Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-04-14

pVSSA HdiuSu w imam b~hoAopcdlC, VIM
is rising into public favor.
Robson and Crane were at the st.
Louis Olympic last week, and Kate
Claxton played at DeBar's.
Mary Anderson plays this week in
Brooklyn, and the first week Of next
month she appears in Toronto.
A string Of paste diamonds, a thief
and a scream, are all that are neces-
sary to make a good actress nowadays.
The Comedy of Errors, by Robson
and Crane, has been the leading at
traction at st. Louis for several days
past.
AT Hayerly's Lyceum Theater, New
York, the Alice Oates troupe have
been running lie Petit Due all the
past week.
Eliza Weathersby's troupe Of frol-
icers have been performing at Pixies
Opera House, Cincinnati, and closed
there Saturday.
A series Of twelve portraits of Ed
win Booth, representing him in his
several characters, is in course of
painting by an Eastern artist.
Kate Claxton's play Of the Double
Marriage is pronounced a dreary affair
by the St. Louis people, and Kate her
self is regarded as a doleful actress by
the same authority.
A Portland critic saw Barrett in the
Man O. Airlie, and says he gave " a
beautiful rendition of the simple, gen.
erous- hearted Dutchman. His dialect
is we'll nigh perfect"
A son of Gounod, the author of
and a painter, is about to marry
Mile Garland. a fresco painter Of
celebrity and a very beautiful woman,
who will bring a handsome dowry.
Lolita set fire to her window curtains
at the Pacific Hotel in Chicago, a few
days since, by treading on a match
The story got out that the curtain
blew against Lotta's hair, but it wasn't
so.
Joseph Jefferson performs Rip Van
Wrinkle at the Broad Street Theater,
Philadelphia, all of this week. Dur
ing his engagement Sheridan's Rivals
and other English comedies will be
presented.
-Four companies continue to run
Pinafore in Philadelphia. A few days
since there were seven, but the others
have gone into the interior. In New
York four companies are playing it
and in Boston three.
A company, which includes Gene
We've Rogers, Katharine Rogers, and
others of equal merit, has been started
through the country by Henry Abbey
to play Gilbert's keen and merrily
delightful satire, Engaged.
Hearing that H. NJ. S. Pinafore was
coming, an enterprising pilot at New
Port, r. l., put to sea in order to steel
the ship into port, and thus secured q
handsome fee. He has hardly evei
referred to the matter since.
The farewell concert Of Etelka
Gerster, aided by c. Fritsch, the tenor
and S. B. Mills, the pianist, was given
at Steinway Hall, New York, las
Thursday. The renowned songstres;
is now under way for Europe.
Mile Marco, the daughter of the
late Mark Smith, has had trouble with
Strakosch. She was engaged at $500
per week, and he has been trying t
cut her down to about 800 becaus,
she lost her voice for a period.
The Aimee troupe opened at Booth
New Ysrk Theater Saturday unde,
Henry Abbey's management anC
Maurice Grau's French company
Charles Reade, the novelist, has
damage suit for $500 pending agains
Kate Claxton in New York, which
will come up in May. 1t is a CLAIM
for allowing her to play the Doubl,
Marriage. Kate was playing at st
Louis last week.
A peeping lawyer looked over the
transom of Kate Claxton's room a
Sedalia, Mo, a few days since. Steven
son, who is Hates husband, caugh
him at it, toyed with him a while anC
made the most magnificent ruin eve
seen in those parts. Stevenson seem
to be a regular bruiscr when he get
his mad up.
In a recent passage from the Yves
Indies to South America the steame
Acadia encountered . storm In whicI
it became necessary TO throw over
board lot Of circus Wagons and plum
der; also kill twelve trained horse,
the property Of John II Murray. Tn.
latter a few days since attached th
steamer at New York, claiming S25,
600, and that bis loss was caused b
the improper storage Of fuel, whicI