Profits

Staggering tales are told of the earning power of Soprano Alma Gluck's gramophone recordings. One of them has it that her Park Avenue home in Manhattan was purchased on the proceeds of "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" alone. Last week figures were published to prove that she earned more than $100,000 in a single year from Victor records. A lawsuit made it public. The U. S. complained because she had felt exempt from an excess profit tax of $6,592; had paid; had sued for its return. In vain Mme. Gluck reminded the court that she had made those records as long ago as 1917, argued against paying tax on the 10% that still comes to her on every record sold. The U. S. won the decision, took no notice of the fact that Mme. Gluck sings little now, but keeps house instead for her husband, Efrem Zimbalist and his worthy violin.