Word: mayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Baldish, roly-poly Federico Cantú, once an apprentice of Muralist Rivera, filled 57th Street's Guy Mayer Gallery more conventionally, with cactus, horses, ban-doleered soldiers and bedraggled peons. Best painting: a tropically rank portrait of Mexican Singer Aurelia Colomo (see cut), who carols tropically in the bar of Manhattan's Hotel Weylin...
Forgetting their troubles the college presidents spent a day in Hollywood, were greeted by Mary Pickford, Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy (in cap & gown). Said their host, M. G. M.'s bumbling Louis B. Mayer: "After all, we're all in the same business." The presidents romped and hobnobbed with 50 cinema celebrities, went after autographs so eagerly that Southwestern's dour President Charles E. Diehl exclaimed in disgust: "Grown men acting like that...
...Philadelphia Story (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Come on back, Katie, all is forgiven. This absolution was spoken last fortnight by one Harry Brandt, an independent Manhattan cinema theatre owner who two years ago gave Hollywood the jitters by proscribing Actress Katharine Hepburn and ten other cinemarvels as box-office poison. Mr. Brandt's reprieve came after watching the longest line in the eight-year history of the Radio City Music Hall queued up during a spell of foul weather to pay top prices for a view of Miss Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story. When, after its first four days...
Comrade X (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) takes care of the movies' left-over jokes on Communism and the electricity generated by the combined presence of Clark Gable and Hedy Lamarr. Gable, as the footloose correspondent of a U. S. paper, finds himself involved in the political intrigue of the U. S. S. R. That also includes Miss Lamarr who strolls placidly through the role of a Soviet streetcar motorman intent on the cause. Scripters Ben Hecht and Charles Lederer's picture of bungling and dawdling inside the Soviet is a lot less witty, and less tender than Greta Garbo...
Oldtime turfmen like Poloist Carleton Burke (only Far Westerner ever admitted to the Jockey Club) and Boston-born Charles E. Perkins, who had kept on raising polo ponies and show horses during California's lean years, began to enlarge their stud farms. Newcomers like Cinemagnate Louis B. Mayer, Lawyer Neil McCarthy and Automan Charles S. Howard imported the best English thoroughbreds that money could buy.* Crooner Bing Crosby imported expensive South American horses. Between Los Angeles and San Francisco, 200-odd stud farms sprang up, ranging from backyard paddocks like Clark Gable's to $1,000,000 ranches...