Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-06-27
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

Miss Kitty Blanchard Mrs. NICK ct
Rankin is lying seriously Ill in New
York.
Mr.. John Brougham is writing his
"reminiscences Of the Stage. He will
doubtless make brilliant book.
Clara Morris sailed for Europe yes.
terday. Her party includes Don Piatt
and Mrs. Piatt, of Washington.
Young SOthern is rapidly striding into
popular favor as a comedian In Eng.
land, and bids fairto succeed his father
worthily.
Mile. Plaster, a young French ac-
tress, is coming over next season. We
presume all the young fellows will be
inclined to court Plaster.
According to the Journal Oficiel,
there are twenty-six theatres in Paris,
and 367 in the French provinces,
making a grand total Of 392.
Salvini makes a striking effect as
Hamlet by holding in his hand man.
uscript of the play, over the top Of
which he glances at the face Of his
guilty uncle.
Mile. Tietjiens is to receive $500 gold
a night for each concert or oratOrio,
and half the receipts over $1,000. If
opera is attempted, these rates are to
belargely increased.
Levy, of cornet fame, has arrived
from Europe, and is under contract to
appear at GilmOre's Concert Garden.
He brings with him the golden chair
presented him by the Car of Russia.
Starring tours have been arranged
for MISS Fanny Davenport and Mr..
James Lewis next season, and all their
dates have been eagerly taken up by
the managers. The big Bonanza"
did it.
There is a duet of negroes in don
Mucarade," the new work at the Paris
Opera Comique, which is a great sue
cess. 1t is sung in syllables by two ne
gro servants, who divide each word
between them, and the effect is very
droll.
Gilmore's Hippodrome Concert Gar
den, New York, has proved an enor.
nous success. A rumor was set ahoat
that Central Park Garden was to close
and Theodore Thomas orchestra scat
ter All fashionable New York rushed
to the rescue and the attendance largely
increased.
Booths Theater will set up for a
sensation next season, the opposition
of American and English actors. They
will marshall Messrs, E. L. Davenport
and Lawrence Barrett, and Messrs.
George Rignold and F. B. Warde,
against each other in the revival of
Julius Caesar"
The Duke of Edinburgh is the --latest
royal musician. He has WI item sew
eral pieces, and it is said that his most
ambitious composition, a concerto IN +
minor, is to be published under hisown
n me. How the impartial critics will
vie with one another IN their praises Of
his genius.
Alice Dunning Lingard has made a
success of a San Francisco engagement.
There is something about the Pacific
breezes which makes an Anthony of
every male in San Francisco, and for a
snug, well.rounded, luri9g modern
Cleopatra, that particular actress is
just what slangy people call the cheese.
Mile. Aimee has been frugal, it ap-
pears. She went back to France this
time with 100000 francs, and is soon to
give a house warming at her magnif-
cent new house at Troquet, for which
she has been laying by money almost
ever since the beginning of her ca
reer
The firm of Breitkopf, Of Leipzig,
which has published the complete edi-
ton of the works of Beethoven, now
proposes to do the same with the CON-
positions of Mozart, one-third of which
are in manuscript, provided a subscrip-
ton of 93, 600 be raised, as the cost of
the engraving and printing will be at
the least $4,000.
ChGriUari contains this bitter mot
at the expense Of Frenehmen: "Prus-
STA is right in renouncing its design to
exterminate France. What would for
eign nations do without the country
that furnishes all their amusements?
The pieces of French authors are
played in every theatre in the world"
The purity and refinement of Scribe's
comedies are beginning TO be apprecia.
ted, after TIE surfeit Of. the Unclean'and
sensuous plays that have
deluged the Partisan boards.
Those that have sneered at
his dramatic models Of prOpriety, that
have laughed at his ignorance and in
nOcence of life and society, are now
affecting an approval of his types Of
good, old-fashiOned morality.
The long expected debut of Miss
Anna Dickinson is to be made in Cali
fornia, writes Jennie June. Miss
Dickinson has evidently been brighten
ed by the severe treatment which Miss
Kate Field has received at the hands of
the critics, and is not disposed to run
the gauntlet in New York But why
not appear in Boston, as she originally
proposed? Boston would have treated
her kindly, and though the California
critics will CALAMITY do all in their pow
er, yet, having selected them from the
whole world, they will be considered
more in the light of champions than
critics, and their decision will not be
admitted as final.
We read IN a New York letter that
an encounter, which nearly led to an
affray, took place the other evening at
a famous and fashionable restaurant,
between two somewhat noted men
George Wilkes, the editor and propri-
etor of the Spirit of the Times, and
George B. Butler, the nephew of Gen.
Butler, the editor and proprietor of the
Arcadian, and the husband of the pop
ular actress, Rose Etynge. An article
had appeared in Wilkes Spirit, of
which paper Mr.. Butler was formerly
the dramatic critic, which was supposed
to point directly, in no complimentary
manner, to Mr.. George H. Butler and
his wife. Charles DelmonicO interfeTed
and stopped the row.
Mr.. George Fawcett Row has drama
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