Word: clive
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...Mowbray, indeed, deserves much credit. Sole representative--except for that triumphant moment when Mr. Clive, himself, around the stage (deafening applause) of the masculine in a dramatic matriarchy, he adjusted his bat wing tie, leaned on his cane, angled his hat, was, in fact, the life of the party. Yet one cannot forgive him those lines--or Gertrude Jennings either--"Do you remember your parents? Then I suppose they died before you were born." Men have walked the streets of Brockton for less than that...
...Clive returned to the Copley stage Wednesday night in Ian Hay's new play, "False Pretences", but there were no false pretences in the tumultuous applause that greeted the returned wanderer and also, as a matter of fact, the hitherto unproduced comedy...
...piece contained one part perfectly suited for Mr. Clive; and it was well for the Copley company that their leader rejoined them. As a farcical butler, as a tramp, as an idiotic young man, Mr. Clive has in other years drawn tears of laughter from his audience: but as the old man in "False Pretences", the sniffs and nose-blowings which he caused were of a different character. The pathetic old man was a sentimental character in a very sentimental play; but Mr. Clive did not quite overact, the rest of the company was not over-sentimental--Miss Standing...
...figures of Clive and Hastings, Wolfe, and Montcalm stand out in the story of French and English colonial expansion in the eighteenth century. It was a period when Europe had enough energy to overflow into little geographical odds and ends like India and America. Professor Lord will speak on this expansion in the History I lecture which comes at 9 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall and to hear it will be for me but a small gesture of filial respect for those intrepid vagabonds...
Reginald Mason, E. E. Clive (from the Boston Stock Company), Eleanor Griffith and others spoke their pieces capably enough. In fact everything was all right except the play. Even that seemed to serve in England. But, unfortunately for those concerned, Manhattan is not London. Probably Boston was only fooling...