Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-10-16

Sgmours dramatic troupe closed a
weeks engagement at Mason. Tenn.
last Saturday, and the Call saws
MeSSrs Seymour and Pike arc good
actors, while Mrs, Pike cannot be ex.
celled by any actress travelling in the
interior. The players drew good
audiences.
II is claimed that Jno. McCullough,
during his present Chicago engage.
ment, played to the largest week
business ever done in that city. He
claims that it is the GROWING success
Of bis lite. Chicago appears to have
gone halt crazy over the great actor,
and hundreds have been turned away
nights unable TO gain admission.
Charles Wyndham, who played
genteol comedy here some eight years
since, and who first presented the
military play Ours" is now success
fully managing the Criterion theater
in London. Boucicault was playing
Forbidden Fruit" at the Royal
Adelphi two weeks ago, and the
Mighty Dollar was going on at the
Gaiety with great success.
Every nook was crowded in the
Philadelphia academy of music last
Monday, when Etelka Gerster, Nile
Belooca, Signor Arditi, Teresa C%areno,
Signor LazEcrino and others gave a
concert Gerster was recalled so often
that she was obliged 20 sing eight
selections during the evening. She is
pronounced the best since Jenny Lind
especially in the aria from Somnam-
bula, All Non credia."
Modjeska is playing with immense
success IN London, and her recent en-
gAgement at the Alexandria theater,
Liverpool, was a perfect ovation, her
Juliet aud "Adrienne Lecouvre''
being highly praised. She claims in
the suit for $50, 400 damages brough'
against her for breach of contract bt
sargent, that he failed to provide he'
with engagements, and that Sargent
him'elf broke the contract,
Speaking of Bin ,i in tie 'b-
bott troupe, a letter writer says "He
moves very ginsrrly among our con
sonants aud dip hongs, not daring Ia
travel trlppingly on the tongue, but
his enunciation is fairly distinct and
be astonlsnes even the old artists By
the ready manner in which no has
adapted himself to bis new associa.
%tions." The Abbott c. mpany are do.
ing well and are moving southwark
The op.r of Lucia di Hammer
moor with Etelka Gerster in tn,
title role will be presented at tn,
New York academy on Mapleson'I
opening uight next Monday. 81;
la orita" will he pivsn Wednesda,
next, with Anna Louise Carey q
'Leonora' and Campanini as Fer
nando. Ga Fiiu,y Faust will /,
pre- 1ented with Mile. Valera a
IN rguerite.' The season promise
to b very successful.
The new opera house to be erecte,
Ia New York, at the corner of Forty
third and Madison avenue, is to from
200 feet on the latter and extend rear
ward 1870 feet and 10 feet high. |
will be of pressed brick with terri.
Gotta trimmings, and its capacity viii
he for over 1900 people there bein.
ITO boxes, with room for 5 persons il
each, 788 seats in parquette, $50 in tn.
balcony and 1870 in the gallery. TIL.
main entrance is to be on Forty thirt
street.
During the past week in New YorI
the theater attractions have been W
Z. Sheridan in the Dukes Motto
at Niblo's; Grau's travelling operate
company in "Mignon" and other on
eras at HayerIy's Bro, klyn theater
Ada Cayendish at the Park theater
Brooklyn; Mr.. and Mrs. George S
Knight at tho Grand Opera House
the new opera "Deseret' at Haverly'
New York theater; the spectacle O
Cinderella at Booth s; Kate ClaxtoI
as Pauyrette in B~oucicaults; th
Snow Flower, a French adaptation
and several minor attractions.