Word: mayers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Edward Henry Harriman Simmons, broker. President New York Stock Exchange, and a Mrs. John Mayer; in Manhattan. He is her third husband, she is his second wife. Sued for Divorce. Bainbridge Colby, Wilsonian Secretary of State (1920-21), and law partner; by Nathalie Sedgwick Colby, novelist, at Reno. Grounds: desertion...
Speedway (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Automobile racing at Indianapolis is a background unfamiliar and colorful enough to make any sort of picture entertaining in spots. In this film about a whimsical mechanic's love life, the background is sketchily and conventionally treated. William Haines capitalizes his famed insouciance to the point of insufferability. Proving at the denouement that he is a good chap after all, he sacrifices the race to his pal, Ernest Torrence, best ac tor in the cast. Best shot: a car turning over on the track...
William Randolph Hearst and Louis B. Mayer, cineman, lunched Winston Spencer Churchill in Los Angeles. Announced Mr. Hearst: "I don't know exactly what to say. I came down from the ranch last night with Mr. Churchill, and we were six hours in the automobile, and I told him everything that I know anything about and a lot of things that I don't know anything about. I am sure he enjoyed the conversation, because he fell into the most peaceful and profound slumbers, and remained there...
Climax of the entertainment was some happy antics by two dozen of Cineman Mayer's showgirls in peek-a-boo costumes. Mr. Churchill peeked...
...Anyone who has ever laughed at drolleries induced by the decanter will be amused by this gentleman whose dialog is so real that it suggests the use of a dictaphone. Best shot: Claudette Colbert being told by her lover that he contemplates deserting her. Our Modern Maidens (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). The romantic flush of Michael Aden, the decorative gush of a Zuloaga gone mad, surround the frolics of rich U.S. youngfolk-if you would believe cinema producers. Recently Our Dancing Daughters with its imperial salons and moonswept amours caused such a flutter in nationwide breasts and box-offices that...