Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What classic of U. S. literature has been produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
...Scarlet Letter (Lillian Gish). This latest Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer release preserves in spirit, mood, sequence, the true proportions of Hawthorne's novel. Praise for a picture can mount no higher. Hester Prynne and Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale break the seventh commandment. The heavy rod of seventeenth century New England righteousness falls upon them both -upon Hester socially, upon Dimmesdale spiritually. In spite of numerous opportunities for sentimental errata, the film records truly, as the novelist saw, the inevitably tragic and ennobling consequences of their suffering. One might wish that the bravery and sacrifice of the Puritan community had been represented...
...farther up Lake Michigan, at Evanston, Ill. Mr. and Mrs. George Alexander McKinlock had given the campus in memory of their warrior son.. Mrs. Montgomery Ward had given a medical-dental centre, a 14-story Gothic building, in memory of her merchant (mailorder) husband. The widow of Levy Mayer, famed attorney, had given a hall of law. Judge Elbert H. (U. S. Steel) Gary of Manhattan had given a law library. W. A. Wieboldt had given a hall of commerce...
...Raymond Thayer Bunker 4E.S., of Wellesley Hills; Carl Lawrence Carlson 4E.S., of Providence, R I; Robert Wilson Cushman 4E.S., of Sharon; Allen Jeffers Burdoin 3E.S., of Cambridge; John Coate Harrold 3E.S., of Dayton, O.; William Mace Hickey 3E.S., of Dorchester; Benjamln Slade 3E.S., of New Britain, Conn., and Henry Mayer Wilson 3E.S., of Louisville...
Engaged. John Adams Mayer, editor of Town Topics, and Miss Dorothy Quick...