Word: clive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...though Mr. Clive were offending his old patrons with his depressing antics, his spook dramas and extended productions of ham pieces. His old patrons have all quietly removed to the even hamier perlieus of the Henry Jewett sideshow on Huntington Avenue, but one feels that Mr. Clive, when peeping through a hole in the asbestos curtain, must miss the nice old ladies with ear trumpets, the nice old gentlemen with sidewhiskers, and the nice schoolkids who used to consider "Charley's Aunt" such a thriller. The Copley is now given over to strange and uncouth peasants from far places...
...William Clive Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty, announced to the assembled commoners that the Government has decided to "about ship" as regards its naval construction program. He said that two of the three cruisers ordered to be laid down this year would not be proceeded with, owing to "the situation disclosed at the Geneva Naval Conference." The announcement was received by prolonged cheering in all parts of the House...
...issue was sharply drawn last evening among three eminent dramatists at the open meeting of the Harvard Dramatic Club at the Union, when before an audience of about 125, E. E. Clive, actor-manager, E. M. Woolley, director, and Clayton Hamilton, critic, spoke in varying terms as to the comparative trend of the modern stage...
...Clive, the first speaker, voiced the opinion that theatregoers are becoming more receptive to good drama at the present time "What the public wants now," he said, "is enormous action. This is largely the reason for the disinclination of the dramatic public to attend the theatre of literary drama; they prefer to stay at home and read. Further proof of the love of action is the enormous popularity of motion pictures...
Partly disagreeing with Mr. Clive, Mr. Woolley attributed the imminent rise in the standards of the stage to a desire of the audience for more details and better methods, and voiced praise of dramatic activity in college...