The Ely miner., 1943-09-23

Mentioning Ingrid Bergman re-
minds me that in "Gaslight, which
she is making with Charles Boyer
who plays a most villainous villain
you'll see Tarquin Olivier, son of
Laurence Olivier and Jill Esmond,
the clever and attractive actress
who was his wife before he married
Vivian Leigh. Young Tarquin is only
five, so he's starting his career fair
ly early.
It's a nice break that Gail Russell,
new in films, gets. She's making
"Our Hearts We're Young and Gay"
playing one of the principal roles,
and Paramount has given her a new
term contract and the starring part
in "Her Heart in Her Throat"
scheduled first for Loretta Young.
Looks as if Loretta liked her role in
"And Now Tomorrow" better. "Her
Heart in Her Throat" is a mystery.
A curious soft slapping sound
heard occasionally during rehearsals
of Morton Downey's afternoon radio
program, usually just after he had
finished a song, has finally been
eliminated. Radio engineers, check
ing on the, origin of the sound, dis
covered that it was caused by
Downey's thumbing his bright red
suspenders. He began doing it after
he was warned not to jingle coins
while he was singing. Now he wears
belt in the studio, and empties his
pockets before he steps up to
microphone.
It's no wonder that producers get
jittery. Michael O'Shea was riding
motor scooter, crashed into stage
wall-and landed in a hospital, with
severe bruises, to put it mildly. That
held up shooting on United Artists
"Jack London" as he was to ap-
pear in every remaining scene.
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Joseph Gotten, narrator and act
ing star of Misunderstanding Un-
limited" and greatly in demand in
Hollywood, is billed as the Great
Joseph, "The Wizard of the South"
in OrsOn Welles' Mercury Wonder
show; it's done nightly under can
vas, in Hollywood, for the edifica-
ton Of service men; they're enter
tanned - and highly = by feats of
magic, and all for nothing!
It was thrill for Dinah Shore re-
Gently when her new picture, "Thank
Your Lucky Stars" was sneak
previewed at WSM's Air Castle stu
dio in Nashville, Tenn, where Dinah
started her singing career. All her
old friends came. Her new COM
mercial starring series starts on
CHS September 80, and will be heard
Thursday evenings at 9:30, Eastern
War Time.
Back in the 1920s Gertrude Law
renee made a guest appearance on
a radio variety show for which the
sponsors paid her 20 pounds a min
ute-about $100 American money. It
established financial record. When
she returns to the air with her new
show, September 30, on the Blue
Network, she'll get so much more
that-though the figures still
secret-it will establish another rec
ord.
ODDS AND ENDS-When Don Ameche.
host of the "What's NeU?" shoto heard
Saturdays oUer the Blue net,uork, calls
his ,Uife Honey" it's not only a tern, of
endearmenf, but an Authorization of her
name, H0n0re +. after all that talk
about retiring, Fred Allen returns to the
air next month, but this year the shoto
bill en1anate from Hollywood and he'll
take flyer in pictures =. Trudy Er,0in
had some earrings made from t,co antique
gold thimbles, iUore 'em to rehearsal of
the Big Crosby sho,c, and lost one-and
finally found Crosby ,Oearing it Var
or no tUar, Ted Husing ,UiH be announc.
ing football games orer CHS this fall.
So successful is Jack -Benny's cur
rent tour of the Middle East war
zone that he will delay the opening
of his regular radio season this fall
to devote one week more than was
planned originally to entertaining
the AEF.
Joe Howard, of the "Gay Nine
ties Revue" has turned down SIC. 900
offered by Universal Pictures. if
he'd appear in a.forthcoming George
Raft film; ne broadcasts from New
York, and said he'd do it only il
his scenes could be shot there.