Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-09-29
PLAYS AND

PAUL SIRAUDIN, cOnfectioner and play
wright, is dead at the age of seventy-two
Yeats. He was one of the authors of the
hbretto of La FAe de Madame Angot. He
wrote in all some eighty plays and opera
librettos.
EDWIN BooTH says Joe Howard is one
Of the most unhappy of men. He has
buried two wives, gone through the NOR
LITIGATION OF bankruptcy, and, SO far as
worldly wealth and the comforts Of n home
are concerned, has yet to make the one
and secure the other.
PRIMA DoNNAs sometimes lose other val
uables than diamonds during the eXigen-
6ies of an American "season." y pug dog
belonging to Miss Eu1nia Elsner, of the
Hess Opera Company, recently jumped
from a railway car and was killed and the
little lady is inconsolabie.
MIR. Cherries FRouMiN is reported to be
engaged to Miss Sarah Jacobs, the young
est daughter of the well-kn0~n diamond
merchant of this city. The young lady is
very beautiful, and is said to be worth
$4,000 in her wi right. Although only
twenty-four years of age, Mr.. Frobman is
already considered one of the leading the
atrical managers of this country.
W. J. FERGUSON, the actor, says: Last
week while chatting one morning with
Oakev Hall he told me that William Henry
Hurlbert, the former editor of the Horid,
coined the word dude at the time OF
V~anderbilt's ball. The word was first
used in the World in connection with a
description of the ball, wherein h writer
spoke of the disconsolate dudes who didn't
get an invitation"
THE Prince OF Wales doesn't remember
to have been snubbed by Mary Anderson.
He has not been in London since the
promising young Kentucky FLY reached
the metropolis, and he knows nothing
about her engagement there further thar
the receipt of a letter from DR.. Hamilton
Griffin ..nclosing an order to "pass our t.
the matane," and a reqest for his roya
highness to "please send me your orto
Crap"
GUSTAV AMBERG has organized an operi
company for the Thalia Theater, New
York, headed by Geistinger. The season
will open October LIST, with the origina
version of The Queens Lace Handkerchief
and the repertory will include Millocker'
Belle Student, Suppe's Afrikdre,Sc, Strauss
Venetian Nights, Roth's Forty Nights, Null
lockers Maid of BeLeriHe, Bergen's Nigh
and Day, Apdjune, Captain Nicol and Boo
caccio. Geistinger will also play Fedora
and create here the title role of Henekin'
Lii.
ITALIAN opera comes high in New York
The stockholders of the metropolitan
Operahouse Company, who suppose,
themselves entitled to the use of thei
boxes without charge, because they ha'
contributed So, 900 each toward the con
struction of the house, have just been nc
titled to hand in their checks for $1,000, o
at the rate of $50 per box of six seats 10
the full season. If they fail to do so it
to be accepted as evidence that they waiv
their right to the use of the boxes, whicl
will be sold after October 10Th for the us
of the company.
THE proposal to exhume Shakespeare
remains came formally before b Stratforc
-on-Ayon Town Council at their meetin
on the 9Th instant. The mayor said n
had been inundated with kilograms an
letters from all parts of the kingdom pre-
testing against the proposed outrage, an
calling upon the corporation TO resist TN
proposal to the uttermost. lne mayo
continuing, said: The attention, 1 ma
saw. of the whole civilized world Is Jul
now being directed toward our town j
consequence of the proposal to desecrat
the tomb of our immortal tovnsman, Wi
liam Shakespeare. / feel that / must, frol
the high position that | occupy, this mori
ing disabuse the public mind that this co
poration would ever allow such a propas
to be carried out. Hear, hear.l wouI
have it understood that any such imPl
dent proposal would meet from us a CO