Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-12-27
LANGTRY, AROUSED
From Her Indifference TO Public Senti'
menf, Protests Against the Way Her
Name Has Been
Banded About by Reporters and Inter
viewers-Why Her Husband Did Not
Accompany Her.

PHILADELPHIA, December 26. - Mrs
Langtry closed her engagement here on sat'
urday. and left at midnight for Brooklyn
Her week in this city was the most profitable
she has played since coming TO America, me
receipts aggregating more than S1I yVVO
Fred Gebhardt returned 10 New YORK 10.
dav. and his carriages, horses, and llverIed
footmen followed this evening. The fir
tation between Gebhardt aud Mrs. LaDgtry
az been the town-talk for week, and has
excited an amount of gossip which even the
Lily herself has been compelled to notice.
HBut who is GebhardI?' she asked, with
evident vexation, of a visitor yesterday.
"Who is Gebhardi?-a mere boy, only
twenty three you know. Is he so important an
individual that my recognition OF him must
set all the tongues of the city TO wsgging?
Isn't be gentleman, or Is be 80 lacking In
genilem anly ssociations. that my acquaInt-
snce with him ia iL-iLseff II Ec1uda-- am
somewhat surprised at th5 avidity with which
YOUR American society seizes the himsiest
pretext for gossiping about strangers who
come to your country. / am not angry, now
understand, but confess TO some disappoint-
ment at the manner in which my name has
been banded and tossed about by the gossip
monsers since ] came to Philadelphia. i
Knew when / adopted the stage that for a
long time, until 1 acquired some dram atie
experience, large proportion of my patron
age would be the result OF natural curiosity.
There was something distastetul IN the idea,
but recognized it as fact, and determined to
do my best to win professional success oy
honest. artistic effort. OF course am only
beginning, aud realize as we'll as anybody
that nv work is crude and defective, but
don't deserve the leniency and indulgence
which critics and the public freely extend to
other newcomers who show honest desire to
improve? Ny relations with my husband,
which the newspapers have been unkind
enough to carry into their talk, are not mat
ters for public discussion. They are purely
personal TO my husband and myself. l can
say to you, however, that they have been
wantonly misrepresenied and misunderstood.
Capt. Langtry's failure TO accompany me to
America is altogether creditable 10 him. He
ia deeply involved in debt, and could net
leave England without violating his volun-
tary pledges to the courts. This, and this only,
is why he did not come to America with me.
No mail has gone back 10 England since
NV arrival in New York which has not
carried one or more letters to him from me.
He is fully advised by mail and cable OF my
movements, plans and associations, and cor
daily approves them. When Mrs. Labou-
chere left me so abruptly, without offering a
word of explanation, / immediately tele-
graphed my husband and asked him 10 send
his sister to Join me. She has sailed, and
will meet me next week in Brooklyn, and is
10 remain with me until my return 10 En-
gland"
JOHN B. sCHoEFFEL, ABBEY's PARTNER,
who is in charge of Langtry's American
tour, said day that he had never had a
lees troublesome star under his management
than Mira. Langtry. "She is quiet, gen.
erous and pleasant lady," he said, "and her
r. - l. ell DO L
servation, has been wholly blameless. | ex-
pected that she would be source oil cons aat
trouble, but the case has been just the re-
verse. She asks nothing more than any star
is entitled to, and has never made COM
plant since her engagement began. In fact,
The only special request she has ever NJ ade
of me was in behalf of another member of
the company. We do not per-
NIT our people TO take any liquor
10 their dressing The mem
Der in question ian Englisbmsn) wanted to
have some beer in his room, and forbade
it. He must have told Mrs. Lapgtry, because
she came to me next day, and said: Now,
Mr.. Schoeffel, l want you 10 do me favor.
This gentleman wants to take beer to his
dressing room, but Gays you will not allow it.
want to uphold the rules, but can't you
permit him TO have the beer sent to my
dressing-room and let him come there to
drink il? OF course there was no opposing
that kind of pleading. A ster, you know,
can take liquor or beer to the dressing-room
if she pleases. "This little Irritation between
Mrs. Langtry and Mr.. Gebhsrdt," continued
Mr.. Schoeffel, "has been greatly exagger-
ated She has treated him with some atten-
ton, but / know that their intimacy has
never extended beyond the bounds of strict
propriety. Why, the other day, when she
told me her husbands sister was coming over
to join her, she added, 'apd L want you to
keep her just as near me everywhere as you
can'D