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Engaged. Irene Mayer, 22, daughter of Cinemagnate Louis B. (Metro-Goldwyn) Mayer; and David O. Selznick, 27, Assistant General Manager of Paramount-Famous-Lasky Studios; at Hollywood...
...language in six months, appeared in Manhattan in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler. So successful was she that the Shuberts built her the Nazimova Theatre (now the 39th Street Theatre). With Lionel Atwill as leading man, she toured the country playing Ibsen. For several years she acted in Metro cinemas, following the vampire tradition established by Theda Bara, Louise Glaum, et al. Metro's president at that time was B. A. Rolfe, stunt cornetist, now director of the Lucky Strike radio dance orchestra. Last year Nazimova quarrelled with Eva Le Gallienne, quit the latter's Civic Repertory Company...
...Lady to Love (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Sidney Howard's They Knew What They Wanted-the play of the waitress from San Francisco who went to the country to marry a man she had never seen, who had proposed to her 'by mail- was made into a silent picture in 1928, with Pola Negri. It was called then The Secret Hour. A Lady to Love is less sophisticated than The Secret Hour but it is splendidly acted and well cast. Vilma Banky is the waitress, Edward G. Robinson the man she marries, Robert Ames the handsome farm hand whose...
There, too, went, the Coolidges, for there are the studios of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer whose Louis Mayer is the most potent of resident California cinemen. And there was snapped a memorable picture?the most reserved and tightly conventional of U. S. presidents shaking hands with and faintly bowing to Marion Davies, beautiful, versatile and spectacular Hearst star...
Anna Christie (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). The combination of Greta Garbo's acting with one of Eugene O'Neill's best plays is not entirely satisfactory, but blame for the lost opportunity does not fall on either Garbo or O'Neill. In spite of a certain proportion of bunkum in its composition, Antia Christie is good stuff, vivid and well-constructed, with real people in it, and Garbo, as the Swedish girl who blames her luckless past on her father's neglect, is perfectly cast. One reason why this talkie is inferior to the wonderful silent picture made from the play...