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

Thomas is organizing twelve
ehoruses.
Marie Van zardt has been making
Copenhagen howl,
Bischof, a former well known con
cert tenor now resides at Cleveland,
Ohio.
Mrs. Scott Siddons isexpected from
abroad this week and her time for the
season is all filed.
Baker and Farron, to be here be-
fore the season closes, are now playing
in England and doing well.
A new opera has been written By
WIN. Keppler in New York, entitled
"NOurmahal, or the Feast Of the
Roses"
Fanny Davenport is to continue in
American Girl at Hayerly's Fifth
avenue theater until the end of the
present month.
Pappenheim, while singing re-
Gently at LeiDsiek, broke down and
said she could sing no longer. She
did the same here.
A crowded house attended Maple
sons opera troupe performers on Mon
day right, in New York when Lucia
di Lammermoor" was rendered. Seats
range from 81 so to So each.
Aimee is said to have lost by thea
trical speculations in Brussels and
Paris, nearly a hundred thousand dol
lars and she hopes to recover by
playing through this country again.
The theatrical effects of the late
Charles Fechter, including wigs, cos
tunes, swords. a hundred or more,
and other accOutrements, we're sold at
public cutlery in New York last Fri
day.
Adelina Patti has been taxed out of
her beautiful home in Wales. She
purchased and made expensive i'm
provements on a castle called Craig.y-
nos and finding no contentment sold
out in disgust at a heavy loss.
The Child of the State matinee,
here last Saturday, was the largest
house of the season. Every part Of
the auditorium wa full and standing
room was scarce. The players we're
pleased with their success here.
A musical festival to cost SO of
which amount half is subscribed, is to
be given in the Seventh regiment ar.
moFy, New York, by DR., Damrosch.
next spring. TIE chorus comprises
nearly twelve hundred voices. and
the rebearsals are weekly.
Sara Bernhardt sailed from Havre
for this country last Saturday. Many
of her admirers talked of escorting
her to this country with their yachts,
aud several Psrisian journals will have
correspondents with her during her
tour through this country.
There is now only ore theater in the
country, the Boston museum. where
the old system Of weekly changes o
bill by a stock company is maintained.
All the rest except the few which run
plays for long periods, are given up to
travelling parties. Actors never be-
fore earned their pay so easily.
During the play of"Dayy Crockett"
at Knoxville, Tenn last Friday night.
Mr.. Tannehill made a speech and de.
n0unced a member Of his company for
his impudencein sueing him on a back
salary account. He claimed be was a
Tennesseean and a confederate soldier.
but did not seem to make any friends
oy his incorporate address.
There is no doubt about the sue
cess of Anna Dickinson's new play.
American Girl" from the box Office
point Of view, as we'll as the popular
point, for paying houses have been
drawn in New York ever since il was
first presented by Fanny Davenport.
who will shortly starr through the
country with it. The play is reported
to be entirely unobjectionable. but
the critic have been disputing about
whether the audiences are drawn by
the play, the acting or the dresses.
The bright eyed little beauty and
talented actress. Miss Alice Harrison
isa native Of New York and was
brought up in the theatrical profess
sion. She belongs to the versatile or
der OF players, and is a good card in
anything she may be cast for. being
competent and clever in tragic. pa
thetic or sprightly and eccentric char.
acters. Miss Harrison performed for
several years on the Pacific coast. and
is an established favorite west of the
Rocky mountains. The young gentle
man who plays with her so we'll is her
brother.
In the new comic opera "Deseret."
now performing at New York IS a
taking Indian speech made BY Setting
Hen, one of the characters, which Is
maily a piece of realism. w. A.
Crotfut, the author Of the libretto,
was the editor ola Minneapolis paper
in 1861, and accompanied Governor
Ramsey, now secretary Of war. and
the representative Of the Indian
bureau in a steamboat journey far up
the Minnesota river, where Little
Crow and his band Of Sioux were met
in council. Little Grow made in sub
stance the speech which has been put
into the mouth Of Setting Hen, He
spoke IN earnest tones and without
figure OF speech, for the tribe was half
starved. He began with these words:
Indian heap hungry Indian no grub
since last moonl' In the following
spring ofla82 Little Grow led the hor.
rible massacre in tho Minnesota valley.
Sardou's last play, which failed in.
Paris, was produced at Union Square
theate-, New York, last Friday night,
before a brilliant audience and created
o profound impression. II was iumpt-
uously set, and it is declared 10 be an
exciting intellectual study. The title
is Daniel Rochat,' the leading char,
actor being an atheist and a French
statesman, who marries an American