THEATRE ROYAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 106, 2 May 1903, Page 2

THEATRE ROYAL.

TATLOR-OARRINGrON COMPANY. There was not such a large audience at the Theatre Royal on Friday night us such an excellent perfoim-ince of "Never Dsp.ir" should have attracted It was, boweier, an appreciative assem i>lage, and the Tajlor-Oarrington Com ,i.iny have every recsou to be pbas. • t'ith the enthusiastic icception accorde ■it their very succ«'t-sful fffirte. A ' Horatio If-'p iggii.s," who always ap paars on the seem just at the righ' moment, Mr Taylor was simply irresistible. His cool humorous drawl, quain manneiisms, and clevtr by play kept the- house in rows of laughter. Mi vVard Lyons nude the most of thtpart of."Desmond Adair," the scheming villain of the drama, wh'.'e hi* assistan' ia devilry, " Mr Piiipps," was eq'i*llj well represented by Mr Edwin Green Another life lik-i ch<\ruc"<r wa* 'hat of " Jrick, the Newsboy," into which Miss Cirriugton infuitd immenaa vivacity and dry, quitk-wit'ed humour. In fact, every member of th> Company is possessed of gre*t artistic ibility, so that the piece went spl-n----lid'y all through. It was exeeptional'y well mounted, the river scene at night voking loud applause The pint waft Fiill of dramatic situation", all of which were clsverly nnnipula'ed, and tr:e 0 inpany are deserving of great praue t'jr the ei joyablo performance given. TO-NIGHT There should be afu 1 house, for the over favourite drama of " Arrah-na-Pogue" is to be No better pieca could have been chosan to attract !U audiance on Siturday nigh'', ar:d it is quite certain tba 1 : thn Oompmyis lino that can do this pliy ample justice i i evry way.