Word: mayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week thousands of war-worried U.S. citizens strolled from their neighborhood cinemas with a lighter step. These heartened cinemagoers had seen a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer short subject, More About Nostradamus, now playing in some 200 U.S. cinema houses. According to the fabled Renaissance Prophet Nostradamus, Hitler would be licked and everything was going to come out all right...
...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is Pancho Lopez (Wallace Beery), a rootin'-tootin' Mexican bandit, a dead ringer for Pancho Villa, whom Actor Beery portrayed with the same mops and mows back in 1934. Nothing like Holbrook Blinn's stage Pancho of 21 years ago, whose function was to satirize the average American, is the Beery portrait. The Arizona ranch which Pancho raids is owned by a gruff old character in a wheel chair (Lionel Barrymore). Both dialogue and action are thus resolved into a prolonged contest between the stallion snorts of Actor Beery and the crosspatch snuffles...
...Boys Town (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). When Director Norman Taurog made Boys Town (TIME, Sept. 12, 1938) three years ago, he managed to present a commendable picture of the Nebraska home for waifs founded by Father Edward J. Flanagan. Part of its success may have been due to the fact that the founder was the film's technical adviser. Success, as it often does in idea-poor Hollywood, demanded a sequel...
...Louis Mayer gathered his forces and worked fast. RKO has few theatres in which to show its films, was reminded of its reliance on the theatres of the other major companies. There were warnings that the Hearst attack would harm the whole industry. There was even guarded talk that other studios would chip in to defray the $800,000 RKO had spent on Citizen Kane...
...care whether the film was released or not. Chances looked good that after an RKO directors' meeting in Manhattan this week, a decision would at long last be made to release the picture. In Hollywood it meant the first challenge to the long, long reign of Louis B. Mayer and his court...