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COST OF CLOTHES.Gtrr DOWN SALARIES OF MOVIE PLAYERS Miss Dorothy Dalton. ""' Los Angeles, Car.', Jan. 4. -This talk of big salaries in the movies is mostly bunk. Investigation here, where 75 per cent 'of all photoplays are made, shows 'that-rthe.sflpends range from almost 'insignificant wages to sqmejlafge salaries. Most J of the big salane.s. ar,e. mythical. the dream's, of press agents i or4 of 'tie .play- era themselves. ' "Wrfere-o'ne "actor makes 4100 a week, 100 .others are lucky'toget $5-a day.Jrlany get as little as $3. .In the aggregate, salaries paid, to screen players are not much greater than! salaries p'aid in other ,-walks of life. The expense that a movie player is under, especially an actress,, is appal- s Jing. "Dorothy Dalton', who stars in.,, tyro 'dollar films -, for nomas Ince, , gefs'a salary of $150 per week (not """ ,