Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-09
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DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL

Mr.. and Mrs. Florence arrived home
from abroad last week by the Bothnia.
Leavitt's Gigantean Mipstrels
opened the season at Boston last Sat
urday.
Christine Nilsson has been engaged
for tour in this country during the
season of leS2-3by Manager Abbey.
Henry Petit one of the three au
thors of'The World, lis coming to this
country with the Hanlon Lees troupe.
Mr.. Joseph Brooks, the prominent
theatrical manager, is a partner with
his brother 10 the dry goods business
at Helena, Ark.
The one hundredth consecutive per
Torrance Of La Mascotte' is to be
commemorated at the Bijou Opera
house, New York, next Friday.
"Saml Of Posen," after an all
summers run at Haverly's New YORK
theater, will close its seeson next
week. It will come this way before
the W.ntet is over,
Geneyieye Rogers he's been mem
Der ofthe Madison Square, New York
theater company since June last ana
is to make her appearance there in a
new play few weeks hence.
John MCCULLOUGH, the tragedian,
sailed from Queenstown, IrOland, for
this country, last Saturday in the
NArigona, after visit to the "old
sod. p" Geo. Fave cit Rowe and A. NJ {.
Palmer are in the same ship. r
"The Professor" to be out hero
after a while, is still running It's re-.
puneratiEs career at the MeG|.l
sgS1ars (Sew York; Iheater. It Is
nnllgnly spokenr. u by several among us
FbGs saw it while visiting New York,
and it is on our Est for the ensuing
winter season,
Miss Annie Louise Cary hes re
ceiYed at Portland letter from Mr.
Mapleson, urging her to reconsider her
determination not to SING in onera
He wishes her to be one of his com
pany during the coming season. She
Will probably decline.
Miss Jennie Jones, Of this city hes
recently sung in concert at AO7tonand
won high encomiums from her sister
artists for tho superiority Of voice and
exquisite rendition of several operate
arias. She is studying hard to I'm
prove, and expects to come homs in
October.
j. b. StudleY, 4 we'll known New
York ACTOR, and who was leading man
at the st. Charles Theater, New Or
leans, over twenty-five years ago, it is
said will support Mary Anderson the
ensuing season. Mines Les.ck, who
travelled with her last year, will be
with Edwin Booth. sa-
Clara Louise kellogg is again home
after two years absence abroad. She
says she is glad to get back, and is
proud Of Der country sfter seeing so
much of othera, She was received
kindly everywhere but at st. Peters
huTg. At Vienna her audiences
seemed most demonstratiya, recalling
her half dozen or moSs times until it
became wearisoae. A special permit
is required 70 send lyric artist flow.
eya, aud then they are carried behind
the scenes, but tho recipient can csyry
them before and show them 70 the
audience. While sine 'ng Before the
King and Queen Of ltrhy, in Milan,
the royal couple Inquired where she
learned Itabsn, and when she sid
America they said: 1T isn't pc siblelp
She was in St. Petersburg a month
before the Gar YVES killed and all her
mail was opened, supported incendiary
paragraphs being cut out. She found
Paris fllghtfully cold in winter. Miss
kellogg came home TO sing and had
several offers. but is yet undecided
which she will accept, and she thinks
of visiting Europe again next year.