Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mail was pouring in, and the bobby-sox clubs ("The Girls Who Give In When Billy Gives Out") were forming. Two months ago, Billy got the nod from the high lamasery of all crooners, Broadway's huge Paramount Theater, a place sing-sanctified by Sinatra's first big-time appearance there...
...songs, with Duke Ellington behind him, Billy was to get a respectable $2,000 a week. Said his manager last week: "Before that appearance, if the Paramount had offered us an option for next year at $3,000, we would have snapped it up. Now, we don't know how much to ask for him from week to week...
Rich & Rubbery. Almost overnight, "Mr. B." had become one of the hottest singles in show business. The movies and nightclubs wanted him. The Paramount was happy it had signed him early for its Christmas show at only $7,500 a week...
There comes a time in every exam period when the need for relaxation is paramount. Perhaps this explains why the old Roman art of pecunia-iacienda came to the Lowell House courtyard last week...
Streets of Laredo (Paramount) spins a drawling Technicolored yarn about three Texas badmen who are buddies. Two of them (William Holden and William Bendix) eventually go straight and get jobs as Texas Rangers. The third, MacDonald Carey, goes right on rustling cattle and robbing banks. All three, in one way or another, get romantically entangled with a pale-lipped chit of a cowgirl (Mona Freeman) who takes a pretty nearsighted view of right & wrong...