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IN STUDIO LAND
Facts and Fancies About the Folks
Who Make The Films

WHO Make Inc }fllmS Il: III
Approximately s32OOO0o income tax II
viii be paid by Los Angeles picture stars II
and directors, according to figures com II
piled there. The estimate was made, on II II
figures showing the approximate income Il
for last year of the IL principal stars had II
directors, 40 minor directors and 60 minor II
stars. The total income of the Il lead /
ing stars and directors was placed in the
neighborhood of S7,35S 600. This list in |
cludes Theda Bara, Mary Pickford, Bill |
Hart, Douglas Fairbanks, Charles Chap
lin, ID. w Griffith. Thomas Ince, Cecil De-
Mile Roscoe Arbuckie, Anita Stewart,
Earle Williams, Clara kimball Young.
imova and Kitty Gordon. Tic figures are
only estimates and may vary with the
final results: but as is known, what is
a few hundred thousand dollars when
sou are speaking OF pictures. Mary Pick
| ford Doug. Fairbanks, Charles Chaplin,
and Marguerite Clark will probably pay /
| the largest individual taxes as their in
comes were estimated at inexeess OF $780,
Loco. Those having an income Of S2O0,001 Il
or more included Hart, Griffith, lnce, and
| Geraldine Farrar bnt, poor Roscoe Ar
! buckle, Clara kmball Young and Nazi-
nova are all only in the 100000 or more
income class We'll, We can't all have
money.
+ 1t appears reasonably certain that when
tlieir present engagement expires Nazi-
NOVA and Charles Ray Viii join the Big
-Four combination. %
Mary Pickfords much DELAYED Daddy |
Long-legs, the first of the Pitkford series
that is to be released BY the First Ma
tiona Exhibitors. viii he given to the
public during April.
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Tom Moore took little Mary to.visit the
700 in Los Angeles the other day, and
she was watching the turtles Finally She
looked up and inquired Say, daddy,
: why do they keen their covers on?H
~
! Fatty Arbuckle was born in smith Cen
ire, Hans. in 1887. Fatty screen ia
reer began in 1913, when Mack Sennctt.
S the weIl-known manager, took one good
look at his chubby face and engaged him
( on the spot Minta Dntfee, the petite
! blonde who played with him, was his
wife The talented couple worked IN
lmany comedies together, and seemed to
: enjoy their work quite as much as their
!" audiences. Fatty has stunt" record
that would appall the hardest circus
to performer, including drops through sky
lights, cakewalks along telegraph wires
le and high dives from bridges.
* Il you want to know anything about the
ne career Of any particular star, drop us g
III lac with his name and his biography
) viii appear in this column
II According to Norma Talmadge one Of
r. the most important requirements in tins
n make mp OF. one who wants TO make a
en- success on the screen iszsn abundance o
optimism. She says YEN need it: nartie
pialy on those occasions when you Z,
ito a studio and hear the casting director
say, I'm very sorry, there nothing JUS
now Ii you had come a week ago
would have engaged YOU Tor the pictur
,;s We are making now, for you are just tn
al tyre | wanted for suohand-such-a part.
az To believe that missing one part mean
nj that you will get another much bette
III Irequires wealth Of optimism: but Pre-
RS. lessional optnnists tell rs Il pays IN til
IN. long run, and it must
Oh 'rheda Bara has gone 10 Florida t
ms Namp some scenes.
tic Billie Rhodes is now making her sccon
On five reclcr, and by the WHY, she is Smilin
Bill Parsons better half pw too.
Is King Baggot is now talsing plunge il
w t. vaudeville
Flora Finch has returned 10 the sercer
~ aaa will appear in the forthcoming PR
~ duction of that famous stage musical su
tei cess Oh Boy. in seven reels.
Matt Moore Of tho famous Moore hos
is soon to become an Individual star
led Aftcr spending FIVE weeks IN New y o.
Dorothy Phillips and Allan IloiEilbar la,
ON returned to California.
ok The rumored report that Constance Ia
Ar nadgc. sister to Norma, AFfs married III
director. Robert Nignola;l has been CT
ren phaticaliy denied by her, she says she
in Mt married and never saw the man 81
would marry. Thems harsh woids, Co
SIS. ME.
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