Evening star., 1937-01-28
GARBO'S S32,5)D
TOPS SALARY LIST.
Wallace Beery Received
S278,749 and Clark
Gable S211,553.

By the Associated Press.
Movie stars topped their own bosses
and many business men in q supple
mental list Of 1885 salaries reported
yesterday to Congress.
Greta Carlos checks added up to
$332,500 Metro -Goldwyn Mayer, her
employer, likewise paid $2ll,55S to
Clark Gable, $27S,749 to Wallace
Beery, $238, ,750 to William Powell and
$241, ,403 to Joan Crawford.
Franchot Tone, Miss Crawfords
husband, received $73,124.
These figures were made public In
q Treasury report on salaries Of
$4,000 or more paid by corporations
in 1885 or in fiscal years ending in
1896.
Metro Goldwyn-Mayer salaries took
up four of the more than 80 pages Of
the report and included II Of $4,000
or more to movie stars, writers and
officials.
Excepting the movie industry, the
biggest sum reported was $l93, l28,
received by G. w. Mason, president
of the Kelvinator Refrigerator Co. Of
Detroit.
Next were $134,774 for James II.
Rand, jr, of Buffalo, president Of
Remington Rand, Inc, and $ll9,774
for Edward G. Stone Of Lexington,
Mass, general manager Of the United
States branch Of the Employers Liza
bility Insurance Co.
Hamm Received $42,5eo.
Among the prominent individuals
in the higher brackets was William
Hamm, jr., st. Paul brewer, kidnapped
several years ago by the Barker
Karpis gang. He received 81, 500 as
president of the Theo Hamm Brew
ing Co.
An even 100000 was paid Floyd B.
Odlum, Jersey City, president Of the
Atlas Corp. and to j. J. Lynn,
Kansas City, president Of the q. q
Epperson Underwriting Co.
Barron Collier, president: Arthur
Cohn, vice president, and w. 3. Mes
bitt, counsel, all Of the Collier Ad-
vertising Co., drew $4,000 each.
The peanut industry provided sub
stantial returns for three individuals
A. Obici Of Suffolk, Va, drew 2,500
as president Of the Planters Nut &
Chocolate Co. H. G. Smither Of Lon.
don Bridge, Va, president, and ]. B
White, Norfolk, Va, received $4,000
and $4,000, respectively. from the
| Columbian Peanut Co.
Some of the salaries reported FOL
the firm of Samuel Goldwyn. Inc.
Ltd, of Hollywood. were $4,000 tc
Samuel Goldwyn, president; $l50,00t
to Eddie Cantor; s174,4l6 to Miriam
Hopkins, and $4,000 to Joel McCrea
Seiznick Got $4,000.
M.-G.-M.;s highest paid director
was David o. Selznick. who drew
| s1s4, 900.
These additional stars got 500, ,o0t
or more from the same company;
Lionel Barrymore, Constance Ben
nett, Jack Benny. Clarence Brown
Ronald Colman, Ann Harding, Jear
Harlow, the Marx brothers, Jeanettt
Mcdonald and Robert Montgomery.
Writers, song writer's, supervisor,
and directors paid at least 500, ,o0t
by M.-G.-M. were Jack Conway. Ia!
Garnett, william X. Howard. Lucier
Hubbard, Robert c. Leonard. Franl
Lloyd, Frances Marion, John Nee
han, Edgar Selwyn, Hunt Strombery
Ernest Vajda and w. s. Vandyke.
Others in the Metro Goldwyn-M
group:
Philip Barry. writer. $4,000: Sam
Berhrman, writer, S52,2sl; Richard
Boleslawski, director, e9,750; Charles
Butterworth, $56,124: Tod Browning
director, $4,000; Marc Connolly
writer, $56,666; Jackie Cooper, actor
s57, 400; J. w. Considine. jr, director
s64, 900; Maurice Chevalier, $4,000;
George Cukor, director, $71,75o; John
Emerson and Anita Loos, writers