The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-03-26

York friend fixed up test for Uni
versal, he just had to stand and talk
as he did for radio. He made pic
lures for Universal and Warner
Bros, then was signed by Metro
and had the luck to land in the star
making candy Hardy" series, as
the new boy friend of Andy's sister
in "The Courtship of Andy Hardy"
Jean Arthur was in a scene with
Ronald Colman and Cary Grant for
"Three's a Crowd; three soldiers
who'd been watching rehearsals had
just left. Suddenly an overhead
"spider"-a multiple electric switch
box-blew out, showering them with
sparks. Jean promptly scuttled
away. 'Where you going?" shouted
Director George Stevens. after
those soldiers" she replied, "to put
out the bomb!"
Lucille Norman, blonde and 10,
went east to go west. She left
Steele City, Neb., to win place as
radio singer over a Cincinnati sta
ton while trying out there for the
Metropolitan Opera additions she
was spotted by a movie talent scout,
and now she's in Hollywood.
Johnny Johnston, young singing
guitarist of radio fame, was picked
by Paramount for co-starring role
with Ellen Drew in "Priorities of
1922; it's a musical film with the
activities of aircraft plant workers
for its story background.
Recently before Henry Aldrich"
went on the air a petition was cir
culated asking the right to smoke
backstage. Just before the broad
cast it was slipped into "Mr. Al
drich's" script for safekeeping, and
he very nearly read it over the
mike.
Note for baseball fans: The
Brooklyn Dodgers didn't want that
picture about them to be called
'Them Lovely Buns" so remem-
Der that it will be offered to the
public as sit Happened in Flatbush"
unless somebody thinks up better
title.
Just before the war department
forbade the use of rubber latex
Paramount got under the wire, so
you'll see a three-foot latex balloon
as a prop for Martha O'Driscoll's
bubble dancer scene in ''My Heart
Belongs to Daddy"
AL Pearce of the air waves is in
terested in adding Marie Blake to
his radio gang. She's Jeanette Mac
Donald's sister, and you probably
saw her somewhere in the ''Dr. Kill
dare" series of pictures-she played
the telephone operator.
ODDS AND ENDS-BH Stern, radio
sports announcer, toiIl be seen in the Lou
Gehrig film, "The Pride OF the Yankees"
Il fruit dealer toho knotos and admires
Ed,oard G.. Robinson spells the big
TotUn" stars name out in fruit on his
stand A Royal Air Force officer lent
Franchot Tone the uniform Tone wears
in Colm,bia's "HighIy Irregular" Rosa
lind Russell, who'll star in my Sister
Eileen" is singing for the boys on her
tour Of army camps in the Southwest, and
they loue il Jack Benny has signed
neO t,oo.year contract, i0hich iciH carry
him into his tenth year Vith the same
sponsor, and his t,oelfth as broadcaster.
u. S. armed forces from Green
lands icy mountains to Africa's
coral strand" may now listen in on
the EIery Queen show every Satur-
day; it's being beamed over three
powerful shortwave transmitters to
war fronts and outposts all over the
world.
Clark Gable will probably be the
hero of the movie version of "The
Sun Is My Undoing," a best-selling
novel. It's a colorful, fast-paced
story Of romance and adventure in
England and the West Indies.