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Villas & Beach Houses. Splashiest of the Kennedy homes is Peter and Pat Kennedy Lawford's nine-room, neo-Spanish beach house in Santa Monica, Calif. The former home of Movie Magnate Louis B. Mayer, the house is done in Metro-Goldwyn-Modrun. It has marble bathrooms, and in the living room, a movie screen rises from the floor at the touch of a button. To accommodate their four children, the Lawfords have converted Mayer's garden greenhouse into a playhouse; though the Pacific is right off their front door, they have a fresh water swimming pool that...
...reads the directory of stars in a dressing-room building on the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot in Hollywood. Visitors ask the obvious questions: "Geyger who? Does he really count?" The answer, curiously enough, is yes. "Geyger Krocp" is Actor Warren Beatty's wry, demonstrative method of calling attention to his own relative anonymity...
...Blue Fairy of a Chicago kiddies' TV program, is now 17 and has come quite a distance from the imitation mushrooms of the Loop's Blue Forest. Black-haired and hazel-eyed, Brigid went to Spain last summer and, without veils, took the role of Salome in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's King of Kings (ready for October release). With a creditable performance in The Honeymoon Machine, released last week, she has moved on to Paducah, Ky.. to play a tough-talking frontier girl in How the West Was Won, the first Cinerama film with a plot...
This means that 3,000 shares of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer were sold at $54.50 per share, and 300 shares of Emerson Radio & Phonograph (ERP) at $14.87½ (in 100-share lots the zeros are always omitted). When the tape is one minute late, the first digit is dropped from the price of the sale to speed up transmission, e.g., the M-G-M notation would read 3000s4½. When three minutes behind, the last two digits of the number of shares traded are also dropped, so that the tape would read 30s4½. When five minutes late, another sending machine...
Brice studied at Manhattan's Art Students League and at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles. In 1942, he got a job with M-G-M designing sets and decorating them with synthetic "masterpieces." Metro was unculturedly demanding. "If you painted some predominantly blue Cezannes on Tuesday and they turned out all right," he recalls, "somebody would give you another order on Thursday for, say, a Rembrandt, only he'd say, 'Do it in'blue, like that other...