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...touching up" two stories. Last week, accompanied by Mrs. Wodehouse, two Pekinese, and a new typewriter to replace the 25-year-old one on which he had written 25 novels and innumerable other works, Author Wodehouse arrived in New York, en route to Hollywood for a second try with MGM...
...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; of pneumonia; in Santa Monica, Calif. After studying shorthand in a Brooklyn night school, he got a job as office boy to Universal's Carl Laemmle, for whom he filmed his first big show, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, in 1923. Soon stolen by MGM, he produced Ben Hur, The Merry Widow, The Big Parade, developed such stars as Lon Chaney, Robert Montgomery. Clark Gable, Greta Garbo, made M-G-M millions at the boxoffice. Addicted to nervous overwork, he arranged his most ambitious and recent film, Romeo & Juliet, around his wife, Norma Shearer (TIME...
...seeking advice about acting." John, 54. lying ill of a heart ailment, heard that Elaine Barrie, 21, with whom he last year had a "blessed relationship" but from whom he is now estranged, would keep the diamond ring he had given her. Lionel, 58, finished playing Andrew Jackson in MGM's The Gorgeous Hussy, began to prepare for his role as Duval Sr. in forthcoming Camille...
...will scrap its U. S. distributing organization at a saving of at least $500,000 annually. In return M-G-M and Twentieth Century-Fox will market Gaumont pictures not only in the U. S. but in nearly all countries of the world except Britain. There Gaumont will absorb MGM's and Fox's sales forces, effecting sizable economies for the U. S. companies...
...quite put out by your review of MGM's San Francisco [TIME, July...