Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-14


place Aida on the stage.
Oliver Doud Byron will do what he
can to amuse the Indiana Legislature in
indianapolis this week.
Miss Aibani and the Strakosch Italian
Opera Company will commence singing
in Chicago January Is.
Paganini redivvus has dedicated his
Rondo del Esercito Itaiiano to Carl.
baldi, with the old Generals permission.
TIA shipwreck does not prevent, Lydia
Thompson will soon be back with some
Of the London symmetries of the season.
They say the Mikado has such a poor
ear for music that he would rather study
German than listen to the melodies OF
Madame Angot.
King Kalakaua, when in Boston,
greatly enjoyed Aimee in opera bouffe
at the Globe Theater. Wonder what
Preacher Tai thinks of King Kal, any
way.
Miss Annie Louise Cary is a grand
daughter of Deacon Stockbridge, Of
Yarmouth, who was noted for his strict
adherence to religious forms.
Now they are having Sunday lectures
on literature in London, and the "Sun-
day Shakespeare Society" is formed, to
feed the people with the best things
about the great dramatist.
Cincinnati this week have Wybert
Reeve and Adelaide Stanhope at the
Grand Opera House, in Woman in
White; and Charles Pope at Woods, in
Samson and Belphegor.
The managers of the new theater at
Tuscon forgot to put up any racks to
hold shot-gunS, and those Of the audi
ence who bring them have to rest them
across the backs of their seats.
The New York Arcadian announces,
in staring capitals, that it does not &C.
cept any free admissions. The scorch-
ing nature Of some of its dramatic criti-
cisms guarantees its good faith.
Miss Emily Soldene, the opera boufe
artist, is i'll in Philadelphia, and one
paper says that it is in consequence of
exposure during her recent journey. It
really would not be thought that that
would affect Miss Emily Soldene.
Applause in an Italian theater is not
always a sure sign OF success. There
was a case recently Of a composer being
called before the curtain twenty-iou
times on the first performance of his
opera. The theater was closed the next
night for lack of patronage.
The oRe place Of amusement in New
York doinga heavy businessi is Wallack's.
Dion Boucicaults "Shsughraun" is
nightly packing the house, and at eight
o o'clock every evening the placard is hung
out, No more money taken With a
good deal Of truth it could be suspended
at other places land for the unpleasant
reason that it WASH offered
We take the following from a Chicago
newspaper: New York should be proud
of her amusement critics. Those of the
leading dailies get salaries averaging
from SIS to $50 a week, aud nearly all
are men Of family and live s%umptuously.
One is usually sandwiched between Bou.
cicault and Jarrett & Palmer; one has a
wife an actress, who is said TO enjoy a
good salary, but her line of business is
not in demand, and she rarely appears
in public. One has been funnily desig-
mated Strakosch's poodle, and another is
said to be a piano.forte makers literary
lacquey. A glance at the amusement
columns of the New York dailies will
enable stupid countrymen to see which
way the critical cat jumps in Gotham"
The Cincinnati Gazette hits of a
growing theatrical evil in the following
6ue style: THE American manager
that will rebel against the policy Of pay
ing fancy prices to stars who, like
Fechter, get on DRINKS, or, like Miss
Nelson, break engagements for the
most frivolous causes, will do a good
thing for the public and himself. No
public but an American one would have
tolerated the outrage that was perpe-
trated the other night at Woods Theater
by Fechter, and no manager but an
American would let Miss Nelson BAN
boozle him and deceive the public two
or three times in succession. We are
not aware that Fechter is so immeasur-
ably the superior Of Booth, in point Of
dramatic ability, hat he should be al
lowed to fall 80 immeasurably below
him in respect toward his audiences, or
regard for ms contracts with managers.
Nor is Miss Nelson so much the supe-
rior Of Miss Cushman that she should
be permitted to play fast and loose with
her engagements, as her whims and
fancy may dictate. The manager that
will read the riot act to these derelict
stars will be sustained by the people"
In Texas they hang a man when be
refuses to marry the girl whose hand he
has sought, and the poor devil is gener-
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