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...face is her fortune, and her agent gets 10%. When early this month Agent Myron Selznick tried to double Cinemactress Loretta Young's salary (about $35,000 a picture) and get her the right to work for other studios than Twentieth Century-Fox,* outraged Producer Joseph M. Schenck ordered him off the lot. Last week observers thought this tiff might have reverberations: As new president of the Association of Motion Picture Producers, Inc., forceful Producer Schenck could influence other executives to follow his lead. The Selznick agency, Producer Schenck said, had tried to jack its clients' salaries...
...called Topper, starring Constance Bennett, Cary Grant and Roland Young, and Hollywood sat up and admitted that Hal Roach had widened his horizons in a hurry. Laying his head to Dr. Senise's, he proceeded to widen it still further in a fashion to take even a Schenck's breath away. Few Hollywoodsmen have dared dream of taking in a government for a partner...
...Guild's Founder-Secretary Kenneth Thomson, promised to call a sympathetic walkout of his 30,000 members if the Guild struck. At that, the producers' representatives knuckled under. On behalf of RKO, Paramount, MGM, Columbia, Universal and Twentieth Century-Fox, Twentieth Century's Chairman Joseph M. Schenck and MGM's Vice President Louis B. Mayer squeezed their signatures at the bottom of an agreement to the Guild's demands, scribbled on a sheet of foolscap. Prime points were granting of a Guild shop (virtually closed shop), extras' pay upped 10% with a null minimum...
...members will be President F. R. Coates and Vice President W. Alton ("Pete") Jones of Cities Service, President H. R. Gallagher of Consolidated Oil, President Charles S. Jones of Rio Grande Oil, Richfield's longtime Receiver McDuffie and representatives of banking and creditor interests, including Cinemagnate Joseph Michael Schenck...
...Manhattan Nick Schenck stormed that he and Brother Joe "emphatically object to the Ostrer-Maxwell agreement," growling: "We feel we have a deal there, and we expect to make an issue...