Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-07-14

lOrmancei hcCepteu Tue ueulcatOn OF the
work.
Nine. Missions Marguerite" is said
by London critic to be the finest en-
bodiment of Gretchen-the Gretchen of
Goethe cum Gounod-which the stage
has produced"
Charlotte Cushman is occupying her
villa on Rhode Island avenue in New
port. Her immediate neighbors are the
Rev. DR.. Potter, of New York, and Judge
Curtis, Of Boston.
Two or three society ladies' are to
make their debut at metropolitan thea
ters next winter. Amateur theatrical
entertainments among the fashionables
have not been given in vain.
1t is stated that the King of Bavaria
has come forward with money for the
Wagner theater at Baireuth and that
the realization of the undertaking is now
beyond pecuniary accidents.
A troupe of eight ladies has appeared
at st. James Hall, London. They are
termed the Scandinavian Vocalists, and
dress uniformly in black velvet, with
white and crimson adornmehts.
Nine. Vida FRAU Marie Wildt) has
reappeared at Covent Garden, London,
IN the role Of Norma. The magnificent
quality of her voice is highly praised by
the critics, but the want Of dramatic
ability was Enthusiastically felt.
Mr.. C. A. Chizzola, agent for the
Aimee troupe, arrived from Europe in
last trip of the Oceanic, and Miss VIC
letta La Colville the American prima
donna, in the City Of Paris, accompanied
by her father, Mr. Samuel Colville.
Ambrose Thomas, the composer, and
NJ. Gerome, the painter, have been stay
ing on visit to the King of Holland at
his palace of Leo. His Majesty comph-
mented the author of Hamlet" and
asked him to execute some fragments of
that opera.
Won Bulow has created sensation in
Milan by declining to accept the invita-
ton extended him by the municipality
to listen to the first performance of
Verdi's Mass, and by sneering at the
idea of that masters writing ecclesiasti-
cal music. He moreover calls Verdi
" the Attila of throats," and his Mass
religious buffoonery."
Miss Rose McGeachy is to make her
debut on the lyric stage in New York in
the autumn She is the sister of Mr..
McGeachy, the editor of the Danbury
News during Mr.. Bailey's absence in
Europe. The New York Times says of
her: "She is a young lady of great
beauty and intelligence, and has one of
the most marvellous voices ever heard.
Those who are competent to judge pro-
nounce her voice superior to Lucca's in
in its primitive wealth, and predict that
Miss MeGeachy is the coming American
prima donna. There is much interest
manifested in Miss McGeachys debut,
especially among the aristocratic con-
gregation of St. Bartholomew church,
in the choir of which the lady has sung
for several days past.
Public Opinion thus describes Nine
Missions return to the London stage:
1.-THE return of Madame Christine Nils
son is to Mr.. Mapleson very much the
same thing as the return of Madame
Adelina Patti to Mr.. eye. Madame
Nilsson made her temperance on last
Saturday night before the most crowded
and brilliant audience of the season, the
Princess Of Wales and the Duchess of
Edinburgh occupying the royal box.
The opera selected for the occasion was
NJ Gounods perennial Faust. A better
could not have been chosen. Margaret
was the second part in which Madame
then M'lle) was seen and heard before
an English public at Her Maiesty's
Theater in the summer of 1867. Her
personal appearance was enough to pre-
possess every spectator in her favor, and
as she came upon the stage, dressed pre-
cisely after the costume which AIRY
Scheffer has adopted in his famous pic
ture, even before a note proceeded from
her lips, there seemed to be a general
feeling that the true Margaret, the Mar
garet Of Goethe, was before the lamps.
The Margaret of Saturday was a very
different thing. The charm inseparable
from first impressions, when new and
individual characteristics are revealed,
was all there, as wildly as before, and,
in addition to this perfectly finished art,
Madame Nilsson is now in more than
one sense a model Gretchen. She is
the Gretchen of the German poets
creation, and the Margaret made further
interesting by the tender, melodious and
beautiful music which the French COM
poser has written for the character.