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Wife, Husband and Friend (Twentieth Century-Fox). Loretta Young, Warner Baxter and Cesar Romero in a domestic comedy rescued from complete mediocrity by a few neat twists in Nunnally Johnson's script...
...narrative always includes Jean Hersholt, as Dr. Luke, and John Qualen in a somewhat libelous interpretation of the squintuplets' father. Five of a Kind winds this amorphous group into a tangled web of rivalry and romance between two ill-mannered newspaper and radio commentators (Claire Trevor and Cesar Romero). Best shot: all five Dionnes sneering at kindly Actor Hersholt...
There is a promise of topical trippery when Don Ameche and Cesar Romero set off across the Atlantic in a plane loaded with a buoying cargo of ping-pong balls (a device actually adopted by Crooner Harry Richman & Aeronaut Dick Merrill; TIME, Sept. 14, 1936, et seq.). And there is a promise of native warmth when the plane plops down in the midst of peasant festivities in a Norse village. But neither promise is kept. Just as soon as they artfully can, the script writers haul the characters back to the familiar Manhattan night-club surroundings, and thenceforth the picture...
There was trouble at Rajpore, an army post on the Afghan border, when the widowed Mrs. William (June Lang) and her daughter Priscilla (Shirley Temple) got there. Tribal Chief Khoda Khan (Cesar Romero) had been arrested smuggling arms through the pass, and the hill people were coming down to get him back. Priscilla liked it in the station, where Sergeant MacDuff (Victor McLaglen) made her a wooden gun, taught her the manual of arms. She also learned not to go out in the sun without a hat, not to refer to the Colonel, her grandfather (C. Aubrey Smith...
...Montezuma, Maxwell Anderson's Night Over Taos, Franz Werfel's Juarez and Maximilian, David Belasco's Girl of the Golden West and Rose of the Rancho. Two are new: Miracle of the Swallows, a play about San Juan Capistrano's annual bird visitors by Ramon Romero, Hollywood correspondent for Spanish-language magazines; and Miner's Gold, a '49er show by Agnes Peterson, a Los Angeles school board official. Founder Brown will play the title role in Montezuma. Young Onslow Stevens, who with Gloria Stuart is the Playhouse's gift to the films, will...