Word: romero
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...title, but is more than averagely amusing. Preston Foster crashes through with a lot of fast comebacks to make up for the merely average performance of Carole Lombard. Janet Beecher as Carole's mother does an excellent job with her tempestuous daughter who is in love with Cesare Romero. Romero plays his usual greasy part and the whole audience is happier when Foster and his millions save the heroine from a sloppy marriage...
...omnipresent lover (Preston Foster). There are also germs of amusement in her dilemma when she has to choose between submission to her presumptuous lover (the same Mr. Foster), smugly on- sconced in his steam-yacht; and death by drowning with her wine-soaked, brine-soaked, luke-warm sweetheart (Ceasar Romero) in his tiny, tossing sloop. But the finale falls flat once again. Preston and Carole are married while conducting a licentious altercation. Pathe news catches the spirit of the thing, and elsewhere in the program very impressvely sums up the last twenty-five years in all their hectic strife...
...sort, combining humorous dialogue with a series of extraordinary situations. Patricia Ellis is featured as the pampered young heiress who is afflicted with an ungovernable passion for men in uniform, much to the sorrow of her father, who has to foot the expensive bills for her numerous divorces. Cesar Romero plays the part of the dashing but unfaithful object of Miss Ellis's affections. The humor pervading the whole picture reaches its climax in the scene depicting the Harvard-Yale football game, won by Yale under very amusing circumstances...
...Hollywood's most famed directors is correspondingly more childish in its manner. After winding through an interminable succession of overdecorated scenes, in which flashbacks show the progress of the love affair while the elderly lover tells the story of it to his latest and most formidable rival (Cesar Romero), it ends in a sequence which, because Director von Sternberg wanted it to mean one thing for stupid audiences and another for intelligent ones, winds up as a feeble ambiguity. Most tedious shot: Dietrich biting her underlip to express passion...
...Since it was only a Chinaman we do not think our crime was murder," pleaded Defendant Romero last week. "It was not even homicide," cried Defendant Cavada. "Only a Chinaman...