Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-18

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warsaw and Vienna, in the
days when those cities could
laugh and enjoy music i. Mr.. Shu-
bert is also annoyed because Holly
wood raids his companies. They are
now trying to bait Arthur Maxwell,
MS Prince Danilo >. There Is. of
course, another side to it Hollv-
wood cash backs many big Broad
way producer and the 20th Century
Fox Co. has just paid 100000 for
Maxwell Anderson's Eve of st.
Mark" -. Company also agreed not
10 release the picture until 1914,
leaving the profitable road dates
Tor the touring attraction, which will
soon have second company.
Not all the actors and actresses in
Hollywood make $25, 900 a year, al
though the agitation over the wage
freeze might indicate it .. Leo C.
Roster made three-year study of
the movie city under grants from
the Rockefeller and Carnegie Foun-
dations .. He confined his sta
tistics to an interesting volume
called Hollywood" which shows
definitely that the majority of the
screen actors are moderately paid
49,. OF Ills of what he calls class A
actors, half earned $1,000 or less in
1888 81 made 100000 or more,
but SO per cent of these actors never
earned as much as $10,500 a year
-. The average annual earnings of
1850 Hollywood extras in 1910 was
$3.50 Turning to producers and
directors, Mr.. Roster found that of
pa directors active in Hollywood in
1888, 81 per cent earned less than
$4,000 for the year "a directors
earned 100000 or more, but these
were also producers, and all on the
top shelf In the three major
studios one-f1fth of the producers
and associate producers earned
under $12500 annually; 50 per cent
OF the producers got less than $36, 900
each Nevertheless Hollywood is
worried over the wage ceiling :.
Jimmy Cagney and Kenneth Thorn
son Of the Screen Actors Guild will
be here today to take up the f1nan-
cial problems with the United States
Treasury Department =. They are
worried about the free-lance players
or those who work on a per diem
basis If their wage was $25 per
day in 1941 they would be barred
from accepting an offer Of 500 per
day :. These free-lance players are
really hit by the restrictions.
Ice Show In January.
Next ice show to play Washington
will be lice Capades Of 1943." booked
tor Uline's Arena the week of jan
uary 10. Variety Club is consider
ing plan to sponsor the opening
performance with war bonds instead
Of tickets the price Of admission
Twentieth Century-Fox has served
notice on the National Broadcasting
Company that none of its stars can
appear on NBC programs unless
Jimmy Fidler is removed from the
air. Company objected to a broad
cast in which it was stated that
Gene Tierney smoked cigars, which
drew many protests over unladylike
conduct Madge Evans is the
uISV pAdycI cllSdScU 1OI 0luIlcy
Kingsley's new play Thomas JEFF
ferson" She will play the daugh-
ter Of the third President in the
play which her husband wrote. 1t
Is due to have its first performance
In Washington early in 1943
Warner Bros. will screen Gentle
man JIM" starring Enrol Flynn, for
the press today :. Another screen
Ing will be the Department Of Agri-
cultures Henry Browns, Farmer"
The first Government movie to be re-
leased showing the part that Negro
Americans are playing in the war.
william Saroyan Scores.
Two added attractions at the press
screening of For Me and My Gall
were short subjects Vice Presi-
dent Henry A. Wallace's May speech,
The Price of Victory" has been
dramatized by Paramount and it
makes an absorbing two-reeler /.
Chart of the world of the future Is
given with Mr.. Wallace as narrator
=. Director Bill Pine has forged