Evening star., 1933-02-08
MISS U[R|C TURNS
TABLES ON CRITICS.
Gets Chance to Anger Them
by Charging She Spent
$11,136 on Them.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February 8.-Thea.rical
critics, to a man, voiced surprise and
ignorance last night about the enter
tainment item for which Lenore Ulrich
unsuccessfully sought tax exemption.
But ,the actress was prompt with re-
buttal that there most certainly were
such expenditures, as well as variety
of incidentals attached to the pursuit
of stage career.
Miss Ulrich asked permission to SUBJ
tract S11,130 from her taxable income
for 1927 and 1923, alleging, among
other things, she spent that amount in
divers incidental expenses, including en-
tertainment of critics.
The Board of Tax Appeals, sitting in
Washington yesterday, denied this, po-
litely reminding Miss Ulrich that 'the
potency of donated favors, especially of
food, in securing adherence, is recog-
nized," but that, unfortunately, such
gratuities were not tax exempt.
Break Silence Period.
When these tidings reached the crit
ord and got together for once. Alexan-
der Woolcott even interrupted the rit-
ual Of being shaved.
Il will emerge from my retirement"
he said, with as much dignity as a
lathered stout man can muster, lust
long enough to say that Miss Ulrics
statements to the income tax authori-
ties provide the only real good enter
tainment she ever afforded me-"
Brooks Atkinson of the Times said
he never even got an autographed
photograph" adding he could say some
other things, but guessed he wouldn't.
Percy Hammond cf the Herald
Tribune, was SO aStoniShed words failed
him, for once. Put it any way you
like" he murmured into a telephone,
Il wasn't recipient"
Burns Mantle of the Daily News had
read about it and was all set
Just Plain Sorrowful.
"Yes," he said, shade sorrowfully,
"it just goes to show what I've long be-
lieved-that I'm not meeting the right
people"
Gilbert Gabriel of the American said
he was sorry to report he hadn't even
Miss Ulric's friendship" but added So
licitously: IT hope she had more
pleasure out of it than I've had enter
tanning actresses"
John Anderson of the Journal said
he'd met Miss Ulrich but once when
somebody else gave the party
II didn't think" he appended, "that
anybody bothered to entertain the crit
les any more-not even the producers"
John Brown of the Post said he'd
never met the lady socially but "she
certainly didn't entertain me that much
in the theater-she overestimates her
ability"
Miss Ulrich, at her town home (she
has another up at Croton, N. ", also
talked at some length. She could not
understand why theater people "get
such a particularly bad break, when
every other business house in the world
can make allowances for expenses"
Starring Costly, She Says.
And if the income tax people think
being a star isn't expensive, she added.
they might try paying her telephone
Dill some time. Long-distance calls to
California are frequent, she said: some
times, even, she has to call London
Then there are cablegranls.
Dinners for critics, other newspaper
men. authors, producers and the like,
simply had to be given, she said
Then there are theater tickets. There
Is never a "sell-out," she said. that
the star isn't asked for tickets. And
she has to pay for them. That Is bust
ness too she said