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

nent in San Francisco.
Mr., Wallace, in Rossdale, has beer
drawing great crowds to The Grand
Opera House, New York city.
Miss Fanny Davenport is to commence
an engagement in Booths Theater, New
York, on the 18th, acting Rosalind."
Louise Pomeroy closed her engage
meut in Baltimore Saturday. She
played Romeo" with Eleanor Carey as
Juliet"
Miss Won Elssner, a Louisville young
lady, has appeared in on opera in Paris
with great success. She is hailed as a
future diva.
Nine Pauline Lucca is to receive
e24OO for her twelve nights engagement
in Madrid, and 9s4O for her six perform.
ances at Nice.
As Parthenia," in Ingomar, the New
York Herald says Miss Mary Anderson
won another triumph and produced
another sensation"
A brother of Edwin Booth is to take
charge of the business of the Haymarket
Theater, London. during Mr.. j.. S.
Clarke's visit to this country.
A complimentary benefit to Miss Mary
Anderson is announced for Friday, De.
cember l4th, and her engagement in
New York will close on the 22d inst.
Puck, the New York funny paper,
says it never knew a case where the
writer of a play had any trouble getting
back from the manager at a minutes
Heller, the magician, has just closed
a successful engagement in Boston,
which it is said that be has Melted
$40, 600, the result OF s~eventy.three per.
The Prayer Opera Company remain
in New Orleans another week. Gene.
Rogers played at BidweIIs last
week, and was followed by the Evauge.
line Company.
An English musical journal says that
Is per cent. of the inmates Of lunatic
asylums are musicians and singers, bat
neglscts TO state how many of the s.
per cent. we're driven mad by the prac.
Of the former.
The profits of Madam PATHS tour in
concerts through England amounted to
$40, 900, and this, notwithstanding the
fact that the expenses per night were
$4,000. Patti goes to Venice for four
concerts at S25eO per concert.
Miss Thursby, getting 5000 a night,for
her services alone, sang in Baltimore
three nights with an expensive company,
to an average for the three nights OF
$3.50. Aimee opened in the same city
to $ll9O, and on her fourth night had
$500.
Blackstone, the veteran playwright
aud manager, has given legal authority
to Mr.. Sothern to rewrits or reconstruct
any of his plays hat Mr.. Sothern may
desire to perform. The latter is now en-.
gagged on the Flowers Of the Forest, one
OF the best Of the old fashioned melo
dramas.
A wonderful story comes from Paris
Of a Spanish tenor who has Just been
invited to leave the French capital IN.
der a strong suspicion of his being an
escaped galley.slave. 1t appears that
he had sung so successfully in the Ire.
vAtore in St. Petersburg that the emperor
gave him a diamond snuff.box.
This is the way y bring down the
prices for seats at the opera: Strakosch,
in his new company, has a young lady
Of just seventeen, Of extraordinary
talent, Of course, who is to receive a
salary Of $4,000 annually for five years.
She is Esiella de la Mar, and was edu.
Gated by George Gable at the expense Of
the King Of Holland.
In 1888 Garrick was playing at Drury
Lane Theater in the part Of Sir John
Brute" just at the point where "Sir
John, a drunkard, mutters incohersntly
until he falls into a doze, and while the
audience was in such wrapt attention
that the proverbial pin might have been
heard drop, a p~rodigious and long pro-
tractcd yawu broke from some one in
the orchestra. 1t proved to come from
Mr.. Cervetto, a bass player, to whom
Garrick furiously went, and warmly re-
preached him; but the musician made
matters right in a trice. II beg ten
thousand pardonl but l always do SO ven