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...Great Waltz (Fernand Gravet, Luise Rainer; TIME...
...much to deplore in the picture's affectionate portrait of an era when the principal effect of Revolution was that it inspired a young musician to write a march; and when the most important effect of barricades in the Vienna streets was to cause the same young composer (Fernand Gravet) to leave his wife (Luise Rainer) at home in order to enjoy an early morning drive with a full-throated opera singer (Miliza Korjus...
...marriage was dis solved by the French courts, had spent nearly $300,000 trying to take Extase out of circulation. Last fall Hedy popped up on the Normandie under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, on landing stole some of the spotlight from such noted fellow voyagers as Danielle Darrieux, Fernand Gravet, Ambassador Bill Bullitt...
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...
...meeting was the annual culinary and confectionery art show. Among its exhibits: Independence Hall in spun sugar; hams made up as mandolins; a prize wicker work cake by the chef of Philadelphia's Ritz-Carlton; a prize 18-lb. mousse de foie gras which cost Chef Fernand Gspann four days' labor and $20 to build of sliced truffles, tongue and egg white. Spectacle No. 2 was a beauty contest for local waitresses on "National Distillers Night," which turned rowdy when merrymaking stewards acclaimed their favorites by direct action. In the afternoon that day a special party of gourmets...