Evening star., 1895-09-14
MRS. LANGTRY SEEKS DIVORCE.
! Papers In the Suit Forwarded to San
| FranciscO.

Papers In the Suit Forwarded to San
Francisco.
From the New York Herald.
SAN FRANCISCO. Cal, September 13.-
Dunn & McPike, who are Mrs. Langtry's
legal representatives here, have received
from Howe & Hummel of New York the
papers in 1.-The Jersey Lily's" suit for d.
yorce from her husband with Instructions
to make the necessary application at once.
The action must be begun here as Mrs.
Langtry has her legal residence in Lake
county, this state, where she has main
tanned a fine country place for several
years. The complaint will be filed In the
superior court of Lake county.
Mrs Langtry, on her first visit to Cali
fornia, some years ago, leased cozy cot
tage on Liberty Heights, at the Mission, in
there, with view to becoming a legal
resident, in order to obtain a divorce.
Failure of First Proceedings.
suit was begun, w. H. L. Barnes,
leader at the local bar, being Mrs. Lang
try's attorney. She wished to avoid pub
licity. and so her declaration of intention
to become citizen of the United States
was taken by the clerk OF the United
States circuit court at her house. After
the filing of the divorce complaint, this
method of making the declaration was
that the proceeding was irregular and in
valid.
The divorce proceedings were then drop
ped, Subsequently Mrs. Langtry acquired
large land interests in Lake county, and
her California property is now worth more
than 100000. The Langtry ranch is IA
nous.
It will be Mr.. Langtry's privilege. of
course, If he contests the suit, to demand
that it be transferred to the federal courts,
as he is a foreigner and nonresident.
Now Forty-One Years Old.
Mrs. Langtry is now forty-one years old.
When she was twenty she was married to
Edward Langtry. an Irishman of small
means, at the home of her father, the Rev.
w. C. LIE Breton. dean Of the Isle of Jersey.
She went to London, where her beauty
won for her the highest social honors. The
Prince of Wales and the ultra-fashionable
set approved of her, and socially she was
a success from that moment.
Went on the Stage.
Her social position and her ambition out
grew her means and those Of her husband
and father. The stage was suggested, and
fashionable London, which had bowed be-
fore the beautiful woman. made her the
atrical venture monetary success from
the first. The critics were cold at first, but
the box office receipts were immense.
Stories not fiattering to the actress were
whispered about during the earlier years
Of her life on the stage and finally printed
She sued a London weekly and had the
editor imprisoned for criminal libel. Fa-
nous painters begged her to sit for Them
and she did. The world talked of her
classical head and her peerless neck.
She appeared first at the Haymarket in
"She Stoops to Conquer" in 1881. London
bought the seats for $25 apiece.
She might have married a coronet had
she not been the wife of Edward Langtry
known chiefly 81
Mrs. Langtry's husband
Mrs. Langtry came to America first in
October, 1882 under engagement to Mr.
Abbey, and opened at Wallacks Theater
as Hester Grazebrook in 1.-The Unequal
Match" Her other plays are well remem-
bered.