Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-10-20

glri undcr a civil contract the hur-
band thinking the wife will be content
with this, while she exacts a religious
ceremony. The rst two acts ofthe plav
are pronounced slow, and in some
parts ridiculous, especially so where
the marriage proposal is made before
a crowd Of friends. The three last acts
are, however, a great struggle Of love
and passion, u~nflinching RELIGIOUS
iaith and conscientious, hieh-minded
skepticism. One act passes in the
wife's boudoir, TO which the husband
goes unseen at night aud makes every
conceivable appeal to heraffection and
womanly weakness. AT the end tho
marriage is annulled for ineompatibil-
ity Of religion, the scene being in
Switzerland.
Mahlstick in his last letter to the
Courier journal says: The public
has suddenly become very much inter
ested in the play of "Adrienne Lee
%couyreur.' The original French is in
demand, but the translation has the
call. Bernhard opens with this play,
and appears in it four times the first
week, playing "Frou Frou' on Thurs
DAYS and Fridays. 1t is now quite
evident that the Frenchwoman will
create an excitement greater than has
been known in this country since the
triumph of Jenny Lind. The man
ager has an absolutely safe thing as
far as this city goes. The fact that a
man has been found willing to pay
$4,000 for the privilege ofselling the
books Of the play shows that the pub
lie is preparing to take leave of its
wits and do without them as long as
Sara remains
Sarah Bernhardt is now four days
sail from Havre, France, on board of.
the French steamer Amerique, and
should be somewhere near mid-ocean.
On the vessel with herare nine Sisters
Of Charity and four priests. Captain
Joncla, the ships commander. had
her room fitted up with a dainty bed,
p~rettily hung with dark-red curtains
and lace, also a bouquet of blush roses
on the mantle and soft, luxurious rues
on the floor. She was surprised at the
tasty arrangements, and expressed
herself much delighted. Among the
most interesting works of art which
she has with her, is a curious statuotte
of herself which she has lately com
pleted, 1t represents her standing,
amid various symbols of art, in an ex.
tremely close-itting costume. Since
Sarah's trip to London, sho has been.
working heroically at her English.
and mi Of her favorite phrases is from
Shakspeare-"I bite my thumb at
you, always suiting the action to
the word and the word to the action.
The newspapers of Paris have been full
of the minutest details regarding the
fair dlva's departure from France, and
lengthy kilograms are printed in the
New York and other papers concern
ing her movements. All of the seats
for the theater during her twenty
eight nights engagement in New York
will have been sold ere she reaches
our shores. Nothing like it has been
known since Jenny Lind's day.
During the last week in February a
festival ofopera is to be given at the
Cincinnati college of music. The
MaplesOn opera troupe is to be aided
by three hundred voices in the eho-
rus and one hundred musicians. The
largest and most complete stage in the
world is to be filed with scenery to
cost some $4,000. The sopranos in
clude Etslka Gerster. Mile. Valera,
Marie Swift, Blanca Montesini, Mile.
Isadora Martinez, Mile. Valera and
Mile. Lorenzini- Guard. The CON
traltos are Anna Belocca, Anna Louise
Carey, and Mile. Ricci, with all the
noted tenors, baritones and bassos
Mapleson can command. The operas
to be rendered are "Lohengrin."
Moses in Egypt" "Fidelio," ''Me-
fistOfile' and the Magic Flute"
Admission 81 or 81 for reserved seats
and $l2 for seven performances. This
proposed feast of music is on a grand
er scale than was ever before attempt
ed in any western city. The operas
are a series of the largest pieces Of
dramatic music which have ever been
composed, such works as have been
the land marks Of musical art growth,
and the choruses will be five times the
slze OF ordinary opera choruses, while
the orchestra will be much greater
than any heretofore used in this coun-
try.