Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-19

Mrs. Caroline Richings-Bernard waz one
OF the persons who did not believe in vaccination.
Her death from smallpox is widely regretted, but
it creates no surprise.
SIT is curious instance of the ignorance
of music in England" says the London Truth
on Misery music in Mr SulIivan's Pofie7ce is the
same as that of the Dies Ire "
Mr. Irving contradicts the report that he
intends to act in New York with Booth. Hewould
not accept an engagement there without first con
sulting Wallack, who made courteous and lib
eral offer TO him some time ago which greatly
Wallack will have the first claim upon him should
he decide to visit this country.
Mr. Wallack's greatest trouble al present
is said to be the necessity he is under of keeping
his hair and mustache dyed, about which he Is
constantly scolding. He says that If he left his
hair its natural coler which is perfectly white
one you'd go TO see him act, as he would be con-
sdered too old to play the lovers part. How true
1t is that every heart bess knOweth its own bitter
nessl
f. Nicholas Crouch, of Baltimore. has
written letter in which he says that from the
thirty different editions OF his song, kathleen
country he has not received a cent He is now
working as common mechanic at less than 50
day, aud on this stipend he has to support wife
and five children.
The usefulness of an iron curtain was
proved last Monday in Hamburg. Between the
acts some of the scenery took fire in Conc7rdia
The house was crowded. Some women screamed
with terror, but the majority of the spectators
fire was put out and both curtains rose again.
Count Henri de Bournier's historical play
done into English and adapted for Miss Mary An
derson by Miss Annie Ford of Baltimore, under
the title OF The Daughter of Roland was performed
for the first time in this city at Booths thcater last
night. The play is solemn, pompous, melodra-
matte, with ine old crusted port flavor and me-
dieyal, not 10 say musty character. The language
is at times grAudiloquent often poetic and always
in keeping with the period of the play, and is ad-
mirably adapted to the style of Miss Anderson,
who plays the principal part.
Mr. Lester Wallack has recently endowed
a bed for the use OF invalid actors in the Homeo-
pathc hospital in Brooklyn out of the proceeds of
This WAS generous act and one worthy of imita-
ton by other managers. Such provision, the
World thinks, would have been boon to poor
Harry Bascom, an actor once well known in New
York and Boston, who now lies at the Hartford
hospital, near which he was found not long ago in
a barn half frozen to death. lie was a Bostorian
and Harvard man, and a time prospered in
has been fortunes foot ball, and has experienced
more than the usual vieissitudes of actors life
Luck seemed TO have deserted him altogether in
the last twelve months, and il is stated that ON
Thanksgiving day he started, i'll and pennileks, to
walk from New York TO Boston. On reaching
frozen during his lonely tramp. He orawled into
an old barn, where for two days he lay unattended
and without food. At last he succeeded in at
tracing the attention of people who were passing.
He was kindly and tenderly cared for by these
strangers, and II was they who took him to the
hospital This tale, if true, sounds ike story of
the days when the Kembes or the young Edmund
the guild of actors lay outside the respectable
ties of society