The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-05-18
SOME WOMEN HAVE
FIVE-FIGURE INCOME
Moving Picture Industry Brings To
Light A Few OF Theu,-Very Few
From the New York Herald.

One hundred thousand dollars
wear! Not a mean salary for a man,
even be he wizard in his hne. Still
more remarkable it seems for a wo-
man to be drawing such pay, yet
few at least are getting that amount
and they are becoming legion whose
stipend runs into five figures. In
fact, woman having proved her met
tie by invading the business world
is proving her merits by pushing to
the very front in the realm OF the
highest salaried workers.
If ever there was favorite Of
fortune it is Anita Loos, who writes
"scripts' of Constance Talmadge.
She may have been born with sill
YER spoon in her mouth or even
golden one, since each year $780,
600 pours into her own personal
treasury. Her story reads like ro-
nance. Born to the stage she got
ten years start over her contempo-
raries-such women as Gertrude
Atherton, Einor Glyn, Zoe Atkins
and men like Sir James M. Barrie,
w. Chambers, Sir Gilbert Parker
and the rest of the celebrates who
are or have been in California study
ing the technique Of the motion pic
ture business from the inside-and
she made the most Of it.
She came naturally by her liter
ary as well as her theatrical talent,
for her father was not only an actor
and a manager Of stock companies,
but an editor, also. She played a
part on the stage as soon as she
could walk, and here paved the way
to the success, she has scored in her
present work.
Blazes Trail in Wall Street
Miss May Hull is an index and fill
ing specialist in Wall street who not
only inaugurated the work but
built it up until she is now making
$4,000 a year and during the war
income went even higher. She in
stalls her system into offices of
business men, lawyers, bankers and
mercantile concerns. She reorganiz-
es and rearranges correspondence
files clippings, records Statistics, re-
ports pamphlets, date files and busi-
ness libraries and then puts in skill
ed girls to carry the work on.
Miss Hull is the pioneer in her
line. She established in 1910 the
first school of fling and indexing in
the country.
Capitalized Curiosity
As P. T. Barnum, the gJeat AM
erican Snowman, achieved success by
capitalizing human credulty, so
Helen Woodward young New York
girl, became a power in the advertis-
ing world by capitalizing curiosity.
She saw a fortune by taking into ac-
count the inquisitiveness which is an
innate quality in American makeup,
50 when big publishing company
decide to put a 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 public to get his works a
new audience.
The works of the great humorist
had already gone through scores of
editions, had been printed in many
languages but as an active selling
proposition was for the moment a
back number. To win attention, to
revive the old love and gain the
new-the countless thousands of
boys and girls of this generation-|
meant strategy, but of a perfectly
legitimate kind.
Miss Woodward flashed the tale
of Huck Finn before the public eye,
illuminating her sketch with the
high lights of the story, but cutting
it short at it's almost exciting juno
ture. It was all over then but the
shouting. The men to whom Huck
Finn had been a childhood idol were
ken for the book which brought back
such happy days. The younger gen.