Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-12-10
MuSEMENTS.

1HE Mex week.
ing on Monday, we are to have the Alb
bolt pantomime troupe in their greal
card, the Three Hunchbscks," of the per.
formance Of which in st. Louis, the Dem.
ocrat of that city says: There was rsrs
fun from beginning to end, Mr.. Charles
Abbott, as Simple Simon, showing hims5li
worthy the TILE of the modern Grimsl.
d. Ii Is impossible to describe the &C.
robatie fests and startling trsnsfOrma.
tions which Sre the important features Of
the entertainment. We have here the
fancy dances OF the HGTLeQu6s and o.
hsH6iRe, the wonderful laQdsr-dance Of
Mr.. abbott, and the characters who have
figured so largely in nursery fairy tales
are not wanting. Master Jack SOTGtt,
Little Mary AGrt9Old anu the Fairy Sun
beam sre here with the three wicked
hnnchbscks. While deprecsting novelty
exhibitions on the stage of this favorite
little thester, me must admit that a better
psntomim @ could not be msds."
WACHTEL, the great German tenor, we
are suthorized by the management of the
theater TO announce, has Q engaged for
a week Of opera. As he is supported by q
company worthy Of him we can safely
promise our music loving people g treat
such a. they never have enjoyed. Wsch-
tel is beyond doubt the greatest of living
tenor All the critics unite in conced-
ing this. The New York World ssys,
that benign Providence which at various
times has added q voice to mems other
sndowments seems to have made Herr
Wschtel all voice. The person himself
becomes mythical in the presence OF his
performance. OF Wschtel as a man we
hear and know little, because b world
has been too dseply engaged with his
voice to pay much attention to
minor matters OF personnel He has
6led the Stadt thsster night after
~night-Witk voice of courss-snd no
one who has heard him doubts for
9 moment that he would ill the
empyriRn itself were the roof Of the
Wretehed Stsdt lifted up to give him
bresthing-room. So much voice never
before stirred up the cobwebby confines OF
this uninsured temple Of the muses. and
the hearts OF his countrymen. Il flows
like the Rhine itself, turbulent, resistless,
through all stoTisd tracts OF music, mag
nihcent fountain, meant, as the poet has
intimated, "to dow on forever" When
be came 10 Us in the Position we flung
mp our German hats at his Irresistible an
imality, for IL seemed to shed some Of its
supersbundsnt strength into the sur
rounding human debris at the Stsdt, and
quiekened even the immenoorial chorus.
Gan our tingling ears ever forget the gush
and the shout OF the "Postillion's Song"
strung TO q kind Of metricsl madness hy
cracks Of the whipS Gan We recall from
all the tQrgid and tender tenora such
another bouncing MdRTjeoP Let as not
try. The repertoire Of this world-re.
noWned tenor embraces the Operas OF
"TrsVatore,'' Z" Postillion.b HRfliam
Tell" and ala Dame Blanche"
SOTHERN.-the manager OF the New
Memphis, seems determined to make up
in quality for the quantity Of smusemenfs
he has not given u.s. Wachtel, be an
nOunces for opera; Lydia Thompson Is to
comet the Wyndhsm opera troupe and
Sothern-" Lord D1ndresIyp Sotbern-
who for ave years has been delighting she
most critical OF London sudisncea, He
recently returned to America, and has
signslised the event BY renewing In New
York tbs sensation hecr6ased In England,
The Citizen says OF the hrst occasion of
his appearances: "Mr. e. A. Sothern made
bis - sa5ree upon the American stage,
after an absence OF nearly tsa yesrs, ct
NiblO's Garden, on Monday evening, o.
tober2 e, before an audience that crowded
shs theater ia every part. Mr.. sothern,
when he entered upon the scene, was re-
ceiYed with ahesrty outburst Of applause,
which Dast nave assured him be had not
been forgotten. His performance of Dun
dreary has been considerably modified,
and we now see In it the fruits of his long
practice and study. Viewed in q strictly
artistic Light, 1t is 9 highly finished per-
Torrance. His effects are produced In a
quiet, natural manner, and more than once
during the evening did ne convulse the
audience with laughter by a simple change
OF fscial expression. dis performance
now partakes more Of the nature OF gem
tel comedy than Of b~urlesque, wSIch
originally characterised it. Mr.. Sothern,
created this shsra0tsx, end from q slight
sketch it has grown by patient labor and
ten INTO a type Of e top, unlike anything
hitherto PRssepted on the stsgs.D