Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...curious problem. Geologists will have hunted fossils. Astronomers will have gazed at the beautiful aurora australis, southern counterpart of the aurora borealis (northern lights). Cameramen Willard Vander Veer and Joseph T. Ruckner will have filmed scenes for a gripping ice drama of the future, to be produced by Paramount Pictures. Newsgatherer Russell Owen will have assembled material for a hundred exclusive stories in the New York Times...
They backed a truck up against Clara Bow's dressing apartment at the Paramount studios in Hollywood. It took a long while to load the truck; and then they drove it away to a storage warehouse. The idea: to get rid of 250,000 letters from cinema-bugs, which had been cluttering Miss Bow's apartment...
Warming Up. Paramount, too, has gone into the talkie business. Nobody talks in Warming Up; but the ill-timed crack of a bat against a baseball, the ear-splitting yawp of the crowd, the squawk of an offstage soprano are in the air, now and then. The story purports to tell how the Yankees won the World Series when a bush-league pitcher (Richard Dix) peered into the grandstand, saw his girl (Jean Arthur) signal that she would marry him. Then he fanned the opposition, including his dastardly rival. So full of hebetude is the film that baseball fans squirmed...
...matter is of paramount world importance because the Rumano-Hungarian dispute is outstanding among those problems which the League of Nations puts off, year after year, because it has not the power to enforce its decisions. Impartial opinion is preponderately to the effect that Hungary's cause is just, in this instance; but that France, Rumania's great ally, will prevent any League decision tending to favor Hungary...
...Beagles are four-legged animals, Pete and Dan slap thighs in joyful anticipation of easy slaughter. But the Beagles are a family of two-legged humans. The problem is finally solved without bloodshed when one little Beagle girl (Mary Brian) marries a Hicks boy. Here & there, a laugh ensues. . . . Paramount advertises the film as the last of the Beery-Hatton comedies...