Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-13
ADJUSTMENTS.
Patti.


The disappointment was great yester-
day when it became known that Patti
would not sing at the Theater until to-
night. Parodi, the agent, got the fol-
lowing dispatch early in the day:
BELMONT, Mo-, December Il, 1872.
signor NJ. Parodi, Agent Strakosch Concert:
We have missed connection. Postpone
concerts to Friday and Saturday nights.
Tickets bought for Thursday night good
for Saturday night, and those bought for
Friday good for that night. No matt
nee for Saturday. For matinee tickets
refund money; artists too much fatigued
to do themselves justice.
MAX. STRAKOSCH.
That dispatch is sufficiently plain it.
self, and needs no further comment.
The blame is all thrown over on
"Chance," and hence the army of dis
appointed people cannot growl at any
individual.
The Grand OperahOuse.
Miss Charlotte Thompson was simply
marvellous last night in the character of
Mrs. VanDyke," the principal one in
the play of One Wife. The piece is
truly and entirely modern, and repre-
sents life as we know it. 1t is one of
much gossipy interest, not without deep
feeling and lots of unholy passion.
Jealousy is the ruling-pasiOn strong in
the plot, and Mrs. VanDyken is the
victim of it. THERE'S much to condemn
in the character, for passion Of
so base a nature as jealousy,
ought not to find Judgment in
so fair and womanly a bosom as that
of"Mrs. VanDyke." 1t is however to be
expected, perhaps, that being mortal
she should be subject to some infirmlty
The grand features of that strongly
drawn character were beautifully por-
trayed by Miss Charlotte Thompson,
a most loveable mi Nothing
could be finer than her conduct
in all the trying circumstances of
that irritating correspondence between
"Van Dyke" himself and Mrs. Hoff-
man." Although the piece is much
overdrawn, and is, in fact, exaggerated
from nature, yet the superior style
of Miss Thompson compelled sympathy
and intensified interest to the close.
There is not much necessity for CRITICS.
ing the play itself, except in so far as
criticism may serve to display the aston
ishing merit Of a great artistic, which
Miss Thompson undoubtedly is. The
passion OF simply una0ulterated )eal-
ousy never was better shown forth by
one so lovely, but yet it was over-mas-
tered by love, the divine attribute. 1t
was a beautiful and interesting philo-
sophical as well as aesthetic study to
watch how those two agents of
light and darkness struggled for
the mastery in the bosom Of the
fair actress. She carried the whole au-
dience along with her; and it would be
Injustice TO human nature to say that
one person left that house last night
who was not the devoted personal friend
of Miss Thompson. She not merely
dazzles by her genius, but she captivates
by her beauty and sweetness, and truth
10 nature. There can be no hesitation
in pronOuncing her a great actress
great in her style and in her sphere. She
has not that degree of Objectionable
mdnEiness which enables some deep
toned ladies to do Hamlet, but she is a
true woman, and lacks no quality to
take any woman's part OF the stage.
This evening she will have her benefit,
and we hope to see the house full to
overlooking. The piece selected is Wc-
tOrine.