Evening star., 1943-01-26
Ginger Rogers
.Flays $4,000
Wage Ceiling
Star Says 1t Shfes
4 mbifion; Wrifes Her
Protest to Congress
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM,

HOLLYWOOD-"It's mconstitu-
tional, American and unfair y
states Ginger Rogers. Her anger
is engendered by the fact that this
year she cannot keep more than $25,-
900 of her average 100000 a year.
Ginger is not a girl to be idle
when she has something on her
mind, and a few days ago she wrote
to a Congressman (Will Rogers, jr)
and Senator (Hiram w. Johnson
from California and a Senator from
Oregon where Ginger owns consid-
erable property. The three letters
protesting the salary ceiling were
written in Ginger's status as a cit
izen, and not, as has been printed
elsewhere, as spokesman for the
motion picture industry.
Calls 1t Dictatorship.
do not happen to agree with Miss
Rogers views, but think she should
have the right to state her case. And
here it is:
Just think of what the salary
ceiling will do to Lizzie Glutz," says
Ginger personally 7 think that if
the mythical Miss Glutz could earn
$25, 900 in any one year she would
pass right out from pure joy). "All
those girls who are now dreaming of
becoming film stars" continues
Ginger, land hoping to make for
tune, why, it will just take away
all their incentive and ambition"
Ginger leads me to believe that
If the new salary law had been in
effect when she herself started out
as a Charleston dancer, it would
have put frost on her future, and
that she would not now be where
she is in the movie industry. All of
which, of course, is open to question.
Tax me-" says Ginger, tax me
98Go, but don't tell me how much
I can earn. It's dictatorship, that's
what it is I'm not much of
speaker she concludes (she seems
to be doing all right now, but
I want the boys who are fighting
for us, my man and yours, to come
back to this country and find 1t is
still the America they know, not
Russia"
1t won't be, Ginger, unless we
have the guns, planes and bullets.
And all that requires money, and
a balanced currency, and confidence
in our leaders.
Well, now we can all come up for
air, and indulge in some of the
lighter gossip of Hollywood
Frances Farmers uch-publicized
heartbreak was not caused by her
divorce from Left Erikson. She had
gotten over that The man for
whom she is carrying the torch is
the well-known director of small
theater group in New York, who
married about six months ago a
blond in her early forties. (Oh, I
forgot. this column is now supposed
to be light)
Betty Field is coming back to
Hollywood soon with the new baby,
plus Husband Elmer Rice. War
ner Baxter is doing we'll financially
again-he must be because he has
just paid about $45000 for a new
house in Beverly Hills. Baxter has
what he hopes is a comeback role
in Lady in the Dark" Which
reminds me, Phyllis Brooks, who is
also in that picture, shed 10 pounds
to get the part. Her heart still be-
longs to 1t. Winston Frost of the
Army Air Corps.
Cheers for Bob Hope.
Hedy Lamar will not marry John
Loder when his divorce Is final.
Hedy likes him, but with Orson
Welles back in town, Mr. Loder will
get only so per cent of Miss Lamarr's
dates. . Bob Hope was the only
film actor to get hand from the
audience when he walked down the
aisle to take his seat at the first
night showing of This Is the Army"
The boy is fantastically popular.
The Alan Ladd baby is expected
in six weeks, but poppa will not be
around to take the former Sue Carol
to the hospital. Alan bought
house and paid for it before going
into the Army. E. Sonny Tufts gets
the lead next to Gary Cooper in
The Story of Doctor Wassell." For
his current job of love-making to
Paulette Goddard in so Proudly
We Hail" he says, Its the most en-
ioyable piece of work I've ever done"
Modern life in Hollywood: Her
bert Marshall and his wife and Edna
Best and her husband are q CAV
foursome at Romanoff's restaurant,
Edna was once Mrs. Marshall and
abandoned a lucrative Hollywood
career because she couldn't bear to
be parted from him. Love marches
on. And talking about love
(Which is always a nice subject). I
wish you could have seen Betty
Cradle kissing George Raft in the
same restaurant-right in the open.
1t was much more real than any love
scenes in any of her pictures.