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While Manhattan theatergoers took what cold comfort they could from warmed-over operettas and a blurry reprint of The Front Page, London had Laurence Olivier's majestic production of King Lear. By early morning of the day before the opening, Londoners had queued up for gallery seats in the Old Vic's new theater on St. Martin's Lane. After the show a mob of howling men converged on the stage door chanting "Two, four, six, eight, who do we appreciate? LARRY...
Annemarie Hammer of Heidelberg, Germany was frankly perplexed. To the editors of Heute, a U.S.-sponsored, LIFE-like magazine, she wrote: "I don't see how this is possible. Won't you please print the answer to the puzzle?" What baffled her was a reprint of Charles Addams' New Yorker cartoon showing one set of ski tracks passing both sides of a tree (see cut). From Heute's literal-minded German readers came a flood of confident answers. Samples...
...artists who are also good idea men-or who have a clever gagman or two feeding them ideas-the business is good for $12,000 to $18,000 a year, including reprint profits and advertising jobs...
...less than regularly after the spring of '43, but appearing now and then anyway. Brightest spot in the Lampoon's wartime history was the overseas edition, reportedly sent to all Harvardmen in the Armed services. Issues during the darker war years were apt to be liberally larded with reprint cartoons and poems conceived in brighter days, when the Bow Street emporium was set up to be the cultural center of College life...
...receive exactly half of that amount, $3,375," Miss Rice informed me. "The other half goes to my publisher, who, like all first-edition publishers today, takes 50% of all authors' reprint royalties. And, of course, I pay 10% to my agent, thereby netting 40% for myself." Miss Lee Wright, editor of Simon & Schuster's Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Miss Rice's first-edition publishers, confirmed this emphatically over the telephone tonight. "Craig has just the same sort of contract as any other writer," said Miss Wright. "We take 50% of her reprint royalties...