Evening star., 1937-01-17

slight inkling of the big money made {
radio stars. who also have incomes frt
not reveal total incomes from all
sources.
Maj. Edward Bowes, for example,
was revealed as getting a salary in
1885 of S135,642 from Edmar Enter
prises. one of his corporate units, and
sl14.357 from Tyro Productions, an
other of his corporations, but rumor
has it that his total earnings during
his first big year of radio sponsorship
and theatrical success must have net
ted him at least million dollars. The
Government report does not show
proflt-sharing or coupon clipping or
stoCk-dividend income. being confined
only to salaries and bonuses, or both,
that exceeded $4,000.
THE advertising agency handling
Paul Whitemans radio hour re-
ported it had paid him S242,472 dur
ing the year, but possibly he had to
pay his musicians out of this sum-
Similarly, the same agency, which
also handles the Rudy Vallee hour, re-
ported paying him sl66,348 during
1885
The same agency reported the fol-
lowing 1885 payments for radio per-
formances to other name stars: Floyd
Gibbons, $4,000; Tom Howard,
S36,750: AL Jolson. s78 5000; Cornelia
Otis Skinner, Sl6.250; Walter Winchell,
S77,500; Nils T. Granlund, $4,000;
Lou Holtz, $4,000; Irving Prayer,
S5l, ,S7l; Sigmund Romberg. s65,905:
Maurice Van Praag, Sl8,089; Deems
Taylor, sl5,550; Wilfred Pelletier,
SIS, 5,450; Wallace Beery, s44,86l, and
Joe Penner, 500 500.
THAT orchestra leaders are def
initely in the big money class was
revealed with the report that Richard
Hmbers orchestra corporation paid
him s25,00O salary plus an unan-
nounced amount in dividends. that
Eddie Duchins corporation paid him
s650O0 in salary, that Ozzie Nelson
collected S33,800 from one sponsor,
that Harry Salter got slS,743,
Georgia Stoll. S34,376: Victor Young,
$58.701; David Rubinoff, 100000.
Bing Crosby it was reported, earned
S3l8.9O7 from both radio and the
movies; how much from each was not
Indicated Don Carney. the perennial
star of WOR. received s23,O96 in SAL
axv from a corporation in which
Sedley Brown got sl6,924 AID Mary
Mcbride S19,436. while three artists
al WGN, Chicago. Helen King Mitch
ell. Isabel Carothers and Louis S.
Mead. each got s27,4U0 Phillips H.
Lord, Inc, paid that star $4,000.
THE biggest salary paid to any one
in radio in 1885 went to Youthful
William S. Paley. president of the
Columbia Broadcast!ng system, who
works on fiat salary plus tonus tasis
and who that year got Sl69,097. while
his executive vice president. Edward
Klauber, bo 5O,269. M. H. Ayles
worth, then president of National
Broadcasting Co.. got a salary Of
S45.180. and only two of his vice
presidents. R. c. Patterson. r., End
resigned. got as high as s35.Oo0. One
N B. G. orchestra conductor. Joseph
Stopak, had the only other salary
that high reported by That network
s36,404.
The president of the Radio Corp.
OF America, David Sarnoff, was listed
at $4,000. while Maj. Gen. James G.
II1~ Oko Nf hn ~ A
board. got $4,000. Philcos top salary
was s69.33l to L. E. Grubb, while
w. H. Grimditch got $56.475 and S. M.
Ramsdell $50,173. Powell Crosley. jr.,
the owner of WLW, who also heads
the Crosley Radio Corp, was shown
as receiving salary of but $4,000,
presumably getting the rest of his i'll
come from dividends. The largest
radio station executives salary went
to A. j. McCosker, president Of WOR,
Newark whose salary of so. 800 vas
supplemented by bonus of s3s,707
to give him q stipend FOR the year
amounting to s5s,707.
FIRST fruits of the determination
broadcasters to create closer kinship
by means of radio among the coun-
tries of the Americas were borne
last week. shortly after representa-
tives of the major American broad
casting networks returned. from the
Pan-American Peace Conference, from
which they supervised more than 100
short-Wave rebrOadcaSts to rhe United
States
1t was announced in New York that
Radio Corporation of America, spon-
soring the Metropolitan Opera broad
casts direct from the stage for about
three hours every Saturday afternoon,
had completed a short-wave hook-u
with the big Buenos Aires station,
known as Radio Splendid, whereby it
will pick up the opera broadcasts in
full as carried simultaneously over the
National BroadcaSting Co.'S interna-
tional short-wave station at Bound
Brook, N. J.
THAT station, incidentally. is in
stalling two new directional beam
entennae aimed at Central and South
America and at Europe, so that Amer
lean programs can be picked up more
efficiently. At the same time it was
learned the Columbia Broadcasting
System is also reconditioning its in
ternational short-wave station at
Wayne, N. j., so tina its programs can
also be relayed more efficiently. Both
networks usually broadcast their reg
ular programs simultaneously on the
short waves so that short-wave listen
ers the world over-short-wave listen
ing being more common practice in
the "hot countries" to the SOUTH
ward-may tune them in direct, or so
that foreign stations can pick them up
and rebroadcast them.
This squirt of activity on the part
of American broadcasters in the in
ternational field has the tacit. If not