Evening star., 1942-05-28
THE EVENING STAR WASHINGTON G, THURSDAY, 2
Louis B. Mayer S Pay
OF S704,425 in 1941
Is
Tops U s. Again
Clark GobIe Second
I. With $357, 500, Reports
To Sc. c. Show
BY the Associated Press.

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PHILADELPHIA, May 28.-
Louis Is. Mayer, the 57-year-old
RuSsian-born movie executive,
who began his career as a Massa-
chusetts theater operator, topped
the field of Americas highest
paid executives again last year
with an income of $704, 1850 as
managing director of production
for Loew's, Inc.
Trailing far behind Mr.. Mayer,
who received $7,373 more than in
1940> and whose 1941 remuneration
included $548, ,425.60 as either bonus
or share in profits, were host of
other motion picture executives,
actors and actresses, industrialists
and businessmen, survey of an
nual reports filed with the Securi-
ties and Exchange Commission
showed today.
Clark Gable, motion picture star,
received $357,500 from Loews for
second place, and Nicholas NJ
Schenck was paid $334,2O4.54 as
president and director of Loew's.
Some Reports Held Up.
Many of the annual reports, how
ever, have been held up by the
S. E. C. for possible censorship pur-
poses. Included in this group are
Eugene Grace, president of the
Bethlehem Steel Corp, who was
second in 1910. with s478,144, and
other top-ranking steel masters
whose firms are engaged in war
production.
The figures also do not represent
the largest incomes in the United
States. since many persons who
serve with small salaries or no sala-
ries have big returns from invest
mentS.
Scores Of the remunerations we're
we'll over the $4,000 which Presi-
dent Roosevelt has told Congress
ought to represent a limit on indi-
vidual net incomes for the duration
of the war
George Washington Hill, presi-
dent of the American Tobacco Co.
who got s456,415 in 1910 to place
among the first three. dropped
sharply in 1941 to $288,144. The de-
cline apparently resulted from a
New York court decision against the
company which brought a reduction
in incentive compensation" paid
the company's top executives. The
court suit was noted on the COM
pany's report.
Behind Mr.. Hill came Daryl F.
Zannuck, who received $260,000 as
vice president in charge of produc-
ton for Twentieth Century-Fox
Film Corp, which also paid Ginger
Rogers $215 900 and Tyrone Power
s18s.125 for their picture work.
Boyer Earns s220,SS3.
Among others who received $780,
600 or more in 1941 are:
c. w. Deyo, president, F. w. Wool
worth Co., 1852 ,061; Harry w. Bracy,
a branch manager for the Kroger
Grocery & Baking Co., $249 $50. a
$43 ,238 increase over his 1910 pay
ment; Harry F. svickers, president,
Vickers, Inc, and Waterbury Tool
Co., afhliates of the Sperry Corp,
s22e, ,316; Charles Boyer. French
movie star, s22o,S33s and Deanna
Durbin, s203.166, both from Uni
verSal Pictures. Miss Durbin also
received $20,530 from Decca Rec
ords, Inc. Robert Stanley of DON
gan Hills, Staten Island, N. Y, re-
ceived $215,050 as chairman and
president of the International Nickle
Co. of Canada, Ltd.
The remuneration paid to Bing
Crosby, who got sl5o,0oo in 1910
from Universal Pictures, was not
shown in picture company reports
this year, but Decca Records re-
ported he was paid sloO,640 by that
company.
The Consolidated Oil Co. reported
a payment of s155, ,959 to H. F. Sin
clair as president and director and
the Richf1eld Oil. Corp. in Los
Angeles reported s60,040 payment
to Mr.. Sinclair as chairman and
director, bringing his 1941 total to
S215 999.
With the exception of the changes
in the high ranking movie stars, the
reports showed that remunerations
paid, including bonuses or shares in
profits. changed only slightly in 1941
from the previous year. In some
instances declines were noted