The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-02-11

worth" Huston's been working at
Warner Bros. in mission to Mos
cow" appearing as Ambassador
Davies.
For six years Cheryl Walker
was stand-in for stars; then she was
given the romantic lead in Sol Less
er's "Stage Door Canteen," and did
so well with it that she stepped
straight into stardom; CHS paid
tribute to her on "Women's Page of
the Air" as a result.
If you have income-tax trouble
you'll enjoy ''The Spirit of 49," in
which Donald Duck tackles his In
come Tax stint. It's the new Walt
Disney short, made at the request
of Secretary of the Treasury Nor
genthau. Five hundred prints will
be distributed and shown under the
auspices of the War Activities Com
mittee of the motion picture indus
try.
When Jean Arthur does kissing
scenes the set is closed; she's a bit
shy and doesn't like having an audi
ence at such times. But she and Joel
McCrea exchanged fervent kisses
before an audience of 81 men the
other day, for "The More the Mer-
rier"; they were soldiers, being
shown through the studio.
Jean Brooks has come up the hard
way, via hard-riding westerns and
cliff-hanging serials. She scored in
a featured role with Abbott and Co.'S
tello, in Buck Privates," and now
she's won the feminine lead opposite
Dennis O'Keefe in 1.-THE Leopard
Man"
Eddie Cantor receives $4,000 per
broadcast; his daughter Marilyn
gets $50 a week, but she's the radio
industry's first girl staff announcer,
and proud as punch of the job. She's
on WNEW, a local station in New
York; she makes commercial an
nouncements, introduces band num-
bers, and puts records on the studio
timetable-and has ruined her IA
theirs gag about the cost of support
ing five girls.
jeanette Macdonald has no sym.
patty for those stars who regard
service-eamp entertainment tours as
a hardship; she thinks they're fun.
But at Ia she was dancing in
Broadway revue, taking singing and
ballet lessons between times, and
modelling fur coats to pay for the
extra lessons. She says that an
army camp tour is just a vacation
by comparison.
Since fire destroyed Bing Crosby's
home thousands of people have of.
fered to replace his losses. One of.
fered a complete collection of Bing's
records; an army sergeant said ev.
cry time Bing smoked a pipe in
a picture he'd bought one just like it,
and offered the singer his choice. A
vaudevillian said he'd break up his
trained dog act to replace the spaniel
the children lost in the fire.
ODDS AND ENDS-Cuy Cooper wiu
sing "Praise the Lord and Pass the Annru.
milton" in "The Story Of Dr.. Wassel," his
NEXT picture Cary Grant has signed a
new contract with RKO calling for fve
pictures ouer q long-term period :. Some
nounce that box-o6fce star t0iH join the
shock OF his life, phen she actually goes
through toith it >. link FaIkenburg car.
ried big red broadcIoth purse on uhich
is pinned insignia of every branch OF the
service, given her by service men: Uhile
making "BroadtUay Daddies" she added
sir more pins to the collection.
Virginia Sale, Martha" on ''Those
We Love-" seems fated to be sur
rounded by twins. There are now
four sets in her life. They are her
own twins, her brothers., her best
friends, and the fictional pair on the
radio show.
Mark Warnow, musical conductor
of the new air show featuring John
Charles Thomas, came to this country
when he was six from Russia. "AE
remember" he says, is seeing the
Statue of Liberty, as the ship came
up the harbor."