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After his performance at a Los Angeles theater, Cinemactor Edward G. Robinson was told that his 19-year-old son was in a Beverly Hills jail on a bad check charge. Junior, who was cut off from his $10-a-week allowance a fortnight ago after father disapproved of his marriage to a 24-year-old actress, needed some bail money. Said father Edward G., as his lawyer hurried to spring Junior: "After all, he's my son. What could...
Bobst got his start as a $3-a-week pill pusher in Philadelphia, studied pharmacy at night, and got his license at 20. After managing a number of drugstores in the city, he landed a job as Philadelphia representative for Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc., a big pharmaceutical house. Bobst called on all the doctors in the area, sold so many drugs that when Hoffmann-La Roche was going under in the 1920 depression, he was made general manager. He promoted new products, cut overhead, soon had the company in the black. He was made president, boosted...
...average Equity member manage to exist? Actress Shirley Peterson, 25, came to Manhattan from Terre Haute, Ind. in 1945, toured the South for six weeks last fall with a stock company. When she got back to Manhattan, she started ushering in Carnegie Hall. Recently she picked up a $150-a-week job doing a TV commercial, but this little windfall will vanish after 13 weeks...
Five TV stations promptly contracted for 13 weeks of the new package. In Hollywood, Frederic & Phillips began shooting five-minute films at the rate of four a day, with such stars as Bonita Granville and Gale Page. They hired a $500-a-week screenwriter to flesh out the plots (picked up in the free-lance market at $50 a plot). The California Bank advanced $50,000 to finance a second 13-week series and, last week, stations in Grand Rapids and Nashville signed up, bringing to 17 the number of TV stations now carrying the show. Says Frederic...
Died. Joseph Wilshire, 71, former board chairman of Standard Brands (Chase & Sanborn coffee, Fleischmann's yeast and gin, Royal gelatin and baking powder) ; after long illness ; in Greenwich, Conn. Beginning as a $1-a-week yeast packer for Fleischmann's, he became its president 27 years later, stayed on as president when it merged with Standard Brands. He built up perhaps the country's finest collection of coaches, phaetons, cutters and sleighs, which he habitually used for traveling about his Greenwich estate...