Word: inns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miniature red & blue cable cars, skiers ride up the 2,052-foot mountain. Then Gibson developed 50 miles of downhill trails, hired famed skimeister Hannes Schneider (after he got him out of a Nazi concentration camp), built four new cottages and a "Swiss chalet" annex, converted an old inn into the Eastern Slope hotel. He lost $50,000 on the hotel for three years, until he hired Hotelman Lester Sprague to pull...
...skier (he hurt his knee cap seven years ago), he nevertheless likes to wrap himself in a huge sheepskin coat, clap on a cocky green Alpine hat, ride up the mountain and ski down (see cut). Nights he joins the orchestra in the Currier & Ives Room at the inn, plays one of his four mandolins and seven violins, including a glass one. Between numbers, he regales his guests with tales of how he worked his way through Bowdoin College by fiddling in a burlesque house...
...with Sales. Last week North Conway was in the middle of its best season. The 250-bed Inn, where rates range up to a stiff $30 a day, had a waiting list of 2,000 names...
...Happened at the Inn (MGM International) is the first French movie made during the war to be shown in the U.S. A fantastic, melodramatic little comedy about a French provincial family named Goupi, the film hints broadly that beneath its sparkling surface lies an allegory. Just what the allegory is never becomes clear. But It Happened at the Inn is funny-in a subtler way than its American counterpart, You Can't Take It with You. The Goupis are a family of ferocious, mildly balmy individualists who squabble incessantly among themselves but present a miraculously united front...
...nearly so elaborately produced as some prewar French films (Story of a Cheat, Carnival in Flanders), It Happened at the Inn also lacks much of the expert, offhand humor of its nearest kin, The Baker's Wife. The new French humor has a hint of violence; there is violence, too, in the insistence on being funny. In the old French movies, you could take the jokes or leave them alone. In It Happened at the Inn, the humorous situations are of a sort you must either take or reject. U.S. audiences are likely to reject quite...