The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-01-22

mine stars look to their laurels.
Timing himself with a stop-watch,
Brown has streamlined the routine
until he can dress completely from
petticoats to hat and wig in one
minute and forty seconds.
Hugh Herbert, the Woo Woo come
dian, will have the principal male
role in the new version of Mrs.
Wigs of the Cabbage Patch" the
role played by w. c. Fields when
last the picture was made. Carolyn
Lee will play the youngest daugh-
ter, the role which brought screen
fame to Virginia Weidler.
Patricia Morrison's been playing
hostess to solid silver pagoda, val
ued at more than half million
dollars. It was struggled out of
China, and will be taken on tour
later. It weighs 1900 pounds.
Ed East and Polly have just fin
ished their second Kitchen Quiz"
film for Columbia pictures, featur-
ing the helps for housewives which
popularized the team on thousands
of radio programs. The first 'sKitch-
en- Quiz" was aimed at comedy; this
second one is more serious.
Parks Johnson and Wally Butter
worth have offered their Vox Pop
interviews program to President
Roosevelt, the army and the navy
for whatever use it can be put to in
international service, morale build
ing and entertainment.
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The popular CHS "Whodunit" mys-
terry series broadcast Thursday eve
nings has a group of rabid mystery
fans continually watching for slip
ups on crime technique and deduc-
ton; when they think they've dis
covered discrepancy they gleeful-
ly write to Lew x. Lansworth, who
writes the scripts-and says he can
feel them hanging over his Shout
der whenever he sits down to work.
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It's Ginger Rogers who draws the
coveted assignment to star in the
screen version - in color - of the
highly successful stage play, Lady
in the Dark" This is the second
season that Gertrude Lawrence has
appeared in it on the New York stage.
The leading role requires someone
who can sing, dance, act-and wear
clothes well. Ginger's a natural forit.
Bob Burns, the Arkansas Travel
err" gets duplicate of an expert
rifeman's medal with three bars; he
won it as marine during the first
World war, and lost it-friends have
been checking records, and finally
got him what you might call ga
reasonable facsimile"
ODDS AND ENDS-Cuest stars ON the
neto Shirley Temple Time" program re-
ceive beautiful gold matches from Shirley's
sponsors 5. Amazingly for Hollywood,
Margaret Hayes. famous Neso York fash
ion model, tOas actually cast as a model in
Take a Letter, Darling" Macdonald
Carey's certainly on his toay up in Holly
GOOD; Paramount has renetoed his con-
tract RKO's current Lun and Abner
picture toiH be released by RKO under
the title OF "The BashfuI Bachelor"
The Association of Hollywood Photogra.
pliers voted Bob Hope and Rita Hay,Oorth
the most "photo-generous" members OF the
film capital, and gaze them silver ciga-
rette cases.
The "Mr. and Mrs. Cugat" troupe,
including co-stars Betty Field and
Ray Milland, was the first n1otion
picture company in Hollywood to
shift ita working schedule so that
everybody could get home before
shutdown. They start work at 7:45
every morning land that means
lot, when you consider that the &C
tors have to get to the studio an hour
or SO ahead of time in order to be
made up. Time was when movie
stars drove to the studios in their
pajamas-maybe that custam will
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