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...Approval is "a daring modern comedy" written by Frederick Lonsdale in 1927 and set "in grandmother's day." It has been adapted for the screen by Actor Clive Brook, who also produced it, directed it (beautifully), and plays the male lead in it (still better). The lighting is deliberately archaic; the sets and props are an elegant combination of the suffocatingly ratty and the nostalgically exact...
...story : the impoverished and wolfish Duke of Bristol (Clive Brook), his impoverished and meek friend Richard (Ro land Culver), a statuesque American pickle heiress (Googie Withers) enamored of the Duke, and a heartless, sporty widow named Mrs. Wislack (Beatrice Lillie) abandon London's high life for the widow's island shooting lodge in Scotland. Mrs. Wislack's shocking intention is to take cringing Richard for a month "on approval" before she decides whether to make an honest and rich...
Beatrice Lillie, at the piano, sings I'm Just Seventeen and I've Never Been and, in asthmatic duet with Mr. Brook, Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes. She delivers the perfect Lillie line, "You will find the dinghy by the jetty." But the essence of On Approval's charm is not in such familiar bravura; it is in the muted perfection of Miss Lillie's general performance, and in the excellence of the supporting players. It is in the way Clive Brook handles his stick and gloves, or invites himself downstairs for a drink...
Shortage Reportage. In Kansas City, Mo., somebody broke into Ernie Mehl's auto, made off with a dog bone. In Brook lyn, N. Y., Daniel Tierney was haled into court for lambasting his wife with a beefsteak...
Last week, Philadelphia gallery-goers found the ranks of the Academy's 140th annual show suitably stiffened with such veterans of the U.S. Old Guard as John Sloan, Alexander Brook, Charles Burchfield, Thomas Benton. They also found some of the most unacademic art now being done in the U.S. The Pennsylvania Academy itself shucked tradition by giving its coveted Temple Medal to an out-&-out esthetic experimentalist: 51-year-old Abraham Rattner, a Paris-trained New Yorker...