Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-02-09
DRAMATIC.

-S0thern has made another success
in Home, q new comedy by Robertson.
1t is said that Charles Raaae is Vri-
ting a play for Miss Kate Rsignolds.
Mark Lemon Is said to be the only
setOF who can do ." "Falstatf" without
! padding.
Miss Lucy Rushton Is playing "Lady
/ Teszle st the new ST. James Theater
/ Ia London.
Paris has forty three theaters, twen-
. ty-ui1e public balls, and twenty-three
/ cafe concerts.
/ -BlstOn Is able to support seven thea
/ ters, besides concerts, Orstorios and lee
lures.
Miss Kate Rsignolds has a new play
/ written by Mr.. Cheltenham, editor Of
the Belgrovia.
George Sand, disgUsted because Paris
/ hissed her new play, VOWS she will never
/ write another.
/ -BlOndin has recovered damages, in
/ France, against q manager who adver-
/ tised bogus Biondin.
/ "A New York boqGet-R1sa Cook,
/ Rose Eytinge, Rose Belle, PArepa Rosa,
and the hor0ss SOrOsis.
/ The costumes Of twelve ballet girls.
/ st Covent Garden, London, cost four
/ hundred pounds.
One hundred and sixty-nlne new
pieces we're brought out at The London
/ thesters 10 1858
! The scenery of the psDtomime at
the Standard Thester, in LONDON, is
painted on seven miles Of canvass.
Underneath each chair ln the new
/ San Francisco Fheater is a square hat
+ box, in which the chapeau is safe from
Injury.
IN Lotta's FREELY" at New Or
/ leans, the French and other soldiers are
( genuine boys in blue out on leave from
! the camp near by.
Garlic F0Tmes has left music and
will appear ss " "Shylock" at the Thea
ter Royal, Liverpool, on the 20.h OF
March.
1t IA said that Barney Williams paid
0 yens fifteen hundred dollars to post
pOne bis engagement at the Broadway
two weeks.
Servants of Partisan actresses make
q good thing by selling to street flower
girls the Ooquets thrown to their mis-
tresses.
IN the Railroad Scene" parody at
Drury Lane the victim is bound ia the
track of line OF wheeiOsFrows, hut Is
saved from destruction by Puss in Boots
bursting casket.
The plan hss been adopted at Paris
theater OF issuing monthly tickets OF
admission st q reduced rate, the holder
being entitled to seat at any perform.
anee bqt q first representation.
Really, the question as to whether
the gorgeous golden tresses of Lydia
Thompson are dyed or not, ought to be
considered as dnally settled, for she has
written g second not TO the New York
Herald, pledgiDg her word aud honor
as IA lsdy-thst she never col0red her
hair, and offering to submit it to chemi-
cal snalysis II she could be reached by
g few hundreds of Jealous wives, her hair
might be submitted to another and less
pleas ant test. But no one must again
venture to say thst she "dyes,p else he
dies from tue effect OF " . narrow-poDe
shied at his head"
We learn from statements made by
the New York Herald that the opera
boutfe u the favored theatrical entertain
ment OF the metropolis, Judging by the
returns OF the Internal Reveuue Depart
ment, and "Genevieve de Brsbantn is
the most favored OF the 6ou6es Dur
ing the run of this piece ip the month OF
/ November, 1858, the French theater took
ia thirty-1ve thousand dollsrs-the larg-
est return Of any theater for any month
OF the hslf year. Grsu made ninety
five thousand dollars in three months,
and Bateman seventy-fve thousand.
The aggregate paid for cne sort OF enter
tainment--One hundred and seven
ty-thEee thousand dollars IN three
other one class for the same period. 0pe-
"a bou1fe is sensational, but behind the
sensation there Ia music, wit and exquis-
its ridiOQls.