Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-01-18

EMILY MELVILLE is in financial trouble
in New Zealand. She has written 10 friend
10 New York to send her money to return to
America.
A NEW sacred Opera, Sulamith, by Anton
Rubinstein, is to be produced at Hamburg
If it ever comes TO this country, the boys
will call it Smith.
SIGNOR VERDI, the veteran composer, in
tends to found at Busseto, in his native State
of Parma, hospital for the relief of the
suffering poor. The nearest establishment
of the kind is at Placenza, some miles away,
and sick or injured people on their way
thither have frequently died from exhaus
ton. The new hospital will be called the
Ospedale Verdi, and will be supplied by the
founder with the necessary furniture, ap
pliances aud medical stores.
THE initial opera at the new operahouse
at New York when opened next season will
be Mignon, with Nine. Nilsson as "Mignon.n
The remainder of the cast will be very strong
and the scenery and costumes will be az fine
as money and skill can make them. Her
Msjesty's Opera Company will open with a
new opera. Negotiations are now pending
with Mr.. Saint.Seans for his new opera
Henry VII. This will be followed by
Goethe's Tanning of the Shrep.
MICHAEL CAMPBELL CALNAN, better
known as NJ. c. Campbell, one of The Oldest
negro. minstrel performers in the country,
died at his home, No. 253 West Nineteenth
street, on Saturday night. He was born in
London in 1917, was once at Woods Min
strel Hall, No. 444 Broadway; was at diff
ferent times connected with the Melville
Ministries, Fellows's Miustrels, "Dan" Bryant
and George Christy, and for the last thirteen
years had been employed in the business de-
partment of the Daily Netcs.
THE New York World says that play
entitled Was He Right! written by Miss Jean
Burnside, will be presented in aid of the
Bartholdi Statue Pedestal Fund, at the Acad-
envy OF Music, Saturday evening, February
81. 1t is a domestic drama in four acts,
with scenes local to Fifth avenue and the
Hudson river. The leading part, that OF a
lawyer somewhat devoted to his profession,
will be taken by Mr. I. F. Mackey, formerly
OF the Union Square Theater. The part of
the lawyers wife will be played by Mics
Burnside herself, whose artistic and graceful
acting is enough to insure success to the
performance. She will be supported by a
strong company. The story of the play is
highly interesting and the incidents strongly
dramatic. A gentleman who read the play
said: "The construction is artistic, and the
dialogue elegant and thoroughly character
istic of the dramatis psrsone."
OF Mime. Albani, the Albany Evening
Journal says, admiringly: THE brave little
woman, who fifteen years ago irilled Is
Degms in the organ lott OF ST. Joseph's, re-
turns to us the acknowledged peer of any
singer in the world. To attain this distinc-
ton, Emma La Jeunesse combated odds in
a cold and senseless world which would have
dismayed heart armed with moity less of
bravery than she brought to her fight for
fame, quality Of intrepidity which has
been adored in woman ever since Joan of
Arc buckled ON her cuirass. 1t will De the
handsome thing to do, therefore, to receive
our pfotege with fitting demonstrations of
love and approval. Unmindful as Albany
has the reputation of being, she can afford
10 open her heart to Albini without regard
for the fact that her coming guest has drank
tea at Buckingham, or kissed the papal toe
at Rome. Mime. Albini comes back to us a
great artist, true wife aud a grateful bene-
iciary. What else entities her 10 hos
pitality"
The New York Times of Satu rday says
that an event which has great Importance
and value tor those who love dramatic art
occurred last night in Boston. Salviui APP
peared there, at the Globe Theater, as king
Lear" A dispatch from that city states
that the audience which witnessed Salvini's
perform ance was probably the largest audi
ence gathered on any occasion in Boston.
When the curtain fell after the second act
the success of the Performance was assured.
Salvini's splendid work provoked extraordi-
nary enthusiasm. II is said that his concep-
ton of "Lear" is even more broad and i'm
SENTATIVE than his conception of "Othello,"
and that be has risen in clear" TO the whole
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Salyini as clear" has been looked forward
to since it was known that he had begun to
study that great character with intense curl.
osity. He has not spared study. During
many years he has given patient thought to
the character, and he has RETAINED until
now, for reasons which are the reasons of
true artists alone, to present his idea Of
"Lear" upon the stage. His success, there
fore, is q very beautiful and honestly won
triumph.
DALY's THKATER, New York, was crowd
ed on Saturday night to witness the revival
of q comic work nearly two centuries old
Colley Cibber's She Would and She Would Not.
This play is not, certainly, one of the best of
Cibber's few good comedies; but it is full of
hustle and brightness, romantic intrigue and
broad humor. The revival of comedy BY
Cibber, who can almost be classed to-day
among forgotten Worthies, though he Is
worthy of remembrance as the writer Of the
Apology and of The Careless Husband, is an
interesting and novel event; and this revival
will be made, curiously enough, a. theater
where contemporsneous farce Is acted with
delightful skill, and has permanent local
hsbitation. The most conspicuous character
in She Would and She Would Motor, as Glib
Der wrote the title, She Void and She You'd
Not-is that of young girl disguised as 3
boy-one of the old page parts common
enough in the Restoration period. The play
wss frat produced at Drury Lane, London,