Salt Lake Telegram | 1948-12-15 | Page 1 | Columbia Warns Rita to Conform 'or Else'

I Columbia Warns Rita To Conform or lor Else Eisel HOLLYWOOD HOLLY Dec 15 INS Studio officials V Ve Wednesday e d n e s d day a y warned screen charmer Rita Hayworth Hayworth Hayworth Hay- Hay worth to mend her ways or else face lace the consequences Columbia Pictures Corp where Rita cashes a four-figure four pay paycheck paycheck paycheck check every week when she is not under suspension let it be known that while no court action is contemplated contemplated con con- at present if the star persists in protracting negotiations negotiations negotiations a damage suit might be lodged against her Rita currently Is payroll off for refusing to make Lona Hanson an epic o of the modern west in which the Mexican-born Mexican actress would play a 3 sophisticated ranch owner The studio says that she will willI I emote in Lona or Lona or else Or else could mean the thc end of I Miss Hayworth's screen career or ora ora ora I a court battle A studio spokesman esman George e Lait of oC the public relations department department de de- said that legal action might be a possibility if Rita and the studio failed to reach an early agreement or if she would to make a picture at another com corn pany Lait emphatically denied the report report report re re- re- re port that Ritas Rita's current boy friend Aly Khan Ithan eon Bon of an Indian potentate potentate poten poten- tate had offered to buy her contract con con- tract Rita started kicking nb over the traces when she returned to Hollywood Hollywood Hollywood Holly Holly- wood from an extended sojourn in Europe Her name and Alys Aly's were romantically linked inked at every pleasure pleas pleas- ure city and gay resort where they stopped on the continent T The in 11 e romance continued in Sn Mexico City and Havana where the two met by co coincidence The studio had to break up their va vacation vacation vai va- va cation in Havana to get Rita back to Hollywood for tests for Lona Lon a Hanson Th That t when Ritas Rita's divorce from producer actor-producer Orson welles became became be he- came final and reports gained ground that Aly was about to cut his marital ties tics with the former Joan Bullier Guinness the screen siren be began an giving the studio a rough roush time