Taylor-Carringten Company

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 403, 28 January 1904, Page 5

Taylor-Carringten Company

.'". NEVERDESPAIRS

Tfie above-named favourite company are announced, in our advertising columns to play at the Town Hall, Alexandra, on Saturday evening next, appearing in a„speotacular and sensational drama, entitled" Never During Miss Oairingtbn's and Mr Taylor's absence from this colony they paid a visit to West Australia, where they had a phenomenally successful tour, their ten weeks' season there resulting in a profit of over a thousand pounds. They also played a vjsry /.successful "season in Adelaide, the city in which " Never Despair " had its first Australian production, after having played two seasons in London, and over 1000 nights in the provincial towns of Great Britain. Charlie Taylor bought, at a very high price, the sole right of producing ,'* Never Despair " in Australasia, but has since sold the right of production in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Hobart, and Launceston to Bland Holt, the celebrated Metropolitan manager, who was so delighted/with, the piece that lie" paid Charlie Taylor a large sum for the above privilege., In order that "Never Despair " should surpass"'anything previously attempted in the provinces Charlie Taylor and Miss Carrington have made several additions to their already strong company, and the scenery has been painted by no less than four of the best aritsts in Australasia, viz, John Hennings, J Little, Harry Grist, and Wraneimark; the first-named being, without doubt, the premier Australasian scene painter, and the others all men in the front rank of their professsion. Miss Carrington appears to great advantage in the piece as a "Sister of Mercy," a character entirely new to the stage,and Mr Taylor, as "Horatio Sprigging," a humorous and bibulous tutor, has a part in whicn he fairly revels. The other ladies and gentlemen of the company get great praise for their respective performances in both metropolitan and provincial exchanges, and the entire production will doubtless be worthy of Mr Taylor's high reputation as a caterer for the amusementloving public* We feel sure that there will be a very large musSer of our playgoers to welcome Miss Carrington and Mr Taylor, and witness the performance of "Never Despair." , On Monday, the company will play "Uncle Tom's Cabin," and on Tuesday. " The Shaugbraum"