St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-24
WAS IT MRS. LANGTRY?


LADY Barter,'' the piece in which Rose
Coghlan will appear at the Metropolitan
opera house Sunday night, was written by
Charles Coghlan. the well-kuown actor and
brother of Rose He took for his model, it is
said though of course this is gossip, wom-
an who posed as beauty once. and then
followed the stage with some degree of sue
cess, and is at the present time living in Lon
don.
LADY Barter" is all that the name i'm
plies, and whether or not the story be true
yet it is certain that in every fashionable
circle it is easy to find Barter whose in1u-
ence is great, whose popularity, especially
among the fair sex, is unquestioned, and
who is received by the female fashsonables
because they dare not do otherwise. She is
not an adventures. She has no intrigues.
Yet she puts aside the cOnventionalities con-
stantly aid openly defies the simplest rules
of the society world. Such woman as this
Charles Coghlan claims to have met and as
she had never been put upon the stage, he
thought himself of giving her forth to the
world to see If the character would be rec
ognized. 1t was, but as kipling says. that's
another story, and that's the fun of it.
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who had heard the play read, became infatu-
ated with it and produced it at the Princess
theater where it made an enormous hit.
Critics in London, though, saw IN it reflex,
as they thought, of the lady's own life and
bluntly told her so. SO did her friends, es-
pecially as there was an archdeacon in the
piece, whose caperings resemDled very
strongly the little weakness of the dean of
Jersey, father of the Lily, and the remark
able spectacle was established of an actress
playing role almost Identical with her own
life. However, she chung to the piece and
really played it to big business in London.
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In New York, however Miss CoghIan made
the hit of her life in the part as it calls for
that goodly quantity of that wonderful mag
netism which she possesses to a remarkable
degree and also gives her opportunity for
magnificent acting, which New York critics
were unanimous in describing as the finest
piece of work Miss Coghlan had ever done.
In Miss Coghlans own words, she says:
Lady Barter is creature of flesh and blood,
and nave no doubt individually her proto-
type may or may not be remembered with
either pleasure or sorrow as the circum-
stances are remembered.
Seen in a Country Boarding House
New York Recorder.
The woman who talks loudly about
the splendid place she has left at the
seashOre.
/ s The man who knows it all.
. The mother who deluges her little
boys plate with maple syrup in am am
bilious desire to get the best of the land
| lady, even though her boys health
should suffer in consequence
The dear little good Samaritan who
never retails any gossip; who is always
ready to teach you new stitch in
crochet; who will lay aside her reading
or work at any time to play chess with
an invalid or croquet with a child or
somebody's accomplishments on the
piano.
The woman who plays croquet with
an umbrella over Der head.
The woman who reads Shakespeare
regularly every day at certain hour.
The woman who walks at just such
an hour every day.
The woman whose dresses outweigh
her brains.
The shy little girl who is never in
anybody's way, and is always doing
helpful things.
The punster at whose atrocious Jokes
even politeness refuses to force a smile.
The fat, jolly baby whom everybody
leyes.
Lit is true that man rs the architect of