Evening star., 1936-01-08

more, ranging all Tie way IloIl
earnings of movie stars TO
i those of motor plant execu-
tives, were open today to eager public
scrutiny.
The House Ways and Means Com
mittee figures. as submitted by the
Treasury, showed. for instance, that
Mae West got almost four times as
much as Edsel Ford-on the salary
rolls. And Bing Crosby drew as much
as the Mayo brothers together.
High on the list in prominence. If
not in STABILITY of salary, was Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt. As a con-
tributing editor" for the Crowell Pub
fishing Co. she was shown to have
received $4,000
The figures included salaries of
corporation employees receiving $4,000
or more for 1884.
Included in the $4,000 pay checks
were:
Charles Chaplin, $4,000; S. S.
Kresge, chairman of the board Of
S. S. Kresge Co., 100000: Henry l..
Doherty, 100000, and William Ran
| dolph Hearst, S500,000..
Mae West got 1889, 1866 and Con-
stance Bennett, $176,188.
Movie Directors Pay.
Proving that directing movies Is
profitable, too, were the pay checks of
Norman Taurog. S118,750, and Wesley
Ruggles, S12l,4l6.
The producing end of the movies
paid Cecil B. De Mile s125.o0 and
B. P Schulberg, s145,583.
Edsel Ford, president Of the motor
company. regarded as one of the Ma
tion's wealthiest men. received S90, ,036,
while one of the corporations vice
presidents's got Sl07,34l.
Max Baer's movie appearances gave
him $16,666 in 1884.
Mickey Cochrane, manager of the
world champion Detroit Tigers, re-
ceived s31. 1866.
Walter Wincheil, New York Daily
Mirror columnist, drew pay totaling
$4,000. Col. Frank Knox, Republican
presidential possibility, $4,000 from
the Chicago Daily News. That's the
salary of President Roosevelt.
B. D. Miller, president of the F. W.
Woolworth Co., received S337.479. w.
S. Clifford, president of the American
Telephone & Telegraph Co., collected
$210,o50.
Insurance Head Gets 100000.
For being president of the Prudential
Life Insurance Co., Edward D. Duffield
got 100000, while Walter H. Brown,
manager, received $131, ,429.
Coca Cola helped to pay r. w.
Woodruff, president of the firm,
s10c,350.
Joseph Pulitzer, president of the
Pulitzer Publishing Co., drew $134,5
in 1884. Arthur Brisbane, New York
Evening Journal, collected $265, 900.
DR.. C. H. Mayo and DR.. w. j. Mayo
of the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Mimi,
each drew $4,000.
Bing Crosby, listed in 1884 as an
actor, was paid $1O4,44 and then COL
lected $88,449 from the Crosby Pro-
ductions, Inc.
Other movie salaries listed for 1884
included: Pandro Berman. producer,
Sl29,924; Joan Bennett, $36,976;
George Burns and Oracle Allen, who
took their S88,79l jointly; Dorothy
Parker Campbell, just plain Dorothy
Parker to admirers of her pithy say
ings, $4,000; Claudette Colbert. $685.
600; Gary Cooper, S139,667: Marlene
DIETRICH, Sl45, 900; w. c. Fields, $685.
083; Miriam Hopkins, $71,145, and
Sylvia Sidney, $1l0,583.
Duke Ellington, S18,249.
Harlem tunes of Duke Ellington and
his orchestra netted the Duke $18.249
from the movies. Guy Lombardo and
his orchestra picked up $4,000.
That cigarette somebody Just lighted
helped pay George w. Hill, president
of American Tobacco Co., $187, 7,126
salary. Salaries of other officers in
the firm included Paul Hahn. vice
president; P. r. Taylor, vice president,
and v. Riggero, also vice president,
$150275 each.
Other cigarettes helped pay $107. .448
to F. L. Fuller, counsel for Liggett &
Myers Tobacco Co. w. w. Flowers
and G. w. Whitaker, both vice presi-
dents, received $57,448 each. G. w.
Thomas, the firms president, was paid
$89, ,080.
Selling is good work too, and pays
we'll as evidenced by the 100000
salary paid Robert Ellis, salesman for
Rinshed- Mason Co, Detroit.
Readers of smart magazines will be
interested to know the Mast Publishing
Co. paid Conde Mast $4,000.
Harvey Couch's New Job.
Harvey C. Couch, Arkansas utilities
magnate, used to have job with the
Government in the r. F. c.. In 1884
he received $780, ,450 from the Arkansas
Light & Power Co.
Daniel willard. president Of the
baltimore = Ohio Railroad, received
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