AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9601, 22 September 1909, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS.

TAYLOR-CARRINGTON COMPANY.

Local playgoers will learn with pleasure that Mr Taylor and Mins Carrington, assised by a large and efficient dramatic Company, will produce one of the best Irish dramas at the Town Hall to-night The piece selected is "Home Rule," or "The Insh Gossoon," and an Australian paper on noticing the performance says:—For a truly typicallrish drama perhaps no better title could be chosen than Home Rule.'' The company has been playing to record houses sihee its re construction, and its re-appearance in Masterton is sure to be welcomed with a good house. THE BREED OF THE TKESHAMS. next J. C. Williamson will produce one of the most successful romantic plays of m odern times. "The Breed of the Treshams," in which Mr Julius Knight will appear as Lieutenant Keresley —"The RaV—a character which it 13 said is tha finest of any of his varied romantic gallery of stage portraits. "The Breed of the Treshams" has been more than favourably spoken of by leading Australian contemporaries. In this play Mr Knight will be seen for the first time here as Lieutenant Reresby, otherwise known as "The Rat''. It is said that nothing that this popular actor has done hitherto equals personation of this complex and difficult part. Mr Martin Harvey made a pronounced success of the part in England, and is still playing it with much distinction. The char • acter takes Julius Knight, it is said, entirely out of a line that he has hitherto been associated with. The "Sydney Morning Herald" remarked at the final of a most laudatory criticism, that "the Australian public, until seeing him in the character, had yet to learn how little removed Julius Knight is from a really great actor. The box plan will be opened at Miss Rive's on Friday next.