Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idea of adding a third dimension to movies is almost as old as movies themselves. But to moviegoers, the illusion of depth is a perennial novelty. Off & on, through the years, it has always drawn interested crowds. Last week, at two Paramount theaters in Los Angeles, record audiences were queueing up to see an Ansco color movie called Bwana Devil, the first feature picture ever made in "three dimensions...
...between Hanoi and the sea, the escape route for the French. But in Hanoi nobody worried. Staff officers bought their ladies posies at the flower stalls by the glassy Petit Lac, dined sumptuously at Le Manoir or the Hotel Metropole or danced with taxi-girls at the Ritz and Paramount. At night, beneath their mosquito nets, they listened to the comfortable sound of their own artillery. Said an official spokesman: "There appears to be no reason why the besieged defenders of Nasan cannot hold out as long as planes can supply them...
AUTHOR THOMAS MANN: "I believe that man is meant as a great experiment whose possible failure of man's own guilt would be paramount to the failure of creation itself...
...already overloaded bandwagon pulled to a groaning stop in front of the Paramount theatre this week to let The Turning Point show us how a professor named John Conroy would have handled the Kefauver Committee. In the process another unnamed, though typically midwestern city is purged of its civic bruises by the two fisted Conroy Crime Committee...
...Turning Point (Paramount) dramatizes a timely subject: a crime-investigating committee, complete with television coverage. The picture's plot is less up to date: a hard-hitting attorney (Edmond O'Brien), in the course of investigating a big-city crime syndicate, discovers that his policeman father (Tom Tully) is mixed up with the gangsters. Further complications set in when O'Brien's chum, Reporter William Holden, falls in love with the attorney's girl friend (Alexis...