Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This Way Please (Paramount). Love comes to Usherette Betty Grable, bringing with it Buddy Rogers and his band, Mary Livingstone (Mrs. Jack Benny), Ned Sparks and some lesser lights from radioland...
...fewer than 100 houses of God for construction over a period of ten years. Last week word reached the U. S. of the latest Les Chantiers du Cardinal-the Cardinal's building jobs. Soon to arise at Joinville-le-Pont, where the French cinema industry is largely centred (Paramount and Pathe studios and laboratories, Kodak-Pathe film factory), is a church for local workers. Its name: Notre-Dame...
Like livewire still cameramen (see p. 50), livewire newsreel photographers often go to extraordinary ends for a "new angle." Last week it looked for 50 wild minutes as if Paramount News Photographer Albert Mingalone had, like the AP's Keen, gone...
...rights share, cutting the play manager's accordingly. Hollywood, accustomed to making the manager a dummy figure and further controlling play property destinies by entering into noncompetitive bidding accords with other studios, promptly stopped backing plays. Simultaneously seven studios (Warner Bros., Universal, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Twentieth Century-Fox, Paramount, RKO-Radio, Columbia) set up the Bureau of New Plays, with canny Theresa Helburn (see p. 55) at the helm, offered advances on royalties, fellowships; hoped to corner young talent. Now in its second year, the Bureau has paid awards, but has so far found no play worth producing...
...prove himself better suited for playwriting than for the diplomatic service. Son Terence wrote six plays, collected five rejection slips. In November 1935, two weeks before Tyro Rattigan's year was up, French Without Tears was accepted, staged last year in London where it is still running. Paramount Pictures bought the screen rights...