Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Klondike Annie (Paramount). Said the Hearst New York American last week: "The attention of the churches, the women's clubs, the various state censors, the state legislatures and the Congress of the United States is called to the fact that Mae West has produced another screen play which she wrote herself. . . ." Whether or not Klondike Annie is really worth the attention of Congressmen will depend on how familiar they are with earlier West efforts from which the current one differs only in detail. This time she is a San Francisco strumpet who knifes her Chinese paramour, slips on board...
...Kansas City, Cinemactress West's Manager James Timony was asked to comment on her current bickering with Paramount about her contract. Said he: "Lubitsch thought in his Hitler way he could push her around. ... In the end she pushed him around. . . . After all. she was in the show business before he thought of being. . . ." On his way to Europe for a honeymoon. Director Ernst Lubitsch replied as impudently as possible: "Try to push her around? . . . She's much too heavy. ... Of course she was in show business before I was. She's older than I am." Director...
...Story of Louis Pasteur" and "The Voice of Bugle Ann" are showing this week at the Paramount and Fenway. Both are drawn from the realm of fact: the first from the career of a courageous ploneer; the second from a trivial homicide in the mountains of Missouri...
...Japanese parties, the Seiyukai and the Minseito. Many of these candidates neither knew nor cared what the issues, if any, were. This astounding state of affairs existed despite the fact that there had been no Japanese election since 1932. In theory the poll last week should have settled the paramount issue of Eastern Asia, whether Japanese expansion is to rage on through China at staggering cost or whether the Japanese people disapprove the extravagant and risky militarism which has been the Japanese Government's main policy for the past four years. This central issue was so packed with dynamite...
...more than wait watchfully for the plunge into color which the industry admits is eventually inevitable. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine may be the starting gun. Producers Sam Goldwyn, David Selznick, Alexander Korda, Darryl Zanuck and Walter Wanger, who last week transferred his producing company from Paramount to United Artists, all have one color production on their current schedules; Pioneer Pictures, Inc. has four. Last week when The Trail of the Lonesome Pine broke records for an opening night at Manhattan's Paramount Theatre. Technicolor stock wriggled...