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...Cesare Borgia), is a much maligned warrior and statesman whose evil reputation is attributable to the lying tongues of his envious contemporaries. To save the state of Solignola, Panthasilea Degli Speranzoni (Lily Cahill) attempts to ensnare Borgia (Louis Calhern), but instead falls in love with him and ruins her plot. When Solignola falls, she comes home to witness her family's disgrace, her lover's triumph, snatches from him a poisoned cup and drinks it. Aware of her own clan's infamy and Borgia's greatness, she dies in his arms...
...then. The present edition is acted by Al Shean (once of Gallagher & Shean) and Sam Bernard II, nephew of the late famed Sam Bernard. The story is about two honest saloonkeepers, one of whom feels justified in maintaining his resort after the passage of the 18th Amendment. The plot is further flavored by a love affair between the children of the two publicans and by the entrance of hijackers. It ends happily. For folk who enjoy anti-Prohibition propaganda on the stage, apothegms such as "The dry law is all wet" will prove appealing. A very nice, light lager...
...time's nick Igniter Fawkes was apprehended and the historic "Gunpowder Plot" failed; but every year thereafter Royal guards have searched the Parliamentary cellars just before the King was scheduled to open Parliament...
...weighty prose of a Bulwer-Lytton historical drama-is spoken in an unconvincing approximation of what the playwright imagines to be Elizabethan speech. The play can have little suspense, for bright theatregoers are aware of the facts in the story, and few startling liberties are taken with the traditional plot to add spectator-interest. The background is supplied by the stuffed figures of Raleigh, Cecil, Bacon. Although the season's first appearance of the Theatre Guild's famed Lunt & Fontanne is a perennial signal for critical hosannas, Elizabeth The Queen remains the sort of thing worst done...
...plot is the usual comedy of an inefficient shoe salesman who accidentally rises in social standing for an evening, finds himself a gentleman stow-away on the "Malolo" going from Honolulu to San Francisco in company with the head of his firm and his boss's pretty secretary of whom our hero is enamoured. He makes his escape two jumps ahead of the Captain in a mail sack on board an airplane in a ship-to-shore service, only to be landed in Los Angeles on a painter's platform on the side of a skyscraper. At that point...