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FILMINDI A
March, 1948
STILL SOWING WILD OATS?
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 14. Wallace Beery, fifty eight-yearold famous film star featured as the defendant in a paternity suit by "bit" player Gloria Whitney, who asserted that Beery was the father of her son born on February 7th.
Miss Whitney described Beery as a "prominent motion picture character of great wealth and affluence possessed of moneys and properties in excess of 1,000,000 dollars".
The actress also requested the court that Beery be ordered to pay medical and hospital expenses.
Miss Whitney's attorney said she and Beery had been friends for several years.
A PRINCE MIGHT ENVY!
NEW YORK, Feb. 5 Bing Crosby, Hollywood's well known film star, earned last year more than £ 165,000 as royalties from gramophone records and £150,000 from 39 broadcasts on the radio. In addition to this he is also believed to have made another £150,000 from films, according to the local magazine, "Variety".
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BRITAIN WARNS HOLLYWOOD
LONDON, Jan. 25: Mr. Harold Wilson, President of the British Board of Trade,
When Editor Baburao Patel left for America by a TWA plane on the 16th February, friends gave him a hearty send-off.
warned Hollywood recently tha its embargo on films for Britai| would never force the Britisj Government to lower its 75 pt cent tax on foreign film earnings,
If American producers persis in their embargo, Mr. Wilson tol the House of Commons, Britis movie theatres would just have t stop showing double features wit twice weekly change of progran me and make up with new Britis films and re-issues.
He reiterated the Government] stand that Britain would relax 3 the case of American films on! to the extent British films eai dollars in the United States. CHURCHES TURNED INTO CINEMAS
NEW YORK. Feb. 7. The "Jesuit Mission Magazine] of New York declares that til Catholic Church in North Chirl is in danger of annihilation thj year as a result of a two-yes campaign of persecution by Ch nese communists.
Father Calvert Alexander, eq tor of the magazine, who travel led through North China la year reported that during 1946-4 Chinese communists execute fnurdered or tortured to death 4 Catholic priests and brothers arj converted 123 churches into cinj ma theatres.
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