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...popularity and nimble-wittedness were abundantly demonstrated in Manhattan's Paramount Theater, where he has done five shows a day for the past three weeks, at $20,000 a week. Freed for the first time in four years from the restrictions of movies and radio, he walked on stage his first day, stretched elegantly, and said: "Gee, I'm glad to be back on Broadway." Just then, blasters in an excavation near the Paramount let go with a charge of TNT, and the theater shivered. Cracked Danny: "Never mind the cannon, fellas; just tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Git Gat Gittle | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

...Radio Pictures, Inc.; Loew's Inc.; 20th Century-Fox Film Corp.; Paramount Pictures, Inc.; Balaban & Katz Corp.; Vitagraph, Inc.; Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.; Warner Bros. Circuit Management Corp.; Warner Bros. Theatres...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Like Buying Hats | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

Chief rivals are Paramount and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. According to Hollywood gossips, they are infiltrating each other's lots with company spies disguised as extras. Following standard practice, Paramount has already surmounted the first production hurdle: picking and discarding various titles. The chosen one: Top Secret. It is no top secret that the picture will be masterminded by cinema wizard Hal Wallis (Casablanca, Love Letters), whose signature is pace and palaver. Estimated cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dark Secret | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

...neither Paramount nor Metro professes much alarm at this crude trespass. Paramount confidently says that Hal Wallis has the "official" story of the atom bomb locked safely in his desk. Says Metro: "SammyMarx has the atom sewed up tight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dark Secret | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

Road to Utopia (Paramount) is the fourth and farthest north in the Bob Hope-Bing Crosby-Dorothy Lamour road shows.* It also had the Paramount gagmen scraping the barrel bottom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Mar. 4, 1946 | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

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