The Ely miner., 1943-03-04

they instantly turned autograph
hunters. And you should have heard
the drivers in the taxi queue shout
Hello, Pat!"
Rita Hayworth has been having
her troubles, all because Victor Ma
ture gave her dog. Because of
gas rationing she sublet her house
and took an apartment nearer the
Columbia studio. But when she ar
rived there, with her baggage and
"Genius," the bulldog, the owner
wouldn't let her move in; said dogs
weren't admitted, and refused to
break the rule for Rita'S.
y
That railroad advertisement about
''The Kid in Upper Four" is going
to land on the motion picture screen
of the country in a big way. Metro
will use it as the subject of a short,
and Goth Century-FOx will base a
feature picture on it.
Cecil B. De Mile is a big man in
the film industry, but despite the
fact that part of the proceeds of his
''The Story of DR.. Wassen' will go
to the Navy Relief society he's stuck
with an "a" gas card. Mrs. De
Mile has "B"-she's president of
babies home, so she rates it. Mex
lean landscapes will double for the
background for the pictures Java
jungle scenes.
Preston Sturgess is probably the
only director who arrives on the set
each morning with his cast all re-
hearsed. He rides to location for
''The Miracle of Morgan's Creek"
in a station wagon with Betty Hut
ton, Diana Lynn, Eddie Bracken and
the others; they work on the way.
b
"Vox Pop" granddaddy of audi
ence-participation in radio, is now in
first place among this type of half
hour shows in the CrossIey survey
report; it is followed by "Take 1t or
Leave It," ''Truth or Consequences"
and Information, Please" in the Or
der named.
Music by George Jessell, Ben
Oakland and Red Grouya will be
heard in Cinderella Swings It," the
next picture of the "Scattergood"
series, starring Guy Kibbee. An
augmented chorus supports Gloria
Warren when she sings these new
songs
"The More the Merrier," the new
Jean Arthur-Joel McCrea picture,
may launch Charleston, S. c., as a
Gretna Green. In the picture Joel
and Jean, residing in Washington,
D. c., want to be married in hur-
ry, before he leaves for North AZ
rica, and Charleston's an airline
stop, and South Carolina doesn't i'm
pose a legal wait on couples who
want to marry.
Hal Peary's recent singing stints
on "The Great Gildersleeve" radio
series have convinced RKO that the
actor ought to do a vocal sequence
in his next picture. "Gildersleeve's
Bad Boy"
ODDS AND ENDS-The day that Carl
Esnond toent to complete preparations for
becoming a United States citizen the
Viennese actor t0ound up at Columbia
playing Nazi major in Attack by Night"
Women in defense industries are flood
ing NBC t0ith requests that Mary Margaret
Mcbride st0itch her daytime shotos to the
night lanes :. Sam "SchIeppermdn"
Hearn, of Jack Benny's travelling company,
has played 81 army camps this season, often
giving tsoo or three performances Co
lumbia picked sixteen OF the country's fin
est dancers for the chorus OF its ne,o RED.
head From Manhattan" iohich stars Lupe
VeIez.
Walter O'Keefe recently gave
away a trade secret. "The daily
newspaper" said he, ''is the source
of most of the Battle of the Sexes
quiz questions. Odd facts that bob
up in the headlines are turned wrong
side out, into questions.
Tim Ryan, radio star of the Tim
and Irene team, has featured role
in Lum and Abner's new RKO COM
edy, 1.-TWO Weeks to Live" It was
directed by Malcolm st. Clair, who
made his directorial debut years ago
with the Keystone Kops comedies.