Evening star., 1947-08-26
Films, Horse Racing
Top High Salary LIST;
Skouras Is Best Paid
By the Asseeiotsd Press

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fancy salaries.
charles P. Skouras, moving pic
tlre theater financier, climbed into
erst place by drawing $568, ,143 80
from two corporations headed by
,im. This was more than twice the
earnings of the best-paid woman,
Betty Cradle, whose we'll filmed
curves were worth $208, 900.
The list, far from a complete
tsbulation, was the Treasury's first
announcement of those whose COM
nensation was more than $4,000 in
Io45 or in business fiscal years end
ing in 1916. Eight hundred names
we're shown, but several big corpo-
rations had not yet reported when
the tally was made public last night.
Mr.. Skouras nosed out another
California entry-Charles H. Strub,
executive vice president of the Los
Angeles Turf Club, Inc, and general
manager of Santa Anita race track,
Who earned $541, Abby pocketing
s43S.143 from the National Theaters
Amusement Co., Inc, and the rest
rom Fox West Coast Agency Corp.
Watson Third on List.
Third money went to Thomas j.
watson, president of International
Business Machines Corp, New
York-s42s, ,548.
The Southern Comfort Corp, St.
Louis, liquor firm, paid the fourth
ranking salary to F. E. Fowler, jr.,
president-$375 GIG.
Hollywood was sparsely represented
among the top money winners, by
past years standards, but Producer
Director Thomas Leo "Going My
Way'D McCarey was fifth on the
list with $685. ,426 from Paramount
He was a scintillating first last year
with earnings of $1,113,035.
Daryl F. Zanuck, production vice
president of Twentieth Century Fox
vas ninth on the new list with
s260,000.
Rounding out the top 10 were
Charles E. Wilson, president of Gen.
eral Motors, $303, 800: G. r. Fink
president of both Great Lakes Steel
Corp. and National Steel Corp.
which together paid him $275, 400;
Theodore Seltzer, president, Bengue
Inc, Union City, N. j., $261 ,250, and
C. w. Deyo, president and chairman
p. W. Woolworth Co., $250,974
Harry James Gets $121,667.
Miss CRADLES compensation from
Twentieth Century Fox didn't match
last years earnings of Actress De-
anna Durbin-$310,728. The shapely
Miss CRADLES band-leading husband
Harry James, however, added $121,
667 to the family income from the
same payroll.
Miss Durbin was not on the list
this year, for her company, Uni
versaI, did not report it's salary list
in time. Neither did Metro Goldwyn-
Mayer, Warner Brothers and nu'
merous other of the country's tor
firms, including United States Stee
Corp.
Olivia de Havilland collected
s2O6,944 from Paramount, Maureer
OHara, $3.50, ,666, and Gene Tierney
s114,916 from Twentieth Century.
Fox: Dorothy Lamour dorothy
Howard to the Bureau of 1nterna
Revenue), $112,372 from Paramount
and Ginger Rogers, $117,159 from
Vanguard Films, Inc.
Rita Hayworth was worth SLIT ,0o(
to Columbia Pictures Corp; Barbarf
Stanwyck, $4,000 to Paramount
and Betty Hutton (Betty june
Thornburg, in the files), $102, ,583
also at Paramount.
Earns Triffiing $175,000.
Bing Crosby turned up with 6
trif1ing $175,OO0 from Paramount
but this didn't cover tiny earnings
from radio and baseball or losse'
from horses.
Ray Milland earned $185,S33 from
Paramount, although his Lost Weei
End" was not released until No
vember. 1945. Eddie Bracken mad
s134O41: Robert Cummings, $4,000
Brian Donlevy, s99,708, and Alal
I,add. $4,000, all from Paramount
Fred MacMurray, fourth money
maker in the country last year. wa
oath on this years list with $2O3,5
while Charles Boyer earned $135,ooC
and Tyrone Power, 81 o,4oo, all iron
Twentieth Century-Fox.
Thirty persons crowded into I'M
circle of 5000 ,OO0-plus earners, ou
they did not include Henry Foro II
president of Ford Motor Co., $l4o'
no4. Walter Winchell, Hears
columnist, $s7, $50, or L. M. Giannlnl
nresident of the Bank OF America
the country's biggest bank, s7s,747.
Income Before Taxes.
The compensation figures do no
include earnings from securities
1rhev represent income before taxes
which cut deeply into the salar'
figures shown. Compensation" IN
ch,des bonuses, commissions ant
royalties.
General Motors placed five execu
tives~ including President c. E. VII
son. in the top 80. The others wer
Albert Bradley, executive vice presi
dent, $234,125; Ormond E. Hunt, ex
ecutiye vice president, $228,503; Al
fred p. Sloan, jr., board chairman
$201 900. and Charles F. Ketterlne
vice president, 5000, ,804.
william Randolph Hearst, pun
Usher, was paid 5000, 900 in equa
parts by Hearst Consolidated Publ
cations Inc, and Hearst Publica
tions, Inc, Los Angeles. He head
both companies. Sypros P. Skouras
nresident of 10th Century-Fox an
brother of the f1rst-ranking money
Garner. was 26th with $201 900. =.
Other Big Names.
other big names In industry, en-
tertainment and business were:
S. L. Sholley, partner, Keyston
Corp, of Boston, $246, ,484.15; Jane
q Kemper, chairman, Lumbermen'
Mutual Casualty Co., Chicago, $23S,
1897: William j. Meinel, Chairman
and president, Heinz Manufacturin
Co. Philadelphia. s227,875; Harr
Cohn, president, Columbia Picture
Corr. New York, $223, 800; Eugen
q Grace, chairman. Bethlehem
Steel Co., $221, ,645; L. r. Foukt
secretary, Southern Comfort Corp
$2ls,75o.
Also Walter S. Clifford, president
American Telephone SS Telegraph