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Add one more name to the rolls of working wives. Citing the mounting legal bills of former Domestic Affairs Adviser John Ehrlichman, Wife Jeanne has signed on for a $10,000-a-year publicly funded emergency employment job with the Seattle Symphony. A former part-time employee of the symphony, Jeanne qualified as a member of a "lower-income family," and has begun working as a school concert coordinator. The Ehr-lichmans still occupy their big house overlooking Lake Washington, but, says Jeanne, "my family needs the money. John hasn't worked in the past year, you know."
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"My God, it's my father," marveled Margaret Truman Daniel after watching Actor James Whitmore run through his role in give 'em hell harry! Whitmore, who toured the U.S. for three years as the gum-chewing reincarnation of Humorist Will Rogers, returned to the stage in Hershey, Pa., this time with the blunt bons mots of Harry S. Truman. Among the show's props, naturally, is a copy of the famous Chicago daily Tribune that erroneously headlined Truman's 1948 election defeat by Governor Thomas Dewey. "I must have thrown away 50 of those," mourned Margaret. "Now they're worth $5,000 each."
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"I've got a much better dressing room now," rasped Comedian George Burns, "and when I go to the commissary, they have a seat waiting." There have been other changes too since Burns, 79, and the late Gracie Allen filmed Honolulu back in 1939. Now fully recovered from open-heart surgery eight months ago, Burns is back on the movie sets for the first time in 36 years starring in Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys. Co-starred with wrinkled, bewigged Walter Matthau, 51, Burns is replacing Jack Benny, who died last December. "When I worked with Gracie, I didn't have to do that much, just ask how her brother was and stand around smoking a cigar for 20 minutes while she talked," recalled Burns last week. "In Sunshine Boys I don't even have to tell jokes. Character actors don't have to get laughs." Pause. "Come to think of it, last time I played Vegas I was a character actor."