Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-26
FILM STARS. TURN
]. TO EXTRA INCOMES
Business and investments
| for Future Occupy Time
Outside Studios.
Special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HOLLYWOOD, February rs (N.A.
N.A.).-With the depression and 1925
Wall Street crash to throw a scare
into them, the suddenly rich and
famous, of which there are plenty out
here, are no longer children about
money. Two-fisted spending has be-
come out Of date and many a star
has to toe q rigid budget while looking
after large investments.
A number of the players trust their
investments to their banks. John Berry
xnadge and Charlie Murray are directors
more, Dorothy Mackaill, Norma Tai
of HOLLYWOOD banks; Cecil de Mile Is
vice president of the bank. Though
them bankers have learned the pey-
chology Of dealing with the artistic
temperament. Bond buyers have been
the result.
Richard Dix turns his salary check
over to q bank trust department.. SO
much going in to his checking account,
so much to q trust account, so much
into bonds and gilt-edgs stocks. Richard
Arlen'S bank handles his neat little
salary. Mary Brian's brother is head
cashier of a bank, and not only looks
after his sisters investments, but ad-
vises numerous other players.
Clara Bow had an arrangement with
her studio whereby she received a por-
tion of her salary and the rest was
put In trust. She had had business
manager until Daisy De Voc came into
her employ Now Clara has turned
everything over to her bank.
Chaplin Likes Bonds.
Charles Chaplin is his own cautious
business manager, investing in British
government and Liberty bonds They
say his surplus for investment over
is ST5O,0O0 annually. Among other
enterprises. Chaplin Is heavy In
weston in "Henry's Cafe" and he also
helped finance the Russian Eagle.
Both Marion Davies and Gloria
Swanson maintain business oflceS IN
connection with their studios, and give
daily attention to financial matters.
incidentally, Marion Davies owns an
orchid nursery which supplies orchids to
all the Hollywood and Beverly Hills
florists.
The Talmadge sisters fortune has
grown under the astute management OF
joseph Schenck. California land, Los
Angeles apartment houses and bonds
are among their holdings.
AS individuals, some or the best BUS
mess brains in the country are found
among the players. Mary Pickfords
business head is famed. Her invest
ments run to real estate. Dougs
ditto. Fairbanks fortune, invested in
land and industrials, yields an income
suficient to keep his brother Robert
and staff eight hours day looking after
1t. Doug keeps in close touch. The
first thing he turns to in the morning
Is the financial page OF the newspaper.
Lloyd Has Firm.
Harold Lloyd, who made his first mil
hon before he was 80, has huge real
estate organization known as the Harold
Lloyd Corporation. You see his business
sign as often as billboard notices Of his
hlIns. The comedians uncle, William
r. Frazier, Is business manager and
financial adviser. Frazier is about the
only man who knows exactly what Lloyd
Is worth. Enough to afford private
golf course, anyhow, and make the new
son. Harold, tr., a multimillionaire be-
fore he's 81.
Give Brooke is shrewd investor in