Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...goes to Navy-minded Director Lloyd Bacon, son of the late Actor Frank Bacon (Lightnin'). Director Bacon joined the Navy at the start of the World War, was commissioned as a photographic expert, now holds the rank of lieutenant-commander (reserve), spends vacations on navy cruises. Ebb Tide (Paramount). The tall tale, originally told by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, of the adventures of three beachcombers in a stolen schooner never bore up very well under literary scrutiny. But in the kindlier glow of cinema Technicolor, Ebb Tide's whoppers become leisurely implausibilities, and the story...
Dorothy Lamour (Jungle Princess, High, Wide and Handsome), lithe but unathletic, was publicized by Paramount, which loaned her to Goldwyn for Hurricane, as a jungle-woman who lived on bananas, coconuts, papayas. A monkey and a leopard were planted in her apartment, over her protests, until the monkey got loose, so disturbed other tenants that police were called. Miss Lamour (nee Slaton), 22, has never been nearer a jungle than the isthmus at Catalina Island, where parts of Hurricane were filmed. She is a 5 ft. 5 in., 117-lb., healthy, heavy-lipped New Orleans girl who won a beauty...
...often been said that peace is more than the absence of war. The opportunity for free thinking likewise is a positive condition and, like peace, cannot simply be hoped for. The paramount necessity of cooperation between the democracies of the world in behalf of the ideals they stand for is again vividly illustrated...
Advantages to be gained from an active position on the CRIMSON are innumerable, but paramount among them is the resultant knowledge of the University. Because of the peculiar nature of newspaper work, in a large university like Harvard, every incident, change of policy, athletic event, in short, any happening concerning that university must be known about by such a newspaper. From striving towards this goal, members of the boards, candidates for membership, become steadily better acquainted with the college and the way in which it is governed. In no other activity can these advantages be realized to such an extent...
Angel is the first picture made by Ernst Lubitsch since he stopped being Paramount's production boss and went back to directing. It is the kind of picture in which the characters move about in carefully articulated poses, in costly sets, talking about their emotions and playing well-bred tunes on the piano. Marlene Dietrich flutters her eyelashes twice before each line about love and once when her feeling is marital fidelity. Her make-up is so sharpened it makes her look gaunt, but nothing can keep her from looking lovely, and she can still be beautiful in clothes...