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...second feature is entitled "Hat, Coat and A Glove" and is another murder story all mixed up with a few love affairs of varying intensity. Ricardo Cortez is cast as a lawyer who is faced with the not too unusual dilemma of having to defend his wife's lover. The note of newness is added by the fact that the actual murderer is none other than Mr. Cortez himself though it all seems to have been a great surprise to him. You will no doubt be relieved to know that everything ends quite pleasantly for everybody...

Author: By S. M. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

...Coat and Glove (RKO). A married woman (Barbara Robbins) visits a young artist's flat, carelessly leaves her beret behindc Her lawyer-husband (Ricardo Cortez) goes to the flat, finds there the artist's discarded mistress (Dorothy Burgess), tries unsuccessfully to prevent her from shooting herself, departs without noticing that he has left his glove on the floor. The hat, the glove and the overcoat on which his mistress expires are introduced as evidence when the artist (John Beal) is tried for her murder. His attorney is the husband of the lady who owns the beret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 6, 1934 | 8/6/1934 | See Source »

WHEN Professor Wilbur Cortez Abbott criticized recent historical trends in his pamphlet "Some 'New' History and Historians", he failed to call to account one type of historical writing which is particularly worthy of his censure. That is the New England kitchen-parlor history...

Author: By R. W. P., | Title: CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 4/27/1934 | See Source »

...Jolson sings well but sings about three times too often; he brings in his gags self-consciously as an amateur vaudeville performer. Dolores Del Rio dances beautifully. Ricardo Cortez as her dancing partner looks like a hard, bad man; we like him better smiling. Dick Powell in a serious revival of his humorous part in "Blessed Event" is a singing, composing orchestra leader faintly reminiscent of a well-known insecticide. Kay Francis as a banker's lonely wife looks too gloomy. Louise Fazenda with her setback coiffure provides some good laughs, while Guy Kibbee and Hugh Herbert are conventional chaperoned...

Author: By R. C., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 4/12/1934 | See Source »

Wonder Bar (Warner) is the Grand Hotel of musical pictures. It delineates occurrences in an elaborate Paris night club run by Al Wonder (Al Jolson), where a lovely patroness (Kay Francis) bored with her husband, a depraved dancer (Ricardo Cortez) and his svelte partner (Dolores Del Rio), an impoverished financier and the eccentric but high-spirited host involve themselves in the emotional entanglements customarily reserved for one room melodrama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 5, 1934 | 3/5/1934 | See Source »

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