Talking Screen (Sep-Oct 1930)

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Charlie Bickford sinks his income into a variety of enterprises from hog-raising to real estate, and they all show a profit. He's shown here with a group of employees in front of one of his Los Angeles filling stations. By GORDON R. SILVER SAVING THOSE FILM people have iong been considered notoriously unworldly in the matter of money. As a matter of fact, they are just that. At the present time those players who are "sitting pretty" with contracts are making big money, for the talkies have proven popular beyond all imagination after their first year's test. Big money that had to be expended quickly by companies last year when talkies came in with a bang is now reaping its profit through the box-oflSce. And this in turn is affecting the salaries of the favored players. Naturally, they are beginning to think of ways and means of saving their money. Since the wave of thrift, being just a film player with no side line in the way of a paying business is fast becoming absolutely declasse. The actors and actresses, no matter how high in the profession they happen to be roosting, are beginning to appreciate that some day they may have decided difliculry in getting a good contract. And so here, there and everywhere around the studios. Greta Garbo's check is handled by Harry Edington, an executive at M-G-M, and he won't let his client play the stock market. As a result she has a substantial bank roll. No doubt the restraining influence of the business manager occasionally tempts one to deeds of violence. Jobyna Ralston, his wife, handles all of Richard Arlen's financial affairs. 68