Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-06-01
rn.,tTioal and Tournament Notes.

Lady Don is playing al 'ne A"pn'
theater, Liverpool, England. She APP
peared on the 4th ult. in the burlesque
Of Ksnil,corh to large audience.
Ristori has played out in the French
Tbea,er, New York. There is very little
chance of her playing in Memphis this
season.
Chanfrau personated Dundreary
and "Toodles to the Mulatto Conven-
TONERS in Chicago, and made a pile oil
repudiated greenbacks thereby.
Lawrence Barrett has closed a sue
cessful engagement at San Francisco
Cal. He played seventy-seven nights
and received as his share Of the proceeds
$4,000
Couldock and Emily Melville "extin-
guished" the New Theater, Sacramento
Cal, a few weeks ago. Cooley" made a
few dollars over expenses, but poor
Emily "lost all"
Hubbard and Gray, 'torch-bearers' at
the New Memphis last season, are star
ring it" in Little Rock, Arkansas
A critic says their performances in
Pocahontas were "good, with the excep'
ton of jumping off the stage and run
ming among the audience" Go 1t,
Arkansas stars
Jobn Drew and Barton Hill are the
'leading lights at the Arch street
Theater, Philadelphia.
Griffith, the good "oll man." and
Jennie Gourley, formerly of the New
Memphis, commence an engagement at
the Theater Royal, Montreal, tonight
Fanny 3 Price closed q" the season
at the Opera House, Pittsburg, Pa, on
the 23d ult-
Joe Jefferson will treat the Quakers to
peep at Rip Van Winkle, at the Wal
nut street Theater, Philadelphia, to-
night
Edwin Booth played " Richelieu" to
large audience of Rhode islanders, in
Providence, on the 23d ult.
Following are the revenue returns OF
the New York temples" for the month
of April: Olympia Theater, S40,2O9
Niblo's Garden, s3l ,593; Wallacks The
alter, $29, 449; French Theater, S25, 1928;
Pixies Opera House, no returns; Broad
way Theater, Sl3, 929; New York Circus,
Sl2.5O5; TheaterComique, 0,0l2; Wor.
rell Sisters Theoter, $1,000; Old Bowery
Theater, Ss957 Kelly & Icons Minstrels,
$500; San Francisco, Minstrels, s7353;
Tony Pastors House, S6S7l.
Tired of country life, young lady
writes a stage manager in Indianapolis
that she wishes TO become sn actress.
She says: 81 am fifteen years of age,
five feet tall, Eyes as Black as Slow,
Dark Brown Hair, Clear Complexion,
and regular features, and | have been
told Just the Sweetest shape Imaginable
for an actress have considerable Tai
ent, can Compose Poetry with Accuracy
and Commit Pieces to mind with Exact
ness-" Poor grill
TIE risks q ballet dancer runs,
saws the London Lancet, are
hardly Iess frequest and far more for
mids5ls than those which the soldier Of
the Hre or the man-of-wsr's man gets so
much credit for facing. Ii is one thing
To take your chance of being sabred or
hit by bullet; but it is q much more
terrible ordeal TO pirouette in eombustible
gauze before the footlights, or worse still,
to be pinioned to an iron niche in some
brilliant transformation scene, and to
remain immorabiy fixed to your preca-
rious perch amid blaze Of light, aud
within leap from the flames Of thou
sand burners" Well, we should think SO.
Our " Knights Of the Lance will read
with interest the following sketch of a
"tournay tent" recently erected in
Florence, Italy, on the occasion of the
marriage Of Prince Humbert and the
Princess Margaret:
The smphiiheater was covered over
by curtains, or by a kind Of msny-eol-
ored velarium. These curtains had
been put up to protect the spectators
from the suns scorchiDg rays; but th'
velarium served a very different purpos'
that of a defense against the rain
which would have made sad havoc wit
dresses and bonnets but for its preseucs
The curtains converging to the center
formed a species of very graceful cupol'
The amphiiheater had been constructs
on the model Of the old Roman one 9
Verona. with thirty successive galleries
the lowest four metres and the highe'
twenty-five metres from the ground.
hundred Doric pillars, with gilt capitali
we're placed 81 equal distances arouE
The uppermost gallery, each pillar havin
In il center . shield with the armoriI
bearings Of the one hundred Italia
c;tiss. All round the FIRST lower CALLER
there ran a flower Pdrferre tive metre
hroad. while the basement Of the CALLER
itseif vas richly decorated with trophi'
ofarms The royal tent, formed Of nc
crimson velvet. supported b. light an
ELEGANT silt pillars, occupied that part