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When M-G-M Producer Pandro Berman decided to film Feodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, he thought wistfully of blonde Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe, who has often confessed a yen to play the role of Grushenka. "Frankly, I don't expect her to be in it," he said. "She would probably want too much money, and besides, I hear she is going to have a baby.'' To all questions of diapers and Dostoevsky, Marilyn murmured unsweetened nothings.

P:From Producer Frank Ross, who popularized eye-stretching CinemaScope with The Robe, came a surprisingly frank plug for oldfashioned, small-screen, black-and-white films. Ross noted that CinemaScope is fine for sweeping horizons, but added: "If the subject P: has power and the scenes themselves are what you want to show, don't tinsel it up with CinemaScope." P:Sorely beset, RKO peddled distribu tion rights to 44 films (including eleven not yet released) to prosperous rival Universal-International, hoped to save some $7,000,000 by the deal, wearily acknowledged that it is exploring a new source of revenue: the sale of oil under studio lots.

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