Greene, Clay M(eredith)

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Greene, Clay M[eredith] (1850–1933), playwright. Born in San Francisco and educated at Santa Clara College and the University of California, Greene had established himself as a successful San Francisco stock broker and businessman before turning his attention to playwriting and occasional acting. His first success was M'liss (1878), followed by about eighty plays (many written with others), including Sharps and Flats (1880), Chispa (1882), The New South (1892), and Under the Polar Star (1896). At the same time, he wrote librettos for such musicals as Bluebeard, Jr. (1890), The Maid of Plymouth (1894), The Little Trooper (1894), and In Gay Paree (1899). Greene also mounted his own version of the Passion Play in California. He typifies the many creative theatrical figures, long popular and successful, who have left nothing enduring behind.

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