Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-27


Mather has been financially succesz
Oscar Wilde is said to wear long hair to
cover his ears.
braces sixteen operas.
Nine. Theo hiss been received with enthu-
siasm in New York.
Joe Jefferson has been playing a very sue
cessful ngsgement IN New York.
The APPEAL would like to have Mary
Auderson's opinion of Margaret Malhsr
There will be four Hdsei Kirke, four Es-
| DleraLda and four Professor companies or the
road this season.
Boxers play, Franeesca di Rimini, has
made very great success in Philadelphia
with Barrett and company. Il is another
great success for the American dramatisi.
Mr. join Mccullough returned 10 ST Paul
last week from his tour through the Yellow
stone Park region as the guest Of Gen. Phil
Sheridan. He began his season on Monday.
The SUCCESS of the Calender Consolidated
Minsirels pronounced IN Chicago that
Gus and Chsrley Frohman have cabled Lon
don and Paris 10 close dates for The attrsc-
ton there.
Henry E. Dixey plays a comedy part in
the R0m0ny Rye at Booths, and John S;eison
has signed agreement 10 pay him $3.50 a
week for doing so. This is the largest salary
Dixey has yet received.
Robert Msutell, who has been engaged BY
Brooks & Dickson to play "Sir Clement
Huutingford," in The World, during the COM
ing season, ia nearly seven feet in hight. He
is from the London theaters.
Tue details of the Dramatic Festival in
Ciuciuuati have at last been definitely agreed
upon. Mccullough, Barrett and Mary Au-
derson will appear conioinily, supported by
people picked from their own companies.
The Duke of Edinburgh is going to take
his fiddle about the country and send the
hat around for the Roysl College OF Music,
in which he, his brother Albert, and the
Duke of Albany are deeply interested.
1t is rot generally known that way back
in 1912 Benjamin F. Butler acted as agent
for an actress named Miss Hildredih. He
aftervArd married the lady. Benjsmin F.
ia said 10 have been one OF the shrewdest
agents in the bu-iness.
On Wednesday of last week Lawrence
Barrett cdbfed- Augustus H aEEis,- of -nzury
Lane Theater, his acceptance of au offer to
play there next June. Mr.. Barrett will sail
for England at the close OF the Dramatic
Festival in Cincinnati, which will be about
the end of April.
The adoption OF Diane de Lys, in which
Fanny Davenport m ads her recent London
debut, is the work of james Mortimer, of the
Figaro, or rather recently OF that sheet. Il
this the same piece with which Harry Sar-
gent says Mortimer tried on some scaly
business few seasons ago?
The Hazel Kirke company now playing at
San Francisco has met with great success,
and is now fulfilling third engagement
during the present season in hat city. Mr..
Couldocz and Efic Ellsler in the COM
pany, which is row in its bird week. Huzei
K,rke will be presented at Denver on Ostober
10th.
Manager Contied, OF the Thalia, has a
contract With Herr Barnay, the Booth of
Germany" for tour mouths engagement in
America. The Germauia management also
claim 10 have him; but Herr Conried has
shown a Mirror reporter his contracf, couched
in the longest and strongest OF Dutch words.
Mirror.
Waldron's M'tsS combustion opened their
season at Yonkers Monday TO a crowded
house, scoring success. Jennie Calef as
.M'Iis-,D making a hit and being called be-
tore the curtain at the end of each act. Mr..
Waldrou as the Judge" and G. c. Charles
as "Yuba Bill" were also received with
much favor.
After much discussion it appears that Mr..
Charles r. Thorne, jr, is really a member OF
the Union Square Theater Company. Mr..
Thorne will act with the company during
this season, and will then go to London. Mr.,
Lawrence Barrett and Mr.. Thorne are TO per-
form together in Julius Cesar, at the London
Lyceum Theater.
That remarkable young musical genius,
Mr.. Darling, who composed the successful
American opera, The Jolly Bachelors, and who
was pronounced by George Brstow and
Theodore Thomas to be a musical marvel,
has written another opera called Don FIJI
b1tsto which is said by competent authority
to be altogether the brightest and best of ma
tive operate compositions.
The Boston Traveller calls attention to the
fact thai onr greatest actresses have not, with
lew exceptions, ever been noted for beauty.
Rachel, Ristori, Charlotte Cushmau, Bern
hardt and others whose claims to genius of
high order are universally acknowledged,
have made their success without the aid OF
the magic enchantment OF beauty.
Mile. Feyghine, who was the rising star
from the East, and who committed suicide
recently, is described an odd geniua, a strange
elf, demi civilized creature, endowed with
the most extraordinary artistic sensibilities,
sirikingly original and yet initiative as a
monkey. II is not known whether she was a
Gypsy, Jewess or Slav.
Gilbert & sutfivan,s- forthcoming operi
has been named The Princess Pearl The
hero is "Strephon," the son of a fairy mother
and father who is only fairy from the
waist down. The characters and plot mix
fairies and mortals comicaily. "Strephon"
has a sweetheart, jealous of his mother, who
looks only seventeen. The queen OF the
fairies is fat and gross, while lord chancel-
chorus are peers in coronets and robes.