Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-04-01
STAGE sPLINTERs.

Jenny Lind il now sixty years old.
Petit Rosa will star uskl season ia Dads
Dollar.
Cuatt1nooga, Team, is to have new
operahouse.
Agnes Hsrndos has joiaed Roland Rsed's
company il Cheek.
There will be two companies on The road
playing the Ronlony Rye.
Mary Anderson vi ad 10 her repertory
The Winters Tale for next season.
Mr. Gye has rgaged Signor del Puente for
the summer season at Covent Garden.
Alice II srrisoa deciDes TO travel next aea-
She desires to be engaged in stock COM
pany.
Elks' Bury. the Hungarian actress, has
leased the Fifth Avenue Theater for the month
OF May.
John Lane, of John McCullough's Com.
>pany, has been engaged By Joseph Brooks for next
season.
Topsy Venn, who recently married w
Reynolds, is seventeen years older than the fortu-
nate husband.
The gndiepce a. K2le, Caglleilaq1,a Ihsaefii
Tnealer, Frisco.
Noxcn, haley & Toouev. of St. Louis,
will sxPeud about 5000 on the production OF the
| Conedy0J Errors ia that city
Gasts7us Hall has resigned from The
Emma abbott Opera Company, and will devote
himself in tutUIe 10 teaching.
Barry Sullivan viii ha il America in
| October en- route Tor AnSiTslia He Elay possibly
| play in one .! two OF cur lsrger cities
F,ans Losae has replaced Frank Roche NJ
| leading m with Ada Gray, the latter having
been fred for coming 10 the theatsr intUxica ed
| Gn5visve Ward has. rJt proved success
| OF late in EcPlaud. She played thelsasing par
in Great Catch at tae olympic Theater, London
JOIN R.ckShy and Gus Williams dissolve
partnership On the LIST of May. John II. Robb will
| e Nillismss business msHGgeE for the next sca'
son.
| The R.v. George C. Miln, the actor, sails
| for Europe on Wednesday. He will take letters to
| Henry irving aud other European actors. He in
tends spending six months abroad.
| aiLililaa Russell wss a chorus girl in Evan.
geliae when she appeared in Boston five years sgo
4 81 5uAd " sac sPrear5d at the Bllou concert III
| that city as the New FORK primo DONNA
The Westminster scere in he coming pro
| dnctiou ct Io!anths at the Walnut Street Theaier
PbiaIelp hia, viii show the locality Of the TeGen
| Fenisn dynamite explosion in LOndon.
Harry Greer, printer on The St Loui,
Post Dispatch took steps last week to enjO;n Annie
PlXiey from playing Z1Td, claiming that ne wrott
the play and that Fred harsden has only altered i
little.
Col }. franklin Warner has bad The book
| OF his light opera. Arctic, first produced at tht
Windsor Theater. Boston last winte reconstruct
| by J. Cheever Goodwin and " II try to obtain 10
il a New York production IN the summer.
Mr.. Sprizg pants- a -laur-doliars Hill say
that Miss Margaret Mather will have q fortune o
| $50 goo II she completes her x years engagement
with him II shr gets this sum, how many ar
! gong broke on her account?-NeiU York Mirror.
| Daring Bertha Wslhy's engagement a
| stIsnta Ga, recently, in the last act of On
w nGE's Life the lanel. dy elects the heroine 10
n9E,payment OF rent a e9un.tynsn 10 mRea {
| it." He was put ouE.
The opera "boufist" Theo is a phenome
non She acts, but she cannot sing; she is an i'm
mense fsvorite, but she IS truly good. We yentur
to say other Partisan artist OF this class eve
scorel q hit uuder -inilar conditions. Theo i
goot wife ard she owns good husband, Who is
tailor and makes all of her clothes None but tn
| hand of lawful love could cut and haste sue
witching dresses as the little FrencAwoman dis
| plays III her various roles.
An jmpreassrio once approached a null
| and offered rim advantageous terms to become
"Aias!' qIioth the mule with sigh that
| an impoSsibIlity. for though have an ear for mt
| sic my voice is sadly attuued "
But you can kick" inquired the impressaric
AT kicking," admitted The mule, 4 am pos
''Thsn," exclaimed the impressario, you hav
| the highest qualf alton oil the DTinla donna. Cor
| slider yourself engaged"
"pM goiag broke" sal Joseph Brooks
'in M new enterprise. start shortly for Europ;
where I will secure corps de ballet OF sixty, an
several ballets for production in This country
| will open In New York November LIST, and will eI
, deavor to run ballet for one year. To bring
| many artists over and for the proper production
il will So 010- should tail to run the seven
ballots bring over for year, viii place thel
on the road. Then l will engage fifteen selecte
musicians 10 travel and only play il large cite
Ny orchestra will never contain less than thirt.
: six pieces, aud it will essuredly be the create
| scheme Of the country"
A ate editorial srticle in the Medical Re
! | ord pointed out an unfsyorable influence of II
: | thester upon public health, which is worth bea
, | iOg in mind. There is aiYays much talk OF pr
| lection from fires, ventilation and temperature
! | but more general and insidious evil comes fro
the effect OF the theaIer taking late hOurs musi
. ! heat, lights. ID most important, the strongl
. 4 emotional or Sensational plays now so pfevalen
| upon the health OF young people, particular
. | girls. The simple nervous excitement in impre
: / sionsble subjects may be grave sort of ds &c
!, | resulting in hysierical tendencies snd metiD
: f. n ui fortunate pergersiOn OF the moral seUi
: | bilities. This warning, based upon the expsrien
!, OF physicians, is one 10 be commended to parent
e 1t ia reported that 4 conte-t of beauty O
G | cured al san Francisco rAcsntly between MINI
L | Pa .meT, Kate CastetoD. Ina smith, Lille Grub
, | Irene Perry and May Stembler, where not on
). 4 faces but forms were pot INTO competition. ~
: scene of the contest was bathing estahl sinner
s where the above actresses app AIRED in nesh-ct
!. oFei tights, and OispJrted in tue waves. lille
l. ! committee of bewilderld gentlemen on the bes
e took notes fer fiusl decision TO SUPERIOR
e had erappled together their scot cred though
g | they found thAt the charms Of Minnie Paine
u shape snd the grace 81 Kate CdEtletons ont in
o | had secured an equal number oil vOteS. De Your
n | OF the san Francisco Chronicle, cast tie dscdi
? ballot for Miss Csstleton. The result cid not ?
e an end TO friendly relations between the parti
= | panls.