Word: cleon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week in Hoboken, N. J., their ''last seacoast of Bohemia," Christopher Morley, Cleon Throckmorton, Conrad Milliken and Harry Wagstarf Gribble revived The Black Crook. Next day not a newspaper blushed, no pulpit peeped. Nevertheless, Hoboken's Lyric Theatre had scarcely more than standing room, not, of course, because The Black Crook is shocking in 1929, but because it is "quaint.'' The only trouble with it is that it is entirely too quaint. In their efforts to be sure the audience understands just how funny it looks and sounds after all these years, the actors...
...Hours-For-Lunch-Club, a semi-mythical organization of Manhattan gourmets, has met occasionally in the New Jersey port, drawn across the Hudson by German cooking and the fact that Hoboken's beer has scarcely heard of the 18th amendment. It was on one of these trips that Cleon Throckmorton, scenic designer, discovered the old Rialto Theatre, buried under 70 years of dust. He interested Christopher Morley, novelist-playwright-essayist-colyumist ; Harry Wagstaff Gribble, playwright; and Conrad Milliken, lawyer-poet. Eventually the four leased it and dusted...
...Author Morley been alone in his venture, many persons would have supposed that he would soon discover how and where the boos begin. He was not alone. Playwright Harry Wagstaff Gribble and Stage-designer Cleon Throckmorton were his most noteworthy associates. For their first season of production, several plays were mentioned: March Hares, Dracula, The Old Soak, dramatization of Where the Blue Begins, dramatization of Thunder on the Left...
...does feel, at times, that Dr. Greene rates too high the average Greek, that he might have done well to have considered H. G. Wells' pessimistic verdict on the Athenian mob. We cannot believe that all Greece was populated by Leonidases and Pericles when we know that Cleon and Alcibiades also had their day. Just so the author quotes a quotation of Galton in support of his statement that the men of Athens "developed a type of citizen whose political experience and sagacity, whose contact with life in varied occupations, and whose capacity for appreciating beauty and reason has been...
...minority throughout old Greece especially the labor elements of the cities notwithstanding their failure to elect their candidates. If it comes to a parliamentary impasse which necessitates new elections it will be no surprise to see the Liberals in saddle again with a strong following. The old Athenians sent Cleon to Sphacteria acting is a moment of disastrous humor. It is a whim that brings Constantine back to the throne. But neither the Athenians doubted then Pericles' greatness and Cleon's smallness nor are the modern Greeks ignorant of Venizelos' genius. Pericles was dead when Cleon raved. But Venizelos...