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EWARE the Ides of March!
Julius Caesar had his Brutus, Fatty Arbuckle his Will Hays — and the movie stars — the stars have the income tax collector. If this be treason, make the most of it. The Ides of March have come and gone. And many a bright new dollar that came to Hollywood to get into the movies, has gone to Washington — perhaps never more to return.
"I've sent more than a million friends upon their way to Congress," weeps Bill Hart, "more than a million sweet green paper dollars. And this year — "
The double-barreled hero of the wide open spaces grinned pleasantly —
"I wish I had a million to send this year — but there'll be enough young Bills representing me anyway."
Yes, the facts about the real incomes of the stars and the producers — washed out by the Ides — make the movie industry gleam like a tale from ancient Sybarus.
Floors of gold, ceilings of precious stones, pillars of hewn marble, walls of jade and amber, chariots of beaten
silver and hammered platinum — Uncle Sam takes mighty tribute from this modern city of the Sybarites.
isn't always the big name that draws the big salary.
"And here's something else again — Uncle Sam gets more money out of the small salaried people than he does out of the stars — because God made so many of the little-time folks."
Bill Hart's Tribute to Uncle Sam
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G[Can you imagine a star who earns $4,000 a week and asked to take a two weeks' vacation yearly without pay in order to keep her income tax below the $200,000 mark? She prefers to rest rather than work for a measley $2,000 a week and give Uncle Sam the other 50 per cent. Hollywood is just full of sad cases like this.
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has a big name, and of dollars every year. It is stated he never made a picture that didn't take in more than half a million dollars — and Bill's rakeoff hasn't been so under sized, either.
He has paid over $1,000,000 to the government in a few years. Which, if you figure it out, is more than the President of the United States
he gets a big pile
N case you think that's too flowery, let the Los Angeles collector of internal revenue, Mr. E. C. Goodcell, tell it in his way:
"Moving picture stars are earning tremendous salaries, larger than even the public imagines. Salaries of $2,000 a week are not unusual. Some of them get much more.
"However, the number of stars isn't large — and the number of people making big money who are little known in the pictures is amazing.
"I could astonish you, if I dared, by telling you what some of the big producers make each^-^^,^. year — and showing how insignifi \/) \ cant those sums are compared v.
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