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Married. Baron Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 35, head of the British branch of the great banking family, who forsook finance to become a Cambridge don; and Teresa Georgina Mayor, O.B.E., 30; he for the second time, she for the first; in London...
They will have to work at least as hard as their new boss. But with a $60 million budget and all that property to play with, Bill Goetz will be hard for even his father-in-law, MGM's mighty Louis B. Mayer, to match...
...first turn, a 6½-to -1 hopeful with a good record, The Dude, took the lead never to be headed. A pint-sized chestnut colt bred by Cinemagnate Louis B. Mayer, he had been picked up in $4,000 claiming race last year. It took The Dude just 2 min. 2.6 sec. to win the Classic purse of $76,850 for his owner, Mrs. Al Gaal of New Orleans...
Another outsider, Dancer Fred Astaire's 7-to-1 Triplicate, last week took the $79,000 winner's purse in the Hollywood Gold Cup Handicap. The two favorites in the race belonged to Astaire's old employer, M.G.M.'s Mayer; they ran second and fifth...
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer wanted something operatic for Two Sisters from Boston (TIME, June 17). MGM's musicmakers scrambled through the classics. The trouble was, none of the old boys knew how to start an opera right. They had a rousing overture, the curtain rose, and a bunch of minor characters went into some tedious, scene-setting song. What Hollywood wanted was an overture, curtain, and zowie-a tenor aria for Lauritz Melchior...