Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-08-23
MUSICAL AND

Several new American plays are prom
lsed us during tie season.
"Ah Sin and Mr.. Parsloe have made
a hit at Days theater, New York.
OfenbAeh is writing a new operetta-
lie Nouveau Commits THE New Clerk.
Cary aud Kellogg will sing in San
Francisco about the middle Of Septem-
Der.
Kate Field has been elected a member
of the Dramatic Authors Society, of
London.
Anna Boyle, the child Juliet, is to de-.
liver readings at Saratoga, by request of
Brignoli.
Capoul is booked for Russia. He is
said to be still the best love-maker on
the operate stage.
Mario, who " could charm with a tenor
note the souls in purgatory," is a diree-
tor of a museum in Rome.
Nine Titiehs remains in a very critical
condition, and the worst fears are enter
tanned regarding her illness.
A dramatic representation of the Molly
Mcguire troubles is being played in Phil
adelphia, and is said to be drawing good
houses.
Kate Bateman recently gave a dinner
party at her English home. Among the
guests was the once celebrated d~anseuse
Nine Taglioni.
1t is said that MAJ Maretzek's talent
has taken a new direction, and that he
is now writing an opera for Miss Kellogg
and Miss Cary.
Rousby is sojourning at Boulogne,
Salvini is about to retire from the stage,
and Joe Jefferson is said to prefer his
easel to the footlights.
Gerster, the new operate star, now
under engagement to Mapleson, of Lon
don, has, it is said, taken the great Eng.
lish metropolis by storm.
Mr.. William J. Florence, the actor, has
been turning his vacation to advantage
by rescuing a lady aud her two children
from drowning at Coney island.
A Cape May correspondent says that
last Sunday, at St. Johns church, Lolita
was the only really tastelully and mod.
eStly dressed lady uader thirty in the
church.
The fall variety business in New York
and elsewhere is likely to be overdone.
Between new plays and unframed actors
who pay for the privilege of appearance
the stage is overloaded.
Lawrence Barrett commences the sea.
son at Toronto on the Sd of September.
Mr.. Jos. Brooks, manager Of the Mem.
phis TheAter the past three seasons, will
act in the capacity Of business manager
for Mr.. Barrett.
John Brougham, the veteran actor,
will retire from the American stage this
year, and after g brief tour in Great
Britain, returns to America to make a
book that will cover bis "reminiscences of
stage experience.
M. Fiotow is just completing a new
opera entitled, THE Musicians" of
which Mozart is the hero. NJ. Flotow
has worked on a German libretto. The
composer Of Martha is also writing an
Italian opera entitled S~acountala.
Blind Tom is now in New York under
the tutelage of Mr.. Joseph Fozuanski, a
well-known musical professor, and is said
to be improving marvelously. His won.
deriul gift appears to increase ss he
grows older. OF course he continues to
learn everything by ear.
Mile KAT ka, a ~well.known Austrian
actress, has met with D terrible accident
at Gleichenberg. She was discovered
senseless and irightfully injured at the
foot OF a precipice in the neighborhood
of the village, under circumstances lead,
ing to suspicion of foul play.
Theodore Thomas is evidently making
an earnest endeavor 10 popularize CLASH.
cal music in the West. The best people
OF the biggest cities of that section have
heard him, and yet he is not peculiarly
successful, Hotels are fearful absorb.
ents of the wages of peripatetic wan
derers.
Mrs. Oates is seriously thinking of
abandoning her proposed trip to Paris.
She has been offered so many advanta-
geous engagements, owing to the sudden
and unlocked for departure of Soldene
from this country, that she thinks it
would be more profitable for her to stay
at home. 1t is hardly complimentary
to Mrs. Oates, however.
On the LIST of October next the Mem.
pbis ThOater will be opened up for the
season under the management of Mr..
Rickaby, a well known and successful
theatrical troupe manager. The theater
will be reftted and improved. The man
agement that a fine list Of
sterling attractions has been secured for
the next season, which, it is expected,
will be of n~nnsnal h~rilliannu Shnnlh