Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anything Goes (Paramount). Actually, a lot of people beside Cole Porter had a hand in this screen version of last year's No. 1 Broadway musicomedy, but somehow it all adds up to a Cole Porter lyric cast in celluloid, with involved metaphors and polysyllabic rhymes translated into comedy antics and plot convolutions, and set to impudent, lighthearted music. Some of it is music worn thin by 1935's dancing slippers, but some good new ones have been added: Sailor Beware, Moonburn, My Heart...
Collegiate (Paramount) is an up-to-date adaptation of Alice Duer Miller's The Charm School, which Wallace Reid made as a silent picture in 1921. It is a revealing commentary on the progress of cinematic fashions that the principal figure in the current version is a personage as unlike Matinee Idol Reid as it would be possible to find: Pantaloon Joe Penner, whose alarming ability to simulate the appearance and behavior of a congenital idiot has rapidly made him one of Hollywood's most admired comedians...
...NATIVE of Russia . . . supervisor over the work of 6r writers, including Dorothy Parker and Tiffany Thayer. . . and editor of nothing himself . . . quick facts about Michael Wilf, new story chief for Paramount pictures...
...college plays . . . who left Chaucer after graduation in '27 for such things as traveling with Isadora Duncan dancers... beginning as "reader" at Warner Brothers . . . making symphonies of books and magazine stories . . . he went up the tinselled ladder until he achieved his present position . . . that of assigning work to Paramount writers, Reading scripts, and looking for writing talent... and writning nothing himself, expect notes for the writers...
Perhaps you will be amused by the Paramount news in which Secretary Wallace the Supreme Court of stealing. "The March of Time" is back again, fortunately...