Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-06-13
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

Olive Logan is lecturing in Michigan.
Fanny Davenport is Studying Lady Mac
beth.
Clara Morris willleave for Europe on the
10Th.
Blind Tom has been drawing well in st.
Louis.
Nelson will return next fall as "CleO-
patra."
Who'd have thought it, Patti only
thirty-two.
John E. Owens has bought the Charles
ton Academy of Music for $4,000.
Boucicault is on his way to California,
where he hopes to reap golden harvest.
Daly's company will open at Chicago, to
morrow night, and in San Francisco July
Il.
Maggie Mitchell, Mr.. and Mrs. Chanfrau,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Adams have gone
to Long Branch.
Madame Jude, the Paris opera bouffe
singer, will be here in the fall, and so will
Tietiens and BelOcca, under StrakOsch.
lima Di Murska and De Viyo's opera
troupe will soon sail from California, where
they have not been successful, to Australia.
Theodore Thomas is going abroad for
rest aud recreation, and his baton will fall
into the hands Of DR.. Dudley Buck, of
Boston.
Twelve Organists are competing for the
possession of the mammoth organ now be-
ing built for DR.. Halls new church on Fifth
Avenue.
Blanche Davenport, sister Of the fascina-
ting Fanny, is the ''Blanca Lablache"
whose success the London papers have been
announcing.
DR.. Won BulOw, the celebrated pianist,
who will arrive in this country in October,
is announced to make his first public sp-
pearance in Boston.
Gottschalk, youngest brother. of the
famous pianist, will Join the Camilla JlrsO
troupe in this country next season. He is
said to be a remarkably fine bassO.
SignOr Salvini has been admitted as an
honorary member Of the AtheD9nm Club,
Of London, whichjs the first compliment
of the kind extended foreign actor.
Mrs. Rousby will return from Europe in
August, and in the following month will
act at Booths Theater in new piece writ
ten expressly for her b. Boucicault.
Nine. Brignoli has been for several Sun
days past the most attractive feature Of the
choir of st. Stephens Church, New York.
Her husband has been in Europe for several
years.
Mines. Ristori and Janauschek have
been performing at the same time in San
Francisco. The public were offered a d.
rect opportunity to compare them in "Mary
Stuart" and "Medea."
The Msjiltons are dancing in London,
where Rose Hersee will soon sing in Eng
lish operas under Carl Rosa, and where
son of the late J. NJ. Beliew, the reader,
has attempted Hamlet and failed.
The London Figaro says: "Time has not
improved the voice of Sign0r Briguoli. An
artist he ever was, and the experience that
he has lately gained in America serves him
now in good stead, but his voice is a mere
wreck"
Clara Louise Kellogg, having closed her
season III New Haven, was invited to con-
sultatiOn with the proposed donor Of
s, 100000 for a Musical College, last week.
The secret Of the identity of this million
ARE is known to very few. He is not a
myth but an old bachelor.
N. GOunOd was TO have led the Orches-
ira at a recent gala representation at the
Grand Opera in Paris, but the musicians
objected on the ground that custom re-
stricted the baton TO one Of the members Of
he orchestra, and II. GOunOd was COM
PEELED to abandon his intention.
Manager Macauley Of Cincinnati has
been endeavoring to lease the Grand Opera
House, New York City, and will get it if
the Courts permit its lease. In regard to
the desire of managers to get this fated
house it may be said, however, in general,
"Whom the gods would destroy they first
make mad"
Barney Williams has among the best
traits of his character that of filial love
and reverence for his mother, an ancient
Irish woman, who can never be Fifth-av-
enuized, and who has a brOgue one could
cut with a knife, hut who is given the best
place Of honor at the table and the best
the house affords.
The great revival promised by Jarrett &
Palmer, next season, will be the beautiful
play of "Julius Cesar" It will be pre-
scented with a phenomenal cast. Daven-
port as Brutus, Lawrence Barrett as Cas-
sius, and RignOld as Marc Antony. The
costumes Will be carefully studied and the
feast of the Lupercal will be presented in
a way that will give some notion of the
every day life of ancient Rome. Matt Nor
gan will superintend the production Of the