Word: heather
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Heart o' th' Heather", which opens its second week at the Plymouth this evening, is a clean wholesome comedy of Scottish life with the estimable George MacFarlane in the role of a rollicking soldier of fortune. Although he has had considerable experience on the concert stage, Mr. MacFarlane is comparatively new to the drama, his role of the "Laird" in Trilby, seen here last fall, being his first venture in that line. As yet he has attained no great degree of merit as an actor, but his personality is so pleasing that one is inclined to overlook his histrionic short...
...times obvious. Tom falls in love with a charming seamstress of good family, is besieged by a scheming adventuress, dashes heroically off on his horse to divert the officers of the law who are in pursuit of Dick, and returns to win his "heart o' th' heather...
...Heart o' th' Heather" may not be a lasting success, but it should give pleasure to those who are fond of the quaint and wholesome atmosphere of a Scotch comedy...
...take seriously or humorously. After this come the "Glimpses," of Paris and of Boston respectively. The former--"Paris: Under a Bridge"--is very good description, except that the writer, with that serene disregard of natural fact which appears in so much undergraduate production, seems to make gorse and heather one and the same and both purple. (The reviewer at least had supposed them different and gorse yellow). In the second sketch--"Boston: Mount Vernon Street"--not only is there similar disregard of fact--for from Chestnut street the writer sees streets which ordinarily are visible only from Myrtle street...