Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-17
S1,113,035 Received
By Producer McCarey
To Top "A Incomes
BY the kssoeiofed Press

Movies, horse racing and motor
making accounted for the first five
places today in a Treasury listing
of 500 top-paid Americans in 1914.
Movie Producer-Director Leo Nc
Carey. with 12-montn earnings of
S1,113,035. head the list easily, while
Charles H. Strub, vice president of
the Los Angeles Turf Club, was
lengths behind in second place with
S466,537.
Movie Financier Charles p.
Skouras and Actor Fred MacMurray
stood third and fourth with 1898 900
and 1891, PIT, respectively, and Mo-
tor Maker Charles E. Wilson, presi-
dent of General Motors, was fifth
at 1862, 1854.
The Treasury list covers corpora
ton payments of $4,000 or more
for the calendar year 1914 and bust
ness fiscal years which ran into
1915. All are listed before Federal,
State and other taxes, which in most
instances trim the actual cash by
from so to 80 per cent.
Carmen Miranda Heads Women.
Top-paid woman and 35th in the
list, which included fewer than a
dozen of that sex. was Film Actress
Carlslen Miranda, who received
s2O1 ,458. Actresses Paulette God
dard and Betty Cradle were her
closet rivals, with $l87,33 and $172,-
600, respectively.
Four businessmen and a movie
loo
of the top 10.
Sixth was E H. Bobst of Mont
clair. N. j., president of the Hoff-
manila Roche drug firm, with
100000. Seventh and eighth places
went to Ormond E. Hunt and Albert
Bradley. General Motors vice preSi-
dents, who drew $287,745 and $780,
O19, respectively.
Theodore Settler of WeehaWken,
N. j., head of Bengue, Inc, ointment
making firm, was ninth with $685.
69l, and Daryl F. Zanuck, vice pres
ident of Twentieth Century-Fox
Film Corp, was tenth with $260,833.
General Motors led in single
company placements with 40 men
in the list The company said in
statement. however, that the pay
ments listed included stock bonuses
earned in earlier years and that the
1914 earnings of its executives &C
tually averaged about 20 per cent
below the listed figures)
The three big movie companies on
the list Paramount, Twentieth
Century-FoX and Warner Bros
accounted together for one out of
every four persons drawing over
100000 and for better than one out
of every six getting over $4,000.
Salaries accounted for only part
sometimes a small one-of the
earnings listed. These also covered
commissions, bonuses and other
compensation" described as rang
ing from expense allotments to roy
alties from films.
Salary Only $4,000.
Top-earner McCarey, for instance,
drew a salary of only $4,000, but
got S1,03S035 in "other compensa-
ton" possibly due in part to the
success of his 1914 Academy-aW
picture Going My Way
Mr.. Strub, the runner-up, drew
only $4,000 in salary, but got a
S454,537 bonus.
c. w. Deyo the F. w. WoolWorth
Co. president and board chairman
was listed as getting no salary at all
but he finished 18th, with S250,974
derived from commissions.
Paramount Pictures, Inc, listed four
persons whom it paid more than
100000. and 80 who got over SIS 900.
Besides Mr.. McCarey and Mr.. Mac
Murray, the over-S2OOO00 earners
were Actor Ray Milland (S243,333)
and Producer George E. Buddy
De Sylvia ($204, 654).
Warner Bros Pictures. Inc, paid
two persons more than 100000
Actor Charles Boyer, SPOT 800, and
Director Michael Curtiz, S203, 75o-l
and 81 more than $4,000.
Widely known names in the list
outside the entertainment field, and
their earnings included:
Henry Ford II, auto maker, S94.-
004; William Randolph Hearst, pub
Usher, 100000; Sewell L. Avery,
Montgomery Ward executive, $780,
$50; Andrew J. Higgins, boat build