Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whoever told you that we had that sum, grossly exaggerated the fact. We have a small endowment much less than half that sum, just enough to attract sensible givers, who wish to give to a going concern, nonpartisan, courageous and non-purchasable, always alert to tackle the paramount issue. We are. able to do a vast work, if we had an endowment of a million...
...Outcast (Paramount). Though acquitted of murdering a woman who died of an overdose of sedative, Dr. Jones (Warren William) is disgraced, forced to retire to a small town where his name is unknown and where he can begin life anew with the help of old Lawyer Abbott (Lewis Stone). But Margaret Stevens (Karen Morley), sister-in-law of the dead woman, follows Dr. Jones, bent on revenge. She falls in love with him instead, is about to depart when her meddlesome landlady learns about the murder trial publishes the story in the village newspaper. Simultaneously, the landlady's little...
Less ambitiously contrived than such past celluloid legal biographies as The Mouthpiece (Warners) and For The Defense (Paramount), Man of the People is rather a character sketch than a story. In spite of its quiet manner and narrative form, it carries the conviction that always clings to an interesting subject handled with a minimum of frills. This conviction depends on accumulated detail and testifies to Screen Playwright Frank Dolan's diligent observation in the days when he was covering trials for Manhattan newspapers...
...thick for intelligibility, offers the most illuminating glimpse of Ireland's fight for home rule thus far included in Hollywood's dossier on the subject. Good shot: Fluther's technique in a barroom fight- fantastically complicated footwork, accompanied by no blows. A Doctor's Diary (Paramount) is a savagely derisive expose of conventional medical ethics, fairly screaming the sort of hospital anecdotes which upright members of the profession refrain even "from whispering. Its casting is as daring as its contention. Producer B. P. Schulberg has staffed it almost entirely with unknown players. John Trent, a self...
...establishing April scholastic aptitude tests for candidates for Freshman scholarships, Harvard has taken the lead in an educational advance of paramount importance, and it is a step forward particularly vital to Harvard herself. For with the national scholarships spreading their tentacles over a number of new states next year, the aptitude tests should considerably facilitate the choice of men for these positions...