Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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True some shots were taken at Chatsworth, within the radius given. But for two weeks this mountain town, [200 mi. from Hollywood] was overrun with synthetic Bengalese, an increase of 31 ⅓ % in population. Paramount dropped $30,000 of the million and a half here, gave most their first glimpse of an elephant, almost succeeded in driving a few of our topers into taking the pledge. My congregation upped one, a gloriously illuminated grip-man, one of eight rewarded with a gallon-of-whiskey bonus by the director for working all Saturday night...
...immoral" women and men who fear venereal disease use contraceptives. The household demand for contraceptives has made every drugstore in the land, and a multitude of gasoline stations, poolrooms and candy stores supply depots for the material. Most of such items are unreliable. Some are downright dangerous. Consequently the paramount objective of Mrs. Sanger and the American Birth Control League now is to make reliable information and safe contraceptives available to every mature woman who needs them...
When the Hauptmann murder trial opened at Flemington, N. J. press photographers and newsreel cameramen were admitted on Judge Trenchard's condition that no pictures be taken while court was in session. To minimize confusion the five major newsreels-Paramount, Hearst Metrotone, Fox, Pathe, Universal- jointly operated a single sound-camera, each company receiving a print of all pictures taken. The camera, electrically controlled and housed in a soundproof hood, was lodged in the balcony, about 35 ft. from the judge's bench. A microphone was hidden behind an electric fan over the jury...
...photography proved dramatic but, as expected, it made trouble. Attorney General Wilentz, in a lather of righteous fury, demanded that the films be withdrawn "in the name of decency," threatened contempt proceedings. Fox, Hearst Metrotone, Paramount and all Loew's theatres obeyed. Universal and Pathe, after three days, still stood pat. Scooped by the newsreels, the tabloid New York Daily News and Hearst's Journal tried to catch up by splashing still shots from the films over several pages. Genuinely shocked and grieved by what he considered a violation of a gentlemen's agreement, Judge Trenchard ousted...
...those who take their flying straight, Paramount's "Wings in the Dark," showing at the Met, will be a disappointment. Unlike "Night Flight," the last airplane picture that was worth the celluloid it was printed on, "Wings in the Dark" is filled with a great many technical inaccuracies...