Word: goldwyn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios...
...room-which, as the cinema becomes less pastoral, is growing in popularity as a romantic setting-but thereafter the story manages to keep closer to the kitchen than the bathroom. Good sequence: Eddie taking his girl to a wrestling match, proposing to her during a flying mare. Flesh (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Poor old Wallace Beery does not have a very happy time in the Cinema. He is too ugly to be a hero, too lumbering to be a comedian, too much of a numbskull and oaf to be a villain. He is, in short, a character actor and like most...
...Nice: "The suggestion that I might become an Ambassador is flattering, but running an embassy is an expensive business. Only the wealthy can pretend to such a post." The onetime Mayor declared that after a long rest he would probably represent Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cinema interests in France. Said MGM's President Nicholas M. Schenck in New York: "This is absolutely news to me." Meanwhile a Brooklyn judge appointed a receiver to sequester all Jimmy Walker's property in behalf of his creditors...
Prosperity (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). If you took any comic strip joke about a mother-in-law, multiplied it by two, added a bank failure, four platitudes about the silver lining, and a vaudeville fox terrier you would have all the ingredients of Prosperity except the one which makes it human and amusing. This ingredient is Marie Dressier, who always impersonates grunting, sympathetic, noisy, witty, violent, immensely courageous old ladies but somehow manages to do it with enough vitality to make them seem alive. This time she is Maggie Warren, a grizzled widow who runs her husband's bank until...
Spirit of Fun was the name of the plane in which Arthur M. Loew, 35, son of the late Showman Marcus Loew and vice president of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, was touring the world. With him were his attorney, Joseph Rosthal, and Pilot James B. Dickson, oldtime Army flyer. Last week the party was nearing Johannesburg, South Africa, to attend the opening of a new theatre. At Victoria Falls they started to take off from...