Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's W. S. ("Woody") Van Dyke (White Shadows in the South Seas, Trader Horn, Eskimo) dislikes being pigeonholed as a "location-director." Yet such he was until he made The Prizefighter and the Lady last autumn. Since then he has made Manhattan Melodrama and The Thin Man, both smash hits. He rarely makes more than two "takes" of a scene; many directors make a dozen. He is a reserve captain in the Marine Corps. Most of his friends are military officers. Military maneuvres are his hobby and he maps out his pictures like a general planning...
...telephone pole, escaped with bruises. "To end the guessing game" which followed her settlement of Princess Irina Alexandrovna Youssoupov's libel suit based on the film Rasputin and the Empress (TIME, Aug. 20), Attorney Holtzmann announced that her client would receive $250,000 and costs from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
...Princess Irina Alexandrovna Youssoupov and her husband Prince Felix were guests of honor at a bright little dinner party to which were invited Gertrude Lawrence, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Mr. and Mrs. James J. Walker. The dinner was to celebrate an occasion. The Princess had just received from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Ltd. a check for the largest libel settlement ever made. Though only four people in the world supposedly knew the exact amount, good guessers put it in the neighborhood...
...witty, handsome and preposterous adaptation of Edwin Justus Mayer's play, The Firebrand, The Affairs of Cellini would be a notable comedy if its only merit were Frank Morgan's performance as the Duke. Befuddled, stuttering, overcome by terror of his wife and incorrigibly concupiscent, Alessandro throughout The Affairs of Cellini never quite succeeds in finishing a single sentence...
Tall, lean, hook-nosed Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 23, nephew and heir to Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild, head of the British branch of the great banking family, walked with a party of friends into a gay British roadhouse known as The Ace of Spades, then walked out again without his lunch. Hearing rumors, London newshawks scurried to his home, heard him shyly explain : "As soon as I entered, the manager came up and asked me whether I was a Jew. My appearance is hardly 'Aryan.' I confirmed the fact that I was a Jew and he replied he was sorry...