This is the first review I have posted that was not written by Frank Nugent and the first that really hammers the movie. I wonder what it all means.
It means that Norma Shearer was the star of the movie. She was known to be the mistress of William Randolph Hearst, and the left, including most of the press, and what was then the newer Hollywood types HATED Hearst and anything connected with him. The best example of this prejudice was the cruel parodies of Hearst and Shearer in Citizen Kane.