Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-01-29
AMUsEMESfs.


Ms Okfgs nj CoAIo 0PERA Mrs.
Oates and her excellent comic opera
company will appear At the Memphis
Theater this evening, the opening piece
being La Jolis Par'umeuse. Giroa
Giroia will be given at the matinee to-
morrow afternoon, aud the Princess of
Trebizoade at night. La Perichole will
be rendered Thursday night, which will
be the last appearance here Of Mrs.
Oates. There will ba full houses at
every opera. Lose no time 10 securing
your seats.
MRS. HASFRAU.-Th pleasing actress
plays at the Memphis Theater Friday
evening, Saturday afternoon and Satur.
day night. Mrs Chenfrau. supported by
Tayleure's Dramatic Company, will pre-.
sent Parted Friday night, Miss Mutton
Saturday matinee and Was She Right
Saturday night. The sale of tickets has
already begun.
MISS BLACKS LECTURE TO night a
lecture on temperance for the benefit Of
the orphans will be delivered at the Ger
mar Protestant church by Miss NJ. A.
Black, of Louisville, Ky. We have had
occasion to speak Of this young lady's
talent as a lecturer, and feel assured that
her effort this evening will be one Of un.
usual excellence and interest. we hope
to see a large audience. The lecture be.
gins at 7 o'clock.
Elsewhere.
Sothern is going to publish a book.
Lawrence Barrett is playing in At.
lanta.
Booth has been offered $500 q night to
play in London.
Camilla Urso and troupe are to give a
concert in Louisville next week.
Poor old Ben DeBar's wardrobe and
other theatrical effects we're sold at aue.
ton a day or twa ago at St. Louis. Ben
died poor through his losses of manage.
ment at New Orleans.
A Chicago writer calls Aimee's eyes.
mouth and smile her trademarks. He
elected the fact from her that she will
stay six months in Brazil and then return
to France. Aimee has now sung in opera
bouffe ten years.
Miss Augusta Chambers, a charming
young actress, who recently went out a,
leading lady of Mr.. Daniels Theater in
Desdwood (Black Hills, has, in the time
she has been there, a little over two
months, received 276 offers of marriage.
In one day she received seventeen. List.
ening to them interferes with the time
necessary to study her role.
Mckee Rankin and the managers of
the Chestnut Street Theater, Philsdel-
phia, are fighting in the courts. Rankin
was a member of the stock company last
year, when he purchased Joaquin Miller's
Danites. He bargained TO produce the
play in that theater at the commence.
ment OF the present season, but getting
a chance to bring it out 10 the Broadway
Theater, in New York city, broke bis
contract, Hence a suit for damages.
The largest receipts ever made by one
actor IN one engagement were those Of
Mr.. Edwin Booth, a! the California The
alter, San Francisco, in the fall of 1876.
The gross receipts ia an engagement of
eight weeks we're $lO3 900. The largest
seasons receipts Of any dramatic en-.
gagement we're those of Ristori, S375.-
600, during one hundred and seventy
performances. A feature of that en-.
gagemeht was $1,000 recsipts in three
nights and a matinee, at the Crosby
Opera House, Chicago. TIE largest re-
ceipts of any one night were those of
the Parepa.Wa Stanley ComOiua.
ton, at the Academy of Music, New
York-over $4,000.