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Ready for a Change. Mrs. Elizabeth Rowe, chairman of the National Capital Planning Commission, has submitted a list of 14 homes for consideration. Among the top contenders: Tregaron, the late Joseph E. Davies' 7½-acre wooded estate (the setting for the ballroom-party scene in the movie Advise and Consent); Dumbarton Oaks, a Georgetown estate where the conference that hatched the United Nations was held; Octagon House, a Georgian-style Washington landmark on New York Avenue; Hitt House, the headquarters of the Pan American Health Organization; and Bonnie Brae, a barnlike Tudor house of fieldstone and brick...
With such as these in tow, Preminger could get practically anything he wanted. A mansion in which to film a big dinner party? Mrs. E. Fontaine Broun lent him her palatial estate, Tregaron, which once belonged to her father, the late Ambassador Joseph E. Davies. Assorted objets d'art, classy furniture and rugs? Top-name families and museums donated décor to the tune of $250,000 worth. Extras for the ball? The cream of Washington society, as well as some of the milk, volunteered. A five-room suite in the Mayflower? Democratic National Chairman John Bailey offered...
Filming the ballroom scene at Tregaron, he barked his guttural directions from the camera boom. "Stop talkink!" he screamed at the milling mob, which included Washington's Senator Henry ("Scoop"') Jackson and Washington Hostess Gwen Cafritz. When a waiter looked at the camera, he thumbed him "Oudt! Und keep valkink!" When another smiled, Preminger tossed him oudt too. A magazine photographer got in the way, and Preminger fumed. "But I'm from Look!'' cried the lensman. Stormed the Director: "You LOOK! Get oudt...
...Mission to Moscow) Davies, onetime Ambassador to Belgium and Russia, and a wealthy lawyer before he married into the Post Toasties millions in 1935, dealt with a rumor that had Washington buzzing. The rumor: Davies had just bought a fleet of seven new Cadillacs. Reached by newsmen at Tregaron, his baronial estate in Washington, Davies set the whole thing straight. Said he: "I bought four small cars to conserve gasoline. Mine is a Chrysler or Cadillac, I'm not sure which. I daresay there were several Cadillacs bought-new cars conserve gas, actually. We purchased four or five small...
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