'meg", verb of unknown meaning, 1930

[Joel S. Berson]

At 3/26/2014 05:06 PM, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 05:04:47PM -0400, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> > Variety, 1930 Nov. 12 (Wed.), p. 4, col. 5.  Microfilm.
> >
> > "Universal will not foreignize 'Half Gods.' George Melford, slated to
> > meg, has been switched to 'Boudoir Diplomat.' Arthur Gregor, who was
> > to direct the latter, is off the payroll temporarily. He will return
> > to make the Spanish "Resurrection."
> >
> > "meg', verb, not in OED Online; unknown meaning, unknown transitivity.
>
>= 'to direct', from _megaphone_.
>
>Jesse Sheidlower

I thought of "megaphone", but didn't arrive at revisualizing scenes
of silent movie directors in action!

Joel

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