Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With money a paramount subject at all colleges this year, pedagogs last week took special interest in the cases of two bad bursars...
...Every man has a right to his own property. ... In all thought of property this right is paramount. ... I am not prepared to say that the system which produces princes of property is wrong. I am very clear that they must assume the responsibility which goes with the power...
Blonde Venus (Paramount) presents a new excuse for Marlene Dietrich to play a bad woman. Excuse: sick husband. The picture graphs her degeneration. Excuse: mother-love. Toward the end, having left husband & child behind, she rises fast, her motto being "Down to Gehenna or up to the throne, he travels fastest who travels alone." She completes the cycle in the arms of husband & child...
Insatiable admirers of Marlene Dietrich will swarm to this, her latest starring vehicle, will stay to be bored, and will understand at last why Paramount sought to wrest some manner of control over her acting and stories from the stubborn von Sternberg. For whatever fault, and there is much, which can be found in this cinema may be placed on the doorstep of the director alone. A capable group of actors struggles manfully through an unconvincing, poorly motivated, carelessly photographed production. But the effort is vain: Dietrich remains the beautiful woman who has yet to prove her histrionic talent; Herbert...
...Paramount--"Movie Crazy." Harold Lloyd awkardly trips around Hollywood, and is very funny...