Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-05-21

to Johu G. Richie. who caught it in Amer
lea and was not quarantined al Liverpool, /
as he should have been. The thing has now
got as far az my sister Hannah, who lives
in Savannah, and plays the Pisnnah
Miss Minnie Palmer has decided that 1t Is
wiser to remain in this country and continue
her singing lessons for the present, so that |
her European trip is deferred for the present. |
Mr.. John 4 Rogers will 20 TO Europe in |
stead, sailing May 30th. He has his eye on
an English comedian 10 add TO the company
He has also purchased 4 new play, by l. A
Locke of Boston, which he believes Will give
Miss Palmer better opportunity to exhibit
her talents than anything she has done pre-
viously.
All of the Vokes leave By the Bothnia,
May 31st, except Fred, who remains to look
after his theater, which, by the wsy, is his
venture alone The family wilt return
October Sth, and open the Nokes's Biiou, at
Boston, and then play for four or five months
in only large cities. Mr.. L. H. Warren
Wrights often postponed wedding to Miss
Nokes will take place in England Miss
Mary Bell. now at st. James Hall, London,
will be added to the company next season.
Edwin Booth leaves on the Bothnla also, re-
naming away for fifteen months.
Byrne's synopsis of act one of Chipman's
new play: The time-out-of-miud rural scene.
Father, old sentimental, inGrm and gush.
ipgly sffectionate. Mother, religious, prim,
tiresone and laxative. Son, manly, hdgetty,
ambitious and noble. Daughter, sweet, mu-
cilaginous, pious and clinging. Village
church in background. Considerable talk
about the old homestead. Villain comes in
with mortgage. Scowls and threatens TO
| foreclose. Homestead trembles in its shin
giles. Father weeps. Mother rolls her eyes
| up to heaven. Sister clings in horror. Son
strikes attitude and cries: Father ex-
plain. / demand to know what all this
means"
sit cannot be denied however" says the
1 Times "that the tour of Gerster tins sea-
| son has been far from as successful as was
| anticipated. She received $500 a night, and
| in most of the large cities justified the sal
airy. But the off nights were unsuccessful
| everywhere, though given with such excel
| lent artists as Gianini and Lesllno. 1t Is be-
| lieved that when he balances accounts Mr..
rskosch will be found to have lost moth
| ing. Had it not been for his New Orleans
| season he would have been greatly ahead.
| He lost there over SO 600, but paid in futl,
as usual. This season proves that opera,
without New York reputation TO start it,
will not pay in the country" ''
Byrne says; "Mrs. Langtry,I hear, began
her tour of the British provinces in Brighton
on the let of May, and played there all the
week in Oars, She So0ps 10 Conquer, and other
comedies. The present tour is TO be short
one, and is undertaken chiefly to see how
the English yokels Will turn ont TO gaze
upon the Jersey Lily Ii there are indi-
cations of great success she will continue in
England next season, opening at the Hay
market for brief autumn engagement, and
then taking in the provinces. Otherwise she
| will come TO America under D'Oyiy Carte's
| management. / hear that che opened we'll
| in Brighton, but that business fell off before
II
| painful apprehension that Mrs. Langtry m ay
come over here next season."
Times: "Miss Minnie Madden was intro
duced to a metropolitan audience last Mon
day evening, at the Park Theater, through
the medium of discouraging melodrsma
entitled Foggs Ferry. In spite of trying
difficulties Miss Madden made an impress
sion which few living artists can boast Of
and before the curtain fell and snapped the
thread of the flimsy argument she had indi
vidually made a great success. Miss Mad
dern made her debut as Prince Arthur ii
King John, at Booths Theater, when she wal
ten years of age, and afterward served hel
apprenticeship with. Mr.. Barney McAuley
as Clip when fifteen. This knowledge o.
the stage aided her not a little in giving hel
that complete self-possession with which she
tripped on Monday evening into the affec
tionate intimacy Of a large audience. She
is young Lotta-more graceful, winsopli
and prettier, but che has the same hair, sing
as badly and is as careless Of limb. Will
these peculiarly Lotta-like attributes it i
not rem arkable that che should be charged
with initiating. Miss Madden is, however
as original as this torpedo play permits he
, to be, and it was by the very force of he
originality that she captured the synpath,
of the audience, and showed at once that sh
: would remain one of the most popular ar
lists in her line of comedy"