The Portland daily press., 1898-03-05
MUSIC AND DRAMA
SOWING THE WIND.

SOWING THE WIND.
'"Sowine the Wind" the great sex
AGAINST seq play, was seen at The Jeffer-
son last night by fair sized audience
and should be seen at the performances
this evening and afternoon by still larger
houses. This great drama which carries
with il a truth in every line and Sc. .
mon in every scene, has been seen in
Portland several times before, but has
never been presented by a better company
than the one which brought out it's
son last night. AS play it has won
a place in the hearts of the patrons of tho
drama that few plays have ever usurped
1t is brilliant in its dialogue, sermon
more forcible than any preached from the
pulpit and has a great pathos which
brings tears tic many eyes. Nor is it
lacking in humor for the meddling and
cynical old bachelor. the sporting and
vapid Sir Richard Cursitor and the scan
dial loving and affected Hon. Mrs. Fret
we'll, with her precocious daughter,
effectually present this side of the play.
The story of the play is briefly this:
The scene is laid in and about LONDON
some.6Osyears ago. Mr.. sBrabazon. in his
younger days, fell in love WITH Helen
Gray. His father opposed the match and
the young couple were separated, but
daughter was the result of the intimacy
of which fact Mr.. BrabazOn was igno-
rant. He was led to believe that Helen
Gray died shortly after the separation
and was convinced by the representa-
lions of certain Lord Petworth through
Mr.. Brabazon's friend, Mr.. Watkins,
that Helen Gray was not good woman.
Soon after the separation Helen Gray
became the mistress Of Lord Petworth,
and her daughter grew up in Lord Pet
worths house in Ignorance of the fact
that the woman was her mother. Mr..
Brabazon married, but no children
blessed the union. Then he adopted Ned
Annesley, the son Of an old friend. Helen's
Gray's daughter, unsullied by her sur
roundings, possessing wonderful voice,
fled from Lord Petworth and her mother
and by dint of hard work became noted
as a singer under the name of Miss
Athelstone Rosamond Athelstone met
Ned Annelsley and they fell in love.
Mr.. Brabazon not knowing who she was
and impelled by his devoted friend, Mr..
Watkins, refuses to give his sanction to
the match. Ultimately he found out that
Rosamond was his daughter, that her
life had been blameless and he became
anxious that she should marry his son
as before he was obstinately opposed to
1t and when Rosamond, ignorant that
she is his daughter, refuses to marry Mr..
Brabazon's adopted son, the old man
tells her she is his daughter, Graves her
forgiveness and all ends happily.
The setting of the play is good and the
quaint costuming that pertained to the
early part of the century adds force to the
scenes. Elizabeth Holloway makes a
Iovable, intense and graceful Rosamond.
She possesses all the necessary qualifica
lions, voice and beauty to appeal to
The sympathy of the audience, and in
the scenes between Mr.. Brabazon and
Hiss Athelstone, when the two defend
their sexes, the one valiant champion
for the mother, the other for the father,
she is seen at her best.
The admirable acting of Miss Holloway
and Duncan Preston, who presents the
character of Ned Annesley in Ned's
apartments in London, where Sir Richard
Crrsitor, the sporting rogue, is intro
duced, is one of the best things in the
play. Mr.. Preston makes high-spirited,
manly and generous Ned Annesley. Her
bert E. Sears as MIR. Brabazon, q oharac-
ter weak as water, but willing to atone
as far as it lays in his power for the mis-
take of his youth, is strong. W. II.