The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-09-30
Dramatic.

Dramatic.
Fanny Gillette will not 60 out rs star
in Theodore"
"Bunch OF Keys" is being played in the
cheap theatcrs this season.
Miss Madden is much pleased with her
new play, LADY Jemima."
Louis James and Marie Wainwright
have achieved remarkable success up in
the northwest.
lord Chumley" last week playcdto the
largest weeks business ever known at the
Lyceum Theater.
The Wyndham Comedy company will
play four months in this country, COM
mencing January |.
Charles Pope, actor and manager, has
accepted an engagement 10 stump Indiana
for Harrison and Morton.
+. G. Bangs, the veteran tragic actor, is
playing Jim Ralston in one OF Palmer's
''Jim, the Penman" companies.
Henry Irving has new play, Jules
Clarctie's "blahomct," for which Irving
has bought the English and American
rights
The papers conducted In the interests OF
the colUrcd men are scoring Mr.. Mantell
because he refuses 10 conceive Of Othcllo
as u negro.
Henry l.. Dixcy will produce his bur-
lesque OF Faust" in London next year.
IL will follow lrying's version very closely
as regards scenery.
Madame Modjeska's season is 10 be linn
tied 10 eight weeks on the Pacific slope,
under the management OF Al liayman, OF
the Baldwin theaier, san Francisco.
Danala will not come TO this country
with the IIading-Coquclin company. He
has gone back To Paris, and is again wor-
shipping at the shrine OF the Bernhardt,
who, by the bye, is his wife.
Minnie Palmer's season will not be n
cngthy one in this country. She will play
. only about fifteen weeks here, and will not
come over until after the election excite
nent has thoroughly subsidized.
"She," the damatinlion OF Rider lag-
CARDS novel, in which sophie Eyre APP
pcarcd in London, Is failure, and Miss
Eyre is said to be consequently financially
ruined, she hayingiuycsied all her fortune
IN Il
Another now attraction Is announced.
louis Pizzarello, for the past five years
the leading clown with the llanlon's Fan
tasmn," is TO take the road ON October s,
with piece called "Frolic; or, Love and
Deception"
The four great money Successes in New
York nj present are lord Chumlcy' ai
the Lyccnm; ~ Legal Wreck" at the
Madison square thcaicr, Dcnman Thomp-
esn, at the Academy, and The Pay
MASTER" at the Star.
Mns. Potlcrs season will open October
8 In Philadelphia. Her repertoire viii
consist OF "Twixt Axe aud Crown 'Ro,
mco and Juliet" Lady OF Lyons, and
"IIero and Lcandcr,' a now play by
George Parsons lathrop.
Edward NJ. Aliriend, a prominent Rich
mond Wal author and journalist, has jus
completed 3 dramauzation OF Ouidai
"Wanda." The play Is in i've acts, AM
no, the least OF its altraclivencss will be u
mechanical and scenic ELECTS.
lure Kirslfy Is going TO reduce 9Th
Fall OF Babylon" 10 theatrical dimensions
and will endcayor 10 produce u nj severa
OF the prominent thcaien throughout IN
country the coming season. Theru Is n
spectacular enterprise TO stupendous Tor
Kinliy.
Tho engagement Of Eugcnie Blair as IN
leading support to Robert Downing b
Manager !. II. Mack Is being commente
on extensively in theatrical circles Ms
- BAR MS coilc W th' H'hs '"f''s "'f''
die mast few years. She Is handsoul
woman, aud has already made her mar
In legitimate parts.
"Cap,ain Swift" melodrama In TOT
acts, by Haddon Chambers, was success
fully produced on September at the liza.
market, London. Manager Palmer III
engaged the play lor production IN Nc
York. The hero "a buffalo l.ill type
a a ~. - nj az
Inisloing. attempted conccalment, suiei'
and rmorse.
''The Kitty" q iarcc-comedy In thr
acts, wns written by Mr.. Charles
Byrnc. The play gives number. OF We
clever actors an opportunity 10 do TIE
specialtics The name OF tho piece do
no, refer 10 n youthful cat, but u q
money taken out OF each pot In a game
poker played In the iirst net, which -
10 enrich the Banker IN q c game.
Joseph Jefferson begins his tour oc,ot
In Pitisburg, going thence 70 Chica
for three weeks, after which lao plays
engagement OF two weeks ~ the M
Avenue theatcr, New York. His artut
tour u for fourteen weeks, at the close
which lac will go TO hs Louisiana plan
ton. Ills spring season bcpns IN AZ
anu ~ lnf rlk NNNha NV VIZ ~ FesNNR
the south.
McSsru. @. A. Byrne and Arthur W
lack have CONF lelcd their new version
''Unclc Toms Cabin" and IL Is In
hands Of Mr. J. Il Dickson, who will
Il In rehearsal next week for production
the Broad Street iheaier In Philadelp
ON October II. The scenery and aces
rics arc lavish, and everything Is be
pain,ed and made from photographs tai
In the various localities where the ace
Of The piece actually occurred The .
= practically now one.
'Thc Kitty" Charles A. BYrne's
steal farce, h humorously faithful "
traiion VI American village life, and Il
the country village what Dcnman ThoI
sons "Old Homestead Il 10 the farm.
tho village store, which Mr.. Byrne
brought forward ~ The scene Of his
act, everybody will recognize nj once I
typical representation Of the store at