The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-07-08


nationwide. He's going to be ask
ing ''Take It or Leave IT. questions
Sunday nights at the New York Chs
studio.
Universal plans to cash in on the
pubEc's liking for being scared by
giving US a series of Timer Sanctum
Mysteries bought the screen
rights to the title, but none of the
radio stories will be used. They'll
make two a year, the first, Calling
DR.. DEATH" starring Gale Sender
gard and Lon Clancy. RKO will
do Having Wonderful Crime; 10th
Century-Fox has bought that super
super mystery, Stranger on the
And Metros doing the
shuddery "Gaslight," which, as a
play, still runs in New York.
CoIumbia's taking chance by
having Marguerite Chapman play
full-fedged Nazi throughout most of
Appointment in Berlin"-on the
theory that too much sweetness
and light hampers the build-up Of
new feminine star. They hope the
public will agree with that theory.
Well, it certainly worked in Bette
Davis case-just see what an I'M
pleasant role did foraker
Henry Roster and Joseph Faster
max are united again; they're the
pair who worked together on many
of the pictures that carried Deanna
Durbin from Obscurity to stardom.
Their first joint effort at Metro viii
be "Music for Millions" starring
Lana Turner.
CALIFORNIA; oldest mission bell,
cast in bronze in Lima, Peru, in 1918
for La Purisima Mission at Lompoc,
is the bell that tolls in tFor Whom
the Bell Tolls" By the way, though
you'll probably hardly glance at the
pictures main title when it's flashed
on the screen, 35 men worked on it,
after William Cameron Menzies had
designed it.
Nowadays there's a sign saying
mo Women Visitors on the "Cry
Havoc" set at Metro. The Is FEM
mine members of the cast had put
in four weeks minus makeup, with
straight hair, and wearing soiled
overaIls-and Hedy Lamar dropped
in, wearing white chiffon!
Johnny MERGERS achieving a life
long ambition when he steps out on
his radio program Tuesday nights.
For years the author of ''That Old
Black Magic" and "Blues in the
Night and many other song hits
has wanted to be an actor. Started
when he was Il, but everybody
turned him down; wouldn't take him
for musicals, but always bought his
songs. Now at last he's getting what
he wants.
Arthur Lake of the Blonde" Sc
ries announced the other day that
he has only pint of blood left in
his body. He's been to the blood
bank six times in the past 18 months.
"And I've read that there are only
seven pints of blood in ones bodyl"
says he.
Bob Harmon, new NBC singing
star, is headed for an important role
in Warner Bros "Shine On, Har-
vest Moon" the film based on Nora
Bayes' life, In which Ann Sheridan
will have the leading role. Dennis
Morgan suggested him for the part.
ODDS AND ENDS-Charles Martins
book on iUriting for radio tOiH be pub.
Hshed rCithin the NEXT fet0 ,0eeks =. Alec
TempIeton's preparing parody on Vic
tory Gardens to end all porOdies on same
;. Kate Smiths an autograph collector;
her latest is that of Field Marshall WqreH,
Uhich she got tChen she sat next him at a
night baseball game forever and
Day" has cast including 70 stars, all the
big English ones -. Bob Crosby and
Company" is the title Of the youngest
Crosby's net0 radio shot0, to be heard Fri
day erenings, oUer NBC -. United Artists
tuants to film Sammy Kaye's $50 You
Wdnt to Lead Band.
Arturo Toscanini, director of
MICS Symphony Orchestra, has do
mated a record library to the U. S.
Naval Operating Base at Dutch
Harbor, Alaska; the records are
used for the Sunday evening con-
certs and also for breakfasts.
Three weeks after Jack Carson's
radio show went on the air it was
bought for the screen by Warner
Bros. They plan to star him as his
radio character, with Elizabeth Pat
terson also duplicating her radio
role.