The Washington times., 1936-06-18

I week contract and took the issue
to court.
Most of the stars crave the op-
portunity to work on the M-G-M
lot with Director w. s. woody
Van Dyke for Woody has the
highest kind of a Hollywood bat
ting average. He knocks out box
office home runs with startling
regularity.
Studios lend or swap their con-
tract stars or permit them to
work elsewhere when they have
no immediate assignment for the
players, or because they consider
a particular role with a rival pro-
ducer will add to the star pres
tige and importance.
On the other hand many Of the
big names of Hollywood free
lance, or sell their services to the
highest bidder. Some stars have
contracts which permit them to
accept offers from the outside
after they have fulfilled their
studio obligations.
CURRENT QUOTATIONS
VARIETY, which has kept a
close tab on the salary market in
the movies, finds that any inde-
pendent producer who wanted to
make a motion picture with an
established name to carry it to
success would find these current
one-picture quotations on stars,
If they were available:
Marlene Dietrich, 100000.
Claudette Colbert, $125. 900.
Janet Gaynor CSmail Town
Grip, 100000.
Irene Dunno, 500, 900.
Jeanette Macdonald providing
script, etc, okay), 100000.
Sylvia Sidney, Margaret Sulla-
van, Ann Harding, Miriam Hop
kins, Merle Oberon, $4,000 each.
Jean Arthur, Carole Lombard,
Myrna 10y, Barbara Stanwyck,
$4,000 each.
Madeline CarrOLI, SS0,UUV
Luise Rainer, $25,
Male stars and current one pic
ture prices are:
Bing Crosby, percentage and
| $150,O00.
Ronald Colman and Fredric
March, $15O,0 each.
Gary Cooper and Robert Donat,
$125 900 a picture.
Charles Boyer and William Pow
ell, 500, 1000 a picture.
Leslie Howard, Paul NUM-, Rob
ert Montgomery, Edward G. Robin
son, Edward Arnold and wallace
Beery in the $4,000 bracket.
Victor McLaglen. John Barry
more. Jack Oakie and John Boles,
$50 900 each.
George Raft, Brain Aherne and
Herbert Marshall. $4,000 a film.
Spencer Tracy, Fred MacMur-
ray, Cary Grant, Pat OBrien,
$35, 900 a picture.
Lionel Barrymore Ito 20th-Fox)
and Warren william, $50, 200 each.
Franchot Tone and Henry
Fonda, $4,000 a picture.
So ends today'S lesson. Except
that you won't find Shirley Tenn
pies name in any quotations. Not
for all the tea in China or truck
load Of bonus bonds would Fox
pictures permit her to stray from
the studio where she turns out
about five big gold nuggets of Gel
luloid a year, as the induStry'S
No. / box office star.
THIS AND THAT
Archie Onyun is flying down
from New York Saturday for the
express purpose of seeing the Road
SiderS' production of Around the
World in 80 Days" He hopes to
make the hop in 80 minutes.
Major BoweS will sell autos in
stead of coffee beginning in Sep
tember. And for $4,000 week,
the report says. Pardon me if I
take an extra dash Of tobasco with
that $25,
The price of fame or a good
K. o. Max Schmeling has two
weeks of vaudeville booked at
$500 with an option of $3.50 box
office split, IF HE LICKS JOE
LOUIS TONIGHT. If he don't
lick him the $500 becomes rs
cents.
The League of Nations has
voted Little Lord Fauntleroy" the
seasons prize picture. With a
special award for Charlie Chaplin,
star of Modern Times" No OBJ
jectionS to these findings, but I
wonder who's the League Of Ma
tionS' motion picture critic?
Mention was made here yes
terday that Green Pastures"
would confront difficulty in Eng
land. Sure enough. The Lord
Chamberlain yesterday banned the
movie much to the chagrin of
Warner Brothers. John Bull con-
siders the way down South concep-
tion of the Deity as blaSphemous.
The morning mail brings a call
ing card from Robert Crandall
Payette. Two weeks old, and he
announces that from now on he
will be at home at 591O Sixteenth
st. with Mr.. and Mrs. John J.