Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Monkey Business (Paramount). This picture begins when a first mate on an ocean liner tells the captain that there are four hidden stowaways on board. "How do you know there are four?" asks the captain. "They are singing 'Sweet Adeline,' " says the mate. Routed from the barrels in which they have secreted themselves, the Marx Brothers undertake to distress the other passengers. Harpo, on a kiddy-car, slides about the deck with evil looks for all. He captures and becomes the friend of a frog, which he keeps in his hat. He carries a cane which...
...Hours (Paramount). It is a familiar but extraordinary fact that mediocre novels often make the most acceptable plays. Likewise, mediocre novels and plays often make the best cinemas. A fair example is 24 Hours. Louis Bromfield's book receives substance in the cinema. Its overtheatrical characters, given faces, bodies, legs and voices, cease being utterly unreal and their problems serve some purpose beyond boiling an author...
...three were William Powell, Kay Francis and Ruth Chatterton. Most raucous was Paramount's excitement over losing Miss Chatterton. Warner Bros, were several times rumored to be ready to give her back but last week Cinemactress Chatterton was busy with her last Paramount picture (Tomorrow & Tomorrow), planned to begin work for Warner Bros...
...week they had 73. The 47 new theatres were rented from Fox Theatres Corp. on 26-year contracts, consist of all Fox's Manhattan-Brooklyn-Long Island chain except for the de luxe houses. Fox had tried previously to sell the chain to Radio-Keith-Orpheum, then to Paramount-Publix...
...poked her way across mid-Manhattan. Presently the biggest of the planes began to fly in a mile-circle around the dirigible, spewing a lengthening white plume of vapor behind her. The trail of smoke dripped downward until it hung like a great white curtain completely concealing the airship. Paramount Sound News men, who staged the stunt, ground their cameras busily. As the Los Angeles climbed above the smoke screen and headed for home, the white vapor continued to drift lower and lower until mild panic occurred in the streets. A man riding atop a Fifth Avenue bus began...