AMERICAN NOTES.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13182, 14 February 1936, Page 3

AMERICAN NOTES.

NEW YORK January 11. The highest-paid individual in the United States for 1934, the latest year for which official figures art? available was Mae West, who received £68,000 fer her services during the year, says the Post's Special correspondent. The next highest in Hollywood were Constance Bennett, £35.000: W. C. Fields, £31.000; Charlie Chaplin, £29,000; Marlene Dietrich. £29.000; Gary Cooper. £28,000.. The highest earnings elsewhere - were those of Arthur Brisbane, Hearst’s columnist, who received £52,000. Salaries above £3O.UUO were paid to the president of the Columbia Broadcasting Corporation, the chairman of the Chase National Bank, the president of the American Telephone Company and the president of the Metropolitan Life Company. Salaries paid during the year showed a marked reduction, compared with the “years of prosperity ” By contrast. among these on the dole in New York City were 927 actors and actresses. 72 advertising men. IS architects. 512 artists, 47 auditors 27 stock brokers. 103 chemists. 93 contractors, 1875 controllers, 135 doctors, 57 dentists. 114 designers, 28 dieitians. 174 draftsmen. 21 editors, 74 engineers, 99 lawyers, 22 librarians. 27 merchants, 28 meteorologists, 82 clergymen. 1568 musicians, 37 paymasters, 32 purchasing agents. 31 newspaper reporters. 41 research workers, 5400 salesmen. 45 sculptors. 68 secretaries, 863 teachers. 206 translators, 95 authors The Poet Laureate. John Masefield, who has boon lecturing for the past two months in the United States, states, that he does not think the English language: will suffer from the American slang that has gradually been absorbed by Britishers as a result of the motion pictures and the radio. On the contrary', he said, the expression, “Don't monkey with the buzz-saw” is not only a living vital expression, but also has poetic charm. “English,” ho observed, “is a living language, and can only be maintained by the addition of now expression ; nothing can be added to the so-called dead languages.” Waving farewells to friends on. the dock, whom lie addressed as “Tom** or “Joe.” the whito-haired poet immediately won the hearts of a flock of newspaper reporters, who described him as the most charming traveller thev had met.