Word: goldwyn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...among Mr. Stout's eight associate editors. On New Year's Day, Graeme Lorimer, George Horace's elder son and the last Lorimer left in the Curtis Publishing Co., resigned to continue writing-with his wife -stories like After Dark, which he recently sold to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for $25,000. He and his brother retain a small holding of Curtis stock.* Ironically, with Graeme Lorimer's eyes turned toward Hollywood, a fugitive from the film colony. Merritt Hulburd, will fill his vacancy on the Post. Merritt Hulburd, Graeme Lorimer's classmate (1923) and fraternity...
...Borrow or Steal (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Frank Morgan, as a "steerer" of European tourists, poses as proprietor of a chateau in order to provide for his visiting daughter, Florence Rice. The dialog is wittier and the characters better rounded than usual in this type of program-filler...
...publicity for the forthcoming Goldwyn Follies, in which McCarthy will appear, Samuel Goldwyn's sly Pressagent Jock Lawrence sent a form-letter to United Artist distributors asking that they vote for the dummy as TIME'S Man-of-the-Year...
...Samuel Goldwyn according to his own office was never connected with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The "Goldwyn" in M-G-M is his original Goldwyn Pictures Corp. which merged with Metro and Mayer in 1924, two years after Sam Goldwyn himself had left it. Alva Johnston's account does not directly contradict this fact...
Except for the Martha interlude, the music is the last complete score done by the late George Gershwin. (He was working on tunes for the Goldwyn Follies when he died last summer.) Brother Ira Gershwin did the lyrics. Catchiest number: Nice Work...