Word: mayers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the oarsmen had finished their brief act, Coach Whiteside and Captain Dickey, surrounded by blazing electric lights, faced the battery of cameras from the Paramount, Fox, International, Pathe, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Kinograms and Universal companies. The sound pictures were taken by Fox and Pathe cameramen but the splash of the sweeps was not caught by the other recorders...
HARVARD 1933 ANDOVER Schroeder, l. f. r. f., Neff Dorman, r. f. l. f., Mayer Davidson, c. c., Drick Matursevitch, r. g. l. g., Douglas Hageman, l. g. r. g., Brown...
...good picture, quite certain to bring its makers (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ) substantial profits. It was notable because the 100% technicolor (see col. 3) was an improvement on previous color films. Too, it fills any huge auditorium with much the best voice yet known to cinemaddicts, the voice of Grand Opera Baritone Lawrence Tibbett. Also, it gives the voice a volume never before transmitted through the microphone except in the case of the noises emitted by Al (Sonny Boy) Jolson...
Children of Darkness. History is apt to make the ladies of bygone centuries seem lovelier than our own. and the scamps of other times appear far more appealing in their outrageousness than contemporary racketeers. Playwright Edwin Justus Mayer (The Firebrand), always partial to historical gloss, has developed his newest play from suggestions given by the late great Novelist Henry Fielding in History of the Life of the late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great. The scene is laid in the house of Mr. Snap, gaoler of London's Newgate Prison, in the year 1725. It is Mr. Snap...
...exciting and frightening creation; Basil Sydney's La Ruse is morbid and passionate; the lesser parts are splendidly done. Yet only in the last act do these characters produce the witty, sardonic tensions which you expect of them. The early moments of the play remain listless while Playwright Mayer's dialog is getting up momentum. Waterloo Bridge. Close by Waterloo railway station in London is a bridge upon whose parapet are posted sooty little strumpets waiting for soldiers returning home on leave. A German air raid sends them scurrying to their rooms and Myra, chubby and scarlet-shirtwaisted...