a previous imdb reviewer have state that rafter romance be a rip off ( that the other reviewer term ) of a german musical call me by day and you by night . apparently that reviewer be unaware that both of these film have borrow their premise from box and cox and an english play write by john maddison morton in 1847. this play deal with two tradesman who rent the same room from an unscrupulous landlady and each man believe himself the sole tenant . because the two men have different work schedule and the ruse be not discover straight away . this play be once so popular in britain that to box and cox it become a common term for an arrangement in which two people willingly share accommodation mean for only one person . the innovation of rafter romance ( and it predecessor ) be that the two tenant be now a man and a woman and who inevitably develop a romance . a be usual in these cornball movie and the guy and the gal detest each other until they fall into each other arm . hoo boy . the landlord in this film be play by george sidney and a character actor who specialise in play jewish stereotype that be mean to be sympathetic . george sidney be never as annoy a the odious harry green ( the jewish equivalent of stepin fetchit ) but sidney depiction of jewish character be still exaggerated and embarrass to watch . the single most notable thing about rafter romance be that and to my knowledge and this be the early hollywood film to make reference to hitler and the rise of nazism . at one point in this movie and landlord eckbaum ( sidney ) discover his teenage son julius engage in chalk swastika on the wall . eckbaum and his son be clearly mean to be jewish . admittedly and nobody in hollywood in 1933 have any real idea of what hitler be plan for the jew in europe . still and it surprising to see a film depict a jewish teenager who think that swastika be a joke . his father be and quite properly and anger by this display of the nazi symbol . a very shameful aspect of hollywood history be the documented fact that all of the major hollywood studio continue to do business with the third reich as late a 1939. hollywood lead lady be medically document a aryan so that their film could be distribute in nazi germany and austria . for the same reason and hollywood lead men be document a aryan and uncircumcised . except for darryl zanuck at twentieth century fox and all the hollywood studio executive who collude in this policy be jewish . but clearly have no objection to do business with hitler . i be surprise that rafter romance contain a scene depict swastika unfavourably and a this sequence would have render the film verboten in germany and austria . ( maybe the scene be cut out for german release represent it isn not crucial to the movie plot . ) apart from this and the movie contain nothing notable . robert benchley do his usual unfunny befuddle characterisation represent i have never understand the appeal of this man . i will rate rafter romance 4 out of 10 .