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Beginning March 2, and running for one week, the Metropolitan offers "Mandalay" with Ricardo Cortez, Lyle Talbot, and Kay Francis. On the stage is the Scott Furrier fashion show and Will Mahoney of the "Vanities". The story, which is laid in Rangoorf forms a romantic setting for the striking beauty of Miss Francis...
...Sent to jail for manslaughter, she reënters the house on 56th Street 20 years later as a lady black-jack dealer, plays cards against a grown daughter who has been taught to think her mother dead. When the daughter (Margaret Lindsay) shoots Peggy's partner (Ricardo Cortez) to avoid paying her losses, Peggy is again on hand, ready to take what the cinema calls "the rap." Typical shot: handsome Kay Francis explaining to Margaret Lindsay that "I'm the best friend you ever...
...Sally Trent) Claudette ColbertMimi Benton) Tony Cummings Ricardo Cortez Michael Gardner David Manners...
...main fault with the movie is that the plot is burdened with a superfluity of juvenile acting, in most cases under tearful circumstances. Ricardo Cortez is perfectly cast as a good friend of the night club star, but David Manners and Lyda Roberti have been deprived of bettering the show due to the short time they appear on the screen...
When freed from his academic duties, Professor Abbott finds refuge "in the red house on Sparks St." Like Sir Christopher Wren, Wilbur Cortez Abbott has builded his own monument. Within the walls of 74 Sparks St. he has assembled all the evidence that one could need for an analysis of his mental processes. He has a beautiful collection of unused chessmen; sundry gargoyles stare out from his walls; there is a mug used at Nicky's coronation; framed on the wall hang a pair of European Court Fans; on a window seat, in the sun, sparkles a jewel handled Moorish...