Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-04-24
AMusEMENTs.

By a letter from Manager StrakOsch, We
are advised that Nilsson and troupe VIII
appear in Memphis early in May. Tbs
TheRter has been engaged and two con-
eerts viii be given:
LYDIA THOMPSON, q great favorite with
our people, who is nov playing a. the
Academy Of Music, New Orleans 70
crowded houses, viii be in Memphis on
Monday next and appear at b Theater
on Tuesday, May I'd. OF course she IS
sure Of a warm greeting from ner Oh
friends.
BUSINESS is reported to be very good ct
the theagers in New Orleans, Mobile and
st. Louis under the management Of
Msssrs. spalding, Bidwel & Marlborough
DR.. Spalding viii arrive In this city TO-
morrow to engineer the Wyndam Comedy
Troupe during their engagement
THE MENDELssoHN CLUB, it is credita-
bic to our city to say, will close on Mon
day next a season uneXampled In the
brief annals Of music in Memphis. We
say creditsble to city, for without the
generous subscription of our citizens and
the interest manifested by attendance at
their concerts, it would have been i'm
possible for the Mendslss0hns to have
made any but such efforts at musical ad-
vancsment as are usual to young organi-
cations. And this support has been well
deserved. The Society, up to its OppOrtu-
mites, the number and quality Of its
voices and its training, mas done re-
markedly we'll. So well, that we feel war
rantsd "A assuring cur public that we nave
in it the nuecles of a musical society that,
in days TO come, twill be a credit to Us
all" Rnd perhaps equal to any IN the
country. In the enthusiasm OF the mem
bers, their love Of music and the con-
stancy and devotion that has character
lied them at rehearsals, we have the full
est guarantee of this. They cannot fail
to increase their vocal strength, in time
may be able to add an orchestra, and then
can venture upon works compared 70
which, what they now sing is but the A
3 q Of art. But, besides an honorable
ambition, feryOr and effort, they must re-
member, and keepit always before them,
that only the stsadiest toll is rewarded by
success; that artists are not born such,
but grow as a result of incesssnt labor
and cultivation under the highest and
best masters.
AT THE NEW MEMPHIS THEATER the
Wyndham troupe will, tonight, COM
mence a brief engagement of q week
during which we are promised the per
tOrmsn6s OF a series Of dramas and come
dies in a style fully up TO the far-famed
Wallack's Of New York. We are prom
ised that perfect harmony and unity Of
design, shall characterize all the prOduc-
tiOns of this company brought together
for the purpose Of enforcing an idea
steadily advanced by the APPEAL,th that the
star system, while it produces great
artists and thus encourages art to an eX-
tent limited to individuals, prevents the
consummation Of the purpose had in view
by the founders and fathers Of the stage,
to "hOld as 'twsrs, the mirror up to ma
ture" as It is found in the lowest as the
highest or middle walks of life. We
are promised this, and therein are
promised much. Supporting that promise
we have the good name Of Wyndhsm,
who won the plaudits of our people last
year and deservedly, and who we are as
sured, co mes to US this season better pre-
pared than on his first visit to please and
sppease the most critical judges. To-
night we shall zee how well.