Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-21
THEATRICAL t


Frakn Mayo is home from Europe,
aud j. X. Emmett is under way.
Mary Anderson opens her season
at Syracuse, New York, on the 10Th
proximo.
Grau's French opera troupe will
open at the Standard, New York, on
the 18th prox.
1t is announced that the Abbott
opera troupe will open their season at
Leadyille, Col.
Sol Smith Russell, the comedian,
appears Monday next at Abbey Park
theater, New York.
Sara Bernhardt will sail for this
country on the 10th of October. She
will not appear here until March.
Mr.. John Mccullough, Mr.. Z. A.
Sothern and MIR. and Mrs. j. X. EN-
NETT arrived in New York from Eu-
rope a few days ago.
Theodore Thomas, it is said, will
travel through the country with his
orchester next season, accompanied
by Wilhelmj, the violinist, and Joseffy
the pianist.
Nine. Gerster, the prima donna,
will sail for this country with Maple
son, her manager, on the 10th of Sep
TENDER, to be followed by the whole
opera troupe by the City of Chester on
the Both.
The actor, Raymond, opens at
Pope's theater, st. Louis, on the 18th
of September. He created a good
personal impression in London, but his
play was set down as "Deuced stupid,
you know"
Miss Rose Eytinge will star through
the country under the management of
Mr.. H. j. Sargent, filling, in many
places, the dates made for Nine, Mod
jeska, who will not return to this coun-
try this season.
Jenny Lind, who left the stage in
1860, is still hale and hearty. As
Madame Otto Goldsmith she is a
worthy looking and somewhat stout
lady, with white hair. She will be
50 years old in October.
The Huntley Combination, with
" Black Diamonds and Our Boys "
are to open the Masonic theater, Nash
vile, on the Sd of October. This
troupe expect 20 visit Key West and
the Bermudas during the winter.
The Miles Juvenile troupe, now at
Cincinnati and to perform here early
in the coming amusement season, 60
to Lexington, KY, shortly; thence
tour it through the south, by way OF.
New Orleans to Texas, until after the
presidential election.
The Abbott opera troupe will be
bad for unmarried young men this
season. The welded pairs of the COM
pany include Mr.. and Mrs. Wetherel
|(Abbott), MIR. and Mrs. Wallace (Se-
guin), Mr.. and Mrs. Castle, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ryse and others in matrimony
bound.
The Grand Opera house, Nashville,
is to be under the management, this
coming season, of Mr.. w. A. Sheetz,
for several years past in the music
trade of that city. Mr.. James S. Hut
ton is at work painting new scenery
for the theater, and some Of the best
travelling companies are engaged to
play there.
Theodore Thomas, since he re.
turned from Europe, has been inter
viewed, and says he intends to make
New York his future home. His va
rying experiences about the world
pleasant and otherwise, induces the
opinion that New York is more con-
genial to him than elsewhere, and he
desires to stay in it.
Junius Brutus Booth, the father of
Edwin, John Wilkes Booth, and J.B.
jr., died in 1852 on board Of the
steamer j. s. Chenowith, a short dis
lance below Louisville, while on the
passage from New Orleans, where he
closed his dramatic career at the st.
Charles theater as Sir Edward Morti-
mer, in the Iron Chest and John
Lump in the after piece.
Joseph Jefferson, actor, artist, agri-
culturist, and once a sign painter in
this city, during his recent vacation
among the Vermont pastures, has Sc.
lected a fine herd OF Shorthorn cattle
for his Louisiana farm. He resumes
acting at Philadelphia on the 18th Of
September, opening for three weeks
at the Arch street theater,
The Emma Abbott English opera
troupe have been rehearsing a version
of GOunod's "Mireille," which will be
produced under the title of "The
Lovers Pilgrimage" The east will
include Miss Abbott, Mrs. Rosewald.
Mrs. Zelda Seguin, Sig. Brignoli, and
Mr.. Lithgrow James, an English bari
tcne singer, who has just been added
to the troupe.
Lawrence Barrett opens his season
at Detroit, Michigan, September 18th.
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dianapolis the week of 9th, and plays
at Hooley's theater, Chicago, October
4th. Mr.. Barrett makes his appear
ance in New York-after an absence
Of several years in the Park theater
December 20. "Yorick's Love will
be the feature of this engagement,
Blanche Chapman Ford, Ella Chap
man, Emma Hall, Marion TAYLOR.
Robert Denham, Robert Slayin, Ghas.
Scheffer, +. M. Willis, W. w. Furst,
Morgan Sherwood and +. 7. Connely,
are members of a new combination
"Ford's jolly Masqueraders,
who will play a farcical comedy called
I" Franks under the management of.
ii. Clay Ford and George Denham.
Lillian Adelaide Nelson, from the
time she first appeared in public at
the Theater Royal, Margate, England,
1854 when she was TX yaors LII