Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-05-01
STAGE SPlINTERs.

Col. MAPLEsoS says Nilsson is "all bluff"
NeuQda, Romance Of the Wesi, is a new
play Louis Aldrich is reading.
FIVE thousand dollars night is what Ma
pleson will pay Patti next season.
ELI PERKINss trunk was attached for
his hash bill st Lockport, n. Y, last week.
HAROLD FosBuRG will star in a new play
next season, which ia now being written for
him by Cincinnati author.
REMENYI has found a twelve-year- old girl
in Texas whom he pronounces the greatest
violinist America ever producedl
The receipts Of the Music Festival at
Pitisbnrg were $1,000 and the expenses
S927S. Acloss. call for the boys.
A NEW YORK judge, before whom was
brought young man caught serenading his
best girl, fined him as nuisance.
JOHN ("On HANDY THOMPSON and his
mammoth company of three, are INJECTING
the email towns OF Michigan at a great risk.
ALICE OATES and her company have been
eng aged-to give light operas during the sum-
mer at the Spanish Fort, near New Orleans.
Thus does the Cincinnati Eaquirer back
cap the Dramatic Festival: "Should Julius
Caesar and she can't Barrett, just Marc An
tony"
II Is not lTue Luhl LDtld ESllFSs 1T tue
stage by reason of advanced years. She Is
no older than Janauschek.-Ciaeinnati En-
| quirer.
IT is said that the production of WagneI's
| PITsitai has been forbidden in London on the
| ground that it is made up of scriptural scenes
| and characters.
| DR.. DAMRosCH has resigned his position as
director Of the Arion Society of New York.
| Max Bruch has been offered the place at 3
salary Of $4,000 per year.
THEo, it il said, has four pet dudes. They
are Of pure blood, and she is quite proud of
them. As pets they are sffectionate and
harmless, and can be taken anywhere with
out danger.
| One of the Calender Minstrela fell from
the flies to the stage in one of the Western
theaters and lit on his head, but was not in
| jured. 1t cost the Frohmaps $40 to have the
stage repaired.
| A CINCINNATI paper Gays: mat Goodwin
will visit several OF the cemeteries to-day to
make himself familiar with the part of the
| 'Graye-digger' he ia TO play in RCnlIa. He
| brIng- his own Skull"
! IT is said that Verdi is busily at work on
his new opera, Id9o, the Ebretto of which il
founded on Shskespeare's OheHO, by Arrigo
| Boito, the poet and composer. The new
|
Scala, Milan.
FREUND'si DAILY says: "We unders. and tha
Harry j. SaIjsnt ia negotiating for Lydia
Pinkham for next season, and will star her
in an original society drama, entitled PsHs,
or Womda'S Weakness Jacob s.. Oil will
probably be leading man."
NOTHING breaks up the capper of circu
side show more than to work his lie vel bee
| to induce man with six children along Il
go into his tent, and when the mar at las
consents, finds he is clergyman with FIRE,
pass for himself and hi. progeny.
INJersey City there is a saloon frequenteC
by the ballet of Aberle's. The glrls ar
death on clam chowder, and after The SHOW
they were wont 10 fl up at that place. Tn,
other night somebody doctored That luncl
with ,lap, and the msidens eat elsewher
now.
FANNY DAvENPoRT has grown ten year
younger since she went away. Fer figure
which was inclined 10 embonpoint, is now a
slender as could be wished, ~ ID her fac
glows with health and lively spirits. Yield
ing TO the foreign fashion, she as sacrifice
most of her hair TO the shears. What is lei
clusters in short curls over hel. neck an,
forehesd, giving her countenanci. a piquant
expression.
In enc of the circuses now on the roa
there is an act introduced BY Nala Dana
JAMIE, Hindoo snake charming girl. Sh
has dozen enormous snakes which sh
twists around her in every conceivable way
ending her act by encircling herself with a.
the reptiles and taking an enorm Gus one j
the middle by her teeth and wal King arour
the Enclosure with its head and body drag
ging. III an old bum should happen to st ss
ger in the show about the time this act va
going on he would think he had case
james Preserves.
AN opsrahouse on wheels is the latest dra
matte novelty, and a company, with head
quarters at Kansas City, has been organize
to build and manage it. 1t is to consist 0
eight railroad care, which can be expanded
by Ingenious mechanism into 8 capaciou
structure with auditorium and stage com
plete, and Is destined for the benefit Of com
muniies which do not possess facilities fe
the production of plays. 1t will run iron
, place to place on the railroads, and carry
portable track upon which il can be switche,
, of and transformed into theater.
Minnie MADDERN played Fogg's Ferry a
Denver recently. In the scene where she i
TO explode the torpedo her pistol missed fire
J A veracious Denver paper says: "Miss Mad
, derD, though little surprised at the miss
fire OF the weapon, was cooking it for an
other shot, when suddenly a cowboy jumped
to his feet in the audience, and, hourishiul
navy-six, shouted: Stand little to on,
side, gal, and Pll bust it for you. Blam,
my eyes, bot them chaps ain't going to dish
up that boat that way The ominous clicF
OF forty -four-caliber was distinctly heard
and as he pointed his pistol Miss NJ sdderp
with great presencs OF mind, without NOV
ing from her position, for the second tim,
pulled the trigger, fortunately with better
success. The torpedo duly exploded, anC
the steamer glided on majsstically in safety
The audience felt relieved, and nobody NOR,
SO than Miss Madden, who did not care t
be party to cowboys Workmanship"