Word: clive
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...have accepted invitations to speak are E. M. Woolley, Dean of the Repertory Theatre Workshop, E. E. Clive, director of the Copley Theatre, and Clayton Hamilton, dramatic critic...
...Clive has been on the stage for 25 years having made his first appearance on the boards of the Drury Lane Theatre, London, in 1902. He came to America in 1911 and made his first visit to Boston two years later, appearing in Charles Frohman's production of Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's "Mind-the-paint-girl." in which Billie Burke was starred...
...Idealist" by Guiseppe Bianco is being presented at the Copley Theatre for the first time on any stage, and for the unfortunate spectator who is forced to sit through its three lengthy acts, it becomes quite apparent why the play has never been produced before. Apparently Mr. Clive, emerging from the recent record run of "The Ghost Train" feels himself in a position where he may experiment with this and that, the experiment in this case being a venture into lush, melodramatic sentimentality...
...hearted Mrs. Holmes, and the superb characterization of Violet Hunt by Miss Elsie Wagstaff, whose walk, voice, and manner give the very, spirit of the oldest profession. A word should also be said for Miss Doris Glaenzer, who was very entertaining as Alf's flat-footed first love. Mr. Clive, usually at home in any role, was not always quite convincing as a brother to all the world
...Clive's excellent company of English caricaturists have all the material they need in Leslie Howard's farce of "Murray Hill." Two old maids with an attractive unmarried niece, a drunken nephew from Chicago and his impersonator from Princeton make the wheels spin around until one of the older ladies goes on a prolonged tear with the nephew, the impersonator is engaged to the niece, and the old family lawyer makes appropriate motions of merriment and despair at the goings-on in the dignified house on Murray Hill...