Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-21
MRS. LANGTRY
Coming 70 America Under the Manage.
ment OF Mr.. Abbey-$i, zoo, 900 the
Net Receipts OF the New York
Theaters for the Year.
Henry IrTing's TOur in this Country
Agreed UpOn-Pauline Lueea's Sue
cess in LOndon-Marriage Among
the Great Stars.

the theatrical season in that city, and says:
| The figures which we publish will, perhaps,
| astonish even old theater goers, those theatre
cal old wiseacres who think they can tell
you of-hand the secrets of the season from
stage-door to box Office. We doubt if even
they realize to what a pretty tune the peo-
pie of this amusement-loving city are paying
the piper. We doubt il even they appreci-
ate that these managers, Wsllack, Palmer,
| DAILY, Abbey, Haveriy, Henderson, Stetson,
Harrigan and Mallory, have between them
received nearly 100000 from the amuse-
ment public since last autumn. The article
presents some Interesting statistics, showing
how cosmopolitan are our tastes and how
equally we'll supported are theatrical enter
tainments Of widely different kinds and actors
and singers Of varied nationalities. There
are those who will find fault no doubt with
the millions thus expended in theatrical
amusements, and there are well-inten-
| toned, but uncommon individuals who
| will calculate exactly how many
| paper collars and double-breasted ulsters
might have been provided with the money
| for the naked and otherwise unconventional
heather OF, say, Central Africa. We have
no ill-will toward those free and untram-
meled pagans, and shall feel glad to know
that they have a sufficiency of missionaries
and wearing apparel to put them on a foot
ing equal to the best families of the neigh
borhood, but we nevertheless think that
| money expended in the theaters is wisely
| invested. As a people we are too much
| given to business cares and anxieties, and
| anything which diverts the mind pleasantly
| after our long hours of business improves
| us mentally, physically and morally. Let
| the heather have ulsters by all means, but
let us be just 10 ourselves as we'll, and
encourage all healthy aud rational amuse-
| ment for our people"
SIDE LIGHTS ON THE NEW YORK STAGE.
New York letter to the Washington Cdpi-
| tai: "The Barn Stormers are up, and are
raising the very devil on the stages of the
| theaters which are abandoned to them in
| the summer. AT the Windsor a gentleman
| named Charles Davis announces himself as
a celebrated comedian in as unembarrassed
manner as popular niger singer throws
| Spanish cloak over his shoulder and leans
| familiarly on a bust of Shakespeare while
having a cabinet photograph taken. Mr..
Davis plays Atuin Joslyn, which Mr.. Davis
says in his advertisement is the funniest
| play ever written At Niblo's Garden Mr.
Frank Frayne presents US Mdrdo; or the Nj
hilists Of ST. Petersburg. Among other explo-
sive material with which the piece abounds
| are a den of wild beasts, real bear fight
and the trained dog Jack. Baker and Far
ron are doing Mar Muller at the Standard
At the Germania Theater a Miss Dora
| Wiley, Mile. Adele and the Cornalba
| ballet are giving the Mascot. 1t would
make the elder Wallack-the great
original / mean-kick in his coffin
did he know that theater once called
by his honored name was given up to half
naked girls and beer-slingers for summer
resort. Miss Ada Gray-who she is / can't
ssy-is trying to play East Lynne at the Fifth
Avenue Theater. / do remember an Ada
Gray in the colonial days of our stage; but
the ttographs of the very handsome and
rather youthful lady with lovely shoulders
and bust cannot be meant TO represent my
Ada Gray, who is fifty as sure as she is ten
years old. La Belle Russo, at Wallack's, |
seems likely to repeat the success of The |
World last year, aid run late into the sum-
mer. La Belle Russo is vulgar and dime |
novelish--if you will pardon the word; but |
like Medford rum, while 1t is vulgar it is un- |
deniably strong. 1t smacks of San Fran |
cisco, the authors home. Esmeralda COM
pletes her 235th appearance tonight at the |
Madison Square. Mr. Joe Polk will star it |
In Australia, accompanied by Mrs. Polk, who |
expects to sing in concerts"
MRS. LANGTRY AND ABBEY.
London special to the New York Tribune
"Mrs. LaDgtry is now negotiating with Mr.. |
Abbey for dramatic tour in America. 1t Z
is expected that it will begin October next |
and continue for six months. Mrs. Langtry,
with view of this tour, has obtained from
Mr.. Bancroft a release from her engagement
Der next TO July following, Mr.. Bancroft
asserting on the condition of Mrs. Langtry
not playing in London under any other man.
agement, and on condition that she ful6lls
her engagement at the Haymarket on her
return. The arrangements with Mr.. Abbey
are still under discussion, but it is under
stood that Mr.. Abbey offers terms substan-
TALLY identical with Bernhardt's contract,
Mr.. Abbey engaging the company, paying
all travelling and other expenses, and guar
anteeing Mrs. Langtry fixed sum nightly,
with an agreed proportion of the gross re- |
ceipts, Mr.. Abbey assuming all the response
bilities of the undertaking. PROPOSE
tons OF a favorable kind made to Mrs. Lang
try by other American MANAGERS also
under consideration, but the probability to-
day is that she will ultimately come TO terms
with Mr.. Abbey. Mrs. Langtry's changed
plans and the earlier date now contemplated
for an American tour are due largely to the
extraordinary success of her English provin.
cial tour, which has proved almost unpre-
cedently prosperous, the receipts exceeding
$1,000 weekly in some cases. The nine lead
ing journals in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liver
pool, Birmingham and Leeds agree that Mrs
Langtry's progress in the art ia extraordinary,
her performances showing marked dramatic
excellence. Critics who saw her both in
London and the provinces are of the same
opinion. The American repertory will in
Match, and 'Rosalind' in As You Like II.
She has not yet acted the latter part in
England.
PATTI AND LUCIA.
"Iucontestibly the musical sensation of the
hour is Pauline Lucca's Carmen" The way
ward little prima donna has taken the town
by storm She has furnished the London | I
public with what it dearly loves-a surprise.
Henceforth Minnie Hanks hoydenish and
willful Carmen" must be displaced from the
front rank of character conceptions to be {
spoken of pretty and pleasing, interesting, |
even clever, but nothing more serious than
all that. Lucca has re-read the part of the
Spanish gypsy, and taking the very broadcast | {
view of Merimee's drawing; she makes the
Seville cigar-roller very tigress, fascinat-
ing devil, whom to see is TO love, but to know '
is to fear. From the first moment this new t
Carmen" appears upon the scene accused by r
her comrades of having stabbed one of their g
number, there is that in the woman's eye Q
which shows her quite capable of this act of i
struck is sustained with wonderful
power by Nine Lucca until the final scene,
when the perverse beauty meets the +
rightful reward, almos. merited, of her :
murder BY her tortured lover. In this scene
he actress completely throws the singer in
he shade, Nine. Lucca's histrionic ability
being something Unexpectedly great. The !.
grand audience which greeted her on her !
irst night fairly rose at her in enthusiasm at | =
his point, and so great was the force and :
charm of the personation throughout that
wen now, writing after an interim of forty
light hours has elapsed since | was released
rom lis spell, feel the danger of using a
anguage which, to those not present, may p
eem like hyperbole.
"Only a few nights before, on the same q
tsge, Adelina Patti had enthralled all a
iearts by her fascination in the pretty opera |;
II the Star Of the North, and still later
~ her refinement and exquisite musical {.
AGILITY in the lyric Romeo and Juliet. When
me sees these lovely and-if may with r
,oliteness use the word - loDg-enduring
,simd donne, one can scarcely be surprised
Il the fact that their brilliant light attracts o
many would-be votaries TO the life OF the a
,peratic stage. Here they are, Patti and e.
.ucca, both rounding the Cape of Good "
Forty, and yet their charming powers are
min paired beauty, voice, histrionic ability, P
,ublic favor, fortune, jewels, all are theirs. a
1ucca's voice is said to be positively better :.
han it was when last heard in London, ten "
ears ago. Patti's tour in America has 81
allied to occasion the usual comment Of "vul- I
,ariiy acquired" "an exaggerated style n
ssumed." She is approved in mouths Of
gisest censure," and there is nought but n
'ure delight in listening to her dulcet warb- D
ings.n II
LONDON THEATRICALS. ! III
London special to the New York Herald: is
Signor Rossi's experiment OF playing Lear ri