The Ely miner., 1943-09-02


liam Bendix, and currently with
Fred Brady. She got her expert
ence when she did daytime serials
in Chicago on "First Nighter"; had
a different one each week!
If you've wondered, when you
heard Vera Vague on the Bob Hope
program, just what she looked like,
prepare to see her in the ALI Star
Comedies that she's making for Co
lumbia. She's working now in the
first of a series of four.
When Paramount hired Victor
Young to write original music for
"For Whom the Bell Tolls" they
had no intentions of causing him to
be mistaken for a messenger boy,
but that's what happened. Victor,
who also conducts the music on John
Charles Thomas Sunday program,
bought motorcycle to convey him
self to and from the Paramount lot
and NBC, carrying his orchestra
tions in messengers dispatch
case, slung over his shoulder. So
far as the general public was con-
cerned, he was just another mes
senger boy.
It's a publicity story that just had
to come along-all about the five
year-old tot who got so worried about
what Fred Astaire would do for dane
ing shoes that she sent him her shoe
coupon. Her names Dorinda Has
tey, and Astaire sent the coupon
back.
Carol Ann Beery, IL year old
daughter of Wallace, made her de-
but in films when Robert Benchley
carried her across a ships deck
in "China Seas" Bent on being an
actress, she's taking another whack
at it in "Rationing," in which her
father stars.
Harry Sherman, who tops the list
of producers of historical outdoor
pictures with more than 100 to his
credit, now has eight leading actors
for his U-A releases. The newest
addition is Rod Cameron, who'll get
the same kind of roles that car
ried william Boyd, Richard Dix and
Albert Decker to fame as Western
heroes. You'll see him first in
wherever the Grass Grows"
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Coincidence Cass Daley has new
hobby; like Oracle Allen, she's a
one-finger pianist, only she's discov-
cred that she does better on pipe
organ. So she's acquired three pipe
organs, all antiques, placed them in
her bedroom, living room and den
and Husband Frank Kinsella, hear
ing her practice and glancing at the
check stubs, is trying to switch her
to collecting stamps.
Charlie Spivak, "The Man Who
Plays the Sweetest Trumpet in the
World" just can't understand Holly
wood. His drummer doesn't believe
in making faces; just placidly
drums. But the Goth Century-Fox
folks felt that in order to look like a
swing drummer in "Pin Up Girl"
he ought to grimace so that he'd
look like a drummer hired
for him a tutor-who's never played
a drum!
ODDS AND ENDS-CBS is interested
in a girl uocaIist for John Carts Trio-he's
the lad tUho started Dinah Shore It's
rumored that RKO toiH sign Victor Borge's
lOrely tCife to a contract Max MARGIN,
the aCrime Doctor" author. wiH appear in
quick fash in the NEXT Columbia produc-
tion of Crime Doctor" ;. The amusing
chatter handed out by the guest stars on the
Bng Crosby program are the result of the
joint efforts of Crosby and his ,crifer, Car
roll Carroll; Bing Gun think up some s,oeH
insults for the guests to huri at him
Gale Page is coming out of retirement to
replace Binnie Barnes in Perpetual Emo
ton"
''The Chamber Music Society of
Lower Basin Street." which has be-
slowed many weird title in its day,
struck new high when it nominal
ed Mildred Bailey as Miss Ammuni-
ton Dump of 1943.
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The glamour girls of the screen
and radio usually run out and rent
an impressive house as soon as
they're all set in Hollywood. Not so
Dinah Shore, now playing a leading
role In Samuel Goldwyn's "Up in
Arms; she's still sharing an apart
ment with four gir'-