Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aided in his selection by W. G. Morse, purchasing agent of Harvard University, Mayer Richard M. Russell '14 last night submitted to the City Council the appointment of Frank A. Hea of Cambridge as the city's first purchasing agent last night...
...last week sat 82-year-old Justice Sir Horace Avory. Before him, also gowned and wigged, were two of the greatest trial barristers in all Britain-Sir Patrick Hastings for the prosecution, Sir William Jowitt for the defense. Handsome, hollow-eyed Princess Irina Alexandrovna Youssoupov was suing Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Ltd. for damages. She charged that she had been libeled and her character defamed by a rape episode in MGM's cinema Rasputin, the Mad Monk. The courtroom was jampacked by a curious crowd which knew that for the first time the true story of how Rasputin...
Best Production: Farewell to Arms (Paramount), Cavalcade (Fox), 42nd Street (Warners), / Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Warners), Lady for a-Day (Columbia), Little Women (Radio), She Done Him Wrong (Paramount), Smilin' Thru (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), State Fair (Fox),'Henry the VIII (London Films-United Artists...
Five million members of Dickens clubs hoped The Life of Our Lord would start a Dickens revival. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has already announced a film version of David Copperfield...
...George Horace Lorimer was reduced from $133,399 in 1929 to $118,750 in 1932. Adolph Zukor's bonus as president of Paramount Publix was $757,500 in 1929, plus salary of $130,000. For 1932 he listed salary of $96,031, no bonus. But Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's famed Producer Irving Thalberg, who received $208,000 straight salary in 1929, was still getting $201,000 in 1932-$99,000 less than M-G-M pays Greta Garbo for her 40-week year...