Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...support. The chiefs had to be satisfied with a call on Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton. Last week, their money spent and their mission a failure, the chiefs left London in discouragement, and disillusioned about Lyttelton. "He did not behave like a man who sits near the Queen," said Acting Paramount Chief Gomani. "He frowned and was angry before he heard us. He lied when he said our people were so ignorant that they did not understand federation. He was rude. He did not listen to us. We were disappointed, and we must go back to our people and say that...
After 13 months of hearings, the Federal Communications Commission last week approved a merger of United Paramount Theaters (710 movie houses and one TV station) and the American Broadcasting Co. (15 radio & TV stations, 429 radio & TV affiliates). It was the first time big movie and TV interests have merged, and FCC gave its approval to the new company, to be called American Broadcasting-Paramount Theaters, Inc. In doing so, FCC overruled a preliminary FCC report, which had recommended against the merger on the ground that it was the first step by the movie industry to take over the whole...
...Paramount is shooting Sangaree, using its own system, Paravision...
...Stooge (Hal Wallis; Paramount) is the seventh and most subdued of the movies ground out in the last three years by the zany comedy team of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.* Stressing story instead of unadulterated slapstick, The Stooge plays it for chuckles rather than belly laughs. Dean is a song & dance man with an accordion and a swelled head, who is only a dim light on the Great White Way until lame-brained Jerry becomes his comic foil...
Thunder in the East (Paramount). At one point in this oriental melodrama, one of the characters describes Alan Ladd as "Sir Galahad, Horatio at the bridge and Robin Hood, all wrapped up into one." The description is incomplete. Playing a rough & ready adventurer, Ladd lands in the Indian state of Gundahar with a planeload of guns and ammunition at a time when bandit forces are converging on the Maharajah's palace. The Maharajah's adviser (Charles Boyer), a Gandhi-like character, is an adamant believer in the virtues of nonresistance, an attitude which mystifies Ladd...