Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meet the Baron (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is violent slapstick with a holocaust of puns. Comedian Jack Pearl takes the Baron Munchausen role he has played for the past 15 months on the radio. To the comedy of the howling lie, the stooge's skepticism and Pearl's definitive reply, "Vass you dere, Sharlie?" have been added Comedian Jimmy Durante and his masochistic schnozzle; Comedian Ted Healy; and three stooges who by the simple device of tirelessly clouting one another are nearly as funny as the Marx Brothers...
...being ar ranged. He likes baked potatoes, butter, spinach, zwieback, watches that have a loud tick. He distrusts W. C. Fields. His next picture will be Mrs. Fane's Baby Is Stolen, specially written for him by George Washington's debunker, Rupert Hughes. Bombshell (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Lola Burns (Jean Harlow) has a mop of platinum blonde hair, a four-post bed in a lacquer white bedroom, a fat contract with Monarch Pictures. She has a thieving secretary, a vulgar, fatuous father, a brother so stupid that it is impossible to tell when he is drunk and three...
...Mayer Russell and his aides spent Sunday afternoon naming streets in these precincts. The amorphous area, of tar between the Brooks House and the Music Building was enobied by that name of names, "General Thaddeus Kosciuazko Square," in honor of a hero of the Rebellion of 1776, We suggested "Colonel Charles R. Apted '06 Square," in memory of the Rebellion...
Night Flight (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's system of casting all its available celebrities in the same production has the advantage of giving unpretentious stories a tantalizing air of grandeur. Night Flight is an adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's prize novel about the first night nights on a South American airmail route. Far from being an aviation "epic," it is really a study of an airmail port in operation at a crisis. The hero of the picture is not Jules Fabian (Clark Gable), whose plane is blown to sea by a cyclone, forced down...
...Solitaire Man," a screen drama adapted from the play by Bella and Samuel Spewack, directed by Jack Conway and presented by Metro-Goldwin-Mayer at the Loew's State Theatre with the following cast: Oliver Herbert Marshall Mrs. Hopkins Mary Boland Wallace Lionel Atwill Mrs. Vail May Robson Helen Elizabeth Allen Bascom Ralph Forbes Mrs. Peabody Lucille Gleason Mr. Peabody Robert McWade...