Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-09-04
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

SignOr Camponini has signed for the
autumn season at Brescia.
Katie Putnam ia in Covington, Ind,
spending a few weeks Of recreation, the
guest of her uncle.
George c. Boniface will be the leading
mar of Mr.. B~oucicault's travelling or.
ganizstion this season,
Strakosch is off for San francisco to
prepare for the opening of his opera
season on the Pacific coast.
Mrs. Scott Siddons writes to DR.. Dore,
mus, Of New York, hat she is making a
great deal Of money in Australia.
Louise Pomeroy has suffered a severe
affection in the death of her only child,
a beautiful little girl five years old.
Janauschek will return from Europe
about the LIST Of October. 1t is yet IN
certain where she will make her rentrie.
Aimee, with twenty-eight brilliant
French girls, all actresses, Of course,
more or less pretty, has arrived in New
York.
John McCullough's management Of
Baldwin's Academy of Music is severely
commented upon by the San Francisco
Argonaut.
The Theodore Thomas orchestra
met with immense success in Cincin.
natl. Five thousand persons were pres.
ent on Friday.
Madame Celeste, aged seventy, is
about to play the part of a young page
in a dramitization Of "Peveril Ct the
Peak" in London.
Olive Logan growls because Patti
threw overheard a real marquis for q
scale Shouter in blue tights. Can't the
marquis find out Olives address?
1t is said that TIE famous ex-mayor and
ex-actor Oakley Hall is still in London,
and that he is writing articles for the
magazines there on American theatrical
affairs.
A New York Herald cable dispatch
brings the rumor from London that Ada
lima Patti has retired to a convent in
Brittany, and has expressed the inten-
ton of never again appearing in public.
The English and l. liam opera season
will probably open at Booths Theater on
the lst of October, under Mr.. j. C. Duf's
management, with the Clara Louise KEEL
logg and Anna Louise Cary combination.
Nilsson has appeared as Elsa in "Lo.
hengrin," at Her Msjesty's Opera. She
was greeted with the utmost enthusiasm,
and to her efforts the chief success of
the work was due. In the celebrated
prayer Nilsson was heard at her very
best.
The $4,000 in gold which Florence,
the commedian, realized by his last
years engagement in San Francisco was
Immediately invested in mining stocks
at the suggestion of 0'Brien, the mil
lionaire, and to-day their market value
is estimated at $4,000
The Golden Calf is the name Of the
new play written by Messrs. Lancaster
aud Magnus for Mr.. ]. 7, Raymond. It
is in three acts and five tableaux, and
portrayS the adventures of a nouveau
richie in New York, and the skill With
which he battles the attempts of adven.
turers to do him ont of his money.
Patti must come to America. She
has jast finished a season in London;
Paris is closed to her by reason Of the
divorce proceedings; the prospects in st.
Petersburg, owing to the war, are dis.
c~ouraging; and America is the only field
open. AS the New York Tribune r.
marks, she VII come sorely against her
will, but it is not probable she will sing
any the worse on that account.
The New York Tribune critic on
Lydia Thompson; Time has been
good to her. If her pale and basy song
has grown a little more thin and pebu,
lous than ever, her talented legs have
lost non of their bloom; they kick cut
with oil the vigor of old days; they ay
back with all their ancient grace and
dignity. While forty or fifty frst.clsss
calves we're blossoming aud shaking in
the limelight, the center of admiration
was Mistress Lydia's perennial bounce"
Ben DeBar is called a close manager.
During an engagement in st. Louis
Edwin Booth notified the frugal Ben
that a lime light was needed for the pro-
duction of Hamlet. Lime light" re-
peated the astonished comedian, my
God, Ned, it has never been used before.
Your father, who could play Hamlet, was
satisfied to do 80 without the aid of any
lime lights" The young actor was so
cut by this remark that he replied: IAN
right; no matter about it,"
Advioes from Mr.. Joe Brooks, late
manager of the Memphis Theater but
now Lawrence Bagrett's agent, state that
Barrett and Booth will be the rival at
fractions at Chicago next week, when
the respective merits of the actors a
be discussed and discovered by the peo-
pie of the Burned City. The Memphis
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