Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt, then campaigning as his party's vice-presidential nominee, was so thoroughly imbued with Wilsonian idealism that he fervently repeated that U. S. entry into the League was his ''single paramount issue." Last week as Governor of New York he told a meeting of the New York State Grange in Albany...
Tattlers were busily giving reasons why Vice President and General Distribution Manager Sidney R. Kent resigned from Paramount-Publix Corp. last month, were guessing his plans. Popular, an excellent salesman, Manager Kent was an Adolph Zukor protege. His resignation was sudden. Theories heard last week boiled down to two: 1) Mr. Kent resented the increasing power of Sam Katz (cofounder of famed Balaban & Katz theatre chain) in the company; 2) Mr. Kent had quarreled with Taximan John Daniel Hertz, leader of Paramount's new management. Every producer was said to be angling for Mr. Kent last week, with...
...Columbia Pictures line-up last week was Walter Wanger who resigned as general production manager of Paramount last June. It was his third resignation. This time the resignation stuck and he became vice president of Columbia (Mickey Mouse distributors). Harry Cohn assumed the presidency after buying the stock interest of Joseph Brandt, former president and his associate for 15 years...
Tomorrow and Tomorrow (Paramount). The overtones, the air of saying less than he means which Philip Barry puts into his serious plays, are somehow lacking in the cinematic version of Tomorrow and Tomorrow. This is a matter of mood rather than incident, for the story remains unchanged. An unhappy wife, eager to have children and bored with her sterile husband's sporting preoccupations, gets a solution of sorts by being more than a hostess to a celebrated psychiatrist who visits their town. Eight years later, when his child is ill, the psychiatrist comes back to cure him, then suggests...
...Paramount). Through tedious scenes of polo, parties and Palm Beach, this picture (from Rupert Hughes's novel) indicts the shallow rich. Penelope Newbold (Carole Lombard), seeking the 100% husband, has divorced one 60 per-center, is engaged to Bill Hanaway (Ricardo Cortez), a "sportsman," quoted about 70. Seeing Bill with Sue (Juliette Compton) in his arms, Penelope marks him down 30 points and elopes with a Viennese doctor who runs a sanitorium for wayward girls. Bill follows, wins her, conveniently dies from heart disease attributable to alcoholism, athletic and sexual excesses; and Penelope, proving her worth by nursing...