The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-15
MRS. LANGTRY.
Dead in London Socially and Dramatically,
She Will Settle in America.

Dead in London Socially and Dramatically,
She Will Settle in America.
New York World.
Mrs. Langtry is dead in London, dead-as
Dickens says-as door nail. She has long
been dead socially; she is now dead dramatically.
The selection of the princess Georges" was
most unfortunate, and bad omens have hung
around it from the start. The chamberlain first
refused a license. and the play had to be altered
to suit his sensitive virtue Then the structure
Of the play required considerable alterations then
one of the newly introduced characters, prlncl-
palone after trial and consultation was exercised
Then, In consequence of this change. the in
cenSed author or adapter threw up his commits
sion, and a popular actor threw up his part
which part, by the way. afterwards disappeared
from the play under the process of distribution
in more or less equal shares among the rest of
the characters There number of clever
heads at work-Charles Coghlan's the CHIFFON
the play to temper it to a Saxon sense of PRO
priety without losing anything of the beck
ground. AS usual, many heads failed to do
what one like Boucicault's might have accom-
plished.
And now the beautiful Lily will return to the
climate in which she first bloomed into full sue
cess, and settle here. Indifference and the mere
acceptance of an admiring homage which Gus
tom has made a necessity, have grown in Mr.
Gebhards case into a settled love, as settled as
so tossed nature sustain and perSever-
ance has found success. When the Lilly first
came here, her duenna Mrs Labouchere, who
maze many SdcrlHceS TO aSS1St uers OtSlrbu HeC
to forget all her past attachments and
devote her whole soul to her last
adventure. As an aid she was anxious
to use society, and Mrs. Paran Stevens-who
Of all Others by that strange class styled society
here, seems to be ranked as species of Lady
Wadegrave-signifed her imperial intention TO
receive her. But Mrs. Langtrys attachment
the only genuine one she had felt up to this-for
Sir George Chetwynd. which had estranged the
Prince, who is as jealous in love affairs as was
l.. ol1.Ax BOD AFr-
Stevens's kindly purpose here. Her daughter
happened to be welded to Capt Paget, who is
cousin to Sir George Chetwynd's wife, the beau
tiful Lady Florence Paget, who 1T may
De, remembered, on the morning OF her
quietly stole from Uxbridge House in a
brougham and welded the young Marquis of
Hastings, those title she retains: and at her in
stance letters were written to Mrs. Paran Stew
ems of most commanding character, forbidding
the society banns Mrs. Stevens wrote to Mrs
Labouchere very frankly explaining her reason
for being compelled to cancel the reception and
the society dream ended there. Then came the
Gebhard Irritation, Mrs. Labouchere's anger
and return home. But there remained the glo-
rious West-go West. my child-to welcome her.
Thither she went, and conquered the comforta-
BILE fortune Of $780, 900, unless this London fiasco
has broken it.
1t was Sir George Chetwynd's intention to ac-
company the Lilly on her dramatic crusade, and
he had absolutely taken his passage in the
Bothnia and gone to Liverpool with the late Earl
of Aylesford to join her. when exaggerated mes
sages of her doings here came in crowds and
crushed out his tender passion. He turned
homeward, and they have not known each other
since. Mr. Gebhard IS now within sight of the
object of his long and patient struggle, with but
the slight obstruction of divorce which, in
this elastic country, can be lightly leaped over.
He can wear the pleasant feeling that he has
acted as a chivalrous thoroughbred throughout.
And she will make charming wife-her delight
full, playful ways at home being fully as attract
i've as her abroad beauty.