The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-12-03
Beautiful Flesh.


been crcwaed as the legitimate
successor Of Siddons, and Mather
has been bounced into the roval
chair of Cushman, and Bertha
| Welby is welcomed as the RiStori
of America, and Fanny Davenport
does not blush to stand up in the
land OF Ellen Tree as the Bern
hardt Of the West, perhaps VIC
should not take exception to
Jersey Lily who humb'y poses as
Helen of Troy.
After all, the Lily is not as am
bilious nor as boundless as the I'M
tramelled American article. She
may not be able to act, but neither
is she able to boast in the free and
independent style of these glorious
United States.
We have got to make some allow
anee for her. She must have known
that the American stage is in many
respects an auction block for beauty
that the American theater-goers
worship looks according to isother-
NAL lines-that is to say ,theyworship
with an intensity that increases as
it goes West.
The divine daisy who gels only
Isupercilious smiles in Boston eX-
poets vocal tributes in Buffalo, and
III Chicago she relies upon the Owl
ICiub to take the horses out of her
hack. When she gets to Denver, if
1.-THE mayor of the city doesn't throw
"a new opera-house at her, she
J considers her engagement a failure.
Consider the Abbott, who tolls
mot, neither does she spin, and yet
), Solomon, with all his press in
fuence, was not a raid like one of
these.
i Here was a country III which the
. raw material has unbouLded
chances. Beauty. with its mustard
seed ability, could go rampaging
lover the land, and everybody fell
down and Worshiped it.
In every form it made a fortune.
"By the sacred Mount Ida," re-
marked Labouchere to the Lily,
: "you have neck, and you shall
command a price as well as Daven-
l port or Anderson"
: And then it was neck and neck.
Davenport had one disadvantage.
: She had no American Labouchere
to take to England with her.
: She put on an extra coat of rouge
and announcedEthat she stood onhel
abilities.
And it is only justice to say that
: the things she stood in covered more
ground than any actress who had
: preceded her.
o Some one we cannot for the
: life of us remember who it Was
1 once remarked in a moment OF
!, inspiration, that beauty is only
S skin-deep.
t 1t has been found since, that
t this maxim applied only to Bern
+ hardt.
y And it has also been discovered
n by experience that some of the
q | American theatrical beauties have
j. skins so thick that, even by this
|, measurement, their loneliness il
J. deeper than a well and wider thar
> a church door.
. But Langtry's beauty is sale
to be in her bones, like TIT
govt, or like a castanet player
genius.
And in that respect she is M
/ doubt superior to most of her Am
: erican acting sisters, who wear it il
= their nerves.
5 1t would be an interesting inquiry
to make. How many beautiful act
: resses have had great acting ability
or any at all.
If Adelaide Nelson had been al
ugly as Cushman would she have
Succeeded?
8 If Mary Anderson had been a.
!. short without being as sharp a!
: Minnie Palmer, would she have
+ been crowned?
Would Fanny Davenp0rt's genius
have got over the first stretch if i
had been compelled to carry Glars
n Morris flesh, or Miss Jewett's sens
t, Utility, or Agnes Booths load o.
Experience?
And, after all, what rubbish it il
to talk about beauty when nobody
q can define it..
And especially when all woman
. | WIZ ndNO cll S4ON OAAOcO al Y StaAO u
> appear as if they had beauty also.
Is Janauschek beautiful ? Hardly
And vet there are times when thi!
) corrugated veteran blooms with {
i majesty of charm that transcendl
. all prettiness.
: There is a beauty in pyramids a;
Q well as parthenons. Recall Lucille
p Western.
: And speaking of parthenons, look
It at Modjeska.
!, If you want to see the real Greek
o thing, go and see her "Camille" Oh
9 "Adrienne." How exquisite the
# lines! how subtle the harmony J how
n delicate the shadows!
1 To go from Modjeska to LangtrJ
b is like turning the eye from a bou
iquet to a bud.-DrGnaGt5c Times.