Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-06
DRAMATIC.

! M.
Emma Abbot's new tenor Fabfini,
Is reported 10 be excellent in oratorio
music.
Geo. Morton, well known here in
years gone by is now playing in The
World, ut Chicago. -
A new Uncle Toms Cabin" party
are to have Ave southern blood hounds
and seven other dogs.
More than two hundred musical
and dramatic companies are organic.
ing to travel during the ensuing
season.
Mines Levick who was with Mary
Anderson's company last season, is to
support Edwin Booth the ensuing fall
and winter.
The Hanlon brothers sail for this
country on the 18th of August,
and open at the Park theater New
York, on the 18th of September.
Nine. Gerster is to arrive in this
country next December, opening at
the New Orleans Opera House, which
Max Strakosch will run for eight
weeks. -
The profits of last seasons dramatic
business kept many managers busy fol-
some days after the close to sum up,
and a large number are sanguine OIL
equally gratifying returns during the
ensuing season.
Several theaters were opened in
Northern cities last Monday, more
will ring up the curtain next Monday
still more a week later and by the
middle OF next month ever so many
will be in full blast.
Blanche De Bar, who went t. school
here in her youth, is now play.
ing the leading feminine part.in "The
World, " at the Walnut street theater
Philadelphia. The piece is to run
there for four weeks.
Pictures of THE World" drama
by three authors, are hung upon the
outer walls about our city. 1t is ex-
Dected that the piece when presented
mere in the early fall will command
unusual attention and public favor, as
it is idll of striking and picturesque
effects.
| Theodore Thomas, with a strong
instrumental battalion, will commence
series of six classical concerts at Gin
cinnati, on the 10Th inst. Thomas ha:
for twenty years been fighting the
battle Of high art, and has done little
towards cOnquering the crude ignor-
ance Of the American people, by stuff.
fling them with strong diet of Beet.
hoven, Listz and Wagner. Max Mar.
etzek, on the other hand, is just now
delighting even Cincinnati's cultured
citizens with operatic music, thing
he has been an acknowledged leader o.
for more than thirty years.
The Eighth street theater opened
in Philadelphia last Monday night
with Little Emily" ..om Charlie,
Dickens David Copperfeld the scenery
for the piece being beautiful and The
acting clever. There was fine audi
ence. The Walnut street theatel
opened the same night with 9Th,
World, in five acts and eight tab
leaux, and despite the very warn
weather the house was packed tC
witness the sensational and realistic
drama The plot of THE World" i,
highly sensational. and The scenery
gorgeous illustrations of mechanical
skill.
An Inauguration ceremony OF a lif,
bust of the late Jacques 0fIenbach wa
was held at st. Germani, Paris, last
Friday evening. Thirty celebrities
sat down to a table on the occasion
among them being Victorien Sardou
Ludlow Halevy, Henri Mailhac anC
other prominent autbt.s, painters
lawyers and composers. Selection
from Offenbach's operas were played
with spirit by the band Of regimen
Of chasseurs, and late in the evening
the company gathered around thu
bust while the band played the famil
lar quadrille from "0rphee." Tn,
gardens were brilliantly illuminated
with BENGAL lights and Chinese Ian
terms. The bust stands beneath
leafy apple tree facing the window Of
the rooms occupied by 0ffenbacl
shortly before his oeath, and where b,
compt cd lies Centes d'Hoffnann.