Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-24
IN THE THEATRICAL WORLD.
What Nym Crinkle Has to Say
About Actresses.

NEW YORK, Oct. 23.-l saw Lord Ions
dale standing in front of the Casino the
other morning. He was dressed IN a cut
away coat, and it was blowing a stiff
winter breeze. No one paid the slightest
attention to him and he looked rather
lonesome. The Violet Cameron opera
season has been business failure appa-
rently, and public interest in the whole
affair has suddenly died out. 1t is diff
cult now to get anybody to talk about it.
Mr.. Frohman, the manager of the other
British celebrity, Miss FortesQue, who
has appeared at the Lyceum, took a hint
and adopted another course with his star.
Two days before she made her debut here
he managed TO get himself interviewed,
and said the reason why Miss Fortesque
had not accepted the pressing invitation
OF the LOrlllards to spend few weeks at
Tuxedo Park was that she had sprained
her ankle.
The only British celebrity who doesn't
offend society nor toady to it is the Lang
try. she combines in herself the most
gracious independence with the most dis
Greet silence. Her little home in Twenty
third street is a most admirable mingling
Of the English family circle and the Be-
hemian symposium. Her little break
fasts provide charmed group, in which
the polished and courtly Ned Gilmore
sometimes breaks scholarly lance with
the erudite Lee Lynch, and Wilson Bar
rett and Charles COghlan discuss Ham
let' and eggs in Chestertieldian periods.
Langtry herself Is not what you can call
vivaciOus or brilliant woman. But for
all that she has social charm peculiarly
her own. | never met man who had been
In her company halt an hour who did not
acknowledge her charm without being
IN
does not, like some professional women,
throw herself at you, so to speak. She
never gushes, and she doesn't do the men,
tai clinging trick so effective with the
"lOw-lidded blondes of BritOn" | think
her charm for men is her unaffected man.
ner and her air OF wholesome natural
ness. Her demeanor no less than her ap-
pearance is unpaInted. You never sus-
pect her conversation or her face OF pow
der. She does not build up her sentences
or her body. She doesn't overdress her
language or her person. This is so I'M
like an actress thai IL strikes deep. |
had the opportunity to study her one
morning at breakfast, and i summed her
up as a very sensible, leveI-headed,
healthy woman, than which l cannot
think of anything more charming.
A well-known lady OF society not long
ago was listening to her praises in a
group of gentlemen, and she interpOsed
the remark; "But Langtry has no art, you
know"
Up went every mans hand and voice,
and simultaneous chorus answered:
THAT'S why we like herv'
The syndicate OF showmen that is now
in possession of Madison Square Garden
are preparing an exhibition there, to open
next month, which will be of unusual
magnitude and startling novelty. 1t is no
less scheme than the utilization OF But
falo BilPs Wild West in a series OF
dramatic spectacles and dramas that is to
picture the history of our civilization ia
its westward fight with barbarism. We
are to have the original Indian tribes, the
arrival of the settlers, the ambuscades,
surprises, massacres; the prairie e es,
stampedes OF wild ANIMALS; the cyclones
destruction OF the camps by the elements,
and finally the great fight Of Custer and
the Indians on the Little Big Horn. Over
200 Indians and cowboys are 10 be en-
ployed in this spectacle and about 100
soldiers and as many horses. MIR. Steele
MackaYe has been at work for a month
preparing the scenes, and the well-known
ARTIST, Matt Morgan, Is here from Cincin-
natl painting the scenery. The principals
In this venture are the popular circus
man, Forepaugh, Mr.. Nate Salisbury and
William Cody. The enterprise, am told,
Will entail an outlay of over $4,000.
NYM CRINKLE