Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-11-19

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and critical audience greeted the APP
pearance Of the Kurdish people in the
Two Orphans last evening The play
was quite as attractively presented as on
the previous nights Of the week. To-
night the attendance will be ir5aors
all the seats having already beea ia, er
Manager Brooks has even removed the
orchestra back Of the stage. SO as to GIL
the space occupied by the musicians
with seats for the people. Ii will be the
largest house Of the season and a bril-.
liant attendance may be expected. Seats
for to-morrow's matinee are selling rap
idly. Tomorrow night the Kurdish PEG.
pie will bid us farewell and the Two Or
phans will depart for New Orleans.
The BIe BONANZA This society play
will be presented at the theater next
Monday evening by Days Fifth Avenue
Company. A Detroit journal speaks of
the play as produced at Whitney's Opera
House in that city. 1t says:
The Big Bonanza is still running 10
magnificent business, and the oftener it
is seen the better is it appreciated and
the more is it admired. This beautiful
theater has been filed with the most
brilliant audiences of the season every
evening since the DAILY company made
their debut here in this the most enter
tanning and delightful of recent come
dies Besides the superior excellence
Of the play, one gets a taste of the finest
acting by a company Of artists of ac-
knowledged great merit who also find in
the Bonanza peculiar and constant op.
portunity for the employment of those
qualities which have contributed so
largely to the successful career of the
piece. To be able to laugh is to know
genuine enjoyment, and the man or wo-
man who can sit FIVE minutes in the
F" BonaHza" atmosphere without ac-
knowledgi6g its influence must be hope
lessly wanting in the humorous instinct.
There has been some probability Of its
withdrawal in favor Of some other Of Mr..
Days plays for the remainder of the
week, but the exceptional favor with
which it has been received proved too
strong an argument in its behalf, and
Manager Davey has now decided to keep
it on the stage all the week, including
the Saturday matinee.
Sale of reserved seats for Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thanksgiving
matinee will commence tomorrow morn
ing at 9 o'clock.
MADAME BLANCHE ANO TRoUPE.-To.
night Madame Blanche and her
continental troupe of beautiful young
ladies will commence an engagement at
Assembly Hall, Main street, north of
Gayoso. This troupe, under the direc
ton of Madame Blanche, will introduce
to the public Of Memphis a new and at
trsctive entertainment, consisting Of
statue imsginaire and tableaux vivants,
each of which will be portrayed by per-
feet models Of female beauty.
CAL WAGYER's MNsrsRLs.- Thurs
dey, Friday and Saturday nights Cal
Wsgner's Minstrils will appear lat the
Assembly Hall. Read the following
welcome given in an exchange:
Cal is comiDg-We can hear his infec-
tious laugh as ringing and as musical as
the tinkle Of his tambourine. Rare old
Cal, you have created many a happy
hour, and lightened the labor of life for
many a one wearied with the irksome
toll Of day. Il comes like a summer
breeze waited from the old plantation,
where, till the sitting Of the sun, the one
and all are busy, with the picking Of the
and the shocking Of the corn,
way down ia that Sunny South Land,
where the flowers blush and bloom, aud
air is fragrant with the sweet odors
Of the magnolia and the sugar cane, and
bleak autumnal chill comes to paint
the leaf with the rainbow hues, where
the wild birds harmonies were a plant
for the toiling slave, now changed to a
merry greeting, where all is free as the
air they breathe, way down on the
sandy bottoms, or at the edge of the
cotton lands, where, close at hand, the
dark lagoon of the dismal swamp lays an
UNEMPLOYED country, the heunts Of elves
that figure 10 many g weird romano OF
the freedman, thrice told around the
FIRE of the cabin home. You
send the mind wandering back, Cal, and
once again the Ministries Of by.gone days
stand before US, and in a concord Of
sweet voices, sing the loves Of " Katy
Darling" or the rollicking "0ld Dan
Tucker and the "Camptown Races"
A score Of years have fed, Cal and you
are fully az happily prepared 10 amuse
when first we knew you. May you
ever be Happy" and be your vision as
bright. az your wit. Don't hang your
African Harp on a willow tree, not yet
for many a day, but make everything ra-
diant with your sunshine mirth and
Jolly good humor, aud well promise in
the future, as in the past, not to laugh
at. bat laugh with the King Of all the
Minstrels," Cal Wagner.
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