Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-10-05
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.


November l.
L. g. Gottschalk, brother of the plan.
list and baritone Of the Camilla Urso
concert troupe, is among the recent arri-
walls of artists from abroad.
Nilsson, they say. will return here
next year. She is anxious to look after
her investments and to reap a few more
thousands of greenbaeks.
Madame Christine Nilsson is staying a
few weeks with Lady Emily Peel, at her
villa, Lammermoor, Geneva, and will
return to England in the middle Of Oc-
tober for her concert tour.
Rossi begins his American engage
ment at the Lyceum, New York, Mon
day, October 25. appearing as Hamlet.
His pictures make him a very plump,
good.humored, handsome young man,
with a sunny, intellectual face and a fine
figure.
We are glad to learn from the Balti-
more Bulletin, which gives it on Mr.. JEFF
Persons own authority. that " Rip Van
Winkle" is not to remain in Europe
three years, but that he will be abroad
but one year at farthest, and that he
opens with his great masterpiece, in Lon
don, next November.
Mr.. Carl Rosa has commenced a splen.
did season of English opera OF the Prin-
cess Theater, Oxford street. His com
pany is composed of the great baritone
Santley, Mr.. and Mrs. Aynsley Cook, Mr..
Cell, Miss Rose Hersee, Mile Ostava
Torriani, Mr.. C~ampobello and others.
Grace Greenwood writes that Ada
Cavendish, a well.known London actress,
is soon to visit this country. She is
young, fair and very handsome--not
with the regular beauty OF Mrs. Scott
Siddons, or the soft loneliness Of Mrs.
Rousby, but with a strong, yet fine, in.
tellectual character of head aud face.
Lolita, the charming little actress who
plays the banjo and dances breax-dswns
SO sweetly, makes her great successes in
staid old Boston, which affects to care
only for the seriously classical. Lolita is
now playing there to crowded houses in
her second week. In San Francisco,
also, she is a great favorite; and since
she gave a fountain to the city they say
it is a mortal oFense to declare in public
there that the lovely little girl ia red
headed.
1t is generally reported in the Eastern
papers that Wagner, the great composer,
is under engagement to assist in the
opening Of an immense music hall in
Philadelphia next year. The report is
probably untrue. Wagner has been re-
pcatedly urged to come to America, and
has repeatedly refused, His great work
at Baireuth will occupy him all Of June
in next year. and he has engagements
for July in Munich. Wagner is of the
same way of thinking as List. He
would cross the Atlantic1if it were not
for the ocean.
Miss Genevieve Ward, claimed by her
friends 10 be the most successful TRACE
dienne of the time, formerly known in
America Tor her fine vocal powers, be-
gins a starring engagement in the prov
inces, and expects soon to return to the
United States under the auspices of
Max ~Strakosch, and viii open, it is sup
posed, in New York at one Of the great
theaters. Her Lady Macbeth, Amelia,
and Blanca are said to be original and
striking. She is fortunate in a fine
figure, rich voice and superb health, and
now that the Queen of Tragedy, Char
lotte eastman, may be said to be on the
eve Of her ~abdication, the appearance of
Miss Ward will be an opportqne blessing
to the American drama.