Word: steamship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Voyage (Walt Disney; Buena Vista) is one of those travel pictures made "with the generous cooperation of" assorted hotels, railroads and steamship lines that seem to gain in glamour upon being transferred to film. This time Fred MacMurray and Jane Wyman, an ever-lovin' couple from Terre Haute, Ind., are off to France with their three typical kids: a sweet plump daughter (Deborah Walley) with steely morals, an engagingly nutty teen-age son (Tommy Kirk), and another boy (Kevin Corcoran), 12, whose freckled wit comes forth in lines like ''I know who Napoleon...
...first volume will be published in London next year. He has gone over the manuscript again and again, tearing up thousands of sheets of paper, never happy with the often hazy images that his memory has supplied. Also, he is supposedly working on a screenplay about an aristocratic steamship passenger and a female stowaway, intending to star his son Sydney. He has also talked of a comedy about space travel. But most of that is idle whimsy. His last film, 1957-3 A King in New York (made in London), was a total critical failure and almost certainly...
MINISTER. What could I do? He had the steamship tickets in his pocket. (He looks at his watch.) It's after one (rising), what do you say we get moving? Are you rested...
Calculated Gamble. The France is an elegant, $80 million defiance of jet-age statistics. As late as 1957, more Americans traveled to and from Europe by sea than by air-1,032,000 v. 1,023,000. But by 1961, steamship bookings dropped to 785,000, while the airlines carried 2,165,250. The France and several other brand-new ships for the '60s (see color pages ) are a calculated gamble that luxury and leisure can compete with speed. The France, in addition to French food, has two swimming pools, eight bars, two cabarets, a teen-age center with...
...much as the steamship companies would like to attract young, fun-loving customers, they must depend mostly on people who can afford to be away from home for an extended trip. A good proportion of cruise travelers are older, monied people, many of them divorcees and widows. To a few frustrated romantics, the cruise ships still hold something of the promise (seldom fulfilled) of the fabled Slow Boat to China. Women seem to like cruises because they can count on good food and plumbing aboard ship, are spared the hazards of finding their way alone through strange cities and into...