Shorts

Deals. In London, Douglas Fairbanks Sr. announced the formation of Fairbanks International, with $2,500,000 from American, English and Swiss backers. The new company plans three pictures, to be released by United Artists in 1939: The Californian, which Raoul Walsh may direct; The Tenth Woman, hero Lord Byron, in Technicolor; a remake of The Three Musketeers, also in Technicolor. In Manhattan, Twentieth Century-Fox announced that it had taken over all U. S. distribution for London's Gaumont-British, which will shortly close its U. S. offices.

Scandal. In Bernarr Macfadden's Photoplay appeared an article called Hollywood's Unmarried Husbands and Wives, purporting to "expose" the relationships of couples like Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor, Virginia Pine and George Raft, Carole Lombard and Clark Gable, Paulette Goddard and Charlie Chaplin, Constance Bennett and Gilbert Roland. Excerpts: "Barbara freezes homemade ice-cream for Bob from a recipe his mother gave her. . . . Before George and Virginia teamed up as a tight little twosome, George gloried in flashy, extremely-cut clothes. ... No real father could be more infatuated than George with Virginia's five-year-old daughter, Joan. . . . For Clark, Carole stopped, almost overnight, being a Hollywood playgirl. . . . Paulette still entertains her guests, when she wishes, on Charlie Chaplin's yacht. . . ."

One of the functions assumed by the Hays organization is to help studios prevent fan magazines from outdoing Hollywood itself in bad taste, scandal and pornography. Said Hays Organization Public Relations Man Tom Pettey: "The article is pretty bad. The title is even worse. ... I don't know what we'll do about it but we'll certainly take some action."

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