Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-04-07
DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL.
carlotta Patti 4 in New York.

| Kelly & Leon have introduced CHI
nese opera at New York Ia,
Ole Bull gave three concerts in Gin
cinnati last week.
| Macbeth will be kept on the stage al
Booth for two weeks yet.
Holston, the comedian, has been play
ing of late at Springfield, Massachusetts
Mrs. f. s. Chanfrau will be the lead
ing lady at Selwyn's Theater, Boston
next season.
Mr.. j. S. Clarke will commence his
engagement at Booths Theater on the
18th of April
A st: Petersburg danseuse has been
fined eighty roubles for gestures out OF
all bounds.
e.. L. Davenport as Hamlet is the
attraction at the National Theater, Gin
cinnati, this week.
The Lydia Thompson Troupe opened
at Niblo's Garden, New York, last week,
with new piece.
School has been performed nearly
three hundred and fifty times at the
Prince of Wales Theater, London.
Strakoschs Patti did not sing at Will
mington. North Carolina, because there
had not been tickets enough sold.
Rose Hersee, the vivacious, is still with
the Parepa-Rosa troupe, and had rous-
ing benefit in New York Wednesday
night of last week.
The London Orchestra hears that both
the Adelphi and Princess Theaters are
about to pass into the hands OF Mr. Bou-
cicault.
The Sophie Worrell hGrlesque troupe
disbanded last week at Elmira, New
York. Their season has been a failure
pecuniarily.
The regular places of amusement in
New York took in S266000 during Feb
ruary. The Grand Opera House, Booth S
and Niblo's alone took in over $4,000.
Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams, Mr..
and Mrs. J w. Florence, Pere Bateman
and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Howard
Paul, and Lolita are booked to sail for
Europe in few weeks,
When Ole Bull played in Chicago a
critic was heard to say: He's old light
ming. YOU bet. 1t takes rooster that
sings pretty nasty bow to get up and
climb over him.
The Evening Mail says that the
beautiful daughter of a well known dry
goods merchant of New York city will
make her debut in Martha before a me
tropolitan audience early in the fall.
There is new JOY among the Manning
Minstrels at Chicago. John r. Kemble,
the deep-voiced middle man, was
married on Sunday, at Trinity church,
to Miss Ella Turner, of McVicker
Theater
John Brougham will play at Wallack' s
theater this summer in The Red Light;
or the Signal of Danger. Mr.. Emmett
will subsequently appear there, in Mr..
Gaylers drama Of Fritz; or, Our Cousin
German.
Billy Emerson's treasury and stage
effects were seized in Toledo by the
sheriff, on the 2Sth ult, to satisfy claim
of Chicago bank, from which Billy had
overdrawn his account to the amount OF
$1,000.
A newspaper man of Liverpool, named
Duckworth, has written play, called
Under the Ban, which will be produced
at one of the local theaters. The hero
inc of the play is an actress who strug-
giles against social prejudices.
In a new version of Rip Van Wrinkle,
the dog Schneider" appears on the
stage in the second act, chained to a
sapling. When Rip wakes from the
twenty year sleep, the tree has grown to
a mighty oak, and Schneider's skele-
ton hangs from the branches.
Little Nell, the California Diamond"
who claims to be but thirteen years old,
and who is an imitator Of Lolita, has
been playing in the National Theater, in
Cincinnati. this week. The Gazette
thinks Manager Miles tried an expert
ment, which, if he is wise, he will not
repeat, in engaging her.
Janauschek is in London, on her way
to Paris. She has accepted the invita-
ton Of the Grand Duke of Sachsen-
Meiningen, to pass q few weeks Of the
summer at his palace by the Lake Of
Como. Towards autumn she designs,
we understand, to return to New York,
and il is likely that she will then appear
in English drama,
Josh Billings rather disappointed q
small audience at Troy, New York, on
Monday night, with his lecture on
Milk, which, although good was made
up chiefly of extracts from his sayings
with which people are generally famil-
lar. The Times says; Josh stepped
up to the desk, looked about the hall,
and while his lips seemed to ask Where
are the audienceg his eyes seemed to
respond with the echo WhereY They
certainly were not in the hall Adjust
ing his spectaeles the speaker seized a
pitcher and poured out glass Of milk,
which he set on the reading desk and al
lowed It TO remain there the entire eve
ming. he began BIZ saying that he had
read good many essays on milk, but the
best thing he ever saw on it was the
cream. This was about the only refer
ence TO milk made during the lecture.