AMERICAN SALARIES

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 March 1937, Page 3

AMERICAN SALARIES

FILMS AND INDUSTRY A peek into the pay envelopes of some of the nation’s big men and women, afforded by a Treasury Department report to Congress, showed that top salaries went to movie stars and captains of industry, said the “Christian Science Monitor” of the United States recently. The. voluminous document, made public by the House Ways and Means Committee, answered at least some of the questions concerning what “the other fellow” made in 1935. Salaries of more than 15,000 dollars were listed.

William Randolph Hearst, the publisher, maintained his position as the country’s leading wage-earner with pay cheques of 500,000 dollars. Mae West, the throaty-voiced siren of the screen, ran him a close second with earnings of 480,833 dollars. She topped all film stars, including Janet Gaynor, whose 1935 income totalled 169,750 dollars.

Charlie Chaplin’s salary was listed at 260,000 dollars. Will Rogers earned 258,000 dollars. Fred Astaire received 127,875 dollars; Ginger Rogers, frequently co-starred with him. 74,483 dollars; Katharine Hepburn, 121,572 dollars: Bing Crosby, 318,907 dollars; Marlene Deitrich, 368,000 dollars, and Joe. E. Brown 173,438 dollars.

The lugubrious film humour of Stan Laurel netted him 156,266 dollars, while the income of his co-star, Oliver Hardy, was only 85,316 dollars.

Nickels and dimes poured into the cash registers of the F. W. Woolworth Company gave its president, B. D. Miller, an annual compensation of 309,880 dollars. Soups put 118,750 dollars into the pay envelope, of Arthur C. Dorrance, president of the Campbell Soup Company. General Motors Corporation paid its president, Alfred P. Sloan, jun., 374,505 dollars, and William S. Knudsen, director and executive vice-president, 325,869 dollars. Ten other officials drew more than 200.000 dollars. Edsel Ford got 100,376 dollars as president of the Ford Motor Company. Walter I’. Chrysler, Chrysler Corporation chairman, received 185,54.3 dollars.

One of the highest-paid women executives listed was Blanche Green, president of the Spencer Corset Company. Inc., of New Haven. Conn., who received 57,629 dollars. Compensation of some of the captains of heavy industry included 166.786 dollars to .Myron C. Taylor, chairman of the board of the United States Steel Corporation. Lannnot du Pont, president of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours Company, received 100,199 dollars. Thomas J. Watson, presidenl of the International Business .Machines Corporation. was paid 296,028 dollars. Seymour Weiss, one-time treasurer of the late Huey Long’s political organisation, drew 92.396 dollars as vice-president of the Win or Lose Cor poralion, a Louisiana oil concern.

Former Gov. James A. Noe. of Louisi ana, received a similar sum as presi dent.

Merchants wqre relatively high in the salary brackets. Fflward A. Filcue, of Boston, drew 80,000 dollars: J. L. Hudson Company, of Detroit, paid Oscar Weber, general manager. 179,1,8.3 dollars, ami Morton J. May. pi-esidenf of the May Deiiartjnenl.

Stores Company, St. Louis, got 100,000 dollars.

HOLLYWOOD FAY CHEQUES

Among those in the movie industry who drew in excess of 100,000 dollars were Samuel Goldwyn, president, Goldwyn, Inc., Los Angeles, 127,000 dollars; Harold C. Lloyd, comedian, listed as president of Harold Lloyd Corp., Hollywood, 125,000 dollars; Warner Baxter, 20th Century-Fox leading man, 208,000 dollars; John Boles, 117,416 dollars; Ronald Colman, 108,916 dollars. Claudette Colbert had an income of 100.000 dollars, and Shirley Temple earned 69,999 dollars. Anna Sten leceived 96.833 dollars, and Ann Hai fling 60,000. . The tunes of Irvihg Berlin, listed as an R.K.O. librettist, put 150,000 dollars into his pockets. Some other principal screen salaries:—Gary Cooper, 50,000 dollars; Myron Selznick. president, JoyceMvron Selznick, Ltd., 52,000 dollars; George O’Brien, ,68,191 dollars; Richard Dix, 60,000 dollars; Miriam Hopkins, 86,250 dollars; Rouben Mamoulian, director, 86,666 dollars; William, Powell, 66,666 dollars; Barbara Stan-1 wyck. 80,833 dollars; Edward Arnold, 51,854 dollars; Wallace Beery, 75,000 dollars; Frederick March. 85,000 dollars; Victor McLaglen, 50,000 dollars; Slim Summerville, 70,833 dollars; Sylvia Sidney, 63,425 dollars.

The meat packing industry put 64,200 dollars into the pockets of R. H. Cabell. Chicago, president of Armour and Company, and 75.040 dollars into the purse of E. A. Cudahy, jun., president of the Cudahy Packing Company. Col. Frank Knox, president of the Chicago Daily News, Inc., and the Republican Vice-President candidate, earned 75,000 dollars. L. J. Rosenwald, chairman of the board of SearsRoebuck Co., had an income of 69,519 dollars.

G, A. Wood, president of Gar Wood Industries, Inc., earned 50,000 dollars. 11. S. Firestone, chairman of (he Firestone Tire and Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, earned 82,713 dollars. The list revealed the late Arthur Brisbane, writer, and editor of the Hearst newspapers, earned 200,500 dollars during the year. Sidney Smith, the late cartoonist and creator of "Andy Gump.” had an income of 119130 dollars.

W. S. Gifford, president of the American Telephone, and Telegraph Co., earned 209,850 dollars: Bruce Barton, advertising executive, 50,000 dollars; William S. Paley, president of Columbia Broadcasting Company. 169,097 dollars; Edward J. Bowes, executive director of Edmar Enterprises. Inc., 135,642 dollars: O. D. Young, chairman. and Gerard Swope, president. General Electric Company, 96,000 dollars each; C. K. Davis, president of Ihe Remington Arms Co.. Inc., 64.000 dollars.