Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Madelon Claudet (Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer) is remarkable because in it Helen Hayes appears in cinema for the first time and because it succeeds in its intention?to make audiences weep...
Died. Dr. Emil Mayer, 77, famed retired laryngologist, Wartime representative of the Medical Intelligence Bureau of the U. S. Red Cross; after long illness; in Manhattan...
Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). In searching for a story which would suitably exhibit the stoic fascinations of Greta Garbo, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer stumbled upon an extraordinary novel. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise is the work of David Graham Phillips who wrote best-sellers 25 years ago, when best-sellers were even more likely to be trash than they are now. But Susan Lenox, though it contains cliches which make Theodore Dreiser seem epigrammatic, is no trash. Its story of hardships, financial and amorous, in the career of a woman who becomes a celebrated actress...
...save "bawdy Boston" from absolute perdition that Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton arrived here yesterday, appropriately enough, by air. Accompanied by her latest husband and numerous others she was received by Mayer Curley, and then she proceeded to the Italian suite of the hotel Lenox...
...Squaw Man (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Cecil Blount De Mille is the most veteran of Hollywood directors and The Squaw Man is his favorite picture. He made it first in 1913. eight years after William Faversham and William S. Hart played it on the stage, with Dustin Farnum in the hero's role. Four years later De Mille coaxed Elliot Dexter and Jack Holt through its sequences of sacrifice and agony. His feeling for his reiterative classic has now come to resemble that of an after-dinner orator for his favorite anecdote. Adroit, devoted and familiar, he squeezes its antique...