Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charlie Chaplin in "Modern Times" has descended from the flashy banners and is now doing a routine week's term at the Paramount and Fenway. If you missed him the first time, by all means go now. But be a little cautious about indulging that vague inclination toward a second seeing. It isn't quite no funny the second time to see Mr. Chaplin dive into four inches of water mistaken for a lake, or to watch him lead a Communist parade through the accident of having picked up a red flag fallen from the hind end of a truck...
Give Us This Night* (Paramount) is three-quarters sheer melody. Its ballads are the most advanced light opera music yet composed for cinema, and it contains one scene of cinema's first original grand opera-a balcony scene from a work called Romeo & Juliet of which only a few skeleton scenes were ever written. All the music except a short interpolation from Il Trovatore was composed by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, whose Violanta and Dead City have been given at the Metropolitan and who arranged the Mendelssohn score for Warner Brothers' Midsummer Night's Dream...
...Desire (Paramount). There are two possible reasons why this picture was approved by the Hays organization. The first is that its agents were not sophisticated enough to understand it. The second is that U. S. cinema censors have suddenly become sufficiently enlightened to pass scenes showing a young couple misbehaving together when the picture which includes them has definite esthetic merit. Desire is a romantic comedy of grace, dexterity and charm in which Marlene Dietrich's performance is the best she has given since she became too dignified to exhibit the legs which brought her her first...
Readers of Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner found a tiny Paramount advertisement saying: "Important feature. For information call VA-2041 [the theatre]." In the same issue they found a large advertisement of a Negro burlesque show, displaying two nude Negro women with the caption: "It's a hot, sizzling performance of black & brown skin revues! Daring, intimate, greatest array of beautiful brown-skin models, with 89 teasing beauties on the stage...
...American version of this film is now playing at the Paramount in Boston, but this differs from the French production in that the latter includes only the start life of Pasteur, with no women in the cast, and thus no romance in the story...