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...been paid to a partnership composed of Irving Grant Thalberg, Louis B. Mayer and J. Robert Rubin, dominant officers in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Loew's producing subsidiary, not as a bonus but as their share of the profits under a contract signed when M-G-M was born of a three-cornered merger. Mr. Mayer and his two partners had turned over all their assets-properties, stars, contracts, furniture, cash-taking no stock in exchange but a 20% interest in MGM's potential profits. Though the two other concerns were losing money at the time...
...interested him more than the work for which he was paid. Giving recitals for friends in his private theatre and singing every Sunday in the little Catholic church in Los Angeles to which he goes with his family, were not enough. When he made his last contract with M-G-M he stipulated that a certain amount of his time should be his own so that he could make concert tours. Several years ago he tried opera with a Berlin company. It is not likely that Novarro's ambition to become an opera star will ever...
...stood outside a café and squirted a hose on the café manager's automobile and on passersby. Tall, lean, industrious, he is seldom so jolly as that, though last week he was to be seen in Manhattan full of great cheers over a new M-G-M cinema contract, and his employers' extravagant advertising...
...Demi-Bride, The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg. She is the women's tennis champion of Hollywood, swims and dives well, drives a Chrysler, likes apple pie and rice pudding, runs an ostrich plume shop in Montreal. Her husband is Irving Thai-berg, production manager of the M-G-M studios. She is now working on a film version of The Last of Mrs. Ckeyney...