Word: banquets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Cecil DeMille decided to address himself to Cleopatra, the first thing he ordered was a French military survey of Egypt in 16 volumes. That work set the style for the production. When he learned that Romans cooled their banquet wines in snow, he refused to have marble dust, the usual studio equivalent, called for frost scraped from the studio refrigerator pipes. For Cleopatra to nibble, Paramount ordered ten crates of real grapes. When they went bad, after the California grape season, ten more crates were shipped from Argentina...
...Exhibition Hall of Chicago's Hotel Stevens was jampacked last week with $1,000,000 of gravestones. Around & around the Hall walked dozens of joking, back-slapping businessmen who eyed each granite block with official pride. They tramped into a private dining room, sat down to a banquet at which no one made a speech. For five days they haggled over code chiselers, discussed new ideas on designs, talked about cashing in on their backlog. Gravestone sellers all, members of the Memorial Craftsmen of America, they wound up their annual convention in the hotel taproom and went home with schemes...
Alessandro, Duke of Florence (Morgan), decides to have Cellini (March) killed, for fighting with a Medici. The Duchess (Bennett) wants him to remain alive until he has finished some gold plates for her banquet to the Duchess of Milan. When the Duke calls on Cellini, the artist is making love to Angela, his model (Fay Wray). The Duke changes his mind, pardons Cellini, takes his model to his summer palace. Presently the Duchess visits Cellini's workshop. She commissions him to make a key, asks him to bring it to the summer palace. Cellini arrives with the key while...
...night of the banquet, Cellini's affairs have gotten out of hand. Alessandro, who wants Angela at the banquet, introduces her as Cellini's mistress. Furiously jealous, the Duchess puts poison in Cellini's wine. Cellini gives the wine to a courtier he dislikes, pretends to be dead until the Duchess, overcome with remorse, embraces him upon the floor. An accident restores Cellini to complete control of the scandalous situation. Angela calls the Duke by his pet name, causing the Duchess to perceive that her husband has been unfaithful. At the end of The Affairs of Cellini, the goldsmith...
...when he detrained one mid-afternoon at Indianapolis. In five and a half hours, he visited the city post office, promised construction of an addition to it, paid a courtesy call on Catholic Bishop Ritter, sent picture postcards to his children, conferred with Tom Taggart Jr., attended the largest banquet (2,100 covers) ever served in the Claypool Hotel, delivered a speech denouncing Indiana's Republican Senator Robinson for obstructing the New Deal...