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    This C%M ALINE MOSBY Studios Tighten Mtii Belts; Stars Feel Pint I HOLLYWOOD (UP) ?╟÷ Those fabulous weekly paychecks that movie stars used to collect for swimming pools and Jaguars are going out of style today. Thjs ugly head of television and th(||&iovie industry's confusion oljm 3-dimension films has the film factories tightening their corporate belts and saving a few mousand^glpinies. here and there. Thus high-salaried contract stars are kissing off the days when they collected a fat salary every weefk, sometimes for doing nothing. Major studios want to hire players on one-picture-a-year contracts or sign free-lance stars, picture-by-picture, and even theyj A _ __J can't command the pay they i\ to get. Twentieths-Century Fox st'V has sliced 14 play?╜ttoff its tract list of (?4 since last A Richard Basehart, LSMa "" Valentina^gbrtesa, s J|& drews, Ann Baxter, Bil^ gan, Gary Merrill sand P\ are among' thogf&'fice^-f Many qUitomrough choJ cause they prefect?? bt\ accept lucrative televisio/ club and other free lam , When option time'l^iml MGM, the studio is lettLv stars go and .signing otho as Gree||tGarson, to ?╜|! picture |abtract. Manm' fered new cqntj?·gets-r-ff| k cut in tafaryT Kegnan j I $1500-a-week player, aw Ik new conwact at the lo->\ I of $1000. But June AH} I friends she prefers to m rather than take a slicj when her contract com/ renewal nextJjaiguskgl^h^j-. 'sfSjSN- JOHNMN,, anA to exit Metroes., amoif players whtfgei stock dm Hollywood but who've | the fabulous nightclub | La&^Ufegas. Johnson cy is a smash success at th/ Sands .Hotel.-, si^rajj warner studio contrac-f on a weekly salary are j 9, includjggJDoris Day t I 1op French ChJi ?╜hA resor*-wise La eats from eaJL^ed the best % 1/Vegag t the m??st f??agen lUlZP??P //era ?n ' has won the A.a-na?╜ve of fruits ?╜Lof fre?╜h ?Σ≤2eE%iPhiat8>