Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition criticized and ridiculed the artists who had reduced their salaries. . . . Under the circumstances, the relations between the opera company and Mr. Beniamino Gigli be came intolerable. . . ." Tenor Gigli said that the salary cut would have taken $23,000 out of the $100,000 coming to him by contract next year. "I have no regret and no apology to make. ... I was ready with my fellow-artists to contribute a substantial part of my earnings. ... But when my sincere offers were met with conditions and impositions which would have diminished my dignity as a man and as an artist...
...York Times headlined a rumor that Soprano Maria Jeritza was also quitting the opera because of the salary cut. Manager Gatti-Casazza furiously denied this. Jeritza was one of the first to take the salary cut in the autumn. But her contract has expired, has not yet been renewed for the shortened 1932-33 season. The Times rumor appeared to be founded on the fact that Swedish Soprano Goeta Ljungberg, tall & blonde like Jeritza, is ready to sing Tosca next year, a role Jeritza usually sings...
...novel Red-Headed Woman, they thought at once of red-headed Clara Bow, when and if she ended her retirement from notoriety. Last week, now married to Actor Rex Bell, Actress Bow announced that she would return to the screen, but not in Red-Headed Woman. She signed a contract with Fox, calling for a reported $125-$150,000 per picture. The first will be an adaptation of Tiffany Thayer's story about a half-caste girl, Call Her Savage...
...such contract, probably at a figure nearer $25,000 but involving also serializing in Hearst's Cosmopolitan Magazine, Publishers Farrar &; Rinehart and Author Bromfield's lawyer still seem to be haggling. In oblique reference to the possible serializing of Bromfield, his old publishers say of his current offering: "This novel has not appeared in any periodical." Other Stokes-Bromfield books: The Green Bay Tree, Possession, A Good Woman, The Strange Case of Miss Annie Spragg, Twenty-Four Hours...
...first European tour, young James Melton married Marjorie Louise McClure, daughter of Novelist Marjorie Barkley McClure. The Revelers earn their big money now broadcasting for Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. over a nation-wide hookup. They broadcast for Buick too, over a midwestern hookup. With a substantial Coca-Cola contract be sides, James Melton will make an easy $100,000 this year. It enables him to live in an expensive penthouse apartment, keep a sailing yacht on the Hudson...