Word: junkets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deal was as timely as it was big; Selznick's studio and releasing organization were at a standstill. He was planning a European junket to get his fingers into a couple of British film productions. Insiders said that he was just waiting until his heavy investment came rolling back from his latest, long-delayed production, Portrait of Jennie. Meanwhile, though he lacks the kind of ready cash that he needs to make his kind of picture (Gone With the Wind, Duel in the Sun), he would have some pocket money...
...actress lost her job but she didn't seem very depressed about it. When Sam Goldwyn fired her after she had pleaded illness in postponing a New York publicity junket ("the day is over when stars can get away with this sort of behavior"), Teresa Wright said she would never sign another standard "archaic . . . and . . . absurd" movie contract, because it treated actors like cattle. The exchange of unpleasantries happily coincided with a new Goldwyn picture called Enchantment (see below), starring Teresa Wright...
...Washington, Senator Chan Gurney, chairman of the Senate Armed Forces Committee, who had just returned from a European junket, urgently demanded a U.S. military alliance with Spain. He also voiced a principle that had an odd sound coming from a country which objects to Communist tyranny everywhere. Said he: "It is not up to us to tell countries what kind of a government they ought to have...
Army and Cornell will hear the University Band this season after all. By a unanimous vote last night, the 127 members of "the best in the business" decided that three cheap bus trips were better than one deluxe rail junket and thereby assured Cadets and Ithacans of a chance to near "Wintergreen" on a Saturday afternoon...
BEFORE HE LEFT FOR BOLIVIA, Dutra sent regrets to the invitation of President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla (just back from a junket through Chile's northern provinces) to visit Chile. It was impossible because Brazil is playing host this week to Uruguay's President Luis Batlle Berres...