Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-30
Dramatic Flashes.


Joe Emmet's sobriety has been astonish-
ing this season. :
Miss Maude Harrison will probably sup
port SIlvini.
Minnie Palmer's Baltimore engagement
was a large one.
Mckee Rankin will produce new play
next year by Leonard Grover.
The Colored Minstres played to $4,000
business for week in Scotland.
Bernhardt's husbands will play " Ar
M and" to her "Camille" in London in June.
| The Rankins have closed their season and
will go to their island of Bots Blanc for the
summer.
Messrs. Max Strakosch and Maurice Grau
| have made an offer for Booths theater for
next season.
| At Cleveland, Ohio, Lillian Cleves, the
actress, was assaulted by her husband, he
being jealous.
Miss Lille McHenry, who was here with
the Ford Opera Company, has her picture in
| the Dramatic Times.
Mr.. H. Haverly says that the Drury
Lane pantomime of Robinson CTitsoe would
not do for America.
Maurice Barrymore will play the leading
support TO Madame Modieska IN her ensuing
American engagements.
DdIIcit, vi TIC supreme SpuIt3 las
granted divorce in favor OF Henri Laurent
against Lizzie Laurent. Cause, adultery.
The Fun on the Bristol party start for
England next week. They remain away six
teen weeks, opening in Manchester, England.
The WidoU will open the summer season
at the Standard with the Hess Company.
Mr.. w. Castle and Zelda Seguin will be in
the cast.
Mr. Abbey will sail for England on May
11th. He will return by the latter part of
July. He is still confident that Nilsson will
come next season.
The impertinent dramatic papers continue
to pry into Jack Haverly's affairs. Jack
ought to stop few of their impudent little
mouths with a lawsuit.
Charles A. Byrne, of the DIam1tic Times,
after having violated nearly all the ten
commandments, is defending the christian
religion against Bob Ingersoil.
With the exception of Booths engage
ment, some two months ago, the best weeks
business at Booths theater this season has
been that OF the Salisbury Troubadours.
The minstrel known as Billy Rice is
shortly going to sever his connection with
Haverly's Mastodons He will join Thatcher,
Primrose and West.
Patti Laverne, the charming English |
soubrette after a successful tour in Australia,
has Joined the Comley and Barton Company
in California, assuming the parts hitherto
played by Catherine Lewis.
Mr.. Joseph Brooks is now in Paris. He
has been endeavoring to secure the Kendalls |
for a tour in the United States, with what |
success is not yet known. Mr.. Brooks will |
sail from Liverpool on May 25th for New |
York.
Marsden's last play of Cheek will be re-
hearsed at the Madison Square theater for |
production in Chicago on the 9TH of May. |
Mr.. W. Seymour has been hired to put the |
piece on. Roland Reed is TO star in it il |
successful.
The Gerster nights in Philadelphia drew
very largely. But the "off nights" with |
Kellogg, were thorough failure. She did |
not draw at all. 1t is the old story. Where |
there are two stars in a company, one has to
go to the wall.
Louise Montague has left Forepaugh's /
circus, and commenced suit, claiming the |
great philanthropist is in arrears for salary |
during her inability to appear in public. |
She claims her injuries were caused by being |
compelled to ride an unframed elephant
Bob Cross, one of Haverly's former CO o. ed |
minstrels, attracted the attention of King |
Louis, of Bavaria, by his singing and is now
j Bavarian count with the name OF Beuer-
field. He has invited Haverly to spend a
few days with him at the court of King Louie.
Mr.. Colville cabled $3.50 to London on
Wednesday last to Mr.. Joseph Brooks, to Sc
cure Sims's new melodrama, which is to sue
coed Lights O. London at the Princess thea
ter. The play, however, is not for Colville.
but for Brooks & Dickson and E. NJ. Field.
Mr.. Mart Hanley is engaging a strong
company for Sqadtter Sovereignty on the road
next season. He is having special car
built to transport the donkeys, geese, pigs, i,
ducks and other animal features Of the show.
In fact, these viii have the palace car in his
case.
Miss Dickinson threatens to drop out of
male attire and public notice altogether |
There seems 10 have been some kind OF a
mistake about her representation A PhiIa-
delphian who told her he had seen her
"Hamlet" was corrected. at was my Grown
of Thorns,'" she said.
Mr.. Rogers says very Justly: Report of
my marriage to Miss Palmer in Chicago
Netrs Letter entirely false. For myself | |
should be happy If il were true. To Miss |
Palmer it is absolutely unfair unkind and
possibly injurious. 1t is humanity TO attack
a woman, no matter what the feeling for me-"
At "a performance of the Hugue4ots in Paris
gentleman in the stalls rose Indignantly
and shouted: Enough! Enough, Ii is dis
graceful to sing music like that" The effect
OF the interruption may be imagined when,
following his words by acts, the interrupter
hurled his opera-glass at that respectable
mediocrity NJ. Jourdain, who Happened to
be singing the part OF Saint Bis" Mile
Krauss tainted away on the stage, and the
curtain fell abruptly amid wild excitement
The arrangements were completed Tuesday
by which Colonel Mapleson secures Nine
Adelina Patti for the next season OF opera at
the New York Academy of Music. A con-
tract for a season of forty nights at $4400
night was prepared on behalf OF Nine. Patti
by NJ. Franchi before he left this country
and placed in the hands of Mr.. Coueert,
with Instructions that when guarantee fund
a $4,000 was placed in the hands af
&east Belmont < Co. the contract was to
be handed over 10 Colonel Mapleson, On