Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-05

Maggie Mitchell's time for next season is
all filled.
j. H. Haverly will have a theater in Nor
folk, Va, shortly.
Edwin Booths opening night in st. Louis
drew an $500 house.
j. II. Haverly's colored minstrels are do
ing a large business in England.
The Madison Square theater will employ
about 200 actors and actresses next season.
Ed Marble goes into management with
the Frohman Brothers in Callender's min.
strels.
The Madison Square version of Haze
Kirke in German is being translated by Max
Freeman.
w. E. Sheridan has made arrangements to
| go to Australia under Charles Kelly's man
agement.
Sam Colville's Taken from Life most likely
will be produced at Haverly's Fourteenth
Street theater.
Gilbert and Sullivan's new opera, which
Mr.. Sullivan is now writing in Egypt, will
be entitled Independence.
Comley and Barton succeeded in engaging
Fred Leslie for next season before his de-
parture last week tor Europe.
Herzbinkeri, Suppe's new opera, had its first
hearing in Vienna a fortnight ago. The
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]. H. Haverly has secured the original
Hazel Kirke company for his California
theater, to appear the latter part Of May.
Manager Wallack recently made a ruling
against Gainsborough hats in his theater, but
so far no attention has been paid to his
dicium.
Byrne says that C~ampanini is nowhere
compared with Gianini, the Strakosch tenor.
This is the highest praise Campanini could
receive.
A wealthy admirer of James ONeil has
offered to deposit $4,000 in a New York
bank to guarantee him against all losses
should he determine to star next season.
The Hebrew element of onr society has
evidently been saving up their money for the
advent OF NJ. B. Curtis. He is zone of the
chosen" as well as their chosen comedian.
Colonel Sim, of New York, has offered
$1,000 to a medium who will show a mate
rallied spirit on his stage without fraud.
This is the safest venture the colonel ever
made.
Geo. Riddle volunteered to play "Romeo''
to Mary Anderson's Juliet at the lady's
the matchmaking gossips of the Hub talking
again.
Mr.. w. Carleton, the baritone, will prob
ably sign again for next year with D'Oyley
Carte. But it is on the condition that Sui
Ivan write something for him specially in
the next opera.
The twins, Wheeler and Byrne, who not
long ago appropriately dubbed each other
"cur" and skunk" have joined forces. We
can imagine how two animals of these spe-
cies find parting agreeable.
Hopkins Of HopkinsuiHe, the play which
Mr.. Joseph Brooks intended buying for John
7. Raymond, has been sent back to the
author for corrections. Which is another
way of saying that it will not be done.
Mr.. Henry E. Abbey has offered Mr.. Max
Strakosch $4,000 for a week of his company
at the Boston musical festival he is getting
up. Mr.. Strakosch wants $4,000. At this
festival Gerster will meet Patti on equal
terms.
Z. c. Callahan, an attorney of Cincinnati,
has sold his play, F0gg's Ferry, to Minnie
Madden, who is star under Joh Havlin's
management during the ensuing season.
The price alleged to have been paid is
$500, with a royalty OF SO for each per-
Torrance.
Etie Eilsler is getting some valuable free
advertising in the papers from the fact that
a number of ladies called at her hotel to beg
the favor Of a kiss. If a newspaper man
tried that innocent little game the chances
are ten to one he would be kicked out, sans
ceremony.
The Southern railroads are trying to Tt:
strict, by mutual agreement one with an
other, the extent OF reductions of rates to
theatrical companies. Thus far they have
not made terms. The best rates in the South
are already too highlfor the accommoda-
tions.-Wirror.
Stuar Robson has not been playing a great
deal in the South. Sore foot-corn, govt or
something. In the meantime John Marble
has been supplying his place. There are the
vaguest rumors OF a GOODNESS betwixt the
chums. Nevertheless they are dividing a
heap OF money this year.
Harry Meredith, now with Robson &
Crane in the South, is preparing to star next
season. His play is by a Philadelphia jour
naIist. Meredith was engaged by the chum
comedians 10 play "MaIyolio" in TueIfh
Niokt. But Iwelth Night failing of success,
they returned to their old stock. In none of
the old pieces is there anything for Meredith,
so he has twelve weeks of idleness diversified
with night Journeys. Robson & Crane nave
declined TO accept the offer made to release
him, so handsome Harry is studying the So
ciaI condition OF the South under peculiar
advantages.
Almost with the time that Mr.. William
Carleton, the eminent baritone, started to
sing in Patience at the Standard theater, he
began to receive letters from mysterious par
ties whom he had never met, demanding this
and that Gum, which he did not owe. At
first he treated the matter lightly, believing
it to be a stupid practical joke OF some
friend. But as the success of Patience and
his own increased, the notes became more
and more numerous. A bsrkeeper IN But
falo wrote that when he lent Mr.. Carleton
money and gave him drinks to the extent of
$50 be supposed he would be repaid within
a week, but that now he was going to lose
his situation because he couldn't pay the
money himself. = woman wrote from Pitts
burg, saying that she had called on God to
curse Mr.. Carleton for having her put out on
the street, instead of paying the S33 he
owed. A very sharp letter came from the
Commercial Hotel In Chicago, saying that
they were going to sue in the United States