Summertime...vacation timeThe beautifully-acted and sensitively-directed film opens with a montage - half a dozen images of the bustling city in he summer time.The poetic motto on the entrance sign to the town at the railroad station, read outloud by Cobb, was authored by the idealistic, platitudinous Deeds:Welcome to Mandrake FallsWhere the scenery enthrallsWhere no hardship e""er befallsWelcome to Mandrake Falls.I used to ask her sometimes, but she""d only laugh and say she""d given it away.A very great admirer.She would never tell me who.Paula pulls the dusty drape covering her aunt""s regal portrait (wearing a gown) to reveal her beautiful aunt: "That""s as he Empress Theodora.and legendary choreographer Busby Berkeley, alongside Lloyd Bacon""s42nd Street (1933)and Mervyn LeRoy""sGold Diggers of 1933 (1933)- with his briskly-told entry often considered the best and most extravagant of all three.Evelyn described the Hom-Dai Egyptian curse "reserved only for the most evil of blasphemers." It was never used because it was so highly feared: "If a victim of the Hom-Dai should ever arise, he would bring with him the ten plagues of Egypt.