Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-08-29
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Inc success OF That very novel, ingenious
and beautiful spectacle, Excelsior. at Nib
los Garden, Is very decided.
Lawrence Barrett opened in Booker's
Francesca do Riminj at the Star Theater,
New York, Monday night last.
\ new and successful English PLAY.
called Cousin Zdchdry. has been produced.
1t is described as pathetic and well written.
Miss Rose Eytinge and her dramatic
company will begin their season at the
new Peoples Theater, New York, on Sep
TENDER 9th.
Miss Mary Anderson. it has already been
stated, will begin her engagement at the
Lyceum Theater, London, in September,
as Parthenia in HtgOmGr.
Mr.. Arson Ponds play. Hcr Atonene1t.
which Is now in the hands of Messrs.
Brooks q Dickson, will he produced at the
Grand O~perahouse, New York, on Septem-
Der Sd.
Mr.. Townsend Percy has received from
London all the scenery and costumes for
Mr.. LuscOmbe Searches opera, EsteLa.
which is to be produced in Philadelphia in
October.
Messrs. Brooks & Dickson have employ
e dthe summer months in ~redecorating the
Standard Theater, New York, which will
be opened on Saturday, the Sth of Septem-
DOiS L illN HfffV bNffttSS. Il GOTHIC DtBCTa
by Sims 4 Clay.
Townsend Percy has received from Lon
don all the sceneries and costumes for the
opera OF EsreHa, which is to be produced
at the Arch Street Operahouse, Philadel-
phla, IN October. They are all .Nenetian
and said to be elaborate.
Mr.. X. NJ. Field, of the Boston Museum.
has laid out a full and interesting pro-
gramme for the present season. The
theater was opened on last Monday night
with The Marble Heart, in which Mr..
Charles Barron and Miss Annie Clarke
appeared.
The White Sergeant, 4 new opera by Ste
phens X Solomon, which has been pur-
chased by Townsend Percy, will be the
last work by that firm. Hereafter Sydney
Grundy will write with solomon and Mr..
Stephens for Walter Slaughter, the com
poser of An 1ddmLess Eden.
The Rajah is fast approaching its fourth
month to undiminished business at the
Madison Square Theater. On Monday
Miss Carrie Turner and Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Whifien will reappear in the cast.
The frequent changes nave been quite
effective i'll an artistic point OF view.
The production OF Lecocq's opera Heart
and Hand at Daly's Theatre, New York, by
JIG. Duff's Standard Opera Company, has
] btcH very SUCCESSFUL III spite OF lilt
hot weather the house has been well filled
at each performance, and the applause has
borne evidence TO the pleasure of the spec
tators.
The Grand O~perahouse, New York, was
opened last week for its second season
under the management of Mr.. Henry i.
Abbey. The attraction was Sims melo-
drama, The Lights o London, and that it
still retains its hold in public estimation
was evidenced by the fact hat the house
was crowded from orchestra to gallery.
The Frank Majilton Company will ap-
pear i'll New York at the Fourteenth Street
Thcater on September Sd, and will be seen
there in a musical farce called Tie Frotics
Of a Day, which is well known in Great
Britain. The members of the company
are Mr.. Frank Majilton, Mr.. Thomas Lis
bourne, Mr.. Herber Gresham, Miss Fannie
Temple, Miss Ernestine Acrinam and Miss
Elite Whyte.
There is nothing new about the George
Edgar venture. 1t has proved an instant
and total failure, mainly for want of
money and managerial tact. The general
impression of managers and actors appears
to be hat Mr.. Maze Edwards is RESPONSE
BILE for a route that was impracticable in
summer and for a management that was
expensive and suicidal. The COMPANY
"Np NADNNN~N boNh IN W." iClh NNo
terday.
Mr.. Burnand, the English humorist and
dramatist, is writing a b~urlesque on Shake
speare's Tempest, to be called Ariel. Mr..
John Hollingshead has also a burlesque of
Hamlet in hand. These Sh~akespearean
burlesques, it is stated in a London paper,
are to be elaborate parodies in three or
four acts. In this country we have already
had George X. Fox as Hamlet and Jim
Crow" Rice as "Othello," and old theater-
goers say that Rice's "Othello" was both a
remarkably strong and humorous per-
formance.
Messrs. Brooks & Dickson will have four
companies opening on September Sd,
namely: Her Atonement, at the Grand
O~perahouse, New York The Romany Rye,
No. /, at Novelty Theater, Brooklyn The
Romany Rye, No. ,, at Academy, Montreal ;
John Raymond Company lat Operahouse,
London, Ont. Mr.. John Rickaby, a most
competent lieutenant, has taken an inter
est in and the general management of all
of Brooks & Dickson's travelling companies,
and the tom of Edwin Booth, Ellie Ellsler
and John T. Raymond.
Mr.. John H~ollingshead, the w~ell-known
manager and ttterdteUr of London, will
visit America in October. He comes over
to conclude the arrangements for the tour
of the Gaiety Theater Company in 1SS4-5,
which are now being made by Townsend
Percy on his behalf. Mr.. Hollingshead
was for years the best known of London's
dramatic critics, is the author of FOOHights
and other works, a prolific writer for the
London periodicals, including Punch, and
has been for fifteen Years continuously
manager of the Gaiety Theater.
Miss Ellen Terry will receive during her
American engagement 1900 dollars Il week.
Mr.. Terriss, the leading man of Mr..
lrving's company, will receive 400 dollars
a week. Mr.. Irving and, Mr.. Terriss and
Miss Terry will come on the same steamer
to this country. The will act here with
the Lyceum Company for a month, then
their route will lead them to Philadelphia,
Boston, Baltimore, Brooklyn, Chicago, st.
Louis and Washington. They will also
appear in many smaller cities. Their
farewell performance will be given at the
Star Theater in April.
Mr.. P. S. Gilmore, with his accustomed
energy, is organizing u "Gilmore jubilee
to be given at Manhattan Beach on Tues
day, Wednesday and Thurday. Mr.. Gil
more's idea of a jubilee will be appreciated
when it is known that it includes his own
band to the number OF 100, the Twenty
second Regiment drum corps, 4 "red-shirt-
ed anvil brigade, the soprano Miss Emily
Spader, Mr.W ii. Stanley, the tenor, Nine.
Donaldi, Sig. Gottschalk, the Meigs sisters,
a chorus of male voices and a park of ar.
tillery. Like Mr.. "Bunthorne's" poetic &C.
stacy, this trif1ing oUtburst will occur only
three times a day,
Mr.. Clinton w. Stuart, well and favor.
ably known as an intelligent and rising
young actor, who graduated from the press,
has just returned to New York from Eng.
land, and has been engaged by Mr.. StetsOn
fnr nayr SQaln He Gays thaf tha fu-n fnne-
remarkable performances that he saw in
London were Sara Bernhardt's Fedora
and ~Irving's Louis NJ" Fedora" gives
Bernhardt a chance to do everything she
can do. She has a love scene in which she
is finer than in Ruy Bias, and she has a
death scene in the last act which surpasses
that of Camille" All of Irving's defects
become virtues in LOuis NJ, art and acct
dent combining TO make it his greatest
part.
The Emma Abbott Opera Company fol
the coming season will consist OF Mines
Julie Rosewald and Zelda Seguin, Messrs
Valentine Fabrini, Victor Noyello, William
Castle, Walter Allen, William Broderick
and Sig. Giovanni Tagliapietra, in add
ton to Miss Abbott. J. II. Rosewald vii
be the musical director. The season viii
begin tomorrow evening, and the com
pany will travel through all the principa.
cities in this country and Canada. The
repertory comprises Linda, 4 King for Z
Dag, RigoLdrO, la S~onndmbaid, LUcja, Car
men, POliuto, Bohemian Girl, Martin, Mig
: non, Fdud, II TrordtOre, Chimes Of Nor
mandy, Fra DiGroIO, Romeo and Joiiet, and
Paul and Virginia..
{ As an expression Of heartfelt sympathy
for the members Of the. Brotherhood o.
!, Telegraphers who fought so nObly for q
good cause, but who were defeated, il ha.