Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-04-01
Aggregate currency, war'nts & coup.S9ls,755
A. WOODWARD,
County Trustee Shelby County.
EcR TEE PAaT ouARTER.
The following is the account of expenses
IF the county for the week ending yester-


MRS. BOWERS received q perfect ovation
at the New Memphis Theater last night.
Seldom has such q throng of people been
crowded within its walls, Every seat
was occupied and every loot of standing
room. Being the fashionable night, fash
ion was well representative ladies mo-
nOpolized the p8Tqustte as well as the
dress circle; they we're even to be found
up stairs in the family circle, to which
/ some half-dOzen had recourse to secure
seats. The play, as well as the fame of
Mrs. BOwtrs, had something to do
with bringing this vast crowd to-
gether The sad story of Mary Queen of
Scots has ever excited cOmmisersJiOn and
| regret. Except the few years she spent
IN France, her life was a sad and stormy
one. Hated and exeCrated by b John
Knox party, and surrounded by traitors,
she left Scotland and sought refuge q
an asylum in England. Her long i'm
prisonment, under control OF Eliza
bsth's advisers, and her death
form the chief points in the
drama presented last night, the prin-
cipsl scene being that in b fourth
act where Mary and Elizabeth meet at
Fotheringsy. In this Mrs. Bowers re-
Yealed to her audience The highest evi-
deuce of her ability as an artistic. Her
reading, gesture and gait we're almost
perfect, and every pose a study. Her mas
terry of a just Indignation and feigned hu-
mility were in grand contrast to her We
hement passion as she reached the
climax and denounced Elizabeth as
base-born, and her mother no lawful wife.
He'd back during the few minutes which
it took to play this exciting part, the
people, relieved at its close, Numbered
their applause, and one of the gods"
inspired by the effort, threw an offering
of flowers Ia worthy tribUte) at the feet Of
the actress. There is not much in this
play to relieve the melancholy it eX-
and stately march which lends
so much of the charm of
romance to that of Queen Elizabeth; it
is, therefore, doubly trying upon the &C
tress called upon to sustain the title role.
She has all to do, When she is not upOn
the stage, it looks vacant. The story of
Mary nils all hearts, and they have little
room and less liberation for the by-play |
essential to the proper proportions of the
drama. This was shown last night more
than once. Except when Mrs. Bowers was
present, the least swkwardnes or most
trihiug exhibition of gdUcheTie by q
''supe" or assistant, excited laughter
said to be always nearest to sadness. In
the gallery, where we enjoyed two acts, |
this was especially noticeable. The ha-
bitUes of this part of the house are not
bound by the restraints Of the etiquette
which rules below, and usually entering
heartily into the merits of play and actors, |
do not curb their ,humOrs. Or
these we witnessed many that
we're very cOmical, some of them, ex-
pressed in worus that were more fOrcible
han elegant, announced the status of ar
tiste, company M thester in a sweeping
sentence. The general verdict among this
part of the audience, last night, was for
Mrs. Bowers, whose Mary was upheld as
the best Interpretation we have had
that character, save that Of Ris-
tori-some said equal TO hat in many
points. To this we cannot assent. but,
after Ristori, of all those whom we have
seen attempt the character Of Mary,
Queen of Scots, Mrs. Bowers stands first.
at the matinee, she plays "Ca-
and at night will again appear as
Elizabeth, which we advise all to see who
we're not at the thester on Wednesday
night,