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...stooge in a box noisily protests against the show's happy ending, insists on knowing what happened after boy and girl were married. Thereupon a proscenium mike, representing the voice of the theater, agrees, after a bit of bickering, to follow through. The hero becomes the $25-a-week slave of a pulp publisher, has his pay cut to $21 when the publisher's wife decides to support a Middle-European gigolo, is jailed for exposing his publisher's past. But, as it must to all musicomedies, a happy ending comes to this...
...support of a boat; $1,200 household expenses; $2,000 personal upkeep for himself and wife Lili Damita; $1,395 for miscellaneous this and that. The judge decided $12,000 was plenty. ∙ ∙ Joe Louis filed a plea in Chicago to have wife Marva's $200-a-week temporary alimony halved. He said his fighting does not bring him $250,000 a year-only $56,000, after taxes. ∙ ∙ In Manhattan wealthy Private Joseph Paterno Jr.'s mother asked a court to knock $50 off the $400-a-month separate maintenance her son pays estranged wife...
Plugging coffee will enable Mrs. Roosevelt to do her bit both for charity and the Good-Neighbor policy. As usual, she will distribute her estimated $2,000-a-week radio earnings (minus taxes) to such favorite enterprises as the American Friends Service Committee. Her programs will also be short-waved to Latin America...
...reported that Backer Marshall Field had set May 1 as the deadline for PM to succeed, but before May 1 he put up another $500,000 to keep PM going four months longer. As a byproduct the new weekly would lighten the burden of PM's $22,000-a-week editorial costs...
Corporal James Stewart (The Philadelphia Story, etc.), on location at Moffett Field, Calif, since giving up his $1,500-a-week salary to play straight man for Uncle Sam, filed a bill of complaints with his Hollywood agent, Leland Hayward. Excerpts from the text printed in Sidney Skolsky's column...