Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conduct is characteristic. He has had an average of 84 during his four years, will undoubtedly be elected to Phi Beta Kappa this year. His career could not have been more expertly designed to get him a good job after graduation if it had been arranged by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Kelley's current plan is to become a prep-school teacher and football coach. Said he last week as he left the field after his last and greatest game: "Gee, I'm sorry my career is over! I feel sort of funny. I guess I ought...
...titles with the Hearst name on them and insert substitute titles and subtitles. Last week, after his return from Europe, William Randolph Hearst made the change official. Hereafter, Hearst newsreels will be released under a new title: News of the Day, distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
After spending a reputed $200,000 in preparations, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer last February abandoned its film version of It Can't Happen Here, a best-selling novel of 1935 in which Sinclair Lewis showed how a Fascist dictatorship might come to the U. S. Indignant Mr. Lewis thereupon offered the play rights to WPA's Federal Theatre Project, which went ahead with plans to produce the play simultaneously in a score of cities all over the nation. It was agreed that Nobel Prizewinner Lewis and his collaborator, Paramount Writer John C. ("Jack") Moffitt, should divide royalties...
...Ritz Tower Hotel, where she collects coins, miniature paintings and small-sized dachshunds (she now owns 18), were not satisfied by her explanation that she wanted "the smell of the sawdust." But her future plans told more. This winter she hopes to make the opera Manon for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, to sing weekly for the Coca-Cola radio program, and next spring to be a guest artist at the Coronation Concerts in England...
Like Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Romeo and Juliet, the Czinner As You Like It is textually exact. Sir James Barrie made the treatment from which Screenwriter R. J. Cullen wrote the scenario. Said Cinemactress Bergner: "I would like you to believe that we have made the film with love and with reverence. " . . We have had slightly to cut one or two of the longer speeches, but every word that we have left out has only been left out after argument, quarreling, and occasional tears." To highlight his wife's performance, Director Czinner saw to it that other roles...