Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-10-17 | Page 22 | Studio Suspends Deanna's Contract in Story Rift

i Studio Suspends Deanna's Contract in Story Rift Rift j By FREDERICK FREDERIC C. C OTHMAN HOLLYWOOD UP Deanna UP-Deanna Deanna Durbin's salary almost three times as much as-much much as President Roosevelt's Roose Roose- 1 velt's ceased velt's ceased Friday when Roose-I Roose her studio suspended her contract and rejected her demands for the right to supervise her own movies Officials of Universal studios said they had been paying Miss Durbin well over per year Since then they have phoned her repeatedly they said only to get geta a buzzing noise and telegraphed her only to have their wires re re- re turned News of the suspension came as asa asa asa a shock to Hollywood which had watched her progress at Universal sal kept track of her romance with Vaughn Paul the second assistant assistant assistant as as- director on her first picture picture pic picture pic- pic ture and remembered well that during the depths of the depression depression depression depres depres- sion her movies kept the whole studio from being turned over to the sheriff for bankruptcy sale Joe the man who had produced all of Miss Durbin's pictures resigned several months ago igo and moved to Metro-Goldwyn- Metro Mayer Four weeks ago husband Paul handed in his resignation too Soon thereafter Miss Durbin Is Issued issued issued is- is sued her ultimatum ultimatum ultimatum-in m the face of consistent failure of or other movie stars to select good pictures for themselves But Universal no longer was in inthe inthe the Jie red A new management was wasn In n charge new money was being used for financing and new stars gradually were catching up with Miss Durbin She wasn't slipping exactly but neither was she any longer the studios studio's only asset Her contract has three more years to run and because under its terms she will work for Universal Universal Universal Uni Uni- versal or shell she'll work for nobody friends believe that after a few payless paydays shell she'll start answering answering answering an an- her phone