The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-08-01
LANGTRY AND NILSSON.
The Actress and the Singer Whom
Mr.. Abbey is Importing.

rfohi Tue New 'uh
Mr.. Henry E. Abbey, the theatri.
Cal manager. arrived from England
Yesterday. He has engaged Mrs.
Langtry, the London professional
beauty, and Nine. Christine Nilsson,
the prima donna, for American tours
next season. and Mr.. Henry Irving,
for the season after that, besides leas.
ing Mr.. Irving's Lyceum theater for
the period of the actors absence from
London.
"What is your opinion of Mrs.
Langtry, as an actress?" Mr.. Abbey
was asked.
She is not a great one," he re-
piled, land could not stand criticism
as such; but she is perfectly at ease
on the stage. notably lady-like, and so
unassuming that she gets the good
will of the audience right away. At
least that has been the case in Eng
land, and she has drawn tremendous
iy during her provincial tour in that
country. OF course, there's no fore
telling the result of her venture here.
She will sail for New York Septem-
Der 80, and probably open October
%, but at what theater has not been
decided. After her season i'm this
city she will make round of the large
cities. playing in She Stoops to Con-
quer, The Unequal Match Rosa
lind and The HONEYMOON The
supporting company will come over
with her. | should have preferred an
American organization, but. aside
from the difficulty of getting ore to-
gether at this late day, it will be bet
ter for Mrs. Langtry to be surrounded
by actors with whom she is familiar.
She is little more than an amateur,
YOU know. and must be given every
possible help in the ordeal of facing a
strange people
What is your opinion of Mrs
Langtry as beauty"
Il do not think she will disappoint
reasonable expectations, though some
of her charms are of no practical
value on the stage. Her wonderful
clear complexion, for instance, has to
he painted over, and her beautiful
hair might as we'll be a wig. If she
is greatly admired by American au-
dience-as | hope and expect-it will
not be because she is the most beauti-
full woman ever seen on our stage,
for she is not, but because she is both
beautiful and winsome She all the
while has a manner of wishing you to
like her and doing her best to please.
L think she is the most unaffected
ladylike woman | ever saw, on or of
the stage"
II suppose her husband will not ac-
company her?'
No. Her travelling companion
will be lady distinguished in Lon.
don polite society, but | am no. at
liberty to divulge her name
Possibly Mrs. Labouchere, wife of
the editor of Truth ?"
INV lips are sealed, positively. |
But I'll tell you the name of eel !
ehrity who is to come along. Kate !
Pattison. the Juvenile actress Of the
company, is protege Of Emily |
Faithful, who will make the tour
with her."
How much do you really pay Mrs.
Langtry ?"
"A high price. 1t is easy TO be
lieve that much, when it is considered |
that she is great financial success i'm
England, and has by no means ex-
hausted her popularity there But
people would have no reason to credit |
the figures if | gave them. and ] i
would have to multiply them by two
in anticipation of your readers divid
ing them by two"
What about Nilsson"
She sails October l 4, and is to sing
fifty times through the country in
concerts and oratorios. The company
is not completed. A young Swedish
nobleman. who has sung with Nilsson
in Paris, will probably be the tenor,
and Del Puente the baritone. and the
Boston Quintet club will be the in
strumertalists."
How is Wilson's voice."
Not as girlish as it was ten years
ago, of course, but rounder and fuller.
I heard her in London. She appeared
in deep mourning, on account of the
recent death of her husband, and will
do the same here. The black was ex-
eeedingly becoming, along with her
light hair and delicate face"
"And Irvingy
He doesn't come until the fall of
1888. He has given up his contem.
plated pleasure trip to New York this
summer. have taken the Lyceum
theater, London, to manage while