PROPOSED VISIT OF MRS. LANGTRY TO AUSTRALIA.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1122, 14 August 1882, Page 4

PROPOSED VISIT OF MRS. LANGTRY TO AUSTRALIA.

Mbs Langtby (says the “ Home News") has achieved a wonderful success in her provincial tour. It is not alone that vast crowds have flocked to the theatres in Newcastle, Edinburgh, and Glasgow whenever she performed, but everywhere the people have treated her to quite an ovation. She is greeted with the most vociferous applause when she appears at the footlights; she is called upon to make speeches like a popular politician at all times and places; her admirers and supporters remove the horses from her carriage and insist upon dragging her from the theatre or railway station to her hotel. More than all this she is literally inundated with showers of congratulatory epistles ; already poets and publishers have laid their works, bound in the best morocco at her feet; rare flowers and bouquets are lavished upon her in richest profusion. So much approval is apt to be intoxicating. But in Mrs Langtry's ease it has a stimulating effect. Iler actin" has certainly improved, and she bids fair to make a genuine reputation as an actress. By the time she reaches Australia, to which country she is bound via America as soon as her tour through the English provinces is ended, she will become an accomplished comedian. The difficulty will be for her admirers in the antipodes to rival tho houmge gendered hrr »*• tl,c ulil country.