Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-07-27 | Page 19 | Goldwyn Says Stars Earn Pay

GOLDWYN SAYS STARS EARN PAY PAYi i By MOLLIE MERRICK Copyright 1934 by North American Newspaper Alliance Inc HOLLYWOOD Cal When Cat When t the h e eMotion Motion Picture Producers' Producers association and the producers belonging to it ii take tak refuge in abstractions and theories the thc Dries ories it is Sam Goldwyn bless Goldwyn-bless bless him hin I who is never afraid to call a spade a p spade or to be quoted on any perti pert pertinent nent subject of the day When government agitation about aboul Hollywood salaries was at its height r it was vas Goldwyn who first called our out attention to the fact that about r SonS persons in this movie village were 1 drawing 51 per cent of ot the salaries k leaving the other persons engaged engaged engaged en en- in the film ilm business to divide the remaining 49 per cent I II 1 I Sam Goldwyn who knows what tars stars receive b because came he has signed their checks tells that Greta Garbo gets per week He begs us to remember that one cannot compute a the yearly income on this basis since t stars are arc only paid for the weeks of ol t work Will Rogers gets And Maurice Maurice Mau Mau- rice Chevalier the same sum Constance Constance Con Con- stance stance Bennett falls just below them with John Barrymore's BarQ brings him in right after fter La Bennett Norma Shearer Richard Barthelmess Barthelmes and Ann Harding are a ers ers r J Wallace fleer Beery receives a e week And William Powell gets Joan Crawford gets the week Thirty seven hundred fifty for Janet Janel 1 for Edward Edward Ed Ed- bucks Gaynor Three thousand ward Robinson And for James for James Cagney Cag Cag- 1 ney 2800 a week Clark Gable gets get 2500 a week and likes it Lets Let's take up the matter of ot George Arliss who gets a year Goldwyn Goldwyn Gold wyn tells me for two pictures and 1 says Sam Goldwyn in telling it v a year is is too much mone money for most people but it doesn't begin begir I t to represent George Arliss' Arliss value to ic th the screen creen Loretta Young gc gets 2000 a week says and nd says Sam Goldwyn earns Goldwyn-earns earns it Mr Goldwyn also thinks that the which Irving Thalberg makes make out aut of ot h his s job as supervising producer produce a of Metro Mayer studios i inot is is' not outrageous The ma maintenance of a star is something something some some- something thing which is usually forgotten b by bythe the general public The agent takes take 10 per cent of all earnings right off of the reel The income ta tax collector takes practically half which brings bring your a weck salary down into mt the tIe week a class Press clip pi pings flings gs publicity luncheons and fan mail can run as high as a week And your our star doesn't remain a star unless he does these things Then there is b the subject of charity Well well we'll have to waive that that p space ce doesn't p permit