Lillian Roth – MRQE

Animal Crackers

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The well-known explorer and hunter Captain Spaulding has just returned from Africa, and is being welcomed home with a lavish party at the estate of influential society matron Mrs. Rittenhouse when a valuable painting goes missing. The intrepid Captain Spaulding attempts to solve the crime with the help of his silly secretary Horatio Jamison, while sparring with the anarchic Signor Emanuel Ravelli and his nutty sidekick The Professor.

Take a Chance

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Take a Chance was based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name, though only one of the original songs, Eadie Was a Lady, has been retained. The thinnish plot involves the misadventures of a pair of pickpockets, played on Broadway by Jack Haley and Sid Silvers and on film by James Dunn and Cliff Ukelele Ike Edwards.

Honey

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A once-wealthy sister and brother rent out their Southern mansion and stay on as cook and butler.

Madam Satan

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Angela and Bob Brooks are an upper class couple. Bob is an unfaithful husband. Angela has a plan to win back his affections.

Ladies They Talk About

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot.

Sea Legs

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Searchlight Doyle, lightweight boxing champion of the United States Navy, is shanghaied into the fleet of Sainte Cassette, an island republic, as a replacement for a wealthy slacker who must serve his country to receive a $2 million inheritance, a scheme concocted by attorney Gabriel Grabowski. All his shipmates, except Hyacinth Nitouche, assume that he is indeed the wastrel he purports to be. Doyle falls in love with Adrienne, the most beautiful of the captain’s daughters, and wins her affections by treating his comrades in her teashop. Admiral O’Brien, grandfather of the man Doyle is impersonating, comes to visit, and mistaking him for a civilian, Doyle throws him overboard and to everybody’s surprise is complimented on his vigilance. But his real identity is exposed by some American sailors, and he is suspected of killing young O’Brien; he is cleared of suspicion, however, and is reinstated by the admiral, thereby gaining Adrienne’s love.

The Vagabond King

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The story takes place in medieval France. Poet-rogue Francois Villon, sentenced to hang by King Louis XI for writing derogatory verses about him, is offered a temporary reprieve. His hanging will be postponed for 24 hours, and in that time he must defeat the invading Burgundians and win the love of the beautiful Katherine.

The Love Parade

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying.