Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Morton Downey received last week $4,500 from the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels) for singing, in his high, cajoling tenor, half a dozen songs into the radio every evening. The week before he got $5,500 for appearing briefly on the stage of Manhattan's Paramount Theatre. Six weeks ago he closed his supper-club in the smart Delmonico Hotel. For last week alone, the royalties on his own song ''Wabash Moon" (which, until he recently adopted "Carolina Moon" because Camels are made in Winston-Salem, N. C., was the "signature" of his broadcasts) amounted...
...troubles of Cinemactress Clara Bow really began when Benjamin P. Schulberg, Paramount's Western managing director of production, then associate producer, signed her to make silent cinemas in 1925. She was then a well-stuffed Brooklyn redhead with a Coney Island character. Two years later, when she had been the incarnation of Author Elinor Glyn's It, she was the most famed cinemactress in the U. S. She had her name made into a big electric sign for her father to hang outside his Brooklyn restaurant...
Last week, when she was preparing to go to the ranch of friend Rex Bell for further recuperation. Executive Schulberg announced that Clara Bow's contract with Paramount, running till next October, had been cancelled at her request. Said he: "This ends a long and successful . . . affiliation. . . . We are all anxious to see you emerge as the greatest and most popular actress...
Clara Bow changed her dyed hair from its celebrated red to pale yellow to avoid recognition, dressed herself in jodhpurs, a silk polo shirt, a whip equipped with powder case. At Friend Bell's ranch she said: "I wanted my contract broken if Paramount saw fit so that I might get back on my feet again. . . . It's like leaving home to leave the studio after all these years, but I know it is the best thing for me to do." She declared that after resting, she would become a free lance again, mentioned screen offers from Metro...
Night Angel (Paramount). Director Edmund Goulding had too much respect for the story he had to tell, perhaps because he wrote it himself. It concerned a public prosecutor who befriends a pretty waif after he has caused her mother, a jolly old woman with bad connections, to be put in jail. Having befriended, he falls in love with her, kills a beer garden malefactor who mistreats her and is put on trial for murder. The waif gives the testimony which causes a jury to free...