Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other words: learning should mean discovering how to do. The element of "discovery" is held high if not paramount by Educator Dewey. He declares: "While immature students will not make discoveries from the standpoint of advanced students, they make them from their own standpoint whenever there is genuine learning...
...this production by William Wellman, and the writing of it by J. M. Saunders, author also of "Wings," makes it one of the better war pictures. Gary Cooper plays the leading male role, that of Gale Price, and the feminine lead is taken by another new-comer to the Paramount ranks. Fay Wray...
...Paramount-Famous-Lasky Corp. set out to make a cinema of life at Yale. Wells Root, able scribe, Yale graduate of 1922, wrote the story. The co-operation of Yale University was sought. Yale officials, however, exhibited coolness. So last week Paramount-Famous-Lasky Corp. planned to shoot the film in California, to use instead of Yale the name of a fictitious institution of learning...
...Fields and Chester Conklin are the protagonists in "Fools for Luck", the Paramount comedy at the Metropolitan is week. The team performs much as usual in a picture based on the adventures of a slick promoter who comes to a small town with a get rich quick scheme. A grip full of oil stock, the beautiful daughter of Huntersville's leading citizen, small town life de luxe, all these things are mixed up in a rather ordinary film which has a few lsolated laughs and moments of spirited action...
Like the famous old gray mare, the Freshman Jubilee, the paramount social event of every first year class, is not what is used to be in the days of its origin. When the Class of 1931 gathers in the Smith Hall quadrangle the latter part of May for its festivities, it will celebrate in an entirely different manner from the Class of 1918, the pioneer in Freshman Jubilees. For during the 13 years which have elapsed since the initial Jubilee, the function has evolved from a semi-concert for the entertainment of fond parents and relatives to a typical jazz...