Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-01-14
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The Boston Ideals are in Canada.
WYsDHAM is to open al Louisyiits to-
morrow.
Miss THURsBY has been giving concerts in
New York.
BOTH Abbey and Mapleson are bidding
for Patti next season.
The Corsiean Brothers has been successfully
revived in New York.
Tony PASTOR intimate that he is going
to retire after this season.
"SHE WOULD AND SHE WOULDN'T" was
produced at Days Saturday.
AMATEURS in Nashville produced Gilbert
& Sullivan's Trial by Jury last week.
The Emma Abbott Opera Company gave
Martha in Toronto, Ont, January Sth.
THEATRICAL excitement was never at such
food in San Francisco as at present.
sALvINI, Rose Eytinge and Dion Bouci-
cault were all in Boston the last week.
A. C. GUNTER has shown his coufsge by
producing Courage, his new play, in New
York.
CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG and the Schubert
Quartetle are playing to large audiences In
Massachusetts,
Miss Lillian RUSSELL will head a comic
opera company next season, which VIII be
named after her.
THE Boston Ideal Opera Company are
busily engaged rehearsing Fra Diduolo, to be
presented shortly.
JOHN E. INcE, with Our Boarding School,
is again reported to be in trouble. Business
has been bad all along.
HAvERLY's Merry War Company played
the opera whole week in Indianapolis, and,
strange to say, were successful.
WETHEREL says Abbey and Mapleson can
do the ''blowing," but he is going to do the
business with "Henest Little Emma"
"OUR INFANT" the Harrison's new piece,
is an adaptation OF F. c. Burnand's Betsey
produced in London two years ago.
LESTER WALLACE has again changed his
mind. Instead OF Ours he will produce
Rosedaie at the Windsor Theater on January
22d.
A. SALvIN1 is on a visit TO his father In
Boston, having been relieved OF his duties
with the Margaret Mather Company Tor 8
few days.
Mr.. ANsoN PoND's play, Her Atonement
will not be produced before the 18th Of
February at Haverly's Fourteenth Street
Theater.
NJ. FRANcHI is authority for saying thai
Nine. Nilsson will sing for Mr.. Abbey n ex
season, and that there will be no tro ublt
about it all
MAGGIE MITCHELL denies that her daugh
ter, Fanchon Paddock. is going on the stage
| She is at present at school, net dreaming o.
such career.
Col. MAPLEsoN is seriously contemplating
giving German opera during the months o
January and February, with Mr.. Theodore
Thomas as director.
NJ. PINQUELY. has been engaged to in
struct the children 10 dance the minuet II
the ballroom scene in Romeo and juliet
the Dramatic Festival. Cincinnati.
The Alhambra Quartette, who came owe
| from England to JOIN Ernest Stanley's Allied
Shows, are entirely destitute In Chicago
The Elks will most likely assist them.
THE Boston Ideal Opera Company refus
| to sin on Sundays. Miss ODER, the man
| ager, prefers to lei her company rest, especi
| ally as business is splendid wherever the
| go.
The following operas will be given a
| the Cincinnati Opera Festival: 1Tariato
! LAfricaine, Sonnanibula, William Tel, Semi
ramide, Fiegendc HoLIander and Don GIG
vanni.
The Richberg String Quartette commences
| four months tour on the 10th OF January
at Annapolis. Miss Villa Whitney White
soprano, and Ed J. O'Mahoney, basso, ar
the soloists.
Mr. BLuMENBERG, the violoncellist of tn
| Lit,a Concert Company, is fast building up
brilliant reputation. His reception through
out the country, both by the press and public
has been enthusiastic.
JOSEPH P. LEONARD, OF Boston, has bee
euioined from producing Gounod's RedemF
ton. Theodore Thomas, of New York, claim
exclusive property in the orchestral score Q
this work in the United States.
SHOULD the negotiations now pending b
Col. Mapleson, for the production next fsl
of Ssint-Saens's new opera, Henry VII
prove successful, the distinguished compose
will come over and conduct it himself.
The death is announced in London G
John Blockley, the composer of many popu
lar melodies, and bes. known, perhaps, b
his setting TO music OF Tennyson's poem
The Brook. He was eighty-two years old.
JOHANN STRAUSS, who was divorced fror
his second wife few months ago, is abou
TO marry sgain. His bride is widow {
twenty-seven years, q Jewess, who will hay
| to change her religion but not her NAM
| which is Adele Strauss.
Col. CHARLES R. THoRNE, sR., the vetera
| actor and the father of Charles and Edwin
| will appear at the Union Square Theate
shortly in The Hunchbaek. The peiformanf
will occur in the afternoon. supported by b
SONS and his daughter Emily.
The cast of Hamlet for the Cincinna
Dramatic Festival will be: "Hamlet,n J.
Murdoch; "The Ghost" John Mccullough
"Laertes,n Lawrence Barrett; "Queeu Ge
trude," Clara Morris; @Ophelia, Mary Al
derson; First Grave Digger" Mat Goodwin
THE libretto of aida was written by NJ;
rietta Pashs, The distinguished gyptologis
and given by him TO FelIcien David, WIN,
however, was unable to furnish the music
time; il was then offered 10 Verdi, who a,
cepted the task, the sum stipulsted bein
10000 He commenced work the same da,
Miss MARY ANDERSON has accepted NJ
Abbey's proposition to exchange her mer
! can engagement for Mr.. Irvins's in Eurot
next autumn. In accordance with this sgre'
,, ment Miss Anderson will open at the Lyceui
Theater, London, next September, and n
Irving will make his appearance in Ne
York at the came time.
MALE stars have proved better attra
ton al the Grand Operahouse, Denver, ths
, the female. Reese Eytinge and Chariot
Thompson only drew $500 each for OF
.. week; Lawrence Barreti, $500: Mccullougl
, $500. The of the Denver public
:. opera and opera beufe Emma Abbott toe
li1f12.549; Barton Comic Opera Compan
500: Alice Oates, 1926, with medioc
i Gnpany.
: IAN article on the study OF Shakespes
: In Good Words, Mr.. Henry Irving says: ~
: course, il will be said that there are no &C
: ors now. The old storyi 10 the long run
: popular remembrance the beet reward 10
: hoped for BY those Of u. who most socce