Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-13
THEATRICAL NOTES

The coming prima donna bears the
name of Jenny Lind Jerzykiez.
Ella Wesner is advertised in Lon
don as the idol Of New York"
The Big -Four minstrels begin their
fourth anr1al tour August 25th.
Bandman has gone to Australia to
see how his acting will take there.
Dan Castello's circus was sold out
at auction in Denver, Col, recently.
A Providence theater, in a spirit of
irony, presented Snow Bound" last
week.
Louise Pomeroy goes to Australia,
and after that acts for a season in
London.
Wilhelm is going to Europe, and it
is hoped he will curtail his j" while
over there.
When Bernhardt leaves Paris, wo-
men of decided embonpoint are to be
fashionable there.
Frank Mayo has bought BARLEY
Campbell's THE Virginian" for TWEEN
ty-fve hundred dollars.
Barnum's greatest show on earth is
to visit the leading towns in Central
Arkansas during October.
Miss Annie Pixley, whose residence
is now at Port Stanley, Canada, is
convalescing from a serious illness.
Kate Kersands, wife Of Billy Ker-
sands, the colored comedian, died
Of consumption in Louisville the other
day.
Madame Gerster has made a great
hit in "Somnambula" in London. Her
voice is said to be sweeter and richer
than ever.
The wife of NJ. OfFenbaCh is an
English woman, the daughter of a
n~aturalized Englishman who has lived
many years in France.
Sara Bernhardt has a villa at Ste.
Adesse, near Havre, France. She
passed her vacation there, but is now
busy with rehearsals in Paris.
MI. Lawrence Barrett has a new
drama, entitled "Pendragon," written
by Mr.. w. W. Young, and found
ed on one of the legends of King Ar
thur.
An uncontradicted rumor has it
that Alice Oates Watkins is to for
sake comic opera next season, and be
the bright, particular star of melange
called Long Branch"
Robson and Crane will be support.
ed next season by the following COM
pany; A. S. Lipman, r. j. Dillon,
John Marble, f. M. Burbeck, Miss
Agnes Proctor, Alicia Robson, Nellie
Boyd and Mary Myers. The season
will open on September 9th, at De-
troit.
The dramatic world has met with a
serious loss this summer. 1t is rarely
that two playwrights so prolific and
able as John Brougham and Tom
Taylor were to die within a year, and
equally prolific Blackstone and blanche
have been called away within a twelve
month.
Over the grave of E. l.. Davenport,
at Forest Hill cemetery, near Boston,
a handsome monument will be raised
in the fall. 1t will represent an oak
ivy grown, and inscribed upon it will
be Our Father, who art in heaven"
the last words spoken by the dead
tragedian.
Mary Anderson was born in Sacra-
mento, California, during July 1859.
Her fathers brother, a resident Of
Louisiana, vouches for the truth oft;
so does her mother. The latter ought
to know, and the other says he does.
Yet photographers hint and doubt.
Mary and company will play here
about midwinter.
Old Mrs. Charles Matthews, mother
of the celebrated actor, is related to
have been very juvenile looking until
late in life. A friend of the family
meeting her son one day, and com
menting on the fact, said; by the
way, Charles, how old is your mother?''
well" answered the immitable
Charles, considering, Il hardly know
She must be forty | am th~irty-nine."
The Oldest prima donna now living
is the once famous Kitty Stephens,
who, after thirty-one years upon the
operate stage, became the second
wife of the fifth earl Of Essex and re-
tired from it. S~ixty-eight years ago
she was bewitchiug Londoners with
her Polly in the "Beggars OPERA at
the Convent Garden theater. She
has lived forty years as dowager coun-
tess of Essex in her dover house at
Belgrave square. Although eighty
six years old, she possesses uncommon
vitality, good spirits and bodily
strength, but threatened with blind