Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-06-18
MUSIC AND THE Drama.

Olive Logan is lecturing in Michigan,
Fanny Davenport is studying Lady
Macbeth.
Clara Morris will leave 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'll Patti only
thirty two.
John E. Owens has bought the Char
lesion Academy of Music for $42, 900.
Boucicsult is on his way to California,
where he hopes to reap golden harvest.
DAILY s company will open at Chicago,
tomorrow night, and in San Francisco
July12
Maggie Mitchell, Mr.. and Mrs. Chan
frau, and Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Adams
have gone to Loug Branch.
Madame Judie, the Paris opera bouffe
SINGER, will be here in the fall, and so
vii. Tietjens and Belocca, under
Strakosch. .a Aes
lima Di Murska and De Vivo's opera
troupe will soon sail from California,
where they have not been successful, to
Australia.
Theodore Thomas is going abroad for
rest and recreation, and his baton will
fall into the hands of DIR. Dudley Buck,
OF Boston
Twelve organists are competing for
the possession Of the mammoth organ
now being built for DR.. Halls new church
on Fifth avenue.
Blanche Davenport, sister of the fas-
cinating Fanny, is the Blanca La.
blache " whose success the London pa
pers have been announcing
DR.. Won Bulow, the celebrated plan
ist, will arrive in this country IN 0cto-
Der, and is announced to make his first
public appearance in Boston.
Gottschalk, youngest brother of the
famous pianist, will join the Camilla
Urso troupe in this country next season.
He is said>to be remarkably fine basso
Signor Salviui has been admitted as
an honorary member of the Atheneum
Club, of London, which is the first com
pliment Of the kind extended a foreign
actor.
Mrs. Rousby will return from Europe
in August, and in the following month
will act at Booths Theater in a new
piece written expressly for her by Bou-
clcault.
Nine Brignoli has been for several
Sundays past the most attractive feature
Of the choir of St. Stephens church,
New York. Her husband has been in
Europe for several years.
Madamas r stori aud Janauschek have
been performing at the same time in San
Francisco. The public we're offered a
direct opportunity to compare them in
Mary Stuart and "Medea."
The Mejiltons are dancing in London,
where Rose Hersee will soon sing En-
glish operas under Carl Rosa, and where
a son of the late j. NJ. Bellew, the
reader, has attempted Hamlet and
failed.
The London Figaro says: "Time has
not improved the voice of Signor Brig
noli. An artist he never was, and the
experience that he has lately gained in
America serves him now in good stead
but his voice is mere wreck
Clara Louise Kellogg, having closed
her season in New Haven, was invited
to consultation with the proposed donor
of $5,O00,000 for a musical college last
week. The secret Of the identity OF
this millionaire is known to very few.
He is not a myth but an old bachelor
NJ. GOunod was to have led the orehes-
ira at recent gala representation at
the Grand Opera House in Paris, but the
musicians objected on the ground that
custom restricted the baton to one oil
the members of the orchestra, and M
Gounod was compelled to abandon his
intention.
The great revival promised by Jarrett
& Palmer, next season, will be the beau
tiful play OF julius Cesar. 1t will be
presented with phenomenal cast. Da.
veuport as Brutus Lawrence Barrett as
Cassius and Rignold as Marc Antony.
The costumes will be carefully studied
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