Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-11-04

tree (better know as "Lotta"), the
actress, against B. +. Randall, cotton
broker OF Fall River, for money lent
him for business purposes the Auditor
made an award for the plaintiff Of
Sl7, 600.
1t appears from an allegation made
by Mr.. Harry Pitt, that prominent
New York theaters have a system Of
making double contracts with actors,
one setting forth a large salary which
the actor can use to bolster up his
vanity, another STIMULATING the actual
and much smaller salary which the
actor really draws.
Money Bags" proved. a signal fail
ure at New Orleans. The critic of
the States describes it in the follow
ing: AT 9 O'Clock Annie is bathed
in tears, at 9:l5 she is screaming with
laughter; at $3.50 she is !anting in the
most STACEY fashion at the top Of her
voice, and at 10 o'clock she goes back
TO tears, and SO on. Kate Blooms
berry ditto"
John Mccullough is to play "The
Gladiator" at the Cincinnati Grand
0perahouse to night, and John I.
Raymond succeeds him on Monday.
Taken From Life" at Robinson's is
TO be followed on Monday by THE
Merry War" Robert IDgersoll will
lecture on "Talmagian Theology" at
the Grand Operahouse, Cincinnati, to
morrow evening.
The French opera is to open at New
Orleans for the season on Monday,
with "La Juive,' by Halevy: Tuesday,
"Rieoletto,' by Verdi, will follow, and
on Wednesday La Petite Mariee,'
by Lecocq. The company includes
Touroie, a celebrated and popular
%tenor, and othersofcq merit. James
0'Neill closes with "A Celebrated
Case at Bidwell's Academy tonight,
to be followed by John A. Stevens
Company in "UpknoWn." Marion
Gilmore succeeds my Partner at the
Grand 0perahouse after to. night, and
Jeffreys.L Lewis is to open at the st.
Charles on Monday.
Performances 10 commemorate the
completion of the fftieth year of
William Warren upon the stage oc-
CURED at the Boston Museum last
Saturday. Mr.. Warren, born Novem
Der II, 1872, at Philadelphia, is now
close to the end Of his SEVENTEEN year.
His professional debut was made on
October Il, 1892, at the Arch Street
Theater, as Young Norval, in Homes
tragedy of Douglass Accordingly
he has been for fifty years an actor.
For ~thirty-iye years he has been asso-
ciated with the Boston Museum, and
is respected and beloved by all classes,
The demonstration Of public admira.
ton for him was exceedingly enthusi-
astic. Every seat in the house had
been sold in advance, and, Of course
the theater was crowded. "The He'll
at Law" by Colman, was played il
the afternoon, and Sheridau's great
comedy of School for Scandal wal
played at night. In the former Mr.
Warren acted DIR. Pangloss, in tn,
latter ISir Peter Teazle. His quain.
humor and his dignity and tenderness
together with the beautiful finish o
his art, are eonspicuously shown il
|. these characters.
A letter from New York to tn.
a Philadelphia Ledger Of Tuesday las
SAYS: THE sensation to-day is Patti
The journals, with their customar.
enterprise, lost no time, after she hal
landed from the Servia, in interrogat
t ing her q all sorts of things, but th
artist seems to have borne it all witt
the characteristic bravery of an arts
] who has travelled far and seer much
n In the course of some conversation
in her apartments ct the Winsdor, o.
: her past %successesin the United States
reference was made to the time wheI
D she sang so successfully before tn
e Prince of Wales in the Academy
d Music at Philadelphia, when MIMI
D Patti, with a smile, said she had a
e opportunity recently, while in Londor
OF reminding the Prince of Wales G
that occasion. The Prince said h
- remembered it with great pleasure
Before leaving London Nine. Pat
had an opportunity Of conversing wit
d Mile. Albani; but could not sa
e whether or not she intended to Wis
II the United States next spring. Nine
. Patti also alluded very pleasantly {
d the good health of her sisters, Mn,
Is Strakosch and Mile. Carlotta Patt
e both Of whom she had left in Europ
= Concerning the burning Of the Par
]. Theater, and the resulting disappoin
! ment to Mrs. Langtry, she spoke Of
as a sad misfortune but that 81
ID shuddered at what a tragedy it migl
e, have been had it occurred two
three hours later"