Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-31
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

Mr.. E Davenport ID laid up with rheu-
matism in Boston.
Boucicault's new comedy, The Bridal
Tour, comes out in the fall at Wallack's s.
Theodore Thomas will give a series of
seven concerts in St. Louis, commencing
August LIST.
Brooklyn is to have a music garden
similar to Gilmore's Garden. 1t will be
finished about the lst of August. Cost,
/. $4,000.
The London Globe thinks that with all
its merits German opera will never be so
lastinely popular in England as its Ital.
ian rival.
Patti is living in retirement in Eng
land. The London Figaro says that
nothing Is definitely known concerning
her future movements.
Edwin Booths is one o! the half.dozen
names which appear on the list Of con.
tributors to the Shakespeare memorial
theater at Stratford. His subscription
is $500.
The e ct the Pacific Mail wharf,
San Francisco, on the 18th inst, when
Soldene and her attendant nymphs de.
parted for Australia, was indeseribably
affecting.
Di Murska is expected in New York
about the lst of September, aud will
bagin her concert tour, under the direo.
ton of Mr.. DeVivo, about the middle Of
that month.
Miss Adelaide Nelson will not be able
to play in the United States next season.
This will be a general disappointment.
as her engagements extended throughout
the country.
Arrangements for the opening of the
musical season at Saratoga, with the
Miss Emma Abbott and the Brignoli
company, are progressing. The date
will be August lst.
Wagner, the g,eat composer, has a
mania for satin. One year his bill fol
satin alone amounted to 10000 lanes
lie uses it for dressing gowns, panta
looms, vests and wen counterpanes, and
does not hesitate at any price.
Mr.. E. L. Davenports daughter
Blanche otherwise Signorina Blanca
Lab'acbe has made a success in Ira,
viata at the San Carlos in Naples. She
is described as pretty-a blonde, with
expressive features, bright, lustrous eyes
aud Q graceful figure aud carriage.
Miss Anna Boyle, the young actress,
who made her debut last May in Wash
ington as q protege of Grace Green.
wood, appears ct Booths Theater for a
weeks engagement. She will play
Juliet. 1t is urged in her behalf that
she is only fourteen yefr rs old.
When La Belle Helene was first
played in San Francisco by the Soldene
troupe, some one asked why Miss Vessey
was wearing a piano.forte cover. and ex-
planned his reason for the question by
observing that a piano-forte cover always
left the legs of the instrument exposed.
The Detroit Free Press says: 1t is
safe to say that there are at present in
this city fifty members-men, women
and children-of the varieties theater
profession, who are moi only without en-
gagements, but are in debt for board and
without means to leave the city to accept
az engagement, should one offer. And
two or three cases are known where
actual hunger has and is staring some OF
them in the face. Evidently the spe-
cialty' business is becoming over.
crowded"
Gounod was originally intended for
the church, and to this early training of
his may be traced his love for church
music. Rather q good story is told of
him. Not long ago he was leaning out
Of a box at the Theater Ll fique in Paris,
at the first representation of the "Timbre
d'Argent, and he followed so intently
the music in the score which he had in
his hand that the audience began watch
ing him. Suddenly a voice was heard
in the gallery saying THAT fellow in the
box wants to make us think he can read
music"