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Another historic spectacle has come to the screen with M.G.M.'s "Clive of India." Ronald Coleman and Loretta Young are the principals. The picture takes Clive from his clerkship in the East India Company through his triumphs as a soldier and statesman to his final downfall...
...Loretta Young, as Lady Clive, does all she can with a small part and some pretty awful lines. Ronald Coleman is quite good as Clive. That he creates a character cannot be doubted. There are one or two bad bits of greasy acting in the middle of the film, but the rest of the show makes up for it. The scene in the House of Commons is particularly fine. The Indian settings are all good and the scene of the Black Hole of Calcutta is thoroughly grim...
...defects and virtues of the picture. Its principal defect is that, as material for cinema biography, Clive's life contained too much. Consequently, Authors Lipscomb & Minney felt obliged to condense the siege of Arcot into a subtitle, while devoting extensive footage to the efforts of Margaret Clive (Loretta Young) to keep her husband (Ronald Colman) in England when he felt that his destiny lay in India. Its virtue is that no account of such a career could be more than occasionally dull. Ronald Colman (minus the mustache which has long been his trademark) and Loretta Young manage to give...
...Harvard student, about to marry an heiress, were to give up his prospective marriage at graduation in favour of post-graduate work in Bio-Chem, he would be eligible for a nurses training school and presumably for the job of nurse. That is precisely what Loretta Young does in this tale of youth, hospitals, twelve o'clock scandals, overdoses and frequent shots of an oily Florence Nightingale. Boston blue-bloods should take note of John Boles as John Hall, 3rd, and follow his lead with regard to the perfect social marriage by taking a train to Union City, which combines...
...Loretta Young is beautiful and despite a lack of parents, home, etc., manages to sport some pretty capable evening dresses. Jane Darwell is a new hard-boiled mother discovery who is convincing. The school has a remarkably high standard of looks and reassures one with regard to America's reputation for feminine beauty. After all, these are just nurses, what must our movie stars be like? Girls will enjoy the "White Parade" but owing to its unflattering conclusion, the male sex had better go stag. No one minds a nurse becoming a wife, but who wants to see such...