TO PAY £2400.
FILM COMEDIAN SUED. GETS £20,000 A PICTURE. (From a Correspondent.) ■NEW YORK, July 1. “Naw, I don’t know. The only guy who can tell is the income-tax. collector,” bellowed W. C. Fields, the (llin comedian, when asked to-day at Riverside Court, California, how much he was worth. He was ordered to pay £2400 to Dr. Jesse 'Citron who claimed that fee fo. medical attendance. Fields said lit would appeal when the court also dismissed his claim for £5,000 damages against the doctor. Continuing to answer questions about his financial position, he said. “I worry more about thinking up gags for my pictures,” and added that hb Paramount, contract brought him £20,000 a picture. There were three ; year. He furiously denied that he had told the doctor he had £140,000 in the bank last June. Asked by counsel how much he had. Fields drawled out, “Well, 1 don’t exactly know. I’d. say it was less than £40,000. ______
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WT19370807.2.113.16.6
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20266, 7 August 1937, Page 17 (Supplement)
Word count
Tapeke kupu
159TO PAY £2400. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20266, 7 August 1937, Page 17 (Supplement)
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Waikato Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in