Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-07-16
New York, to be followed by Gilbert ard
Sullivan's new opera The Princess.

New York, to be followed by Gilbert ard
Sullivan's new opera The PiBcess.
The managers are coming home from Eu-
rope, and the season will open even earlier
this year than it did last year.
Mrs. Langtry will play at the Fifth Avenue
Theater, New York, which opens September
18th with Aimee, in Disoreors.
The Union Square opens July 21st, with
The Black Flag, in which Ned Thorne and
Nat Goodwin will appear as the s;ars.
The South didn't fancy that conceited
fraud, Oscar Wilde, at all, though his trip
South was, it is said, financially successful.
The financial success of The Merry War
at the New York Germania Theater g un.
precedented in the history of midsummer
theatricals, the receipts last week averaging
over $1,000 performance.
W. Herbert will be the new leading man
at Wallack's, New York, and makes his first
appearance in Taken from Life, in September,
and Kyrle Bellew at the Union Square in
the new play by Charles Reade and Henry
Pettitt.
Tue foreign attractions to be offered this
year will include Salvini Rhea, Ristori,
Modjeska, the London Gaiety Troupe, headed
by Nellie Farren, Charles Wyndham and the
London Criterion Company, Mrs. Langtry,
Nilsson in concert and Patti in italian opera.
Only FIVE theaters remain open in New
York, and the weather cold enough all last
week to wear overcoat, and cold enough
also for all the summer hotels, excursion
boats and beaches, as well as the managers
of the sealed-up theaters, to get very badly
left.
John I. Raymond will begin his season at
the Park Theater, Boston, in August. in the
| new csmedy written for him by Brander
Matthews and n. c. Bunner, and entitled
Touch and Go. The humor of the name is
| obvious, while that of the comedy remains
| to be seen.
Mysterious paragraphs are fitting through
| the country about Miss Anderson, her Lon
don engagement and the New Jersey yacht.
But she will not play in the City of Masts.
Troy, R4nsselser county, New York, is her
professional destination; for her season will
| open there in September, and some new light
and shade will be cast upon the amiable
Franco-Scottish monarch, "Mary Stuart"
The FIRST round of applause that John Nc
| Cullough ever received wss in 1857, at the
| Arch Street Theater, Philadelphia. He
| played the boy who was to deliver to Caesar"
| a warning, and when he knelt at the en-
peror's feet and besought him to read the
paper, which he would not do, McCullough's
earnestness so impressed everybody that he
got strong round of applause, and was
called out With the big fellows at the end of
| the effect. He got 81 per week then.
Esme1alda will be played all summer at
the Madison Square Theater and allowed to
complete q run of an entire year. 1t is
probable that the management have made q
good deal of money on this play; but whether
they have or not, Frohman's experience with
Hazel Kirke has taught him that years ruu
at the Madison Square Theater ia guaran-
, tee of torture for the piece in the prov
inces. The next play destined to run year
at this house, Whether or No, is Bronson
Howard'e new American comedy to be pro-
duced in October.
The London correspondent of the Paris
Figaro says of Mr.. E. Brooks Scovello: 'For
the first time heard at Nine. Marie Roze-
Mapleson's Siguor Scovello. who had been
known to me previously only in connection
with charitable enterprises. Unlike many
of his brother tenors, this American Capoul
sings with exquisite taste and possesses
young and fresh voice, for which he does
not strain either on the .op of his head or in
the heels of his boots Signor Scovello will
next Sunday be heard by the Prince of
Wales. He is an artist OF great future, and
it Is well to bear his name in mind from this
out"
Wallack's new theater will open for the
preliminary season under the management
of Theodore Mess for a season of spectacular
opera on August LIST. The Queens Lace
Handkerchief, companion opera TO The Merry
War, and also by Johann Strauss, will be
presented as a brilliant spectacle, and with
star cast headed by Nine. Selma Dolaro
The scene of the opera is laid at the court |
of Portugal, and founded on incidents in the |
life of Cervantes, that author and his two |
great creations. "Don Quixote" and "Sancho !
Panza," appearing among the dranlatis per-
soma. The music is in the best style OF the |
waltz king, and it should achieve a success |
equal TO that of The Merry War.