writes this article it isnt the mone
front of the car
but the amount they can keep for
themselves.
When you read the
story she tells here you
to burst into tears. not.
WHY FILM
collects the cheque,
cent for himself an
10 per
5 per cent
mother iness
ing
every- bath
mangger
Hollywood has to look afluent, too fanfare, publicity
Tikek
Now there's about $1,000 left. Of It's good business. this £260 is set aside for taxes. Then
Fand
Jawye
to a
ress, agent. That
So the star lives in a ni towards a retainer for a on the right side of the tracks. He cretary andele drives a nice car and has a couple
about of servants
house
This particulars
fifteenth wedding
ographers
A
T least once every
some Hollywood actu
KOZY And don't overlook the "little
walk out of an $800-a-week contract other £100 is divided among
because he wants more money. To the average layman a-star's
from such lucrative employment ap pears to be plain idiocy.
But
It sounds terribly silly, we know,
but there's more truth than humour
Honestly, it costs a great deal make £800 a week.
the
But, after the wa parties, it woman in the picture
ntil it grew out grew The missus must look as prosper of the Rathbone house and they had
STARS GO BROKE!
a
in the rumour that there are several costs of insurance policies picture ous as the star and, anyway, most to take over a local restaurant for famous personalities in Hollywood people pay tremendous premiums), screen husbands are notably gener their party of 187 guests.
It was all very elegant, and people trainers, masseurs, bodyguards, fan ous to their wives. who can't afford to be stars.
The law usually forces them to be thought, "My, what a lot of money
it cost!** It did - to mail, dentists, maintenance of
screen wardrobe, a studio valet, and generous to their ex-wives.
• Heaven preserve that £585 if the Yet, in spite of the expenses of private charities..
That leaves £285, and the star fellow has to pay alimony. The es- stardom, picture people: DO save hasn't yet bought a lamb chop, and tranged wife of one male star gets money. Let's take a certain star who Cousin Agatha back in the old home exactly half, his salary.
town hasn't had her bite yet. make £1,200 a week.
But $585 a week! That scarcely Before the star ever sees
Why, that's voucher for his services, several moves you to tears. axes have already had a whack at it more than most people make in
The studio has already deducted year! about £50 for pensions.
that
2
a year.
The sight of the Gables and Gar- bos of yesterday as a-day extras has caused many a star to sell his yacht.
Now they're all future-conscious; The studio takes care of most stars that's why they pay that 5 per cent.
but Bing Crosby-takes to a business manager Well, there's the cost of living. fan mail,
like Claudette Colbert; or in stocks, Then his agent comes around and It's no secret that stars are out- care of his own and costs him $7,000 Most of them believe in annuities, Even some of the smaller-salaried like Norma Shearer; or in bonds, girls, like Eleanore Whitney and like Myrna Loy, or in the diamond Gail Patrick, think it's good busi- standard, like Yae West ness to take care of their own fan letters It costs them $200 a year.
William Powell spends hundreds- of dollars a month for clothes An
his
THE
WORLD GOES BY By "ULYSSES"
celebrated
the
AT Toulouse, the other day, they fears that if the red flag were ever Joan of to wave over Britain, she would Are anniversary, and the people not only be demodee, but liable to for counter-revolutionary appeared to differ as to the poli-arrest tical significance of the lady. Fas-sympathies. cists
sang the "Marseillaise,”
others the "Internationale,” and Barbs
serious rioting occurred.
At Leeds recently a lady rode! through
the streets
Superstitious Brazil farmers
itemised report of Eid Pardrobe THE GREEN EDGE
reads like well, it reads like this:
four dress suits, ive dinner suits, forty-two street suits, twelve over- coats, three dozen gloves, twenty- six pairs of sport trousers, thirty- seven pairs of shoes, fifty-one hats and an even 154 neckties.
OF ASIA
"The Green Edge of Richard Pyke, George Allen and Unwin. 6/— net.
Then there are the dentists' bills Brief, but not too brief, is this It's too bad to disillusion you if you beautifully written little book didn't know, but, nine times out of the Far East, of interest both to ten, those dazzling white teeth that the resident of, and the visitor to, as Lady bathe their mules in beer as a lyon so admire in your favorite China and Japan. The author's at
actor or actress aren't teeth at all all times incid style, his compre They're porcelam caps and they hensive inspection and vivid nar- cost £20 apiece.
ration of all that comes under his (who perceptive ere. brings into promin- least ence many hitherto undiscovered. at the beauties of a land whose contrasts to many of us have become exceed- broken ingly dulled.
Godiva, and the press appeared to libation to divine powers." Or differ as
to what the nude lady maybe they think this gives it a wore. One paper said flesh-tights, and another said a white bathing-
kick/
A New York brewery official must be drunk with
says,
I suggest next year that France and Britain sw over. Britain dignity." Well, the first couple of will have Joan and France shall glasses, anyway. have Godiva. This will end these unhappy dissensions. For the Bri tish, with greater tolerance, will ignore the lady's political opinions, while the French, with their deep er interest in feminine apparel, will be in no doubt as to what Lady Godiva had off.
A Home paper notes a lifter pigs with weird markings i Un usual marks on the offspring are
A tobacco plant was ordered. closed, probably
that hope its sitdown-strikers would begin turning new leaves.
Not only that, but the star pays the bill) must have at two sets. one being kept studio.
scene
Then, if a cap is lost during the middle of
The full strangeness of life i exact replica will be handy and no the Far East is conveyed by Mr damage will be done.
Pike in this intimate book of tra He may have a mouth full of per- His writing is subtly evocative. fectly healthy, attractive teeth, but he is as informative as he is minute flaws, invisible to the naked scriptive and gives the reader muc eye, have a
a way of showing up like food for thought in his account of gargoyles in front of the camera. the gradual pen
Then there's the bill for beauty ideas and culture Such girls as Jeanette Macdonald medieval and and Marlene Dietrich find their China and Japad
$20 beauty parlour bills as high
Though one may a week
in accordance with Health is even more important and observations gin kethan beauty.
the
“Scienti to Seek Early Man." They should be able to find him in any local hotel lounge, a half hour before the little women arrives.
"Reno Has Slight Eas
generally due to some dominating The woman who just emotion or obsession, and are fretra
had probably
quent among all animals, My she was not seekin
cousin, Hortensia Dithering, for --
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chapters, as he hamli
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