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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...
...problem: the wide disagreement on foreign-trade policies. U.S. delegates were the staunchest and well-nigh only advocates of free competitive trade, even though they showed no unanimous disposition to make the sacrifices postwar free trade would entail. Virtually all other delegates leaned towards cartels. Britain's Sir Clive Baillieu (pronounced Bailey) favored some control by "continuous and public review" of cartels-which he euphemistically called "trade accords...
...Lord Clive, 38, a direct descendant of Clive of India. One of the tallest men in the House of Lords, he sat there as 17th Baron Darcy de Knayth, a peerage created by Edward III. A fighter pilot in the R.A.F., he was killed last year...
Thus perished Wingate of the bushy beard, originator, trainer, brains and spark plug of the Burma Raiders. Wingate was one of those talented originals that some alchemy of British culture occasionally produces. Like Clive of India, "Chinese" Gordon, Lawrence of Arabia (a distant cousin), Wingate was an eccentric and an artist in unorthodox military operations...