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: Lloyd Bacon, * Bette Davis, $53,199; Leslie Howard, : $120,000; Al Jolson, $103,000; Mervyn

+ Muni, $109,583; Pat O’Brien, $119,500; : Dick Powell, $176,249.

f Kent, $179,220; : 000; ; Baxter,

{ retta Young, $150,019; John Boles, : 8133248; Douglas : 8112812; ! $103,000; ! £109,166; Herbert : 168; Jack Oakie, $164 418; i her, i Jack Benny,

¢ Crosby, $190,000 : Lloyd, producer, $166,203; Rouben ; ford Odets;,

| Glad¥s Swarthout, $61,333; Charles ! dard, $26500: Jack Holt, $103,645;

: Cecil B. DeMille, $51,500; Walter eral feminine experts and took all | { honors.

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Film Salary Near Merry

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L. B. Mayer Highest Paid American In 1937.

WASHINGTON, April 7 (U. P).— Louis B. Mayer, motion picture executive, was the highest paid American in 1937, it was disclosed Moy when the House Ways and ans Committee announced the Treasury's listing of salaries and Bonuses over $15,000 paid by U. S.| corporations. Of the country’s 10 highest sal- | aries, seven were paid in the motion | picture and entertainment world. Of the wp 20, 15 went to actors,| actresses, motion picture and en- | tertainment executives. | The top listings in the entertainment world were: :

Mr. Mayer, executive, Loew's, Inc, and Metro-Goldwyn- EMuyer= $1.296,503. J. Robert Rubin, executive,

Loew's, Inc, and M-G-M—$754,254.; N. M. Schenck, president, Loew's, Inc.—$541,602. Fredric March—$484 687. Greta Garbo—$472,499. Maj. Edward Bowes, ment executive—$427.817. | David Bernstein, executive, Loew's, Inc.—$382.8186. Marlene Dietrich—$370,000. A. M. Loew, executive, Inc.—$356,074. Claudette Colbert—$355,555. Joan Crawford—$351,538. Spryros P. Skouras, theater executive—$346,054. Carole Lombard —$314.000. William Powell —$289,443. Clark Gable—$289.000.

Largest Yet Disclosed

Mr. Mayer's saiary was the largest to be disclosed since start of the Ways and Means Committee lists. It compared with top salaries of the 1929 era. Mr. Mayer did not show in the 1936 top brackets. Other movie entertainment salaries in 1937 were: ~ Wallace Beery, $258,750; Adolph Menjou, $102,083; George Burns and Gracie Allen, $139,568; Irene Dunne, $259,587; Cary Grant, $144291; Barbara Stanwyck, $198,749; Edward G. Robinson, $70,416; Jeannette MacDonald, $238,299; Robert Montgomery, $243250; Hunt Stromberg, director, $265500; Joe E. Brown, $267,500; David O. Selznick, $203,500; Charles Boyer, $265,191; Kay Francis, $209,100. Hal Wallis, production chief, $208,083; Darryl Zanuck, $260,000; Warner Baxter, $225961; Sonja Henie, $210,729: Fred Astaire, $271,711: Ginger Rogers, $184 583; Pandro S. Berman, $251.347; Katharine Hepburn, $238,703; Bob Burns, $242856; Ernst Lubitsch, $260,833; George Raft, $219388; Wesley Ruggles, director, $203051: Adolph Zukor, $210,000. :

£173,352 for Robert Taylor

Lionel Barrymore, $132,739; John Rarrymore, $148333; Freddy Bartholomew, $36.899; Robert Taylor, 8173352: Nelson Eddy, $103,166; Victor Fleming, director, $160,000; Sidney Franklin, director, $128,583; the late Jean Harlow, $104967; Edmund Lowe, $105416; Edgar Seldwyn, director, $119,245; John Stahl, director, $107 125% Franchot Tone! $107,201; W. Van Dyke, $178916; ! Myrna Loy, So 583; Lynn Fon- | tanne, $99,974; Alfred Lunt, $101,674 | H. M. Warner, president, Warner | Bros, $115833; Albert Warner, 898333; J. L. Warner, $137.333; director, $144541;

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Loew's,

Leroy, producer, $153,517; Paul

Joseph M. Schenck, chairman, 20th Century-Fox, $118000; S. R William Goetz, $104.Fred Allen, $60000; Warner $225961; Ben Bernie, $100.000; Eddie Cantor, $150.000; Alice Faye, $145499; Gypsy Rose Lee, $34 - 166; Nunnally Johnson, producer $108.250; Victor McLaglen, $164,325; Simone Simon, $110,918.

Shirley Draws $110,256

Gertrude Temple, guardian, $52.-| 166; Shirley Temple, $110.256; Lo-

Fairbanks Jr. Tay Garnett, director, Jesse L. T--'y, producer, Marshall, $198.Joe PenLily . Pons, $106023: $60.000; Mary Living£25007; Harry L. (Bing)

$105,333: stone,

Dorothy Lamour, $21650; Frank Mamoulian, director, $118,750; Clifwriter, $43.333; Martha Raye, $4854]; Leo Robin, lyricist, $85,418; Charles Ruggles, $133,236: $106,000;

Chaplin, Paulette God-

* E. Disney, $38.7 30.

AH, SYLVIA SOOTHES THE OPTIC

New Movies

There's nothing for a shiner like a | beefsteak and Sylvia Sidney’s charming presence. So Myron McCormick’s bruised optic may be consid-

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Cormick is not the Indians’ center fielder.)

Offer ‘Epics’ And Music

Story of Dancing Castles, ‘Broadway Serenade,’

‘Dodge City' Here.

With the end of Lent and a hoped-for rise in temperature to lend a festive note this week, Indianapolis theater managers seem fortunate in having secured a batch of pictures to match the occasion. Three of the new features are of the “epic” variety, judging from their budget and buildup. And another, the Apollo's “. . . One-Third of a Nation . .” should please those patrons who tire of the inevitable spectacle of boy getting girl, and yearn for a theme with social significance.

Kansas Film Arrives

Among today’s opening attractions is “Dodge City” at the Circle, which had its premiere last Saturday in the Kansas town which plays the title part. In a day when ‘world premieres” in appropriate towns are all the go, Dodge City crashed the headlines with a rodeo and general jamboree celebrating the arrival of the new picture and most of its

r crisis of the Apollo’s current “ . Nation . . .» (No, this Myron Me-

HOLLYWOOD

By PAUL HARRISON

Frank Morgan was voted the best

waltzer on the floor at the Cafe | Lamaze, where he danced with sev-

OLLYWOOD, April 7.—The flicker world is indeed a place of black-and-white magic. Only in the movies do these things

happen:

Inspiration comes quickly to musical people. . A composer sim-

ply sits down at a piano and plays

him listens to the melody for a minute and then knows all the

lyrics.

But singers never can have any privacy in Celluloidia. A boy and girl in love may stroll to any apparently secluded trysting

place, but the instant they begin to

sing they realize that the members i of a 40-piece orchestra are hiding

in the bushes.

Almost every person is articuFilm players never grope for Only Jimmy Stewart makes

late. words. love in the faltering, abashed fashion of young men of this world.

In Movieland, too, people have a psychic ability to anticipate inter- :

ruptions. An actor begins to space his words and hesitates slightly just before someone else breaks in. Same way with the ringing of a telephone or a knock on the door. You can see that a player knows just what is going to happen.

And speaking cf telephones, it's :

wonderful how these folks never have to look up numbers. They always get the right number immediately, too, and an immediate answer from the party on the other end of the line.

it past unwanted stations. They just program they want. 2 = 8 Everything dries very quickly.

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N this strange Hollywood world, everything is lighter in weight than it would be here. Or people are much stronger. in comedy scenes, luggage never seems heavy. It is lightly esteemed, too, because half the timé a man returning from a trip will leap out of a taxi and it will drive on with his bags. Often he doesn’t

pay the driver.

“Pygmalion” is the only picture ever made in which an actor couldn't find a taxi immediately in a rainstorm. Drivers of all’ automobiles are kept very busy jerking the wheel back and forth

when they are shown in closeups.

Either the steering gears all have too much play in them or

else all the streets are full of holes.

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You may have noticed one unfortunate thing about the lady stars of musicals. They are all quite deaf.

warbles an intimate little love song

must yell into her ear in a way that makes us normal people

cringe vicariously. & = 8 In the movies, pretty girls weigh

A man always lifts a girl effortlessly.

long distance and sing at the same of breath.

A leading man and woman may seem about the same height in long shots, but he grows in the clinch closeups so that he towers

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No matter how poor she may he, the heroine always has filmy silk lingerie and nightgowns, and never a run in a stocking. After a day toiling in a factory, she is still perfectly manicured. .

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HE leading lady's lipstick has a sense of dramatic and comedy It never gets on a leading man’s face during a serious love scene, but it always smears in a comedy situation. The action of liquor is equally predictable.

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The heroine falls off a yacht and in no time she’s back in the cabin and may be wrapped in a blanket, but her hair is ag orderly as ever. When people are caught in a downpour, they don’t bother te change because they know they'll be crisp and freshly pressed in the next scene. There's always plenty of light in the world of the magic lanA fellow holding a candle goes into a room, and immediately the place is as bright as a Hollywood premiere.

men can swig gallons of brandy and never show it, but when one fellow wants to get another one drunk, a couple of shots will put him to sleep.

a new song. The girl with

Jimmy Stewart . . poor guy

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In some lusty pic-

stars—in person. Dodge City, back in the 1870s, was a place where a man’s life wasn’t worth a nickel, so the film tells us. Today things have changed to some extent, but you still can get Errol Flynn in a raffle for 25 cents. That's what a Dodge City waitress paid the lucky ticket holder wlten the latter's young brother came down with the measles. Loew's has “Broadway Serenade,” a pretentious musical with Jeanette MacDonald starred. Miss MacDonald has been a Hollywood favorite for the last decade, sharing top honors with Nelson Eddy, Clark Gable, Maurice Chevalier and others. But the present effort marks the first time that she has received star billing all by herself.

Lew Ayres Is Added

Lew Ayres, continuing the comeback he started in “Holiday,” is cast opposite Miss MacDonald for the first time. At the Indiana is another musical picture which tells of America’s most famous dance team. ‘The story of Vernon and Irene Castl<” traces the career of the young couple who ruled the world of dancing and fashion in those happy prewar and prejitterbug days. Not only did the Castles set the country to dancing in their footsteps, but Mrs. Castle set the styles like Schiaparelli and the Duchess of Windsor combined. Her new gowns immediately became the vogue, and she practically drove men and the Police Gazette out of the nation’s barber shops when she bobbed her hair. Ginger Rogers dnd Fred Astaire, contemporary threats to the Castles’ oldtime popularity, take the title parts. And Mrs. Castle herself was technical advisor for the production, seeing that the story remained authentic and enjoying the rather unsual experience of seeing her life re-enacted before her eyes. Now she knows how Billie Burke felt watching Myrna Loy in “The Great Ziegfeld.”

Has Roosevelt Theme

“ ..One-Third of a Nation , : .” has several distinctions. It was inspired by a phrase in one of President Roosevelt's speeches; it was the first of the Federal Theater Project's “living newspaper” productions to be brought to the screen, and it was one of very few fulllength features in modern screen history to be filmed in the East. It was made at Paramount's Long Island studio.

Good Lesson, Benny Says

Offer to Cancel Radio Pact Refused, He Adds.

HOLLYWOOD, April 7 (U, P)— Jack Benny, radio and screen comedian, said today that his admitted guilt on Federal smuggling charges should serve as a “darn good lesson” to others but that it had not affected his future as a high paid entertainer. Tired, worn and unshaven upon his return from New York, where he pleaded guilty to smuggling and was fined $10,000, Mr. Benny said he had walked into the office of his radio sponsor in New York and offered to cancel a contract worth several thousand dollars a week, “The offer was not accepted,” he said. Concerning his future plans he said he would centinue his film and radio work while, meanwhile, reporting to proldtion ‘officers here in compliance with stipulations of his year-and-a-day suspended sentence. The specific charge sgainst Mr. Benny was that he was instrumental in smuggling a $2131 diamond and gold bracelet for his wife, the Mary Livingstone of his radio program. “It was a foolish thing,” he said, “but it was something anyone could get into. No, I wouldn't advise anyone else to buy any “bargain” jewelry, It’s been a -darned good hetmon. y

Warner Lawson Will Play Here

The young Negro pianist, Warner Lawson, will give a recital Monday night at Crispus Attucks High School. The Flanner House Ensemble of 15 voices, Mrs. Lucretia Lawson Love, director, also will take part in the program. Mr. Lawson is a graduate of Yale University, a former pupil of Artur Schnabel, and at present is on the piano faculty of Fisk Uni-

versity. Sylvia Sidney and Leif Erickson His local appearance is being : sponsored hy ay House, as-|2re starred, and the picture's theme

is one of slum indictment.

COLLECTS AXES

Wessel Smitter, author of “F.O. B. Detroit,” best-seller soon to go before the cameras, has one of the largest collections of axes in the world. Smitter owns 18 types of woodman’s axes, most of them

sisted by the following committee: Wallace O. Lee and Mesdames Lionel F. Artis, Henry E. Ostrom, Thomas D. Sheerin, Earl W. Kiger, John A, Towns and Rose Lee Farrell.

PRINCESS BABA'S

IT'S A BIG

And if Miss Lois Grantham of 249 S. Temple Ave. doesn’t fold it or roll it, she'll be able to take her girl friend to the Indiana tonight to see the newest Astaire-Rogers picture. Frank Cramer is the nice “Santa” from the Indiana. He was passing ‘em out yesterday at the corner of Meridian and Washington Sts. It’s all right unless somebody bumps into Lois on the street car.

NEW YORK

EW YORK, April 7—This is the minor saga of a small restaurant in the West Forties which six months ago was a forlorn little place, but now has scant-space for a sudden avalanche of trade. The secret of its success was revealed to me the other night by the two amiable ladies who own it. Two months ago, a pair of lean and hungry-looking gents wandered in and made a strange offer to the proprietresses. “We're broke,” they said, “and if you agree to feed us for a year, we'll promise, to make your busi

By GEORGE ROSS

WHEN DOES IT START?

ness a success. Providing you per- APOLLO mit us to do as we please.” “One Third of a Nation,” with That night they moved a table || Sylvia Sidney and Leif Erikson, at

. The E Eagle and the Hawk,” with Fredric March, Carole Lombard, Cary Grant and Jack Oakie, at 11, 1:49, 4:38, 7:27 and 10:16 .

over to the window of the restaurant and ordered a bountiful repast. They tucked napkins une

der their chins and proceeded to CIRCLE eat with guste. They raised eel “Dodge City,” with Errol Flynn, fork and spoonful to their lips Olivia te Havilland and Ann Sheriwith extravagant gurgles and ges= A Tr 9. 5, 535. 73 tures of delight. INDIANA

Their enthusiastic antics attracted passersby. They repeated this performance for three days

“The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle,” with Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edna May Oliver and Walter

and nights, and in that time, Ps ana a 1114.5 S195, S36 enough pedestrians were intrigued ne Jjapch o of me, at 12:56, 3:07, 5:10, to try a meal. - The patronage L s increased and the place prospers OEW’S now. And this duo of wizards a oaaway Serenade, » oa Jean-

still is eating free. uv»

These have heen busy weeks for the Sidewalk Superintendents Club, what with the razing of the Sixth Avenue “L” structure going on all the way uptown. The 8. 8. C.?2 That's the fraternity of spectators who stand guard at excavations, overseeing the steamshovel, the crane and the cart ing trucks. There are no entry requirements to join the S. 8. C. except a capacity for dropping everything that needs doing, ry #8

HE members of Orson Welles’

Hunter and Frank Morgan, at 11:20, 2:50, 6:20 and 9:5

A Lone Wolf Spy Hunt.” with Warren William, lda Lupino and Ralph Morgan, at 1:25, 4:55 and 8:25.

JEAN PARKER GETS NEW PORTER ROLE

HOLLYWOOD, April %7.—Jean Parker, who was featured in the film version of Gene Stratton Porter's “Romance of the Limberlost,” has been signed by Monogram Pictures for the leading role in another Porter novel, “Her Father's Daughter.”

FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1930

‘Pygmalion’ Screen Hit For March Reviewers Sing Its Praise:

‘Beachcomber’ Put High on List. -

Times Special NEW YORK, April 17—Movie critics seem to have vindicated the opinion of the public that “Pyge malion” is one of the outstanding motion pictures of the year. For this M-G-M picture, produced ‘by Gabriel Pascal, was an overwhelming selection by Scripps-Howard movie critics as the Picture Hit of the Month for March. One reviewer describes this Brite ish made George Bernard Shaw play as “one of those pictures. In show business they call it a nate ural, the show-goer sees it, says it's a swell picture and tells his friends so.” Paramount's “Beachcomber” and “Cafe Society” as well as “Stagecoach,” produced by United Arte ists, were also mentioned in the voting for the monthly award. Fred Gongora of The San Diego Sun: “The two top contenders for this month’s movie crown were so close we actually flipped a coin. “Vindicated with this non-coms mitting selection we point the finger at George (‘It's the best thing I ever did’) Bernard Shaw and say he did it with his ‘Pygmalion.’ “The losing side of the coin proxied for the “Beachcomber,” Charles Laughton’s spicy and well supported monodrama. “Unfortunately for the movie= makers no instruction book has been written telling how it’s done—they spend money and hope they can do it again. Columbia has been turning iself inside out for years now trying to do another ‘Mr. Deeds Goes to Town.’ “Mr. Gabriel Pascal, who did the impossible and wheedled the one and only into giving him the film rights to the play, announces he is the sole heir to all the other Shaw works; and that not. only will he make another just as good as ‘Pygmalion’ but that he’s going to make a whole bunch of them.” William Boehnel, of The New York World-Telegram: “Seldom has a stage play been transferred to the screen with such unerring skill. As the flower girl, Wendy Hiller gives a performance which is absolutely flawless.”

(AMBASSADOR) |

Victor McLaglen—Joan Fontaine Douglas Fairbanks Jr.—Cary Grant

Hee “GUNGA DIN”

Pate Smith Hit—Penny’s Picnie’® “Men of Steel,’ Gay Musical Treat

‘ROUGH RIDERS ROUND-UP”

Chester Morris—‘‘PACIFIO LINER” “LONE RANGER RIDES AGAIN”

troupe were sitting around, waiting for things to happen in a network studio, the other night, and in the corner a young lady was busy crocheting a tablecloth. Another Welles trouper approached and watched the busy fingers wield the needle. “I wonder if you would teach me how to crochet?” she asked. “I always wanted to know how.” Graciously the comely oro= cheter instructed the novice in the art of “knit-one-purl-one.” And when the awesome Orson rapped for order, the apt pupil turned to thank her tutor.

“By the way,” she asked, “what is your name?” The crocheter said, “Call me

Madeleine—I'm Madeleine Cars= roll.”

OLE AX: “THE *TEXANS”

MOTHER ARRIVES

double-bitted.

PLUS ‘GANG BULLETS"

NEW YORK, April 7 (U. P)— The Ranee of Sarawak, Lady Vyner Brooke, arrived on the Queen Mary and today was en route to Hollywood to visit her daughter, Princess Baba, bit player in the movies and wife of a wrestler. She said she also would discuss a movi: she has written. Lady Brooke’s husband, white rajah of Sarawak, rules over 50,000

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rans fot! 3. The sweet heart of “Sweethearts” in a radiant modern love story with 1939°c new romantic sensation < Lew Ayrss!

LAUGHS ne pany

Frank Morgan is a producer! What |i eye for talent! And what talent! fi

SIDNEY

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piest hit of her career! SEE IT!

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