Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-05-29

achieved little or nothing on the speak
ing stage, while not few who never
trod the boards in their lives are now
earning salaries II grand opera diva
might well envy.
Last year Mary Pickfori was pais
$4,000 by the Famous Players Film !
company, three years before her name
was not even advertised. 1t was when !
her old employer, David BelascO, en-
gagged her at ten times the salary he |
had paid her previously that she who i
was known as "Little Mary" became
a Broadway star.
But she was not happy away from .
the old film studio Immediately the /
Belasco engagement ended, she returned
to her old love and was hailed as the |
"Quecn of the Movies" Now Mary
Pickford 5 salary is 100000 year
$1,000 week, with the spectre pream-
bulating with clock-like regularity for
81 weeks in the year.
Alice Joyce who recently sent check .
for $500 to the actors fund never act |
ed ON the stage at any time. She is as .
wcllknown today in Japan or Austria.
liza as in this country, and il gshe wish.
ed to convert her fame as screen
star into cash by way Of vaudeville,
her weekly salary would be in four
figures. But Alice Joyce remains with
the Kalem Film company with which
she started ON her amazing career
There are three directors Of photo.
plays producing for the Mutual brand
of films who earn from 100000 to
100000 year. The higher figure
goes to b. w. Griffith, who produced
"The Birth of Nation" but Grif-
fifth Is earnings on this one production
will add vastly to his income, as it is
separate undertaking in which he is
heavily interested. II was just six
years ago that Griffith, in sheer dcs-
peration turned from the stage to the
film studio glad to accept the regula.
tion price Of So per day.
OF all the remarkable changes Great
ed by the growth of an infant art and
lHhuoNlN NV 'blNNl VI ! HNHluS IL iHN' |
is perhaps the most widely discussed,
Ince is the Oldest son Of an old time
actor who did not live to see all three
Of his children achieve fame in the film
studio. "Tom" lncc was in such
straits five years ago when he applied
for "work " in western picture plant
that he confcsses that he was without
place Of shelter for his wife and baby
Now lncc not only earns in excess Of
$4,000 annually, but he is producing
picture plays in city named after him
self (lnceyille, Cal,) where he often
releases q production ON which $4,000 +,
has been spent
Ralph Incc, younger brother, has
attained the highest position possible |
in the film studio. He writes many Of |
his productions, but it is rure that he !
now acts before the camera. Recent. !
ly he was offered $1,000 II week to
leave the Ntagraph company where he
has been intrenched for years.
Anita Stewart is Ralph lnccs sister.
in.lOw, Here we have u concrete illus.
has meant for young women who en-.
brace it seriously even without stage
experience. Miss Stewart came to the
NitOgraph studio less than three years
ago, having not the least previous ex-
pericncc ON stage or screen, In Il few
months she became n star, later scoring
Il sensational triumph in "a Million
Bid" At the age Of twenty she is
earning salary paid to few Broadway
stage fOyortcs,
There are at least score af youth.
full stars of the screen who now earn
ten to twenty times us much as the
highest paid salaries given them ON the
stage, As many directors of photo.
plays are pNid from $3.50 to $500 week
who never knew a three figure salary
as stage directors. Moreover some Of
the highest paid of all never staged
play in the old field in their lives,
The matinee idols of filmdom achicv.
ed little ON the stage. Jack Warren
keuigan cOrus $4,000 year, Carlyle
Blackwell is producing in his own stu
dio photoplays directed by himself and
in which he in featured These two
youths still in their early twcntics are
idoli2cd by more than half the women
who attend the picture houses, Neither
earned Os high us $50 II week when ON
the stage, in fact both were playing
four years ago in "Brown Of HAIRY.
ard in which James Young starred.
Now Young himself is one Of the pill
lars of the film industry Tie writes
and directs the photoplays he appears
in, His wife (Cnp Kimball Young
is Mary Pickford 3 closest rival. Like
50 many others who enjoyed little vogue
on the stage, her career in pcturcdom
has been amazingly mctcorlc.
Even the photopluywrghts who have
made their impress greatest in the new.
or field have no Stuge achievements TO
their credit. Ninety per cent Of the
scenarios lsavc those adapted from
state plays are the work Of men and
womcn who never wrote spoken play
in their lives Emmett Campbell Hall.
now receiving a cabinet officers sal
AIRY from the lubin Film company, sold
0S out of the first 100 scenarios he
wrote. He is merely one Of many who
'think in pictures. Recently In 81.
Louis, Mo-, Mrs, Ida Damon won $40.
600 prize in contest by providing the
last situation in Il serial thriller called
"Thc Million Dollar Mystery" Miss
Damon never wrote u line for publica.
tion in her life. AZ the time She re.