Word: mayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...typical plan is that of Loew's Inc., which controls M.G.M. Fortnight ago, Loew's made eye-catching news with an announcement that all its top executives would voluntarily take huge pay reductions. M.G.M.'s Louis B. Mayer, who has been the highest paid executive...
Money Talks Louis B. Mayer, M.G. Monarch just separated from his wife after 40 years of marriage, was separated from $560,000 of his proposed $1,060,000 salary for 1944 (his million-plus last year made him the U.S.'s highest-salaried swivel chairman). Loew's Inc., which signs M.G.M. pay checks, proposed the money-saving, as part of a program to provide a retirement plan for M.G.M.'s 4,300 workers (including William Powell, Clark Gable, Wallace Beery and Spencer Tracy, whose annual pensions would be $49,700 each...
Among President Hutchins' most ardent supporters is the University's gangling, witty literary handyman, Milton Mayer. Mayer is a onetime Chicago news and publicity man, studied under Hutchins at the University, later helped him teach his famed course on the 100 Best Books. Wrote Mayer in Wisconsin's weekly Progressive...
...film market. Recently, it was profoundly shocked to discover that its passion was in danger of becoming one-sided. Well-heeled Britons like Cinemagnate Joseph Arthur Rank (TIME, Dec. 20) have appeared ready & willing to break Hollywood's near monopoly of their home market. Last week, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was not napping; it was spending plenty of cash to expand in Britain...
Broadway Rhythm (M.G.M.) is a Technicolored, tune-stirred summer salad into which M.G.M.'s chefs seem to have whipped practically everyone and every thing on the lot except Leo the Growl and Louis B. Mayer. Most conspicuous ingredients are Ginny Simms, George Murphy, Charles Winninger, Gloria De Haven, Lena Home, Hazel Scott, Rochester, Tommy Dorsey. The show lasts just a quarter short of two hours, so there is plenty of time to doze between the best moments. There are also a great many tunes, of which the best remains the 1939 All the Things You Are, as Ginny Simms...