The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-09-24


MARCY MCGUIRE
of Lucille Balls, with a crush on
Victor Mature. During filming, her
part was "fattened" three times,
so that she finally had two musical
numbers of her own, and comedy
romance that wasn't in the original
script.
Iona Reed, who's a stunt woman
as well as Claire Trevor's stand-in
in "The DesperadOes," has ridden
horses that cOwpunchers wouldn't
mount, leaped from high cliffs,
risked her neck in dozens of ways
but she baked at an assignment the
other day. The script called for
Claire to smoke cigar; Iona was
told to do it, and said "NO." She
can't even smoke cigarette!
Porter Hall, who plays the thiev-
ing, embarrassing heavy in 'The
Desperadoes," has just been made
a deacon in the First Presbyterian
church of Hollywood. He's usually
cast as a villain, but he's never
owned gun, since he served in the
last war, he doesn't drink or gam
BILE, he practically never smokes.
Yet on the screen he stops at moth
| ing.
Paramount has a file of what do
you suppose? Cobwebs! Due to
priorities, it's impossible now to get
the liquid rubber of which movie
cobwebs used to be made. The stu
| dio has quite a few murder mys-
teries, like "Street of Chance" COM
ing along. So the prop department
got busy, wove cobwebs out of the
material on hand, and filed them
away for reference.
Charles w. KOerner, head of RKO
Radio production, has announced
that "artistic and prestige films of
dubious bOx-office merit are out.
Well, some of those prestige" films
were pretty dull. But lot of really
fine and profitable pictures would
never have been made if that ruling
had gone through years ago. We'd
not have had "The Grapes of
Wrath" or "Gone With the Wind"
or "Pasteur" or a good many others
that didn't look like money-makers
before they were released.
Life masks taken directly from
the faces of a group of stars, along
with fashion sketches, original char
coal sketches of sets and other ma
terial used in preparing film, will
comprise a Travelling Educational
exhibit soon to be sent on tour by
MGM. Frances Parker, lecturer,
will accompany it, and it will be
displayed at universities, schools,
civic and educational societies.
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September 80 marks special an
niversary in the National Barn
Dance show-the completion of ten
consecutive years on the air, broad
casting So weeks a year. Other ra-
dio programs have come and gone,
but the Barn Dance goes on forever.
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ODDS AND ENDS-Creer Carson has
signed long-term contract soith Metro;
| her first picture under the net0 arrange
n,ent ,oiu be Madame Curie" :. James
Cagney bought $4,000 Var Bond,
,ohich entitled him TO tioo tickets for the
Hollywood opening of his picture, Yankee
! Doodle Dandy" =. Freddie bartholomew
has bought himself motorcycle, iohich he
rides back and forth to Columbia for
toork in "Junior Army"-but so far hasn't
persuaded his Aunt Cissie to ride ii ,oith
him -. Larry Elliott, announcer on Bob
HaiUks' "Hop Am Doin'" air shot0, has
landed the narrating assignment on Uni
persaPs neto short entitled "Hos0 Canada
Tracks Doton Nazis."
Lucille Manners suggests that
movie houses throughout the coun-
try flash the words of "The Star
Spangled Banner" on the screen be-
fore every opening, so that the audi
ence will join in singing the national
anthem. Perhaps they would then
learn the words.
The government is to have a new
air show, "Our Finest Hour" a Is
minute one, which will be directed by
CHS Caravan Hour Producer Bill
Bacher. Bacher is also the producer
of the Treasury Hour shows.