Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said Mr. Fox, as soon as he mentioned his anti-trust troubles, Mr. Mayer said: "I know all about that. I caused that record to be changed from a consent to a restriction. That was a perfectly simple matter for me to do." Mr. Mayer added that getting the record changed back again would not be "quite so easy." but he thought he could accomplish it. It was at this point that Mr. Fox told the Committee: "When I learned that a man had the power to go into the Department of Justice to change the records, I was rather...
Today, Mr. Fox, Mr. Wiggin and Mr. Hoover have the common bond of being ex-presidents and Mr. Dodge is an ex-vice president. Harley Clarke's General Theatres Equipment company is in a receivership and so is Fox Theatres. Loew's, Inc. (and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), again independent, remain solvent and prosperous, having made a profit of $4,034,000 for the year ending Aug. 31, 1933. But the disputed 660,000 shares of Loew's. Inc. (the majority holdings bought by Mr. Fox) have been segregated by the U. S. Government. They may be sold...
Last week a Hollywood actor lost his job for being drunk and disorderly on foreign soil. To Mexico City to make a picture called Viva Villa, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer had sent Lee Tracy, famed for his staccato characterizations of reporters, press agents and politicians. Noted for his eccentric conviviality, Actor Tracy used to frequent Manhattan speakeasies with pockets full of cheese crackers and popcorn. Last week when 30,000 Mexican cadets paraded past his hotel he appeared on the balcony outside his bedroom, wrapped in a blanket. Throwing that off, he shouted profanities at the crowd, waved his arms...
...President Abelardo Rodriguez, Vice President Louis B. Mayer of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer promptly wired his apologies: "The insult offered by this actor to the Mexican cadet corps has embarrassed and shocked the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer organization fully as deeply as it has the Mexican people. As a result of this actor's deplorable behavior, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has removed him . . . not only from Viva Villa but . . . canceled his long term contract...
Christopher Bean (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). At the house of a placid, kindly New England physician there arrives one day an art dealer who is curious about a young man, a painter, who died there many years before. The art dealer is followed by others of his kind. It turns out that the late Christopher Bean's paintings, considered worthless while he was alive, are now worth fabulous sums. The art dealers want to know whether the doctor had kept...