Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This Day & Age (Paramount), Cecil Blount DeMille addresses himself to two obsolescent problems: 1) the gangster, 2) the younger generation. A director who combines the talents of a burlesque impresario and a soap-box revivalist, he makes the result a noisy and preposterous melange, calculated to arouse squeals of excitement or of ennui, according to the audience's mental...
...Street, Moonlight and Pretzels has a little more authentic Broadway flavor than either. This and another advantage-that it cost Monte Brice and William Rowland, who produced it for Universal, only about $150,000-are probably due to the fact that it was manufactured not in Hollywood, but at Paramount's former (L. I.) studio which has been unused for two years...
...Devil's in Love (Fox). If the French Government were as particular about such matters as Mussolini-who suggested to Paramount that A Farewell to Arms avoid showing the Italian Army in a rout-Hollywood would be compelled to take a different attitude toward the Foreign Legion. In the cinema this organization is shown to be a compromise between a sanatorium and a Wild West show. Its members when they are not busy forgetting unpleasant pasts are busy forgetting their duties as soldiers while they murder one another and misbehave with ladies...
...Song of Songs (Paramount), impaired somewhat by the glum reverence with which the cinema customarily treats the classics, is a pictorially beautiful adaptation of Hermann Sudermann's famed novel. It shows Marlene Dietrich, sinning as usual, but not without good reason. She is Lily Czepanek, a Berlin model who suffers successively from associations with a drunken, tyrannical aunt, a faithless lover, a brutish husband and a riding master...
Mama Loves Papa (Paramount). A timid little clerk (Charles Ruggles) who loves making puns like "sanctuary much" which his fat wife (Mary Boland) fails to appreciate, appears at his office one morning dressed in a cutaway coat. This is because his wife has been lecturing him on the advantages of fine feathers; his employer takes it for granted that he has a funeral to go to, gives him the day off. The clerk goes for a stroll in the park, gets mistaken for the playground commissioner, then accidentally gets the job. He keeps it until he finds out that...