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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...
...Hertz has bagged enough businesses in his 58 years to be an ace at U. S. finance. A Chicago reporter, he founded Yellow Cab Co. in 1915, sold most of it to General Motors Corp. ten years later for $43,000,000. Currently he is a partner of Lehman Bros., potent Wall Street investment house which controls Transcontinental & Western Air. For several months Aces Hertz and Rickenbacker have been engaged in an air duel which was small stuff for Ace Hertz but big for Ace Rickenbacker. Last week it became apparent that "Eddie" Rickenbacker had won, as North American Aviation...
...Slight Case of Murder (Warner Bros.) is the riotous cinemaversion of the Damon Runyon-Howard Lindsay play about four uninvited, neatly plugged corpses in the Saratoga mansion of a Broadway beer baron (TIME, Sept. 23, 1935). With cinema's No. 1 Hoodlum Edward G. Robinson as the beer baron. Warners people the play with a cast of stylized plug-uglies who are authentic Runyon to the very toothpick. Best scene: Baron Robinson and associates deciding whose lawns to decorate with the corpses, making crestfallen Henchman Allen Jenkins stay home and miss...
...Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey Circus' gorilla Gargantua the Great, wrote Gargantuan Columnist Heywood Broun three weeks ago, "is the fiercest looking thing I have ever seen on two legs. And probably his power and truculence were all the more impressive because he did look a good deal like a distant relative. No one was allowed to go close to his cage, because Gargantua can reach about five feet through the bars and get a toe hold on a visitor whom he dislikes." Gargantua may not be the world's biggest captive gorilla-since the death of Berlin...
...scene rushed Warner cameramen with Technicolor equipment, floodlights for an all-night watch. Script writers got right to work on a landslide sequence to be added to the film. But the hill refused to budge for the cameramen. Last week Nature was more cooperative. As the Warner Bros, prepared to present their film simultaneously in 200 theatres throughout the U. S., flood waters swept out over the Sacramento Valley, inundated farm lands just as the film's flood does...