Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-11-13
THE ENGLISH PROFESSIONAL BEAUTY.

ihere was at nrss very little curiosity
this is exactly the word-respecting her,
and the predictions have been numberless
that she would not draw on the stage.
Nor is there any good reason why she
should. She is not beautiful--to do her
justice she does not pretend to be. She
is not even very pretty. Any number of
women In New York, who have never as.
pired to bellehood, are comelier than she,
Her esthetic reputation, to call il such,
was the result of accident, but it has been
carefully and industriously cultivated. If
Millais had not painted her portrait, and
the Prince of Wales had not taken her up,
she would never have been heard of either
on this side or the other side of the At.
lantic. Even if she were beautiful, she
would lose the advantage of her beauty on
the stage, where . very plain, especially 3
coarse. featured woman, can be and gen.
orally is so made up as to look very well.
Mrs. Langtry's face is delicate, at least the
upper part (much of it's effect depends
on her varying complexion), and would
specially suffer in consequence behind the
footlights.
Her figure is fine; her voice is sweet !;
her manners are graceful but nobody has
ever claimed that she is. in any histrionic
sense, an actress. But, out of the theater,
she is consummate actress. She may be
named, barring offense, an adventures,
and an exceedingly clever one. To be
professional beauty-odious expression
requires money, and money she is resolved
TO have at all hazards. To name her the
Jersey Lily, remembering the typical quail.
nf tho de-
She might better be called the Jersey
Hollyhock or Peony for there is not a
scintilla OF genuine fineness, unless physi.
cally, in her entire composition.
Abbey's idea Of an auction was felicitous !;
it made the public believe there was great
desire to see her, which there was not by
any means until her managers methods had
created it. The auction was probably
bit of juggling-Charles Wyndham's pur.
chase of the first box looked very sus.
picious-but it served the purpose Abbey
had in view. / fancy now that he will
make money out of her. He is, though
far quieter, spiritual kinsman of Barnum,
and must excite the cordial admiration of
the veteran Snowman and Prince of Hum.
bugs.
VARIETIES.
Charles I. Congdon, the oldest member
of the Tribune staif-he was the first jour.
nalist in the North who treated slavery in 4
humorous, satiricaL >manner-has again left
the paper this~ time, it is supposed, per.
manently. HE began writing for the
Tribune p6re than thirty years ago, and
was considered in Horace Greeley's best
Ia ~, Of r.. -
to Ehe fourth page.
T 1t was characteristic of the average re-
porter's mind and method. that one of the
tribe sent down the bay to interview Mrs.
Langtry on the morning Of her arrival,
should ask her, while they were steaming
through dense fog. what she thought Of
New York. And not less grotesque was
her reply that she admired New York !;
that it reminded her of Paris. Who would
have supposed that a fog. bank and New
York and Paris would have so closely re-
ssmbled one another. Mrs. Langtry must
have been thinking of London and the
Prince she had left behind her.
Bessie rockingham, daughter and only
surviving child of Rev. Octayius B. Froth-
Insiham, is soon to be married to VIM. L.
Parkefs Boston merchant. Mr.. Frothing-
ham hasNdecided to stay iHI Boston perma.
nently, and to devote himself wholly to
literature. TIE reports of his returning
hither to resume charge Of his former con
gregation are withopt foundation.
Joseph Jefferson, tue ACTOR, has taken q
studio and an apartmeacN &he new apart
ment house, the Rembrandt Yin Fifty.
seventh street Lawrence Barrett has,
since the return of his daughters from
Europe, settled his family in an apartment
house at Fifth avenue and Twenty. eighth
street.
Mrs. Abby Sage Richardson has prepared
volume of cold Love Letters" said to
be very interesting.
Charles Wyndham, with his Criterion
Company, has made decided hit in the
very clever farcical piece OF " Fourteen
Days" The Union Square, where he is
playing, has been packed every night this
week, andswill doubtless continue to be till
the end ofthe engagement. The acting is
very good, the company Being the pick of
London, though it is no better than the
acting to which the audiences of the Union
Square, the best theater, on the whole, in
America, are accustomed. Wyndham,
whose real name is Calbertson, was an as
sistant surgeon in the Union army during
our civil war, gand was for some time
connected with Wallack's house. He is
brother of the wife of Bronson Howard,
the dramatist CHAUBERT.