Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-01-10
MARY ANDERSON
Mashed by Oscar Wilde-HOw They Re-
hearsed "Romeo and Juliet Down
by the Side of the Sea.
Salmi Morse and the ssPassion Play
Actors Buni0ns-John Owens's
Money-Langtry and Fwed.

CHICAGO, JaHuary 9.-The Lapgtry troupe
| is intact, because the members OF it, having
| been carried away from their homes, are
| paid good salaries. One end of the company
still gathers nightly at the Palmer House,
aud the other end undresses itself at the
Grand Pacific. No communications pass
! between the two campo. Once every twenty
| four hours the Pattison contingent and the
Langtry contingent meet upon the boards at
| Haverly's to go through certain msneuvers
| for money. The maneuvers over, the Patti
| son contingent, with spiteful look at Its
| hateful ally, betakes itself to lis sleeping
place; and the Langtry party, with COM
| placent look of contempt for the Pattlson
wing. HES itself TO its quarters. Such rela.
| lions as exist between the members oil
| the combination could not be sus-
tanned if the company was not altogether
| feminine. II there were any men In
| the troupe there would be an out
| break, demand for satisfaction, a knock
down fight or a separation. But the men in
| the company are nobodies-for the nonce.
They may be good enough fellows at home,
but they are not employed az men actors
but simply as lay figures. For this engage
| ment they bind themselves 10 be nothing
more than dummy hands in The games where
| there had to be a certain number of partici.
pants. The Langtry Company is practically
company of women, and, consequently, il
| ia not extraordinary that there should exist
nothing but jealousy and hatred among the
members. The women members all hate
each other, are jealous OF each other, back
| bite and malign each other. The business
| managers, the only men around, wink, and
say it was to be expected, and the women
themselves act as if it were the natural
| thing.
The most active gossiper in the troupe
says: 81 am sorry that Mrs. Langtry has
| acted as she has since she has been IN this
| country. Chicago seems pretty well deter
mined not to recognize her. In England sht
tUds very indiscreet, but / thought that when
she came to this country she would turn over
a new leaf, and lead different life"
"Does Mr.. Langtry live with her at homer
sob, no. He has not lived with her for
several years."
as he divorced"
"No, he is not, and he has put himself quit,
| beyond obtaining diuorce IN England. You
know the Prince of Wales had quite an in.
| fuence with Mr.. Langtry, and presume for
| that reason no action was brought"
SIS Mrs. Lang.ry kind-hearied womanf
20, she's civil enough, but she is quite
devoid of feeling and intelligence, and
think that she is perfectly heartless. Her
engagement in Brooklyn was quite failure
Though she did we'll in Philadelphia and
| Boston. She plays Rosalind next week, and
Pm quite sure people iOont go more than once q
see her. Mr.. Abbey has put Mrs. Langtry
forward as a star, while the members of her
company, nearly all able people, have been
held down aud made mere puppets of
| Lawrence Barrett said in New York, re.
Gently, that Mrs. Langtry's actions had pu,
| the women of the stage back twenty year,
1 aoalallv If ia ali RAT 10 Sha
cannot act. She speaks her lines without
| feeling, and rants about the stage. Mr.
| Abbey might quite as we'll have engaged
poorer support for her at less expense, fol
| while they are actors and actresses they are
| left 10 the background much "a possible
"Mrs. Langtry has not the faiutest idea Of
acting. What she knows she has learned
| from Mrs. Labouchere, who was never any.
thing but a soubrette, and who taught Mrs
Langtry from that standpoint"
"Are her relations with the rest of the
troupe PLEASANT"
! swell, you know business relations do moi
necessitate social relations, and 10 tell you
| the truth we have very little to do with her
No; we see nothing of her off the
stage, and always put up at different hotels
IT the company had not been composed Of
gentlemen and ladies they could not have
| had the consideration for her they have
had"
"Who is Miss Langtry now accompanying
her?'
"No one knows anything about her. She
is not sister of Mr.. L,ngtry, that L know
| Mr.. Langtry has not lived with Mrs. Langtry
since the affair between her and Sir George
Chetwynd, which caused SO much talk. Mrs
Langtry has had the doors of society CLOSED
upon her, and it was not owing to her going
upon the stage, although she tries to Civ,
| that impression"
Il believe" said prominent newspaper
proprietor, shat Mrs. Langtry is being m ad,
| the victim of Henry E Abbey's unscrupu
lcus advertising methods. l had a tall
with him when he had Bernhardt here He
uses precisely similar methods with her
Starting salacious stories to catch the crowd
Abbey then said to me: they are the very
best sort of advertisement 1 believe thai
all this Gebhardt business is scheme Of
Abbsy's. don't believe the young fellow
knows it. l DONE believe Langtry know
it, although she may be simply falling into
Abbey's ideas. 1 think the Labouchers
quarrel was an advertising dodge, and pre-
dict that when the Jersey Lily gets back Il
England it will be shown up as such by tn,
two women SYSTEMATICALLY making up"