Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gullible Radio Gossiper Robert Garrett was last week barred from all Hollywood studios, then fired. His indefensible offense: broadcasting over Los Angeles radio station KEHE that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer officials had propped up dead Actor Robert McWade (TIME, Jan. 31), photographed the back of his head to complete a scene in Of Human Hearts. To backers of New York's proposed Berg Bill, designed to bring radio slander under the libel laws, Hollywood's resounding reproof of Gossiper Garrett brought great satisfaction; to harebrained radio gossipers, pause...
...that of finding mediums which no pencil could mutilate. Murals would also have to be resistant to vibration, dirt and cold. Technical aid on these points was available from one of the best-qualified experts on artists* materials in the U. S. Many artists credit 40-year-old Ralph Mayer with reviving tempera painting almost singlehanded through his course on it at Manhattan's Art Students' League in 1931. A chemical engineer and painter, black-haired, intent Mr. Mayer developed for subway muralists two new methods which last week appeared successful...
...Human Hearts (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is dedicated to the proposition that a boy's best friend is his mother, proves its point by the legend that Abraham Lincoln once summoned a young officer from a Civil War battlefield to tell him so. But before it begins gesturing at its stagy moral, Of Human Hearts does a patient, workmanlike job of reconstructing life in an early 19th-Century Ohio River outpost. Of Human Hearts follows the lives of a stalwart, righteous circuit rider (Walter Huston), his wife (Beulah Bondi) and his son Jason (as a boy, eleven-year-old Gene...
Everybody Sing (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) stars 15-year-old Judy Garland, Hollywood's latest child singer. She turns the morning singing hour of the Colvin School for Girls into a swing session. Sent home to the jittery bosom of a family infected with the slightly threadbare lunacy which has been bothering recent cinema families, she croons her way to a career with the help of Olga, a screwball maid (Fanny Brice), and Ricky (Allan Jones), a singing chef. Best of the Kaper-Jurmann tunes: Swing, Mr. Mendelssohn. Best Fanny Brice number: Quainty Dainty Me with her famed spirit...
...newspaper pages. A tiny sheet headed Daily Mirror, which carries Mr. Winchell's column, was labeled Broadway Filth. In another small space Artist Beaton had written: "Cholly Asks Why? . . . Is Mrs. Selznik such a social wow. . . . Why is Mrs. Goldwyn such a wow. . . . Why is Mrs. Louis B. Mayer...