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...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...
...that a Chinese named Jose Chong was robbed and murdered in Sinaloa State by Defendants Teodoro Romero and Paolo Cavada. Convicted, they have been fighting their case through higher and higher courts ever since, on the contention that a Chinaman is not a man in the true Mexican sense...
...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...
...Government. Boss Calles began to suspect that Senor Tejeda was a troublemaker. He knew it when Tejeda resigned from the National Revo lutionary Party, announced that he was a candidate for President and roved out of his home State to stump all Mexico. All the citizens of Nicolas Romero were on hand last week to hear him speak, though they knew the candidate from Veracruz had no chance of being elected. But Tejeda's hard bitten face and manner notably lacked the routine apathy of a Mexican Opposition candidate. Hoarsely he ranted on about the Government's "treachery...