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...companion-picture. "Manhattan Merry-Go-Round," returns to more orthodox lines, and shows a gangster (Leo Carillo) kidnap Ted Louis. Cab Calloway, Kay Thompson, and their respective ensembles (played by themselves) and make them perform in a recording studio which he has just acquired. The various types of modern music are satisfactorily rendered, but the story and dialogue are weak...
...year-old peon brat watching the underlings of a haciendado beat the life out of Villa Sr. He shoots the flogger, scampers into the hills. He is next to be observed grown up into Wallace Beery, head of a plundering horseback gang, with a lieutenant named Sierra (Leo Carillo) and a childlike appetite for shootings and hangings. When Francisco Madero (Henry B. Walthall), who was historically Mexico's president from November 1911 to February 1913. appears on the scene he realizes Villa's usefulness, invites him to make his gang a regiment...
Like its predecessors, this one starts off with George Dwight (Roger Pryor) frantically trying to put together a musi-comedy which displays a constant tendency to fall apart. Rival producers (the "Hobarts") try to buy the controlling interest. The leading lady (Lilian Miles) persuades a gambler friend (Leo Carillo) to foil the Hobarts by buying a piece of the show himself. He promptly loses it in a crap game and Sport Powell (Herbert Rawlinson), who wins it, unnerves Dwight by trying to make a pretty chorus girl (Mary Brian) the leading lady. A tiny vein of originality can be detected...
...Although I have no authorization," Carillo answered, "and my honor as a soldier does not permit me to enter into discussions with such individuals that have lost all military decorum, I accept, nevertheless, these exchanges under condition that they refer to your unconditional surrender...
...capital. The leaders of this thrust were General Ramon ("Sacristan"*) Iturbe and heavy-jowled Francisco Manzo. Advancing from the north and obscurity they took their place in the news. Halting the army of about 5,000 men, "Sacristan" Iturbe entered a telephone booth and called General Jaime Carillo, defender of the seaport...