Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Edwin Justus Mayer announced his play to New York playgoers, with Benvenuto Cellini as the principal character, the reviewers expected a dull and serious historical drama. Instead, they discovered an amusing farce, shot through with satire, which deals with Cellini in his youth as, "a gay blade, a likeable braggart, a great artist and a favorite with the ladies," writes one of its reviewers...
...Baldwin's previous crime was a refusal to submit to physical examination under the Draft Law. Federal Judge Mayer gave him a year. He served ten months at the Essex County Penitentiary...
...Girl. When they finished this picture at the Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer studios, it was terrible. A visiting newspaperman from Manhattan (one Laurence Stallings) took a look, made a suggestion. That suggestion made The Way of a Girl one of the best cinema satires ever produced. It was a melodrama at first. They cut it into about 100 pieces, inserted an author at work, his characters in conference around his typewriter, their decisions, bloody subtitles. You'll have to laugh, particularly when you think that it might have appeared before you as melodrama unadorned...
...Newell '26 at goal. J. B. Durant '27 was at center on the sextet which opposed Team X at the start of the scrimmage, with G. W. Burgess '25 and E. M. Bailey '27 completing the forward line. L. O. Pratt '26 and Cecil Wylde '27 at defense, and Mayer Cumings '26 at goal...
Meanwhile, the Company countered by obtaining a Federal Court receivership in New York. Judge Julius M. Mayer, Robert L. Morrell and President Thomas E. Wilson were appointed receivers on a claim of $5,943 by the John Eiszner Co. The question now remains, Which set of receivers will be left to manage the business? Mr. Klein will, of course, endeavor to have the New Jersey receivership gain supreme control. The Wilson Co.'s aim is to have the three Federal receivers manage assets in New York and Illinois, with ancillary receivers in other States where the Company has important...