Mrs. Lillie Langtry, if she has done nothing else, has proven that
a woman can command admiration even when she is no longer in the
first flush of her youth or in the full bloom of her womanhood. This
statement is made in view of the public regard which she still enjoys
as an actress, in spite of the fact that she first saw the light in
1852, in Jersey, Great Britain. Her father was connected with the
Established church of England. She married an officer in the English
army and subsequently settled in London. Domestic differences ensuing,
she went upon the stage. Her American début, as an actress, was made in
1893 at the Fifth avenue theater, New York. Since then she has visited
this country on two or three occasions. Mrs. Langtry is popularly known
as the Jersey Lily. She was married for the second time in 1899.