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Separation. In Flushing, L. L, Mrs. William Feltman, 77, who locked her husband out of the house after 54 years' married life because he would not permit her to see the New York World's Fair, sought a separation and $40-a-week alimony...
This system is open to abuse if the $37.50-a-week casters relax their ethics. Frequent have been the charges of corruption in Central: that extras buttonholed casters on the street, slipped them a few dollars; that they mowed casters' lawns; that they presented casters with money orders on Hollywood stores; that they sent their clothes to be cleaned at specified cleaners with currency deposited in specified pockets. Year ago these charges were taken up by the Hollywood Reporter, which revealed that a local detective agency had been hired by the Screen Actors Guild to ferret out any misdemeanors...
...scenarist, Sturges wrote a tender little tale about 24 hours in the life of Jimmy MacDonald (Dick Powell), a perennial slogan contestant who is out for Maxford House Coffee Co.'s $25,000 prize. Powell is a $22-a-week comptometer clerk with three practical-joking friends who paste together a bogus telegram notifying him he has won the contest. By dint of some improbable inefficiency in the Maxford House organization, he collects the check, spends a sizable slice of it before the hoax is bared...
...convincing prototype of a drudge with a dream of sudden wealth with which he can buy his mother a convertible settee and his girl a fancy wedding. Pale-faced, canyon-mouthed Ellen Drew, a onetime Hollywood soda clerk, was coached into a realistic likeness of a sugary, $18-a-week stenographer. A good dramatist, Sturges kept his characters credible by the simple but neglected technique of letting them act like people. For instance, when the Maxford House president is writing out Powell's contest check, he pauses to ask: "Do you spell your name...
...other men ("Every man I have ever hired tried to double-cross me") are plant operators. Scientific's nine ladies make most of their own decisions, are paid up to $125 a week, receiving whopping gifts during illnesses, whopping bonuses fair weather or foul (one $27.50-a-week girl executive paid an income tax on $3,600). Salary includes breakfast and lunch prepared by a German refugee cook in the kitchen of the company's five-bathroomed office. Free also are supplies of cosmetics and candy, a regular allowance for clothes and books...