Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...services, which started him on the road to control of the whole cinema industry. Mary Pickford is now 40, and still (like Marion Davies) able to call her own turns, able to get so fine an actor as Leslie Howard opposite her by competence as much as by contract. She has never quite grown accustomed to talkies or to any type of acting for which a close-up view of her smiling profile is not an adequate substitute, but her failure has never embarrassed her. In Secrets she exhibits the same curious knowledge of how to keep the sympathy...
...Workers (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) bears a superficial resemblance to the tough comedies popularized by Edmund Lowe and Victor McLaglen; it is not really the same sort of picture. Tod Browning is a director who has always been fascinated by the macabre. John Gilbert, completing with this film an expensive contract which he signed before talkies demolished his box-office value, is determined to make his last cinema characterizations as ugly as his early ones were sleek. The story is about a steel worker (Gilbert) who humiliates a mistress (Mae Clark) whom he really loves because he thinks she is unworthy...
Greta Keller, the husky-voiced Viennese who for several years has had a big record-following in the U. S., was to have been in the Fourth Little Show this winter. She arrived in Manhattan to rehearse but the show was never produced. She finally got a contract broadcasting twice a week (Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. E.S.T.) for Tangee Lipstick. Five years ago singing for her supper was the farthest thing from Greta Keller's mind. She was playing the lead in the Viennese production of Broadway. A Prussian with pretty legs...
...union labor to quit. The hotel meeting became so excited that when it adjourned with nothing decided, no one remembered to notify the pilots. While the meeting continued later, in Producer Ben Schulberg's bungalow at Paramount, a smart stenographer found a forgotten but unexpired five-year contract between producers and unions which fitted the situation perfectly. It called for three weeks of arbitration with union workers receiving full...
...authority on constitutional law at the Law School, when interviewed last night. "During the past years, the Supreme Court has developed the Emergency doctrine. By backing such measures as the Adamson Act, dealing with the General Strike emergency in Wilson's administration, it was acknowledged that 'freedom of contract' may be abrogated in time of stress. There is every reason to believe that the Court will pronounce these measures constitutional...