Hollywood Stars and Salaries Stir Studio Fightback
Jimmie Fidler reports Paramount and other studios resist star salary demands amid box office risks. He notes George Raft was dropped rather than negotiated, arguing high pay undermines profits and pressures studios to back protections against inflated salaries. He also recounts on set anecdotes about Bob Burns, Claudette Colbert, and Bob Hope, and glimpses into production tensions and lighting vanity.
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State Briefs cover resignations and local notices in Ohio
State Briefs report Earl J. Winter resigning as editor of The Ohioan, with future plans to be decided by stockholders. Francis W. Poulson may steer the paper’s fate as Cincinnati Democrats distance from the publication. Other items note Mrs. Pytlak withdrawing a divorce suit, a Cincinnati cathedral seat change, a Cleveland youth’s death by suicide, a West Virginia girl winning rifle honors, and faculty appointments at Ohio Wesleyan University plus Ohio delegates to a national evangelical conference.
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Village claims first temperance society in the United States
London Grove in Chester County is credited with organizing the Guardian Society for Preventing Drunkenness in 1820, marking it as the setting for the nation’s first temperance society.
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