The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-01-21
Mr.. James Young's new and elaborate

Mr.. James YOunSs new and elaborate
production Of play written for him BY
Miss Rida Louise johnson will be Ole
of the events of the season In this city,
1t was produced in Norfolk on the 49,
instant, and will be seen here tomorrow
and Tuesday at the Academy of Music.
1t is a great scenic production. Mr.
Young's support is really excellent. 1t
is one of the strongest companies in one
Of the most attractive plays seen in the
South for many years. TO attempt 70
give an outline Of the play that would do
justice to it is passing difficult.
In great and small things it was Byrons
lot to be misunderstood during his life,
and misrepresented after his death. WI h.
the exception ola few persons who, with
sufficient discrimination for the task,
have taken care to separate the few facts
from the few Tictions of his published
letters and journals, and out OF the re-
liable data to make q memoir OF him
for themselves, the man is still almost
as little known to the STUDENT OF ms
poetry as he was to the people who,
on the evening Of his withdrawal from.
England frowned at him in London,
drawing rooms or murmured at him in
London streets.
After all that has been written about
him. readers have still to learn the quail
tiles of his temper, the real faillngs or
n
and even the most conspicuous points OF:
his personal appearance. They nave
been taught to regard him as man of.
mysteries, tortured by remorse for crimes
too terrible for confession. guarding.
secrets too unworthy for ayowal, whist
{ In simple truth he went Through lie
from first 10 last with his heart and
all its frailttes upon ms sieevs' ana nyea
from boyhood to his last hour under
glass: that whilst it magniiied all his
faults, put all his virtues in miniature;
with all his perverse and baneful s. de-
light in mystifying people: about trltes,
the man of mystery could not, to save
I his life, or what was far Fdearer to him
his @fame-hold within his own breast
a single secret that yeNed 1, It seriously.
..The Sign of the Cross, - Wilson Bar,
retts strong historical drama, will be
seen for the first time in this city at
the Academy Of Music on Wednesday
night.
CHARLES Dalton, the eminent heroic
actor, who is often referred ito as %sthe
English John Mccullough. heads the
organization, and will be seen as Marcus
Superbus, the Roman perfect. role IN
which he has won the highest conn1en-
dalton from press and public. Others WHO
will appear are ". D. Bonney, Frank
IT Westerton, Henry n. Wenman, George
Flood. Harry Child. III. T. Harris, Lille
Thurlow, Gertrude BosWe.l,s-AsHc SCOT,
Winnie Cassell. s. Florence Lac.erq and
Retta Walton.
AS is well known, the story is intensely
dramatic. strongly suggesting quo Va
dis. Sienkiewic2's powerful novel; and
AIR! Barrett, who understands, as few
others do iiow. to effectively stage and
costume a piece. has, it is said. never
done better work in that line than IN
this. the most successful OF his numerous
oductions. Rome Just before Its down
fan, when vice and prodig ality ruled the
Emperor and his court, and when q ilt ~!
hard of 1owly believers in the new faith
81 Christianity were hunted like wild
beasts and put to death In The Roman
arena for the amusement of s I,ag gan
nation, is the scene of the ton ofsthe
play. The love Of Marcus tSupArbnsa
noble patricIan, for .. IoHlysS Christian
maiden. Is the central idea around which