Word: maes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Vigorously pursuing Moral Re-Armament on the West Coast, MRA's Leader Frank Buchman made his most striking conquest to date-the "changing" of curvesome Mae West. Witnesses: Miss...
West's pressagent, a photographer. Posed in her Hollywood apartment, Cinemactress West and Leader Buchman smiled happily, swapped compliments. Beamed Mae, billowy in pink negligee: "It is a wonderful work. ... I owe all my success to the kind of thinking Moral Re-Armament is." Gallantly responded Dr. Buchman: "You are a splendid character, Miss West. You have done wonderful work...
...hearings before the FCC in Washington was a ruling promulgated by the Commission eight weeks ago that had kicked up more fuss than anything in radio since Mae West. In permitting stations to sell advertising time on their short-wave broadcasts to Latin America and other foreign parts, FCC inserted a provision that the programs "shall render only an international broadcast service which will reflect the culture of this country and which will promote international good will, understanding and cooperation." Behind the provision, Washington observers felt, was the State Department's Good-Neighborly tact toward Latin-American autocrats...
Newly signed by M-G-M for Maisie, Cinemactress Sothern shed the glad rags and phoney attitudes of her new-rich cinema past, became her North Dakota self. As Maisie, she is a healthier Jean Harlow, an untarnished Mae West. Whether she can keep her natural pewter shine is a question. Her next scheduled venture: How to Get Tough...
...where Hollywood has found the pickings good (Reconstruction, World War, etc.), authentic chiefly when the newsreel camera has the screen. More reliable as a history of Hollywood enterprise than as history straight, Land of Liberty recalls the cinema great from Griffith (America) to Disney (Building a Building), not forgetting Mae West (Belle of the Nineties) or the MARCH OF TIME. It opens with Roosevelt II rededicating the Statue of Liberty, scurries back 400 years to show why the early colonists left Europe, hits the high spots from then on. Main omissions: Depressions...