Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...teach Gold Coast natives, who own more than 5,000 mi. of improved highways, how to dodge motor traffic, Nana Sir Ofori Atta, while visiting London, took practice crossing frantic Trafalgar Square (see cut). Sir Ofori, Omanhene (Paramount Chief) of Akyem Abuakwa, a Gold Coast district which once supplied myriads of U. S. slaves, is a rich, pious, English-speaking Presbyterian, especially educated in manual training and agriculture, whom King George knighted for marshalling Gold Coast natives against the Germans in Africa during...
Baby, Take A Bow (Fox) is carried almost single-handed by hardworking, hard-worked 4-year-old Shirley Temple. Three months ago Fox discovered that she was excellent adult entertainment in the otherwise mediocre Stand Up And Cheer. Immediately Paramount borrowed her for Little Miss Marker. While this picture was proving a thumping box office success all over the country. Fox ground out Baby, Take a Bow. For the sweatshop pace which has pushed Shirley Temple through an average year's work in four months they had a good business-like reason: growing children shoot overnight into gangling youngsters...
Warner Bros, announced plans for pictures for "family audiences." Paramount's Emanuel Cohen, vice president in charge of production, told company salesmen: "In 30 of the 35 pictures we have released during the last eight months there has not been a single cut made by the censors and only very minor eliminations in the five others." In Cleveland Stadium, 50,000 Catholics took the Legion of Decency pledge in unison. In Chicago the Catholic Daughters of America induced a like number of families to sign. The Philadelphia and Hartford Federations of Churches ap proved the Legion. Without mentioning...
...Great Flirtation (Paramount). A Hungarian actor (Adolphe Menjou), unduly proud of his ability, boasts that he could not play badly if he tried. He marries an actress (Elissa Landi), is jealous of her, sneers at her mediocre mummery. In New York, when through a ruse she has a chance to make a hit. Menjou tries to spoil the play by "mugging." His wife deserts him for a young playwright. Menjou disappears, grows nobly poor and seedy. Wobbling between comedy and sentiment, The Great Flirtation is a raised eyebrow, uncertain and unalluring. Typical shot: the last, in which Menjou and Landi...
Richard Washburn Child, onetime Ambassador to Italy, was in Holland gauging economic conditions for President Roosevelt when his $1,000,000 plagiarism suit against Playwright James Hagan and the Paramount interests was thrown out of a Federal Court in Manhattan. After alleging that Playwright Hagan's One Saturday Afternoon was cribbed out of his novel, The Avenger, Plaintiff Child had tried to withdraw his suit with an apology. Refusing to permit this. Judge John M. Woolsey dismissed the suit only after assessing costs & fees against Mr. Child and remarking: "It gave me a pain. The charges are absolutely unfounded...