Word: clive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ernost Hutchinson's four-act play, setting forth the bitter quarrel of labor and capital from an original aspect, struck it right when E. E. Clive's Copley repertories choose to give it an initial production in America. With an unusually able cast composed almost entirely of English actors. "The Right to Strike" is sympathetically interpreted and moves on through four terse acts gathering momentum till the final curtain climax...
...speeches before the Theatregoers Club and other high-minded organizations Mr. Clive has periodically bemoaned the necessity of descending to inprior productions at the Copley theatre for the sake of luring into the box office the copeks of unappreciative Boston audiences...
...Monday night at the Copley in "The Jeffersons," a comedy in three acts by Vincent Douglass, E. E. Clive & Co. made the descent, seemingly with great gusto and few regrets...
...Clive, as Jefferson, is of, course, very funny, and Charles Vane, as Mosscrop, contributed a genuine bit of acting. But the play was not redeemed by anyone. It is a pity that Inventor Mallinson could not have perfected a few ingenious devices for the plot as well as for the cotton mills about which it centers
First Lord of the Admiralty William Clive Bridgeman and the First Sea Lord, Admiral of the Fleet Lord Beatty, threatened to resign unless more warships were built. They based their stand upon the indisputable fact that the existing fleet would in a few years be obsolete unless replacements were made more rapidly...