The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 31, 1952, Page 10

Poye 10 ETTA KEVT THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Saturday, May 31, 1952 By Paul Robinsen DID yOu Hea WY THAT ? He’S GOING | i | iOUGHT You SAID I NTT MAKE TIME WITH HER! — » WELL HOW AM TI DOW ’2 WANT TO FIRST v= Some UN- AWISHTD SUSNESS NE You / RIGHT NOW You'Re ACTING 4S EASY JO CATCH AS MEASLES ! HOW CAN TI PRETEND, OR ACT, WHEN I'M IN LOVE 7/ — |'M AFRAID TO TRY Tricks — I MIGHT LOSE < put FE ADORE THE Guy, [=r ME AN, NOT LET HIM IF YOU LIKE OUKE JOW HOW you REALLY DONT You THNK ‘<4 FEEL ASouT HIM Yer / You'D BETTER TAKE ee IT Easy 2— SURE, SURE! LOOK AT HIM! DEAD TO) THE WORLD! }—~ THIS GIVES ME AN IDEA! A GREAT IDEA! YOU SURE HE'S DRUGGED? | by on $50,0¢ | peanuts to pigeons ir By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK Could you eet year? The average man f that kind of mony isfy Une S Riley him enough left over But many 2 person in the $5 000-and-up ir ne bracket compiains he finds it hard make both ends meet. Why? Wel people who dwell at that ex ing financial altitude x so many unusual obligations their big incomes often turr to be all gross and no net. This is particularly true with top public entertainers, who some- times get the feeling they have been cut up more ways than a pie in a Bowery restaurant out } Where does all that dough go? | Let us take a typical case—Doro- thy Shay, the “Park Avenue Hill- billie.’ Her robust songs have made her a queen of the supper club circuit, at $5,000 a week and higher. These high - priiced chanteuses, however, are like racehorses. ‘They don’t perform for the customer each and every week. How many Kentucky Derby are there in a yeer? Last year Dorothy, who is a good business girl d her ac- countant to estimate the minimum income she would require for 1951. His figure: $81,000. Of this business expenses and taxes came to $65, They in- cluded such items as commission and managerial costs $18,630; fed- eral taxes, $10,040; California in- come tax, $3,750; legal services, $2,600; traveling expenses, $12,150; professional wardrobe, $4,000—etc. ete. Subtracting $65,625 from $81,000, | she wished ‘made the $81,000 estimate | $1,500 for food?” what effect heTl have NOTES : By ROB THOMAS HOLLY After bein , com- ind performing oth- teresting to see will be,” he ob- 2 new group of own up since I oo Udo f 2 years ago. I I's how they"! take it.” 1 v wk is more sonal matters, his relations with his no secret one starting wi to one studio, dio will build the after you've got- ou miss treedom. P16 pict fi five years, ve had to take the bad with guod,”” The Widmark deal still has two years ‘9 go, but it may well be adjusted before the expiration - | date, | What's wrong with movie musi- The music, for one thing. tke hit tunes in theh sce how many © originated in new V arn few. The os* of the films up wiih songs dug out | h ‘clogues. Offhand, I can't hase {th ink of a good new musical score ere in ns rereneta seh and Ham- quate for the demands of 1952. Seren tear aee “How can I get by with only | good song writers are still asked Dorothy, | in business. Song hits have to y girl who likes/come from somewhere. 8 steak once a day. “And where to-| don't producers try for whistlable day can you find a domestic who | new scores instead of digging out will work for $1,200.”” | the oldies? Best news in this line There is only one answer—to | is that Harold Arlen and Dorothy sing more often. | Fields have whipped up a score “The least I can afford to make {for “The Farmer Take a Wife.” but house! for dom 1, $1,500 for ré That left her $9,6: figure into this pendents gifts, $2 insurance premiums medical expenses, $1 s wardrobe and 265 for miscellaneous expe $1,200 for non-deductibt to cals? ed| Go expenses. The result, according to Dorothy, was that she had the grand f $330 left to save or do with ¢ sum Rising prices, she feels, a strong healt in 1952 is $100,000,” Dorothy said | 4!so, Irving Berlin is reportedly glumly - composing a film for Biug Crosby It takes a lot of money to make |@nd Fred Astaire. Let's have money these days. more. . . TAKE IT EASY, BOYS. I DON'T WANT ANYTHING TO HAPPEN TO OUR PATIENT’ BEFORE I GET HUNK WITH HIM! ‘ | SEE 7 A COUPLE OF POLES, A COUPLE OF COATS— AND WE'VE GOT A STRETCHER. ae eta Ee Ee ee UH--MAYBE_THIS'LL CHEER ree eee tortad ANE YUH U2.A BATCH UF FAN MAILS AH DONE WENT AN’ UBBUH2., (MOAN) UH--CAN'T EVUN WIN IN OUR OWN BAWL r E oan OZARK! ¥ XN TTB (GROAN) T]) we suo miss ouR / TH PENNANT, ~ NO LESS? » REGULUH yGs be : \ SHAWTSTOPL.. ‘Ak IKE vOMERS NCE we DEFT. 3 EAGLES SWEEP SERIES UGS DROP FOURTH STRAIGHT AS INNER DEFENSE CRUMBLES AN HOW WE \/ NOT THIS S NEEO A SHAWT- | ANYHOW...& STOPS. UM>= RECKON HE < KIN GIVE_US A HAND? OERSTATEMENT. CANT Ua OZARK The Key Wes! Ciiizen per line for one day Me per line for three days 10c per line for six days 9c per line for twelve days 8c per line for twenty-four days Minimura of 3 lines per insertion HOUSEWORKER Retrigerstiom of washer fo serviee, Pho AMD VACUUM CLEANER REPAIR nitric tows _ SINGER SEWING CENTER | Advertising Department ae