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STARS' SALARIES
Motion Picture Stars the Most Highly-Paid Workers in the For the First Time in History, the Artist is Getting His!
Rob Wagner
any old picture. True, all of our favorites are not baby-dolls. Some actually possess great artistry, but in any event we go to see personalities Our devotion to Colleen Moore, Dick Barthelmess and Rin Tin Tin is
a great cross to the producers. Time and again they have tried to
subordinate film favorites' to their studio labels, but with very doubtful'
success. They make a picture with good, but unknown actors. Instantly
comes a cry from the exhibitors: "Give us names!— Clara Bow! Ronald
Colman! Bull Montana! Somebody!" But Clara, Ronald and Bull are
Working elsewhere, so what — to do?
Well, they've got to offer them more, that's all. It isn't the stars who
are demanding big salaries. The producers are offering them. Harry
Handsome is getting two thousand dollars a week at the Climax Studio
Hie Eureka producer learns that his contract will be up on the first "I
ca;.W,h!m twenty-five hundred a week and make a barrel of money
off him! he exclaims. . But another producer, watching the press comments, and learning that Harry's fan mail has doubled in the last year
fagures that he can pay him three thousand a week. And so it goes'
Harrys salary is absolutely determined by the grand old law of supply
and demand. Every time you write him a fan letter you boost his salary
Don t you suppose Clara Bow's five thousand letters a week influence her
producers when renewing her contract? I once asked Charlie Chaplin if
he didn t get fed up on attracting notice wherever he went. "Yes " he
replied, "it is terribly annoying and tiresome. But oh, Bob, how I would hate to have it stop!" Charlie knows it is one measure of success.
While we are solving the mysteries of motion picture salaries we might stop and thank the Wizard of Menlo Park. If ever a movement is started to build Thomas Edison a monument the musicians and picture actors should be the largest contributers, for the basic possibility of their large earnings will be found in those two mechanical devices of reproduction the cinematograph and the phonograph. Caruso could have sung his head off to individual audiences but he never could have earned the stupendous sums that came to him from his Victor records. Charlie Chaplin could possibly have filled Madison Square Garden twice daily with multitudes ^ Clara Bow's sal' to see his art in person, but it is the Edison projector (Co„t on page 104) arj has lu We
C[Lon Chaney — the greatest character actor in pictures, with salary to match.
({One million dollars for 4 films! Corinne Griffith's.
don't \now the figure but it's reported to be as interesting as Clara's.
<C Harold Lloyd, according to report, earns something li\e $30,000 a wee\.
C John Gil bert ma\es at least $10,000 a wce\.
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