The Ely miner., 1943-09-16

come October it celebrates its 10th
anniversary on the network as a
show that many city people love.
It's one of the few that has a paying
studio audience. The genial Hal
O'Halloran will be on hand as
usual as m. C.
Metro is certainly rounding up the
popular band leaders; they recently
signed Guy Lombardo and his Royal
Canadians for a musical, and al
ready have Tommy Dorsey, Harry
James, Xavier Cugat, Bob Crosby,
Vaughn Monroe and Spike Jones.
Watch for a radio quiz master to
name three of HoIlywood's loveliest
who have not played opposite Cary
Grant. 1t would be hard to name
one. Laraine Day shares hOnors
with him in "Mr. Lucky" and is the
latest of a list of % of his heroines.
Irene Dunno, Katharine Hepburn
and Sylvia Sidney have appeared
three times apiece in Grant pictures
and he's probably our only ranking
star who has both Joan and Con-
stance Bennett on his roster of
Celebrities I Have Made Love to
on the Screen"
The cast of ''Mr. District Attor-
ney" made money when they won
a wager from the "Ellery Queen"
performers. Jay Jostyn of the for
mer show was a guest star on the
latter, and his colleagues bet the op-
position that he'd solve the mystery.
Just a natural-The soldiers sta
toned at Camp Ellis, near Lewiston,
H., were trying to find just the right
girl to name "Miss Camp Ellis"
and wound up by selecting Anita
Ellis, songstress of the Jack Carson
show on CHS.
Every now and then Hi Brown,
producer and director of ''The Ad-
ventures of Nero Wolfe," runs into
an old-timer in radio who reminds
him of his first program on the air.
It was called ''High-Brow Readings
by Hi Brown" and he'd rather for
get it.
Three years ago an aspiring young
actor named Curtis Rudolf failed
to obtain a bit part in little theater
production in Cleveland, and was ad-
vised to try some other line of work.
Recently Metro staged first show
ing on "Salute to the Marines" in
Cleveland, and an actor named Dom
aid Curtis, christened Curtis Rudolf,
had leading role in the Wallace
Beery starrer.
A prop man on ''The Fallen Spar.
row" set laboriously made "snow"
by taking ice into a freezing bin
and returned from lunch to find that
John Garfield and Walter Slezak
had returned from their lunch and
used it all up throwing snowballs at
Maureen O'Hara and Director Rich
ard Wallace. When they learned
how much labor had been involved,
they pitched in and made more.
ODDS AND ENDS-The small black
microphone into Uhich folks on the Bing
Crosby program sing has been named
Skinny Ennis" Bob Hat0k, of Thanks
to the Yanks," has an idea for nlopie quiz
in tUhich several studios are interested
Fred Astdire's signed Iong-term contract
tUith Metro, ichere he made his first pic.
nre-"Dancing Lady," iohich starred Joan
Cra.otord and Clark Gable, in cast in.
cluding FrGrchot Tone, and made Little OF
Astaire's talents d. Dickie Jones, the airs
neiO Henry AIdrich, tcent to Hollywood
seuerol years ago as a protege of Hoot Glib
son-he toas the Uoice of "PinOcchio" in
the picture of that name.
While Frank Sinatra is before
RKO's cameras as one of the prin-
cipals in Higher and Higher he
will continue to star on the airs
Broadway Band Box" and fYour
Hit Parade" singing from CBS Sta
ton KNX In Hollywood.
When Edgar Bergen and Charlie
Mccarthy visited Uncle Sans and
Canada's fighting men in Newfound.
land in July they took along thou
sands of fascinating little puzzle.
for hospitalized service men. Swell
idea for the rest of usI