, 100
bales Of cotton and 1,345, 900 bushels
Of corn. The Red Cross announced
it will send delegation to Russia to
study and report on most urgent
needs.
Evening star., 1941-04-06

conceivable. And he makes it seem
even more inconceivable by offering
the villain drink and by agreeing
with the scurrilous scoundrel that,
after all, they are both Europeans
and each can understand the neces-
sity for the others actions.
Then, as the hero saunters, with
the drink, toward the villain, the
hero's young son enters and the
father smiles at him in a shy,
desperate way. Now, given a sensi-
tive man, with a wife whose feel
ings he cannot bring himself to
bruise in the slightest, looking at
him from one corner of the room,
and a son, whom he treats SINH
larly. looking at him from the other,
murder seems not only improbable,
but impossible.
Yet the man saunters on, holding
the drink at civilized angle, prof
fering it in a civilized manner and
then plunging on the villain with
horrible fury. He beats the scoun-
drel to death while the wife hides
her face and the boy stands open
mouthed and appalled,. The villain
had been large man and now he
is bulky sack. The hero lifts him
clumsily and looks behind him to
see closed door. open the door,"
he gaSps to his son. The boy steps
swiftly and silently around the
grotesque figure of his father hold
ing a wabbling corpse and opens
the door. He stands straight as a
soldier at the door while his father
totters out awkwardly to dispose
of the body
Miss Hellman is not one of the
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great playwrights of our time, but
she is invariably an interesting one
never more interesting than in
this play-and almost invariably
meets popular approval. She has
written only one failure.
The reason for her success is not
hard to discover. She is the only
playwright around who can man.
age to translate the ancient con-
ventions of shocker melodrama into
terms that will convince a modern
and even sophisticated audience.
The hero in this play is an utter
hero. The william is almost utterly
villainous. and the third act is
written by the audience"-accord-
ing to the Dion Boucicault formula.
That Is, the first and second acts
present the problem and the third
act solves it as the audience wishes
1t solved
There is much to criticize in such
writings. The characters, for in
stance. cannot be characters. but
must be types. For instance, no
man in real life can devote seven
years to desperate violence and be
as the hero of this play is-un-
warped. gentle and replete with sem
sibilities. But as a tour de force,
a parable of the modern world done
in completely realistic terms and
done wittily, eloquently and force
fully, Watch on the Rhine" is a
triumph. All the actors stand up
verv we'll in their type molds.
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executives wanted a typically Amer
lean label for film property known
up to that time as Spangler Arling-
ton Brugh. Robert Stanhope" was
suggested, as young Brugh had been
| playing the role of Capt. Stanhope
| in Journeys End" at Pomona Col
lege when discovered for the screen
1t was rejected as too British. Mrs
Koyerman came through with Rob
ert Taylor" cognomen which
hasn't done badly by Mr.. Brugh.
MELVIN Douglas was originally
Melvyn Hesselberg. When he joined
a Chicago Shakespearean troupe to
make his stage debut. it was obvious
that "Hesselberg" was worse than
George Spelvin' for billing pur-
poses. When Melvyn and his BROTH
ers were youngsters, their mother,
Lena Shackelford of Kentucky. had
entertained them with tales of her
las. So Melvyn adopted the High
land clan as his own.
Alice Faye's name was Leppert.
But when she entered show business,
Frank Fay was the hero of Broad
way. His name was on many bill
boards. So she borrowed Fay from
Frank, added the "e"-and hasn't
been sorry.
Margaret Hayes probably has gone
through more name chances than
any one in pictures She was chris
tened Florence Ottenheimer. The
family shortened its surname to OFT.
When she became a model she
adopted Dana as given name.
Then one night at the Stork Club, a
group of newspapermen sat in con-
ference and decided that va fine
alliterative appellation would be
Dana Dale. Paramount executives
didn't care for that one when the
girl landed on their lot, because they
already had Virginia Dale under
contract. They switched Dana Dale
to Dana Edwards. 1t didn't sound
sufficiently feminine. So Hayes"
was borrowed from Helen Hayes and
Margaret from nowhere in partic-
ular.
Sir James Involved.
"For the last three years my
friends have never known how to
address me-" said the present Mar
garet Hayes. II hope this is the end
of the name chain"
Sir James M. Barrie became in
volved in donating an alias when his
godchild. Marguerite Wendy Jen-
kin, daughter of British barrister,
decided to become an actress. Her
middle name was a deep bow in the
direction of Peter Pan" Her pro-
fessional surname was granted by
permission of Sir James. You
guessed it-Wendy Barrie.
When Archibald Leach became
Cary Grant-via little study OF the
phone directory.-he perpeuated his
baptismal moniker by bestowing It,
Ia "a odd burst Of whins.cahty, On
his dog. Since that nams-ehanstns
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having founded the Canadian name
of Glenford, he swapped the Gwyl-
lyn for Glenn.
Boris Karloff's family name was
Pratt. The Karloff is not an in
vention for horror purposes. 1t
was his mothers maiden name.
Veronica Lake was Constance
Keane, which was rejected as too
STACEY. Producer Arthur Hornblow,
wanting something completely diff
ferent' for a youngster he secretly
hopes to build toward Jean Harlow's
pedestal. borrowed his secretary's
name of Veronica and added it to
Lake-the latter inspired by the
fact that Lake Placid is the Keane
home town.
When a girl by the name of Shir-
ley Ross began a career in show
business, she was persuaded to re-
name herself Judy Starr. A short
time later along came another
singer, Bernice Gaunt, who. with
out knowing anything of Judy
STAIRS past, took Shirley Ross" for
herself. She's gone farther than
the real Shirley Ross.
Penny Singleton, previously Doro-
thy McNulty, adopted her former
husbands surname professionally.
James Ellison Smith simply dropped
the Smith. Marlene Dietrich took
the first syllable of her first name,
Maria, and the last syllable of her
middle name. Magdalene.
Zasu Pitts was actually christened
that in honor CT two aunts, Liza
and Susan. Lewis Ofield. raised in
Oklahoma was referred to as Jack"
or that Oakie" when he arrived
in New York. Those two nick
names, combined, have gone far in
Hollywood.
Names are gilt-edged assets to
the Hollywood aspirant. So long as
they spell box Office, players don't
care where they come from.
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Syracuse letter carrier named
Petite. In 1897, when she was 10
and blond, she appeared as the
Salvation Army heroine, Violet
Gray, in THE Belle of New York"
They never proceed to follow that
light" she sang in her small voice
and dimpled shyly and added. "but
they always follow me-" From that
time on, they" did, they" meaning
the people of England and the
United States.
Two years before this sprite lit
the love-light in the worlds eyes,
she had done as much for one Fred
Titus, a fancy bicycle rider. She
was II then and looked sweet upon
the seat of a bicycle built for two.
But their marriage did not last
past 1904 Mr.. Titus did not ride
along the top with his Edna May.
After a while. he quit "the profess
sion" for a job as a New York
motorcycle cop.
So They Were Married.
THE Belle" of two continents
went on to success after success and
in 1907 in Philadelphia opened in
what proved to be the final 'front.'
page drama in Edna Mays career.
The setting was dog show in
Philadelphia. She attended, and was
strolling along prettily, surrounded
as usual by swarm of admirers,
when a Boston terrier named Lady
Highball caught her fancy. She
lavished an "Oh, how darling!" upon
the little animal and Immediately
strange, dashing young man
shouldered through the throng and
bought the beast right out from
under her nose. He paid $4,000 in
cash. Miss Mays admirers glowered
at him and muttered cad" but he
ignored them and, bowling low, pre-
sented the dog to the fair lady.
The blade turned out to be Oscar
LeWiSohn, son of the late copper
king, Leonard Lewisohn, who had
left a fortune of more than S30,000,-
900 to Oscar and eight others. He
and Edna were married a few
months later and she Immediately
retired from the stage. Ten years
later, he died, leaving her a fortune
estimated at $4,000 900 and although
only 80 at the time, she never mar
ried again. She is SO now, a thin,
modiSh, sedate woman whose hair,
friends report, has turned from the
color of gold to a deep chestnut
brown.
All the girls who learn to walk
properly by balancing a book on
their heads can blame Dolores for
that. When her appearances in war
time and postwar Follies inspired
poets and made her reputation as
an international beauty, Dolores
tborn Kathleen Mary Rose, an OK
fordshire farmers daughter) dis
closed that she had acquired grace
by walking around the house and
up and down stairs with a book on
her head.
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get a crowd for Fox with his bag
of tricks.
He did, and Fox was of on the
upward climb. He installed shoot
ing gallery, slot machines and 9TH
er features to entice the people.
They swarmed into the place.
Fox began acquiring New York
playhouses when motion pictures
first intrigued the public. He grew
and expanded with the infant in
dustry until he headed the Fox Film
Corp, rated at s4o,0000O0; the West
Coast Theaters. Inc. 100000 ono,
and the Fox Theater Corp, s25-
900 900.
Dissatisfied with the quality RI
pictures and their distribution, FOX
entered the production field and be-
gan distributing his own pictures.
Among his best known feature pic
lures were over the Hill" Car
men" East Lynn" "A Tale of Two
Cities" IF I Were King What
Price Glory" Seventh Heaven" and
Street Angel"
Then the stock market crash. Fox
was forced to turn the management
of his enterprises over to trustees
largely interested in temporary OBJ
legations totaling s91 100000 which
had been obtained for expansion
purposes.
Financial troubles piled up one on
another There was litigation after
| litigation. Fox lost all control Of
his film holdings. Eventually he was
involved in bankruptcy proceedings
which led to his recent indictment
in Philadelphia.
And still the script hasn't ended.
Evening star., 1941-04-06

date, Cary's successive canine pets
have answered to Archie" or
'Leachie"
From a pair of playbills in the
blue room of the Belasco Theater,
Willard Mack selected a new desig-
nation for Actress Ruby Stevens
He took the first part of Barbara
Frietchie and the last part of Jane
Stanwyck to form-Mrs. Robert
Taylor.
Clark Gable, originally William
Gable. known to his intimates as
Billy picked the CLARK" after
being impressed by a sign in the
window of Clark's Dollar Stores,
where he bought his shirts.
Mickey Rooney was Joe Yule, jr.,
until he began playing Mickey Nc
Guire In the Fontaine Fox comedies
and adopted the character name as
his own. But when he returned to
vaudeville as Mickey Mcclure, a
copyright dispute developed over use
of the name. Publicist John LIE Roy
Johnston tackled on the typically
Irish Rooney" with the result that
Mickey's official signature now reads
Mickey Mcclure Rooney"
Judy Garland was one of the
Gumm Sisters of slight vaudeville
fame until George Jessel suggested
that more euphonious handle
might suit her better. So she bor-
rowed the Garland" from Robert
Garland, New York critic. On her
charm bracelet is a memento which
the latter presented to her, gar
land of flowers around a package
of gum.
Hers Was Too Stacey.
The Ritz Brothers name of
Joachim" proved anathema to a
vaudeville agent, who assured them
they would never get a job unless
they found something better. Out
side the agents window was a
sign for the Ritz Laundry" The
Joachims Herewith became the
Ritzes.
No wonder Lana Turner invented
name for herself. Her parents
christened her Julia Jean Mildred
Francis. The repetition of a." "a"
and 81" suggested the combination
Of Lana"
Glenn Ford was another who
needed some alterations. He had
been blessed with the Welsh Chris
tian name of Gwyllyn. His family
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IldhcS sOOO dLLo OOl4dC[O AAAAAAAOAAO
to charity while lavishing gifts OF
expensive watches upon his friends.
He belonged to good clubs and main
tanned homes in New York City and
Woodmere, Long Island.
But the script didn't end.
The road turned downhill for Will
liam Fox. His land of make-believe
tumbled about his feet.
In Philadelphia District Federal
Court a few days ago the one-time
power in the moving picture in
dustry pleaded guilty to charges of
conspiring to obStruct justice.
William Fox was accused by a
Federal grand jury of conspiring to
buv judicial favors of a 74year-old
Judge row retired, j. Warren Davis.
TIE indictment alleged it was a
part Of the conspiracy that the
defendant J. Warren Davis would
be interested in and would accept
and receive sums of money
and other presents in return
for action favorable to the said Will
liam Fox and adverse to
the said trustee in bankruptcy Of
the said William Fox and his
creditors ="
Turned to Tragedy.
With a flourish reminiscent of the
best HOLLYWOOD manner, Fox peeled
off five $1,000 bills from roll in
his pocket and arranged bail pending
his formal sentencing on April IA.
The charges carry maximum I'M
prisonment of two years and fine
up to $4,000 on each count.
The success story had become
a tragedy.
Fox built an industrial empire,
pyramiding 1900 into a dazzling
| fortune-until the dark days of 1929.
Stocks tumbled. Banks closed
Industrial empires crashed, and
Foxs giant movie structure began to
totter.
The man who was born 81 years
| ago at Tulchva, Hungary, and came
to this country as an infant with
his parents, had travelled long
road
He learned life the hard way on
| New York's lower East Side. He
was thrifty and industrious, worked
hard at his Job in cloth-Spongne
establishment, saving a few hundred
dollars.
One dav in 1904 his boss refused
/ tn boost his weekly wages from SIT
/ to $40 and Fox decided to go into
the theatrical business, a nickel
odeon enterprise.
He Was Tricked.
With his savings and what he
could borrow-s1, ,666 .66-he bought
a PLAYHOUSE with a capacity Of LAG
persons. The gross was $3.50 asper-
formance, but before many years
/ his theaters we're to gross receipts
asgregating 100000 weekly.
| Fox was tricked into sinking his
/ savings into that first venture by
| the shrewd owner who stacked the
/ cards against him. For three days
/ Fox checked the attendance and
watched overflow crowds storm the
doors.
/ So he closed the deal. And the
crowds stopped coming to the play
/ house like a stream of water shut
off by a faucet. Fox learned the
original owner had doled out nlcKels
from his own pocket-and taken
them up again at the door-to draw
the impressive three-day crowds.
The situation was pretty desper-
ate when ballyhoo artist strolled
into the empty lobby and offered to
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NSOIlClIlutu from f1rSU PdGeJ
all have been in good taste. But the
one in Watch on the Rhine" is the
fastest of them all and perhaps as
good murder as the stage has seen
in 20 years. The writing is perfect,
the staging is perfect and the whole
thing has point and drive like a
bayonet going home.
1t Seems Impossible.
UneXpectednesS is the flavor that
makes the scene exquisite. in a pro-
fessional sense. Up to the time of
the action there have been hints
of the hero's remarkable valor, but
he has seemed a tired, quiet man
with Slouched shoulders and a
down-drooping spirit. More than
that, a man of the utmost refine
ment of sensibilities and almost
incredible regard for the feelings
of others.
For such one to involve his
hosts in murder case seems in
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even IL Only lOI UuIlOIlS, dS liley
say-a few blocks down Broadway
from Ann Pennington. This is no
hyperbole, but cold, factual descrip'
ton: Pennys dimpled knees still
look like chuckles; Mae Murray still
dances like sunlight on diamond
Nita Naldi, wearing black, powdered
pale, staring somberly and specu.
latively from sleepy -lidded eyes
sends the old, authentic thrill ur
and down the spine, and when Gilds
Gray does the shimmy in little
grass skirt, no one can possibly
imagine that the s1,O0O,000 estate
she once owned on Long Island has
been turned into a mortuary.
Gloria Swanson is cruising South
America in leisurely and opulent
fashion. Lillian Lorraine is in anc
out of hospital and back in hel
single furnished room. Motorists still
stop to gaze fondly at FRITZ Scheff's
modest little house not far from
New York. She lives quietly or
the royalties the books Of her late
husband, John Fox, jr. C"The Little
Shepherd of Kingdom Come" fol
instance) are still earning. Evelyn
Nesbitt, Sc now, has had her fling al
a comback; has had, as she describes
1t, 'the fun of trying it," and is just
now becoming content with retire.
ment. The great. the incredible
Dolores, whose walk set the style
for all ziegfeld's girls, was in Paris
when the Nazis came and is now
somewhere in Europe"-probably
still in Paris, anchored by fortune
In art.
1t Can Be Dangerous.
These are all remarkable girls.
They put the spark in sparkling
- Father is quite correct in saying
the world nowadays doesn't know
their like Perhaps it's not so much
that the girls of today are different
as that the world is, but the fact
remains there has been no one
feminine around, since their time,
who has been able to use the earth
as her pendant.
Using the earth as a pendant
and the front pages of the news
papers as exterior decorators of a
career turns out to be dangerous
thing, but not so dangerous that
some of the girls couldn't do it and
get away with it. Edna May, for
instance, and Dolores.
For the benefit of the young per-
sons reading this, it can be recalled
that Edna May was the daughter of
Evening star., 1941-04-06

"AH LOVE, so LOVE. with the spring romance,
blooming considerably ooud in the pictures that
coming this the future The couples
in the usual Order Henry Fonda and Barbara Sanck in The
Lady EUe merit at the Palace George Brent Bette DaU
in "The Great Lie starting Friday at the Earle Robert Cum
mngs and Jean Arthur in The Deu and Miss JONES' merit at
Keh and Laratne Day and Robert Young liz The Trial of
Mary Dugan Thursdays aUal at the Capitol And spring.
time brings SoftneS to Skipper and the gorilla
the uHain OF "The Monster and the Girl halt OF the Shock
Week bill starting Friday at the Metropolitan.
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The Glamour Girls of Old
Are Still Glamour Girls
They Put the Spark in Sparkling
And the World of Today Has
Produced None of Their Kind


The glamour girls who looked father
looking again have been warming the sprngtme
letter comes from Edna England points
ceerfu that because geographical location
Adolf Hitler wants London he will
body.
and back work
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He Reached the Pinnacle,
But That Wasn't the End
Spectacular Career of William Fox,
Film Magnate, Reaches Low Point
In Philadelphia Courtroom
By Don Whitehead.
Associated Press Stan Writer.

The script didn't end for pin
nacle
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