Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wedding reception preceded the wedding, too. A goodly segment of café society was there: the Duke & Duchess of Windsor; "Prince" Mike Romanoff, the restaurant world's most famed pretender; onetime Glamor Deb Brenda Frazier Kelly; Rail Tycoon Robert R. Young and his wife; and the Marquess of Blandford...
...about the world trying to put the financial pieces together (Dawes and Young plans), knew and advised the world's powerful (Clemenceau, Lloyd George). He made a pile of money (reportedly $500,000 in 1931), gave piles of it away, epitomized the U.S. ideal of the public-spirited tycoon...
...Tycoon (RKO Radio) pictures the U.S. ideal of manhood as a construction engineer (John Wayne) who, like the steam shovel he strongly resembles, works all right when he is building things. But he looks absurd trying to speak English or kiss a girl. The U.S. ideal of villainy is represented in this movie as a Latin American rail magnate (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) who dresses for dinner, manages a compound sentence without stuttering, and tries to keep his lovely daughter (Laraine Day) from getting hitched to a steam shovel...
...film may have some suspense for Latin Americans, who conceivably will have difficulty believing that censors would permit such a marriage. For U.S. moviegoers, Tycoon has Technicolor...
...David earnestly insists that these are completely subsidiary" to the underlying interest in education which returned him to Cambridge. Central features in the School's program--the famed case system for one--depend on the support of business leaders. He calls his own business activities psychologically crucial in winning tycoon response...