Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1903-02-11
AT COY CORNERS.
Bright and Taking Play to be Pre-
sented Here So0n-What a Mime
ap0Iis Paper says of il.

is making more friends every sea
son. A delighted audience of her
Minneapolis admirers attended the
/ performance of cat 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.
s.At Coy Corners is the work of
two women, Pauline Phelps and
Marion Short. It is admirably suit
ed to the requirements Of Miss
ThGrston's personality, and is full
of interest and entertainment from
beginning to end. The story is of
Avis Merrill a vioinist who is
known in public lite as Claudia.
She goes to a small New England
town for the summer, meets the
minister, and fiuds that love means
more to her than contracts. She
becomes the wife of Clyde Hollister,
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' Aid So
ciety
There liz an old deacon who has
no right to the name OF Christian,
and he is determined to make treub-
lie for the minister He holds a
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 secret, and it is misrepresent.
ed to him, so 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
dearold violin in pieces and she leaves
him. The reconciliation, for OF
course there must be reconcilia-
ton, is pleasing.
Sat Cozy Corners lacks really
adequate climax, as far as dramatic
tensity is concerned, but it has
plenty OF comedy and light touches
that people like.
It's few characters all stand out
and are well drawn. There is pair
of village lovers--a cycling girl and
a ga~ky youth. There is the sun
married female woman who works
out for an accommodation and who
does not allow that fact to be over
looked for one moment. There is a
village gossip of the better sort, as
well as the scantankerous" old dea
con, and the worldly concert manag
er. 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
perfectly fit her. cat Cozy Corners
is toll of these bright little scenes
Miss Thurston can interpret so we'll,
and that mean an 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 a contagious kind,
quickly reproduced in her audience.
Miss Thurston wears some extreme
~ pretty GOWNS, ali of which are
very becoming. Especially dainty
is that used in the see-s 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 condone the minister's out
burst of angry passion, but Mr..
Hope handles it all well and makes
the most OF the part. He is very
presentable young parson, and his
delinia.ion is convincing one
Minnie Allen has cultivated
wholly unique giggle, which she
airs frequently to the merriment OF
rveryhody. Miss Aliens work is
clean cut and individual. Ogden
Stev, MS is an unconventional villain,
Leo Iiardman is the cross grained
did deacon and Alma K. Fox does
!. good bit of work as Rob Bartlett.
tie country boy. Constance Glover
contributes an excellent character
sketch at Amanda, the lmperturba-
bic. 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.