Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Beachcomber (Paramount) contains the most unusual cinema hero of the year. Shiftless, insolent, concupiscent Ginger Ted (Charles Laughton) makes himself a nuisance to the kindhearted controleur of the tropical Dutch island where he lives in a disreputable beach shack. He also takes pleasure in insulting a hard-working British female missionary (Elsa Lanchester*) who tries to save his soul...
Ride a Crooked Mile (Paramount). The central figure of this picture is a borsch-supping, caviar-munching, Otchi-Tchornyia-singing Cossack (Akim Tamiroff). Its locale is Kansas. For this apparent contradiction there is a simple explanation. The Cossack is a cattle rustler. and cattle rustling, by old cinema tradition, is an un-American occupation pursued only by refugees from nations to which Hollywood does not export its wares...
...persecution with the theory that Jewish oppression "has only followed after the Christians were first persecuted"; when he bursts forth in unreasoning attacks upon "communists" and "money changers";--then he is violating all that either the Catholic Church or American democracy have stood for. Tolerance today has become of paramount importance, and both church and state must make sure of its preservation and strengthening...
...French (Paramount). Screwball comedy raised a few notches above average by the presence in the cast of three masters of offhand humor, Olympe Bradna (Stolen Heaven), Ray Milland (Three Smart Girls), William Collier Sr. (Madison Square Garden, The Bride Comes Home...
...Replaced as production head of Paramount's Hollywood studio by his onetime subordinate, William Le Baron, 65-year-old Adolph Zukor, kingpin of the cinema industry from 1920 to 1930, this week left Hollywood for London, assigned to "coordinate" the company's European activities...