Word: mervyn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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CLIVE OF PLASSEY -A. Mervyn Davies - Scribner ($3.75). Most people remember Robert, Lord Clive as a figure in Henty's With Clive In India. There was little else to read about him until last week A. Mervyn Davies, onetime British diplomat and author of Warren Hastings filled the gap with a solid, non-spark, thoroughly readable, 522-page biography, Clive of Plassey...
...Producer Mervyn Le Roy's 1939 version of this childhood classic follows with reasonable accuracy L. Frank Baum's original story (first published in 1900) that sold over a million copies, his stage adaptation that ran 18 months on Broadway with Fred Stone.* Dorothy (Judy Garland) gets blown away in a twister from her home in Kansas, finds herself in the Technicolor land of Oz. Homesick, she goes in search of the Wizard of Oz to ask him how to get back to Kansas. Along the way she meets a Straw Man (Ray Bolger), a Tin Woodman (Jack...
That incidents can be treated without loss of excitement was proved in Anthony Adverse when Director Mervyn Le Roy showed the team and coach plunging over a precipice by using a long shot of a dummy. The American Humane Association is to be congratulated . . . and TIME'S fair treatment of the matter is what we have come to expect from our invaluable weekly visitor...
Messrs. Bridges, Curran and Mervyn Rathbone (American Communications Association) rose to demand i) copies of that important document, and 2) a clause prohibiting discrimination against union members because of political beliefs (i.e., Communism). They did not get their clause, but they did delay debate until copies were distributed next...
...drain on the budget was the $25 a day paid for several weeks to cafe society's No. 1 hitchhiker, "Prince" Mike Romanoff (real name: Harry Gerguson). Actor Gravet got his first Hollywood job (The King and the Chorus Girl) year and a half ago because Producer-Director Mervyn LeRoy thought he resembled Edward VIII. Prince Mike got his because there is no one Hollywood appreciates more than a persistent pretender...