Word: raquel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Broadway this year to help their techniques and, as Baseball Manager "Gabby" Street would say, for the profit, too. Some of the renegades have done better than others. Miss Pauline Starke's frightening Zombie was shortlived on Broadway (but is currently a fair success in Chicago). Miss Raquel Torres did not get a great deal of stage experience out of her brief connection with Adam Had Two Sons. Pauline Frederick, after an absence of eight years in pictures and in English and Australian productions, was given an unfortunate re-debut in When the Bow Breaks...
There was a girl he used to send violets to. (Sniff! Sniff!) What was her name? "Roses are red, violets blue." (Sniiiiiff!) Not blue?purple?but very pleasant and sleep-provoking. Raquel Meller is standing on his nose singing to him, throwing violets all over his face. ... As the surgeon begins slicing him open he lies buried under a pile of sweet-scented violets...
Adam Had Two Sons finds good Actor Paul Kelly (Bad Girl) in bad company. He and his brother have escaped from a California prison to Panama. There they fall in love with one Teresa (Raquel Torres, one of the cinema's Mexican girls). Follows some shooting, a flight by boat, fraternal sacrifice and, after two hours, the blessed surcease of a final curtain...
...intended to be clear Chaplin-feeling that his story must be understood by everyone, even the stupid or the distracted-would have the scene refilmed. In rest intervals he would play "Violetera" on his harmonium and sing an imitation of Spanish words to it in the manner of Raquel Meller. One afternoon he nearly lost his mustache. He has had the same one for 15 years. A Manhattan theatrical barber picked it out for him. He says that if he ever loses it he will play smooth shaven. On this day he came in just in time...
...tragic human characters, tragic situations. The two daughters of a grim old grandee fall in love with the same man; he seduces the older before he marries the younger, and his two children grow up to fill his house with hate. Don Juan, lover of the childless widow Raquel, marries Berta to become a father, becomes instead the jealously guarded child of both women. A self-made man marries the daughter of an impoverished business acquaintance; she eventually falls in love with him, he will never admit that he loves her. But when she dies, he kills himself...