Hollywood Offers Writer Contracts To Chosen Seniors

Hollywood in making a raid on the ivory tower for its writing talent with officials of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer appealing to Harvard to name its best writers in the Senior clean and offering two of them $50 a week apprentice contracts, according to reports received here.

Lost any Senior who does not know about this apply in vain to M.G.M. or the basement of University Hall, it is stated that the selective process has been accomplished already by members of the Faculty.

The five Seniors who, in the opinion of their professors, are most likely to succeed in Hollywood have been chosen for a final interview with a member of the M.G.M. staff later this spring. The reports are not confirmed by officers of the University.

Contracts for the two who are accepted by the film company are understood to run for six months with a possible option for renewal at a higher wage.

The extent of M.G.M.'s invasion of the collegiate field in its search for talent is not known, but it is believed that this University does not enjoy a monopoly of the opportunities.

No publicity has been given to the talent hunt, and the film company is said not to want a swarm of applicants for the jobs, having definite ideas in advance of the type of college graduate wanted.