The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1942-11-26

Hollywood is panicked by the
wage ceiling, limiting the yeaIly
pay check to Is Gs net. The big
gies can collect SGT. 900, which is the
legal IS plus tax, but everything
over stays in the boss hip pocket
. . 1t calls for adroit handling.
If an actor keeps OF working, he is
toiling for free. If he lays off he
runs the risk Of being forgotten by
the fans Biggest fear of all
is it may wreck the star system.
If the studios get into the habit of
paying actors wages that keep them
within the legal limit, they might
get to like it and keep it up after
the limit is off Agents are
scared stiff. They get 10 per cent
of a clients earnings. AS one of
them put it: Ten per cen of
zero is zero" but there are those
who think that's a fair wage for
agents.
The owl can't be seeing many
3D. movies, judging from its ad-
vice to pulp fctionists to make their
villains Japs Every week the
cinema offers a Nipponese Nasty for
smuggling purposes. That makes him
a pushover heavy It's no sur
prise to anybody (and no drama at
alb when Basil Beautiful clips the
Japs in the teeth and tells him that
squares Bataan. 1t leaves you want
ing a lot The place to make
the Japs the heavies is in the news
reels, especially if it also shows the
heroes getting hunk. We don't want
to just pretend we're hurting them.
It's much better if it's the Mccoy.
Oh, eve and ever SO much.
A Frenchman, who lived in Eng
land for many years, turned on it
with written attacks after France
was licked . When Winston
Churchill heard about it. he said:
I'VE thought we had a friend-we
only had a client"
The Magazines: Eugene Tillinger,
in Pic, relates that there is a caste
system among the Berlin Murder
ers' Set. Frau Himmler, he re-
ports. gets snooted by the wives of
Goebbels, Goering, ct al, because
her husband, Mr.. Gestapo, butchers
people for a salary, while others do
1t for medals . John Erskine,
in the American Mercury, grieves
that American poetry is namby-
PANTY because the poets have for
gotten how to curse" Mebbe
that's because they keep their
cussin' for their letters to critics
l. F. Stones pungent pieces
in The Nation are waker-uppers
Looks literary snapshot of Ambas-
sador Wira1t points out that he
looks like Lincoln. But more I'M
portant-he thinks like him .
Kyle Crichton did a success story
on actress Marjorie Reynolds. He
reports she earned $500 a week in
horSe-operas but got a break in the
films at $3.50 per week Huh?
Typewriter Ribbons: H. L. Menck.
en-: ConsclenCe: An inner voice
fhnt ,t.DrN m rN~o1lN,l,- - I.l,-,
Anon: He was a cashier who
wished to be M of the 400 but new
is only No. 367 S. Butler: She
gave the impression that her mind
was wearing trousers Christie
pher Hale: Don't slam YOUR mind
IN my face Jean Tennyson:
The only ambition in life a paper
napkin has is to get down off a
diners lap and play on the floor
Anon: The snow is beautiful if you
are watching the other fellow shu"vl
it Goethe: One cannot ALWAYS
be a hero, but one can always be a
man H. Shriner: Henry Kaiser
old Man Rivetcr A. p. Her.
bert: To me, the conception of two
living together for Is years, without
a cross word is absurd, and sug,
gests a lack of spirit only to be
admired in sheep. Where there is
spirit there must be sparks.
Hero Buckley saw Sons of Fun
the other night and howled at it
Later he asked Olsen & johnson;
How can you stand it night after
night-all that noise and shooting?'
Kenneth Miller's suggested
slogan for Loudmouths: Loose
Schmoose Can Cook Your Goose!'
Oracle Fields is a click at the
Wedgwood Room at the Waldorf
Gets all the stuffed shirts to sins
always Be an England" and Coo
Bless America" . Ginny SimmI
has told RKO she'll do no more T
films.