Word: blakely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Waterloo was won by George Arliss and a flock of pigeons. In this picture, the same Wahoo, Neb. authority on the Napoleonic Wars reveals the inside story of Trafalgar. England's victory in this case, it appears, sprang from a childish pact between Admiral Horatio Nelson and Jonathan Blake, the moving spirit of Lloyd's, London's famed insurance company...
...Young Blake (Freddie Bartholomew), wharf-rat nephew of a Yarmouth ginshop hostess, and young Nelson (Douglas Scott) swear to take any dare proposed by the other. When they overhear a captain plotting to scuttle his ship after removing its cargo of gold, they agree to run away from home together to carry the news to Lloyd's. Nelson breaks the pact to go to sea as a midshipman on his uncle's man-o'-war. Blake goes alone to London, where a chimney sweep (D'Arcy Corrigan) directs him to Lloyd's coffee house...
...years that make Nelson's name a byword throughout England make Blake (Tyrone Power) a rising power in the syndicates. Like young Rothschild, he devises a scheme for speeding up news. Instead of pigeons, he has a semaphore to flash messages across the English channel. While operating his system, Blake meets a mysterious young English girl (Madeleine Carroll ) at Calais. When she turns out to be Lady Elizabeth Stacy, wife of a foppish young peer (George Sanders), frustrated Blake puts all his energies into Lloyd's. He has made himself head of its most powerful syndicate when...
...might repeat that performance or even improve upon it. Assistant Coach Barnaby thinks the chances are excellent with material like Captain Richard M. Dorson '37, Alvah W. Sulloway '38, John C. Develin '38, Daniel E. Burbank, Jr. '37, Robert O. Easton '38, Peter F. Cunningham '39, and George B. Blake '39, who as captain of the 1939 team went through the entire season undefeated...
...SHIPBUILDERS-George Blake-Lippincott ($2.50). Well-knit tale, a little on the sentimental side, about the decline of Glasgow shipbuilding as it hit a humane employer and a group of his one-time employes...