Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Switzerland. Around this simple idea author Richard Schweizer has woven a brilliant series of incidents whose episodic qualities and to rather than detract from the film's intensity. Even the brief appearances of such figures as a Catholic priest or peasant girl are so carefully etched that they contain wealth enough for an entire movie...
Franco's Weakness. The Generalissimo's greatest weakness is the state of his nation. Under his totalitarian order, Spain's old and decadent worlds of wealth and want are spinning ever farther apart. Life in Madrid is a pattern in extremes. The capital has Europe's most elegant and epicurean restaurants; among the best is the one operated by the famed German restaurateur Otto Horcher, who used to serve Nazi bigwigs in Berlin, Vienna and Paris. Store windows on the Gran Via display nylons, furs, silks, satins, perfumes...
Hatry, now 56, rose from a West End clerkship to control of the Commercial Bank of London after World War I. Soon there was an un-British display of Hatry wealth: ornate bathrooms for his office suite, a swimming pool in his Mayfair home, a yacht, a racing stable. In 1924, his bank failed...
Exhibits A & B in this clinical study of the disintegrative effect of great wealth on weak characters are the family heir, Gary Whitfield (whom his sister commonly addresses as "Stinker"), and his sister, Anne-Charlotte (whom her brother sometimes characterizes as "a nasty little bitch"). There is also Reese, a sharecropper's son who is brought up with Gary and Anne-Charlotte to act as an elevating influence. He succeeds chiefly in being sardonic and truculent. Written on the Wind reports the lifelong intellectual homosexuality between Reese and Gary. It also reports one or two murders, a suicide...
...years ago Tennessee-born Bachelor William Hayes Ackland, who had made a fortune in the stockmarket, died at 84. He wanted to leave most of his wealth to a Southern university, to build and stock an art museum. His first will, drawn in 1936, had left the money to Duke University; if Duke didn't want it, the money was to go to the University of North Carolina. Third choice: Rollins. Duke invited Ackland down for a visit, set an architect to drawing plans. Obviously pleased, Ackland drew up a second will, which made no mention of North Carolina...