Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-15
PLAYS AND PLAYERS.

The Motter in Lar is popular in Boston.
Mckee Rankin has succeeded with Forty
Nine.
Lecocq is to write a new comic opera for
Catherine Lewis.
February lst Wagner's Loheagriq will be
presented in Paris for the first time.
Miss Julia A. Hunt seems to be doing well
as "Florimel," in the play of that name.
Miss Fanny Davenport in the boys cos
tune as "R0salind," is said to be too too.
Patience has been running in London since
September 221. and is drawing an average of
$4,000 per week.
Haverly's Comic Opera Company have a
repertoire embracing Patience, Pirates Of Pen
z11see, Piaafore MIsc1ne and others.
Sam ColviIle's newest purchase is an En-
glish play called Taken from Life. It ought
to be something like photograph.
Kate CIaxton is making fortune out of
The Trio Orphans. More than twenty thou
sand people saw the play at Booths Theater,
New York.
The Passing Regiment reached its SEVENTEEN
representation at Days theater Saturday
, night. 1t will run until February 4tb, when
Mr.. DAILY will produce Odette.
Nine Marie Roze sang by command before
Queen Victoria at Osborne on the night OF
December 29ih. Only her Majesty and mem
bers of the royal family were present.
The London Figaro claims that Nilsson
has signed with Mr.. Abbey for tour of this
country next season. She is to sing in con-
certs only, and will receive 100000 for one
hundred concerts
Harry Sargent ia a man OF resources.
After Mile. Rhea left him in Albany he gave
an entertainment in nnesic and HE wife
| sisted by appearing US "Juliet," in the bal
couy sceue from Romeo and Juliet.
Hlverly is small in stature has a round
head partly bald, a keen black eye, an enor-
nous moustache, and a pleasant manner;
controls about fifteen first class theaters and
runs several travelling shows besides.
The sourenir 10 be given to visitors at the
| Madison Square tdeater, on the one hun
dredth night of Esmeroldd, will be a panel, in
the center of which, on a raised PLAGUE, will
| appear an ideal head of this heroine.
The Gorsrrpor, TIE Colonel and 7Hs Major are
the names of popular plays now. We may
| expect military titles to be exhausted and
then will get the doctor, the parson, the
| pawnbroker and the school-trustee enlisted
finally.
| Signor Rossi, the Italian tragediaD, will
| effect his re.entraucs on the New York stage
on the 18th of January, at the Academy of
will produce the old play, by Alexander
! Dumas, of Edmund Ken.
Mr.. II. J. Sargent divulges the following
facts, as to the beginning of Modjeska's ca
reer in New York: "Modjeska's opening in
New York was 1922, her second night SIP,
Christmas matinee $50, Christmas night
Sl66. 1t was not until after weeks of hard
work that success came"
Miss Kellogg told Cincinnati reporter
that the late Henry G.. Steb5ins had m an
aged her money affairs from the time she
| ront he ar until his death and
successfully. During my recent tour in
Europe slte said, he made $3.50, 900 for me
by fortunate investment"
f Twin Booth has drawn crowded houses
all along the line since he left Boston. He
has appeared in Fall River, Providence,
Newark E tston. Scranton, Wilkesbarre and
| Harrisburg. His audiences have been very
enthusiastic, and himself and the dramatic
company are in good health.
During Mile. Rhea's stay in Rochester,
while arranging for new management, she
| took great interest in the French church of
that city, and made several addresses there.
She also assured the directors of the church
that duriog her coming engagement in
Rochester she would give one performance
| for the benefit of the school attached to the
church.
Mile. Rhea gives utterance to these crisp
remarks upon her recent manager, Mr.. II. j.
Sargent. 1 never had any confidence in his
sagacity from the first. He was great. Was
it in the past tense? He is not great any
more. Something has interfered with his
talents 1 do not say what His ulster is adj
mirable."
A Boston Transcript reporter, who wanted
to say that John Mccullough followed the
Mspleson Opera Company a; certain thea
ter in the Hub, relieved himself follows
"Euterpe bears away her flute from the Bos-
ton theater TO night to be succeeded by the
vine-crowned Meipomene." This young dis
ciple of Oscar Wilde is awarded the cake.
Miss Cary captured Philadelphia again
Friday night by appearing upon the concert
| stage in her travelling dress, with plain
linen collar and no ornaments. and singing
with her usual sweetness. 1t appears that
she lost her baggage, but instead of making
fuss about il and pcstponipg the concert,
as many perform rs would have done, she
accepted the situation and gave the people
all the enjoyment they could ask for.
Marie Bie.e, the French actress who blinded
her lover by throwing vitrol at him, who, in
fact. was the Inauguration of modern vitrol-
| ism, naively confessing that the public Will
not endure her as performer, announce
that she is going to rebegin life as profes-
sor. And a number OF Paris newspapers, in
sertirg her appeal, seriously entreat their
subscribers to seize this exceptional oppor-
tunity for teaching the young idea how to
shoot
Mr.. Samuel Colyille sailed for England on
Thursday, the 18th instant, aboard the City
Of Brussels. He visits London and Paris in
quest of theatrical novelties. Mr.. Colville
will shortly present in this country Mr..
Henry Pettit's new drama, Taken from Life,
piece of The Void and Mankind stripe,
which was brought out in London, at the
AdeIphi theater, December 3lst, and is re-
ported by cable to have met with prodigious
success.
Herr August Gottel, large owner OF Cali
fornian mines and partner 10 a New York
banking firm, has given $4,000 to the suffer
ers by the Vienna fire. Herr Gottel lives in
a quiet bachelor fashion in Vienna, where
his charities have bsen on a transatlantic
scale, though he has never made himself
prominent, He states that the present gift is
thank offering for his preservation. he
had arranged to go TO the Ring theater on
the very night OF the fire, but was pre-
vented at the last moment by an apparently