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HOLLYWOOD NOTABLES AMONG AMERICA'S TEN

Screenings HIGHEST SALARIED PEOPLE

KING'S:

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"Smashing The Spy Ring"

QUEEN'S

"Son Of Frankenstein” ORIENTAL:

Invisible Menace"

CATHAX:

"King Kong"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:

"40 Naughty Girls" STAR!

"Blond Cheat" MAJESTIC:

"The Awful Truth”

KING'S;

Coming

"My Lucky Star QUERN'S:

"The Adventures of Robin

Hood"

ORIENTAL;

"The Young in Heart" "Give Me A Ballor" ALHAMBRA:

"Firates Of The Skies" "The Adventures Of Robin

Hood"

CATHAY:

"Maid's Night Out" STAR:

"TI Give A Million“ MAJESTIC:

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyder "The Duke Of West Point"

"SMASHING THE

SPY RING"

"Smashing the Spy Ring," ac tion-packed Columbia drama, fea- turing Ralph Bellamy and Fay Wray, which opens at the King's Theatre to-day, was considered a good adventure story when it first was described by its auČKOTS, LOT- rell and Stuart E. McGowan, But then the headlines shrieked of a G-man expose of monstrous espionage, ring! and Columbla realized that it had more than just a good adventure story. Those headlines spelled the truth, of the old adage. "Fiction can never equal fact!"

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"Smashing the Spy Ring" is pront that fiction can never equal fact; on the other hand, the new Columbia

Seven Hollywood notables were among the nation's ten highest- salaried personalities during 1937, the House Ways and Means Committee's "$15,000-pina" salary list disclosed,

The

by

list, compiled the Dairy Products—Mr. Thomas H. Treasury Department from 1937 McInnerny. president. National income tax returns, showed that Dairy Products Corp.. $150,550. Mr. Louls B. Mayer, president a Foods Mr. Joseph Wilshire, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Was the chairman, Standard Brands, Inc., highest-paid American during the $123,750..

year, receiving $1,296,503, one of Cartoonists--Mr. Robert La Rip- the highest stipends in the annals, ley, $149,777.

of Americen history. Of the top Publishers-dc. Hearst; Mr. twenty salaries, fifteen went to Joseph M. Pulitzer, president actors, actresses, or mation pleturs Pulitzer Publishing Co., St. Louis, executives.

|$225,000; Mr. Mortimer Berkowitz, The top-salaried corporations president, American Weekly, $205,- were MG-ME I DuPont De 225. Nemours Co., and Metropolitan Life Columnists-Mr. Walter Winchell, Insurance Co The list showed 240 $51,899 as columnist and $150.000 persons drew $15,000 or more from as motion picture actor, M-G-M, 196, from DuPont and 187) Insurance-Mr Frederick H. from Metropolitan. Life,

Ecker, board chairman of

MISS GARBO IN TOP TEN Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.. In the top ten were Mr. Mayer, $150,000. Mr. J. Robert Robin, another Sports-Mr. Mickey Cochrane, executive of M-G-M, who received catcher-manager of the Detroit 5751254; MIN M Schenck, Tigers, was the highest salaried president of Loew's, Inc., $541-sports performer at $45,000. Second 602; Mr. William Randolph Hearst, Was Lou Gehrig at $36,000, with newspaper publisher, $500,000: Mr. Dizzy Dean, Hank Greenberg tied Frederick March. actor. $484,687; for third at, $45,000, Miss Greta Garbo. $472,499; Maj, Edward Bowes, impresario of amateur entertainment, $427,817: Mr. Thomas J. Watson, president; International Business Machines Corp., $419,398; Mr. Eugene Grace, president, Bethlehem Steel Corp., $394,588: Mr. David Bernstein," Loew's, Inc., $382,916.

Hollywood Goes British

Salaries in 1937 increased con- N. Y. FILM CRITICS siderably over. 1036 levels, the list showed.

SECOND TEN

In the second ten were: Mr. George W. Hill, president," American Tobacco Co., $380,976; Miss Marlene

MRS. WALLACE BEERY GRANTED DIVORCE

CARSON CITY (Nevada), May 2 (Reuter)-After a twenty minutes hearing of the suit, Mrs. Beery was granted 2 divorce from her film star husband, Wallace Beery,

IMPRESSED

Hollywood has rone. Bri tish. The excellence of such British made pictures 25 "Pygmalion," "Sixty Glorious Years," The Citadel," "A Yank at Oxford.” and "The Lady Vanishes," beran It all The New York Alm critics, who, In mental toughness,

equal the physical toughneas of all-in wrestlers, and at the same time surge with patriotic. fevour, sat round in their annual conclave and gave out most of their bou- quets to these British produc- tions.

Well that decision was fairly surprising, but it did not carry the bomb-shell quality of Vivien Dietrich, $370,000; Mr. A. M. Loew, Leigh's assignment to the part of Loew's Ins., $356,074; Miss Clan-Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone With

dette film closely simulates

many of the actual occurrences of recent days. The theft of airplane blueprints is pictured. and the method, of smuggling military secrets abroad. The establishment In Washington of an attractive young woman and the F. B. I. dragnet are among the many other parellels,

Ralph Bellamy is seen as" an Intrepid G-man assigned to expose and bring to justice the espionage network whose headquarters are in Washington sanitarium, Miss Wray is cast as the sister of a murdared G-man who helps. Bel- lary capture the gang. Others in the new film are Regis Toomey," Warren Hull, Ann Doran, Lome Gray and Walter Kingsford. Christy Cabanne directed.

JJ

LADDER OF

FAME!

HOLLYWOOD--Miss

Myrna

Loy, the film star, worked hard all day here making a new picture only to find at the end that she had been pho- tographed throughout with « a "ladder" in her stocking.

The upsetting・・ defall' was discovered at the end of the day's "shooting" when "rushes” of the film were being shown in the projection room of her studio.

Officials at the studio held a "conference" to consider whether they should 50 through the entire day's work again, They decided to re- view the matter later.

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Picture "I'LL GIVE A MILLION" MISCELLANEOUS-Quarry Bay

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

TO-DAY

ANNIVERSARIES and HOLIDAYS. -The Finding of the Holy Croas. Bt. Alexander, Friest and Martyr.

CINEMAS. (See Column 3 of this

Page). DANCES.-Cheero

8.30 p.m. LECTURES.—A.R.P. Modined full

Club Dance

course, at the American Club;

at Wah Yan College, Robinson Road, 6.30 p.m.; · First Aid In Chinese, at Kowloon Chinese

School May Festival, at thé School 5.15 "p.m.: Cathedral Women's Fellowship Working Party, Cathedral Hail,”10 a.m. MOON. Lunar Eclipse, Full Moon, 11.15 p.m. Chinese III Moon, 14th, Day. BCCIALLY.M.C.A.. Badminton Section, Social Morning; Whist and Mahjong Drive at Prison Officers, Recreation Room.

YMCA, 7.30. pin.; at Am- bulance Hqrs, for women, 7.30 p.m.; Air Raid Warden, (Chi- nese) at Yaumati Govt. School, 7. pm at Shaukiwan Public. Dispensary, 6 pm: Home Nur- sing at Kowloon Hospital, (Chi-Stanley, 3.15 p.m.: Whist Drive nese) 6 p.m.; at Queen Mary

and Tombola in Garrison. Ber- Hospital, (English), 10 am geants' Mess, 9 pm; MAIL3-(868 Page 189

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Colbert, actress, $355.555: The Wind" Miss Joan Crawford, actress, $351,-

The fact that such a typically 538; Mr. Spyros P. Skouras, theater

off X executive, $346,064; Mr. F. B. Davis, English girl should carry

U. B. Jr, president,

Rubber part which three-quarters of the Products, Inc., $322,999: Miss women stara, of Hollywood have Carole Lombard, actress, $314,000; been scratching and scrambling Mr. William Powell, actor, $289,- for during the laat twelve months, 443; Mr. Clark Gable, actor, $289,- was certainly a turning-point in 000.

American film history, Miss Lombard and Mr. Gable

PRQ-BRITISH GESTURES were married last month. On the

Not even content basis of their combined 1937 earn-

with that ings, they would have an annual deñantly pro-British gesture, income of $603,000. "Their income, Hollywood proceeded to give the however, is reported to be con- part of Ashley Wilkes to Leslie. siderably more now than it was Howard. two years 280.

As one American wisecracked. CHANGES IN 1937 BRACKETS "It was lucky for Uncle Sam that Many changes occurred in the 1931) Anthony Eden wasn't around brackets. In 1936, Mr. Mayer did when they were casting Rhett not show in the top ten and Mr. Butler.” Alfred P. Sloan of General Motors

Up at the Bam Goldwyn, studios Corp., with $561,311, was the nation's they recently completed "Wuther- ing Heights," which has an all-

highest-salaried individual.

Miss Mae West, who drew $323,- British cast, headed by Merle

000 in 1936, was unlisted in 1937.

Oberon. Laurence Olivier, and

The list showed that the follow- ing persons were the highest-David Niven.

Over the road, Brian Aherne salaried workers in their respective

and Victor McLagleh are draw- felds:

Electric Industry-Mr. Owen D.ing fattest wage packets in the

init Young, chairman of the board of production

of "Captain General Electrle Corp., $235,000 and Fury," a film of the days when was a convict settle. Mt Gerard Swope, president of the Austrolia same company, $235,000,

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SMASHING the SPY

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RALPH

BELLAMY FAY WRAY

Regia Thomsy

Ana Doran

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