Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-09-30
rHE PLAYERS.
"Hazel KIrke bad CONC o cnhn.

hazel Mike has gone to Cuba.
Katie Putnam and her company are
playing at Paducah.
For Congress" has not succeeded well
with John I. Raymond.
Haverly's Michael Strogof" is n New
York with fair" audiences.
Minnie Hauk, the songstress. sails from
Havre for America to-day.
Ada Cayendish is to play through Eng
land in The Soul ofan Actress.
Bret Harte will soon have The Luck
Of Roaring Camp ready for the stage.
The Squire is to be brought out in
New York a week from Monday next.
Clara Louise Kellogg wears q unique
ornament in the way Of adiamond toad.
Theodore Thomas has control Of the or
chestra score Of THE Redemption" by
Gounod, for two years.
Annie Louise Cary, according to Mr..
Raymond, her husband, has entirely re-
covered the use Of her voice.
Modjeska opened her season in Boston
last Monday, and is supported by Maurice
Barrymore. She will not visit US.
Mary Anderson and Modjeska were in
private boxes last week at New York, to
witness The Romany Rye Extremes
do meet.
The Harrisons, Alice and Louis, who
were here a year ago in photos are at
Nlblo's, New York, in "Viva," a more
serious drama.
Maggie Mitchell has given New York
ers "Fanchon' all of this week. Next
week John I. Raymond opens in Fresh,
the American
The English celebrity Mrs. Langtry
has been invited TO become the guest of a
wealthy New York lady during her so
iourn in that city.
Theo, a charming songstress and actress.
full Of French chic, cannot remain in this
country more than two months unless she
forfeits 60,0O0 francs.
Louise Pomeroy has organized a com-
pany in Melbourne, Australia, for a three
months campaign in India, playing
Shakspearian roles.
Forty years ago General Ben Butler
actress, and the lady has been Mrs. Butler
for nearly forty years.
Mary Anderson has been PLAYING
Juliet" "Eyadne,' and 'Parthenia8
at Brooklyn, n. Y, during the past week.
She will not visit US this season..
Mccullough, Barrett and Mary Ander-
son, will appear conformity, supported by
people picked from their own companies,
at the Cincinnati Dramatic festival.
Christine Nilsson is to have a tenor
from abroad who has "eyes filed with the
reverie of the sons of the North. mingled
with the fire of the sons of the South.'S
William Warren, the comedian, of
Boston, has been on the stage fifty years,
and during t~hirty-fve years in Boston has
represented no less than SCI distinct char
acters.
Mr.. Carte, the London show manager.
who sent Oscar Wilde to America. saws
that the profits Of the trip have reached
100000, to be divided equally between
the two.
Sidney Smith once told Mrs. Kemble
of a horrible dream he had-he dream
ed he was chained TO a rock and being
talked to death by Harriet Martineau and
Macaulay."
The wife of Levy, the cornet player,
formerly Minnie Conway, whose mother
hMrs. +. b. Conway, was long manager of
the theater in Brooklyn, n. T., will make
her debut in Italian opera the coming
season.
Shakespeare has drawing powers in
London when well presented. Henry
Irving's revival of Romeo and Juliet
has run nearly l50nights, interrupted only
by a summer vacation, and still draws
proftably.
Fay Templeton and her troupe are re-
ported to have shown TO a bigger house
than Emma Abbott at Topeka, Kan, re-
Gently. 1t would not be that way here
though the Abbott troup is not to visit us
this season.
Hague's British MinstreIs opened in
New York Monday for a weeks engage
ment. The entertainment furnished by
this company is quite different from
American Ministries. There is very little
dialogue between the end men.
Oscar Wilde has recently been attract
ing considerable attention in New York
City by attending thu different theaters on
first nights. He Is a source of great amuse-
mont to the street arabs, as he goes out
between tho acts to smoke a cigarette,
Alice Oates, an old Memphis favoriie,
opened in Philadelphia Monday with
''The Mascotte." Barley Campbell's
White Slave" is on It's second week in
Philadelphia. The latter will come here
after a bit. The former will not visit US.
During their recent engagement in Chi
cago the Calender Haverly Consolidated
Ministries we're honored by the attendance
at their performance Of the Marquis OF
LOrne. Princess Louise and entire suite.
The MINISTRIES appear here next Monday.
Mrs. w. J. Florence went to the thea
ter IN New York a few nights since, wear
ing q dress of white silk and velvet, cut
away from the neck, and with beaded
sleeves, Its elegance excited marked at
tention, andthose who gazed thought Mrs.
Gillory immense.
This is the way the Philadelphia New,
puts it: The theaters are opening, and
before long the watering place bellies, who
have been running around bare legqedir
the presence Of thousands, will be Sitting
in the parquette and blushing because
ballet girls make q similar display in In,
presence Of hundreds.
The Stevens Comic Opera Companv
with Jennie Winston as star, performed
last Sunday, Monday and Tuesday al
Galveston, Texas, presenting the "Joll,
Bachelors and LA Perichole.p The
Calender Minstrels close in the same cit,
: tonight. 1t is not the same troupe, how
ever, that closes at Louisville tonight.
The Jeffgeys-L Lewis company N III
Belle Russo" closed its engagement a
Macauley's, Louisville, last Wednesday
night to q fair audience. AT this theate
Callender's Consolidated Colored Min
strels opened Thursday night for the res
of the week. They are genuine negroes
D and some Of them are well known as first
, class in their business.
Emma Abbott has a list Of sixteel
operas this season, the most popular beinI
: the king for a Day" Her troupe in
cludes Fabrini and Castle, tenors; Alonz
Stoddard and Gustavus Hall, baritones
I, also Julie Rosewald, LizZie Amandalc
Marie Hindle, Clara Weber, anda larg
@ chorus and orchestra the latter directei
I by j. II. Rosewald, an accomplishe,
yiolinist