Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-01-07
RURAL DRAMA IS
BEST IN IT'S
COMEDY
Sweet Clover Handled Care
fully with Resultant Enjoy
ment for PIayqoerS

'Iiwc"t Cloycr" is a pastoral drama
favored with mClOGraTa garuiShcu
Win d"Wr-on :hc-farm characters AMI
Wav back-hOm settings and served
~ at tho IiJ3u This week 10 the a.
compartment Of low lights and soft.
dripping. laChrymosc music. 1t is
story told in a murmHrous kew with
occasional high tones Of & rmCdy, ami
II takes the listener back TO the s. il
and the piOughsharc and the Old
prhg aud the days when "sparkin ="
vas q fashionable pastimc in Our ru-
Ill ccntCrS.
The Worlds Fair Stock Company,
under very intelligent direction and
allied and abctled by unusually eff
fectivP staging makes sweet Glover"
an enjoyable pay. 1t is the Kind of
play that retives long-forgOtten
memories in these who have lived the
country life and stimulates the imag-
nation CT those who haven't. The
atmosphere is clean as the clover
fields and redolent of the quietest of
living far from the nose anu !sooty
blemish Of the cities.
1t needs the most intelligent hand
ling, for the play itself is just on the
safe side between pathOs and maWk-
ishEess. It contains quiet pathos in
plenty. but 50 broadly painted that
the players must hold themselves
strictly in reserve or they make the
fatal error of OVERRIDING the homely
drama. The effect of the entire play,
even with the best of intentions on
the part of those given the serious
work is saved by the well-conceived
end well-portrayed comedy that re-
lieves many a situation which tends
to become strained from mere bur
den of grief and pain.
Apparently Miss Virginia Brissac
delights in sharp contrasts, for each
bill sees her in a role of striking CON-
parison to her last. In Sweet Clio
ver'' she Is the little country girl,
Lois Holcombe, who loves a man she
dare not wed and later, transferred
to city surroundings, is forced to face
choice between this lover, now re-
vealed in his worst aspect, and the
man she married and has later learn
ed to respect and finally to love in
reality. Miss Brissac has a rather I'M
enviable role this week, offering
little in the way of lights anG shadow,
for IL is all shadow, but 1t is her
gentleness and sweetness that gives
the serene atmosphere the play in
tends to convey. James Dillon as FL
bridge GrcsveEor, her high.minded
but jealously unreasonable husband,
]. Lindley Phipps as Albert Slade,#
the artist-lover, and Frank Cooley as.
her stern, fondly trusting farmer
father. add to the driving force of the
dramatic story.
There are two sub-romances run.
ming through the main plot, both of
which are set in lighter key and one
of which is a genuinely good rural
comedy. Margaret Nugent, as Abb
gail, Lois Holcombe's spinster aunt,
and Howard Nugent, as sob Mason,
the bachelor who had been leadin"
up to proposal for thirty year."
come to the front with the saving
grace of keen and unconscious hui
NOR. Evelyn Handy, as Sunnie An
drews, and John G. Wray as Jack
Hamilton, have a pretty little, idyll OF
a boy-and-girl love affair that brings
out the Juveniles at their best.
The other parts are up to standard.
There is plenty to commend in this
simple drama and little to find fault
with. A detail Of stage management
should be changed Last night the
serenaders in the wings were so en-
thusiastic in their rendition of songs
down on the farm" that their melodi-
GUS voices covered the dialogue on
the stage. A little softening of the
off-stage singing would secure much
better effect.
The cast:
Jerome Holcombe. -. Frank Cooley
Jack Hamilton, his nephew. ....
Observation-Disclosures. John G. Wray
Job Mason, an old friend -. 49,.
.............. Howard Nugent
F1dridpe GroSVenor lanes Dillon