Word: mayers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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ADVENTURES or AN AFRICAN SLAVER, Being a True Account of the Life of Captain Theodore Canot, Trader in Gold, Ivory & Slaves on the Coast of Guinea: His Own Story as told in the Year 1854 to Brantz Mayer & Now Edited with an Introduction by Malcolm Cowley...
...derelict sea-captain, cadging drinks on the Baltimore wharves (according to the present editor), accosted one Brantz Mayer, swapped yarns for liquor. The captain, the accosted, the yarns, are all of a piece with garrulous South African traders who peddle reminiscence with their kitchenware. In pleasant 19th century cadences Mayer sets down the story of this Canot, Italian by birth, American by adoption, who sailed the last legal slaver before the trade was outlawed. Forced thereafter to bootleg his valuable black cargo, he practiced the proverbial sardine economy of space in his barracoon, packing his human loot spoon fashion...
...Mille. Selling his own cinema interests, Cecil Blount De Mille, producer (Ten Commandments, King of Kings), merged his spectacular talents with the studios of his rival, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
Equipped with Frederick O'Brien's book bearing this name, a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer squad sailed for Tahiti in the South Sea Islands to make a picture. In the squad were that frazzled lover, Monte Blue, and a 20-year-old Mexican girl named Raquel Torres. At Tahiti, the squad got natives to fill out the cast, paid them with canned salmon, flour, toilet water, shaving cream, mirrors. Everybody might have enjoyed a good time, had it not been for the rain and the heat, which combined to produce a disease called rain-tan. Even when...
...reworked, in longhand, his speech accepting the nomination. He conferred constantly with visiting politicos and friends -Senator Johnson of California and his manager, Charles L. Neumiller; Attorney-General Ottinger of New York, who aspires to succeed Governor Smith; Mrs. Worthington Scranton, dashing National Committeewoman from Pennsylvania; Louis B. Mayer, politically ambitious cine-man; Henry S. Pritchett, president of the Carnegie Foundation; Howard Heinz, Pittsburgh pickle man; and many another. ¶ The night of the Tunney-Heeney fight, the newest of six new radio sets (sent on approval) was in operation at the Hoover abode. The end of the week...