Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dean duly reported this irregularity to Pacific Coast Conference authorities, pleading clemency for the boy. Only penalty meted out to Key was ineligibility for U. C. L. A. freshman athletics. Declaring that he was glad the hoax was over, last week "Shorty" Key confessed: ". . . Before God the paramount reason I went to U. C. L. A. under the alias was to get a degree so I could coach! I figured I'd only be able to play in the California game anyway. A friend of mine from Texas sent me a paper the other day with a big picture...
...Christian and Dudley Digges as the ship's doctor perform brilliantly in the cast that supports Laughton. A superb story magnificently told. Mutiny on the Bounty will undoubtedly compensate its makers in box-office cash and artistic credit for the trouble which it caused them. Peter Ibbetson (Paramount), as admirers of George Du Maurier will recall. is the story of an unfortunate young Englishman whose life is materially blighted and spiritually enriched by memories of a childhood romance. Separated from his inamorata at the age of 8, Peter Ibbetson meets her again when he is a thriving young architect...
Married- Margalo Gillmore, 35, actress (Flowers of the Forest, The Barretts of Wimpole Street), daughter of President Frank Gillmore of the Actors' Equity Association; and Robert F. Ross, 35, director (On Stage, The Distant Shore) ; in Manhattan. Acquitted. Warner Brothers, Paramount and RKO, seven of their subsidiaries and five major executives: of a charge of having violated the Sherman Anti-Trust Law by withholding their films from three St. Louis cinemansions (TIME, Oct. 14); by a Federal court jury; in St. Louis. The case was regarded as a prime test of the legality of the U. S. cinema distributing...
...came back from his first retirement to handle finances of Paramount Publix. He slashed costs, reduced rentals, made executives turn in expense accounts. But he cut off so many heads and stepped on so many toes that in 1933 he resigned, reputedly over the question of John Hertz authority versus Adolph Zukor authority. The second retirement also failed to take, and in January 1934 he became a Lehman partner...
...fact that the stockholders' rights have been preserved." But where Cook, Nathan & Lehman claimed $250,000, Judge Coxe allowed them $115,000. Similarly Root, Clark, Buckner & Ballantine, attorneys for the receivers and trustees, specified that partners of the firm had put in 9,545 hours on the Paramount case and that their associates had put in 62,568 hours. But of a claim for $700,000, Judge Coxe allowed only $200,000, partly because the law firm had previously been allowed $250,000 for services rendered...