Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-04-28

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Ne.:;.e F,nds inspiration.
Valerie West wand.r~ .n:J IT,,
e:@dlo ah.r4 for work. hAv".sN /"
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an artists mode, after pr"..ng 4
failure ii All other respectable lines
Of euIeaIOr. She is accepted by No.
'!}lv. Who finds, IN his model. tht ne.
ctssary inspiration to perfect 4 great
artist. Neville proves successful in
his work and his decorations are az.
Ctpted against those OF Querida lr
the meantime, however. Neville has
lost his heart to Valerie. While Quer
ida also is smitten with the girl no.,
however. with the lofty love OF Ne
Vile.
scheming with NevilI,'s moraur.
who can see nothing but ruin tor h"r
son should he marry a mOdel
Querida arranges for Mrs. Neville TO
meet the girl, alone. shortly after her
son has asked Valerie to become his
wife and they have exchanged conf.
dences Of their love for one another.
Valerie promises Mrs, Neville that she
will not marry kelly" and so she
second act
The third act shows the sitting
room of Valerie and Rita Tevis-aiso
an artists model who has made the
one mistake that is fatal to a woman
Valerie has disappeared, on one but
Rita knowing where she has taken
refuge. Neville is distracted over
the loss Of the girl, while the entire
artist colony is worried Querida,
desiring TO satiate his lust endeavOrs
to force from Rita the whereabouts
Of Nalarie; threatening to expose the
dark page OF her past life to John
Burleson. a sculptor who loves and is
loved by Rita.
Rita refuses to give Querida the
desired information, in the face of his
determination to make good his threat
of exposure. Neville enters. learns
the situation and chastises his fell
low artist.
1.-The Common Law"
Valerie returns to the girls apart
ment while Rita is alone and declares
her determination to give herself to
Neville as his Common Law Wife"
This scene produces some exceeding
ly good dialogue between the two
girls. Rita endeavoring to make Va
lerle benefit by her own sad expert
ence but without success.
Neville is given a few moments
alone with Valerie and endeavOrs to
induce her to become his wife, the
girl steadfastly refusing, on the
ground that it would drag him down.
She offers herself to him and he re-
fuses to take her at her terms. Vale
RE is insistent her conversations with
Nevilles mother and Querida holding
her to her purpose.
AS Neville leaves the apartment
Querida enters, having overheard the
conversation, and proposes that Vale
rie become his common law wife.
There is struggle near a window and
Querida falls to the ground below.
Valerie rushes to Neville's studio,
where the final act and great
amount of action takes place.
1.-The Girl of the Golden West"
In the final scene Neyille's mother
pleads with him to give up his inten-
ton Of making the model his wife, on
the grounds that it would ruin the
name and dignity of the Neville name
This allows Kelly amply opportunity
for denouncing in red-blooded Amer
lean fashion the set" in which his
mother and the balance of his family
moves and has its being. He says
Yes, mother, I remember that my
great-great grand fathers fought
against just the kind of British snObs
you would make out of me-" And
again, "My father is all right. ex-
cepting that he reads the New York
Sun and has forgotten the Declara-
ton Of independence"
The mother eventually learns that
Nalerie's mother was her derest Chum
at school, she invites Valerie to &C
company her home and invites her
son to call on her guest.
All ends we'll, an expose having
been given to the four-hundreds OF
the United States, Thea "money-aristo-
craCy" as Chambers terms it through
Neville
The cast, which appears herewith,
handled their different parts we'll, es-
pecially in view Of the fact that it is
q small cast and the parts are heavy,
demanding a great deal of time and
study.
The Players will present THE COM
mon Law again tonight and tOmCr-
row night, to be followed by The Girl
OF the Golden West" one of David
BlascOs masterpieces. in which Miss
Florence Oakley will be seen as THE
Girl" part in which she was starred
under BelasCo's own management.
W. W.