Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...husband so that they can apply for cook and butler work together. Their employer turns out to be a genial racketeer (Leo Carrillo), who does all he can to further his domestics' increasingly complicated career. Failing to marry his cook himself, he discovers that she is in love with the butler, who by this time has returned to his old job and is preparing to marry a young lady of fashion. A ceremony equivalent to that of fitting the glass slipper is achieved when the bridegroom finds himself kidnapped at a fashionable wedding, rushed off to the racketeer...
Like those earlier Columbia hits, It Happened One Night, Broadway Bill, Love Me Forever, If You Could Only Cook has a quality most easily assessed as charm, which definitely compensates for such minor shortcomings as its title, borrowed from an antique improper story and explainable only as one more evidence of the pitiful innocence of the Hays organization. Good shot: Herbert Marshall showing Jean Arthur his design for a roadster which Chrysler Corp. would do (well to examine closely...
Probable next policy to be adopted from "the highest motives of patriotism and love of country'': pensions for all veterans...
...wagging, heads shaking. A beauty, intelligent and subversive, she set the neighboring town of Dunmow on its ear, was sure to be found at the storm-centre of all industrial disturbances. Mill-owner Bly Emberson, sanctified by a lifetime of patient subservience to his steel-jacketed wife, fell in love with her. So did his lawyer pal, Derry. Ishma might well have thought she was a fatal woman: Bly drowned himself because of her while Britt was killed defending her fair name. Author Burke, true to her literary gods, cannot ring down on her heroine the curtain she deserves...
...Publisher Alan Rinehart, only non-professional contributor, skits creditably on the perils of childbirth from the husband's viewpoint. Supreme-seller Hervey Allen ponderously parodies himself in a syllabus of an even bigger novel than Anthony Adverse. Author Rex Stout blows the gaff on how to water down love stories for a fiction editor. Newcomer Ed Bell (Fish on the Steeple) sticks a plum in the pudding, in the form of a small-town Southern story. Arthur Kober writes a Bronx seduction scene in Bronx. Robert Cantwell makes a few pointed, sensible remarks on modern marriage. Versifiers Leonard Bacon...