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...connections and preferment. To Mayor Walker of New York City it was "surprising," however, when he learned that Joseph M. Schenck, husband of Cinemactress Norma Talmadge and president of United Artists Corp. was a delegate to the Republican National Convention, a Hooverite (TIME, June 11.) Vice President Louis B. Mayer of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp. was there...
Mayor Walker, touring the West in the interests of the Brown Derby, visited Hollywood last week. Abruptly, unexpectedly, he took the Messrs. Schenck and Mayer, though not by name, as the text for a sermon to the cinema industry. He warned it to be nonpartisan. He reminded it that public officials such as himself had power over Sunday theatre laws, for example. He said he hoped that cinemen "are not so enslaved that they can be handed over" by two or three leaders in the industry. He warned that should the industry "dabble in politics" and choose the losing side...
...Hollywood, people talk of a revolution in the cinema industry. Paramount, United Artists, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Universal, Pathe are going to make talkies. Searches are under way to find actors and actresses who make pleasant noises as well as pleasant faces. Oldtime favorites have been tested, classified, told to practice talking before their bedroom mirrors. It is likely that many of the talkies will be filmed in Manhattan and vicinity...
...secret, let out only last week when she was hidden in Canada. This summer she will publish a weekly magazine containing news, society items and photographs. Each week she will sign an article interesting to women. Mrs. Stillman is chairman of the publishing company. Her editor is Herbert B. Mayer, the New York Mirror reporter who ably dug up enough gossip to force the second Hall-Mills murder trial two years ago. The name of Mrs. Stillman's magazine is moot...
This superb experiment in photography was made by the German branch of the William Fox Co., and Carl Mayer. One of the men at the cameras was Karl Freund, who was largely responsible for the shooting of Variety. Spectators of Berlin were made a little dizzy, but they hated to close their eyes...