BEAUTIFUL MRS LANGTRY.
An English paper says ;—So this is the end. After a reign of almost unparalleled glory, royalty smiling on her, the populace cheering her, the Press praising her, poets celebrating her, a world to admire her beauty, and her beauty exhibited in all windows for the world to admire, the end of it all is the sound of the auctioneer's hammer in the little house in Norfolk street. Society, which had flattered and fawned, was there to sneer, to criticise the neglect of the house, and to pour scorn on the tawdry appointments. Mrs Langtry herself is all the time in Jersey. Her husband is recuperating In the United States. She may yet succeed on the stage if she chooses it as her profession, for she is intelligent and an actress, or Norfolk street yesterday would not have made pilgrims of so many envious and inquisitive ladies. But the paragraph “ Mrs Langtry occupied the box next the royal box, and was dressed more marvellously than ever,” will appear never again in tbe papers. With their queen the whole regime of the “professional beauties ” is passed away.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2595, 15 July 1881, Page 2
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189BEAUTIFUL MRS LANGTRY. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2595, 15 July 1881, Page 2
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