Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-10-24
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miscellaneous.
Blind Tom is in Washington.
Frank Mayo is in Troy, N. Y.
Patti will be thirty.6ve in February.
Ada Richmond's burlesque company
is in Cincinnati.
Edwin Adams condition is said to be
greatly improved.
A combination ia being formed t o lup-
port Robert MeWade in Ferns.
The Frank Frayne Combination are in
Detroit, Mich, as also G.. T. Parsloe.
Burr Robbins circus is in Clinton,
KY, and will soon come to Tennessee.
Ada Dyas has declined an offer from
the Grand Opera House, San Francisco.
Irving Music Hall, in Gotham, having
proved a disastrous failure, has been
closed.
Rose Eytlnge aud Louise Pomeroy
have been engaged for the New England
circuit.
Mary Anderson played " Ion in Bos-
ton last week, and was pronounced a
success.
The opera of Massaneillio will be given
at Niblo's Garden, New York, on the
18th inst.
Lawrence Barrett ia in Cleveland,
Ohio, and opens in Piltsburg on the 18th
inst. for two weeks,
Dion Boucicault is in Louisville, and
Edwin Booth began an engagement in
Cincinnati last night.
Texas Jack and Mile Morlacchi began
an engagement at toe Bowery Theater,
ia New York, last week.
George L. Fox, the great clown, gives
promise Of recovering, in spite Of his
physicians, who said he wouldn't.
Madame Rentz's female minstrels are
in Athens, Ga; Harry Robiuson's in
Canton, ILL.,. and Hayerly's in Utica, 0.
Madame Janauscbek is in Bridgeport,
CT, and will begin an engagement in
Providence, R. l., on the 25th inst and
Maggie Mitchell on the 29th inst.
Fechter's new play is Satan's Diary.
Satan keeps one probably to jot down
the names of short weight coal dealers.
He always gives fall weight himself.
1t turns out that all the dramatic
critics who have thus far attempted to
write down Boucicault's new play OF
Marriage are themselves married men.
Edward Harrigan, Of Ha-rigan Il
Hart, has written a sketch entitled, The
Rising Star. 1t was produced at the
Theater Comique, in New York city, last
Monday.
Joseph K. Emmett, the actor, jumped
into the sea in Australia, and was res
cued by fishermen. BE denied that he
intended to drown himself, but gave no
explanation of his strange conduct.
Stoddart's Comedy Company and John
aud Louise Dillon commenced a weeks
engagement at Little Rock Monday
night. They will 20 from thence to Gal
weston, Texas, and play six nights there.
Mr.. J.. K. Paine, the composer and
professor of music at Harvard, has lately
finished a symphonic overture TO Shaks-
peare's Tempest, and it has been pre-.
duced by Theodore Thomasi in New York
Geneyieve Rogers, the charming little
actress who so completely captivated
+" our boys" last season, occupies the
Memphis Theater boards next week, APP
pearing in Maud Muller aud new pieces,
supported by Frank Atkins reorganized
dramatic company.
Wagner, having abandoned all hopes
Of another play at Bayreuth, is going to
establish a conservatory there to be
opened on the lat of January. The
course is to occupy nine months a year
for six years. 1t is proposed to give
gratuitous instruction, but the students
will have to compete for admission after
studying at an elementary school.
Mrs, 4. l.. Davenport, in dividing the
effects Of her husband, has presented to
Charles R. Thorne, the actor, several
elegant costumes, a dagger handsomely
inlaid, a sword, feather and other prop.
critics, She also gave him the play of
st. Marc, or the Soldier of Fortune, and
some others, which Mr. Davenport had
once expressed a desire to have Mr..
Thorne possess.
The San Francisco Ministries have sue
oeeded in dramatizing Helen'S Babies.
The cast Of the performance is as fol-
lows; Mr.. Burton Mr.. Bob Hart;
" Toadie," Mr.. Billy Birch; Budgie,"
Mr.. Charles Baokus. 1t is needless 10
say that these artists portray the lively
infants and their victims With a v~erisi.
Multitude that would break Mr.. Habber-
tons heart if be could see them.
The St. Louis Republican says Of
Dorsey Ogden, who recently abandoned
his company in Savannah and jumped
the town: His parents are still living
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