SALARIES TOO HIGH.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 30 September 1927, Page 9

SALARIES TOO HIGH.

THEATRE BUSINESS IN ENGLAND. BT CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT i Received 2.15 p.m. to-day. LONDON. Sept. 27. The enormous salaries tlemandiad by heartrical stars are the centre of a controversy. The managers, Messrs J. L. Sacks and Herbert Clayton, say that salaries are entirely disproportionate to the prices of seats and the theatre’s capacity to pay £3OO to £4OO a week. To shorten runs would upset the financial balance of artists, authors and nanagers and the public suffer, as adaissioß must remain high. He had no bjeetion to £l5O weekly. Beyond that i was impossible. Miss Evelyn Laye, one of the high-st-paid artists, says: “You sell your oods at the highest possible price. Mr acks offered me £350 a week for a new Way, hut I am considering an offer rom America.” In reply to this Mr Sacks said: “I bid Evelyn that if she can get six b unire d a week from America to take it. xxndon can’t afford it. Whenever I lonsddier an unknown star from Amerca, the first thing to cable a. thouand dollars a week. Its rendering the unning of a theatre impossible.”