Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-04
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! The English public il asziduously trying
to swallow Irving's Romeo" and find it pal,
! ata5le.
! W.. Ferguson will sail for Europe june
| 18th. He has an offer from J. H. H averly &c
star next season.
A New York parrot, residing in a maca.
roni saloon, calls Miss AbbOtt's husband
/ whoa Emma"
Miss Lillian Olcott Is the latest genius who
! has assumed the title OF the Young Ameri
can Trsgedienne."
Miss Helen Leigh, of the Boston Theater
| Company, has been engaged by John S,etson
| for the Modieska Company.
The Hess Opera Company gave PinotoTe il
| New York recently, and the mortality rate
il in no way increased thereby.
The Madison Square Theater's souvenir OF
| EsmeTalda Is a beautiful bit Of artistic work
| The APPEAL has been favored with a copy
| Of it.
Major Pond. who sailed for England with
! Bishop, the mind-reader, Is understood to &c
abroad TO bring back the Jersey Lily, Mrs
| Langtry.
Mr.. Eric Bayley leaves for England the
second week in June, and will return in
! August with London Pride and The Quesn'i
| Shilling.
Had that played-out piece of waddling
corpulency, Kellogg, not broken her engage
| ment to marry a Dir. Whitney, Mr.. Comfy,
the great basso, would not now be dead.
Miss Pearl Eytinge will appear in new
! play, written by herself, called Comin' Thro'
| the Rye, at Providence, June 18th. The play
| is well spoken of by those who have read it.
Catherine Lewis has been sued in the Ma
| rine Court at the instance of Niue.
Green, OF Regents street. London, for the re-
covery OF clos for dresses and silk goods
supplied to her.
Maurice Grau has engaged Mile. Theo, the
opera bOaGe singer, for tour in America next
season. Gheo has created many important
opera boVfs partS and. though she can barely
sing at ali, il a charming actress.
John f. Owens says he is out of his ele-
ment at the Madison Square Theater. He
is not permitted to swear, drink or smoke
and he is even compelled to read the New
Testament between acts, instead of quiet
game OF cards, as is his usual wont.
&Mme. Aimee will open the season
under Brooks and Dickson, on September
oath; where has not been settled, but she is
due in Pittsburg October I'd. She plays
musical comedy or vaudeville, and not
opera bOufe. DipOrccns will be in her re-
pertory.
Joseph Brooks sails for home after the
2,
middle OF j une. He has given no details OF
his work abroad, beyond the engagement OF
the Wyndham Comedy Company and the
purchase Of Romany Rye, Mr.. Sims's last
melodrama.
Mr.. John Stetson will, no doubt, purchase
Humanity, melodrsma which is now run
ming successfully at one OF the London Esst
End theaters. Il is said to be very exciting,
and fairly we'll written. The principal scene
is terrible fight between two OF the char
acters which lasts fifteen minutes.
Frank Sanger, pressed by Horace Wall for
a statement OF the seasons profits, said: 'Ii
l were to lie IN the usual figures l should
say we made $40 900. That's the amount
everybody makes. But I'll be up and up.
We did not make $4,000 We only cleare
S39, 1893 SO. That's the exact amount, on my
word of honor"
Mr.. Mccullough will not go to Europe
this summer. He will, instead form one OF
a party who will make an exploration of the
Yellowstone, starting on the LIST day of July
and getting back to st. Paul, where he opens
the next season, on September 4th. On Mon
day night he went to Boston, but will re-
main in aud about New York until July 1st.
An English actor, who has not been in this
country great while, was looking at pro-
cession recently in Union Square. After it
was over he remarked to a companion:
"Well, wouldn't have believed that the
decorative craze had reached such hight
in this country. Here's Oscar Wilde only
been in America a few months, and the
whole population turn out with a mad de-
sire TO decorate something"
The news OF the death of Oscar G. Bernard,
one of the principal business managers of the
Madison Square companies, in San Francisco,
the other day, a surprise. He was not in
good health when he left New York, and had
been advised to rest for time. But he
pushed on and died in the harness. The
cause was in all probability the usual thing
pneumonia. Mr.. Bernard was very able
man. For ten years he had been the man
ager of Anna Dickinson. He left her two
years ago.
The Dramatic Times on Clara Belle: "Ths
most prurient, obscene and stupidity nasty
writer in New York to-day-by the record
is a woman. She emits more adroit filth
than all the gang of realists the penny
dreadful press put together. She floods the
Western country with the lascivious fruitage
of her own imagination and labels it facts.
But she turns up her sensitive nose at
wholesome, sinewy play with the horror of
a courtesan at mother who has borne five
children"
Speaking of Thomas: This distinguished
composer is said to have met Cesnola re-
hands cordially. Il have heard of YOU"
said Thomas, Through the newspapers.
They called you a fraud" "That wasn't the
best of it-they proved it," replied Cesnola,
laughingly. Il congratulate you" said
Thomas, they did the same with me. But
it doesn't make any difference" mot
bit" said Cesnola. This is a noble coun-
try. 1t is equally divided into hackers and
,backbiters. If you have good grip on one
it doesn't make any difference about the
other" "You are man of genius" said
Thomas.-1imes.