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Show TAKES NOTORIETY TO MARKET. ; It is to tha'credit of the theater-going public of New York that Mrs. Langtry's first presentation of "The Cross Ways" in this country was received with intense disgust. While the "Jersey Lily's" new play is possibly harmless, it is the actress herself that is offensive. Ordinarily d 'woman's skirt is a flag of truce, but when an actress of Mrs. Langtry's quality seeks to take advantage of the protection society reserves for? good women, then she forfeits her right to the good offices of chivalry. Mrs. Langtry is not a woman of talent. She knows this. She has beauty and a reputation reeking with filthy notoriety notorie-ty and these she takes to the market, as a cold business busi-ness proposition. Unlike Bernhardt, she has none of the heat of genius in her heart nor any of its fire in her brain. Her Notoriety constitutes, her sole claim ' upon "the American pocketbook. The Mrs. Langtry we know through the newspapers, and whom we pay our, 2 to see upon the stage, is an icy-minded, woman, .with a brazen, calculating expression ex-pression ever on her. face, and her heart is a cash register. Iler reputation bears out the belief that she keeps her morals where the stage does in the safe.v She comes to America to find a market for her notoriety, which she has earned through intrigues extending from Prince to blackguard. Her presence pres-ence in this country offensive to" good women" it should be offensive to good men. Her new play, unlike "The Degenerates," is a decent one, but the mere thought of "Lily Langtry" presenting .anything but an indecent drama is grotesque. Gotham is a wicked city, but. the frost it tendered Mrs. Langtry proves that Xew York's evil is only skin deep. . |