The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-11-05

JOEL McCREA
raised part of it, Victory Commit
tee show had helped, but they still
lacked $4,000. McCrea said he
couldn't sing, dance or play golf to
raise money, but he could write a
check-and did. You'll be seeing
him soon in "Great Without Glory"
Harry Carey's been in dozens of
range wars in the movies; now he'd
like to take part in one. Cattle
thieves have been butchering beef
belonging to a neighboring rancher
and selling it to the black market;
the neighbor, like Carey, raises cat
tie for the government. So, though
Harry is busy in "Air Force" at
Warner Bros, he's been Oiling a
couple of six shooters and planning
action.
Fred MacMurray's added himself
to the list of Hollywood farmers;
he's the owner of 800 acres in north
ern California, which will be used
for farming and cattle raising. He's
slated to do "Above Suspicion" with
Joan Crawford, for Metro, as the
one outside picture Paramount lets
him make each year. The story of
a professor and his wife who act as
British agents on the continent, it
had been intended for Powell and
10y.
Director Richard Wallace just
doesn't like plane crashes, since ne
was a near-victirn in one In 1885
that cost five lives. So you won't
be seeing the crackup scenes in "a
Night to Remember" with Brian
Aherne and Loretta Young, that the
author put in.
One of the best of our radio shows
isn't heard in this country except
by the studio audience. It's "Mail
Call" the war departments service
show which is recorded and short
waved from CHS Hollywood studios
to service men in all parts of the
world. A recent program, staged
before an audience of service men,
included Amos m Andy, Claudette
Colbert, Joel McCrea and Betty Jane
Rhodes.
In 1918 Leo McCarey wrote song
entitled keep Up Your CHM but
the Armistice was signed the day
it was accepted for publication, and
war songs were out. Now along
comes another war, and the songs
part of the musical score of "Once
Upon a Honeymoon"
It sounds almost too pat. Dick
Davis, playing Norwegian in War
ner's edge of Darkness" heaved a
Nazi storm trooper over his head,
cracked the heads of two others to-
gether, fought through mob Of
them, raced so yards and dove off
a pier. When he swan back to the
beach Director Lewis Milestone
called to him: "Your wife phonec
that your draft board has classified
you; you're 4-F-physically unfit"
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ODDS AND ENDS-Deanna Durbin t0ii
sing "Rockdbye Baby" toith Chinese lyric
| in Forever Yours" ;. Brenda Marshal
and her husband, William, Holden, ar,
giving their Rhodesian Lion dog to tn.
government for army service Jan,
1
hospital learning nursing technique for hel
role in RKOs "Army Surgeon" +. W,
hear that Meluyn Douglas, turned dot0r
ttUice by the army, toiu try again ,oher
he's finished "Three Hearts for Julia"
Gregory Ratof is bringing Mae Buscl
back to pictures; she has been cast a.
Don Ameche's secretary in Something Il
Shout about"
Practically every actress in Holly
wood is the queen or official sweet
heart of some organization thes,
days. Donna Reeds the sweethear
of the 102nd Chemical Platoon a
Fort Dix; the boys said: "If W.
were gassed, you are the girl we,
like to dream about" And Evelyl
Keyes has become Queen of tn
Kilowatts," title conferred by tn
power house operators of the Louis
vile Ordnance division of Westing
house Electric company. 1t seems
according to their letter, they cor
slider her Every high tension stuff.