Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-02
MUSICAL AND

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The usual summer dulluess prevails
in all the theaters of the country, East,
West and South.
Nine Patti and Signor Nicolini
will be the stars Of the opera season at
the Paris Gate.
After a tour in Australia, Carlotta
Patti is to visit this country under
Chizzola's management.
The whole of the Nibelungen Ring
was performed in Vienna during the
last week of last month.
The announcement from some circus
manager of an equestrian Pinafore by
a company of horse marines is now
expected.
1t is reported that Capoul is coming
to this country to sing in Italian ope-
ra with Colonel Mapleson's company
next season.
John Clayton, a we'll known actor,
and the son-in-law of Dion Bouci-
cault, is underway for America to
assist his father at Booths.
Clara Louise Kellogg makes her
r%entree before the London public at
Her Majesties' Theater as aida"
The Radames will be Campanini.
Mime Nilsson and NJ. Faure may
become members of the company of
the Paris Grand Opera. It is also
reported that Nilsson will sing in
Madrid, Spain, next winter.
Charlotte Thompson and George c.
Boniface volunteered and performed
the Bellies S~trategem, at the Union
Square Theater, New York, last Fri
day for the benefit of Mr.. Gouge, its
treasurer.
James Il. Murdoch, the veteran
actor, is to appear at Philadelphia
next October and will play a short
engagement to celebrate the fftieth
anniversary of his coming on the
dramatic stage.
Mr.. Carl Resa's repertory will next
year include such English operas as
" Lohengrin, ~" Aida" " Rienzi, "
" Mlgnon,' Carmen" and other
works, with, possibly, as a special nov
city, the Tanning of the Shrew," of
Herr Herman Goetz. The troupe will
open in Dublin on the 10th of next
month.
Annie Louise Cary and Mile Litta,
the opera singers, were in Jail at Vir-
GINA City, Nevada, recently. They
went there by mistake, while hunting
for the theater in which they were to
sing. Miss Cary is to rest during the
ensuing summer, after singing at two
or three college commandments.
Kate Field calls the Juror created
in London by the French Dramatic
Troupe, from the Coincide Franchise,
of which Sarah Burnhardt is the
head, "a fashionable craze 1t is
said that Bernhardt and her French
company will visit this country next
winter. They have enjoyed a prodi-
gious success in London.
John Mccullough and Mary An
derson performed at Albany, N. Y,
together week before last and met
with cordial favor. Miss Anderson
made her best hits in :" PaIthenia, y
"Evadne" and Julia" Mr.. McCul-
Tough distinguished himself by a per-
! formance of Macbeth" which, in
some respects, was of extraordinary
} excellence.
Busts of the Leubrias have been
suggested as suitable ornaments to fill
the inches near the proscenium at the
Memphis Theater. Done up in Parian
marble, with proper artistic finish, the
audiences could not fail to be properly
inspired, even during a dull perform
ance, while a spirit of earnestness
would Undue the heart of every actor
on the stage. Let us have the busts.
The entire inside of the Masonic
Theater at Nashville is undergoing
changes. 1t is to be enlarged and
q improved SO that it will be one of the
. most comfortable places Of amuse-
ment in the South. The theater is on
! the Davey circuit and will have all Of
/ the attractions hat are engaged to
visit this city. The manager, Mr..
johnson, says the season will be one
of the best hat has been known fol
years.
The Pihafore authors, Gilbert and
Sullivan, have sent an agent to thi'
r country with a view Of arranging tc
send over a special company to play
! the new piece they are now engaged
on. Pinafore paid them nothing OF
this side of the ocean except $500 SEN
a in an honorary way by John 7. Ford
G Of Baltimore. Their agent Is Mr.. r
d. O'Carte, who arrived on the steam
ship Gallia a few days since. He viii
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