Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...organizational activities in the course of the last month have reached a record peak, has lately been cinema producers' most pressing problem. Last week in Hollywood they found a solution: to represent them as labor arbitrator, the eight major companies included in the Producers Association (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount, Warner Bros., Twentieth Century-Fox, RKO, United Artists, Universal and Columbia) elected Benjamin Bertram Kahane, for the last year right-hand man to Columbia's President Harry Kohn. Bald, hook-nosed Ben Kahane, 45, is a onetime Chicago lawyer who became general counsel for the old Orpheum Circuit...
...Girl Said No, music from Princess Tingaling was substituted. Against U. S. screenings the D'Oyly Carte Company, whose British copyrights will not expire until 1961. can only protest. All credit for this costless coup goes to Producer Andrew L. Stone, who was immediately signed up by Paramount...
Hotel Haywire (Paramount): a rollicking mêlée precipitated when Spring Byington finds a pair of women's silk panties in Lynne Overman's pocket-prolonged by Astrologer Zodiac Z. Zippe (Leo Carrillo) supplying both with detectives recruited from vaudevillle...
...Paris (Paramount) mine the photographically rich vein of winter sports which, extensively explored by European producers, has heretofore been neglected by Hollywood. On her first trip abroad, in flight from a tedious suitor in New York, Fashion Designer Kay Denham (Claudette Colbert) picks up two personable Americans in a Paris bar. One is Gene Anders (Robert Young) who hoping to gratify his inclination for casual romance, suggests a trip to Switzerland. The other is his friend George Potter (Melvyn Douglas) who, also in love with Kay and aware that Gene already has a wife, joins the junket as chaperon...
...Warner Bros., RKO, Paramount, Metro-Golchvyn-Mayer, Twentieth Century-Fox, United Artists, Universal, Columbia...