Word: mayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ella Mason, chatty hostess of a daytime food quiz show on Manhattan's WHN (which this week changes its name to WMGM-in honor of affiliated Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), has solved the problem of how to prevent audiences from prompting quiz contestants. Her contestants will wear earmuffs of sequins, poppies and plumes...
...while the civil servants' strike looked serious to everyone except Finance Minister René Mayer, in whose department it started, and who had other things to worry about. When the strikers presented their demands to Mayer, he did nothing at all about it. In fact, he left for his Normandy home to nurse his ulcer...
Hunky. Over a magnum of champagne, M-G-Magnate Louis B. Mayer signed up Dore Schary, thus became Hollywood's first to profit from Howard Hughes's shake-up at RKO (TIME, July 19). As executive producer and Mayer's No. 1 man, Schary will direct production of all M-G-M pictures, draw a salary of about $5,000 a week. Punned an M-G-Mster: "Now everything will be hunky Dore...
Last year RKO hired Dore Schary as its production chief. The job made him one of Hollywood's biggest brasshats-the equal of Mayer, Zanuck and Warner-with an income of around $380,000 a year. Last week Schary was out of a job. Since May 11, when Howard Hughes stepped in as RKO's controlling stockholder, Hollywood has been speculating over Schary's future. Leftish Schary is proudest of having masterminded such films as the lowbudget, propaganda-heavy Crossfire; conservative Hughes favors blatantly sexy, splashily costly movies like his own Outlaw. They had never...
...Book. Last year Metro-Goldwyn Mayer offered Waugh $150,000 for the film rights to Brideshead. It was a situation worthy of a Waugh novel. It is explained, according to Waugh, by the fact that none of the top studio brass had ever read the book. When Waugh demanded "full Molotov veto rights" over the script, the deal fell through...