WOMAN’S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 July 1922, Page 10

WOMAN’S WORLD.

COMING DOWN. FILM STARS’ SALARIES. Within the last year (according to a writer in the New York Herald) there has been a marked lowering of salaries throughout the motion picture ranks, amounting in some instances to more than 50 per cent. A sage of Hollywood thus summarised the present salary situation: “This is an El Dorado for a few. a. grub stake for many, and a Dead Man’s Gulch for many others. I know well-known actors and actresses tvhose salaries appear to be fabulous, but who would be better off if they had steady jobs at 100 dollars a week. One of these is a leading woman who gets 500 dollars a week. That sounds like 25,000 dollars a year. The fact is that the moment a picture is finished she gets nothing, and sometimes she is idle for months between pictures. The highest-paid players on continuous weekly salaries were Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and Douglas Fairbanks, all of whom are now producing on their own account. The highest paid salaried actor in Hollywood at the present time, according to information given me, is Mary Miles Minter.” The public has an impression that Charlie Chaplin is under a contract at

“a million a year.” The fact is that the First National Pictures agreed to pay him £200,000 for eight pictures, and it has taken him five years to make them. This makes his average return only £25.000 a picture and £40,000 a year. Out of this Chaplin pays the cost of production, averaging about £6OOO a picture. At. this rate his net return a picture is 013.000, with income tax Io be deducted. The dog that he used in filming “A Dog’s Life” grew from puppyhood to maturity before the picture was done. Towards the end they had to place the camera farther away in order to make -the dog appear to be the same size as when the production was commenced. What- Mary Pickford makes is a great secret among herself, her mother, who is her business manager, and the Income Tax Bureau. Tt does pot amount to one million dollars a year. Friends in Hollywood believe that recently she and her husband have each been netting about £lOO,OOO. After fifteen years on the legitimate and movie stage. Mary Pickford is worth about £600,000. She is a wisp investor. Fairbanks is not- a great saver, or has not been up to this time. He spends enormous sums on his productions. “The Three Musketeers” cost not far from £150,000. Conrad Nagel, one of the newer leading men of considerable experience on the legitimate stage, has a salary of £l5O a week. This is aboV.e the leadine man’s average, the reason being that Nagel not only can act, but looks like an aristocrat. Whilst there are contracts at £4OO a week, the salaries of stock players under contract I range as a rule-from £25 to £lOO a '• week. It takes an exceptional man or woman to rise above £lOO.

MAXIMS FOR THE MARRIED. An up-to-date list of marriage aphorisms is offered by Rev. Carl D. Case, pastor of the First Baptist Church. Oak Park, Chicago. Here are some of thorn.: The man who makes his wife beg for spending money is worse than an infidel. A marriage may be made in heaven, but it can be moved to hell in a day, and one person can so move it. Don’t be cross at the same time as your wife. Wait your turn. Score a point by keeping still. A husband should think more of his duties and less of his rights. A husband caunot always have his way. Don't delay marriage until you have made a fortune. You deprive yopr wife of half of the joys of married life. Courtship should be continuous. Many a man is more gracious to some other man’s wife than to his own. A man impressive in business may be oppressive at home. A man who expects his wife to be purer than himself should be watched by his business partner. Double standards have a habit of repeating. Every man should marry unless he conscientiously cannot. It is only the fool who says: “The happiest life that ever was led is always to court and never to wed.” WAR WIDOWS’ MARRIAGE BUREAU. Herr Brasch, a merchant of Magdeburg. saw. during the war, what was coming, and he set up a marriage bureau, with the aim, at first, of facilitating the marriage of war widows and invalids. His activities were greatly extended later on. The National Fund for War Widows and Orphans came to his help. The directors of that fund supplied the names of the young women being assisted by the fund who wished to marry. Herr Brasch supplied the names of men. There was a committee of investigation on both sides, and. when the organisations had made the fullest investigations and were in possession of all particulars. siutable persons were brought together. Dr. Kuhn, director of the Dresden Hygienic Institute, has been busy advocating the revival and extension of this system. Dr. Wollenweber, another campaigner, has set up a similar organisation at Dortmund, and Dr. Buhn announces that he is going to follow his example in Dresden. They, of course, intend to make physique on both sides the main consideration in the marriages arranged bv their bureaux. Frankfort-on-Main has set up what is called a "House of Confidence,” where youmr people may meet, under propelconditions, at concerts, lectures, and dances. This idea is likely to be taken up in other cities and towns.

CAN YOU WEAR BLUE The woman with blue eyes should always wear blue, especially deep blues, which tend to depend the color of the i eyes. I The woman who has bright, warm color, should wear blue, especially in summer, because it is cool. The woman of exuberant personality ! should wear blue, because it is calm. I The woman with a sallow skin will fiiid 'that, blue, without a trace of purple in , it. has a refining effect. She should i keen to Hip paler tints of blue. The woman with golden hair looks charming in blue. The dark woman, unless she has blue eyes, should use this color sparingly, i except, of course, navy blue. f The plump girl’should avoid blue, as ■it tends to make her look larger. 1 For the girl with auburn hair blue is ‘ the best color.