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Show Rip Van Winkle. Tho mas Jefferson as Rip Van Winkle is announced with great pleasure by Manager Thatcher to appear tonight. It has been supposed for years that when Joseph Jeffef-1 Jeffef-1 son retired from the stage, which he was j forced to do last season on account of illness, that there was no one to succeed him and perforce the old play must be put away. But the success of his son, Thomas, last season is but another proof that no min is indispensible,' no man whose place cannot be tilled. Thomas Jefferson as Vltip" proved to be a capable, painstaking actor that would soon follow in his ' lllus-, ' tr.ious father'! footsteps. He gives the part of Kip : the same delicate touch that I has made it so famous by hii father. . :His I accent, gestures, intonation and stage, bus-I bus-I iness are all. the exact copy of the orignal iand he could a it have a better eRample to follow. Thomas Jefferion may not be first, but he n certainly in the ''very first line" as an interpreter of "Kip Van Winkle"!'" s,. |