Word: rothschild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baron Rothschild closely accompanied his Baroness and the Duke when they played a round of golf on the castle's private links, and the Austrian caddy said that his Royal Highness continually sang snatches of popular tunes...
...Prince Edward was created this week by King George VI-debarked at Boulogne into a private car and a new life of wealth, ease and perhaps happiness. Rolling down to Austria, he established himself high on a crag 25 mi. from Vienna at the castle of Baron Eugene Rothschild, who was host to the King & Mrs. Simpson last summer. Said the Duke of Windsor: "I am remaining here at Castle Enzesfeld until after Christmas...
...hostess is beauteous onetime Miss Catharine Wolff of Philadelphia, rated "one of the 20 best-dressed women in the world." She was Protestant with her first husband (a Mr. Spotswood), Roman Catholic with her second (an Austrian count), and espoused the Jewish persuasion to marry her present Rothschild. Queen Victoria piously claimed that the British Royal Family are descended from Biblical David, "King of the Jews," and it was this which caused "David" to be made not only one of the names of Edward VIII but the name by which his family always called...
...years that make Nelson's name a byword throughout England make Blake (Tyrone Power) a rising power in the syndicates. Like young Rothschild, he devises a scheme for speeding up news. Instead of pigeons, he has a semaphore to flash messages across the English channel. While operating his system, Blake meets a mysterious young English girl (Madeleine Carroll ) at Calais. When she turns out to be Lady Elizabeth Stacy, wife of a foppish young peer (George Sanders), frustrated Blake puts all his energies into Lloyd's. He has made himself head of its most powerful syndicate when...
That the theme of news-pigeons in Rothschild, the semaphore in Lloyd's-recurs in Producer Darryl Zanuck's major works is not entirely accidental. Famed for his knack of translating headlines into cinema, Zanuck sees history as a collection of front-page stories. Making insurance seem glamorous might sound like a superhuman tour de force. Lloyd's of London, rich in the atmospheric detail of all good period pieces, warm with the honest adulation which English heroes alone seem capable of inspiring in Hollywood producers, is an insurance drummer's daydream. It makes the business...