Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-10-18


destroyed by fire on Friday last The
Webb sisters suffered fifteen hundred
dollars worth in wardrobe, manuscript,
etc. The company lost their wardrobes.
Manager Keller obtained the Academy
of Music, and opened on Monday with
his company and the Webbs in Poca-
| hontds
During the closing performance of the
Buislays at the Winter Garden, New
York, on the 9th inst, while two of the
brothers were performing feat, one OF
them-Julio-fell to the stage, distance
of thirty feet, striking upon his hip. He
was badly hurt and limped off the stage.
Maretzek's opera troupe commenced
series of operate performances at the
Philadelphia Academy of Music on Mon
day last.
John s, Clarke is at the Boston Thea
tire this week, having succeeded Edwin
Booth.
Daniel Bandmann is at the Arch, Phil
adelphia. He opened with Destiny
Lolita opened at the Providence Acad-
envy, for one week, on Monday last.
The Handy Opera House is the name
of new dramatic temple now in course
of erection at 249 Vine street. between
Sixth and Seventh streets, Cincinnati,
by Truman B. Handy. 1t is 80 feet
high, 200 feet deep, with a frontage of
IS feet, and it is calculated to hold three
thousand persons
J. W. Walack closed two weeks
successful engagement at the Rochester
Opera House, last Saturday, being sue
ceeded by Kate Reynolds.
G. c. Davenport, very promising
young comedian, has been engaged to
travel with Miss Caroline Hayes, who is
about starting ont to fill number of star
engagements.
Mary Gadstane is at the National,
and Lucille Western at Woods, Cincin-
natl, both playing to good houses.
Couldock commenced an engagement
at the Pittsburg Opera House, on Mon
day last.
Mary Mitchell and j. W. Albaugh
were doing the Sea Of Ice at Milwaukee,
last week. They open at Cincinnati
next Monday.
1t is stated that VIM. Dutton, attached
to Lakes Hippo Olympiad, while at
Lowell, Indiana, recently after four at
tempts, succeeded in turning triple
summersault.
In. Carr, the well known pantomi-
mist, and (for several months past stage
manager of the American Theatre, Buff
talo, died at his father residence, in that
city, on September 25th, of typhoid
fever, after brief illness of only five
days.
Frederic Becdmann, the German com
edian, died in Vienna early in Septem-
Der. His last illness was a very painful
one, and he died in great agony. He
was great pet of the public there, and
used frequently to improvise sarcasms
which would have been severely pun
ished in any other actor. The Emperor
some time ago created him Knight of
his own order of Franz-Josef, and he
was also knight of Saxon and Prus-
sian orders.
Mad lie Adelina Patti was to appear on
the first night of the season October 2d),
in Paris, as "Amina" in La Somnam-
buld.
The London Orchestra says, in regard
to Carlotta PATHS singing of Comm
thro' the Rye" "All that lyric efflores-
cence, that vocal embroidery, that run
ming up and down stairs, that brilliant,
dazzling acrobatism, is very wonderful
but it is not Comm thro' the Rye, and
is as much out Of place in the little piece
of simplicity as Ossa and Pelion would
be if piled up in our front gardens. 1t
is because we like Mile Carlotta so well
that we are sorry when she INDUCES in
freaks which must send every real lover
of national minstrelsy home in despair.
At New York they are still playing the
Black Crook at Niblo's to crowded
houses.
Miss Jean NJ. Davenport is at the
Winter Garden.
A spectacular drama, entitled The
Gaelic CHIEF, or Gathering Of the
CLANS, has the boards at the New Bow
erg.
A new York paper says: There we're
never more places of amusement in
operation at one time in this city than
there are at present Let us enumerate
them .-Niblo's Garden, Broadway The
atre. Winter Garden, Olympic Theatre,
New Bowery, Wallacks, Old Bowery,
New York Theatre, Barnum's-in all,
nine theatres of American proclivities,
where unbroken English may be heard.
Then there is the French Theatre, where
the Italian language prevails; and in
the Bowery is the Stadt Theatre; and on
Broadway is the Thalia Theatre, at both
of which houses the German element pre-
walls. Then we have the Hippotheatron,
where circus entertainments are given
aud Charley Whites and Tony Pastors
Music Halls-the first on Broadway, the