Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-10-07
THEATER.

Alice Oates has had crowded houses
in Philadelphia.
We have had heavy doses of min
strelsy and more is yet in store for us.
Mr.. Rafael JosefFy is giving lessons
to the students of the New York Col
lege of Music.
Mrs. Mckee Rankin is to retire
from the stage at the close Of the
present season.
Sdvini starts on his tour the first
week of November, under the manage
ment Of Mr.. ChizzOla.
The Harrisous noise it abroad that
their latest novelty. Viva" has made
a crushing hit at NiblO's Garden.
Brooks K Dickson are about to send
out a company in Her Atonement,
with Emily Rigl again as the star.
my Partner" by Aldrioh and Pars
loe, was at Evansville last Monday.
We are to be favored with it also alter
a bit.
Billy Emerson has picked up an
other company and will soon be around
with his Old clothes man and Mortar
ity.
Blanca Lablanche, who is really
Blanche Davenport, is touring as a
successful prima donna In the south
Of France.
Oscar Wilde is leeturiug again.
This time he is inAicting the iuhabi-
tants of the New England manufacture
ing towns.
Merton Elmore's "Chispa" has been
so roughly handled by the critics that
a playwright has been engaged to
revise the piece.
A fine new o~perahouse will be ready
for the public by the end of next
month at Hot Springs and many of
the best travelling companies are ex-
pected to exhibit there during the
season.
Julia Gaylord, the American prima
donna, late of the Carl Rosa troupe,
is in such delicate health that her ply.
stefan warns her if she attempts to
sing now she will lose her voice en-.
tirely.
Daughters Of Maggie Mitchell and
Lydia Thompson are about to become
actresses. A son Of Salvini is playing
out West. and a son Of Sothern is per-
forming some Of the late comedians
roles in England.
Mrs. C. NJ, Raymond, better known
as Annie Louise Carey, has been
spending the whole summer at the
Atlantic House, Portland, Maine.
She says that she will sing for charity
only hereafter.
The Romany Rye" is highly sue
cessful in attracting the multitude at
Booths .Theater, New York, says the
Tribune, by dint of its excellent
scenery and its strong picture Of an
attempted murder.
The London comedian, Lionel
Brough, was engaged to come to
America in support Of Mrs. Langtry.
but she objected to his name being
printed as big as hers in the sdver
tisements, while he insisted on il, and
hence he will not come.
Minnie Madden had two plays
while at New Orleans, one entitled
"Fogg's Ferry" the other wild
Wine" She has been ~rehearsinq a
new one called "ROxiua." which abe
expects to present here, for the first
time.
The famous Milan 0perahouse. the
Ia Scala, is over a hundred years old.
There are 200 boxes with a dressing
room to each. At every performance
OF "Aida," at this theater there is a
ballet OF one thousand, and 10 some of
the operas the chorus alone number
four hundred.
At the Olympic Theater, St. Louis,
Denman Thompson closes to night
and will be followed by Margaret
mather; the Willie Edouin troupe
close this week at the Grand Opera.
house, and Aldricb & Parsloe fol
low. Buffalo Bill is at Pope's, and
Ben Maginley will be there next week.
Miss Jeffreys Lewis brought from
Europe an interesting piece Of ancient
sculpture, namely, a female head Of
marble, which was found on the site
OF the ancient city Of Lebda Magma,
IN Tripoll. 1t is supposed to be 1000
years old and Of Phe1ician work
manship. Miss Lewis gives an art
exhibition in each city she visits pre-
yious to appearing in LA Belle
Russe."
Fanny Davenport was dreadfully
nervous when she made her first an.
pearance in London in diane De
Lys." One Of her elegant costumes
was a point lace dress over a pale pink
and white velvet, the trail trimmed
with a border Of pink ostrich feathers.
Her diamonds excited the wonder and
admiration Of the English people.
She has hired a private detective TO
follow her ever since she has been 10
England.
NHADsAb auu 0ulllfdn , IOfIncOmlnR
opera has been named the Princess
Pearl" The hero is Strephou, the son
OF a fairy mother and Of a father who
is only fairy from the waist down.
The characters and plot mix fairies
and mortals comically. Strephon has
a sweetheart jealous OF his mother.
who looks Only seventeen. The Queen
OF the fairies is very fat and gross.
while a Lord Chancellor figures as
quite ethereal. The men Of the cho-
rus are peers in coronets and robes.
The Western correspondent who
made the attempt TO get at Miss EN-
ma Abbott's age has the sympathy Of
bis friends. He found the prima
donna's mother in the modest family
homestead at Waukesha, Wiconsin.
and preached the tender subject. The
old lady was wary, and replied: "Em-
ma always cautioned me not to speak
about her age. | think she is very
foolish, and have often told her that
people would make her out a great
deal older than she really is. | will
tell you, however, that she has ten
good years Of life as a singer yet be-