Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angel (Paramount) concerns Lady Maria's (Marlene Dietrich) rather pathetic effort to cast off her loyalty to her diplomat husband, Sir Frederick (Herbert Marshall). Angel is not a slut but a wife whose fidelity has been overstrained by Sir Frederick's immersion in diplomacy. And he, for all his fine deliberate charm, is the type of fellow who. when his wife tells him that she has been dreaming, immediately asks...
...PARAMOUNT--"Alcatraz Island" 10.55, 1.25, 4.15, 7.05, 9.50. "Danger, Men at Work...
...Nanking bombing pictures on view last week were less gory than the Shanghai bombing pictures (TIME, Sept. 13), but were in some respects superior to them in their hair-raising immediacy. The Movietone, Universal and Paramount photographers who made them arrived at Nanking day before the promised raid, decided to stop at the Yangtze Hotel outside, the city wall because its roof commanded a good view of the railroad station, which they expected to be the prime object of the attack. Imagine their discomfiture next day when the Japanese planes droned out of the sky and headed...
...Wrote Paramount's hardworking, socialite Arthur Menken-son of famed and dressy Manhattan matron Mrs. S. Stanwood Menken-in a chatty letter received by his Manhattan chiefs last week: "The first few bombs went wide of the mark, splashing into ponds between the power house and the hotel, too close for comfort but . . . very nice for pictures. The following planes came in with greater accuracy and dropped three eggs directly on the structure itself. . . . During this attack . . . the Chinese anti-aircraft with, I believe, .50 calibre machine guns brought down a plane directly in front of the building...
...Ritz Brothers with their concerted and well-timed insanity provide a new and entertaining twist to a typical football season offering about the coach's daughter and the winning game in "Life Begins at College" now at the Paramount and Fenway...