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Even The Face herself was amazed. After beautiful and shrewd Anita Colby announced last week that she planned to quit as the $500-a-week maid-of-all-work to Moviemaker David Selznick, she got a score of job offers. They came from other producers in Hollywood, four advertising agencies, three cosmetics companies, two model agencies and assorted department stores, book publishers...
Official Treasury data show that the current tax on a married $40-a-week workman is $285. Under HRI, he would pay $228 a year to the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Net annual income after taxes, or "keep-home pay, would increase under HRI from $1715 to $1772. The net effect for the $200-a-year man is therefore an income boost of slightly more than two and a half percent. As gross income rises, the kickback under HRI rises not only in absolute terms, but percentage-wise as well. At $5000 a year, the net gain in income would...
...many dates later, La Rue told Pearl that if he could just get a picture of this loot with a powerful X-ray camera he had, he could run the dame in and collect a big bonus. By the time he dropped Pearl at her pink-curtained, $5-a-week room on Manhattan's grimy West Side, La Rue had asked how she would like to take the picture. Jobless, not-too-bright Pearl Lusk was thrilled...
Caniff's new five-year contract with Marshall Field calls for a $2,000-a-week minimum. The Field organization was not equipped to sell the new strip nationally, so left-winger Field, who shudders at William Randolph Hearst on his editorial page, made a deal with the old lord of San Simeon. For selling Steve Canyon, Hearst's King Features Syndicate got first rights to run the new strip in all Hearst papers outside Chicago (including the tabloid Mirror in New York, instead of Field's small...
Brougham started on the P-I as a $6-a-week "copy boy in knee pants, worked up to sports editor by 1919; six years later a Hearst troubleshooter arrived in town, fired the managing editor, gave Brougham...