REV. CHARLES CLARK.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 98, 22 May 1900, Page 3

REV. CHARLES CLARK.

Our readers will be glad to learn that this brilliant orator and humourist, who passed through New Plymouth yesterday on his way to Wanganui, will give one of his delightful entertainments in the Theatre Royal here on Friday evening. Of all the platform celebrities introduced by that much-travelled Mr. R. S. Smythe to the colonies, beginning with Proctor, the astronomer, and ending with Mark Twain, the Rev. Charles Clark is the only one who has thought it worth while to return, and this is the eloquent entertainer's fourth visit. In his last Antipodean tour four years ago he was unable to include New Zealand, so he has come out specially from the Old Country to give a few farewell evenings in the land where he commenced his remarkable career five and twenty I years since. It is as a-wonderful interpreter of the works of the most popular of English novelists that Mr. Clark is best known, and on Friday evening the fascinating humourist will present what has been usually considered his masterpiece, the "Christmas Carol," with its vivid pictures of the humours and peculiarities of the curmudgeon Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim, Topper and the Plump Sister, and the Fezziwigs.