Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foreword, Critic Wilson states his belief that The Last Tycoon is Fitzgerald's "most mature" work, that Hero Monroe Stahr was the most thoroughly explored of all Fitzgerald characters. Stahr was an executive and creative genius of motion pictures, a "boy wonder" at 22, later boss and three-quarters owner of a big studio. Under him the movies reached a sort of golden age. After him the industry grew too complicated for one man to keep his hand on everything in a studio. Stahr "had flown up very high to see, on strong wings, when he was young...
...LAST TYCOON-F. Scott Fitzgerald -Scrlbner...
...Last Tycoon contains 128 pages of completed manuscript, covering a little more than half the story contemplated by the author; a synopsis of the rest; a selection from the notes, a letter to the publishers, some fragmentary scenes. To give bulk to the volume the publishers also reprinted in it The Great Gatsby and five Fitzgerald short stories...
...Monroe Stahr was the last Hollywood tycoon, F. Scott Fitzgerald was the last U.S. romantic. To the end his writing was preoccupied with flowers, perfume, rain, the rustle of women's clothes, warm darkness and music in the night. He sometimes deliberately blurred his narrative line, resulting now in effective suspense, now in mere teasing. Yet this fragment contains scenes of beauty and power. Completed, it might or might not have been a Citizen Kane about the movie industry...
Clay-tile Tycoon Walter S. Dickey, who bought the Journal in 1921, bashed in his fortune trying to buck the Star. Utility-man Henry L. Doherty, who bought 50% control in 1931, sank about $300,000 a year in the Journal (plus $250,000 a year in utility advertising). His only profit: whatever satisfaction came from his hysterical series of libel and conspiracy suits totaling $54,000,000 against the Star for its hard-hitting campaign for lower gas rates (they were thrown...