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This week the Metro Group (Robbing, Feist, Miller publishing houses), controlled by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and turning out a major part of Hollywood's popular music, was reported ready to sell out to B. M. I. for $3,750,000. M. G. M. has long borne a grudge against ASCAP, holding that ASCAP should make the same vigilant checkup of music played in cinema houses that it does over the radio...
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) marks Mickey Rooney's ninth appearance as bratty Andy Hardy, his first since he was crowned King of the Screen and the No. 1 box-office attraction of the U. S. cinema. More believable as Andy than as young Tom Edison, Cinemactor Rooney mugs his way from Carvel to Manhattan to make good on a boast that he is acquainted with a glamorous bud named Daphne Fowler (Diana Lewis). The Judge (Lewis Stone), nominally heading the expedition, is engaged on a legal chore thoroughly in keeping with the Hardy character: protecting...
...Mortal Storm (M. G. M.). More than a year ago, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer bought Phyllis Bottome's The Mortal Storm, a straight-talking best-seller about Jewish persecution in the Third Reich...
...Samuel Goldwyn announced that for his next picture he planned to borrow David Niven from the British Army...
...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's approach to the Edison legend is somewhat different. Installment No. 1, Young Tom Edison, showed its protagonist (Mickey Rooney) leading the life of an early Christian martyr in Port Huron, Mich. Sufficient time having elapsed since young Mickey Rooney steamed away to glory, leaving behind young Edison's harrowing boyhood, the public mind passes painlessly to Installment No. 2, solid, literal and prosaic, with big budget written over every sequence. It also has sterling, matter-of-fact Spencer Tracy making a brave, respectful effort at verisimilitude by looking a little wild at moments...