Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-10
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

hImee ~ "aFOluB al the fark Inca.
ter, New York.
The Exiles will be withdrawn from
New York theeters this week.
The Hess English Opera Company
will begin an engagement at the Union
Square Theater next Monday.
The Meyerbeer prize of 9225 a year,
left by the composer by will, has this
year not been awarded, no candidate
having been worthy OF it,
Montague has maSe a great hit in the
play OF Diplomacy, now being performed
at Wallack's Theater, New York. 1t ia
his intention to star " with it.
1t is intimated that Miss Nelson. who
10 now In London, is suffering with dis
ease OF the heart, which may compel her
long retirement from active professional
labor.
HJ. Byron's latest burlesuue. II Som.
nambula and Lively Little Aiessio. ia
sald TO be as much a parody on Wiikie
Collins novel of THE Moonstone" as
on BelliDi's opera.
Last Wednesday, in Newark. in tbe
case Of lsadora Martinez. prima donna
against c. D Hess, an attachment was
gwen the plaintiff. and Mr.. Hess com
promised for $l05.
Joan I. Raymond, after a general suc.
oesstul season, leaves with his wife.
Marie Gordon, for Europe, on NAV 10th.
~ 10 not yet certain whether he will play
Colonel Sellers in England.
Mr.. Rowe's new play, The Scatterlv
Jewels, produced last Monday night at
the Boston Museum, was received with
abundant marks of public favor, and il
IS cordially commended ia Boston
papers.
The ten Official orchestral concerts at
the Paris Exhibition will commence
June LIST. The chamber concerts will be
given on Fridays, from June 9th. In
all cases all are exclusively French ar.
lists and music.
Dramatic composition in Hungary is
evidently at a low ebb. The Hungarian
Academy recently offered a prize for the
best tragedy in the national tongue. but
the thirteen works sent in for competi.
ton were so poor that the prize had to
De awarded to the least bad"
John 7. Ford, of Baltimore, is said to
have made $40 900 this year from his
theatrical management. Mr.. Abbey il
ahead about the same amount. The
Union Square people are likewise in high
feather, and Wallack has made enough
to run a yacht, a country and city house
and give splendid dinners ad Iibitum
without drawing on United States bonds.
Sardou, the author of Diplomacy and
many other excellent plays, loves brio a.
brac, and is an amateur of old books
black-letter is his weakness, folios are
his passion. His old chateau at Marty.
several miles from Paris, is filed with
books and all sorts of rare, ancient and
valuable objects. NJ. Sardou is short in
stature and very active. BE talks with
great %volubility, and is ready to meet YOU
on any topic. He is the son of a profes.
sor, and he himself taught history and
mathematics for a pittance before he
found out that his true vocation was to
write plays for a fortune. He almost
reverences Shakespeare, and for Dickens
he has the highest admiration. His
dramas embody the highest social topics
OF the day, because he goes much among
men, and finds himself interested in what
is interesting them.
The following are the whereabouts of
the undermined organizations: Augus.
tin Days company, with Fanny Daven.
port, Oswego and Utica, N. Y; Col
vllle's Folly Company. Baltimore; Frank
b. Aiken's company, with Genevieve
Rogers, Syracuse, 0swego and Utica, N.
7; Union Square Company, of New
York, under Shook & Palmer, Philadel.
phia; Golfers Union Square Company,
jamestown. N Y, Scranton end Pitts.
ton, Pa; Mr.. and Mrs. j. c. Williamson,
Struck Oil, Boston; Jarrett & Pal.
mer's Uncle Toms Cabin troupe.
Philadelphia; Steel Mackaye's Won at
Last company. Waterbury and New
Haven, Conn; Kate Claxton ard com.
pany, Two Orphans, Bay City, Flint and
Port Huron, Mich. Robson & Crane and
company, Our Bachelors, Williamsport
and Harrisburg, Pa ; Robert Fraser's
P~automine troupe, Philadelphia
Herr August Wilhelmj who has bean
engaged by Mr.. Maurice Strakosch for a
concert tour Of the United States during
the coming fall, is considered in Europe
as second to no living violinist. He was
born in l845, in the principally of Mas.
sau Usingen. In respect OF volume of
tone and perfection Of technique HERE
Wilhelmjs playing is not be surpassed.
His repertoire, too, extends beyond the
the limits which the best Of violinists ha.
bitually set themselves, and, in HE rem
dering of Bach, Chopin and Wsgner's
music be is anapproached by any con.
temporary performer. In person Herr
Wilhelmj is very tall, with a mighty
chest, q hand of iron strength, and a
c%ountenance singularly sympathetic and
boyish. He is now in Milan slowly re.
covering from the effects of an attack of
typhoid fever, which overcame him at
the close Of a series Of concerts which
produced an immense impression.
The Memphis Avalanche is one of The