Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Broadway Melody (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), is a tedious musical comedy embedded in a routine story like a fly in celluloid. Three theme songs, a tenor voice, tap-dancing, and a few memorable bodies, do little to justify the publicity bought for this picture before its openings everywhere, publicity of a frenzied quality rare even in these days when a smoke of expensive adjectives issues in advance from every cinematic fire, however small. Now and then, as one member (Bessie Love) of a team of vaudeville sisters, in love with her partner's fiance (Charles King),makes theatrical and eventually...
Last week, Mrs. Anne U. Stillman announced that she had grown tired of Panorama and would stop publishing it immediately. The entire staff, with the exception of Editor H. B. Mayer, who has a contract, was discharged. Said Mrs. Stillman...
...Editor Mayer stated that he wished to purchase Panorama and continue publishing it. He said that his offer of a "large sum of money" had been refused, that the cost of the venture had been $63,000. He sketched briefly the history of Panorama; it opened at 25¢ a copy in October, dropped to 15¢ in November. Advertising rates picked up slowly. Its circulation was 7,000 at the close. Said Editor Mayer: "Panorama is not yet dead...
...Osborn gave the first heave. He declared Jolter Barnes's theological speech an unwarranted intrusion on a scientific body. "There is no conflict between science and religion. Some of the greatest men on science have been very religious." Dr. Joseph Mayer, head of the Tufts College sociology department, hastened to aver: "I disagree most emphatically with Mr. Barnes...
That was the kind of talk I like. I had a talk that was something like that, once, with a man from Yale. He said to me: "You're the girl who disproves Lloyd Mayer...