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...London, which seems to be the happy-hunting ground for Mr. Clive's play-pickers, the current Copley play had great popularity. It should have the same reception in this stronghold of Anglo-philes. Someone told Mr. Clive that there was nothing like farce for his stage, and Boston can resign itself to the fare for many a month, until the London farce market is exhausted. Fortunately, his informant was a very shrewd fellow. There is nothing like farce for the Copley...
...audiences there are best satisfied when all of their favorites shine. And it has been several weeks since anyone except Clive himself bore any of the burden. Nan Marriot Watson has disappointed in a variety of roles. Even the ladies' delight, Allen Mowbray, has failed them, for his part in the present play is not only small but his performance is unimpressive. It might be ventured that it is a grave mishap to include the dashing Mr. Mowbray in a cast when he doesn't hold front and center. His lines will be fortunate if they receive anything like their...
...Broadway success in stock,--such it is; and perhaps an ambitious attempt for Mr. Clive and his company. Yet, on second sight, it becomes quite possible. For all the effects are broad, drawn with a stub For acceptable performance, they require more consistency and steadiness than subtlety. The play depends chiefly upon three characters, the three principles of the triangle. Perhaps of these, Allan Mowbray, as the Italian grape grower eager for a wife to enjoy the sunset half of his life with him, is most realistically played. But Nan Marriett Watson as Amy, who comes from Frisco...
...Greenwood, City building-inspector at Tucson, Ariz., sought Evangelist McPherson last week, and declared in the presence of Detective Chief Clive of Los Angeles that he recognized her as a woman whom he had seen on the street in Tucson during her "disappearance...
...Girls Go Back Home (Patsy Ruth Miller, Clive Brook). They probably do not. But this one did. She was not more than 20 minutes on her way when the handsome youth appeared down the aisle of the train to make her succeeding years rather less lonely. She had met him when he was an actor in a vagrant troupe of hams. She followed him to Manhattan and made the acquaintance of a few hard facts. All this makes comparatively commendable entertainment...