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...Wind" at the Columbia, and it is a remarkable work. It ran for two hundred nights at the Empire, New York, all summer in Chicago, and for quite a season in London. "Sowing the Wind" is said to be the best play Sydney Grundy has yet written. Its plot is simple and unhampered by extraneous incident. Its development is direct and logical and its treatment is original. The language is full of grace and precision and the author has handled a necessarily dangerous subject with delicacy and finesse, yet with distinctness and force that unite to give great strength...
...4tThe Columbia Theatre will present this week Mr. Harry Lacy in the new play, "The Man from the West." This is a finely woven, well-worked plot with a story of absorbing interest. Each character in the play is of a nature that requires an especially clever actor to properly delineate it, and to this end the supporting company is particularly strong, the role's fitting each as if written for him. Mr. Lacy will have support of the following well-known people: Arthur Eliot, Payton Gibbs, Dore Davidson, Ernest Willard, J. E. Donnelly, Morrell Beane, Edward Maas, James Dunham...
...very good. The first is much the better of the two. In the second, "The Last Letter," the only fault is that the plot is unreasonable, if not impossible. By far the best thing in the number is "Jim," by C. A. Pierce. It is a story of a small boy who ran away from home and returned, like the prodigal son, to a much better reception than he had any reason to expect. The story is charmingly written. The poetry of the number is not above the average...
...Class Day Conspiracy," written by A. Tassin '92, is to be acted tonight as a curtain raiser to Keenan's benefit at the Grand Opera House. The scene of Tassin's play is a Holworthy room, and the plot is a story of Class Day. Tassin takes the leading part...
...much in the treatment of the subject as in the subject treated. The articles, at least in the present number, are very well written. It is only the uninteresting assurance of what is to come, that in a measure spoils the pleasure in following the development of a plot...