Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-10-15
AND MUSICAL.


10 and through Australia together.
Robson & Crane commence a four
weeks engagement in New York on
Monday next.
Joseph Jefferson is to play at Louis
vile three nights of next week, but
don't come here.
The "Child ofthe State" party, to
play here the 7th Of next month, is in
the South at present.
A thousand dollar prize is offered
for some n to write a frozen opera
about the Arctic regions.
Lawrence Barrett and Edwin Booth
r to appear together in "0thello''
for the benefit of the Michigan suffer-
ers.
Milton Mobiles has a new play called
Interviews" and he opened the
theatrical season at Vicksburg with it
last Monday.
Emma Abbott's revised dresses for
the purified "La Traviata" are
described as being pure in tint and
chaste in design"
The Abbott Opera Troupe close
their second week at the Grand Opera
House, New York, this evening. The
attendance has been large.
Audrau, the author of "Olivetts"
and "Mascotte." has a new opera en-
titled the Snake ChSrmer," aud it
will shortly be presented in New York.
Patti, at the imperial concerts at
the Tuielreis, during the reign OF
Napoleon III, is said to received 5000
a night, Nilsson $3.50 and ROze 500
Clara Louise Kellogg appeared IN
concert at Philadelphia last Monday,
and on Tuesday at Brooklyn. Brig
noli and Tagliapietra are in her com
pany.
Franz LISTS condition excites grave
apprehensions. 1t is feared that he
has dropsy Of a very dangerous kind.
His 10th birthday occurred on the
18th inst.
Edouins Sparks and Joseph Murphy
are to play at Cincinnati next week.
Theatrical matters in that city are
suffering from reaction after the late
boom in this line.
'Saml of POsen" is in New
Orleans this week and comes here the
last days of December. Fred Warde
is playing through Illinois towns and
is to be here the third of next month.
Barrett has been playing this week
at the Fifth Avenue, New York, thea
ter, appearing in Hamlet, ""0thello,'
"Yorick's Love" Merchant of Ven
ice" David Garriok," and Julius
Cesar"
"Ohl What a Beauty" is the name Of
a comic song which Gus Williams
sings in Wanted a Carpenter" Agent
John Robb has been sending various
friends in this city a copy of the
beautiful composition.
Most Of the lighter plays on the
modern stage are lightened up by vocal
music, SO that chorus singers are in
active demand and difficult to secure.
Yet their pay is about one-third less
thanit was FIVE years ago.
The Mapleson Opera troupe open in
New York next Monday, presenting
Wagner's "Lohengrin," with the fol.
lowing cast: Lohengrin. Signor Cam
panini; Telramondo, Signor Galassii
Federico, Signor Novara; L'Araldo,
Signor Mont; Ortruda, Mile. Glenn
erie Kalas, Elsa, Miss Minnie Hsuk.
Last Monday night the Comley
Barton opera troupe rendered
"0thello" in music at the Windsor
Theater, New York; Wallack played
ours" in Brooklyn; Sol Smith Rus
sell appeared in "Edgewood Folks
same city; the one-thousanth perform
ance of Hazel Kirke" was celebrate,
and Rossi acted Romeo" in Boston
Edwin Booths engagement, whic'
began two weeks ago, at New York, i
the theater which bears his name, j
20 play there through the presen
month. He opened with "Richelieu,
and when he appeared on the stage b
was greeted with rounds of applaus,
and it was some minutes before b
could go on with the play. NJ
Booths acting is always very fine, bJ
/ his support is reported not all tht
6 cOzld be desired.
"The Planters Wife," in whiC
, Miss Charlotte Thompson is to apes
! next Monday night, is said to be
!, de lightful romance, founded upC
&C tual experience in real life.
+ abounds in strong dramatic situation
/, and thrilling incidents, and is pure
American, a true reflex Of society
8 our own time, SO it is claimed. Cha
e lOtte Thompson is a most accou
plisned actress, handsome, pleasir
0 and experienced, aud she never fai
I to invest her representations wi
e interest and render them impressiy
The 4O0th performance of "Forg
Me Not" by Genevieve Ward, Y
given at the Union Square Theat,
u New York, on the 9th inst, the c
a tire proceeds being for the Michig
sufferers. The cast Of the play v
Miss Ward al Sfenhanie Marnui