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Shrilled W.W.C.: "Such is the logic of the imperialist that he regards as nationally ethical that 'what is mine is mine and what is thine is mine.' Vandenberg's . . . unbridled covetousness lays claim to the entire world. . . . The avowed imperialist assumes that if not his belly, at least his pocket will have the requisite capaciousness...
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...
...Thine to eternity...
...love has reared their earthly shrine, Their glory be forever thine...
...ignorant to destroy these ornaments. . . . Beyond all cities . . . Rome is . . . a monument of the virtues of the world to all posterity, and a trespass against her greatness would justly be regarded as an outrage against all time. . . . Destroying Rome thou wilt lose not the city of another, but thine own. Preserving her . . . thou wilt enrich thyself with the most splendid possession of the earth...