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...Theatregoers Club will launch its season at a meeting in Emerson Hall on Friday, October 29 at 4 o'clock. De Wolf Hooper, musical comedy star, and E. E. Clive, actor and director will be the speakers at the Theatregoers first meeting of the year...
Ernost Hutchinson's four-act play, setting forth the bitter quarrel of labor and capital from an original aspect, struck it right when E. E. Clive's Copley repertories choose to give it an initial production in America. With an unusually able cast composed almost entirely of English actors. "The Right to Strike" is sympathetically interpreted and moves on through four terse acts gathering momentum till the final curtain climax...
...with its trenchant heart-rending situations suggests Galsworthy's manner, indeed so does the whole well-knit play. An occasional line and a tendency toward the melodramatic damage it only slightly. As for the acting, the ensemble divides the honors; it is a notably even performance, topped by Mr. Clive...
...Monday night at the Copley in "The Jeffersons," a comedy in three acts by Vincent Douglass, E. E. Clive & Co. made the descent, seemingly with great gusto and few regrets...
...Clive, as Jefferson, is of, course, very funny, and Charles Vane, as Mosscrop, contributed a genuine bit of acting. But the play was not redeemed by anyone. It is a pity that Inventor Mallinson could not have perfected a few ingenious devices for the plot as well as for the cotton mills about which it centers