Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...come to the U. S. Indignant Mr. Lewis thereupon offered the play rights to WPA's Federal Theatre Project, which went ahead with plans to produce the play simultaneously in a score of cities all over the nation. It was agreed that Nobel Prizewinner Lewis and his collaborator, Paramount Writer John C. ("Jack") Moffitt, should divide royalties of $50 per week for each theatre in which the play was shown. After squabbles with his collaborator and with Federal Theatre Director Hallie Flanagan during which, according to rumor, Mr. Lewis was on the verge of withdrawing the play, a final...
This week the Paramount and Fenway offer entertainment of the pick-him-up-and-knock-him-down variety. As an antidote to the adventures of a wise-cracking radio columnist is shown a grand, old mother and son saga which is guaranteed to jerk a tear every foot...
This week, in The Story of Barbara, the magazine describes the measures taken to transform homely Barbara Phillips into glamorous Barbara Phillips (see cuts). First a professional make-up man, Paramount's Edward Sigmund Senz, was given general supervision. He sent Miss Phillips to a dentist to have two protruding teeth "capped," to Columbia University for a voice test, to a wigmaker for a flattering, readymade wig to cover her short, scraggly hair. A dress designer conceived a special frock to "soften the neckline." Make-up Man Senz "deepened" Miss Phillips' bulgy eyes with dark brown "shadow," made...
Wedding Present (Paramount). Cinema newspaper people, merely drunken sots a few years ago, have kept on topping each other's efforts in irresponsibility. Currently newshawks on the screen are, with few exceptions (see below), practically indistinguishable from run-of-the-mill lunatics. Wedding Present turns a couple of these creatures loose to follow the bidding of their erratic temperaments. The result, however insulting to the dignity of the trade, is efficacious and at times uproarious comedy...
...Fenway and Paramount Theatres this week is "The Big Broadcast of 1937", fresh from its first run at the Metropolitan, and "Hollywood Boulevard", with John Halliday...