Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After three years at the University of Kansas, Herbert Pettey quit to take a job in the ready-mixed concrete company of Democratic Boss Tom Pendergast of Kansas City, Mo. Later he worked for MGM pictures and Radio Corp. of America. During the 1932 campaign, Mr. Pettey managed the radio work for the Democratic National Committee. When the Democrats came into power grateful Chairman Farley made him secretary to the Radio Commission. In addition, the Herald Tribune reported, with a letter from "General" Farley to prove it, Secretary Pettey, while drawing Federal pay, retained his job as No. 1 radio...
Operator 13 (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) shows the Civil War, lately neglected by the cinema, with MGM improvements. These include the Four Mills Brothers; the flower of the Central Casting Bureau cavorting in ball rooms or on battlefields; cavalry charges directed by Richard Boleslavsky (Way of the Lancer); Marion Davies and Gary Cooper, romantically disguised; a spy plot derived from stories by the late Robert W. Chambers...
...Whether or not Mr. Lloyd George goes to Hollywood, the resounding name of a great British statesman was even more useful to MGM last week than the actual prospect of producing the Lloyd George Memoirs. Unlike the theatre, the cinema has no fixed "season." Only punctuation of year-round activity at major studios are annual "sales conventions," at which studio officials ballyhoo to their distributors the pictures they plan to produce during the next year. By last week, all major studios, except Columbia, had held their conventions, provided cinemaddicts with some notion of the screen fare in store for them...
Universal, like other Hollywood companies, is suffering a painful shortage of good story material. Cinema producer have bought production rights to almost every successful play produced in Manhattan since last autumn. Next year's schedules are, more than ever, topheavy with oldtime "classics." Not to be outclassed by MGM, Universal was last week planning to produce Dickens' unfinished Mystery of Edwin Drood, with an ending supplied by some writer under Universal contract. Charles Dickens' face appeared in Universal's list of "Box Office Authors,' along with those of Edith Wharton (Strange Wives) and Edgar Allan Poe (The Raven). Frankenstein...
...waitress, one Olive Beck, whose claim of $250,000 for breach of promise he settled for $5,500. Last year he was divorced from Dorothy Dunbar. After defeating Max Schmeling, Max Baer played in vaudeville, was master of ceremonies in a nightclub, performed on the radio, acted in MGM's The Prizefighter and the Lady in which he engaged in a bout with Carnera. The bathrobe he wore into the ring last week was the one he wore in that cinema; on its back was the name of the hero, Steve Morgan...