Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-04-21
THREE WOMEN
Who During the Season Now Drawing
to q Close Have Attracted
Great Deal Of Attention.
What They Have to Say Of Their Treat
ment and Of Their Future in
Connection with the Stage.

WASHINGTON, April 20.-Presum ing that
the initial point of attack would be her i'm
pressions Of America, Mrs. Lzngtry had the
question almost answered before it was put.
With laughing nod, she said: 81 am in
love with America. II is country which
grows on you. On! you would laugh il you
could look back, as / can, to nay terror OF
coming here at all. When the subject was
irst broached, and my tour here of six
months spoken Of, 1t seemed an eternity. L
could not bear to think of it. Spending six
months in foreign land was out of the
question. l consented, in tears, to think
II over, and left England weeping torrents.
1t seems very ludicrous now, but l was en-
tirely in earnest then. Now that siI months
are nearly gone, scarcely know how time
mas flown, and my days and nights have been
ousily occupied. / am working hard, re-
hsarsing new parts and improving on my
old ones"
"You must have had some curious expe-
riencesP
"Indeed / have. Now, when l said l had
not met many people, did not mean to ig-
more Newspaper folks. 1 certainly have met
them everywhere, and by all accounts they
have seen me do great many things that
never entered into my brain at all. They
have terribly misrepresented my actions,
and do you know, have grown quite pink
with vexation trying 10 have fact truth
fully reported? They draw so terribly on
their Imagination that am afraid of them"
And here Mrs. Langtry iell to moralizing.
wonder why men are 80 mean. They say
such cruel things, and believe Just to show
their wives or their sweethearts what supe-
rior beings they are any way; and if a
woman chooses to put herself on pinnacle,
she must submit 10 be a target"
"Don't you think critics in this country
give you their opinions with refreshing
freedom"
"Iudeed, they do; but 1 can't complain of
my treatment. 1 have been fairly criticised,
though long for the day when every per-
soualily will be forgotten, and worth as an
artist alone judged. find Americans must
have truth1ul, artistic renditions. They
think more here of talent than they do in
England. There the principal qualification
seems freshness, prettiness and 4 certain
amour; OF aptitude, too; but here your
actresses, many of them, have grown what
would be considered quite pause in England
| snd yet that is forgotten in their glorious
talent"
"Do you read criticisms in the daily pa.
| pers now?"
NO; very rarely. 1 read story this
| morning about my going to New York
hotel 10 beg Miss Langtry's pardon, and how
| looked weary and haggard, with fearful
eyes and dilapidated appearance generally;
ii-=-sd I have leughed a good deal ever 1t. j
cannot remember any OF the above sensa'
tions, only that was sorry 10 part with the
| dear girl, and might have cried over that
do you propose remaining on the stageP
| Yes; hope to, for len years at least.
| Ike the profession aud want to succeed"
The Jersey Lily regretted that President
| Arthur was not in town.
81 am told he is very handsome, and
would so like to have met him. Now, is ht
| really go handsome"
The answer is not given, but it ia to b.
presumed that the lady was candid enough
10 admit that be is.