Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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College Rhythm (Paramount). Three years ago, a second-rate vaudeville comedian, worried by a cold audience in Birmingham, Ala., acted on an irrational inspiration. He rushed out of the wings, whined at the master of ceremonies: "Wanna buy a duck...
That idiotic question was the beginning of one of vaudeville's characteristically fabulous success stories. Second-rate Comedian Joe Penner, born Joseph Pinta at Nadgybeck Kereck, Hungary, became almost immediately a first-rate comedian. He got a tour with Paramount Publix stage shows, a contract for 15 Warner Brothers shorts. In the course of the next two years, he had two more inspirations: 1) "You nasty man!" 2) "Don't never do that!" By 1933, all three had become household slogans. Because of his radio popularity, Joe Penner's weekly salary jumped from...
...know the story of how Bill Paley at 28 sold out a one-half interest in Columbia to Paramount-Publix for $5,000,000. and then when Paramount was pinched for cash generously bought it back for the original sum plus...
Limehouse Blues (Paramount). Putting Anna May Wong and George Raft in a picture with a Limehouse background was a good idea to start with but it is the only good idea in Limehouse Blues. Raft is a half-caste Chinese proprietor of a nasty little place called the Lily Garden. Although the scene is London's Chinatown, his New-Yorkese is explained by having him a transplanted U.S. under-worldling. The plot concerns his love for Toni (Jean Parker) whom he protects when a constable wants to arrest her for stealing a watch; a love that persists in spite...
Lately beefy, foppish Premier Göring has had two paramount worries: 1) Is Reichsführer Adolf Hitler going to name him as "Deputy" or Vice-Realmleader (TIME, Sept. 17) to step into Hitler's shoes in case of death? 2) Is Comrade Dimitroff, now safe in U. S. S. R., organizing a plot to assassinate him? Last week smart Dimitroff answered both questions in Moscow in his own inspired way. Said he: "I am not interested in killing Göring because eventually Hitler will...