Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next Monday night is to be "Harvard Nite" at the Paramount Theatre on Washington Street, it was learned today. The management declared yesterday that they were inspired to do so by the fact that the movie to be shown, "What a Life," has been "acclaimed by college students all over the country...
During the year the Paramount plans to run a series of college nights for Tufts, Northeastern, and other local institutions. Monday evening the theatre will be decorated with Crimson banners and undergraduates from the University are urged to come on masse...
Honeymoon in Bali (Paramount) is one of those over-jaunty comedies that have too good a time the first part of the evening, suddenly begin to stagger around, then fold up for the night. The rest is hangover...
...evenly divided between plans to capitalize on War headlines, and plans to make traditional escapist pictures. Samuel Goldwyn announced Blackout Over Europe; Warner Brothers, who fired the first shot this year with Confessions of a Nazi Spy, announced a string of comedies. Charles Chaplin continued with The Dictator, and Paramount bought the timely Battalion of Death. Though War Department plans for drafting industry naturally include the cinema, only hint last week from Washington was a request to advance the release date on two patriotic pictures: M. G. M.'s Thunder Afloat (about the Navy) and 20th Century...
Lacking the gutty foreignness that flavored the Odets play and disguised the too-literal symbolism of its situation, Golden Boy is saved from sinking into a slow-moving dialect melodrama chiefly by the freshness of its new male star. Curly-topped, ingenuous-looking Actor Holden was picked from Paramount's roster by Director Rouben Mamoulian, who, after testing hundreds of candidates for the Golden Boy role, chanced to see Holden in a screen test for another picture. Most surprising fact uncovered by Columbia's publicity department about Actor Holden, born William Franklin Beedle Jr. 20 years...