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Howard and his daughter, Ruth, write the show, which he owns and sells as an $1,800-a-week package. There is no ad-libbing, nor any necessity for it. The four oldtimers can make any line sound like an ad-lib. Experienced listeners wait especially for Howard to crack down on Lulu McConnell with something like "Miss McConnell, if you ever get a chance to live your life over again...
...Army." For him, it is "killing two birds with one stone-I'm acting and I'm talking for Negroes in the way only Shakespeare can." He will play it as long as possible, all over the country (except in the South) even though his $1,500-a-week salary is a fraction of what he can earn singing at $2,000 or $2,500 a night. For Othello he lost 35 pounds, now 230, "practically my football weight...
...that was just Brown's opinion, told him to label it as such. Brown said he had developed the opinion on a recent countrywide tour, felt no embarrassment at uttering it without qualification. The announcement of Brown's resignation had not been publicized because his $1,000-a-week contract with his sponsor (Johns-Manville) did not expire until last week...
Down Industrials. More people are earning enough to pay premiums quarterly or semiannually. Industrial insurance (the 25?-a-week, door-to-door variety popularly known as "burial insurance") is going down, as other kinds rise. Through August of this year, new industrial insurance was off 7.7% from last year v. a 34.6% rise in ordinary and a 19.1% rise in group business. This trend is good for everybody: industrial insurance nets the companies no more, but is more expensive for the same coverage. Thus it has been a politically fruitful target of insurance haters for 40 years...
...Greenfield got his start 27 years ago in a $5-a-week selling job for a shopkeeper friend of his mother's. Three years later he opened his own shop with his sister (the "Bess" of Bes-Ben, now married and out of the business). Two years after that he had gone from one employe and a $35 rent bill...