Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bill (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This is better than most program pictures because it does not fit completely into any standard classifications. It is not a melodrama or a farce, but something between. Marie Dressier as proprietress of a boarding house on the wharfs, Wallace Beery as her star boarder and sweetheart, have some good lines. Sometimes they act competently and sometimes they burlesque with unconscious ludicrousness; particularly Miss Dressier who, made a star because of the extravagant praise given her for her work in bit-parts (TIME, July 28), has now kept on making bit-parts out of roles...
...prize winners, were to meet in the U. S. at California Institute of Technology ("Caltech") in Pasadena for a scientific chat. One of the three, Dr. Albert Einstein, has a long way to travel. On Dec. 2, he, his wife Frau Elsa Einstein and his research assistant Dr. Walter Mayer (TIME, Oct. 27) will go aboard the Belgenland, have a month's boat ride to California via Panama. Frau Einstein will act as guard to keep the public from annoying her husband, will not permit him to go ashore in New York. The other two distinguished gentlemen are already...
Best sound recording?The Big House (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
...Lady's Morals (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This unimportant little picture has its principal appeal in the fact that it is supposed to be based on the life of Jenny Lind, "Swedish Nightingale" of the Victorian Opera stage. Its best shots are the few that are definitely part of her history?the scenes at Castle Garden, and P. T. Barnum showing Miss Lind U. S. ballyhoo. Its main fault is that it sketches an amorous interlude in the life of a singer who was a notorious prig. Grace Moore, onetime musicomedy star, Metropolitan soprano, sings nicely and acts adequately...
...father had done some lighting work for a studio in Astoria and knew somebody who promised to do what he could for Anita. Her first screen name was Anita Rivers. After the company she signed with had disbanded in California she took a screen test for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer which was successful. The company thought Anita Page sounded better. Now her father, mother and little brother live with her. She goes to bed early...