Word: prettier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Spain (United Artists-Samuel Goldwyn). If you like Eddie Cantor you will probably like this picture in which, surrounded by prettier girls than usual, he performs thoroughly typical Cantor antics. Tricked into acting as chauffeur for a crew of bandits, he has to escape across the border into Mexico while rolling his popeyes, giving exaggerated gulps. To delude a detective he is forced to pose as a torero. No one who knows Cantor technique needs to be told what he forgets to wear into the arena: his trousers. The funniest part of The Kid from Spain is the chase...
...Eager to make Lossiemouth a prettier place, her Professor E. L. Collis offered a trophy to be called the "MacDonald Cup," specified that the Town Council shall award it annually to the villager having the prettiest garden. On the date when entries for the competition closed, there were no entrants...
...unpardonable to ride without a hat, particularly in the finest Row in the world . . . where strangers watching will get a totally improper impression of British horsemanship. . . . Nothing looks prettier in the world on a woman than a bowler hat with a riding costume...
Marietta is the prize daughter of the Malory family, so much livelier, prettier than her younger sister that Lucile never seems to have a chance. Yet Lucile gets engaged to Timothy Sheldon, whom Marietta fancies for herself. To stop the marriage she persuades her mother to have Lucile examined for tuberculosis; finds that she has a touch of it herself. In Switzerland, where she retires to recover, she meets up with young American Eugene Monk, becomes his mistress to spite herself. As soon as they get back to Paris she throws him over. To divert her jealousy of Timothy...
...those determined English females who shouted "Votes for Women!" in unlikely places at embarrassing moments, and continued to shout until hauled to the police station. No Surrender is the story of some of the Suffragettes' goings-on, and of the taking-off of one of their younger and prettier members...