Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...connections and preferment. To Mayor Walker of New York City it was "surprising," however, when he learned that Joseph M. Schenck, husband of Cinemactress Norma Talmadge and president of United Artists Corp. was a delegate to the Republican National Convention, a Hooverite (TIME, June 11.) Vice President Louis B. Mayer of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp. was there...
Mayor Walker, touring the West in the interests of the Brown Derby, visited Hollywood last week. Abruptly, unexpectedly, he took the Messrs. Schenck and Mayer, though not by name, as the text for a sermon to the cinema industry. He warned it to be nonpartisan. He reminded it that public officials such as himself had power over Sunday theatre laws, for example. He said he hoped that cinemen "are not so enslaved that they can be handed over" by two or three leaders in the industry. He warned that should the industry "dabble in politics" and choose the losing side...
...have failed to appreciate how dangerous it would be for cinemakers to provoke the prejudices of their gum-chewing public, by showing political bias on the screen. They marveled that so shrewd a person as Mayor Walker should have underestimated the shrewdness of the cinemen. The Messrs. Schenck and Mayer called Mayor Walker's warnings "extremely amusing." Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays ignored the incident...
...fluffy excitement. A year ago, George C. Tyler revived it on a Manhattan stage with 83-year-old Mrs. Thomas Whiffen, John Drew, Pauline Lord. People loved it, forgot about it and flocked to the new musical comedies. Now it has been made into a film by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and called The Actress. The director, Sidney Franklin, has handled it tenderly. Norma Shearer,* though not the ideal Actress Rose Trelawny who sneezed lovingly in the Gower drawing room, has acquired a little of the oldtime sauce. O. P. Heggie did well as Grandfather Gower...
...Hollywood, people talk of a revolution in the cinema industry. Paramount, United Artists, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Universal, Pathe are going to make talkies. Searches are under way to find actors and actresses who make pleasant noises as well as pleasant faces. Oldtime favorites have been tested, classified, told to practice talking before their bedroom mirrors. It is likely that many of the talkies will be filmed in Manhattan and vicinity...