Word: mayers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Billy the Kid (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Undoubtedly the new vogue of westerns has been stimulated by critics who arraigned the cinema for losing its integrity in dull photographs of stage plays. Now King Wallis Vidor, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's ace director, with the help of the company's best dialog writers, Laurence Stallings and Charles MacArthur, has deliberately turned back to the old westerns as models in an attempt to reproduce the virtues that have reappeared only occasionally in pictures since the western became outmoded-speed, action, outdoor settings, and the suspense of the greatest and simplest...
...Nurse (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This picture fails in many ways to do justice to its theme-the woman's side of the War-yet it is a courageous and fairly honest effort. The picture of mental and physical conditions at the great French base-hospitals is restrained in comparison with the descriptions of such conditions that have been current, verbally and in writing, since the Armistice. Nevertheless, audiences who saw the first showings of War Nurse last week frequently laughed at the wrong times. Audiences can absorb visible violence only up to a definite saturation point, after which they...
...week, the Josiah Macy Jr. Fund, created six months ago by Mrs. Walter Graeme Ladd (of the rich New Jersey Macy family), established a fellowship to pay the expenses of an assistant for Dr. Einstein. First incumbent will be Dr. Einstein's good friend and familiar, Dr. Walter Mayer, mathematician at the University of Vienna...
When Elias Mayer, 52, of Chicago announced recently that he was going to retire from business, he gave as his reason his desire to die with his slippers on?not his shoes. In good health, he retired primarily to have some fun. But he also may have had in mind the realization that his business, General American Tank Car Corp., is a youngman affair. Certainly the Board of Directors were of such a mind, for last week they chose as Mr. Mayer's successor in the presidency, Lester North Selig, slight, boyish-looking...
...went to Chicago, started to work riveting under-frames of tank cars. After factory experience, he was transferred through the departments ? purchasing, operation, ac counting ? to learn the business thoroughly. In 1920 he was made assistant to Mr. Epstein, who, upon the ascendancy of Mr. Mayer to the presidency three years ago, became board chairman and has since spent most of his time with philanthropies and art (TIME...