Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-01-24

Olive Logan, writing from London to the
CincinI All Inquirer, gives some interesting
gossip OF the London stage:
/ think the idea of the AdamIsss Eden
performance originated in Americs in some
OF those offensive female minstrel shows,
which seem to have lost favor now. Ger
taiuly, seventy pretty girls, attractively
numbers, constitute in themselves winsome
sight. Ii is upon their power OF pleasing
that The Lila Clay Company, at the old
Opera Comique Theater, relies for public
favor. And 1t gets it. Night after ight the
sepulchral old vault of a Iheater is COM
pletely filed, principally by "chippies,"
however, and the company of Seventy pref
ty and clever girls" is hourishing like
green bay tree. The msnsgeress has power
ful social backing. Interested in the enter
prise, either through the sordid matter of
the purse or the more tender one Of the affec-
tions, is Major George Fitz George,
the son of the Duke of Cambridge,
and cousin to the Queen. The gallant
major distinguished himself in Egypt. and
stands high in favor with Victoria R. l.,
despite the "Fitz" which preclaims the bar
| sinister that crosses his otherwise proud coat
| of arms. His mother was an actress, and a
| burlesque actress at that-a beautiful crea-
ture in her youthful days, cotemporaneous
with the early era of Nine. Celeste and The
| French Spy business. i was looking the other
day at colored print of her in tights and
| breeches, which an antiquarian bookseller
| in St. james street is keeping 10 get siiff
| price for. The Queen has never sanctioned
this marriage, but, nevertheless, Mrs. Fitz
George is respected and visited, even by the
younger members Of the royal family. Per-
chance the major intends following his roy al
papa's example, and will select wife from
amid the hours who people the mimic scene
! In An Adanliess Eden. Linda Dietz has In ade
a tremendous hit in the part of "Mrs. Mac
donald" in Impulse. 1t is a regular Sarah
| Bernhardt impersoustIon. Linda has quite
as good figure for stage purposes as Sarah
has, ia almost as wonderful a "clingist," and
has a much prettier set of features than the
great French artistic hiss Apropos, Sarah SEM
me fascinating Christmas card-noth.
ing more nor less than photograph of her
self IN an open coffin, with candles burning
by her side, her hands crossed on her breast
and great branches of palm trailing over her
Marie Roze's Christmas cards were pretty
They were not boughten affairs at all, bu
engraved cards with musical staff, dottins
out the name OF the pretty cantatrice, and {
large hand painted rose, blooming Iuxuri
antly in the upper left-hand corner. Mime
Rozs Mapleson has a charming and roomy
home in the Finchley New Road, just beyont
st. Johns Wood; she calls it Hawthorn
Lodge.
l hear the most extraordinary story sbou
the Baroness Burdett. Couits. Well, we'll
But the baroness is a good Christian, ant
believes in obeyipg biblical injunction. Som
Americans wonder at seeing the baroness
wearing ermine, when that fur Is almost en-
tirely set aside now in the world of fashion
in favor OF seal, sable, etc. They ignore tina
ermine is the badge of baron's rank: ergo
that of a baroness also,