The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-01-19
PLAYS FOR THIS WEEK.
HENRl IRVING and ELLEN TERRY
TO-MORROW NIGHT.
The Much Talked About Play " Sowing the
Wind Comes to the Academy Thurs
day-Other Plays.

The first southern tour ever made by
the recently knighted actor and manager
Sir Henry Irving, his longtime proles-
sl0nal companion i'm the art-wOrld, MISS
Ellen Terry, ana their associates COM
prsing by a coincidence exactly one
hundred players. Will be inaugursed here
tomorrow evening 40 the Academy oil
Music. The limits of a newspaper arti-
Gle prevents anything ike a just dee
scripuon of the Importance and worth oil
this visit 90 Our city. This Dis the fourth
tour of America which Henry Irving has
made under the auspices of the great
entrepreneurs, Messrs. Abbey, SchOenel,
and Grau.
Henry Irving's southern visit is the out
come of fixed desire and purpose on
his part which can Doe i'm no way better
expressed than by the use OF bis own
words. There are" bee said. thousands
of the Warmest-hcarted, proyerbially
most hOspitable people. also the most
willing recOguzers of the best IN all
arts in the United States with whom i
have not been permitted TO make am
acquaintance. i feel sure after ] have
once visited the southern cities ! shall
count a greatest joy of my whole life.
i'm that I have gained very, very many
new friends
The first production of Henry IRVING
visit here viii Doe che Monday nights
performance of Shakespeare's universally
admired comedy "Ihe Merchant of Neu-
ice" il will Doe given IN It's entirety, and
not as has been generally the case with
this play with the beautiful. poeticll
act V. omitted. The sumptuOus scenic
embellishments OF this play viii likely
prove revelation To- most shearc-e0crs.
For dramatic purposes no play in Henry
lrving's repertoire adords more general
and generous opportunities Tor the entire
company than does this great work
ON tuesday afternoon, January 2ist
fine double bin viii be offered. Charles
Rcade's comedy. Nance Oldfcld." with
Miss Ellen Terry in the vivacious char
acter Mrs. Anne Oldfeid. 10 be- followed
by "Ihe Bells" in which as Matthias,
Henry lrVlne's consummate art has long
been admired. The first play Is a very
bright and lovable little work in which
Miss Terry appears 20 singular advan-
tage. The second play IS with little
question the strongest of the older melo-
dramas. Henry Irving was The original
exponent Of the cOnscience-stricken muir
derer and haunted criminal. Matthias.
and his superb art makes the impersona-
ton very thrilling one.
SOWING THE WIND.
1 Mess large NUMBER OF tiN iN'tfittr
dramatic critics OF the country are band
ed together IN the PRONUNCIATION and per-
petuation OF a gigantic falsehood, Sow
ing the Wind" Is one OF t.e most re-
markable products Of the pIaywrights
art given 10 the stage in a generation.
II comes to The Academy OF Music next
Thursday, so that local play-goers viii
have an opportunity Of judging for them
selves Its author. Sydney Grundy,
stands among the first four English dra-
matists now writing for the American
stage, and perhaps draws more royalties
here than any OF the others. which Is
one way Of Judging Of a writer's sue
cess. Much that is new and thoughtiul
Is claimed for this work of his. and It's
phenomenal success in New York, Bos-
ton, Chicago, London. and everywhere II
has thus far been presented, together
with the amount OF controversy II has
given rise to among schoolgirls and play
eoers generally, would seem 20 easily
justify the claim. \ bold outline 81 us
plot shows that II goes mainly Iur us
interest 10 the neyer-ending clash be
tween the sexes, but its discussions or
social problems are admitted to be oelI