Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-12
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

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Edwin Booth is passing the summer
at Saratoga.
Janauschek opens the season at San
Francisco September 1st.
The widely famed New York Bowery
has been turned into a German play
house.
Mrs. B. Macauley, of Louisville, is
to support Lawrence Barrett next
season.
Capoul, the tenor, will arrive from
abroad in September. and is to receive
$1,000 per msnth.
Colville has sold his interest in the
Folly troup for $4,000, Locke, of Cali
fornia, being the purchaser.
Haverly's Lyceum Theater is the
only playhouse now open in New
York city, and it is to run all summex.
Fanny Davenport is preparing to
play the Child Stealer next season.
Florence, her young sister, has quit
opera and goes into dramatics.
Miss Nelson will appear at the Park
Theater, Brooklyn, New York, ON the
18th of October, and her time is filed
in this country until February 30.
1880.
A young brother of Mary Anderson
appeared as stephen" in the Hunch-
back recently at Albany, N. Y, and
was quite successful. He is ahont 10
adopt the stage.
Mary Anderson needs a large.sized
brother or something of the sort. Her
step-father, DR.. Griffin, don't suit her
admirers, the critics, nor any one else
but Mary herself.
The Genevieve Rogers tr9upe will
next season include Harry Rainfortb
and Owen Faucett, comedians. and
Frank Aiken. The company will play
the Comedy of Errors.
Barrymore, the actor, who was so
badly wounded by the murderer of B.
U: Porter, has been engaged for iuye-
ale characters at Wallack's New York
theater during the ensuing season.
George Fawcett Rowe has written
a new play called Woolfert's Roost.
which will be presented at Wallacks
New York theater August 18th, with
John I. Raymond as "Ichabod
Crane
The Emma Abbott company will
have, besides Miss Abbott herself.
Miss Marie Stone, Miss Zelda Sepuin'
Miss Adelaide Randall, Messrs. Cas-
tie, Tom Karl, Mcdonald. Stoddard
and Edward Seguin.
Charles Pope, the actor and man
ager,, has secured a thirty yea lease
on the Unitarian Church, corner of
Olive and Ninth streets, St Louis. II
IS to be remodeled, will have a new
'front.' and is to he a tirst-class play
house In every respect. The theater
will open in the early fall.
A hearty welcome has been ten-
tered Lester Wallack in San Fran
cisco and during his Western tour.
lie has not commanded a heavy busi-
ness, but in the main it has been ex-
c%ellent, and the comedian has beer
everywhere discussed with
and earnestness.
The Patti combination. under Cb;v-
hola, are to give fly concerts in tbie
country next winter, and then 90 TO
New Zealand, Australia, and on
around the world. The troune will
include Carlotta Patti, Henri Kotten
a Hungarian pianist, Ernest de-
Munck, a noted yi~olencOllist, Oiamni
baritone, and Fortuna, accompaniest.
leading actors and actresses are
summering as follows; Booth. Sara.
toga Mrs. D. p. Bowers, Cane Ann
Ada Cavendish, Black Rock Katb-
crime Rogers, Ella Wilton and Law.
renee RaECtt, Cohasset Sothern anil
Florence, Canada; Lolita MaSs;o
Mitchell and Mary Anderson. LoSS
Branch Dominick Murray, st. Law,
renee river.
Anna Dc BelOoea is 10 be- the coo
tralto OF tho StrakOsch Opera Tronne.
next season, in place of Annie T'o"e
Ssry' The prima donna sonroSo T.
IeTsslna Singer, who recently con
eluded a brilliant engagement r.
Rome Marie L.itta and Mis-
caster will also be in the troupe. The
male meMhers are Petroyicb Lo11e.
rlul Van Formes, Strini and Castal-
ASEy, all artists in the fullest sense.
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