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...only that, but there was a new situation, namely a jazz-orchestra kidnapped and forced to entertain bored desperadoes. That was rather exciting, and of course it seemed excruciatingly so because of the very clever contrast of dullness with which Mr. Zukor filled the first nine-tenths of the film...
...packed with politics, jealousy, miscellaneous crockeries. Paramount, now in the throes of reorganization, has its share. Early last week, Emanuel ("Manny") Cohen who succeeded Jesse Lasky as Paramount's production chief in 1932, flew to New York, entered the office of Paramount's aging president Adolph Zukor. When he emerged, Manny Cohen announced that he had been fired...
...Lives of a Bengal Lancer" is a top-notch adventure story, supplemented by capable acting. Drawing freely from Rudyard Kipling and other authors who have portrayed men under stress of physical danger, Adolph Zukor has transformed William Yeats-Brown's book into an hour of absorbing entertainment...
...studio they rented a Hollywood stable. Their first picture was The Squaw Man, which DeMille has since made twice. Two years later Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Co. was a rival to Adolph Zukor's Famous Players Film Co. at the top of the industry and Cecil DeMille was about to make his first expensive spectacle, Carmen, with Geraldine Farrar. His most expensive was The King of Kings which cost about $2,000,000. The Ten Commandments made most money...
Paramount still produces more pictures than any other studio in the U. S.?64 features, 204 shorts. Adolph Zukor, who last week went to Hollywood where Emanuel Cohen, one-time newsreel specialist, is still Paramount's production chief, promised his distributors two more Mae West pictures after her forthcoming It Ain't No Sin. They are called Gentleman's Choice and Me the Queen. Whether or not Marlene Dietrich's vogue survives The Scarlet Empress, finished last April but held for release until the public forgets the queening of Garbo (Queen Christina) and Bergner (Catherine the Great), she will...