In Oliver Cromwell""s time, the Brandons used to hide them here." Her dissolute, profligate husband, Sir Hector Brandon, has spent the entire family fortune until only one source of family income remains - the sapphire.I""m tired of tossin"" my hips.Tira normally performs with the lions after her sideshow stint.Rajah (Nigel de Brulier), the astrologer reads her horoscope:Rajah: You were born in August.Tira: Yeah, one of the hot months.Rajah: It was on the 17th under the sign of Leo, the Lion.Tira: Aw, King of the Beasts, huh.She is warned to be careful that night, because she might be unlucky.Tira then asks about her future, because she knows all about her past:Rajah: Ah, you have a wonderful future."In Metropolis"" commemorative Heroes Park to honor Superman for saving the Earth, wheelchaired double-amputee Wallace Keefe, the paralyzed employee who had been rescued by Bruce Wayne in the rubble of the Wayne Financial building in the film""s opening, was apprehended by police officers for defacing the tall, beloved Superman monument with red spray paint ("FALSE GOD").Although Hepburn had a brilliant performance in this film, she was an unconventional, independent-spirited performer, and this was her last film for RKO - since she had been infamously labeled ""box-office poison"" through most of the 30s.It was black and white (when color wasen vogue), shown in standard ratio (when theaters were showing Cinemascope wide-screen films), and it daringly portrayed a perverted, pedophile Preacher as the main protagonist - a villainous, obsessive, homicidal, and misogynous character with repressed sexuality and violence.