HOW MRS. LANGTRY LOOKED.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1043, 2 March 1882, Page 4

HOW MRS. LANGTRY LOOKED.

A London letter says Mrs. Langtry’s appearance on the stage was the signal for boisterous applause, but did not seem to disturb Mrs. Langtry’s composure for a moment. Perhaps she found it no more trying to walk on the Haymarket stage from the front wings than to walk into the drawingroom of Marlborough House. There was not a sign of emotion on her peach coloured cheek ; which it maybe said in passing bore no trace of having been “ made up,” but which by and by flushed and paled with excitement as it used to in private life. She wore a brocade of pink and pale yellow, low in the neck, but covering the shoulders, and an amber satin petticoat, and I know not what other elaborate magnificence of costume, the whole fitting perfectly and suiting wed the delicate ripe splendor of the wearer’s beauty. It was always a question whether Mrs. Langtry's loveliness would endure the glare of the footlights. She certainly gains nothing from it. As a woman she is handsomer in a ball-room or in the park, but for all that no actress has been seen on the stage in modern days who could stand a comparison in looks with Mrs. Langtry. The purity of her complexion has not been matched anywhere, nor, perhaps, the soft fullness of her violet eyes, which can only be described by- the epithet which Homer bestowed on the Queen of the Gods — ox-eyed—which is voted too homely in our days. The setting of the eye and the moulding of tho temples, over which the dark brown hair falls far, are equally fine; the lines of that part of the head pure Greek passing into a more modern type below. The profile is a little, very little, irregular ; the mouth and jaw strongly shaped, and teeth perfect; the head elegantlyset on the shoulders, which are positively high, but rounded and full, as is the bust and whole figure. In the upward flame of the gas the lustre of the skin is dazzling, and the winsomeness of the half-appealing expression has the same charm which London long since pronounced irresistible. “ Even those who come only to look,” remarks one practical-minded Briton this morning, “ will admit that they had their money’s worth.”