Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-05-28
FOOTLIGHT FLASHES.

FOOTLIGHT FLASHES.
Jimmy Morrisey is going TO play the raft
in the World.
The people will be heartily glad to see
Salvini back again.
Miss Victoria Vokes was taken very sick
May 23d, at a performance in Boston.
Ranch No. 10; or Anne from MasSaehusetLs,
has been successfully produced in Chicago.
Cad, The Tom6oy, is the e1cruciating name
of a new comedy-drama, in which Carrie
Swain will star.
RoHany Rye, a new play by the author OF
Lights Of London, will be presented by Brooks
and Dickson nextyear.
Moljeska, who by many is looked upon as
superior to Bernhardt, will be the leading
female star, the coming season.
Joshua Aliens WIFE, q new play by Miss
Ollie Lowell, OF Cincinnati, has been some
what successfully played at Providence, X. l.
Two Of the Madison Square Theater COM
panies will play Hazel KiTEe during the
entire summer-one on the Pacific slope and
the other in the East and Canada.
1t is reported that Mary Anderson will
shortly go to Europe TO receive instruction
from Nine. Ristori. We trust that the ru-
NOR is correct, for Mary needs instruction.
Signora Msieroni has closed her season
with the Hoey and Hardie combination, and
although she has received many offers for
next season, she has not yet closed with any
manager.
There Is row no question hat Nine.
Ristori will revisit this country during the
season of 1884. She will be under the
management Of Signor Majeroni, and will
play in English.
TIE Professor will close its season at the
Windsor Theater, New York. 1t will then
have been played 1862 lines. 1t will reopen
September 25tb, at Baltimore, with a reor-
ganized company.
John Il. Raymond is said to have never
omitted the business Of kissing his mothers
in-law" at rehearsal. We cannot blame Mr..
Raymond for this, but we rather sympathize
with the young ladies.
Nine. Teresa Carreno, Signor Tagliapie-
ira, Mr.. Louis Blumenberg, Mile. Pauline
Rossini (priRa donna of Mapieson's Italian
OPERA and Sigor Carlo Torriani will com
pose the Carreno concert company for next
year.
1t is said that the marriage Of Miss Kel-
logg to a Mr.. Whitney has been broken off.
1t would have been much better to retire
Clara Louise from the stagein this way than
any other. She no longer charms as a
singer.
The rehearssls of the Liring Age are pro-
crossing very satisfactorily at the Union
Square Theater, New York, and there is a
strong likelihood of the old play being a
success. The scenery will be very elaborate
and striking.
George II. Edwards, a negro comedian,
who was with Brooks and Dickson's Min
strels, which started early in the season and
came to grief, has recovered from them 500
for ca1arv Hua for which ba bod 10 ana
them in the Court Of Common Pleas, Phil
adelphia.
Signor Rossi sailed for London Tuesday
afternoon. 1t is state-i upon good authority
that his purpose in making this voyage is to
effect some arrangement whereby he may
have some part in the proposed Joint APP
of Irving and Salvini. Rossi is
very much disgusted with America.
Salsbury's Troubadours closed their sea-
son on Saturday evening in Maine. Next
season the organization will be made more
important in personnel and numbers, and
Miss Nellie McHenry and Mr.. Salisbury will
be made the special features. The latter
part of the season just closed was very sue
c~essful.
Signor Tomaso Salvini will repair to Lon
don Immediately after the close Of his St.
Petersburg engagement, for the purpose of
arranging for his appearance with Mr.. Irv-
ing in OhelO. The only bar to this appear
ance Is Mr.. Mortimer consent, under whose
management Salvini is engaged to appear in
England. 1t is thought, however, that Mr..
Mortimer will not oppose the wishes OF these
two great actors.
Mr.. John Stetson has engaged to support
Nine. Modjeska, besides Mr.. Barrymore,
who is TO play the light leading parts, Mr..
Frank Clements, who will do leading heavies.
Mr.. Clements is not a good scter, but he will
do for these marta Me Kaia MaaE will
probably play the leading female heavy
parts, such as Elizabeth" in Mary Stuart.
A juvenile leading lady has yet to be en-
gagged. w. f. Owen will be comedian.
The Rev. Robert Collyer spoke in New
York Sunday night upon Emerson" When
he rose TO begin his lecture he said: 81 see
p. T. Barnum sitting in a back pew OF
ward and take a seat in my family pew. Mr..
Earnum always gives me a good seat in his
circus and | want to give him as good u one
in my church." Mr.. Barnum took the seat
amid the smiles OF the congregation. Mr..
COllyer then began his lecture.
The Park Cafe, New York, had to close
up when Joe Brooks left for Erope. The
man who keeps the place says Joe used TO
buy a case OF wine a day. He says: "Mr.
Abbey did very well by me, but he was moth
ing to Mr.. Brooks, because there is not a
great deal of profit in brandy and soda. Mr..
Colville was a good eater, but very
He went in for lemonade only.
But when Mr.. Miles, Of Cincinnati, came to
town, it was a regular bonanza"
Mr.. Alexander Caufman gave a reception
10 critics, actors and mansgers, at his fathers
residence in Brooklyn, last Friday evening,
and read to them Mr.. Fred Marsden's new
play, Cdlkd 10 Account. Mr.. Marsden himself
present, and wept over the pathetic
scenes. Mr.. Horace Wall, Mr.. George Ed
gar, and a number of Brooklyn critics lis
tened to it. A fine banquet was served at
the conclusion of the reading, and the critics
naturally agreed that the play and the occa-
siOn were unusually brilliant.-Times.
The contract was signed last Thursday for
The production of Gilbert and Sullivan's new
opera, founded on The Princess. Its first per-
Torrance will take place at the Standard The
alter, New York, on October LIST, with Doyley
company. Mr.. Gilbert is to person
ally direct the rehearssls, and Mr.. Sullivan is
to conduct on the first night. The rights to
the opera will be sold entire for other cities,
with the agreement that Mr.. Sullivan will
conduct, on the first night, in each place.
Mr.. Stetson has already secured the opera
for New England.
A letter from Warsaw, in Poland, tells an
interesting incident in connection with
Nine. Modjeska. She herself is Of plebeian
extraction, but her husbands family are OF
long and noble descent. They were inti-
mately concerned in the Polish instruction
Of 1868. Some were murdered, some were
and all had their property confscated
by the emperor of all the Russias. Nine.
Modjeska has been making IN effort for three
years to get the confiscation decreed against
the family RENTED. She had made pretty
fair progress under the Administrations OF
Alexander IL, but his sudden death brought
it to an end, and the feeling in Russia against
the Poles was greatly embittered at the time.
1t was not until this summer that Nine.
Modjeska dared to make any new move.
While in London she had made the ac-
quaintance OF a high Russian dignitary,
Schouraloff. He advised her to go straight
to the empress Of Russia, and promised TO
get her a special audience. She started for
ST. Petersburg, but when there, spite Of
Schouralof7s influence, she being a Pole ex-
cited suspicion in the minds of the timid
officials. Never daunted, she tried and tried
again, and at legth was admitted to a private
interview with the empress, at which the
emperor was present. Two days after a
decree was published granting amnesty to