Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-10-05
THEATRICAL NOTES.

Lawrence Barrett is in Cincinnati.
Lucille Western is in Philadelphia.
The British Blends are in Louisville.
VIM. Horace Lingard is in Baltimore.
The Richings opera troupe opens in
Chicago ~ii'teff, i-t't
The opera bouffe of jim Fisk is said
TO be terribly wicked.
Mr.. and Mrs. Barney Williams and
Kate Fisher are in Boston.
Miss Fanny b. Price has been playing
at the opera house, Elmira.
Miss Kate Reynolds will shortly make
a tour of the New England cities.
1t is said that Lord Lytton is at work
on a. new fve-act play for representa-
ton.
Nine. Scheller and Frank Drew are
playing together in the rural districts Of
California.
Mr.. Chanfrau was to have opened at
the California theater, San Francisco,
on the 18th ult.
Miss Bateman has been playing Leah
at the Royal Ampitheatre, Liverpool, to
crowded houses.
Messrs. Ward and Nader will take
Mrs. Scott-Siddons and Mrs. Lander to
Providence this season.
The Partington sisters, Ida Vernon, E.
R. Dalton and R. D. Ogden, are engaged
at the Richmond theater, Va.
John Owens has engaged Barton's
opera house, Syracuse, for three nights,
the Sd, 4th and 9Th of October.
Mr.. Proctor has commenced his season
at the Metropolitan Theater, Sacramento,
with every prospect of success.
Miss Emile Melville and the off MEM
bers of the California Theater company
have been playing at Stockton, Cal.
Mrs. John Wood was attracting
crowded houses at the Alexandria
theatre, Liverpool at last accounts.
The Richings-B ernard-Hess English
opera troupe will commence an engage
ment at Niblos, New York, on the oath
inst.
Miss Kate Reynolds has had great
success at the Theater Royal, Montreal,
and has been re-engaged for another
week.
Mr.. George Thompson will continue
at the Alhambra, San Francisco, till sue
ceeded in a few days by Miss Fanny
Herring.
The Grimmett family of American
comedians and dancers, have appeared
at the Pavilion Music Hall, Sheffield,
England.
Mrs. General Lander, known to old
theater-goers as Miss Jean Davenport, is
soon to make her debut in Boston as a
Shakspearean reader.
Mr.. j. F. Cathcart has been engaged
at the Metropolitan theater Sacramento.
Miss Lizzie Price returns, being engaged
at the Arch street theater, Philadelphia.
One of Offenbach's late operas, en-.
titled Trombaleazar, which has recently
been sung in London for the first time
has a sneezing song, which is said tc
produce something of sensation.
Fanny Janauschek commences a sea
son of twelve nights and two matinee'
at the Academy of Music on October 10
She has been engaged for one year tc
perform in the United States under the
management of Augustin DAILY.
Rita Percy, the statuary artist, who
left New York for London on the 9Th
ult., started out from the latter city on
August goth, under two years engage
ment. Miss Percy sailed up the Medi
terranean, where she will probably
appear in the Ionian islands, and will
afterward proceed to India, China and
Austria. If success and health will ad
init, returns to America at the end of the
two years.
According to the London Orchestra
there is now studying under M. Roger
(the well-known tenor of the GRAND
OPERA an American young lady, whose
career as a songtress he predicts will be
unusually brilliant Roger has a prl
vate theater, in which the pupils FIRE
quently appear. The audience is com
posed Of managers ofoperas, composers
and musical critics, and is as competen
an assembly as could well be collected
They confirm Mr. Rogers predictions
The young lady is Miss Mackie, and sh'
had adopted for the stage the pseudonyn
Mile Gaetano. She passes in Paris gen
orally as Spaniard, and she looks like 1
Seville. Her admirers also credit hel
with great beauty.