What Cinema Actors Earn.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 22 May 1914, Page 8

What Cinema Actors Earn.

Really first-class cinema artistes are amongst the best paid people in the world, the enormous sums received by some music-hall performers lading- into insignificance beside those received by the "stars" of the picture halls. A hundred pounds a night is not at all unusual, and some of the leading lights of the profession are paid retaining fees all the year round. Even "supers " receive from 15s. to £1 a night (a day, whichever time they work), and this, when compared with the sum received by a super in an ordinary theatre, for a whole week's attendance, is more than generous. Leading parts receive. £50-or £60, minor characters are .paid in proportion, and when, added to this, work at' the theatre is secured, the (iiiema actor"s chance of earning a handsome income is pretty well assured. Almost all of the great Continental artistes have at one time or another appeared on the screen. Mme. Bernhardt, Rejane, Mistinguett and Marie Fromet can all be seen i.) their/chief roles, and there is no doubt that many leading English artistes will soon be added to the list. Mr. Ctiy Coombs, who played with Miss Lena Ashwell in "Mrs. Pane's Defence," Mr. Mare Mc'Derlnott. who was so successful as Sherlock Holmes, and in "The Second Mrs. Tanqueray" with Mrs. Patrick Campbell, and many others, are already established favourites with frequenters of the picture palaces.—"Cassell's Saturday Journal."