Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-08-25
STAGE FLASHES.

Tbs little people at Wsllack's, New York,
are drawing good houses with Patience and
making great success of their season.
james ONeill will inaugurate the season
at the Novelty Theater, Williamsburg, on
September 4th with his new play, An Ameri.
can King.
The Passing Regiment will be Withdrawn
shortly from Mr.. Days stage, after career
OF almost unexampled prosperity. Mankind
viii follow.
Miss Charlotte Thompson, in a compare
lively new version of Jane Eyre, will Inau-
surate the season at the Windsor Theater,
New York.
Mise Minnie Palmer will be the opening
atTrscfion at the Chestnut Street Operahouse,
Philadelphis, appearing September 18th in
William GilPs musical comedy, My Sioeet-
heart.
Mime. Marie Roze-Mapleson has just in
herited $4,000 under the will OF her grand
mother latter whom she was named), in
Paris. Her brother, A lbert Ponsin, the Pa
rlsian architect, receives an equal sum.
AT the conclusion of Marion Elmores
thirtv-eight weeks tour OF the United States
she will go to England with her American
company, and produce Chicpa in London and
the provinces. For this arrangement Mr..
Hayerly is partially responsible.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. J. Florence will open
their season at the Grand Operahouse, New
York, October 23d, and during their engage
ment will produce Eileen Oqee and No
IhOroughfdre with new and elabor ate scenery.
La all probability they will appear also In
The 1Icket-of Leave Nan.
Frederick Leslie, lately with the Comley-
Barton troupe, and who went TO England ex-
pecting to return 10 America in the autumn,
has M ade such hit in Les Mdnteaua Noirs,
at the Avenue Theater, London, that he has
been engaged for the next novelty at the
Comedy 1'heater. So he will not return
Nine. Theo is to receive $4,000 for sixty
perform ances in America, her expenses be.
ing paid. She is TO make her first appear
ance in New York, on September 18th, in
Nadine PArchduc, and will play aiterward
in Niniche, LIE Grand CdsiHir, La JoIie Par
fafmtuse, La 1im6ale dArgent and La Mascote
According to a Chicago paper Barley
Campbelrs Siberia was put up in something
like seven acts, having enough in it for three
pieces, and the Kirslfys found they could
not possibly arrange to produce it at Hooley's.
Hence the substitution of Michael tStroqof
and the return of the manuscript to Mr.
Campbell.
Miss Adele Belgrade, who played "Ham-
let" at Niblo's Garden, and later was the
Lillian" OF the travelling company playing
The Bakers Daughter, has been engaged for
nine representations of the latter role during
the inaugural week OF the new Grand Opera
house, Brooklyn. La October Miss Belgrade
will join Salvini as leading Juvenile lady.
Esmeraida has passed its 3O0h perform ance
and will soon close long and useful career
at the Madison Square Theater, only to go
where all good plays land good many bad
ones) go after well spent lie. 1t will be-
gin its provincial perambulations shortly
and will probably visit every city, town,
village, hamlet and cross roads in the coun-
try for years to come, ala Hazel Kirke.
The Black Flag vas produced recently at the
Union Square Theater, New York, by Messrs.
Goodwin and Thorns, who will thus force the
melodramatic season by an early production
OF the first OF the promised blood and-thun-
der plays. The drama is by Henry Pettltt,
kindly assisted by the stage carpenter, and is
said to show the most violent symptoms in
plot and dialogue of being genuine case of
the prevailing type of melodrams.
Christine Nilsson was lately at Divonne, q
watering-place in the south OF France, but
will return TO England in September TO full
I'll engagements at Birmingham, Noting
ham, Brighton and other towns. She will
give a farewell concert at Albert Hall, in
London, October 18th, at which she will have
the assistance of Sims Reeves and many
well-known artists, aud two days later she
will sail from Liverpool for New York.
George Rignold, of Henry Y fame, is doing
Youth in Australia to very large audiences.
The local trade in lockets, bouquets embroi-
dered slippers and photographs has been
somewhat checked, however, by the presence
of MRS. George" who has been acting 10
the company with her handsome husband,
fact which knocked good deal of the ro-
nance and nonsense out of the neads of the
bread-and- butter misses who had been admir-
ers of Mr.. Rignold.
Edwin Booth has just had great success
in London playing "Don Caesar de Bazan."
The Pail Mall Gazette says of it: "To the
list of characters in which Mr.. Booth has
been seen in England one more has been
added in Don Cesar de Bazau' AS inter-
probation the performance of this may count
among Mr.. Booths triumphs. A brighter
piece of acting and more captivating pre-
sentation of reckless gallantry our stage has
not recently seen. Mr.. Booths bearing when,
in presence of the monarch who has taken
his name, he proclaims himself the king of
Spain, il. admirably picturesque, and fur
nishes an.instance of the value of that study
of attitude 10 which more attention is paid
id America than in this country. Don Cesar
de Bszan' is, moreover, of value as revealing
purely comic aspect of Mr.. Booths powers.
So far, the selection is justified. 1t is, how
ever, to be wished that Mr.. Booth had chosen
Sir Giles Overreach,' or some character of
dramatic fiber in which he is accustomed to
appear, rather than this unreal and fantastic
being whom Dumanoir and DEanery took
from NJ. Hugo and ruined in taking"
The latest American arrival in London ia
Mr.. John A. Stevens, who has been doing
Unknotun at the Surrey Theater, and the Wig
orous manner in which vice is defeated and
virtue succored in that violent drama has
delighted The Surrey audiences. One of the
London journals describes the first set with
an uncertainty as TO geographical facts that
is painful, not to say shocking, in referring to
ga view of New York, and, possibly, the Hud-
son." as the first scene. The plot is thought
to be all right, however, in this melodra-
matte age, and the doings OF the two wicked
who try 10 murder Inc nice young
man, and the manner in which they put
their naughty heads together to murder
still nicer young woman, are all approvingly
as we'll as the capers of the in
c;dental murderers, comic servants, lovers
aud other little Ingredients OF the play. Mr.
Stevens comes in for fair share OF congrat-
ulation, although exception is taken to his
feigned madness in one scene, which ii is
declared uupleasantly recalls to the audience
those imaginary blue crocodiles which occa-
sionally will bask under the sofs.-
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