Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last January, Warner Bros, announced that they had signed contracts with, among others, two prominent Paramount stars, Ruth Chatterton and William Powell. '"Chatter-Chippies"-female reporters of Hollywood studio gossip-became vastly excited, spoke of a war between Paramount and Warner Bros. Paramount executives remained calm, insisted that Cinemactress Chatterton was still a Paramount star...
Nothing more was said about Paramount v. Warner re Chatterton till last spring when chatter-chippies relayed rumors that, at a quiet conference between Paramount and Warner executives, Warner Bros, had returned Ruth Chatterton to Paramount, agreed not to take her away. It was clear, by this time, that there was something in the situation which the reporters had failed to unearth but those familiar with the vagaries and deceptions of their sources supposed that the reporters were not to blame...
...Chatterton chatter became an uproar for the third time last week when Hearst-Chippy Louella O. Parsons reported that "Ruth Chatterton goes to Warner Bros. That is definite and final." Paramount announced that they had made arrangements to buy Author Philip Barry's stage success Tomorrow and Tomorrow to be made into Cinemactress Chatterton's next talkie, stated that there had been no change in the situation since the agreement last spring. Warner Bros, officials refused to comment on the rumor...
...antique jewelry†- the Maltese falcon. They commit a total of three murders in the effort to do so. In a wry conclusion, the Maltese falcon is found to be valueless; the detective delivers the heroine (Bebe Daniels) to the police for hanging. The Lawyer's Secret (Paramount). However distressing it may be when a client comes to his lawyer and confesses to being implicated in a murder, the lawyer's situation becomes even more painful when he is asked to defend another person (Richard Arlen) unjustly accused of the same crime. To accept this case would...
...executive editor of Tower Publications, magazines published for sale in Woolworth chain stores, was appointed Verne Porter, onetime editor of Cosmopolitan, editor-in-chief of Hearst's Cosmopolitan Productions (films), editor-in-chief of Paramount-Famous-Lasky, lately scenario editor in the East of Universal Pictures Corp. His duty: to keep liaison between Editorial Director Hugh Weir and the managing editors of the respective magazines (New Movie, Illustrated Love, Illustrated Detective, Home). ¶ Ten years ago famed Typographer Frederic William Goudy was commissioned by Woman's Home Companion to design a new type face for the magazine...