Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...consider his attitude toward that piece of paper highly dangerous, if not downright destructive. Picking for their political sound-off the 148th anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution by its framers at Philadelphia, important Republicans throughout the land warmed to a theme which they hope will be paramount in the 1936 presidential campaign. Though few G. O. Partisans dared to mention him by name, the speeches of one & all were aimed directly at the President of the U. S. No less full of wails and warnings were a number of disgruntled Democrats who used Constitution Day to view...
While the double-feature at the Paramount and Fenway this week is no reason for an extra, the performance of three hours slips by with unquestioned rapidity. "Charlie Chan in Shanghai" and "I Live For Love" are filled with the type of soothing suspense that keeps eyes glued to the screen...
...Paramount: "Charlie Chan in Shanghai," 9, 11.35, 2.10, 4.45, 7.20, 9.55. "I Live for Love," 10.32, 1.07, 3.42, 6.17, 8.52. 10.25; P. M., 1.15, 4.05, 6.55, 9.45. "Annapolis Farewell...
...Broadcast of 1936 (Paramount), a collection of specialty acts by radio entertainers, might have been much more satisfactory if its producers had not insisted on incorporating them into a story. Any narrative framework designed to include Amos 'n' Andy, Ray Noble, Ethel Merman, Henry Wadsworth, Lyda Roberti, Burns & Allen, Sir Guy Standing, Mary Boland, Charles Ruggles, Jack Oakie, Ina Ray Hutton and her Melodears, Wendy Barrie, Bing Crosby, the Vienna Choir Boys and Bill Robinson could scarcely be distinguished for its spontaneity. The device which shackles them together in The Big Broadcast is a "tele-radio...
Naturally, Harvard needs a pictorial record of the forces which are repairing the aging beams of her foundations. Thus the position of a photographic candidate is clear, His life for eight weeks will be like that of the Paramount camera man who "sees all, hears all, and knows...