Show SEMON GETS MILLION SALARY FOR COMEDIES S NEW YORK Nov 21 Larry Larry Semon famous screen comedian to today today to- to day signed a contract with Albert ESmith E E. Smith president of by the terms of which that company will pay 3 durin during the ensuing three years sears for the comedies of this star third One-third of this stupendous sum willbe will willbe willbe be paid each year jear of the three years years' contract the annual payment thus averaging over a year So far as is known Charlie Chaplin Is the only other comedian in the world whose salary ls Js s on the same plane The signing of this agreement forma the climax of ot a general s scramble ramble by byI bythe bythe the big producing companies for the I services of ot Larry Semon Mr Smith made a special trip to Los Ang Angeles last week to close the Larry Semon deal Mr Semons Semon's signature to the contract was secured at 2 45 a a. a m after a conference lasting tt tr little less than four days I Larry Semons Semon's rise to his present altitude of ot fame tame has been meteoric I A few short years ago he was a cartoonist cartoonist car car- carI I on the New York Evening Sun He lIe Is not nol yet 30 years old The new contract provides him with unlimited funds funda to spend In the production production production pro pro- I of each of ot Jils two-reel two comedies come come- i dies He lie will make twelve of ot these i i I comedies each year ear It is a fact tact worthy worth of ot note that on the day Larry i Semon Semen signed his new contract his newest comedy The Head Waiter Walter was booked as a featured offering for next week at New Yorks York's Capitol theatre the largest place of entertainment entertainment entertainment enter enter- in the world During the same week it will be shown at the new million dollar California theatre of ot Los Angeles of ot which Samuel former impresario of New NewYork's NewYork's NewYork's Yorks York's mammoth Rialto and Tivoli theatres Is managing director |