Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-07-27

get up very early tomorrow morning and
snail be down on the dock in good time"
You are looking forward TO visiting EGG
land agaiu?"
"Oh, yes. OF course 1 shall be glad 10 see
my relatives and friends in England gain.
l shall be met at Liverpool by father.
mother, brother, sister and husband, l sup
pose, and then l shall go to London and stay
Tor a Week at our bouse in Dover street, Pic
cadilly.
A THREE WEEKS JAUNr.
"What are you plans while you are in
Europe?" -"
swell, after my week in London l begin a
short provincial season of thrse weeks. On
August 18th l open in Manchester for a
week; then / go to Glasgow for a week, and
from there to Liverpool or Birmingham. 1
am anlicipsi;"s this little tour with great
pleasure. 1 look upon it as a three weeks
%jaunt."
sand after your three weeks of acting?"
swell, my plans are not very settled. But
1 intend to visit Paris. l must 60 there, you
know, to buy some new 'frocks-a pleasant
but a very expensive tack. Then 1 think l
shall study there for q while rnder Regnier."
R LANGrRY's INVESTMENTS.
"You will have plenty of money to expend
on new frocks?"
well, perhaps not so much as you think.
You know l have cleared from my Ameri-
can season over SIPS, 900, but 1 have invested
nearly all of it in New York in bonds and
mortgages. Yes" Mrs.. Lsngtry added laugh
ingly, 81 think 1 hold mortgages on about
half the houses on Fifth venue"
"Your season here was, indeed, a financial
SUCCESS"
"Yes, it exceeded even my most sanguine
expectations. But, then, apart from the
monetary view of il, l have had, oh, such a
happy timel l have seen 30 much of this
beautiful and wonderful csuntry, met 30
many nice people and received SO much
kindness from public audiences and private
friends that [ should indeed be an ingr ate if
L did not feel a regret at leaving Americs,
although / am to be absent for a compare
lively short time"
HER NEXT AMERICAN SEASON.
"And when do you return?"
About October 18th. My next American
season opens in Montreal on October 18th.
1 shall bring back many OF my old
Including Mr.. Cooper, as leading man, and
Miss Hodson. l shall also have several new
people in my company, among whom will be
Mr.. and Mrs. Weaver, who are well known
on the London stage"
will you have any new piays?"
swell, | am to nave one which has been
written for me by Mr.. Bolton Rowe. Ihsven't
seen it yet, nor do 1 know its name, but l am
to have a prompt copy OF it as soon as l ar
rive in England. 1 shall also look out for
other new plays"
allow long will your next season last?"
"Thirty-six weeks"
TO VISIT AUSTRALIA.
Sand then?"
sand then l go to Austr ALA for ten weeks.
arriving there about the first week in August
of next year."
"And after Australian" Yr
"Ah, after that | have not settled vet what
1 shall de-"
will you not appear sgain on the LONDON
stage7"
81 certainly hope so. / hope L h ave not
exhausted London yet; / only PLAYED three
months, you know. L shall probably play
an engagement there in 1885,"
"And what do you think of the prospects
for your next season 10 American"
VI have been taught by pleasant expert
epce 10 have 50 much confidence in the Jus.
tice OF American audiences that 1 look hope
fully to another season of great success here.
In America, l think, confidence comes to one
from the fact that one is judged on one's own
merits, and not by the standard laid down by
the hayseed critics of the country byways.
Yes, please, put down 'hayseed;' / think il ia
Obc u buc mOot uellgQllul words In the
American Vocabulary" 6.h
You have lately been visiting some of
the popular summer resorts. What do you
OF them?"
MUST &C.
Mrs. Langtry put her right hand 10 her
forehead, and meditated for a moment. Then |
she said, with a merry laugh, as she playfully |
took hold of a frontlet of hair: "You see Pm
rid OF my bang. l realized the other |
day that my hair was banged to the hight of
about half a yard. So / am wedding nv
Esir down by degrees, aud very soon l will |
have it down to nothing. VS." Mrs. Lang
Try added, "bangs mu.t go. Don't you think |
look better without 30 much bapg"
IMPRESSIONS OF COMFY ISLAND.
TIE reporter thought so, and then Mrs.
said: snow, about Coney Island
and those other places. Well, | thought
.oney Island dreadful. 1t is a lazy kind of
place. One cannot walk more than a hum
dred yards without having to take a car or a
carriage. So different from the English sea-
'ide places, where there are such nice es-
and walks. At Coney Island cars
are arriving all day long and vomiting
%perpetually out to eat and drink, and
hen they go back again. People seem 10 90
10 Coney Island only to eat and drink and
hear music. OF course there are a few bath
but so far as the general public is con-
,erned 1t seems 10 me there might just as well
De no sea there. I admired the hotels. of
course; but the place, among other objection.
able features, is SO overruu with policemen.
| was continually annoyed by them. Ii /
put my loot on the grass L was instantly re-
iue- ted by a policeman or two to tread no.
where but upon the boards. II / put my UNI
orells up L was told to put it down, and in fact
aopnad tn he nNntsnrr 4 - r,aIn-
rusive form OF police supervision. L think,
N the whole, though, Coney Island is a
m arter place than Msrgate, in England, but
lot 30 smart as Brighton. And, as fer the
,lher places" Mrs. Lsngtry continued,
Long Branch l saw very little OF, and so
lad better say nothing about it. Cape MAY
thought a very beautiful place; but, Oh,
he moequitoesl l was bitten ninety nine
Imes in one day. Atlantic City I think 1
lked as much az any summer place, al.
hough some very unkind reports were clrcu-
ated about me from that place."
What wet thoy?"
swell, perhaps 1 may take this oppor-
unity OF denying a few rumors that have
.een sent around about me lately. Very
unkind things have been said about
ne IN certain directions. But / generally
ave paid no attention to them. / do not
and the big stings, but 1t is the little mos.
.uito-bites that annoy me 30 much.
MRS. ~LANGTRY's DENIALs.
Now, will you please say that l have
ever caught a bluetish and have never seen
ne; hat l am not wiring q book and never
nought OF doing 30; that I have no l~repidation
or the results of my next season, and that /
o not open it in California. I think hat
Tory about the girlish ecstacies' 1 went into
n catching my first blue6sh ANNOYED me az
as what they said about me in Chi
What was that?"
why, that l carried a pug dog about with
lie and talked baby talk to it. / hate pugs.
nd wouldn't take one as a gift. And if /
ad one even the idea of my talking baby
Xix to tits too prepos,erousn
TAKING TO AMERICAN SLANG.
At this point in the interview several lei
.rs we're brought in to Mrs. Langtry, am ing
hlch were two asking for her autograph.
You are still pursued by the. autograph
md, Mrs. Langtry?" the reporter asked. J
Il should blush to murmur," was Mrs. |
sngtry's reply. I
You are getting hold OF the slang of the I
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