Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rally, Richard M. Russell '14 termed his opponent in the mayoralty campaign, Mayer John W. Lyons, a "waster, libeler, and slanderer," and called upon the voters to save Cambridge from "bankruptcy and ruin." Lyons recently lost a $12,000 libel suit to John D. Lynch whom he had libelously attacked...
Ninotchka (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) reveals the moral, political and sartorial bankruptcy that ensues when a female Bolshevik is exposed to the bourgeois perils of running water, Melvyn Douglas and Paris. Unlike most pictures about Russian Reds, this one is neither crude clowning nor crude prejudice, but a literate and knowingly directed satire which lands many a shrewd crack about phony Five Year Plans, collective farms, Communist jargon and pseudo-scientific gab where it will do the most good-on the funny bone...
...Bunny, we reviewed him last week. And we repeat, don't miss him. The band is far better than early reports would have led one to suspect, and Bunny himself is almost always good. By the way, if you're looking for after-game amusement tomorrow. Leon Mayer at the Kirkland House Dance did a bang-up job of dance music last year for Winthrop House--and the rumor has spread amongst the local wolves that the vocalist with the band has charms beyond her vocal chords...
Button-eyed Freddie Bartholomew, whose parents have sued him 16 times in four years for slices of his big Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer salary, sought to enjoin them from suits still pending, complained that they keep him in court so much that he does not have time to act properly...
Thunder Afloat (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a glorification of the "ash can fleet"-the homely little sub chasers whose depth bombs helped break the back of the German submarine campaign in 1918. Written by M.G.M. publicity man Ralph Wheelwright, who served on a sub chaser in World War I, with the collaboration of retired Navy Commander Harvey S. Haislip, produced with the approval and assistance of the Navy Department, which placed the remnant of the Navy's 500 World War chasers at the studio's disposal, Thunder Afloat is an able and reasonably authentic document. As entertainment...