Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-18
ANusYNLENTs

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liamsonl will appear at the Memphis
Theater Monday evening and during
the week, and present their phenom-
email successes, Struck Oil and the
Chinese Question. The first named
drama is purely American, and has
been performed by these artists in all
the principal English-speaking cities
of the wsrld with a success, pecunia-
rilyand artistic, almost unprecedented
in the annals O the drama. The play
is said to be the very best of its char
aoter ever produced, in the plot of
which pathos and humor are skilfully
interviewer, with interesting and strik-
ing dramatic situations. 1t is said TO
be pathetic without being namby PAM
by, and funny without being vulgar.
Mr.. j. C. Williamson has succeeded
in the difficult task ofmaking a Dutch
character bear the weight of a three
act drama. His Improvisation of an
honest, simple Pennsylvania German
is said to be of a superior character and
full of6ne feeling and humor. There
is no imitation Of the many German
dialectic dramas usually presented
in these days of second-class variety
stars, but is of the Rip Van Wrinkle
order without Rips" vulsarity. Mr..
Williamson's d~elineations are said to
be Of a high order of art, depending
solely upon the correct portrayal Of a
realistic character for success. Miss
Maggie Moore, who assumes the char
acter of Lizzie Stofel," is a young
and brilliant artist, celebrated for her
charmingdelineation ofdialect eharac-
ters, is a cultivated musician with an
excellent voice, and intersperses the
performance with a number of origi-
nal vocal selections, written and
adapted especially for her by G.. w.
Hunt, of London. Miss Moore has
the reputation Of being not only very
superior actress but a charming vocal
list and dancer. Struck Oil will be
produced with entirely new and APP
propriate scenery, painted expressly
for this play by Harry Buhler.
The Chinese Question, as pre-
sented by this company, is an original
bagatelle, written expressly for these
artistes. Mr.. Williamson appears in
this play as a butcher boy known
to the Pacific coast as a hoodlum) and
as a full-Aedged celestial, his makeup
and acting of a Chinese being pro-
nounced by competent critics the only
near approach to a representation Of
these strange people ever seen on the
stage. Miss Moore successfully i'm
personates an IRISH servant girl and a
Chinese woman, and during the action
of the play will give their audiences
unadultrated doses of Chinese opera.
The play of the Chinese Question is
said to be the most boistriOus and
mirth provoking bit of acting known
to the American stage. We predict
for the Williamsons a success COM
mensurate with their high reputation.
Charley Fish, bareback rider, is
with a circus in Cuba.
Tony Pastor will put a splendid
variety troupe on the road in April.
Kate Claxton has given up the man
agement of the Lyceum Theater,
New York.
Cool Burgess, the minstrel perform
er, has returned from England. He
is playing at Tony Pastors, New York.
The papers are beginning to advise
Jefferson to hang up that Catskill fell
lar three or four years. The people
have about enough of Rip for the
present.
A New York manager, on Christmas
night, when the indignant star -
complained that the musicians were
all drunk, replied: well, didn't the
contract call for a full orchestra? ~
Mrs. Edwin Adams has granted to
John w. Albaugh the right to play
Enoch Arden, her late husbands
piece, in Baltimore and Albany only.
She presented him with Mr.. Adams
costumes worn in that character.
Tony Pastor recently drew a grand
piano at the new St. Patrick Catholic
Fair, but no stool accompanied it. On
January 4 a number of gentlemen,
members Of the Criterion Club, pre-
scented him with a piano stool made Of
solid rosewood, beautifully carved and
inlaid with pearl, as an acknowledge
ment of the interest Mr., Pastor has
taken in the musical affairs of the
club .-[Clipper.
A number of persons in Boston, in
GLIDING the Rev. w. H.. IL. Murray,
the Rev. S. X. Lothrop, the Rev. c.
A. Partol and the Rev, w. W. New
ton, have rendered a complimentary
benefit to Mr.. Joseph Proctor as a
proof of their appreciation of his
noble efforts and se~lf-sacriico in be.
half Off pure and elevated stage, as
evidenced by the production of the
beautiful biblical drama. Saul or the