Word: clive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Clive returned to the Copley stage Wednesday night in Ian Hay's new play, "False Pretences", but there were no false pretences in the tumultuous applause that greeted the returned wanderer and also, as a matter of fact, the hitherto unproduced comedy...
...figures of Clive and Hastings, Wolfe, and Montcalm stand out in the story of French and English colonial expansion in the eighteenth century. It was a period when Europe had enough energy to overflow into little geographical odds and ends like India and America. Professor Lord will speak on this expansion in the History I lecture which comes at 9 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall and to hear it will be for me but a small gesture of filial respect for those intrepid vagabonds...
Reginald Mason, E. E. Clive (from the Boston Stock Company), Eleanor Griffith and others spoke their pieces capably enough. In fact everything was all right except the play. Even that seemed to serve in England. But, unfortunately for those concerned, Manhattan is not London. Probably Boston was only fooling...
...holidays we were unable to say a word of praise last week for "Three Faces East" which was a bully good secret service picture. That sort of thing is apt to be either very obvious or very much involved in movie form, but the almost perfect acting of Clive Brooke and Jette Gondal made this famous stage success tremendously exciting...
...Clive, as the Cockney, Jimmy Gubbins, officially declared dead by the War Office: May Ediss as his step-mother; and Alan Mowbray as Lord Leicester, alias "Spoofy", the shell-shocked pal of Jimmy, all turned in performances the genuineness of which completely wiped out the memory of all their former roles. From start to finish their histrionic powers functioned without a discordant note...