The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-15
MRS. LANGTRY.
She Frustrated by Nervous Weakness
In Boston. rs
Hel Friends Angrily Deny thu
Whole of Mrs. Labouchere's
Statements of Friday.
Yong Gebhardt Has Been Sent Back
to New York Post Haste. I

Boron, Dea 11-Mrs. Langtry has been
90 e1rworked with. rehearsals and constant
performances that she is suffering greatly
frgpervous prostration, and at the close of
the ssond act of sAn Unequal Match" Satur-
day afternoon, the indulgence of the
&udi4ce was claimed for ten minutes
At ne end of that time the cur,
tain VS. raised, and the performance was fin
isheds usual At night her nervous system
was overwrought that she had to decline all
invitations and visitors, and, although she went
throyh her part of RosaIind, in @As You Like
IT. twas evident she was suffering greatly.
She as to have gone to the Papyrus club re-
ceptn at night to meet the literary men and
woinn of the city and number of specially
inyiid guests, including Governor Long and
his lother, but this she was compelled to
foreo. In regard to the interview with Mrs.
Labdchere in Washington, MIR. Charles A
Mellum, the acting manager of the company,
was seen in the absence of Mr..
Abby and Mr.. Schoeffel in New York,
andienied in the most unqualified terms the
trut of the assertions Mrs. Labouchere is
alleSd to have made Mrs. Langtry could
NOT q seen, but Mr.. Mendum, speaking by
herluthority, states that the relations between
thewo women were perfectly aulicable when
the parted in New York, and that, SO far as
Mrs 1angtry knows, they still continue They
vii oin the company again in Phlladelphla on
TIIJday, the 18th inst, when third party
WILDE present in the person OF Mrs Langtry's
sistr, who will arrive here from England, and
willtravel with the company during the Amer
ieantour. -.e
re story Of liason with Baron Chetwynd
is cdltemptuously ridiculed by Mr. Mendum,
who points to the fact that Mrs. Langtry
moed in the best society III Eng
la1s, and was an especial favorite with
the princess of Wales and other pure
woven, who would never have coun-
tennced her had there been the slightest sus-
picon of her. In fact she was as CRsar's wife
shGld have been, but was not, wholly above
susicion Had there been anything of the
kline it must have become known, and Mr.
Abby would never have speculated in the
success of a good amateur actress who was
weihted with bad record. Her relations
wia her husband and family have always
bee of the most happy character, and this
aloe tends to disproYe the statement. 1t is
adIitted that she has not acted here with as
INCH caution as the average Ameri-
car woman would do, but from her
standpoint, as an English actress,
shehas not trespasscd the bounds of propri-
ETY. In London it is considered the correct
thig for an actress to receive attentions
from admirers of their ability or beauty, and
whle following that custom here she has in
noGanner overstepped the line drawn by all
y 61ors women. u. Nh Gehhardt has followed
het here, has shown his admiration for her in
The most open manner, has put up at the same
h,tel which, of course, he had right to do,
aid last night he returned to New York. Fur
tier than an openly -expressed homage he has
MT gone, The theatre people claim that her
financial success here has been very great, and
that the present weeks receipts Will reach
$4,000.