ENGLISH GLEANINGS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 3018, 29 November 1882, Page 3

ENGLISH GLEANINGS.

As Mrs Langtry will in all probability extend her travels to the Antipodes, it may, observes the “ Home Nows,” interest colonists to learn that she has greatly improved in acting. Although gtill somewhat of an amateur, her manner has become more settled with increased practice and the confidence that it brings- .In some respects she U as good as needs be* Although low

comedy, and the a-'Mirnptioa of a character part with a broa ! aceut -iiid a rough air, seems bt-yon-i h i, she i- namrally and completely at Inane in the role of a walking lady,and it'- tnn "illinit lo predict that she wid succeed in comeny. Her beauty is the one point i n which few donbls have ever been expressed ; yet it does nor shine on the stage She, is vety graceful, Imr head is well formed, and the features are most correct, but she errs in smilling too much, indeed, she too often sets her mouth in what might irreverently be called a fixed grin. Of enuse she looks well on the stage. No woman can afford to despise the adventitious aids of costume, and Mrs Langtry although still young, is an practitioner in the ait to please, She is turned out most effectively. Humor also has it that her outfit for America rivals that which Sarah Bernhardt took across the pond. The greatest artistes in Paris and London have had carte blanche, the result being a wardrobe which, with innumerable trunks that hold it, will no doubt afford as much amusement to Yankee Custom House searchers as it will profit to the revenues of that essentially Protective country. The “Daily News’’ states that on the introduction, next year, of the Government Bill for, establishing a London municipality, the Metropolitan Board of Works will bo 1 prepared with a rival scheme, with the view, it is believed, of "preserving the vestries withjjatnplified duties, and in increasing the number of representatives on the Board. A general panic has taken possession of householders in the suburbs of London, owing to several recent desperate burglaries having been committed, accompanied with great violence to tile inhabitants. No one teels quite safe, and the pistol-shops have been doing a roaring trade. The “ Horae Nows ” advocates the introduction of the Yankee method of dealing with burglars. By this system every house, on application, can be connected telegraphically with the nearest police station. On the slightest alarm instead of confronting a housebreaker in one’s nightdress, it is only necessary to press the telegraph-button by one’s side, and ring for help. Burglars would soon giye it up as a bad job with such a preventative system.