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> Biggest gross movie earnings on record are The Singing Fool ($5,250,000), The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ($4,500,000), Ben Hur ($4,000,000). Last week it became apparent that Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, with U.S. receipts so far of nearly $4,000,000, British receipts estimated at $1,250,000, will presently set a new record of about $6,000,000.

> In San Francisco last fortnight Realtor Louis Lurie announced that he had organized a $5,000,000 company to produce pictures written and acted by Mae West. In Hollywood last week Mae West Empire Pictures Inc. was starting groundwork for its first production: Catherine the Great, written and acted by Cinemactress West, to be released early next year.

> In Astoria, L.I. at Eastern Service Studios, two new independent companies were hard at work on two new feature pictures for Paramount release. The companies: Odessco (for Odium Steele Co.), backed by Stanley Odium, son of Tycoon Floyd Odium; Triple A (for Associated Artists of America), backed by Broker Harold Orlob. Odessco's picture: Home Town, with Wallace Ford and Stuart Erwin, directed by William K. Howard (Transatlantic). Triple A's picture: "...one-third of a nation," first WPA play to be adapted for cinema, with Sylvia Sidney and Leif Erikson, directed by Dudley Murphy (Emperor Jones).

> In There Goes My Heart (TIME, Oct. 10), one of the principals was an erratic subway motorman who took mail-order lessons in chiropractic, practiced on his wife. Last week the American Bureau of Chiropractic sued Producer Hal Roach, Cinemactor Alan Mowbray, Writers Eddie Moran, Jack Jevne and Ed Sullivan for $100,000, for ridiculing the profession.

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