Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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JESSE CRAWFORD resolute and skillful organist for that temple of cinema the PARAMOUNT has once more recorded for Victor and this time. It is HIGH HAT and TEN LITTLE MILES FROM TOWN. Werry goot...
Despite Nominee Roosevelt's protestations to the contrary, the compelling logic of his nomination, the one paramount purpose, was this: Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the man, the only conceivable man, who might appreciably strengthen Nominee Smith "upstate...
...toward an ellipse. Joseph P. Kennedy (TIME, May 28) closed it by becoming K-A-O's chairman. He was already chairman of Film Booking Offices, cinema distributors and theatre managers. This was an alliance, not a merger. It was weakly tied financially. It was weaker than the Paramount-Famous-Lasky, the Fox Film and Loew organizations. Warner Bros, merger with the Stanley Co. of America and First National Pictures three weeks ago also was stronger...
...Film (with Movietone) has steady customers in the allied Fox Theatres, Warner Brothers have been obliged to depend upon the demand, insistent although it has been, of strange and invidious exhibitors. With Stanley Co. and First National Pictures it can stand shoulder to shoulder with other great amusement sellers-Paramount-Famous-Lasky, Loew...
Boston says "she's our weakness now" but Paramount's "friskiest, fastest" comedy fails to hit the high spots promised by it. Clara Bow is a nice little girl out of her element as a hostess in a dance hall, and it seems that she is misunderstood. After the local swains have attempted to discover the talent hidden behind a demure exterior; it finally turns out that the right party happens along, and after the usual expected and unexpected misunderstandings and controversies, the show...