"Love Before Breakfast," is as crazy as its 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.
Lionel Barrymore gives the world another of his masterly monologues in "The Voice of Bugle Ann." This time he is a breeder of fox hounds in the hills of Missouri and raises some really attractive dogs. Erie Linden takes the part of his son and makes an excellent partner for Maureen O'Sullivan, the daughter of a sheep raiser.
The latter is played rather poorly by Dudley Digges, who is the enemy of the whole county because his fences hinder the hounds. Spring Byington as Barrymore's wife and Charley Grapewin as a crony give their usual performances. The whole picture drags considerably, but is more than endurable.
There is a good Silly Symphony and Pathe has compiled the main events of the last 25 years into a mildly interesting short
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