Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-03-18
incomes OF WOMEN
Anita LeoS Makes 100000 Annually
Writing for the Movies.
others COMMAND LARGE SALARIES
Numbers of. Women Make $4,000 a
Year-Many Women Have Success
fully Invaded the Business World
Personal Stories.

Personal Stories.
(From the New York, I'D apnld.)
i, Ono hundred thousand Collars. IL
year! Not mean salary br man,
even he he a wizard in his lines. Still
more remarkable it seems for Il woman
to bc. drawing such pay. yet a, few
at least arc getting that amount. and
they arc becoming legion whose sti-
pend runs into five figures. In fact,
woman having proved her mcttlc by
invading the business world, is prov
ing her merits by pushing to the very
front in the realm OF the highest sal
aricd workers.
If ever there was Il favoritc Of for
tunc it is Anita Loos. who writes
scripts" for Constance Talmadge. She
may have been born with Il silver
spoon In her mouth or even golden
one, since each year 100000 pours
into her own personal treasury. Her
story reads like romance. Born to
the stage she got a ten years. start
over her cOntcmporarics-such women
rs Gertrude Atherton, Elinor Glyn,
Zoe !tkins. and men like Sir James NJ.
Barrie. Robert w. Chambers, Sir Gil
bcit Parker and the rest Of the cclc-
brities who arc or have bccn in Cali
fornia studying the technique of the
motion picture business from the in
sidc-and she has made the most Of
il. ~
She came naturally by her literary
as well as her theatrical talent, for
her father was not; only an actor and
Il manager Of stock companies, but m
editor, also. She played part on the
stage rs soon as she could walk, and
there paved the way to the success she
has scored in her present work.
BIazes Trail In Wall Street
Miss Mary, HulIis IN index and filing
specialist in Wall street, who not
only inaugural ted the work but built it
up until she is now making $4,000 Il
year and during the war her income
went even higher She installs her
system into roffices, Of business mon,
lawyers, banhers and mercantile con-
Germs. Sho .rcorgamizes and rcarranges
correspondence files, clippings. re-
cords, statistics, reports, pamphlets.
date files and. business libraries and
then puts in skilled girls 10 carry the
work on. in..
Miss Hull is the pioneer in her line,
She established: in 1910 the first school
Of filing and, indcXing in The country.
Capitalized Curiosity.
AS =. r.. Barnum. the great Ameri-
can Snowman. achieved success by
capitalizing human credulity, so Helen
Woodward, q young New York girl,
became II power in the advertising
world by capitalizing curiosity. She
saw Il way to fortune by taking into
account tho innuisitiveness, which is
an inmate quality in American make
up. so when big publishing company
decided 10 put IL new edition Of Mark
Twain on the market and Miss Wood
ward got the advertising contract
through the company with which she
is connected she conceived the idea of
battling the mind of the reading pub
lie to get his works Il new audience.
Tho works Of the great humorst
had already gone through scores OF cdi-
lions, had hcen printed in many lam
gllagcs hut as IN active selling prOpos-
itiOn was for the moment Il back num-