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Show - - - i Hollywood's High Salaries Face Cuts j ll i ; - 'J t t ' ' 1 4 I f 1 , i r" i 1 sa, rii,-&&i-'x Tl-o SI'MKIO a week ! i ist National i was paving Colleen Sloorc (left) looked loo his and so Colleen h'H; i Imt Clara How's SWIOII still is coming com-ing regularly from Paramount (center); while Tola Negri (right) wasn't worth tho $K5flO a week she was gettins, the producers thought and Fola's out, too. Mounting Salaries Start Move By Film Chiefs HOLLYWOOD, Aug. T3. For some weeks past the movie heavens have been full of falling stars- One after another they've been dropping from the limelight. Producers have become tired of paying enormous salaries. And the public likes its talkies just as well starless. So why pay a girl $10,000 a week when a. Broadway actress with a voice will work for a tenth of the sum and give just as much box office return? It was the habit of Hollywood contracts to call for larger and larger salaries every year. When they ran out, the actors and actresses act-resses invariably wanted new ones at still higher figures. The producers finally balked and so Adolphe Menjou is looking around in Europe. Menjou had Screen Favorites Find Themselves Seeking Seek-ing Work i' Ecbc Daniels left Paramount because be-cause -she didn't think her salary was high enough. Reginald Denny -will- Irave Universal flat on - ith back. No salary raise, so he's going to Europe. May McAvoy, recently married, got $1500 a week. Too much, thought the producers. So May probably won't go back to the films. Directors are falling, too. James Cruze knocked over $1000 a day for a while. No more. F. W. Murnau and Vicfor Fleming arc in the same boat. They came too high. Producers say that the "life" of a star is only about two years. : After that the public tires of them. ! The stars think they're worth ! more each year. i Y i been getting, $3000 a week; he wanted .$5000; the producers offered $2000. Pola Negri was getting $3500 (All ; the figures here are weekly salaries.) sal-aries.) She wanted $10,000. Nothing Noth-ing doing. Esther Ralston is scheduled to last six months. She wants a bigger big-ger salary. "Nothing doing," says the magnate who hires her. Colleen Moore isn't with First National Na-tional any more. Her $12,000 every Saturday night looked too much money. Clara Bow, a better box-office attraction than Colleen, gets about $6000. She has a job and is keeping keep-ing it-Tom it-Tom Mix used to get $10,000. He thinks he ought to get more, but his boss can't see it that way. a |
