Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-08-27 | Page 7 | Hobo Monarch Sues Studio for $50,000

Hobo loho Monarch Monarch- Sues Sued Studio For By Ily FREDERICK C C. OTHMAN HOLLYWOOD Aug 27 UP UP- UP Jeff eff Davis the hobo king who had bad visions of being a rich movie star sued Paramount Pictures PIcture today for because all the studio wanted from rom him was a pot of mulligan stew ew properly mixed Davis Davia came here with high hopes lopes he told the Judge and all he le got were insults discomfort and a pittance for his artistic ef efforts ef- ef forts Paramount according to the law suit was making a movie called Arkansas Traveler This picture he 10 said cast one Bob Burns in the theart part art of a hobo Davis said Burns k knew chew ew no more about that than a hobo lobo did about a Hollywood pre pre- mIu mitre The studio sent telegrams to numerous numerous nu- nu nerous police chiefs asking liking if It they knew Davis' Davis whereabouts on the theory that he would make snake a fine technical adviser One of the chiefs replied that he didn't know where Davis was but that he would like the le job himself Finally th the Philadelphia Philadelphia Phila- Phila delphia chief reported had located Davis DavIS' Davis and the studio signed a contract for M I for one weeks week's work Davis came out by plane When he le disembarked Mrs Davis was at athis athis his ils side side This flustered the pub- pub city department which felt that no holo not ev even n the head man I could be much of a hobo if he trav- trav led with his wife The studio put Mr and Mrs Davis up at the Plaza hotel And I stayed in that dratted place for two days Davis said I couldn't get my right sleep The beds eds were too soft so I tried sleepIng sleeping sleep sleep- Ing ng on the floor But that was no nogo nogo nogo go either account of the air con con- Things got so bad at the Plaza riaza Davis said that he took his wife wile to a rooming house where they obtained comfortable quarters at i 4 14 4 a week The studio had paid the Plaza bill Davis Dads said but it refused to pay his landlady lie He had to put up the 4 1 himself On the set meantime Davis stood on one foot and then the other waiting for the director to ask hit hito him to o act The director never did A Ahe All he asked Davis to do was mix a 0 pot sot of ot mulligan stew and then show Burns how to hop a moving bo box car When his week was up Davis said he got a pat on the back an ana and anda a request to come back next da day for or more work Now he was getting gettin some place Davis figured The Th studio had realized his ability At the end of three more days day Davis got fired The cashier tried trie to hand him a check for 47 but buthe h he wouldn't take it He saw Walter I. I Lyon Instead Davis charged in his lengthy com com- plaint that as emperor of ot the I League eague of ot Hoboes of the World he I worked day and night from August 6 to August 17 as press agent technical technical tech- tech director and actor The studio he le c complained had tried to deduct the he price of airplane tickets for tor and wife from his pay check himself Paramount spokesmen denied this