Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Merry Widow (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is the third and by far the best cinema version of Franz Lehar's famed operetta. The first was a two-reel monstrosity in which the late Alma Rubens and Wallace Reid performed in 1912. In 1925 Erich von Stroheim directed Mae Murray and John Gilbert in the second. Cinemaddicts who have seen all three are likely to find the current version, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, as far superior to the second as the second was to the first. Only the most captious critics could find any fault with a picture which fairly entranced...
...night plane across the Channel. Next morning, close on the heels of his colleague, Lord Dawson of Penn, the King's own doctor, roared away from London in a chartered plane. At a bedside in Paris Britain's royal physicians met, consulted, pronounced Mrs. Margaret Shenberg Mayer, wife of U. S. Cinemagnate Louis Burt Mayer, ill of double pneumonia...
Chained (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) ends with a scene on an Argentine cattle ranch where Mike Bradley (Clark Gable), Yale 1926, is living with his divorcee bride, Diane (Joan Crawford). Diane opens a letter from the husband (Otto Kruger) she has just deserted and says to Mike: "Richard has gone to Maine for the summer." Mike Bradley's reply is intended to reveal him as a young man of generous and perceptive sentiments. "That's great," he says. "We'll send him some fancy beef for a barbecue...
...Hide-Out (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Four years ago, gangsters in the cinema were wicked and incorrigible. They beat their women, shot policemen, smuggled rum and ended their careers at the end of a rope or in the gutter. Due to the combined efforts of the Hays organization and Damon Runyon, whose stories have set a new screen fashion, this is no longer true. Lately cinema racketeers have been gentlemen, masquerading sheepishly in wolves' clothes. In Lady for a Day, Little Miss Marker and Midnight Alibi, the heroes were mollycoddle outlaws whose better natures were aroused by old ladies...
...earlier Vance cinemas, William Powell has been Philo. Since Powell is now under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Vance this time is impersonated by Warren William. His performance as a detective is superior to his impersonation of Julius Caesar in Cleopatra but none of the ingredients of The Dragon Murder Case is sufficient to make the picture a puzzle or a shocker. Typical shot: Eugene Pallette, who, no matter who plays Vance, always appears as Vance's stupid police foil, muttering his catch line: "My experience as a criminologist teaches me to suppose...