Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-07-26
AU REVOlR, LILY.
Shs Departs With One Hundred
Thousand Dollars
Mere Than When She Struck Our Shores
Her Early Return and Future
Intentions.

my Olu company, InC4uuIuS WI. Il. ~
Cooper as leading man, and Miss Hold
son. 1 shall also have several new
people in my company, among whom
will be MI. and Mrs. Weaver, who are
well known on the London stage"
xviii you have any new plays"
well, | am to have One which has
been written for me by Mr.. Bolton
Rowe. haven't seen it yet, nor do /
know it's name, but i an to have a
prompt copy of it as soO as L arrive
IN England. shall also look out for
other new plays"
How long will your next season
~lsst?.'
''Thirty-six weeks"
10 Visit Australia.
and them"
And then 1 60 to Australia for ten
weeks, arriving there about the first
week IN August of next year"
And after Australia? ,"
"Ah, after that / have not settled yet
what | shall do"
will you not appear again on the
London stageH'
81 certainly hope to. 1 hope have
not exhausted London yet; only play
ed there for three months, you know.
l shall probably play an extended en-
gagement there IN 1851"
"And what do you think of the pros
poets for your next season in Amer
ica?"
II have been taught by pleasant ex-
P%eTience TO have so much confidence in
the justice of American audiences that
| look hopefully TO another season of
great success here. In America, |
think, confidence comes to one from
the fact that one is judged on ones own
merits, and not by the standard laid
down by the hayseed critics of the
country byways. Yes, please, put down
'~hayseed;' | think it is One of the most
delightful words in the American yo-
cabulary."
You have lately been visiting some
of the popular summer resorts. What
do you think of them"
Bangs Must 60.
Mrs. L.angtry put her right hand to
her forehead and meditated for a mo-
ment. Then she said with a merry
laugh, Is she playfully took hold of a
fIontlet of hair:
"YOu see Pm getting rid of my bang.
/ realized the other day that my hair
was banged to a height of about half q
yard. So | am wedding my bang down
by degrees, and very o o | will have
it down to nothing. Yes" Mrs. Lang
try added, ''bangs must go. Don't you
think i look better without so much
bang~
Impressions OF Coney island.
The reporter thought 80, and then
Mrs. Langtry said:-"Now, about COney
Island and those other places. Well,
| thought Coney Island dreadful. 1t is
q lazy kind of a place. One cannot
walk more than 3 hundred yards with
out having to take 8 al or a carriig".
SO different from the English seaside
places, where there are such nice es-
FLANDERS and walks!A At Coney Island carS
are arriving all day long aud vomiting
crowds perpetually out to eat and drink. =
and then they go back again. People
seem to go COuey Island only to eat
and drink and hear music. OF course,
there are q few batherS, but so far as the
general public is concerned it seems to
there might just as well be nc sea
there. / admired the hotels, of course,
but the place, among other objectiona-
bic features, is so Overrun with police
men. i was continually annoyed by
them. If put my foot on the grass L
was constantly requested by police
man or two to tread nowhere put upon
the boards. If put my umbrella up |
was told TO put it down, and in fact l
seemed to be continually under n very
obtrusive form of police supervision. L
think, on the whole, though, Coney Is
land is q smarter place than Margate in
England, but not so smart as Brighton.
and as far as other places" Mrs. Lang
try continued, "Long Branch / saw
very little OF, so had better say Moth
ing about it. Cape May l thought a
very beautiful place; but, oh, the mos
quitOes. | was bitten ninety-nine times
in n day. Atlantic City, l think, L
liked as much as any summer place,
although some very uukind reports
were circulated about me from that
place"
"What were they?"
well, perhaps l may take this OPP
portunity of denying a few rumorS thai
have been sent around about me lately.
Very many unkind things have been
said about me in certain directions. But
/ generally have paid no attention to
them. / do not mind the big stings, but
1t Is the little mosquito bites that annoy
me so much.
Mrs. Langtry's Denials-
Now, will you please SAY that / have
never caught . bluefish and have lever
seen one; that l am not writing q book
and eve thought Of doing so; that L
have no prepidation for the results of
my next season, and that / do not open
It n California. / think that story
about the girlish ecstacies' I went into
on catching my first bluefish ANNOYED
me as much as what they said about me
in Chicago"
what was that?r
Why, that l carried q pug dog about
with me and talked baby talk to it. I
hate pugs, and wouldn't take one as a
gift. And if l had one ever the idea
ofmy talking baby talk to tits too
preposterousw
Taking TO American Slang.
AT this point in the interview several
letters We're brought in to Mrs. Langtry,
among which were two asking for her
autograph.
You are still pursued by the auto
graph fiend, Mrs, Iangtry?" therepor-
ter asked.
81 should blush to murmur,n was
Mrs. LaDgtry's reply.
You are getting hold of the slang of
1 the POuntry9v