Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Against the sands of the Yuma desert in Arizona, Metro-Goldyn Mayer has strung out an exciting story of the white woman who is charmed by the call of the desert and a wily philandering Arab in the person of Ramon Navarro. The story is old, the treatment is older, and not even a trio of the best second-rate stars in Culver City can give any more glamour to the exhausted Sahara, but withal "The Barbarian" now playing at the University Theatre in the Square is entertaining in a mild harmless...
...into the outline of an immense bull fiddle. Good shot: Guy Kibbee's alarm when he looks in a mirror and detects a resemblance between his own face and that of a chorus girl's Pekinese, which he is holding under his arm. The Nuisance (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). No actor in Hollywood is more adept than Lee Tracy at characterizations of likable rogues. This time he is an ambulance chasing shyster, aided by a dipsomaniac doctor (Frank Morgan) and a collapsible assistant named Floppy (Charles Butterworth) whose duty it is to fall down in front of moving vehicles...
...Before the Mirror has a smooth surface, good acting and a compactly organized, if tricky, story. It lacks action and emphasis. Good shot: Dr. Held listening with growing interest to his wife's tirade at him for mussing her hair. The Barbarian (M e t r o-Goldwyn- Mayer) contains a personage whose type used to be almost as important in the cinema as the cowboy whom he helped to supplant. He is a sheik wearing a romantic turban, bedsheets and a polite but hungry leer. His name is Jamil (Ramon Novarro) and he is first seen functioning...
Under Sports in your April 24 issue is mentioned Helene Mayer, Germany's most outstanding woman fencer. Helene is not a "German officer's daughter'' but was born in my home town. Offenbach-am-Main. The daughter of a physician, she received her early training with foils from one Sig. Arturo Gazzerra, professional fencing teacher in Offenbach to whom credit must be given for the fact that this comparatively small city has produced some of Germany's best fencers...
Other fencers from Offenbach: Erskrath de Bary (1906 Olympic competitor); Edwin Casimir, who was on the champion Olympic sabre team in 1906 and who represented his country with Miss Mayer in 1932; Hans & Julius Thomson and H. Halberstadt (1928 Olympic team members) ; Stephanie Stern, German woman foils champion in 1926, U. S. National champion in 1927.-ED. Hon. Mention Sirs: ... I cannot resist a word of praise for the Hearst biographical sketch in the May i issue of TIME...