SHIRLEY TEMPLE SUED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 253, 24 October 1936, Page 5 (Supplement)

SHIRLEY TEMPLE SUED.

FORMER PROMOTER'S CLAIM. Shirley Temple is being sued by an independent film promoter, Jack Hayes, who is claiming 500,000 dollars and 50 per cent of her earnings under an agreement made with her mother when Shirley was barely out of the cradle. Hayes saw possibilities in the child during her earliest days before the camera and signed her to a contract whereby he guaranteed to pay her 10 dollars a day for a minimum of four and a maximum of five days a week. Anything she earned over this sum was to be divided between them on a fifty-fifty basis. In those days 40 dollars and 50 dollars a week was big money to the Temples, and the agreement was joyfully signed. Shortly afterwards Hayes went bankrupt and Mrs. Temple bought back the contract for 25 dollars. A few weeks later Shirley signed with Fox Film Corporation and bounded almost at once to the million-dollar class of wage earners. It is difficult to determine what claim—if any—the promoter has on the golden stream now pouring in the Temple coffers.