Possible Clues:

• Immaculately clean and unused
• Clear, as the night sky
• How dark without a famous player!
• Sailor taking the French aboard in the dark
• Sounds as if the knight has no fame as a player
• Clouded over (of the night sky)
• Clouded over at night
• Sailor, the Parisian on board ship lacking sparkle
• Heavens, there's nothing there with the principal actor missing
• Without a well-known name this leaves one quite in the dark