Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Director Cruze thinks of money in big terms. For a long time his Paramount salary was $1,000 a day-whether he worked or not. Last week he sued John Decker, artist, for $200,000 damages...
Fashions in Love (Paramount). Like all plays good enough to be imitated but not good enough to be classics, The Concert by Herman Bahr, presented long ago on the legitimate stage by Leo Ditrichstein, has been discredited by inept adaptations of some of its best effects. Fashions in Love is the screen name for The Concert. By any name it remains a very good farce. It is concerned with the marital infidelities of an elderly and temperamental pianist whose wife gets him back by the not wholly startling method of pretending to be in love with the husband...
...Paris last week, artistic Frenchmen worried over a report that members of the Comédie Française were to make talking cinemas for U. S. producers. French cinema exhibitors worried more over the news that all representatives of U. S. producer-members (Paramount-Famous-Lasky, Warner Bros., Fox, United Artists, Universal, Radio-Keith-Orpheum, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) of the Cinema Syndicate de France were resigning in protest over the new French law, effective in September, limiting the importation of foreign-produced films to four for each French film exported...
...along without the sound device. Plumber Jack Mulhall is proud of being a plumber; his theatrical personality is thrust on him by the imaginative girls he meets at Bradley Beach. Best shot: Mulhall showing he is an actor by reciting "The Shooting of Dan McGrew." The Wheel of Life (Paramount). To appear in this film Richard Dix, usually properly shaved, grew one of those brief mustaches which indicate to the cinema public that its wearer is a British officer. While he is buying her something to eat in the delicatessen next door, a veiled young woman in evening dress runs...
...could produce an immediate effect on American opinion if we made clear, as we might have done long ago, that we have abandoned our naval bases in the Caribbean. In policy we have long recognized that the United States has a paramount interest there and it is time we demonstrated clearly that our strategy recognizes that fact...