Word: junkets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...film makes a good technical try for pace, but never really achieves it Russell's and MacMurray's thanks-for-the-memory love junket is as bland as anything the Hays office has swallowed in recent months. But mainly the picture is as uneven as a war-torn corduroy road. Once, its taste graph dips so low as to show a group of flyers in a back room saluting Rosalind Russell with song...
Before he could even start, Larry had to sell $400,000 worth of stock in a doorbell-pushing junket. This gave him enough cash to rent a plant, buy pencil, paper and drafting board for Larry's pet designer, chunky, modest Robert James Woods, an ex-Consolidated man known to his pals as Mr. Five-by-Five...
Fortnight ago Press Agent Birdwell shepherded 48 Hollywood reporters, columnists and fan-magazine writers (and their wives) to San Francisco to see The Outlaw's first public showing in prewar Hollywood premiere junket style...
...that 17 Hollywood pictures and hundreds of radio and Army camp performances have failed to dull Hope's zest for his work. Far & away the hardest-traveling Army camp trouper in Hollywood, he has visited so many camps in the last year (including a 16,000-mile Alaskan junket) that even his press agents have lost count...
...Websters' junket was a series of parties. In London they dined with young Queen Victoria's uncle, the Duke of Sussex, who insisted on giving Mrs. Webster a prize strawberry "from his own plate." Said Mrs. Webster ungratefully: "A thorough radical and not very refined." The Queen gave them "a superb dinner" served on gold & silver plates. Mrs. Webster could not resist washing her hands in the ladies' room "to show that I knew the use of the scented water and napkins...