Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-11-24
THEATRICAL AND HUsIUAL.

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+ The Hanlons and Pau are travelling
: West.
n -Balfe has been to Paris to conduct his
Bohemian Girl.u
f In Dresden, Holstein's opera "Der
D Haidesehschtn has been well received.
AT the Boston Theater the 'fLsnca-
shire Lass Is drawing full houses.
Maggie Mitchell aud the Worrell
. Sisters are playing in Washington.
-Sangali is to appear as a singer next
season under Strakosch's management.
=" Mrs. .Kemble has been reading the
past week in Cincinnati Wonder how
/ It liked that subject
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Paul have re-
turned to London from most successful
, provincial tour.
"A younger sister of Miss Bateman is
playing MddeIiaG with her in London,
under the stage name Of Virginia Francis.
Madame Ristori is expected at the
Niccolini Theater, in Florence, where
she is to perform in ''Msrie Antoinette."
-Theater-goers in st. Petersburg are
promised the new ballet King Candsu-
les" which has been delayed by the
elaboration OF the mise en- scene.
AT recent popular concert in the
Cirque Napoleon, in Paris, Waliaee's
overture to "LuTlinen was one of the at
fractions.
-Donizatti's "Rsgina di Golconds,"
written forty years ago, expressly for the
Inauguration Of the Carlo Felice Theater
in Genoa, has just been reproduced there
to open the autumn season.
VIM. J. Florence is playing in No
| Thoroughfare" st the Olypic Theater IN
Boston, and Mrs. Florence will soon ap-
pear 10 her favorite characters at the
same theater.
Charles Reade and Tom T2ylor's
/ dram8, 1.-TWO Loves and Life has been
revived at Sadler's Wells TheRter, in
London, the part OF the heroine being
played by Miss Hszlewood.
-Mozsrt's Monument in Vienna, in
] jured some months ago, has been de-
| spoiled by unscrupulous admirers. The
| medallion portrait of the composer, q
| candelabrum and an inscription, all in
bronze, have been carried of bodily.
AT Arezzo, Italy, the monument to
| the famous monk Guido, the reputed in
ventor OF the modern system Of musical
| notation, has been begun. 1t is said that
| three hundred and fifty thousand francs
have been voted by the municipality for
that purpose,
M. Herve has aroused the ire of French
critscs by taking for the subject of his
opera bout7e " C7ailpeYic," at the Folies
Dramstiques, the life OF Merovingisn
monarch. In one respect M. Herve has
displayed his capRbiity. The actor who /
was to have appeared SIS Ctilperic hav- |
ing fallen i'll at the conclusion Of the re-
hearsals, his part has been taken by the |
composer himself.
Mrs. Scott Siddons made her first
appearance in this country as an actress !
on Saturday night, at the Museum in /
Boston. She took the character of Ros-
alind in "As You Like TIA character !
which she assumed admirably in her
readings In New York and Brooklyn. /
The house was filed on her appearance
] in Boston, and the receipts were $500.
"A wild story is circulating in the
French papers about the Viceroy of
Egypt having been seized with a sudden
desire to have theater, in Cairo, snd
setting seven thousand workmen upon
it, in order that he may see again, with
out loss of time, La Grand Duchesse,"
which amused him so much when ia
Paris. One hundred thousand francs
have been offered, SO runs the story, to
Mile. Schneider for three performances.
All of which is pleasant cGnurd, proba-
bly,.
"a one-sct comedy in verse has been
produced at the Odeon, in Paris. 1t is
by NJ Leon Bertrand, and is entitled
'Ie Comits de Lecturer A young au-
thor obtains admission TO the Theater
Francois at a time fixed for reading new
plays. Owing to 8 combination of chan
ces he is able to read q play of his own,
in place of comedy which is expected
but is not forthcoming. He finds accord
ingly his play accepted, and becomes at
the same time the means OF exposing
disreput&ble trick of Parisian play
wrights.
Miss Minnie Hauck is winning lau.
rels in England. The London Orchestra
has the following: Miss Minnie HSuck
corroborated her previous success by ap-
pearing on Tuesday SIS "Zerlipa - in Don
Giovanni character very well suited
to her abilities. Her voice, clear and
bright, though destitute OF pathetic ,
power, comes we'll out in the lighter
roles, and is admirably adapted to ex-
press gaiety and coquetry. Then her
style is thoroughly refined, and her into
nstion pure-two qualities which, super ,
added to her animStio and brightness,
suffiesd to make her " Zsriina remark
able.
Olive Logan, the suthoress and &C.
tress, recently read her "Stsge Struck .
before Boston audience, who snubbed
her. She describes the occasion thus /:
What was my establishment, on going
upon the stage ct Music Hall, to find en-
audience composed principally of people
whose puritenic prejudices were traced
Ia their faces with the pencil OF the Mas
ter-pRlpabFy people without culture,
with no taste for art, no liking for it, and
who esteemed one branch of 1.-THE drs-
matio--as branch of the house of Beel- '
2sbub & Co. say I read this in the
faces of the people all about me. That ]
did not read falsely, was quickly shown.
While I was dropping from my lips the
frothy pleassntries which lie at the be-
ginning of "Stage Struck" saw half q /
dozen men spring up with hoiy horror in t
their faces. which no words can express
clutch their meek wives frantically by :
the arm, and drag them out OF my pres r
ence, as IL had been the embodiment I
OF all the witchcrsft for which their an !
cestors had in vain murdered old women b
for SO many years. confess that was e
affected by this. I had been so sccus- +
toned to seeing good breeding in audi b
epces, that the conduct of these persons
almost threw me on my guard. What!
Men get up and turn their backs on me i
with faces pale with CONSERVATION l-and
drag their Companions out of my pres
ence, as If they feared should corrupt
their morals beyond cure What did 1t
mesn9 Was q sort of intellectual baE-
shee? Whers was [? Was dre1ning
Was this nightmare? No; was wide
awake. But 1 stood for the first time ?
before an audience such as had never
addressed before, and, please God, never
will again. For moment / seriously
debated whether I should not quietly
turn my back on these people, and refuse !
to speak further. But / saw, standing !
up, all about the ball (for it was densely !
class of psople such as am c
accustomed to seeing in the best seats at
my lectures-a class such as go to hear IL