Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King Stokowski found relief from routine last spring during the Philadelphia Orchestra's cross-country tour (TIME, March 27). He then stopped long enough in Hollywood to appear in Paramount's The Big Broadcast of 1937 (see >-67), along with Funnyman Jack Benny, the moronic radio team of Burns & Allen, Jazzman Kenny Goodman and his Swing Band. The Big Broadcast of 1937 had its Philadelphia premiere last week, but Conductor Stokowski's personal appearance was canceled at the request of the Musicians Union of which he is a member. -The world's three foremost orchestras...
Valiant is the Word for Carrie (Paramount) restores to circulation that fine old institution of the U. S. entertainment business, the noble prostitute. To the cottage on the outskirts of Crebillon...
...PENWAY AND PARAMOUNT...
...also progressive and enlightened Nizam of Hyderabad; and third, the weak and pleasure-loving Prince who was the victimized "Mr. A" of a notorious blackmail case in England twelve years ago (TIME, Oct. 25, 1925 et ante), His Highness the polo-playing Maharaja of Jammu & Kashmir. Of these three paramount potentates only the Nizam has had gumption to battle the British for every possible concession Hyderabad can wangle out of the new Constitution. Chief battler for the "Richest Man in the World" is fox-bearded, gimlet-eyed Sir Akbar Hydari whose importance far eclipses his modest title of Finance...
...quiet executive manner, a boyish bob and an interest in medicine and sunsets. She graduated from Westlake School, a semi-fashionable Los Angeles seminary for girls, into a job on the switchboard for a wholesale coffee house. A friend got her a $3 raise and a place in the Paramount stenographic department. She became a script girl for Nazimova, did so well that she was pro moted to the cutting room - a department then generally staffed exclusively...