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WOOLLEY, HAMILTON, AND CLIVE TO ADDRESS H. D. C.

COMPETITIONS TO START IN ALL DEPARTMENTS BUT ACTING

Thre prominent speakers will address the open meeting of the Harvard Darmatic Club tomorrow night at 7 o'clock in the Faculty Room of the Union, when competitions will be started for all departments of the club except the acting department.

The men who 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.

Mr. Woolley, a Yale man of the class of 1911 took an A.M. degree at the University in 1913 and since that time has been occupied in the study of the drama, having held for the past nine years the position of director of the Yale Dramatic Association.

Mr. 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.

He has been in Boston since 1918 and for the past three years has been the active head of the Copley Theatre organization, where he has produced some notable successes.

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Mr. Hamilton, who has been recognized for 20 years as one of the foremost American authorities on the drama, has been equally successful as a writer and as a lecturer.

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