A young research scientist invents a cloth that is everlasting and dirt resisting. The textile industry sees the danger signal and tries to buy him out, but he outwits them. The plot is a ...

If only that were the case with this fitfully amusing but enervating stage adaptation of “The Man in the White Suit ... a largely gauche scientist boffin in a working-class northern mill ...

Sidney Stratton is a Cambridge-educated scientist working at a textile mill ... to stop Stratton's invention reaching the attention of the public, but the man in the white suit is not going to be ...