Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago Frank Shields was usually described as a foolhardy play boy. Cannier as well as more handsome than most of his confreéres, he profited from his tennis fame by getting a Hollywood contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer last autumn, spent the winter trying to act and flattering young cinema executives by playing tennis with them. In the three major tournaments he has entered this summer, Shields has indicated that he is, if anything, a shade better than he was a year ago, when he was ranked No. 1. He hits the hardest serve and probably the fastest...
...Miss Glory. Last week the first "superspecial" picture of the new season enjoyed its premiere in Manhattan. This-advertised on billboards all over the U. S. for the past two months, starring Jean Harlow, Clark Gable & Wallace Beery, produced at a cost of $1,000,000-was Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's China Seas...
...hair and her good humor. Her hair brought her to the attention of Howard Hughes in 1929 and thus launched a career which has done more than any other one thing to keep beauty parlors busy through Depression. Her humor, overlooked by Hughes, was recognized by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to whom he sold her contract for $60,000. Since Theda Bara retired, sex appeal on the U. S. screen has been a quality largely identified with comedy. Beginning with Red Headed Woman and continuing with Red Dust, Dinner at Eight and Bombshell, Jean Harlow has paradoxically made herself a symbol...
...Christ"; Bed Reader. When Howard Hughes sold Jean Harlow to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it helped to ripen her friendship with Paul Bern, one of MGM's ablest associate producers. Handsome, slender, melancholy, brilliant and distinguished by his profound sympathy for other people's troubles, Paul Bern was called by his friends "a motion picture Christ." The phrase had no wide currency until Labor Day, 1932-the day, two months after his marriage to Jean Harlow, that Paul Bern was found naked in his bathroom, face down and dead, with a bullet in his brain. His friends might have...
...Fascist days keen, hard little King Vittorio Emanuele III of Italy had picked hawk-eyed,, hollow-cheeked Baron Pompeo Aloisi as his naval aide-de-camp. Austria's spy net was known to have its spider on Swiss soil at Zurich in the person of a certain Captain Mayer. On the night of Feb. 24, 1917 Spy Master Mayer's safe was rifled by expert Italian cracksmen. For the next three days the Italian frontier was closed to keep Austrian spies from escaping from Italy. They were caught and shot in batches on the evidence provided...