Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-08-31

questions: "Why is il considered neces-
sary during Lady Gay Spar kerr
huntir g speech for all the characters tn
stand arCul I'D her in Turkish cresceI
or legitimate semi. circle? Why should
the Hsymarket company show such
msrkad dttestation of the obviously con-
veDieut posture OF sitting down, no mat
ter whether in drawing room or boudoif?
And, finally, why should not at least q
tenth part of Grace Hsrkaway's' curious
sentim ant be washed out"
George F. Rowe's play, Brass, has
failed in San Francisco. Our Boarding.
house is the title OF q new piece success
fully produced in Chicago. Mary Glenn.
mer Ames has written q play called
Filtration. Anna Dickinson has added
an original play to her stock for produc-
ton next winter. An American drama
by q New York jlurnslist, entitled
Three Days, is announced for elaborate
production at the Chestnut-street thea.
ter, Philadelphia this fall. Three sdap-
tations OF French piece, The Great Di-
UOTce SUIT, are to be used in this country
next seasoR. Our Boys has been played
over five hundred times consecutively
in London.
Partisan Actresses.
Lucy HOOPER writes from Paris: Toe
celetr ated Victoria Lafontaine, Of the
Coincide Franchise, enjoys the very
highest reputation in private life, and is
8 model of domestic virtue as well as
dramatic talent. Mile. Reichemberg.
Of the Coincide Franchise, lovely
blonde, lately married to NJ. Bouhy, of
the Opera Comique, erjoys a similar
repu alton. There were two Others who
once rivsled them-R So Cheri and
Dssclee-but, heaven rest their souls,
they're dead! AS to the other ladies Of
the Coincide Franchise, they are scarce
~ so straight-lscad, II common report
does them DO IL justice. The greatest
of them ali-the refined, poetic, ethe-
rea! looking Barnhardts-is not one
whit better behaved III An her less gifted
companions. She has just taken posses.
sion of her new hotel on the Pare Mon
ceau. 1t cost forty thousand dollars,
and the panels and ceiling of the dining
room owe their decorations to the
pencils of two of the rising
artists of he present day, Duez and
Clairin. the latter the painter Of the great
actress portrait as "Mrs. Clarkson"
in L'Etrdngere which attracted 50
much attention at the salon All the
furniture CT the hcu il vertically an
tique, selected with great care, patience,
and judgment from the shops OF the
secOn d-hand dealers of Paris. In the
bedroom OF the actress stands the piece
of furniture which she caused to have
made some two years ago, and which Is
always placed at her bedside-her coffin.
1t is covered outside with black cloth,
fringed with silver, and bsariDg her
monogram in silver letters on the l1d;
within 1t is lined with white satin, and
is luxuriously wadded and tufted. This
strange whim is said to be perfectly in
accord with the peculiar and morbid
temperament OF Sarah Barnhardt. She
ia very violent in temper, ard when she
gets thoroughly angry is by no means
choice in her language. O1e OF the
earliest worshippers at her shin ne
was Gustsve DJre, and it is said th.'t
her suggestions inspired some
OF the most original and fantastic of his
designs. She is pessionately devoted to
her two professiOns-acting and sCulp-
ture-and aims at one day mounting
the vacant throne Of Rachel. She is I'M
questionabIy the greatest actress now on
the French stage, but she falls far short
Of the sublime nights attained by her
gifted predecessor and co-religionist.
As to Croizette-beautiful, eccentric
Croizette-the mistress of the "house,n
as some Of her rivals significantly call
her, she is slowly recovering from her
recent severe illness, an attack Of what
is, believe, known as psricsrditis, an
IL fl animation Of the membrane sur.
rounding the heart. Notwithstanding
her exceptional position at La Coincide
she Is much beloved by her comrades,
and is emphaticsily what the French
term ,1ee bonnie file. One must know
the shades OF French expression thoro-
ughly to fully appre ciate that epithe