Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many other TIME readers noticed that you contradict Paramount's sound camera in reporting that Mr. Paderewski speaks English without trace of an accent [TIME, Feb. 27] ? L. L. BENTLEY Lancaster...
Making of this picture caused a spat between Messrs. Paul and Beebe. When Paramount paid Columnist Beebe $500 for "inventing" the title, Reporter Paul jealously announced that it was he who had done the inventing, threatened to sue. Unwilling, however, to give so much free publicity to Paramount, he decided not to sue, has since received no credit line, no money. The picture itself is likely to aggravate Mr. Paul's indignation. Cinemaddicts with imagination might find that he and his 80-year-old mother are rudely caricatured, along with other celebrities of Manhattan night life, including...
Last week Newark, N.J. was the field of the jitterbug's equivalent to ordeal by battle. Benny Goodman, who for four years has reigned in adolescent hearts as the King of Swing, was playing on the stage at the Shubert Theatre. Within shagging distance, at the neighboring Paramount, was Artie Shaw, young pretender to the throne, and his band, which in six months has zoomed to fame on the strength of a few rousing records. A clear-cut battle for supremacy was forecast: the theatres are of approximately equal size; each was showing a Grade B film...
...expected jitterbug riots occurred on the opening day. Shaw's vocalist had to burrow to his microphone through the ecstatic exhibitionists swarming the stage. At the Paramount, a boy hurt himself jumping from a box. At the Shubert a girl swooned clean away...
...week's end Benny Goodman could claim technical victory. Box-office receipts were approximately equal ($24,000), but the Paramount, where Artie Shaw was playing, had a 99? top to the Shubert's 75?. Addicts of Shaw's exciting recordings of Begin the Beguine and Backbay Shuffle were disappointed by their idol's cold stage personality. Goodman's matchless trio and quartet and the smooth rendition of old favorites like One O'Clock Jump and Don't Be That Way won back wavering allegiance...