Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-07-11
DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL.

clara Louise Kellogg will come
home from Europe next month.
Albani is expected,to sing as Elsa in
"Lohengrin" in Berlin before long.
Madame Jenny Lind Goldsmith is
a London millionaire in her old age.
Mascotte, by the author of Olivette.
is one ofNew York'S summer attrac-
tons.
The operahouse at San Jose, CAL,
worth $4,000, was destroyed by fire
last week.
Genevieve Ward comes homo from
abroad in September, to open at New
York in Forget me not"
L. S. Chanfrau, the original Nose.
nearly forty years ago, will open the
ensuing season at Boston.
The daughter of Buffalo Bill recent
ly won a medal for general improve.
ment at seminary in Omaha.
Madame Menter, new expounder
of List and Rubenstein's music, is
pronounced a hard piano FOUNDER.
The new theater erected by Hav-
erly, at Chicago, is to open with Rob-
son and Crane as the first performers.
Nearly all the summer resorts North
are having open air concerts. Ours
begin at Estival Park tomorrow
evening.
It is said of Anna Dickinson that
if she possessed as much histrionic
talent as persistency she would be a
great actress.
Mains English comic opera troupe,
Of which W. II. Stanley is to be a
part, were playing last week in Prov
idence, r. I.
Edwin Booth is to act in various
cities Of this country next season, en-
gagement commencing at New York
early in the fall.
Emile Melville is to be prima don.
ma of new comic opera troupe next
season, and among the company is
Charles E. Locke.
Alice Dunning Lingard, now in
Europe, will play in this city next sea-
son, appearing as Juliet" Rosa.
lind and Julia"
Arthur Sullivan, the author of
"Pinafore," " and the Duke of Edin-
burgh are sailing the ocean blue in
each others society.
Fannie Davenport and her husband
Edwin II. Pierce, are passing their
vacation at and about their home in
Canton, Pennsylvania.
Our German Senator is to open in a
new play called Kaiser" at Detroit.
next month. He is summcring near
that city in company with several
friends.
Henri Laurent, the English tenor
whose divorced wife was a chorus
singer at New Orleans last season. re-
Gently married Blanche Corelli at
Boston.
Mary Anderson is reputed to be one
of the best horsewomen at Long
Branch. She attracts general atten-
ton when out for an airing along
Ocean avenue.
But two theaters are open in New
York, the Madison Square with the
Professor" and Haverly's with
Samuel of Posen." Boston has also
but two theaters running at present.
Gus Williams, now summerirg near
Detroit, and to open there in new
play called Kaiser" the middle of
next month, cleared nearly $4,000
last season with Our German Sena-
tor"
It is still a question whether or not
Adelina Patti will come to this coun-
try in the fall. Her manager, it is said
has arranged for her appearance at
Boston in November, but she may not
come even if he has.
Howard Speare, advance agent
abroad ofthe Haverly Minstrels, sailed
for Europe last week by the Abysin-
ia, and the troupe, 20 in number, in
Guiding Master Sykes of this city, will
leave New York to day.
Mr.. W. H. Gillette's new farOical
comedy, THE Professor" is now in
the second month of its successful run
at the Madison Square Theater, New
York. The piece, with its original
caste, will be played through the en-
tire country the coming season.
The Abbott Opera Troupe will be
next season by Jean Weth-
erell, the husband of Emma, and two
or three new operas are in preparation
by the company. Mr. Castle has been
so has Pauline Maurel,
the contraltO, and the troupe has been
much strengthened. Brignoli is out
on summer concert tour, in company
with Ferranti and others.
Mary Anderson will have two or
three new plays next season. This
lady was born at Sacramento, Cal.
June %, 1859. Her father died while
she was child, and Mrs Anderson
subsequently married DIR. Hamilton
Griffin, at Louisville, KY. Msry's
first public appearance was in April.
previous to her seventeenth birthday.
Doubling Thomases may smile over
this, butdt is all so,