Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that this theory leads Mrs. Shephard into difficulties is an understatement: it practically floors her. Pursuing it with the vehement, triumphant air of a gossip on the trail of scandal, she gives pages of evidence that Whitman contradicted himself-which he never denied- pages to show that despite his professions of all-embracing love he had explosions of temper, pages to show that he wrote a lot of nonsense and that his disciples wrote even more...
...University of Kansas, Author White spent the next ten years on his father's newspaper. Varying his work as reporter, he made several trips to Europe, served a term (1931-32) in the Kansas legislature, in 193 2 was Republican County Chairman. Kansans who remember the Finney scandal (1933) will recognize where his book's material came from...
Fools for Scandal (Warner Bros.) cost $900,000, of which harum-scarum Actress Carole Lombard got $150,000, Belgian-born Actor Fernand Gravet $50,000. Less of a drain on the budget was the $25 a day paid for several weeks to cafe society's No. 1 hitchhiker, "Prince" Mike Romanoff (real name: Harry Gerguson). Actor Gravet got his first Hollywood job (The King and the Chorus Girl) year and a half ago because Producer-Director Mervyn LeRoy thought he resembled Edward VIII. Prince Mike got his because there is no one Hollywood appreciates more than a persistent pretender...
...when Fools for Scandal was last week presented to U. S. cinemaudiences, Actor-Prince Mike's lowbrowed, pseudo-Romanoff visage had joined the innumerable faces on the cutting room floor. What remained was more fustian than fun, a pursuit through high & low worlds of a popular, penniless French marquis working his way, via the scullery, into a cinema star's boudoir. In spite of Actress Lombard's strident earthiness, the result is as unearthly as Actor Gravet's French-flavored, concave British inflection, as wooden as Charlie McCarthy-whom Actor Gravet, in claw-hammer coat & starchy...
After finishing Fools for Scandal, Producer LeRoy, a son-in-law of Triumvir Harry M. Warner, left the family plot for a production berth at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, safe from barbed thrusts about nepotism. Sawed-off, narrow-eyed, cigar-waving Producer LeRoy is still hailed, at 37, as the Boy Wonder. At five he fell three stories in the San Francisco earthquake, landed unhurt on a mattress. At nine, engaged at $2.50 a week in a stage production of Barbara Frietchie to watch for the Rebels from a prop tree, he fell out of the tree, got a raise because...