Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-11-13

opera of Don Giovanni, with three prima
donnas-Parepa-Rosa, Van zant and
Dona--in the cast.
Miss Rance and Miss Kate Quinton
inaugurated the season at the Theater
Royal, Montreal, last week.
Kit, the Arkansas Traveller, holds the
stage of the California Theater, San
Francisco, with Mr.. Chanfrau in the
leading character.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. l.. Davenport are
playing Everybody's Friend and the
Honeymoon at the Chestnut street The
alter, Philadelphia.
Maggie Mitchell, supported by Mr.. l..
R. Sherrell opened at the Academy OF
Music, Philadelphia, on the 9th, in lay
leure's dramatization, Jane Ayre.
Edwin Forrest is playing a successful
engagement at Woods Theater, Cincin-
natl. He will be succeeded on the 18th
by Mrs. Lander and Chas Mathews.
Couldock has been acting Luke
Fielding in The Willow Copse, at Pitts
burgh, Pa, to good houses, and was
succeeded on the 9Th by the Lydia
Thompson troupe.
Lolita closed an engagement in Rain
bow, at the Arch Street Theater, Phila-
pelphia, on the 4th inst, and was sue
ceeded by Charles Fechter, who appeared
in Hamlet, Rue Bias, and Don Caesar de
Bazan.
The wyndham Company have just
closed a brief engagement at Cleveland
Ohio, and are at present acting in De-
troit, Mich, at which place they sue
ceeded Joseph Jefferson, who performed
to immense houses.
Mrs. Chanfrau terminated an engage
ment ON the 9th inst, at the National
theater, Washington. She appeared in
but one character during her engage
ment-that of Dora" in Reeds dra-
matization of Tennyson's poem of that
name.
At the Trimble Opera House, Albany,
N. Y, during the play of Faust, the ire
works were exploded on the stage and
the dress of Miss Lothi Angus took lire,
burning her slightly. In the second act
the fireworks were again used setting
fire to the same dress, by which the
young lady was badly burned.
McWade is playing Rip Van Wrinkle
to the San Francisco people at the
Metropolitan. The California critics
say he has too much sympathy with
the somnolent portion of the drama, and
his dialect resembles that of an Irish
man striving at English with German
accent.
Mis- Matilda Heron, who is about to
return to the stage, has already ar
ranged to play engagements with Ben
De Bar, at his Opera House in st. Louis,
Missouri, and the st. Charles Theater,
New Orleans Louisiana. She was ever
favorite in those cities, and we doubt
not her return will be hailed with delight.
Chicago theatricals have started up
again. Miss Blanche DeBar is perform
ing at the Globe Theater, and Miss JAMIE
Coombs' dramatic company at Standard
Hall, on the corner Of Thirteenth street
and Michigan avenue. A correspondent
writes that considerable dissatisfaction
prevails among the destitute actors con-
corning the funds that have been so lib
orally donated for their benefit 1t is
generally supposed that a goodly sum
has been sent here, and the actors are
particularly anxious to know what dis
position has been made Of the same. 1t
is high time some explanation was given
why the money has not been fo-thcom-
ing. There are many who have lost
their entire wardrobe and their situa--
tions, owing for board, and have not had
a dollar, with the exception of some $40
that has been distributed, since the lire.