People: High Cost of Living

Errol Flynn asked a Los Angeles judge to throw out an attachment suit brought by an actors’ agent, said it cost him $14,595 a month to live. His monthly items: $5,000 for taxes; $4,000 for publicity; $1,000 for the support of a boat; $1,200 household expenses; $2,000 personal upkeep for himself and wife Lili Damita; $1,395 for miscellaneous this and that. The judge decided $12,000 was plenty. ∙ ∙ Joe Louis filed a plea in Chicago to have wife Marva’s $200-a-week temporary alimony halved. He said his fighting does not bring him $250,000 a year—only $56,000, after taxes. ∙ ∙ In Manhattan wealthy Private Joseph Paterno Jr.’s mother asked a court to knock $50 off the $400-a-month separate maintenance her son pays estranged wife Beverly. Mother Paterno said her son’s allowance was only $10,000 a year, and besides Beverly was accepting gifts from Playboy Tommy Manville, 47. ∙ ∙ In a trial involving a man who said he sold mud packs, Dick Powell and wife Joan Blondell will testify this week that they absolutely did not offer to buy $41,000 worth.