Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-12-05
b. LOWENSTEIN & BROS.
ADJUSTMENTS.
Hrs. Bowers.

Hrs. Bowers.
Next Monday week, the thirteenth IN
slant, Mrs. Bowers, supported by an ex-
cellent dramatic company, will appear
at the Memphis Theater. The opening
play, entitled MdTti, is new production,
and is said &c be play OF much merit.
The Theater.
Yesterday Lolita closed her engage
ment in this city to one of the largest
and most appreciative audiences ever
assembled in the Memphis Theater.
Her engagement during the entire week
has been both brilliant and successful.
Lolita will always receive a cordial well
come and generous appreciation
among the citizens OF Memphis.
MennerchOr Concert.
Tonight the Memphis M8nnerchor
will give vocal and instrumental con-
cert and theatrical entertainment at
Cochran hall. The occasion will be
made interesting and enjoyable, for the
members of the M8nnerchor know how
to give entertainments, and have always
succeeded in what they attempted. The
concert and theatricals tonight will be
equal to any previous occasion given
under the auspices Of this organization,
and We hope to see a very large attend
ance.
Rankin's Two Orphans.
Tomorrow night Mr.. M'Kee Rankin
and company commence a weeks en-
gsgement at the GTeenlaw Operahouse,
the play being the I1OO Orphans. This
dramatic company bring its own
scenery, and will therefore mount the
piece in appropriate style. In st. Louis
and elsewhere Mr.. Rsnkin's TWO Or
phGnS have drawn full houses, and
given general satisfaction. This gentle
man is all actor of note, and we feel as
sured will give the citizens Of Mem
phis an entertainment worthy OF their
support and patronage.
Grand Concert.
On Thursday night next a concert will
be given at the Memphis club hall, under
tbs direction Of Mr.. E. Ellinger, for the
benefit of the Congregation Beth FL
Emeth, at which Mrs. Czapski and Miss
Ennis and GMessrs. Perring, Karch,
Schulz R0nnemann, Ellinger, HOllen-
berg, Rels and Williams will appear for
the Interpretation Of a programme OF un-
usual excellence, to which we direct at.
tention. 1t will be found in another
column, and will, we think, challenge
the critical attention Of all lovers Of good
music.
The Baby at the Theater.
This is not our production nor is our off
spring, for it comes away from the city
OF Salt Lake, where babies are as numer-
Gus as wives. The. story is that she
brought the darling with her to see the
play. Her entire devotion to the active
infant and total indifference to observa-
! ton proclaimed her its mother. She
tickled the baby under the chin till it
crowed again. She seized its foot and
shook it till the infant suffocated itself
with delight. This had bad effect, for
when baby recovered its wind it yelled
with fright. Then, such kissing and
dandliDg. 1t was tossed and playfully
shaken, and grinned at, and chirruped
to until it began another alarming laugh.
An artificial rose in the maternal bon
net caught the infantile eye, and the
delighted mamma suffered her offspring
to bob weakly up and down on its Timber
legs, and jabber earnestly at the floral
ornament. People in the vicinity grew
nervous. Such lively infant was sure
to make things disagreeable before the
evening was over. Several young men
got up and changed their seats to the
other side of the theater. Gentlemen
contracted their brOws and unmarried
ladies assumed fixed smiles of unnatural
sweetness as they cast their fine eyes
toward the playful infant and its proud
and happy mother. The lights were
turned up and buIged out the infants
eyes with surprise. One feeble little
hand, with all the tiny fingers work
ing, was stretched coDvulsively toward
the glittering gas jets on the other side
of the auditorium. The orchestra be-
gan with crash. The baby fell upon
its back in the maternal lap and set up
shrek so loud that the old German
doing little solo on the cornet between
crashes had his sound quite drowned.
1t was noticed that when il came to the
bass drum mans turn TO chime in he did
80 with laundering vigor thai would
have covered the screeches of found
ling hospital. Baby got used to it, and
when the curtain rang up sat in state
Of stUpefaction, staring at the actors.
Al amiable old gentleman in eyeglasses
and white vest, sitting Immediately in
front of the baby, wearied of the play,
and in the most grandfatherly manner
possible turned, and, poking fat fore
finger into the infants ribs, loosely
clicked his tongue. The consequence Of
this advance was that, just as young
gentleman on the stage, who was on his
knees before young lady with averted
head, remarked in an impassioned man
uer, "Aud, Edith, darling, should
heaven bless our union ana give us"
baby gave howl of superr atural
loudness. The confused and mortified
old gentlmsn blew his nose with prodigi-
Gus vigor and looked straight before him
with very red face, The young
gentleman on the stage was startled out
Of bis speech, and the young lady, over
come with emotion, stuffed her handker-
chief into her mouth. Every man in the
house scowled at the mother, who
seemed more calmly delighted with her
darling than ever, and made loving
faces at it Tor full five minutes. She was
really and truly unconscious that she
and her pet annoyed any one, and
throughout the whole evening smiled
serenely and looked upon the infants
screams and kicks as marks of preco-
city which must excite the admiration