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Designed primarily as a vehicle for Jan Kiepura's tenor voice, Laemmle's latest production "Be Mine Tonight", combines serious opera and gay frivolity into a highly entertaining unit; but either Kiepura's singing or Magda Snyder's levity alone would be amusing...
...here he in turn is tricked, by Matillda, (Magda Snyder) adopted daughter of the Mayor, who proves far too clever to be fooled long by Ferraro's artifice. She soon discovers their scheme and unfortunately the local police are not far behind, for that evening they arrest Ferraro, posing as his friend, the stranger, who is wanted in four countries...
...pose as Ferraro; then he pretends to be the impostor's secretary. This leads to the simpler forms of mountain comedy when the stranger, who turns out to be an eccentric crook, is called upon for a song; also when the stranger makes advances to the village belle (Magda Schneider) in whom the singer has taken an interest. The situation is untangled when she demands a serenade. When police try to arrest the swindler they naturally get the wrong man. Then comes the anticipated scene in which, to establish his identity, Enrico Ferraro sings arias from Rigoletto at police...
...buck-toothed Carol was feeling virtuous-having lately become interested in two new mistresses, nobly banished red-haired Jewess Magda Lupescu with a settlement of $120,000, and placated his former wife Princess Helen by agreeing to let their son Prince Mihai, 11, go to an English school. Carol sternly ordered thorough investigation of the Skoda scandal. Last week a goat had been found in handsome, white-haired General Zika Popescu, Secretary-General of the Ministry of War and Commandant of the First Rumanian Army Corps. When Popescu got the summons to appear for questioning, he wrote out farewell letters...
...that King Carol, fearing for her safety, had sent his mistress out of Rumania. The report appeared credible when a Mme Lupescu arrived from Bucharest, registered at a Nice hotel. Speedily interviewed, the visitor impatiently pointed out that her hair was blonde, not red, that she was not named Magda as is his Majesty's companion. "If you've ever seen the other Mme Lupescu," she added tartly, "you ought to know I am telling the truth. Why, she's ten years older than...