Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-03-04
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Mrs. Mckee Rankin still continues very Ill.
Edwin Booth received in Germany $3.50
night.
Modjeska will return to Poland for the
summer.
Esmsrulda is still whining her way about
the country.
Fifteen companies succumbed to bad bust
| ness last week.
R. L. Scott, husband of Patti Rosa, has
| left her for good.
Lew Harrison stars in a new piece, written
for him, next season.
Wyndham will produce The Rajah, new
comedy, next season.
Sarah Jewett has been engaged by John
Stetson for next season.
Music and the Drama has an excellent
| sketch of Rose Coghlan.
Ricardo Drigo has written a new opera,
called La Aogtie Rapita.
A Russian translation of Faust has been
given at st. Petersburg.
Frank Mayo will make "Z.ke Stevens"
| the central figure in Chtspa.
Clara Morris supports Salvini the coming
week, when he appears in The 0utIGw.
Nat Goodwin's new comedy company will
begin its season in Chicago, September I'd.
Psuline Lucca has made a great success
in Gounod's Tribut de Zan1ord at Vienna.
in San Francisco yesterday, aged seventysix years
d. K. Russell. once the husband of Adah
Isaacs Menken, is now professional beggar in st.
Louis.
J. 2. Little will produce his new play,
Nuggets next week in Philadelphia. playing the
role himself
Margaret Mather has been dangerously i'll,
and there is probability OF her being withdrawn
from the stage
Pincfore has attracted the largest houses in
Pittsburg of any opera sung by the Hess Acme
Opera Company.
Wonder if the name will cause it to be coolly re-
ceived this spring?
1t is not unlikely that Nine. Janauschek
will have to leave the stage temporarily on ac-
count of il-health.
The famous tenor, Boucarde, for whom
Verdi wrote the role Of "Manrico" in II Tfouatore
died lately in Italy.
The Southern press are enthusiastic over
Raymonds "Majah Bob Better, sah!'' and class it
with his sellers"
Undeterred by his bad luck-due entirely
TO mismanagement-Rossi is preparing for an.
other American tour.
There is prospect that Mile. Rhea will play
New York engagement following the Cincinnati
Dramatic Festival.
Po,tnce q Co., Ben WooIf's new opera. ia
being rehesrsed in Boston. The music is said To
be OF light character.
The divorce suit of Minnie Conway against
her husband, Levy. the cornetist, has been set
tied. SO says dispatch.
The work which procured for Wagner the
undying hostility OF the French was a very stupid
piece entitled 4 Cdpitulatioa.
B. G. Morris is negotiating with Col.
Hsyerly for the production next fall of his new
melodrama, The Pulse Of Net1 York.
The Storm Caild: Sidney Rosenfeld's new
play, has proved failure Minnie Madden in
tends dropping it out her repertory.
Jeffreys Lewis closed last week for sea.
son of nine weeks on the Pacific coast beginning
on July 3oth. She will play West from Denver.
In letter received by gentleman in New
York Oscar Wilde announced anew his intention
of going on the stage He is to debut as Romeo"
Russell Bassett has been engaged to play
the Jew In The Black Flag for next season. He
Is at present member OF Maggie Mitchells Com
pany.
Barry and Fay in Irish Aristocracy are re.
ported as doing an immense business through the
West, and syl Hickey, their manager, is conse-
quently happy.
Ben Maginley is engaged for six weeks TO
play with Boucicault in The AmadoR at the Man
haitian. BE will act the part William Warren is
doing in Boston.
Mary Anderson will wear some of the
handsomest and most expensive dresses ever seen
n sds sn nfn lula hns the cnsinna
Dramatic Festival.
John A. Msckay wants some good writer
to work him up lot of travesties on standard
after those OF some popular tragedian. Then he
Il ready 70 star; but until that time he viii stick
to q sure thing-salary.
Joe Brooks said recently to = New York
Mirror reporter: At present business is splendid
all through the South. As I said befofe, Sev or
leans has improved on her former record while
Memphis, Nashville, Atlanta, Augusta and other
points of consequence have had The best season
for several years. For next season the prospects
are brighter than ever" Why the dickens then
don't Joe send q few decent attractions South.
Dion Boucicault says that it was he who |
took Henry Irving from the English provinces to
London, but that Manager Bateman nsked the
money to bring him ont successfully. Being AK
ed whether Irving would probably succeed here, |
Mr.. Boucieault replied: III by success you mean
great houses. there is no doubt about that but If
you mean what rank the people viii assign 70
him in the hierarchy OF great tragedians II Is i'm
possible To determine, You have types before you
of the leonine In Forrest, and OF the panther in
Booth and some may remember the urzine Ma 1
cresdy; but Living Il like none of these, L
he be characterized. He resembles absinthe. |
Some people may make faces at il 81 first but the
taste grows upon you, and at last becomes eager
appetite"
ASK your grocer for the HOMEeooking oil, |