Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married, Marion Margery Scranton, direct descendant of the founders of Scranton, Pa., daughter of Worthington Scranton, onetime president of Scranton Gas & Water Co.; and one Edward Mayer, of Manhattan; in Scranton...
Mata Hari (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). One of the legends about Mata Hari, a Parisian cabaret dancer who was executed for espionage during the War, says that she was unable to break herself of the habit of taking off her clothes at crucial moments and was therefore naked when she faced a French firing squad. This episode is omitted from the Greta Garbo version of the affair, which ends as Miss Garbo, majestic in black, is walking down a long corridor between two lines of soldiers. Her lover (Ramon Novarro) is a blind aviator who has said good...
...become more firmly identified than ever with roles like the ones which Mary Pickford used to play, the ingenuous heroine of sentimental comedy-drama. Privately, Miss Gaynor likes to read In Tune with the Infinite by Ralph Waldo Trine, has a freckled nose. Hell Divers (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a successful merger of two well known types of cinema entertainment: aeronautical spectacle (like Hell's Angels, Dirigible) and man-to-man comedy (like What Price Glory, The Big Parade). It is also a loud advertisement for the U. S. Navy. One of the shortcomings of Hell Divers is the fact...
Private Lives (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). "Certain women should be struck regularly-like gongs." In itself, this is not particularly witty. It is neither an epigram nor a wisecrack and anyone who made it at a dinner table would be lucky if it caused a smile. On the other hand, it is light-hearted and emphatic. Spoken by a cultivated young man to a lady with whom he is both in love and angry, it becomes funny. It illustrates the formula for Noel Coward's Private Lives, in which the author made his job easy by arranging his situations...
Flying High (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) shows Bert Lahr performing the role he made famous when the show was a Manhattan musicomedy. He is a bedazzled aviator who spends a night in a bathtub, then breaks the altitude record because he lacks sense enough to come down. Two of Flying High's best songs ("Thank Your Father," "Wasn't It Beautiful While It Lasted") have been whistled so much that they had to be left out, but in other respects the cinema improves the play...