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Show Shirley Pays $35(H)ue on Fan Letters HOLLYWOOD. Oct. M (IN8) Being a movla star costs money. In tha last 10 months Shirley Temple haa paid I3A0 for postage due en the letters from her fans. For tbia Item and for unpaid duty on gifts that are sent her, tha starlet can count on an expenditure of 11000 a year, her parents revealed today This week, for Inetance. Shirley paid 111 40 duty on a doll that came aa a gift from a fan In Italy. And when the package waa opened, the doll's head was found to be smashed. Another package, from England, cost 17.15 in duty. It contained an air rifle that Shirley's mother will not let her touch. The Temple chauffeur collecta upward up-ward of 0000 fan letters a week at tha studio and turns them over to a secretary at the starlet's homa. If a picture la requested, a fan geta a postcard photograph of Bhir-ly. Bhir-ly. The Temples buy these by the thouaands. In case requests are made for larger pictures, tha fans are referred re-ferred to tha studio, which has them for sale at rates running up to It. |