Taylor-Carrington Company

Manawatu Herald, 21 June 1904, Page 2

Taylor-Carrington Company

“ The Colleen Bawn,” the piece to be played by the above company in Foxton next Saturday was played by them through India during their last visit there, with great success, it being the favourite Irish drama with the soldiers. The following report from the “ Bombay Times ” speaks for itself: —“ There was a tremendous audience at the Novelty Theatre to welcome back the TaylorCarrington Company. The piece presented was Boucicault’s favourite play “ Colleen Bawn,” and was under the patronage of the officers, non-coms, and men of the Dublin Fusiliers, of whom there were 530 present. It is a somewhat difficult task for any company to play Irish drama to an audience almost entirely Irish, but the task has been moat successfully performed twice within the last month by the Taylor-Car-rington Comany, they having played “ The Shaughran ” to the “ Royal Irish ” at Rawal Pindi, and “ Arrah-na-Pogue ” to the Dublin Fusiliers here in Bombay. Mr Taylor and Miss Ella Carrington are two of the best delineators of Irish character that have ever visited India. Before the first act was over last night these talented performers had the audience entirely at their mercy, and swayed it from laughter to tears, and from tears back to laughter at their own sweet will. To sura the success of the performance up in a few words—tears were frequent, laughter loud, excitement intense, and applause thunderous ; in fact we do not remember any performance in Bombay during the last five or six years that has been so entirely successful as the Taylor-Carrington presentment of “ Colleen Bawn.”