Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-09-15

A GRAND CoNoERr.-On Friday of next
week the leading professional and amateur
musicians Of Memphis will give a grand
Concert at the New Memphis rheater, for
the benefit of the Stonewall Jackson
Monumental Fund. The affair is in COM
petent hands, and will be made all that
it can with the material al hand. All the
of Memphis in vocal and in
strumental music will be called into re-
| QUESTION to make an occasion worthy the
inspiring object. The lessees of the The
alter nave given the building gratuitously
for the occasion; the press, following
an example so generous, lend their col
| umns gratuitously, and the professional
| and amateur musicians give their time
and talents without charge. 1t only re-
mains for the great public 10 feel such an
interest in the memory of Stonewall
Jackson as this generosity on the part OF
manager, press and musicians argues, to
make this Concert grand in its results in
money. Mr.. Hollenberg has kindly com
| scented to take charge OF b affair, ana
will lend the use of two of his grand
| Chickering pianos, and if necessary an
organ. We look for a really grand Con-
cert, and we confidently predict the Thea
ter Will be crowded in every tier.
THE NEW MEMPHIS THEATER.-The
theater did not pay last year. Why?
Not because it was not clean, neat, well
lighted and heated. Not because the
MANAGEMENT did not introduce novelty
after novelty in greater degree a was
ever heard of in a New York theater.
WHY, them Because there was not pa
tronaee sufficient. The starring system
hiss also helped toward this untoward re-
suit. A utility company that is equal to
the support of Joe Jefferson and Booth
and all the variety of lesser lights that
glimmer between either, together with
the necessary employees scenic artists,
scene Shutters, carpenters etc.-calls for
a vast expenditure OF money, more
than the average half receipts o.
the Theater. The stars named, and in
/ deed many not half so good, demand q
81 clear" half of the receipts every night
and the ull benefit weekly besides, on
which occasions the manager only retains
the actual bare expenses of the house,
every dollar else going into the purse o.
the cormorant star, who has none but per
sonaI expenses to satisfy, This, together
with the capriciousness OF a pubic that Is
not always in the humor TO be pleased
even with the better class of entertain
ments, has defeated the purpose Of the
management of the New Memphis, and
prevented the Theater from being a
nsving success. The management
Of the New Memphis have fully,
to their own satisfaction, tested
both the starring system and thu
peculisrities of the Memphis public. This
season they will do without the one, al
least in great measure, and will endeayoi
to win the public patronage to more pay
ing purpose by a different class of amuse'
msnts, As they have commenced the
season, now in its second week, so they
will continue it, with a variety show
differing only in a degree of respeetaoillty
from what variety shows" are generally
The lewd songs, smirkings,, oghngs
winnings and inuendoes which are tn
Objectionable parts of b perform
ances at variety shows Will not anc
are not here permitted, but W
nave many Of the broad comic songs
much of the clog and other dancing,
great deal of the fearful trapeze perform,
ance and much of the tantalizing bale
which suggests what is so lily concealed
This and much n~onsensical fun and som'
wit. with the original i'Punch and Judy
are what we have at the Theater thii
week, and what we. may expect If on
~play-going public ~patronize it as they
nave since Monday. This sort of smuse'
ment seems to meet the popula
demand. AT least it fills the Theater
and therefore pays. To the exten.
that 1t does pay, the management
have made a decided hit, n may be abl'
BIZ it to replenish their Golfers, so empty
from last YEATS failure. It is not the man
agement, then, that is altogether to blamt
for the absence from our stage this season
of the legitimate drama, but that portion
of the public, the restless novelty-iovint
public which prefers to laugh at broaC
farce, pointless put broad w.t. andfndulg'
their desires by f~easting upon the form
of laughing Hebes.
The theater is always what the public
makes it. Ours is certainly what on
public wills that it should be, We hay,
not a cultivated public sufficiently font
of legitimate theatricals to support on
theater in the constant presentation Of
the legitimate drama. Melancholy fac
that it is, it is true. We IN Therefore
complaint. We must accept the theater a
it is, cOntenting ourselves with urgini
the people to compel reform and patroniz
ing only what is chaste and tends to tn
cultivation and improvement of all. w
are assured by the management that if on
public will do this, if they will sustain
them in the venture, we SHALL not hag'
reason to complain of the New Memphi
/ GfQCa