Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pixie (well played by Cecil Kellaway) takes sides in a conflict between two oversimplified sets of values. The conflict involves Newsman Tyrone Power, who must choose between Good (writing as he pleases for "nickels and dimes" and marrying lovely Anne Baxter) and Evil (selling out to New York Publishing Tycoon Lee J. Cobb and his predatory daughter, Jayne Meadows). Any leprechaun knows the difference between good & evil, but it takes some time for a stuffy hero to figure...
...flame at that. This not improbable situation gets out of hand when the wife (Madeleine Carroll) plans to test her spouse's jealousy. She hires an actor to flirt with her at a nightclub; the actor's agent tips off the husband in advance; an unsuspecting tobacco tycoon (Charles "Buddy" Rogers) sits at the wrong table...
...still finds time to hunt foxes from his rambling estate at Kirtland, near Cleveland, and to hunt quail on his game preserve at Thomasville, Ga. Publicity-shy, he stays backstage so much that few fellow Clevelanders know him well or even realize how big a tycoon...
...prewar German shipping tycoon, he had wedged his way into the Atlantic traffic with simple, serviceable ships, the lowest tourist rates of any line, and an inexpensive elevator system for carrying automobiles uncrated. A Jew, the Nazis jailed him and confiscated his ships. Released, he went to the U.S., built up a new Bernstein line that ran from New York to Antwerp and the Dutch ports. His ships were sunk during the war. Now, at 58, he is at it again...
...Berlin, whose Irish immigrant grandfather made his pile in the Comstock Lode, and whose father was Postal Telegraph Tycoon Clarence Mackay, plainly knows her lace-curtain set. But she handles her characters with kid gloves, eagerly plays up the best side of the worst of them. Most readers will get the feeling that she knows more about their problems than she has chosen to write...