The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1913-09-30
" JUNE CHARACTER
OF PRIMITIVE LIFE

June, the delightful mountain girl
of John Fox, Jr's, thrilling narrative,
"The Trail of the Lonesome Pine.J
will be presented at the Nixon opera
house, Thursday, October 2, with
Charlotte Walker in the title role sup
ported by the original company, in
play of the same name by Eugene
Walter. Few stories, even though
they be part fiction and part truth,
have been written with such compell-
ing heart interest as the author of
this thrilling story of the Virginia
hills sustained in every page of his
narrative. Eugene Walter admits that
it was with trepidation he approach
ed the task set for him by Klaw &
Erlanger to bring out of the book
stage June that would appeal as
strongly to theatergoers as the little
primitive mountain girl appealed in
the written pages of the book to read
ers. Walter wrote a practically new
play, though taking many of the
chareters just as Mr.. Fox described
them. Out of June, a rough, unedu-
Gated, enormously superstitious and
imaginative mountain girl, he has
made delightful creature. He has
brought out all the possibilities of the
June of the book, catching the signifi-
cance of Mr.. Fox's clean-cut char
acterization and the exquisite poetry
and drama of his dominating love
theme. 1t is play without any
problem; there is no question of sex
dominance; every scene is absolute in
the purity of its sentiment, the uplift
of its moral and the poetry of the
romance. An educated man takes an
interest in an ignorant, primitive
mountain girl. He anticipates her
wish to be educated and in his good
ness, he unconsciously arouses in the
heart of the girl great affection. In
her primitive way June believes from
the very first that Hale will marry
her, and she does not hesitate to tell
him how much she loves him. When
Hale tells her he cannot think of mar
riage, June imagines that it is be-
cause she isn't good enough for him
and tragically disillusioned she sends
for her father, to take her away from
the school in which Hale has placed
her. June's return to the cabin in
the mountains Is made cause for gos-
sip, and when she admits that hale
has spurned her, the feud is renewed
and Fahn kills a Tolliver. Hale,
who has started a reform movement
in the Gap, gets his police and starts
for Lonesome Cove to apprehend the
murderer. AS they ascend the trail
young Dave takes a shot at Hale but
misses him and wounds his chum,
Berkley. Berkley is carried to Toll
liver 3 cabin where June is, and Hale
follows and demands the surrender of
Dave who is concealed in June's bed
room. June denies he is in the place
and Berkeley, who is only slightly
wounded, denies that Dave is the man
who shot him. While Hale and June
are thankful to Berkeley for telling a
lie Hale leaves the cabin believing
that he and June are now permanent
ly estranged. The following morning
Berkley leaves the cabin to find Hale
and he encounters the latter standing
in the shadow of the Lonesome Pine,
where he has been on guard all night.
Berkeley calls June and she comes out
bare-footed and dressed in the red
homespun garment in which Hale first
saw her, and the humor of the situa-
tion suddenly appeals to both and they
kiss and make up at the foot of the
lonely tree, where they sit and wait
for the old justice of the peace to
come and marry them.