The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1903-02-18
MoRGANTowN WEST VIRGINIA. WEDNESDAY
AT COzY CORNERS.
Bright and Taking Play to be Pre-
sented Here Seon-What a Minne-
apolis Paper says Of it.

Dainty little Adelaide Thurston
is making more friends every sea
son. A delighted audience of her
Minneapolis admirers attended the
performance of AT Cozy Corners"
at the Metropolitan last evening, and
as they left the theatre after the
play was over, nothing but the most
complimentary remarks could be
heard concerning the little star.
AT Cozy Corners is the work of
two women, Pauline Phelps and
Marion Short. 1t is admirably suit
ed to the requirements of Miss
Thurston's personality. and is full
of interest and entertainment from
beginning to end. The story is of
Avis Merrill a violiuist who is
known in public lite as Claudia
She goes to a small New England
town for the summer, meets the
minister, and finds that love means
more to her than contracts. She
becomes the wife of Clyde Hollisien
Congregational minister of Cozy
Corners.
Even previous to their marriage
Clyde has shown a jealousy of Avis
violin. so strong is her attachment
tor it. This feeling grows with
time. Vacations accumulate after
they have begun married life. Avis
is constantly scandalizing the women
OF the village by wearing brighter
bow in her hair than they approve
Of She forgets to go to the song
rehearsal OF the Sunday School. She
bubbles over with joy when she has
found courage to second motion at
the meeting of the Ladies' Ali So
ciety.
There ie an old deacon who has
no right to the name OF Christian,
and he is determined to make traub-
lie for the minister. He holds o
mortgage on some church property.
and this is source of anxiety to
minister ana congregation. Avis
decides to play her violin at con
cert in New York while her husband
is away at the conference and raise
the needed money. She keeps the
affair a secret, and it is misrepresent
ed to him, 80 that Clyde believes
his wife is about to return to the
stage forever. AVIS, too, is made to
believe that her husband wishes her
to go. In a moment of rage and
unreasoning jealousy he breaks her
dearo!d violin in pieces and she leaves
him. The reconciliation, for oil
course there must be a reconcilia-
tion, is pleasing.
AT Cozy Corners" lacks a really
adequate climax, as far as dramatic
tensity is concerned, but it has
plenty OF comedy and light touches
that people like.
Its few characters all stand out
and are well drawn. There is a pair
of village lovers-a glgglingglrl and
a gawky youth. There is the 'un
married female woman" who works
out for an accommodation and who
does no. allow that fact to be over
looked tor one moment There is a
village gossip of the better sort, as
well as the "cantankerous' old dea-
con, and the worldly concert manag
err. These are well fitted into the
picture.
Miss Thurston is, OF course, the
center OF attraction. She is most
delightful in the comedy passages,
tor which her piquancv and archness
p. rfectly fit her. CAT Cozy Corners"
is tull of these bright little scenes
Miss Thurston can interpret so well,
and that mean IN enjoyable evening
to an audience. But the tears are
there, too. and again the little ac
tress is not found wanting. Her
sympathy is OF contagious kind,
quickly reproduced in her audience
Miss Thurston wears some extreme
~ pretty gowns. all OF which are
very becoming. Especially dainty
is that used in the see saw scene
This little woman's future will he
watched with interest.
Francis X. Hope, who made
friends here last summer in stock
work, is seen as the minister, Clyde
Hollister The part is not one to be
uniformly applauded, for no one can
quite coDdone the minister's out
burst of angry passion, but Mr..
Hope handles it all we'll and makes
the most of the part. He is very
presentable young parson, and his
deliniation is convincing one.
Minnie Allen has cultivated q
wholly unique giggle, winch she
airs frequently to the merriment OF
everybody. Miss Aliens work is
clean cut and individnal. Ogden
Stevens is an unconventional villain,
Leo Hartman is the cross grained
old deacon and Alma E. Fox does q
good bit of work as Rob Bartlett,
the county boy. Constance Glover
contributes an excellent character
sketch at Amanda, the imperturba-
BILE. One of the best enjoyed por-
tions of the play is that in which
the little wife succeeds in squelching
Amanda. Helen Harcourt as Mrs.
Deacon Bartlett is remarkably good.
The play is prettily staged.
JANET PRIEST.
In Minneapolis Tribune Jan. II
1908.