Taylor-Carrington Company.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4451, 19 August 1909, Page 2

Taylor-Carrington Company.

Local playgoers will learn with pleasure that Mr Taylor and Miss Carrington, assisted by a large and efficient dramatic company, will produce one of their best Irish dramas at the Public Hall, Te Aroha. The piece selected is “ Home Rule,” or “ The Irish Gossoon,” and an Australian paper on noticing the performance says : “ For a truly typical Irish drama perhaps no better title could be chosen than “ Home Rule.” The pride with which Irishmen remember that page in their national history when College Green was the scene of legislative activity makes them sigh for the return of those days of Parliamentary independence, and that the dramatist has plenty of material in the humorous attempts that have been made to realise the ideas of the Horae Rule party. The ruin of Phil. Ireland is the object of the " Glen Voig Boys,” but he has a guardian angel in the person of a fiuqjbte follower named Willie Reilly. Efforts are made to convict Phil. Ireland of treason, but just as the coils tighten round him, Willie Reilly baulks the conspiritors. The interest of the audience in the adventures of the hero and his faithful attendant is not allowed to flag,”