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...their share of the profits under a contract signed when M-G-M was born of a three-cornered merger. Mr. Mayer and his two partners had turned over all their assets-properties, stars, contracts, furniture, cash-taking no stock in exchange but a 20% interest in MGM's potential profits. Though the two other concerns were losing money at the time, the partners were willing to gamble everything on their ability to make pictures. And they won. An argument later developed about the price Loew's was to pay its producing subsidiary for its pictures. To settle...
...Nice: "The suggestion that I might become an Ambassador is flattering, but running an embassy is an expensive business. Only the wealthy can pretend to such a post." The onetime Mayor declared that after a long rest he would probably represent Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cinema interests in France. Said MGM's President Nicholas M. Schenck in New York: "This is absolutely news to me." Meanwhile a Brooklyn judge appointed a receiver to sequester all Jimmy Walker's property in behalf of his creditors...
...Praskins'. W7hen humiliated into leaving she makes the gesture of committing suicide so that her life insurance will enable the bank to reopen. Wobbling her jaw, protruding her underlip and narrowing her eyes, Marie Dressier somehow makes the crude fable (written by Sylvia Thalberg, sister of MGM's Production Chief Irving Thalberg) laughable and interesting. Most vulgar shot: Maggie Warren finding out that the bottle from which she has been gulping what she thought was poison, contained something else...