Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-09-22
AMUsEmENrs.


The BarlOW-wiIsOn MinnfreIs.
The famous Barlow Wilson min
strels will open here on Monday eve
ming next, aud crowded audiences are
expected during their stay, as there
are forty performers in the troupe. If
the pictures are correct, and they
usually are.
Ince Comedy Company.
The theater here opened it's season
last night under favorable auspices,
the audience being rather numerous
and more than half filing the house.
About fifty ladies from fashion
able circles graced the audi
torium. The comedy, Fun in
a Boarding School," 70 rem
dersd by the John Il. Ince troupe, was
in the main very clever, though rather
draRgy during the early part Of the
action. The piece vas original
with Minnie Palmer, q charming SOU
brette actress OF Is unique and origi
nal a type as Lolita, and who is now
playing in London with marked sue
cess. This lady acted the leading
part and it was then a Pingle act and
put on as a sort of a~fterpiece. II took
the audience and Miss Palmer had il
heightened, added new features, smart
sayings and ludicrOus situations, and
for a period Miss Palmer presented it
with great success, she acting the part
Of Jessie, q school girl. Il is really
Minnie Palmer's play and her permits
sion for the lnce company to render it
is announced on the play bills. There
is not much Of interest in it as a plot.
a hidden will, afterwards recovered,
aud no harm done being
the leading and really about the only
point, All Of the players, six in num-
Der, sing, and the ladies do it very
nioely. Mrs. Grace Clare, or Gayler,
who acts as J%essie's mamma, possesses
a well cultivated voice Of good vol
ume and sweet tone, and her execu-
sion would do no disoredit to a lyric
troupe. Miss Alice Baldwin, q club
by and very sprightly lady, as full of
mischief as she knows how to be,sanga
Smoking Duet we'll enough to let the
audience knew that she knows how TO
sing, but it was plain that she was
afflicted with a Wretched cold, and
this detracted materially from her
part in the performance. She, how
ever made q good impression. Mr..
lnoe, as the Professor, was exceeding
ly amusing, and his recitation Of Ser
geant Buzfuz's speech to the jury in
behalf Of the Widow Bardell iu the
celebrated suit against Mr. Piekwick,
from Dickens, was one Of the best
features of the entertainment. 1t
could not fail to delight any admirer
of Dickenst to hearMr lnce in this rec
i%tation. He was literally applauded
by the audience at the close. All Of
the performers were rewarded with
more or less applause at
intervals. Miss Clara,Bell, as the ans
cient maiden and assistant teacher,
made a decided hit, and was encored in
q song and dance, which she rendered
with more spirit than her auditors
had any idea she possessed. 10 fact,
the lady was the victim Of numerous
surprises, apparent 10 to herself, and
she also surprised the audience on
several occasions. The comedy is in
course ofrepetition this afternoon, and
will be given for the last time tesnight
Monday night it will be performed at
Helena, Ark next at Little Rock,
then at sherman, Texas; after that al
Fort Smith, and from there the troupe
proceeds northward.
Circus and Menagerie.
On Wednesday next the great ex.
hibition Of s. H. Barrett & Co. will
pitch its tents on the bluff in front o.
the city, to give us our first taste fol
this season in arenic feats. Their
animals are also a fne collection, and
it will we'll repay the lover Of zoology
to inspect the caravan.