Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-16

| Nermouth than in opera.
Miss Emma Thursby will return to the
| I nIted States in July. She has been absent
two years, singing with marked success; re-
Gently she appeared bsfore the king and
| queen of Saxony at Menione. Her voice
| has gained great deal since she left home,
| and her execution Is az facile as ever.
1t was as one who sits in front and cor
daily witnesses the business OF the stage
| without desiring tC NEEDLE in ii, that Long
fellow regarded the American theater. He
I liked actors, and was most genial with them,
but not because he longed to make them the
mouthpieces of his own inspiration, but, be-
| cause he loved their art and applauded their
skill with pleasure that was simple and
earnest a. a childis.-NeEs
Speaking of B CampbelI's new play, The
! White Sldrs, the Meas says: I'm the first place
il is most apparent hashing of The Oc.oroon,
| UHele TOMS Cabin and KIT, over which is
| spread very thickly a spectacular dressing,
which, unfortunately, overflls the stage of
the Fourteenth Street Theater. By way Of
! condiment Mr.. Campbell has mixed inland
with very generous hand-negro min
strelsy, plantation melodies and dash of
! farce"
The Pplse OF Nor York is the title OF a
new fve-act piece, which is receiving the
| finishing touches from the pen of Robert
| Griffin Morris. 1t is written for J. FL. Hay-
| erly and John p. Smith, who will take it
upon the road next season. 1t is a melo-
drama, interpreted with local affairs, and
with enough emotion and sentiment 10 give
zest TO well defined plot. The contract
price for the piece is $1,000, part of which
has been paid.
Mrs. Grevilie, London lady, whose dra-
matte powers, though never exercised except
privately, were considerable, and who was
widely known and esteemed in society, has
| Just died after a painful illness of some
weeks. Even Carlyle, when with her, would
relax from his grimness and say "exuberant
creature" CT curious phenomenon" Both
Mr.. Tennyson and Mr.. Swinburne were at
tached to her, and Mr.. Whittier and Mr..
Irving knew and esteemed her.
Mr.. Abbey told a reporter that Nine.
Patti had appeared thirty-eight times since
her arrival here, all but FIVE of those being
under his management. He believes her
profits to be something over S150,000, or an
average of $4,000 clear profit for her every
appearance. Nine. PATHS next engagement
begins May 10th, with Mr.. Gye, at Covent
Garden, Loudoo Her address, when at
home, is "England, South Wales, Swansea
Valley, Ystraigynlais, Craig-y Nos Castle"
John Stetson, who has had Booths Theater
and given it up Tor the Fifth Avenue, says:
"But I'll take out what l put in-the cur
tains of the boxes, the carpets, the adorn-
ments, the statues, good lot OF the seats
yes, and I'll take the doors off the hinges,
for put them there. The man that comes
here after me will have to spend $4,000 to
put the house in order before he can give a
performance. Anybody who wants to do
this for one years lease can take it. The
fact is, these people fooled so lo5g that they
fooled themselves"
Henry Forester, who died in London last
Tuesday, played an engagement in London
in 1850 with the late Madame Celeste. He
was the original "Charles Dornoy" in a
Tale Of TWo Cities. At the Shakespeare Gen.
trnary at Stralford he appeared as the
"Fri4r" in Romeo and juliet. He played
"DanI bruce" nearly 800 times in The
provinces. When he appeared as "Iago"
at the Lyceum Theater, the London Times
said he gave "as fine piece of acting, per-
hsps, as any actor of to-day could show us
in this character"
Goa, you don't know how to play that
game y said the one and only Hermann to
group of three-card monte men who were
swindliDg a countryman in a railroad car
down South. With that he snatehed up the
cards and threw them out of the window.
"Those cards are our property" shouted the
leader OF the gang. "All right, don't want
your property" said Hermann, with which
pacific as -urance he pulled the identical
three cards out of the vest pocket OF the man
who spoke The money of which he had
bsen cheated was returned to the countrymap.
A secret meeting of the directors of the
new National Operahouse, New York, took
place r. Gently, at the residence of Mr..
Roosevelt. A great deal of discussion en-
sued to the best means of raising the
money that would be necessary to complete
the edifice. 1t was finally decided to neither
mortgage nor stop work, but to contribute
pro ra a the amount necessary, which would
be $4,000 more than was originally esti-
ma'ed. The work will be resumed immedi-
ately, though in the meantime the contract
with Mr.. Gye has fallen through, but perhaps
not permanently.
Grace CORTLAND, the witch of Wall street,
Is riously contemplating adopting the
stage. She is really remarkable woman.
Not satisfied with her reputation as daring
and fortunate speculator in stocks and as an
able writer, she wishes to court fame behind
the footlights. She is not one that can be
accused OF being theorist, for she IL unusu- |
ally clesr-sighted and practical. This being
the case, it seems strange that she should be
anxious to abandon Wall street for the stage.
A man who has been identified in the Intro
duction of previously undiscovered female
stars has been negotiating with Mrs. Court |
land with the view OF starring her.
Mr.. Bronson Howard ia engaged in writing |
his play for the Madison Square Theater. |
Mr.. Marsden has Just finished his play for |
Annie Pixley, and will shortly go to work
on a piece for the Salisbury Troubadours |
Mr.. Leonard Grover has accepted two more
contracts TO write plays for next season, so
that now he has four on hand. One of these
the play for the Harrisons-is almost fin
ished. But he will be able to accept but two
more offers, while five or six combinations
are after him. He will have about eight
original plays on the road next season. |
American dramatic authors generally-tha
is, the good ones--have about all they can Go
just at present.
Signor Chizzola, like all Italians is emf
nently superstitious. He said the other
day, 81 knew, before my season began with
Rossi, that it would be failure. Every one
told me SO, and the omens came out right, as
always. The day Rossi arrived in st. Peters.
burg the car was killed. The day l signed
a contract for America with him, President
Garfield was shot. The steamer we came
over in took thirteen days to cross, and we
arrived on Friday. There were three car
riages waiting at the boat when We arrived.
The first street car took had seven people,
and the fl st man who bought ticket in
Boston was cross-eyed. How could we make
money after all that? And we didn't"