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Born in Canada (like Mary Pickford and Norma Shearer), Lelia Koerber (Marie Dressier) grew up in Cobourg, Ontario where her father was a music teacher. At five she performed as Cupid in a church pageant, made her audience laugh by falling off a pedestal. At 14, under her stage name (borrowed from an aunt) she joined an itinerant stock opera troupe, finally got a chance to understudy Katisha in The Mikado for $8 a week. Eight years later, playing in the same theatre, she was getting $800 a week...
Last week while Thalberg was en route to Europe with Mrs. Thalberg (Norma Shearer) to recuperate, MGM's directors announced that Associate Producers Edward J. Mannix and David Oliver Selznick had been elected vice presidents. Irish Eddie Mannix has been an MGM executive since 1924. David Oliver Selznick, son of the late famed Lewis J. Selznick, son-in-law of Louis B. Mayer, went to MGM for a fat salary two months ago. Before that he had been production chief of RKO, for which his last picture was Sweepings (see below). MGM had already appointed another associate producer...
...Pontiac Motor Car hour Engineer William Shearer is the juggler who balances the comical dialog of Stoopnagle & Budd with a big mixed chorus; makes wee Jeannie Lang, a whispering soprano, sound as effective as William O'Neal, a full-blown tenor...
...summary: HARVARD 1936 QUINCY Radall, Tighe, g. g., Bonam Stent, r.f.b. l.f.b., Shearer, Galberg Skinner, l.f.g. r.f.b., 191 Loretto Johnson, r.h.b. l.h.b., Andersom, Morrison Carley, Roosevelt, c.h.b. c.h.b., Quinn Kellog, Carley, Jeffreys, l.h.b. r.h.b., Littlewood L. Perry Dawson, r.e. l.e., Downton Dorman r.l. l.l.,J. MacGuire, Garacille Manhetmer, c.f. c.f., A. MacGuire Willetts, l.l. r.l., Robertson, King Vincent, l.e. r.o., MacGibbon...
Majestic-"Strange Interlude." Last opportunity to see the film dramatization of O'Neill's play. Norma Shearer and Clark Gable quite convincing...