Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-04-07
STAR, WASHINGTON, D.. 1889

$0U,UUU OF DcCCeT group anu virginia
has eight. Nine States failed to
provide a salary Of $4,000 or better
in 1937-Vermont, South Carolina,
Utah, Montana, Nebraska, Wyo-
ming, Mississippi, Idaho and South
Dakota. Locale, however, has little
significance. Many motion picture
salaries, for instance, are issued
from New York, although most Of
the recipients live in California.
In the 100000 or better group
are these excepted are the names
already mentioned):
Marlene Dietrich, Paramount Pic
lures, Inc, $4,000; A. M. Loew.
first vice president, Loew's, Inc,
$356,074: Joan Crawford, Metro
GOODWIN Mayer, 1851, 538; Fredric
March, Selznick International Pic
lures, $334687 (also $4,000 from
Paramount F. B. Davis, president
United States Rubber Products, Inc,
1922 .999: David Bernstein, vice
president and treasurer, Loew's, Inc,
$32O,416; Sypos P. Skouras, presi-
dent and theater manager, National
Theaters Amusement Co., Inc,
$32O,O54.
S289, 900 for Gable.
The IS members of the 100000 to
5000 900 group are:
Clark Gable. Metro Goodwin
Mayer, $289,0OO: Fred Astaire,
R-K-O-Radio Pictures, $271,711;
Joe E. Brown, David L. LoeW Pro-
auctions, Inc, $267 500; Hunt Strom-
berg. producer, M-G-M, $265 500;
Mortimer Berkowitz, president,
American Weekly, Inc. $265,222.
Charles Boyer, Walter Wanger
Pictures, Inc, $685. 91; Daryl
zanuck, vice president, Twentieth
Century-Fox Film Corp, 100000;
Ernst Lubitsch, producer, Paramount
Pictures. $260,833; Edward C. Stone,
United States general manager and
attorney, United States Branch OF
Employers Liability Assurance Corp,
Ltd, $257 1927.
Joseph Pulitzer, president, Pulitzer
Publishing Co., st. Louis, Mo-, pub
Usher of the Post-Dispatch, $255 900
Che had the next to highest paid
managing editor, o. K. Bovard, since
resigned, who received $60,557; the
highest paid managing editor was
Harvey Duell of the News Syndi-
cate Co., s13O,56D.
Claudette Colbert, Paramount Pic
lures, $248,055; William Powell.
M-G-M, $246,11O; Robert Montgom-
cry. M-G-M, s243,25O; Bob Burns,
M-G-M, $242 1856; Charles P. Skouras,
Los Angeles, theater manager, $242,-
054; Gary.Cooper, Paramount. $685.
416; jeanette Macdonald, M-G-M,
s238, 299.
$235,000 for Owen d. Young.
Owen D. Young, chairman of Cen
eral Electric Co., s235 900; Gerald
Swope, G. E. president, S235 900;
| Warner Baxter, Twentieth Century,
Fox, $225,96l; Arthur M. Loew,
president Culver Export Corp, New
York, s223,1l8; J. R. Cardwell, presi-
dent Cardwell Westinghouse Co..
Illinois, $220,916.
George Raft, Paramount Pictures,
$2l9, 1899; Sonia. Henie, Twentieth
Century Fox, s2l0. 729; Adolph zukor.
chairman Paramount Pictures,
$2l0,479: Kay Francis, Warner Bros.
Pictures, $209,100; Hal Wallis, pro-
duction head of Warner, sos ,O83;
w. S. Clifford, president American
Telephone & Telegraph Co., 5000 $50.
Paul M. Hahn, vice president
American Tobacco Co., s205, 585;
Charles p Nejley vice president
American Tobacco Co., $205 ,585 :;
Vincent Reggie, vice president
American Tobacco Co., $205 ,585.
F. A. Countway, president, Lever
Bros, Massachusetts,, 1904 ,301; Wes-
ley Ruggles. producer, Paramount
Pictures, $2O3, O5l: David o. Selznick,
president, Selznick International
Pictures, 32O3,50O; Katherine Hep.
(See SALARIES, Page A-l7D