The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-03-27
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Academy of Music.

Sowing the Wind" with it's heart
appealing story, it's convincing moral
lesson, its dainty touches of comedy, its
great sex against sex, duel and its
other recognized merits, will be seen at
the Academy for one week, beginning
next Monday night.
This information will give all the more
genuine pleasure when it is supplemented
by the statement that the in
its entirety, win be the same as has pre-
sented the play in all the principal cities
this season. The fame of this remark
able drama is known to those of our
p~lay-goers who keep posted on the
notable theatrical news of the day. They
are familiar with the fact that it was for
two hundred nights a phenomenal success
at the fashionable Empire Theatre. New
York; that it set all New England talking
during its sixty nights run in Boston:
that the strikes and riots of the summer
before last in Chicago did not diminish
the brilliancy of its audience during its
engagement of one hundred performances
in Chicago. Since it has been pronounced
q play tina appeals strongly to the Gull
tured and analytical mind, and since it
depends for success not on the skill of
the stage carpenter or the tricks of the
calcium man, but on the genius of the
playwright and the art of the actor, it
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is a great and bold one. admitted to be
handled with exceeding delfcacy; but,
apart from that, it is a beautiful example
of dramatic construction, true to nature
in every line and situation, replete with
literature of surprising beauty, grace
and virility and poetic clothing, and a
delight at once to the student of dramatic
expression and history, the cultured ear
and the artistic eye. 1t is full of pointed
epigram and satire and heart touches,
almost all in evidence at once. This play
is in its essence, a deeply engrossing ex-
position of the oft-repeated plea for equal
responsibility of both sexes for violations
of the moral code. But Sydney Grllndv
has strengthened his argument by indi-
eating that these violations which in
variably entail suffering to the weaker
sex, are also productive of bitter wrong
and injustice to others wholly innocent.
They follow the Mosaic doctrine, which
ordains the visiting of the sins of the
parents upon the children. 1t is because
of this feature of his drama that the
author is able to place before his public
the figure of an innocent woman, forced
to accept humiliation as her birthrighr.
it is by reason of the presence of
this pathetic figure of wronged innocence
that the play make such an appeal to
sympathy as few if any other works of
imagined, however, that the play is df-
dactic. il at all, to any offensive degree.
On the contrary, SO real do the joys and
the sorrows of the people on the stage
seem to be, so absorbing are the situa-
tons, and so true the art of the author
and the players, that the great lesson
only comes home to the audience after
the final curtain, but Their it comes in
such a manner that it cannot be readily
forgotten. 1t is a play that people win
again and again to see.
Bon Ton Theatre.
An innovation in b~urlesque will be seen
at the Bon Ton next week. when Fred
Riders New Night Owls Burlesquers will