Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-04-10
THE STAGE.

Ninety-one opera companies are now
in Italy.
Lydia Thompson is at present delight
ing the seasiders in Charleston.
Joe Jefferson has finished fishing and
gone back to work at his RIP"
Lotta intends returning to New York
after her California engagement, SO as to
appear there about the i1rst of June.
Cla.a Louise Kellogg viii not sing
through the country any more this sea-
son. She is at present in New York.
Thirty thousand forms were paid out
to authors of original plays performed
last year in the Imperial Theatre of vi
| emma.
Janauschek is now playing in New
Orleans to delighted house. Her en-
gagement ends there on the thirteenth
! instant
A circus rider in Barnum's show at
New York lately threw seventy somer-
saults in succession. What politician
he'd make
Offenbach's last bouffe, brought out in
Paris is said to surpass all his previous
efforts in wild extravaganza and rolliek-
] iieR clltTdCttTl5LlcS. HH1ar.a
The latest sensation at Shreveport is
the marriage of Master WOodie Cook to
Mile. Carlotta Millie Turnoir, both of
them attaches Of Noyes' circus,
Women never appeared upon the
stage among the ancients; their parts
We're represented by men until as late as
1862, when Charles II first encouraged
their public appearance.
A Cleveland paper thus describes a
bill at one of the principle places of
amHsemepts The White FaYn, with
seventeen pair Of legs, aise q negro
sketch entitled Neck and Neck,'p p
Mile. Nilsson Is announced 70 sail for
England, May first, and will appear at
Drury Lane, London, and at Madrid
during tho summer, The following
winter she is eneaged rQr the season at
st. Petersburg, Russia,
Mrs. Scott Siddens is soon to appear
in a new play entitled The Ordeal by
Touch" written especially, for her, and
said to ee selected ffem sope three hum
dred applicants. In view of the deluge
of manuscript London paper says:
"Drama to the right Of her,
prams - the leftpf her,
Drama IN fro9t 81 her,
Stumbled and blundered.
Round the tragedlenpe
SYaFHied The Three Hundred"
The New York Tribune, speaking of
the appearance of Miss Leclercq at
Booths Theater in that city, says:
For one thing, among others, Miss
Carlotta Leelereq Is refreshing actress
TO behold; she e1n6odies health and the
enjoyment of life, possessing warmth, /.
oofoF and Oaf1ira1 bi1ox-e,,c1Ts aDd oha Il
thus q grateful contrast 20 tue everlasting
skin-and-boaes and earToty hair, in
which, of late years, SO much of the
feminine intellect on the stage has been
enyeloped.H ap attA
The following story is aflOat regarding
Aimee, which, like many Others of the
kind u probably false and entirely with
out ground: "In 1867 Nile. Aimee was
playing successful engagement at Rio
Janeiro, South America. Among her
many admirers was a wealthy planter
who resided SONS distance from the
city, who had bestowed many a costly
present upon his charnleF, and received
many a shower Of Aimee's smiles in re-
turn. Dne day, while ah0pping, her
eyes encountered a magnificent neck
lace. This she hinted that her ad0rer
should present her with, which be prom
ised tn do, but on inquiring the price
and finding it to be seven thoqsand mil
reas-nearly eight thousand dollars he
Informed Miss Aimee that it was toe ex-
pensiys. Al thp same time he told her
that he had offered the jeWeier FIVE thou
sand nlilreas, but the jeWeier refused to
sell at that price, Aimee being deter
mined to have the jewel, visited the
owner and explained the situation, at
the same time paying him two thousand
nilreas two thousand two hundred and
forty dollars, with instructions to let the
planter have it on paying the other five