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...trial barristers in all Britain-Sir Patrick Hastings for the prosecution, Sir William Jowitt for the defense. Handsome, hollow-eyed Princess Irina Alexandrovna Youssoupov was suing Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Ltd. for damages. She charged that she had been libeled and her character defamed by a rape episode in MGM's cinema Rasputin, the Mad Monk. The courtroom was jampacked by a curious crowd which knew that for the first time the true story of how Rasputin met his death was to be told under oath...
...actually to blame TIME, Jan. 8 is guilty of repeating without comment the anachronistical description of Queen Christina (died 1689) reading Voltaire (born 1694). L. SCHILDKRAUT LEE Cowansville, Que. Sirs: VOLTAIRE WAS CERTAINLY PRECOCIOUS BUT HIS PRENATAL WORK HAS HITHERTO REMAINED UNDISCLOSED STOP SUGGEST THEREFORE THAT DISCOVERY BY MGM ON TIME P. 24 ISSUED JAN 8 THAT CHRISTINA OF SWEDEN" WAS ONE OF HIS READERS DESERVES FURTHER AMPLIFICATION UNDER THE HEADING QUOTE NEWS UNQUOTE STOP J. A. M. DESANCHEZ...
...Cinemactor Tracy made this picture before going to Mexico City where he made news resulting in the cancellation of his contract by MGM. To TIME'S version of the affair (TIME, Dec. 4), Mr. Tracy telegraphed a correction as follows: "YOUR STORY ON MEXICO INCIDENT INACCURATE AND UNTRUE STOP MY REPUTATION HAS BEEN DAMAGED BY A FALSE CHARGE IN YOUR PUBLICATION STOP PUBLIC HAD BEEN GIVEN TRUE AND CORRECTED VERSION AND NOW YOUR LIBELOUS STORY OVERSHADOWS ALL PREVIOUS ONES STOP I REFER YOU TO LOS ANGELES TIMES OF DEC. 3 WHICH CLIMAXES ALL VERSIONS AND GIVES TRUE...
Married. Harlean Carpenter McGrew Bern (Jean Harlow), 22, cinemactress, widow of MGM's Associate Producer Paul Bern Levy who last year spectacularly died by his own hand (TIME, Sept. 19, 1932); and Harold G. Rosson, cameraman; in Yuma, Ariz...
Broadway to Hollywood (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Five years ago, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer made an expensive musicomedy called The March of Time, decided it was not worth releasing but a shade too good to shelve.* After endless ineffective tinkering, Willard Mack and Edgar Allan Woolf rewrote the story. MGM selected a new cast. Broadway to Hollywood is the result. The few remaining shots from the old film-a technicolor ballet executing a blurred march down an exaggerated stairway-might better have been left out. Based upon the tedious conviction that there is nothing quite eo glamorous as a vaudeville actor...