The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-03-12

GEORGE SANDERS
RKO and Metro. The trouble was
getting a script that would pass the
censors. Now we hear that it's to
be done for United Artists, with
George Sanders as the hero who
abandoned his wife and his business
to be painter in the South Seas.
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"Woman of the Year" lives up to
all the enthusiastic predictions that
Metro made for it. Almost 100000
persons paid to see it during the
first two weeks of its run at New
York's Radio City Music Hall-and
a lot of them stood in line plenty
long for the opportunity! It's one
of the best of the year, certainly;
also one of the best that Katharine
Hepburn and Spencer Tracy have
ever given us.
If you like gangster melodramas
Johnny Eager" should suit you
right down to the ground. Robert
Taylor is fine as the tough hero.
Lana Turner lovely as the pretty
daughter of the District Attorney.
Nothing novel about the plot, but
plenty of excitement.
Hours are spent checking the
questions and answers on the Phil
Baker "Take 1t Or Leave It" pro-
gram Sundays over CBS); the re-
search bureau has to be sure of
getting the only correct answer. Yet
the public frequently thinks they're
wrong. Recently hundreds of Per-
slams objected to the statement that
the Mazda lamp wasn't named for
an individual-they said that Mazda
was an ancient Persian god, and
they felt that he was entitled to rec
ognition. But the researchers classed
him with Zeus and Apollo and ruled
him out as mere man.
"The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi"
will always be the most romantic
song in the world to Mrs. Chester
Lauck and Mrs. Norris Golf, whose
husbands are Lum and Abner of the
radio and the movies. Both men
were members of the fraternity at
the University Of Arkansas, and
wooed their hometown sweethearts
with the song-Goff did it on the
saxophone, Lauck put his proposal
campaign. on with the drums!
The Aldrich Family of the air
waves has given many young &C
tress boost toward bigger things.
Between Henry's sister and his
many sweethearts a lot of girls are
needed for it. Betty Fields a grad
uate of the program; so are Mary
Mason, of the airs "Maudie's Di-
airy" and the stage, Patricia Ryan,
of Claudia" and Patricia Pear
don, star of the Broadway hit, Gum
ior Miss" which Shirley Temple
takes over for radio.
ODDS AND ENDS-Rmsom Sherman,
proprietor of radios zaniest hotel, Crest.
fallen Manor, was appointed Lobby
Bobby" OF the International Hotel Greet.
ers association Judy CarlanFs next
film will be "The Big Time" a story OF
vaudeville :. MikhaiI Rasumny, the pery
funny Mexican garage mechanic in Hold
Back the Da,0n," is cast as the gypsy in
"For Whom the Bell Tolls" Josephine.
the most famous monkey in pictures, cele-
brated her 18th year as an actress on the
set OF Columbia's "CanaI Zone"-also her
3Oth birthday =. Cary Grant maintains
that in "The Gentlemen Misbehaue" he's
the screens tUorst-dressed man.
Jack Benny's firm rule that no
visitors be allowed at rehearsals for
his radio program has been shelved
for the duration; soldiers and sailors
in uniform now are admitted to the
Sunday morning rehearsals, in
groups of from Is to SO.
The newest rancher in Hollywood
is John Wayne, star of Tay Gar
nett's new radio program, "Three
Sheets to the Wind" and many a
movie. He's bought 1000 acres at
Palomar, Calf, and will raise cat
tie, alfalfa, barley and oats.