Venue(s):
Olympic Theatre
Proprietor / Lessee:
James E. [manager, proprietor] Hayes
Event Type:
Play With Music
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
29 February 2016
“Crowded and enthusiastic audiences have been attracted to this establishment, during the engagement of Jefferson, to witness his masterful impersonation of the hero in Washington Irving’s legend of Sleepy Hollow, and last night was no exception to the rule. The embodiment ofRip Van Winkle, as presented last evening, drew from an appreciative house repeated and well-merited demonstrations of approbation, and stamps this as the masterpiece of this already brilliant and successful artist, while the support rendered by the company was in every wayw worthy of so fine a rendering of the leading rôle.”