Word: lombards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...industrial region where bitter unemployment persists. En route Il Duce cajoled Italian peasants at their harvesting, speaking from a truck, a threshing machine, a motorcar, a platform built like the prow of a ship, and from a Hitler-taunting replica of the ox-drawn battle carts with which the Lombard League in the 12th Century repulsed Teutonic Frederick Barbarossa...
Modern: "Now and Forever"--Gary Cooper. Shirley Temple, and Carole Lombard are the leading attractions in this film. On the same bill is "The Case of the Howling Dog," a mystery drama, with Warren Williams and Mary Astor in the chief parts...
Considered apart, Carole Lombard and Shirley Temple each have undoubtedly a considerable appeal, but when combined in one picture their talents fall somewhat into conflict. If it presented only one of these stars, "Now and Forever," running this week at the Paramount and Fenway theatres, it would probably be better than the average movie, but this fault condemns it to mediocrity...
Jerry Day (Gary Cooper) and his lady love (Carole Lombard) have for three years been tripping a light trail about the globe living a happy, though rather vacuous existence and gaining their daily champagne by virtue of Jerry's ability to sell hypothetical gold mines and other sleight of hand. Just when their accumulated hangovers and debts begin to overwhelm them Jerry receives a letter from his brother-in-law asking him for his brother-in-law's love for the child, the guardianship of Jerry's child by a former marriage. Thinking to profit by Jerry returns to America...
...questionable integrity, is reformed when a baby named Penelope (Shirley Temple) comes into his life. Penelope is his child by an earlier marriage. When first reminded of her, he is having some difficulty meeting the hotel bills incurred in an excursion through the Orient with Toni (Carole Lombard). He is confident that he can sell his unpleasant brother-in-law the right to adopt the child for enough money to perpetuate the irresponsibilities that he enjoys with Toni. It is partly Toni's resentment of this proposed bargain and partly Penelope's charm that make him decide, on meeting...