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Show Sbirley Listed Among Great nniollywood By BHEILAH GRAHAM (Copyright. 137. for Ths Telegram.) HOLLYWOOD. Oct. 28 Its pretty pret-ty hard to decide who are tha 10 most Important personalitlea In Hollywood. Hol-lywood. At lesst 10 000 think the Industry In-dustry would fall to piece kf they left it. But here. In my opinion, are the 10 who count: Will Haya, Sam Goldwyn. David Selsnick, Jock Whitney. Myron Selsnick. Frank Capra. Gary Cooper. Norma Shearer. Shear-er. Robert Montgomery and Shirley Temple. Milrley Worth Millions To begin with Miss Temple. The -year-old starlet'a Importance to the Industry is largely a matter of dollars and cents. All her pictures - good or mediocre net two or more millions of dollars for her studio. The dimpled youngster haa led the box office popularity parade for three years longer than most of her elders last in celluloid. Her earning rapacity three pictures pic-tures n year, at 1100.004 per film, plus 17500 s week for Indorsing dolls, hate, swimming suits, pencil pen-cil seta, hair ribbons, gloves, etc brings Hhlrley close to the 1 1,000,-00-a-yenr Income category. When Irving Thalberg died last year ha left Goldwyn unchallenged as a maker of Hollywood class pictures. pic-tures. In private life. Goldwyn is uneducated, hot-tempered. His mispronunciation mis-pronunciation of the American language lan-guage has msde him the laughing legend of millions. But when It comes to film-making, tha ex-glove salesman has some divine instinct for ths best Rarely does a Goldwyn Gold-wyn picture fail to please the discerning dis-cerning picture public but not all of them make money. "Come and Get It" and "Dorsworth" are still m the red. smirk Complete Contrast Darryl Zanuck. a complete contrast con-trast to Goldwyn, is Just as important impor-tant to the film industry. Ths 35-year-old Wahoo born producer paints his pirturs canvases for the masses. Zanuck started his film career as a writer for the Warner Brothers star. Rin Tin Tin. His yearly output of films for Twentieth Twenti-eth Century-Fox is 40. which makes him the biggest solo money-maker in Hollywood. Thlrty-flve-year-old David Selsnick Sels-nick Is the producer of the future. At Iraat 50 per cent of his pictures pic-tures are made In technicolor. He knows the business from the ground up haa made the two biggest aureesaea thia year, "A Star Is Rnrn" and "The Prisoner of Zenda," and owna the biggest potential money-maker, "tione With the Wind." Jock Whitney, backer In chief of Selsnick International, rates his place here for being the first society so-ciety film "ngel" to leave picture-making picture-making in the hands of experts. Jock is not interested in pictures from class or mass viewpoint. He Is primarily a financier and a shrewd one. His Millions have poured a healthy flow of vitality into Hollywood. Holly-wood. And. Incidentally. Increased his investment several hundred per cent. Gary Remains the Sams Gary Cooper is the only film star valued at five million dollars by his employers. But, more important. Gary is the only film actor who is exactly the same today as he was when given his first sneaking role in the "Winning of Barbara Worth" 13 years ago. He has kept his sense of true value in a community com-munity where success spells a swollen head. Norms Shearer la the first lady of Hollywood In every sense of the word. Not only Is she the beat actress, but aha la the beat type of woman In pictures, She'a s good mother. She la gracious, dignified dig-nified and charming. She la tha wealthiest screen star, and owns s large portion of M.-O.-M. stork, bequeathed her by Irving Thalberg, Thal-berg, Frank Capra Is the on modern director who dared to put originality original-ity into hia films. His "It Happened One Night" and "Mr. Deeda Goes to Town" started the current comedy com-edy cycle but that's not his fault. His salary is $100,000 per film. But any studio you nam will double that when his present legal tangle with Columbia la over. Montgomery's Yar I Nineteen-thirty-aeven will go down in film history as Robert Montgomery'a year. With James Cagney, he founded the Screen Actors' Ac-tors' guild in opposition to the dictates dic-tates of his producer bosses and went to bat for the small people. It waa not an easy matter to make stars earning over glfJO.OOO a year conscious of the troubles of th small fry In their films. Myron Selsnick brother of Davidis Da-vidis Hollywood's ace agent. Hla clientele list reads like a Who's Who of Picture and Include (lark Gable, William Powell, Ronald Colman, Fredrie March, Carole Lombard, Krrol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins, Ginger Rogers, 1-ily Pons, Gregory La Cava and Tay GarnetL Hia yearly turnover la over tlO.OOO.OOO, with 10 per cent for himself. His commission alone from radio contracts this year la geMO.oao. Myron's sU-tiins record faa tst.000, earned In on day st th beginning of the year. Will Hays receive $75,000 s year and traveling expenses, which makea him the least paid of Hollywood Holly-wood well-known personalities. But he Is the most Important of them all. The 58-year-old Indiana born ex-chairman of the Republican national na-tional committee ' 1 W 1 8-21 1 . ex-postmaster general and now president of ths Motion Pictures Producers snd Distributors of America. Inc. in short, the Hays office is th most powerful man in pictures told |
