RIP VAN WINKLE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 13 July 1907, Page 5

RIP VAN WINKLE.

| Oil Tuesday evening, at the Theatre t Uovnl, a benefit performance iu aid of the Kcereation Sports Ground and the Western Park will be given by those pojiuhlv actor-manngcrn Air Charlie Taylor and ilis3 Ella Carrington, in of their appreciation of the patronage accorded them and their talented company by the Now Plymouth play-go.", s on the different occasions they have played here, the play selected being the world-famous, weird and legendary play "Rip Van Winkle." Mr Charlie Taylor has had the uniijue experience of playing the part of Rip twice a day for a reason of nearly four months. This w::s in the Far Kist, where morning performances are just as fashionable ss evening ontw. In Japan thousands of student* from the different universilii's J flocked to si!L* "Kip Van Winkle" because of its resemblance to a legend tiny have of a fisherman who was lured by a mermaid to the bottom of the sea, and returned to his mtive place afier many years just as Rip did. The Trtylor-Ciirriuplou Company have spared no expense iji til > forthcoming production, special scenery having been punted, and some beautiful and reaJis'ie effects aiv promised, may be reserved at the Co»oni!il Pi mo Co.