Cinema: Variations May 6, 1929

Pay—to Marilyn Miller, blue-eyed dancer, $100,000 for a first picture. $100,000 for a second, $150,000 for a third. She has contracted with First National. Sued—First National, by Jack Case, stunter: $75 for being thrown to the ground while riding two bucking horses at the same time; $10 per fall for seven falls from a running horse; $25 per run for 24 runs driving six horses down a precipitous hill and crawling out on the tongue of the coach while the horses were at full speed; $100 for riding a horse off a...

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