Word: cortez
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...Paramount). Through tedious scenes of polo, parties and Palm Beach, this picture (from Rupert Hughes's novel) indicts the shallow rich. Penelope Newbold (Carole Lombard), seeking the 100% husband, has divorced one 60 per-center, is engaged to Bill Hanaway (Ricardo Cortez), a "sportsman," quoted about 70. Seeing Bill with Sue (Juliette Compton) in his arms, Penelope marks him down 30 points and elopes with a Viennese doctor who runs a sanitorium for wayward girls. Bill follows, wins her, conveniently dies from heart disease attributable to alcoholism, athletic and sexual excesses; and Penelope, proving her worth by nursing...
...those cavilling materialists who blot the world, that the Vagabond at one point said the lecture was "today" and at another with equal calm stated that it was to be "tomorrow." He could make adequate rebuttal, but he won't. Did not Keats write of "Stout Cortez?" Are you not answered, oh ye of little faith? And anyway, it is part and parcel of the nuance, the devil may care, the grand elan that makes the Vagabond such a lovable old wastrel. Ask anyone you meet, "What makes the Vagabond such a delightful character?" and the answer will come back...
...bringing with him his own publicity man, Fred V. Williams. Day after his arrival he was formally installed in old brick St. Thomas Aquinas Church, which is now elevated to the rank of Cathedral (congregation: 1,100 families). From its porch he could look across the street to El Cortez Hotel, where lives many a divorce-seeker. Five blocks away is "Gamblers' Row"-Douglas Alley and Center St. Eight blocks away is the Reno Court House, where Monday "wash-days" are held...
...characters in the best-selling Maltese Falcon were too bad to be included in a cinema. Others-an adolescent boy addicted to a gruesome technique in murder, an elderly gentleman with nice manners and a furtive attitude toward homicide (Dudley Digges), and a shrewd, lighthearted, brutal detective (Ricardo Cortez) -are bad enough. All of them are eager to acquire an item of antique jewelry†- the Maltese falcon. They commit a total of three murders in the effort to do so. In a wry conclusion, the Maltese falcon is found to be valueless; the detective delivers the heroine (Bebe Daniels...
...biography "Stout Cortez" Henry Morton Robinson has produced an uncritical, unscholarly book which, however, should not lose interest and fascination on that account among popular readers. While the style is often fantastic, especially in the fictitious speeches which partake of the unrealities of movie melodrama, Mr. Robinson uses for the most part a straightforward narrative which brings out the more exciting aspects of the conquest. He shows Cortez to have been not only a soldier of the first rank in his ability to handle men and in his ingenuity in military tactics, but also an able administrator who knew well...