Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hello, Everybody! (Paramount). Hollywood was upset last week by the financial crashing of two major producing companies, Paramount and RKO (see p. 46). A reason often advanced for the difficulties of cinema producers is radio. Hello, Everybody! is an obvious attempt to attract the radio public by exhibiting one of radio's most popular performers, huge Kate Smith, whose saccharine contralto has for two years been the mainstay of the La Palina cigar broadcast...
Island of Lost Souls (Paramount) offers to connoisseurs of acting an opportunity to observe Charles Laughton in the role of a depraved physician who sets up a physiological research station on a remote Pacific isle and comes to a bad end at the claws of a crew of extras made up to resemble subhumans. If the principal role in this garish adaptation of H. G. Wells's Island of Doctor Moreau had been entrusted to some one else, it might very well have emerged as a routine nightmare, notable mainly for the presence of Paramount's highly publicized...
...pictures, and "If I Had a Million," currently showing at the University, is no exception. But while most productions which boast a "galaxy of stars" fail through conflicts of acting, this one lacks anything which might approach unity of direction. The superb cast of directors, headed by Ernst Lubitsch, Paramount's ace, leaves the minds of their audience much the same feeling as that created by the architecture of Adams House: a meaningless hodge-podge of more or less attractive pieces...
...Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Paramount...
Last week the following were news: Mutual expressions of admiration and gratitude were exchanged last week when John Daniel Hertz, 53, resigned as chairman of Paramount Publix's finance committee. Direct cause of his move was a conflict with President Adolph Zukor, 60 last week, over "the technical limitations upon the authority of various officers.'' Other important resignations from the company in recent months have included Sam Katz, onetime close Hertz ally. Sidney Kent, Jesse Lasky. Mr. Hertz entered Paramount's affairs 14 months ago at the "suggestion" of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., bankers and creditors...