Film Stars Earn Big Money
(Received 10 a.m.) WASHINGTON, January 7. The names of 18,000 individuals in America who received “annual compensation” of more than 15,000 dollars in 1934 are published by a committee of Congress. The number of incomes of more than 100.000 dollars is found to be rare. Among motion picture people Mae West led the list with 339,000 dollars. Others in the thousands were Marlene Dietrich 145,000, W. C. Fields 155.000, Miriam Hopkins 71,000, Gary Cooper ' 139,000, Charles Chaplin 143.000, arid Claudette Colbert 85,000. George Hill, president of the American Tobacco Co., led the business executive with 187,000 dollars.
In the newspaper field Mr William Randolph Hearst, received 500,000 dollars in salary from various enterprises, and his editorial writer, Mr Arthur Brisbam 385,000 dollars
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Northern Advocate, 9 January 1936, Page 7
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