Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-09-23

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~hippopotamus brought 5000, and one
pair Of lions and one leopard sold for
$3.50.
Mr.. VIM. Mcdonnell, Of Lindsay,
Ontario, has written an opera, entitled
The Esherman's Daughter" 1t is
to be produced in New York this
season. lra uf
Mrs. Langtry has evidently been
| we'll coached" She is already be-.
ginning to talk about the dear
Americans" and how anxious she is
to please them.
Frank Frayne appeared in Phila-
delphia Monday with "MardO." He.
has two dogs, a bear and two hyenas,
all of which are necessary to produce
this society" drama.
The New York Theater, a new
theatrical journal, declares that Mary
Anderson will not visit the South this
season at all. She opens her season at
Brooklyn, N. Y, Monday.
Callender's colored minstrels per-
formed at Little Rock last Tuesday.
The Jolly Bachelors" with Jennie
Winston as the star, was presented
there a few evenings since.
An entirely new effect is used in the
wreck scene in "RomaDy Rye" as
produced at Booths Theater. showing
the rise and fall Of the waves and
phosphorescent light on the water.
Emile Melville has raised quite a
furore in Australia. She appeared in
Melbourne at the Operahouse in LA.
Perichole" and received a perfect
ovation, a packed audience greeting
her with flowers.
Mrs, Henry Laboucher, who will
accompany Mrs. Langtry to this coun-
try, once acted, under her maiden.
name of Henrietta Hodson, at the
Olympic Theater, New York, then
managed by Laura Keene.
THE Romany Rye" was presented
at Booths Theater last Monday night
10 an over crowded house. 1t has
proven a success so far. In the cast
are John W. Norton, Mr.. and Mrs.
Tannehill and Mrs. Octavia Allen.
Josefy, the pianist, has closed some
important contracts for the next sea-
son; but 50 far he is one of the few of
whom such favorable news can be
written. The principal artists seem
slower than usual in making their
winter arrangements.
1t has long been Mr.. Thomas
Keene's ambition to play in New
York, and he is now announced to
appear at the Fifth Avenue Theater
in January. He opened his season at
Chicago last Monday, and during the
winter will play "ShylOck" in German.
Henry Irving is said to be the most
liberal Of men in sending free tickets
to the press. When newspaper cor
respondents happen to be in London,
he sends them word that theater
tickets are always at their disposal.
What a pity that the American man
ayers do not follow in his footsteps.
Madame Wilson's drawingroom in
London is full OF beautiful paintings,
portraits, busts, china, carved worries
and bronzes. Among the brio a.brac
are pieces of old Venetian and Persian
embroidery, clasps that n c belonged
to Ivan the Terrible, and the picture
Of a monk for whose head the brother
of the Queen of Spain sat.
Mrs. Langtry performed Hester in
IAN Unequal Match" last Saturday,
at the Imperial Theater, London. and
last night acted "Rosalind." An i'm
mense audience greeted her on both
occasions. Critics went into ecstacies
over her ankles sometime since but
the display necessary in the part of
Rosalind doubtless set them half wild.
Mrs. LaDgtry expects to represent
Kosalind frequently during her tour
through this country.
The introduction of the Ford
Brothers, the slayers of the bandit
Jesse James, at Bunnelrs Museum,
was effected yesterday, and those tool
ish persons who take pleasure in the
cheap dime novel can now contem-
plate genuine living desperadoes. The
opening of Bunnell's Brooklyn Mu.
scum was accomplished last night, SO
that such joys as the Ford Brothers
and the living skeleton will not be
restricted to this capital.-[New York
Tribune, 10.
An interesting play, presented by an
excellent company, was witnessed by
an appreciative audience at the Chest
nut street Operahouse, Philadelphia,
last Monday night. 1t is an adaptation
Of Sardou's last and, it is claimed.
greatest drama, entitled "Odette."
The story is Of an erring wife, whose
fault is discovered by the husband
and the misery it entails upon her
after being discarded and separated
from her child, who has been brought
up to believe that her mother was &C
~cidentally drowned while she was but
a babe. Each succeeding act becomes
more interesting than the one preced-
ing, until the climax is reached 10 the
fourth and last. The cast includes
Charles Fisher, John Drew, James
Lewis, Clement Bainbridge, Mrs. G..
d.. Lewis and Miss Helen Stoepel.
Sara Bernhardt was recently under
engagement to play in a little Ian
cashire town. The audience numbered
fifteen thousand persons; but after the
first Of act Camille" she absolutely re.
fused 10 play any more, saying she was
i'll. The news burstupon the astonished
audience like the explosion Of a bomb
Violent kissing was heard, and il
was with extreme difficulty that thi,
vast number Of persons was goi
away from the hall without trouble.
Sara persists that she ''yomited
blood her own ZOla-like phrase t.
express hemorrhage from the lungs,
but some knowing ones aver that il
was stage blood, if any, the connection
used TO smear the ghost Of Banquo.
and other UNANIMOUSLY murdered stage
people. 1t appears that she was
Outraged because the hall of the
town instead Of the theater, had been
secured for her two performances
This was a matter of pre-. engaged
dates, which could not be avoided.
Nine. Modjeska arrived at New
York last Monday in the Arizons