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The U.S. Treasury finally got around to the tentative listing of the nation's top wage-earners for 1946.* Cinemagnate Charles P. Skouras (for the second straight year) led the field with $985,300. Other movie folk in the top ten: Director William (The Best Years of Our Lives...
There are, of course, conflicting views on "The Iron Curtain." The New York Roxy is now being picketed by the (Wallace) Committee Against War Propaganda. And those pickets, in turn, are being counter-picketed by the Catholic War Veterans. A petition of protest against the film has been signed by...
Boston University made a nice distinction between radio and cinema arts: to 20th Century-Fox's Spyros P. Skouras and J. Arthur Rank's J. Arthur Rank went honorary doctorates of laws; to RCA's David Sarnoff an honorary doctorate of commercial science.
When the U.S. Treasury issued its list of big wage-earners last week, there were a few surprises. MGM's Louis B. Mayer, whose name usually leads all the rest, had slipped to third. At the head of the list was Charles Skouras, president of National Theatres Amusement Corp...
20th Century-Fox also had a good seat on the bandwagon. Last week, Fox's Spyros Skouras announced that, beginning Feb. 16, Movietone News would supply NBC with five television newsreels a week.