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...movies when a scout saw him in Journey's End at Pomona College, which graduated him in 1933. A matinee idol and shopgirls' delight from the beginning, he got off on the wrong foot when critics dubbed him "Beautiful" Robert Taylor. To counteract this tendency, his studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, put him in one two-fisted role after another, swaddled him in he-man publicity. One day last week, Spangler Arlington Brugh took matters into his own hands...
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a lovingly faithful picturization of the novelette by James Hilton that gave Alexander Woollcott such a good cry five years ago. Like the book, it is sentimental in the precise sense: it exploits emotions which, reduced to propositions, most people would reject as false-e.g., that failure is somehow preferable to success. Shrewdly directed by Sam Wood, the cinementor of the Marx Brothers, Goodbye, Mr. Chips goes out for tears as unscrupulously and efficiently as those merry-andrews go out for laughs...
Lucky Night (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Bad luck for Myrna Loy and Robert Taylor, gummed up in a sticky-silly version of the story about a couple who get acquainted, drunk, married...
Cinema, always the most open-handed U. S. industry, outdid itself in 1937. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp. alone paid 240 salaries of $15,000 or more, and M. G. M. and its parent company, Loew's Inc., paid the two biggest salaries of all: $1,296,503 in salary and bonus to Production Executive Louis B. Mayer, $694,123 to Loew's Vice President J. Robert Rubin. Loew's President Nicholas M. Schenck got $489,602. Highest paid performers: Actress Greta Garbo, $472,499; Actor Fredric March (who deserted Hollywood for Broadway...
Hollywood in making a raid on the ivory tower for its writing talent with officials of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer appealing to Harvard to name its best writers in the Senior clean and offering two of them $50 a week apprentice contracts, according to reports received here...