Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-12-31
MUSICAL AID pRkHarIo.

Miss Gary and Miss Thursby sang in
o~rAtorio in Boston, Christmas night.
Faust. on the first night Of its produce
ton in Paris, earned 10000 francs.
Fanny Davenport has a beautiful curl
in her lip, and wears her nose banged.
Fanny KemOle weighs two hundred
pounds. She plays heavy actresses parts.
John McCullough's California theater
is to close peematurely for the lack OF
patronage.
Tie famous English actress, Miss Ada
Cavendish, is engaged to appear in this
country next autumn.
Mile Ssngalit, the famous dauseuse,
is shortly to appear as a singer, with
every prospect Of success
Star actors may be the lights of the
stage, but they are not like candles, be-
cause a puff for one puts another out.
There is an opening for a star actress
in Deadwood. Miss Lillian Leroy, the
last popular one, is in Jail for shooting
her husband.
Gounod, the composer, is said to be q
very religious man, and to be respected
in Paris for bis u~nostentatious goodness
Of heart.
The total amount (elO,OO0) necessary
for the Shakespeare memorial theater at
Stratford.on-Avon has been subscribed
or guaranteed.
The latest action at law 10 artistic life
is Wagner against Abdul Aziz. The
lac Sultan omitted to pay for the seats
he bought at the performance Of the
trilogy.
Mr.. Louis James, while enacting his
part in The Exiles recently, accidentally
discharged his rife when the muzzle was
so close to his head that his neck and
ear we're badly burned.
Nine Nilsson, having finished her per.
formances at Moscow, had zone to St.
Petersburg. But with the court away,
and superior attractions of the war,
Italian opera is almost deserted in Rus
STA.
Miss Mary Anderson, whose recent
triumphs in the East have created such
a stir in the theatrical world, will reap.
pear in our city next Monday, at the
Memphis Theater, opening an engage.
ment for one week.
In an article in the Leipzig SignAle,
DR.. Won Bulow ridicules the idea of a
composer going beyond his meter. He
very properly points out that Schumann
was as incapable Of judging an opera as
Rossini was Of judging a symphony.
Stage Manager Coe, of the London
Haymarket Theater, obtained a verdict
Of 5000 against Sothern, the actor.
about a year ago, for damage done BY a
charge of selling positions in the com.
pany. Sothern appealed, and the yer.
dict has now been confirmed.
Di Murska likes pets. She keeps in
her room, in addition to that latest hus.
band Of mine," an affectionate mouse,
two Australian magpies, a Scotch poodle
and a remarkably p%rofsne parrot. When
this inventory was taken in Nevada her
bulldog was getting doctored in San
Francisco.
An old schoOlmate' Of his, who had
. become a clergyman, met Edwin Forrest
one day, and asked the favor Of a ticket
= to his performance Of Lear that evening.
, but added that he wished his seat to be-
in q private box, where he could see
I without being seen. mo, sir" was the
reply by which the player rebuked the
preacher, when l look at my audience,
. | should be a shamed to see there one who
is ashamed to be seen. Permit me to
: say, sir, that our acquaintance enda
; here"
= Carl Rosa would have everybody take
his Interpretation, and aver Parepa had
to do it. "You have got to do it az I
tell you" said he. At one rehearsal in
? Figaro she came in late, and he stopped
the soprano and said: "Euphrosyne,
: this is a very bad example for you to set
the gentlemen and ladies Of the com.
: pany. You must not do that again"
And she had to obey. BE was a great
student. He would set up all night and
study that opera and the effects of it.
d. He knew it note for note by heart. I
think he is one of the best in his way
MRS. Seguin.
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