Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-04-20

though afterward appreciated, was little
above the level OF the audience which
makes holiday ON Easter Monday.
THE BOHEMIAN GIRL"
Therefore the manager now decided to
open with the familiar Bohemian Girl. The
cast was: ''Thaddeus," Mr.. Joseph Mas
Count Arnheim," Mr.. Ludwig; "Devils-
hoof," Mr.. Snazelle; Queen of the Gyp-
sies," Miss Lebrun; ''Arline," Miss Geor-
gina Burns. An immense audience
crowded every part of Drury Lane. They
welcomed old favorites with enthusiasm,
and applauded Herr Randegger, the con-
ductor, and NJ. Carrodus, the chief violin
ist, and wildly cheered Mr.. Joseph Mas,
who is now the most popular tenor in
London.
WHAT THE SEASON PROMISES.
All the old songs were received with
rapture, and thus auspiciously began the
season, which promises Carmen tonight,
with Nine. Marie Roze; then revives Mac
kenzie's Columbia, then Esmeralda, with a
new ballet and music, and then produces
Villiers Stanford's long expected work,
The Pilgrims.
THE ROYAL THEATER.
Among the Easter novelties none are
more successful than La CoSdqlte, produced
by Miss Kate Santley at the Royal Thea
ter. The cast is: "Prince Gregoire," NJ
Marius; "Prince Feodore," Mr.. Sidney
Harcourt; ''Prince Cyrille." Mr.. Williams;
.'Jules PriInitif," Mr.. Henry Ashley I;
Mime. Dupotin," Miss Amelia; princess
Anna" Miss Kate Santley. The excellent
bit of fooling is the latest addition to
Judic's repertory.
MISS sANTLEY's CHARACTERS.
The adapter is Mr.. Sidney Grundy, who
has Gilbert's neatness in his lyrics and
more than Gilbert's sparkle in his dialogue.
Miss Kate Santley appeals much to the
same class OF people in London as Judic
in Paris, so that the parts which suit the
black-eyed siren of the Varieties suit the
golden-haired Venus OF the Royalty.
Moreover, with her pet lion, her pistol
and cigarettes, the heroine of La Cosaque
is one OF those viyacious creatures whom
Miss Santley portrays with unfagging
spirit. Messrs. Ashley and -Marius are
both excellent grotesques, who support
her well, and Herve's music is so catching
that everybody goes away humming the
ditty with classical refrain:
Alfonso, Alfonso
VIII you get away?
If she saw you go so,
What would Mrs. Grundy say?
ALHAMBRA THEATER.
With the same good fortune Mr.. Will
liam Holland, the manager OF the Alham-
bra, has secured highly-successful work.
This is Millocker's Beggar Student. The
cast is: Countess Palmatica," Miss Madge
Stavart; Laura" Miss Marion Hood
.,Stephania," Miss Irene Verona; "Maj.
Wangenheim, Miss Marie Williams
''Gen. Ollendorf," Mr.. Frederick Mervin ;
''Simon Romanovitch, F." Miss Fanny Leslie.
MAGNIFICENT BALLETs.
This English version differs from the
American version chiefly in the character
OF the interpolated ballets, which are
sumptuously put on the stage under Mr..
Hollands direction. The fair scene in the
Cracow Market-place is gay with tum-
bleTs, jugglers, mountebanks, hawkers and
sleigh-drivers, and a number of young
ladies in very light and scanty uniforms
perform some military maneuvres illus
trative OF the Polish rebellion. Mr.. King
ston's songs are. well written, and the
newspapers publish biographies of Carl
Millocker. Altogether the piece is much
applauded, and likely during the summer
to prove attractive to wandering Ameri-
cans.
CALLENDER's MINsTRELs.
Messrs. Frohman Bros. have brought
Calendars NinstIels to the Holborn The
ater under the management OF Mr.. George
Rignold. The genuine negro's genuine
plantation melodies are always to the taste
OF English audiences, with whom the
memories of Uncle Tom still linger. They
may wonder at the operatic selections
given by two colored damsels, and at the
drilling of the black Zouayes, but the real
attraction is found in those songs of slave
life in which Callender's Minstrels excel.
A curious part OF the performance was the
preliminary farce performed by the rcsu-
lar London actors. Without this the Lord
Chamberlain refused to license the theater.
OTHER THEATERS.
Several other theaters have reopened
successfully. Mr.. George Fawcett Rowe
has new Irish drama, The Dondgh, at the
Grand Theater, Islington; Mr.. George
Conquest and Mr. Paul Merritt have a
new piece at the Surrey, called King o
Diamonds, illustrating incidents in the
Transvaal war, and not the least episode
of Easter Monday is that Mr.. Toole, the
comedian, was playing Uncle Dicks Darling
to crowds at the Crystal Palace, while Mr.
Byron, its author, who had amused them
so often, was lying dead at Clapham.