Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with yearly income 50% of its total investment, is a stable, an important industry. And the most important figure in it is a little man, Adolph Zukor, who last week gave a smiling, chattering welcome to his friends-bankers, actors, merchants, politicos-come for the opening of his new Paramount Theatre in Manhattan. This new theatre-it is the latest of more than 800 that Adolph Zukor with Jesse L. Lasky and their Famous Players-Lasky associates have built or bought-is a $3,000,000 affair built into the new $17,000,000 Paramount Building at 43rd Street...
Died. Hiram Abrams, 48, President of the United Artists Corp. (cinema); in Manhattan, of heart disease. He began life in Portland, Me., as newsboy; became first president of Paramount Pictures; headed United Artists, which organization Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbank, Charles Chaplin, D. W. Griffith helped him form...
When the German offensive at the Marne concentrated unexpectedly upon Le Petit Morin, the heights which General Foch had been assigned to defend with a pitiably small force, his brilliant "intuitive" maneuver of the 42nd Division from his left to his centre forced the enemy back and proved a paramount element in the French victory. Marshal Joseph Jacques Joffre, who had long realized the special capabilities of Ferdinand Foch, took this opportunity to send him as "Deputy Commander-in-Chief" to put himself in the closest touch with the British and Belgian commanders. His success in conciliating all with whom...
...would be over picker. A brief cable from Lasky rather spoiled that plan however and realizing that it would be curel to deprive the public of such a treat Mr. Shaw has come down to $100,000 at which sum the matter stands while the Paramount Pictures deliberate...
...heard plans for meeting an annual budget of $54,000,000. To a suggestive report on conditions in the Orient, already familiar to him, he listened imperturbed. "Because of the progress of the native movement in China and adjacent countries," said the report, "American leadership no longer is paramount there."* Presumably reference was made to the fact that the Asiatic "Y" has long been selfsupporting. Wealthy mandarins, Confucians, Buddhists contribute. Curtailment of Asiatic activity was recommended, and extension of program for South America, where "recent developments have opened opportunity...