Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sitting politically pretty. Not having intervened to oust the sit-downers, he was still considered their friend. Law & order-minded citizens likewise applauded him for his declaration: "Whatever else may happen, there is going to be law and order in Michigan. The public interest and the public safety are paramount. The public authority in Michigan is stronger than either of the parties in the present controversy. Neither of them by recourse to force or violence will be permitted to add public terror to the existing economic demoralization...
Champagne Waltz (Paramount). The perennial and expensive effort to make a Grace Moore out of Gladys Swarthout seemed to have more logic some time ago when Miss Moore was a more important box-office draw. This version of the endeavor is a heavy-footed musical naively designed to combine the best features of jazz with those of the Viennese waltz. It concerns one Buzzy Bellew (Fred MacMurray), leader of a swing band which, reaching Vienna in a continental tour, ruins the business of the Franz & Elsa Strauss Waltz Palace. In the U. S. consulate, Elsa (Gladys Swarthout), who has gone...
This week Champagne Waltz starts simultaneous showings in 80 theatres in 24 countries all over the globe. The wholesale premiere of the picture, which Paramount's Board Chairman Adolph Zukor picked as the most festive of Paramount's present crop, was only one of a series of ceremonies arranged to celebrate the 25th anniversary of his start in the cinema industry. The Zukor Silver Jubilee, which began Jan. 7 and will last, according to Paramount publicity, for 17 weeks, reached its peak two weeks before the Champagne Waltz premiere. At a Hollywood super-dinner to Producer Zukor, Cinema...
...income tax returns. Highest-paid individual in the land that year was William Randolph Hearst, who drew $500,000 as head of Hearst Consolidated Publications Inc. A close second was Mae West. For her box-office sex appeal, the corporeal basis of which she has had immortalized in marble, Paramount paid...
...Paramount Studio Hollywood Confusing Sirs: In the Dec. 14 issue of TIME, on p. 60, col. 3, under Art, you state that "there is the able Italian Giorgio de Chirico, who, besides his familiar studies. ..." In the Dec. 14 issue of LIFE, on p. 27, under the reproduction of The Sailors' Barracks, by Italy's Giorgio de Chirico, is the remark that "The colonnade is her trademark." Now, admitting that de Chirico is Italian, an artist, and interested in horses and colonnades, I am curious to know whether...