Show Question of Salaries Variously Discussed c Cecil cn B. B De Mille l In an IntervIew Interview interview inter view in the tile Examiner says Salaries will be less Jess Understand salaries alone are not responsible for for the temporary Inflation of the tho Industry But they are an import important ant Item and they must come come down I think the th producers are virtually of ot one mini on on that that point By sa salaries do YOU you mean those l I of he the actors or or or ft t t. t tn te technical people also such as rs i camera cameramen cameramen men electricians and o other her em em- m- m There may be be individual in instances instances In- In stan stances eB whore where other s will have to taste take a 1 cut bur hug it is the actors principally lly that he the h r reorganization a organ organ- will wm att it And thore thero are several other ways In which the industry wil put Itself itself it itself It- It I self on a sounds sounds- basis basis basis-a a basis bals such as wI will appeal to the banUs and to o lne men M n For many ye years rs It has be been n regarded as ae soft pickings' pickings by merchants merchant and others who have had business dealIngs dealIngs dealings deal- deal Ings with producers and l directors That will b bo be changed an and l the pickings pickings' wI will not be Jc quite so O easy as ao of ot old In salvage d of ot discarded sets ets etc tc we tte e we wo can re reduce re- re re-I re duce our de dead d losses from 25 5 per percent I cent ent to 5 and 10 p per r cent ent by a more careful utilization ot of the of-the the I material remaining when the are re dismantled In speaking about star ta salaries I Sol Lesser st state state- tea fee that tha the tile storIes of gigantic are aroa entirely un untrue un- un true and in innis nis conn says The motion picture business un-j un Is 18 like any other legitimate business J r It must be he conducted on a I sound basis basI at all times and lind fabulous amounts paid to the stars would not make for soundness u In view I w of ot the tho other mo mousy y outlays Incident to picture making Picture prayers payers ayers areS are paid exactly wn t the they are worth orth and their value valio Ic lr determined d by hY the Ja Jaw Jaw- alv of ot supply and demand This makes ther their salaries s legitimate The report that Dab Baby Peggy signed a contract with with with-mi ln for Principal Prin Irin cipal Pictures at a y yearly atly salary exceeding one million n dollars Is entirely unfounded No 10 company compan could afford d to pa pay such luch nn an am amount aunt to any on one star star star-If If It wanted to remain in tn business These reports S of ot unheard of ot salaries sal ul- salaries aries arles being paid pahl to stars are doing the motion picture business no good and in foot fact arc the popularity popularity popularity larity of of the players themselves Stars makin making their ow productions receive great z-reat returns In money mcney l but ut It must be ho remembered red these amounts do not y but earnings on their own mon money y an- an nes es vested ed In the Pl pictures t r s |