HOLLYWOOD SALARIES

Evening Star, Issue 21543, 16 October 1933, Page 12

HOLLYWOOD SALARIES

PROVISION IN NEW CODE CHECK OH UNREASONABLE PAYMENTS Pres? Association—ls,y Telegraph—Copyright WASHINGTON. October 14. Under Presidential inlluence a provision was written into the revised motion picture code late on Friday by Mr S. Rosenblatt, deputy-administrator under the National Recovery Act, calling for an assessment of fines up to 10,000 dollars against producers found to have hired talent at unreasonably high salaries. The provision followed the disclosure that- White House is opposed to the payment to film people of salaries five and six times as large as tlio President’s. Originally, the proposed code contained nothing which could be interpreted as an attempt to fix a minimum. ft did. however, provide for checks on competitive bidding for stars’ services, a practice generally hold accountable for the size of some of the Hollywood salaries. The purpose of the new provision is described as intended to “ avoid the payment of suras unreasonably in excess of a fair value of personal services which results in unfair and destructive competition.”