Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...came to Killer Powers. One Barratt O'Hara, a Chicago criminal attorney, flew to Clarksburg and aroused the ire of the townspeople by announcing he would defend the prisoner. He refused to tell who had sent him. Clarksburg authorities, fearing an insanity plea, imported Alienist Edward Everett Mayer from the University of Pittsburgh, had him examine the prisoner...
...Mayer's report: "Powers is a psychopathic personality ... of the hypo-pituitary type-squat, pig-eyed, paunchy, with weakened sexual powers. He is not insane, but he has been a borderline case all his life. Powers is capable of knowing right from wrong...
With Wanda Mansfield (now under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) and Barbara Stanwyck (who is now being sued for breach of contract by Columbia), Mae Clarke was once a dancer at the Manhattan Everglades Club. A table for three in Manhattan's Tavern restaurant was reserved for them daily. Cinemactress Clarke left the Everglades after a short appearance in The Noose to act in vaudeville. She married and divorced Vaudevillian Lew Brice, went to Hollywood two years ago. She lives with & supports her family which had financial difficulties when her father, a motion picture theatre organist, lost...
This Modern Age (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). In this picture Joan Crawford, now completely a blonde, has the role of a tipsy virgin, a wholesome inebriate who. although often disorderly in an innocent way herself, is appalled when she learns that her mother, a divorcee whom she is visiting in Paris, is being kept by a wealthy Frenchman. When her fiance tells her about it she calls him a liar, neglects to apologize when she learns it is true. Before long a horrid scene occurs. Disgusted at her mother's apparently inveterate immorality, the daughter takes up with a rounder...
Guilty Hands (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), as the title suggests, is a murder story. The guilty hands are Lionel Barrymore's. He despatches an obnoxious roue who has become engaged to his daughter. The audience is agitated, not by the question of culpability which is early and clearly established, but in wondering what penalty will fall upon the murderer. His crime is justified; he has planned it carefully; but the roue's mistress (Kay Francis) suspects Barrymore and finds evidence to justify her suspicions. It is necessary for Barrymore to explain to her with gestures, that he can manufacture...