Word: clive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that. Richard Whorf in direct contrast to Miss Ediss was thoroughly in harmony with the setting. He has learned the clumsy rolling gait of a cowboy off his horse and the slow drawl of the Western plains. It's too bad, he wasn't given a bigger part. Mr. Clive, also, confined his undoubted talents to a few lines...
...settled on the closing scene of "Great Catherine" last Monday night, it had to rise some ten or a dozen times for the audience to express its approval. The general enthusiasm continued as high during the second play, and indeed increased, for the presence on the stage of Mr. Clive brought, as it always does, more zest to the acting of everybody...
...trial of a horse thief may bring into play the entire range of human emotions is demonstrated in "The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet." Mr. Clive in the title role experienced most of those emotions himself, and whether he was jeering wickedly at God and Man or offering to marry the woman whom the court thought too soiled even to take an oath on the Bible, he carried the audience breathlessly along with him. The play is labelled "A Religious Tract in Dramatic Form", but although the description is just enough, it ought not to be allowed to prejudice anyone...
...Theatregoers Club has announced that it will hold a tea in the Faculty Room of the Union tomorrow from 4 to 5.30 o'clock. E. E. Clive and the Copley players will attend and several other well known actors and actresses are also expected to be present. Tickets may be obtained today in the Standish Hall Common Room from 6.30 to 7 o'clock and from 12 to 2 and 5 to 6 o'clock in the Quiet Room of the Union. A few tickets will also be sold at the door tomorrow, but the Theatregoers Club has advised...
...Shall We Join the Ladies" is a tense, well acted mystery, which gives the audience a taste of real drama. An atmosphere of superstition and terror is created at the outset by the discovery that 13 people are seated about the table. Mr. Clive, taking the role of host, entertains a group that he suspects to have had a hand in the hideous murdering of his brother. He puts them through a horrible evening, yet we know no more at the end than at the beginning. The whole act is merely to produce dramatic effect, and certainly is successful...