again when she starts her next n Lescaut." The newly-weds are living in the bride's it York-terrace, Regent's Park. The Korda mansion in St. "Wood is closed up, writes Stephen Watts in the "Sunday Each morning soon after seven Korda sets ont.for.the studio. He is often late home for dinner at eight. He eats lunch from a on his desk with a conference going on. The new Mrs. Korda goes to the studio. No, that's not quite accurate, She has there twice. business -organization, managed by business men and created for business reasons."
The basis of the case. against the company was: that it had lent Laugh-ign (who held all but a few of the shares) some: £20,000, in addition to his stipulated salary of £150 a week.
For the sale of Laughton's services to Hollywood! studios, it was stated, the company received £56,000.
Another interesting revelation of the money side of being a star was that for "The Barretts of Wimpole Street" and "Marie Antoinette" (which, in the end, of course, he never made). Laughton received £33,000. For "Ruggles of Red Gap" he got £11,000, These amounts, of course, are after the deduction of American tax.
Talking of stars' taxes, the latest news in the cage of Marlene Dietrich—you remember about her luggage being taken from the Normandie by Treasury officials just before it sailed from New York—is that the United States Governmeht claim they are entitled tó about £28,000 as tax on earnings from pictures she made in England."
Miss Dietrich made only one film in England—*Knight Without Amour." You can judge from that figure how Staggering her gross salary was.
It was, I believe, in the vicinity of £00,000—or about £20,000 more than French Club Dance The floor show at the French Club on Saturday evening, should prove interesting and entertaining. Tutti Stern, well known to many members, will appear at the Club for the first time, dancing th tango "Jealousy" and also a speciality number "Grotesque." The team of Lotte Sommer and partner are making their first Shanghai appearance having recently been engaged in Vienna, They will execute a tap dance and their second number a valse. Senor Pasquala, well received on previous occasions, will give -[his interpretation of the dance of the Matador, An enjoyable evening is assured and members will do well to make reservations sufficiently early to ensure that arrangements for dinner, etc. are completed in good time.
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