The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-05-31
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toreign exchange. Right now
there is matter of six million
dollars bouncing up and down on
the Exchange and one may well
wonder exactly when the courts
of justice will finally put a set
price on an alleged broken heart.
Or on how much it costs to de-
Gently raise a child.
Rita Hayworth wants Ali Kahn
TO cough up three little million to
support their daughter. Assuming
that this sum is earmarked to pay
for the kids board and lodging
until she reaches her twenty first
year, Rita must have a bunch that
prices are indeed due for some
prodigious spiralling. Her tear
full plea would have us realize.
that it viii take exactly $l42,-
351l5h, (plus one twenty oneth
of a cent? year to raise and
educate the child.
That is so close to one hundred
and fifty grand a year that we
need not bubble over the differ
ence.
2 Rita, of course, aims to do a
few more pictures. It would be
pretty tough for a working girl
like her to try and support a.
child, don't you think?
The child was born under Mos
lem law and according to that
law VIII get her share of Ais
loot when the time comes, and
also under that law her father IS.
obliged to support her.
Maybe Rita doesn't trust Mos
lem Law And if any U. S. court,
or judge. backs up Rita's claim
that it takes one hundred and
fifty grand year to raise baby
! am going to feel the same to-.
ward that court as Rita feels to-
ward the Moslem court.
Rumor hath it that Ali is in this
country incognito Three million
is a drop in the bucket to him,
match, but it is the principle of
the whole thing that inks many of
US. ] don't feel sorry for him, but
! am BY no means wasting any
sympathy on. his runaway bride
either. If she wants the child, and
the law lets her have it, Rita is
certainly financially equipped To-
keep the kid in pablum, even if
she doesn't get starred in another
technicolor. plotless musical right
soon.
The other three million deal
concerns poor little Barbara Hut
ton who has been trying so hard
all her life to. find True Love. She
has, of course, made the mistake
of believing that she can buy I'll
on the Foreign Exchange, along
with a title.
A title; il seems, adds that GER
tain something 10 love; some
thing we so woefully get along
without Stateside.
4 Bab's estranged hubby, one
Igor Troubetzkoy, wants three
million of Bab's bucks before
he'll turn her loose to resume her
search for the Real Thing.
Initiation. king size, is here with
a vengeance. when DANES disii-
lousionfnent and "a piayboy's
broken heara bring three million
ii cold cash on the Foreign Ex-
change. Or any other place, for
thRt matter
But It poses a question, and
calls for searching thought.
Both gals want out. Ali is sup
posed to pay, in Rita's case. and
in the Hutton deal Igor is aiming
to get paid.
What would happen if both
cases came up in the same courte
Now there is dream of a situa-
ton for you to ponderi
Of the four characters involved.
I'm inclined to hedge a mite in
Ais favor. The other three dol
not. 70 me, fully represent the
highest principles Of love. mar
riage. heartbreak Or even divorce.
In a world where democracy,
free enterprise, the law, the rights
of man, the taxpayers and most
everything else IS getting onel
helluva kicking around It would
be nice to feel that Love is some |
thing that cannot be measured inl
dollars and cents.
There ought TO be . law making
il possible to fine people such as
the characters in this episode for
Contempt Of Love.
Some will say that am just an
old crab. but that IS because / dol
not have three million berries and
am not IN love Money IS only
money and. to paraphrase, 1T Isl
better to have loved and lost Il
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