Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 115, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1919 — Moving Picture Expenses. [ARTICLE]

Moving Picture Expenses.

The moving picture industry takes In millions of nickels daily, but a hlg part goes out for salaries, for “stars” ami for needless expenses. Quite recently a very much excited individual stopping at one of the big hotels in New York city called up Los Angeles, Cal., 911 the long distance telephone many times daily and rolled up a weekly bill of $3,000 for this item alone. “Who Is he?” queried a bystander, to whom the hotel proprietor related the story. “One of the new oil millionaires?” “No,” was the repiy, “he is a movIng picture director. That Is just a sample of the high cost of turning out moving pictures today.”—Wall Street Journal.