Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-01-27
THE JERSEY LnYAT MEMPHIS.

Mrs. Langtry, the English beau
ty, filled her engagement at Mem
phis on Monday and Tuesday night,
appearing the first night in "The
Unequal Match" and on Tuesday
night in "The Honeymoon" Her
engagement was decided success,
and the Memphians were charmed
and delighted with her personally
and as an actress. The Appeal
speaks of her in the most cOmpli-
mentary terms. Speaking of her
beauty the Appeal takes the
grOundthat she is a strikingly
attractive lady. 1t says, "her face
once seen will never be forgotten.
Her profile reminds one of the God
dess of Liberty. Her eyes are blue;
her teeth dazzlingly white her lips
more accustomed to laughter than
to scorn her complexion is simply
perfection, possessing as it does
healthy English wildwood glow.
The rose and the lily seem in it to
struggle for the victory"
The young man of the Appeal is
evidently "mashed," and fairly
raves about her personal beauty.
Speaking of her as an actress, he
says: "To be sure she is not a
Bernhardt or Modjeska; nor has
she ever claimed to be. She is not
even Mary Anderson, who has
been on the stage for six or seven
years. Her reputation as beauty
seems to have stood in her way as
an actress. What are her claims to
histrionic excellence? She is grace
full and self-possessed on the stage;
she has striking appearance; she
has a mobile face; she has an alert
intelligence and a ready grace; she
has a certain magnetism which en-
lists the good will of the audience at
once. If there were any serious
defects in her portrayal of the part
of Hester the audience and the
Appeal critic failed to notice them.
There was finish, magnetism
and a dainty grace which would have
done credit to the best actresses on
the American stage. She has be-
yOnd question dramatic talent of
high order. Her Hester Craze
brook is a most promising imper-
sonation. As the wholesome,
sprightIy country girl she infused a
life into the part as real and genuine
as it was unexpected on the stage"
OF her, editorially, the Appeal
says:
A brilliant audience, composing
the elite of the city's population,
greeted the famous English beauty,
Mrs. Langtry, at the Theater last
night. She appeared as "Hester |
Grazebrook, in Tom TaylOr's |
Unequal Match, and was appar-
emily at her best. She shOne to
greatest advantage in the last act of |
the play, her handsome fare and
figure being well set off by toilet |
that was itself a charm. She made
personally a most agreeable i'm
preston, and we are glad to note
that the ladies of the First Presby-
terrain church certify to this, and
have courteously invited her to be
present at their luncheon to-day.
In Memphis Mrs. Langtry confronts
her first Southern audience, and
here she will find herself protected
from the suggestive assaults that
have disgraeed Americanjournalism
in connection with her good name.
She is a woman engaged in an hon,
orable career, and as such is entitled
to the respect of all classes of the
people. i
Mrs. Langtry will appear at
Nashville on Tuesday, February
9Th. We hear that a number of our
citizens contemplate going there to
see her. Would it not be well to
get up an excursion from this city?