Evening Star Newspaper, October 31, 1923, Page 37

STARS OF FILMDOM FAGECUTSINPAY ‘Industry Cannot Stand Strain| 3 of High Salaries, Pro- ducers Decide. BY ROBERT T. SMALL, Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, October 31.—Moving picture salaries must be deflated. This ukase has gone out from the torn and tattered producers of screen plays who are trying to make both ends meet. The recent announcement of a big producing company that it would make no more pictures until costs of production came down has been followed by a storm of contro- versy as to where the blame for the high cost should be placed. The pro- ducers say they are not getting their proper share of the profits being made in the industry, which without them could not exist. In many ca declared, the producers have make expenses on what were sup- posed ublic to be immense es. id that the salaries of the roots of all evil in picture business, of course, d been to increase argument being try could pay big sum studios and the various ac that go into the making of a picture. Salaries of Directors. s and camera men have ted by the high salaries of They claim to be stars in their particular line and have de- manded s t has been found tha productions the irectors and sup- more than doubled h pproximate low down' s of sc ol a_luncheon, in which the dilemm the picture industry was under dis- cussion. The names of Char ford or Doug really are inclu of producers same is tru list purpo; run-of-the-mine stars who work reg- Rt ir d in the category d_independe and it may : fans to le 4 is put down wount, & l:a):lr: ! until three doses ar held 2 week at s |of what h diplomacy,” which he declared was | the long-nosed comedian belng at the head of the men on the pay roii. Salaries of Men. Mix gets $4,000, Conway Tearle 2.750; Lewis Stone and Milton Sills, Richard_ Barthelmess, James Kir wood. Wallace. Beery and House $2,500 each: Elliot Dexter ound $2.000: Lon 0, while J. Warren Kerrigan. veteran of the studio and the speaking stage, is placed in the $1.500 class. as Iv also Jack Holt. ‘'onrad Nagle gets a mere oittance, $1.250. slichtly less than the President of the United States. Returning to the ladles of the screen, it Is found that Barbara La Marr and Betty Comnson are listed at $3.500. with Mabel Normand still in demand at $3.000, and May McAvoy rising fast in'the scale at the same ficure. M has just been starred in a big produl tion, and this. according to the pro- ducers, will mean a demand from her for higher salar: &oes on Jocation. Betty Blvthe and ne Hammer- steln are “paired” nt $2.500. Priscilia Dean is rated at week, while Viola Dana i5 in the $2.000 class. Shirley [ason tops auite a number of feminine stars at $1,5600 a week. The list of $1.000 banuties fo a lonz one. and so it is clalmed that the oniy peovle in the entire industry that are getting the money todav are the actors and nctresses. It is ase serted in behalf of the nroducers that an immediate readiustment must come, or there soon will be some new faces on the screen. The producers are ready to o that far in the defla- tion of the industry. Tom 5. Peters, rakes down Chaney gets § the next time she PROTESTS CABLE DELAY. Carlton Says British Hold Up Azores Line. NEW YORK, October 31.—Criticism termed “British cable holding up the THE EV. BANKERS SEEK WA T0AID FARMERS Program of Active Fellowship Decided Upon in Mid- dle West. By the Assoclated Press. LINCOLN, Neb., October 31.—A fel- lowship between the banker and the farmer which shall amount to more than a perfunctory or casual rela- tionship was the keynote of a pro- gram agreed upon yesterday by the agricultural commission of the Amer- ican Bankers' Assoclation at the last of u two-day session. The twelve banker members of the commission, after spending yesterday in Omaha discussing the general phase of the agricultural outlook as it relates to banking, came to Lin- coln to Inspect the College of Agri- culture of the University of Nebraska and listen . to extension men and Nebraska bankers set up a typical banker-farmer program for this state. 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ANDIRONS are still called “fire doga™ betause the first ones were usually ornamented with huge dogs’ heads. G STAR, WASH NGTO OHIO KLAN FILES RIOTING AFFIDAVITS |=: By the Assoclated Press. STEUBENVILLE, Ohio, October 31. —Aflidavits charging nineteen men with rioting and Inciting to riot and six p with illegal voting were filed in Justice of the Peace Ross Stone's court late yesterday by Lee Van Tilburg, attorney for the Steu- benville Ku Klux Klan. Shortly aft- erward claims for damages totaling $6,000 were flled for two persons in- jured in the rioting. It _was announced that warrants CORNS Stop their pain in one minute! For quick lasting relief from corns, Dr. Scholl's Zino.pads stop the pan in one minute by removing the cause —friction and pressure. hzigw-puh are dl'in, s;fe. antiseptic, aling, waterproof an: t duce infectionr any bad aftereffeces, Three sizes—for corns, callouses and bunions. Cost but a trifle. Get a box to- day at your druggist’s or shoe dealer’s. Dr Scholl’s Zino-pads Put one on - the pain is gone Cy would be served tonight. Van Til- 'WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER. 3 son, former dry detective and alleged burg said that 50 to 100 more affi-|klansman, also shot during the anti- davits would be filed. The alleged rioting occurred on the night of Au- st 16, The illegal voting is alleged to have been done at the August primary, when the Klan candidate for mayor was defeated. In this action Mr. Van Tilburg declared he is representing Herman Passavant, independent can- didate for mayor. The claims for damages were flled with the Jefferson county commis sioners. One—that of Darwin GIi Klan disorders—is for $6,000. The other, for $1,000, is in behaif of I B. Blyholder, insurance agent of Mas- sillon,"Ohfo, who was assaulted when, it 1s ‘believed, he was taken for a klansmaf. Action by the commis- sloners was deferred. 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