Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-02-18
LILY LANGTRY.
Draws Very Poor House In the
Queen City.
Not Worth Criticism-The Jersey Lily Big
Boned, Coarse Featured English
Woman-freddie Still
On Deck.
Special Dtspatch 10 ne Sunday Register,

Special Dispatch 10 The Sunday Register.
CINcINSATI February l7.-Mrs. Langtry
has been playing at Robinson's Opera
House all week, and has drawn poorly.
Many people who had tickets have been
kept away by the flood, and Others hesitated
to 60 out at night when the gas was shut
of. Still others did not understand that
the house could be tolerably well lighted
without gas. So Mrs. Langtry's audiences
have hardly been as large as the sales OF
tickets indicated on the box sheets. l am
proud of the Cincinnati newspapers. They
have not, as rule, gushed over Langtry
or wasted much space on her, and grace,
mercy and peace be with them forever
they have not interviewed her, or at
tempted to. Mrs. Langtry has been re-
ceived in Cincinnati just about as we usu-
ally receive a Snowman.
Fred Gebbardt,
who joined the Lily again in Cincinnati,
has been more OF sensation than the Lily
herself. He bullied hotel waiter, and
was made the subject OF scorching news
opening night of the Langtry engagement
Fred and Miss Langtry SISTER OF the meek
and lowly Mr.. Langtry, OF England occu-
pied seats in the parquette. Miss Langtry
is petite, wears eyeglasses, and looks like
a teacher in q female seminary. Mrs
Langtry has not scored a success in Cincin-
natl, either as an actress or professional
beauty. She is simply
as an actress. She is not worth criticism.
In Cincinnati she has been a disappOint-
ment in every respect. A great many Deo.
pie fall in with the advertised ideas OF
things, and feel bound to regard Mrs. Lang
try as beauty because she has come to us
from England in that capacity; but those
who have good taste and judgment, and at
the same time independence enough to
criticiSe themselves, say that her audiences
here have been largely composed oil better
looking women than she is.
The Jersey Lily
is simply a big. boned, coarse featured Eng
lish woman. She has an ample mouth
which would prevent her, however near
perfect she might be in other respects,
from going beyond the ordinary range OF
tolerablJ good looking women. Sne is
not graceful in movement. a well known
man about.town who haunts the theatres
here, hit II the other uay Wheu ne
said that ii a paint pot should be
placed within twenty feet of Mrs Lang
try she would be sure TO collide with it.
Hayerly's MastOdon Minstrels
have played all week at the Grand Opera
House. Jack Haverly has destroyed the
minstrel business. He has organized big
companies and destroyed the smaller ones.
His show, given by thirty five or forty
men, is not as good as the average minstrel
show of other days, given by ten or twelve
men. He has too many chair-warmers, and
has departed too far from the strict line OF
minstrel business. Frank Cushman and
Leon the female impersonator, left the
Haverly organization at this point on ac-
count OF business difficulties. Leon is one
OF those disgusting persons OF the allege !
male persuasion who wear petticoats and
affect a soprano voice.