Word: mayers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Loew. Denied Nicholas M. Schenck, cinemagnate, President of Loew's, Inc. last January: "There has never been negotiation with Fox or anyone else, either corporation or individual, looking towards the sale of Loew's, Inc., or Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
Count Leo Tolstoy, dying, bequeathed the rights of all his stories to mankind. Last fortnight two groups of his legatees-Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp. on the one hand, Columbia Pictures Corp. on the other-began a race to see which would be first to release the Tolstoy story, Redemption...
...Flying Fleet (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). A lieutenant-commander (retired) in the U. S. Navy, one Frank Wead, wrote this script showing how naval aviators are made-Annapolis, then round-the-world cruise, then training school at Pensacola. Anita Page falls from an aquaplane into the plot. This air-photography is good, but Wings was better. The final sequence, in which one pilot dives at another on the field and afterwards rescues him when his plane falls into the Pacific, is about as true to life as a recruiting poster. The sallow aviator is Ramon Novarro...
...Isaac Mayer Wise called the first council of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations in Cincinnati. Its prime purpose was to found Hebrew Union College. Two years later, with a faculty of two, and 16 students, the college started. The library consisted of a few Bibles. The class rooms were the vestry rooms of B'nai Israel and B'nai Yeshuruh in Cincinnati. Today the college has four large Tudor buildings, has graduated 289 Rabbis. The library now has 70,000 volumes and the largest collection of Spinoziana in the world. The librarian is Adolph...
Entertainment. Cheers for the cinema, tears for the legitimate theatres were indicated in reports from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corp., Paramount-Famous Players-Lasky Corp., and Shubert theatres. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (common stock owned by Loew's Inc.) earned a net of almost $5,400,000 or $31.21 a share against a net of about $3,000,000 or $16.68 a share in 1927. Paramount reported a record net of $8,700,000, an increase of $650,000 over 1927. The Shubert report showed a $470,822 profit for six months ending Dec. 31, 1928, as compared...