Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-10-04
Dramatic and Musical Notes.

Dramatic and Musical Notes.
Mrs. Scott Siddons is coming ovel
from England next month, to give read.
ings.
Mr.. Byron's new piece, with which
the Gaiety Theater has been opened, /
called Good NeaOs.
Mrs. Bowers recently gave a success
full series of presentations at the Chicago
Academy of Music.
Mr.. B. C. Towards farce of Saratoga
has been, for sometime, the attraction a
McVicker's Theater, Chicago.
Mr.. F. B. Chatterton began the regu
lar season at Drury Lane, London, on tn,
twenty-first instant, with The Lady o
the Lake.
Mr.. John S. Clarke, the American
comedian, has, we read, purchased tn,
Charing Cross Theater, London, anC
will shortly open it.
Nh. J. o. Elliott, a new recruit to thai
noble army Of martyrs, the public read,
ers, held forth at the Blocker, Boston
on the first instant.
Mr.. John Clark mot ]. S. Clarke, but
an English comedian of a nearly iden.
AANaA hdAlAEIH Has HdAIlCu N4lE Bpllllldl
London actress, Miss FUrtado.
Mr.. w. n. Scarborough has opened
the London Royalty Theater for the new
season, with Morton's fine old comedy
Of 4 Cure for the Hedrtache.
Mrs. Dancey-Maskell and her daugh-
ter, Miss Laura Joyce, will visit Amer
ca professionally-sailing from England
oh the twenty-ffth Of October.
The Court Theater, cLondon, offers,
under the title of 4 Son Of the Soil, an
adaptation, by Mr.. H. G. Merivale, OF
lie Lion AnlOre1z, by NJ. Ponsard.
S~hakespeare's birthplace was visited
by one thousand seven hundred and
eight persons in the month of August.
Many Of the visitors were Americans.
Miss Lydia Thompson takes her fare
well benefit in New York this evening,
at Wallack's Theater, and concludes the
summer season at that establishment.
Miss Charlotte Cushman, with a Sc
lected company of players, will act at
the Brooklyn Academy of Music on the
eighteenth and nineteenth of October.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bandmann acted at Bel
fast, Ireland, on the sixteenth ultimo.
On October 9TH they appear at the Lon
don Standard, and play for month.
Mr.. Sothern was lately seen at the
Walnut street Theater, Philadelphia, as
HDavid Garrick." Miss Carlotta Lee
clercq has been acting at the Arch Street
Theater.
Mile. COrnelie DiAnka will not come
to America, her physicians having for
hidden her to take the long sea voyage.
There is nothing so safe as an anchor to
windward.
Myers's Operahouse, Chicago, lately
built, was opened to the public on the
twenty-third instant. 1t contains seats
for about n thousand persons. 1t is
devoted to miDstrelsy.
Peppers Ghost, which was seen here
some eight or nine years ago, has visited
Yedo in Japan, where it is revealed in a
local drama. This accordingly attracts
crowds Of spectators.
NJ. Dennery considers his new comedy,
lie Centendire, which is to be done atthe
Ambigu Comique, in Paris, the best
piece he has written. NJ. Lafont has
been engaged for the title role.
Victor Hugo's Les Msera6les has
furnished the basis of a new drama
called Atoaeaent, which holds the stage
of the London Victoria Theater. The
Jean Vatican" is a Mr.. c. Sennett.
Miss Kate Santley, who appeared
last season at Niblo's Garden in the
Black Crook, is now revealed 10 the
British public in London, at the Alham-
bra, as princes CunegOnde," in lie
Cdrotte.
Ford's Grand Operahouse in Baltimore
was opened for the regular season on the
twenty-third of September, Mrs. Chan
frau appearing as "Juliau in The
Httnch6dek. The Master Walter was
Mr.. Frederick Robinson.
Matilda Heron's claim for an allow
Of two hundred dollars a month
from the estate of the late II. II. Byrne,
to whom she claims to have been mar
ried, has been denied by the Probate
Court Judge Myrick) of San Francisco.
Mile. Laura Sainz, a yovng Spanish
who last spring was successful at
Naples as isabella in the Pre- an
GeTcs, and who has been engaged at
the Apollo TheateT in Rome, was born
Marehioness de Patayama, and was
lady-in-waiting to Queen Isabella of
Chicago is to have a new Operahouse.
The sum of seventy-fve thousand dol |
lars hR been subscribed. The enterprise !
will be carried through by a stock COM
pany. The subscribers are Messrs. Pot
ter Palmer, Eugene S. Pike, J. H. Nc
]. V. LeMoyne, H. X. Honore,
9. 7. Bowen, H. E. Picket, Gage Broth
sns and Mancel Talcott. The site for the
new theater is yet to be chosen.