Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shadow of Doubt (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) would be a routine program picture were it not for the presence in its cast of Constance Collier, oldtime stage actress. Wearing a white wig, she plays a role which is a weird combination of the late Ella Wendel and all the characters May Robson has contributed to cinema. A recluse in a Manhattan house which she has not left for 20 years, she learns with dismay that her nephew (Ricardo Cortez) loves an actress (Virginia Bruce). Even greater is this grande dame's chagrin when it appears that both nephew and actress...
...Government cuts production costs appreciably. A foreword expressing effusive thanks gives the picture a patina of spurious patriotism which helps sell it to the public. In Devil Dogs, first Cosmopolitan production released since the Hearst cinema producing organization was transferred from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to Warner, these advantages, combined with some of the most exciting stunt flying seen in the cinema since Hell's Angels, were correctly deemed sufficient to compensate for the lack of anything which might be construed as an original narrative. Best shot: an aviator purporting to be James Cagney, but actually one of the anonymous...
Foils: John C. Rowley (H) defeated Ballon (B), 5-1; Wallace H. Cox (H) defeated Mayer (B), 5-2; Edwin G. Davis Jr. (H) defeated Jennings (B), 5-1; Ballon (B) defeated Cox (H), 5-3; Davis (H) defeated Mayer (B), 5-0; Rowley (H) defeated Jennings (B), 5-1; Aleibiades E. Sophes (H) defeated Ballon (B), 5-2; Rowley (H) defeated Mayer (B), 5-2; Cox (H) defeated Carpenter...
Epee: John Ashmead, Jr. (H) defeated Steele (B), 2-1; Albert E. Weiner (H) defeated Steele (B), 2-1; Hans H. Zinsser (H) defeated Mayer (B), 2-0; John L. Daniels (H) defeated Mayer...
...Harvard Freshman fencers will be Rowley, Daniels, Davis, Cox, Fulmer, and Sophos in foils; Ashmead, Bird, and Daniels in epee. Brown will have Ballon, Mayer, Jennings in foils; Steele and Mayer in epee...