Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Warner Bros, junior cinemusical company has a picnic with the slapdash, rapid lines, but there is nothing slapdash about the glittering specialties or the skilful, engaging music. Top song and top production number: Too Marvelous for Words. Swing High, Swing Low (Paramount) reveals the effects of outrageous fortune's slings and arrows upon the soul of a sensitive hot-trumpet player. Mustered out of the U. S. Army in Panama, Skid Johnson (Fred MacMurray) is not much better than a guttersnipe when he meets Maggie King (Carole Lombard), a stranded dancer working as a manicurist. Things begin to improve...
...expert keeping a stiff upper-lip the emotional intensity which it no doubt deserves. Songs like Panamania and I Hear a Call to Arms, by Al Siegel and Sam Coslow, are appealing but hardly likely to be rated as classics by addicts of swing music. Vastly over-ballyhooed by Paramount, the picture's chief virtues are providing pretty Carole Lombard with a few comedy lines almost up to the standard of the ones she had in My Man Godfrey; and reminding cinemaddicts that Fred MacMurray, who can really play a trombone, got his start in cinema after a five...
...Paramount it is currently a relief to turn from the spy to the mystery story. The mystery, "Murder Goes to College," finally provides some measure of recognition to Lynne Overman. Given just a flavoring of original material to work with, he moulds it to advantage in creating almost single-handed an entirely insignificant but highly enjoyable hilarity atmosphere...
...Paramount issue in the argument which involved claims for damages on the grounds that insanity had resulted from the narrow escape of being run down by a truck were the questions of negligence on the part of the driver and the legality of certain hearsay evidence. Lawyers for the defendant delivery company earned their decision by disclaiming the plea of Insanity...
...from the Group Theatre to House Dramatics, but from one point of view they are the paramount social activity in the House system. Unlike many extra-curricular interests they require relatively little time. A prominent official has said that such presentations number among the most valuable activities in the University, because of their tendency to bring House members into close contact with each other and because of their informality...