Champagne for Caesar is amusing, and _brings Mr. Ronald Colman
back to the screen looking as attractively middle-aged as ever. He takes the part of a highly educated man who regards the normal television quiz as the forerunner of intellectual destruction, and is appalled at the enthusiasm with which answers to the simplest questions are greeted. And why, he asks, when somebody says he lives in Brooklyn, does everybody clap ? Need- ing money, he appears himself at a Milady Soap Company contest, wins a hundred and sixty dollars, refuses the money, and insists on returning the following week to try doubling the prize. He does this week after week until he has practically bought up the soap business, and Miss Celeste Holm is sent in by the managing director, Mr. Vincent Price, to try, by the usual methods, to cloud and confuse the wonderman's mind. Although there are moments when this entertaining film skids, quite unnecessarily, into the hay- wire, for the most part it is good, straight satire, played lightly and happily by a good cast in a pleasantly relaxed atmosphere. I enjoyed it enormously.
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