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Viva Villa (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Pancho Villa was a Mexican cattle-thief and revolutionist who, in 1916. eluded with humiliating ease a $130,000,000 expedition under General Pershing sent to punish him for killing U. S. men and women in raids on town-. These doings and his private life was irresponsible a is might appear to make him ble as the hero of a U. S. cinema epic. Such is not the case. Viva Villa, with adroit omissions and exaggerations, makes Mexico's most famed outlaw an estimable child of nature, noble if crude, an illiterate amalgamation...
Asked if his nose was insured against damage or less, the idol of a million maidens replied. "Yeah, it's insured all right Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer saw to that long ago. Do you know, they even insured it against theft. Can you feature anyone ever being able to keep my nose under cover?" queried Durante with a fetching smile...
...such as garden-frocked girls dancing across stepping stones in a pond, or a chorus of 100 carrying assorted dogs in their arms, are made tedious by end less elaborations. Typical shot: miniature chorus girl perched on the rim of a screen-high champagne glass. ¶The Show Off (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). George Kelly's biography of a braggart was voted the best play of 1923 by the Pulitzer Prize play jury. In this modernized cinema version it is likely to recapture much of its old popularity. Though Spencer Tracy at times stoops to tricks for audience sympathy which...
Greta Garbo's first Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture in two years, "Queen Christina" is having its first popular priced showing at Loew's State theatre this week. The film has already been acclaimed as one of the outstanding achievements of the current season and is unusual in that it reunites the glamorous Garbo with John Gilbert after a screen separation of five years. Their scenes together are reminiscent of such former pictures as "Flesh and the Devil" and "Woman of Affairs...
...post's George Horace Lorimer was reduced from $133,399 in 1929 to $118,750 in 1932. Adolph Zukor's bonus as president of Paramount Publix was $757,500 in 1929, plus salary of $130,000. For 1932 he listed salary of $96,031, no bonus. But Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's famed Producer Irving Thalberg, who received $208,000 straight salary in 1929, was still getting $201,000 in 1932-$99,000 less than M-G-M pays Greta Garbo for her 40-week year...