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IIEARST’& SUNDAY AMERTCAN-
A MERIC A N’S SPECIAL FOREIGN NEWS
-ATLANTA, DECEMBER 28, 1913.
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»BRITAIN
Reign of the Tango
In Paris Nears End
Special Cable to The American.
j“ PARIS. Dec. 27.—The short but
merry reign of tango is drawing to-
an end. One by one the "ele
gantes” desert the tango and return
T ? the waltz of our grandmothers.
^ en Andre de Fouquieres himself no
'Niger champions the Brazilian max-
’ x * * • and when society meets again
t ’ r (’hristmas the rage of the win-
,or in all ballrooms will be the quad-
dri lie.
There are a few younger dandies
T::o are bravely attempting launch
« new dance, "la rallonge,” whien
cornea to us from the famous bal-
rnusettes of "La Rastoche” and “La
Viitense,” and which is said to have
Tfc origin in Japan.
England to Advertise
For Army Recruits
^o«cial Cable to The American.
h' >\T)ON, Dee* 27.—With the object of
recruiting the ranks of the army to full
c'rength, the Government will start the
r < w year by inaugurating a great ad-
v;-rtising service of a modern character.
- awspaper space will be largely used
i caters on billboards will also figure, but
city official documents so used in
" Past will be banished in disgrace,
•uring recent years of industrial ex-
nnnamn it has been difficult to obtain a
K u 'ient number of recruits for the reg
ie army. The ranks were 7.000 short
last year.
T HK WHITE HOUSE HONEYMOONEKS—Mr. and Mrs. Francis B. Sayre
reading at the home of Ambassador Page in London. The bride, who was Miss
Jessie Wilson, has been greatly admired. This photograph was taken when they
were the guests of honor at a dinner given them by Lord Haldane.
Son of Former Miss Jerome, of
New York, Considered for
Unionist Ministry,
Special Cable to The American.
N'DON, Dec. 21.—There ip' a
-r it possibility that the next Prime
M i-ter of Great Britain will be the
of an American woman,
i ...t man is Winston Churchill
first Lord of the Admiralty, Uie
of Lady Randolph Churchill, for
merly the beautiful Miss Jennie Je-
•nie, of New York.
\Y,f that Mr. Asquith contemplates
- intarily relinquishing the burdens
i he office of the Premier, much as
1 j said he would like to do so. He
. not the kind of man, to quote A lira-
JUI Lincoln, “to swap horses in mld-
s't'eam." Mr. Asquith will see the
me rule bill passed flnallv into op-
. i ition next April, or he wiil die with
cabinet fighting- in the attempt.
But there is one tiling certain he
'iocs not want to do, and that is to
■■nuke a t'resli appeal to the country on
home rule question. If forced to
SO—and many believe this event
■ ■ lie inevitable—it is almost certain
mi a Unionist government will be
c-'irnni, and with it Winston
Churchill at its head.
Signs Show Trend.
•■'or a long time the signs have not
wanting to show which way the
ami is blowing for the adventure-
; me young first Lord. Dav bv riu>
. i.tical events multiply to show that
i’c iu getting restless in the ranks of
he Liberal party, and at the same
■ me the Liberal party is becoming
: igiih nervous about him. Mr.
• hurrhill's yachting trips with Aus-
1 hamberlain. his frequent dinners
'iC' P- E. Smith, who is one of the
prireipal hopes of the. Unionists: his
week-ends with his cousin, the Duke
ef Marlborough, whose anxiety to
■old office in the next Unionist gov
ernment is almost painful to behold—
■ ' tell their tale of the trend of
*' i. archill, besides proving very try
ing to radical nerves.
It Is not that these social amenities
Co ill themselves disturbing, but, re-
! n cd by other signs, they betoken
coming alienation from the advanced
Liberal policy. Since his transfer-1
encp from the Home Office to the Ad- i
' i ilty they are a constant source of
mooing irrlta-ion to his partv. Cou-
clcd with this is Mr. Churchill’s well-
nown penchant for always being on
winning side and the fact (hat the
Unionist party needs him badly.
Czar's Prime Minister
Asks About Pindellj
Special Cable to The American.
BERLIN, Dec. 27.—While in Berlin
recently on hi.s way to St. Petersburg
'- di official visits in London and
• 'nr v the Russian Prime Minister,
»l Kokovtsov made Informal inquir-
F* in strictly private American oir-
< les regarding- the identity of Mr.
Pindeil, President Wilson’s nominee
bs Ambassador to Russia,
He seemed especially desirous of
learning if- Pindeil, in the eyes of the
American people, was of sufficient
•rnportance to qualify him as an Am
bassador to a first-class European
power.
The persons interrogated were un-
f ble to give him any information be
en d hearsay reports. The Pindeil
incident has become a standing joke
among foreign members of the diplo
matic corps here, who laughingly de-
laro no American diplomat in Eu-
vppo on vacation now need fear being
accused of having taken the position
In order to enjoy the "delightful ex-
■ ursion trips” promised to Pindeil by
Senator Lewis.
FRENCH CRITIC 73 an Unlucky Year in Royal Matrimony
SMS II. S. ARIIY six CmTto Qkf l imZth
IS TDD SMALL
“Yankee Is Above All a Fighter,
But He Wants to Fight
Alone," Says Kann.
Special Cable to The American.
PARIS, Dec. 27. — That the Ameri
can Army is deficient in numbers ami
equipment is the conclusion of an
exhaustive study iff the United Htat*s
war machine in to-night’s Paris
Temps by Reginald Kann, tpe vva'*
correspondent and military critic. He
says:
•I went tit rough the Philippine
campaign with the American troops
and 1 know their courage and
bravery, but they lack numbers.
‘‘The United States Army could
give a serious account of itself in
Mexico, but it is not strong enough
numerically to^ undertake even a
temporary occupation of that coun
try, while the equipment, the arma
ment, the cavalry horses leave a lot
to lu* desired,
“The officers are gallant and bril
liant as men on the battlefield, hut
their professional value does not equal
their courage.
“The system of promotion by ipe
riod of service dampens the ambition
and is a great drawback.
“Congress is very slow in acceding
to the reforms recommended by the
general staff.”
Kann thinks that colonial service
has had the effect of softening the
; iroops and lessening their fighting
value, because ir. such countries as
tlie Philippines they forget the prin
ciples cf fighting in open country.
“Another vice inherent in the army
is Its dispersal over the tremendous
territory of the United States, mak
ing quick mobilization in case yt
urgency impossible.
“Except the Chinese.”, he <T)n-
cludes, "the Americana are the best
military nation under the sun. be
cause the people indulge in intense
individualism and are impatient of all
discipline. Tho Yankee is above all
a fighter, but he wants to fight alone,
without restraint, without a partner,
without a master.”
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‘Falconnier’ Reads His Obituary,
Scares School Porter, Then
Learns ‘Falconnet’ Is Dead*.
Special Cable to The American.
PARIS, Dec. 27.—M. Falconnier,
one of the oldest “pensionaires” of tho
Comedie Francaise, had an unpleas
ant surprise the other morning. Ho
woke up to find himself dead. The
first person to inform him of his sud
den decease was naturally his con
cierge—for concierges rejoice to be
the bearers of bad news.
M. Falconnier attempted a denial,
but when the concierge assured him
that an undertaker already had of
fered a first-class funeral at reduced
rates, almost convinced, he bowed,
passed cut on his way to the elocu
tion class which it was his habit to
conduct, when alive, at the Marie^les
Batignolles. At the first, kiosque he
bought a newspaper, and, with trem
bling fingers, turned up the obitua
ries. Yes, there he was, interred and
covered with flowers of speech.
Doubts He Lives.
The actor began to doubt his own
continued existence. He felt almost
ashamed of the healthy breakfast he
had eaten and of the excellent cigar
he smoked. But he remembered that
concierges were notoriously untrust
worthy, and that even a newspaper
may be misled. Like Mark Twain, he
felt that the news of his death was an
exaggeration.
Thus communing with himself, he
reached the “Mairie” of Batignolles.
The door of his lecture room was
closed, and nailed to it was a black-
edged notice, which read thus: “M.
Falconnier having died last night, his
elocutionary course will not take
place.” As he read this third death
warrant, the municipal porter ap
proached, grew pale, and stammered,
“What! You are not dead, sir?”
Mistaken for Another.
“I am afraid not,” replied M. Fal
connier, meekly Later on the mis
take was explained. The death of an
almost homonym of the actor, a M.
de Falconnet, a theatrical impresario,
had misled several newspapers. M.
Falconnier does not regret this cu
rious experience. “It has proved tc
me,” he says, “that I have far more
friends than I knew.”
Copyright Expires
On Parsifal Dec. 31
Special Cable to The American.
BERLIN, Dec. 27—On Wednesday
next the copyright protecting the
greatest of ail Wagner's operas, Par
sifal," expires, and the movement to
make it perpetual and restrict per
formances of it to Bayreuth having
failed, Berlin will shortly see It per
forms! at the Royal Opera, in the
presence of the Kaiser and his whole
family and an audience of Princes,
Dukes and Counts.
The effect is to be heightened by
draping the whole orchestra and the
front of the proscenium boxes in the
national colors, and the principal parts
will be performed by Bayreuth sing
ers, with the exception of Amfortas.
who will be suns; by the Swedish
singer. John Forsell.
The American colony here tak^s
great interest in the coming perform
ance, and a number of boxes have
been taken by well-known American
residents of Berlin.
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, Dec. 27.—Princess Ar-
| thur of Connaught is in disgrace at
court. She has lost the good will of
j Queen Mary, who is now shocked at
j the very sight of her. it is all tho
j fault of wicked, immoral Paris, which
i the Queen declares has. in one short
! month, transformed the Princess rrorn
j a sweet, shy and modest English girl
into a frivolous, forward, pleasure-
loving creature, who wears shocking
dresses and w ho, w orst of all, has
secretly taught little Princess Mary
(she will always remain little Prin
cess Mary) the steps of the horrible
tango, which she and h«_ r husband
learned in Paris.
Princess Arthur has laid aside en
tirely or given away that wonderful
English trousseau, made entirely by
old-fashioned, respectable English
dressmakers, which so delighted
Queen Mary, and which was praised
by the whole press as a proof of her
patriotism, and has returned from
Paris with a dozen trunks of won
derful dresses, made by Worth, Pa-
quin and Red fern. Queen Mary is
frowning, but Queen Alexandra is
smiling. Prince Arthur is delighted,
and declares that his wife has
emerged from the chrysalis stage a
wonderful, merry butterfly, who in
every way comes up to his ideal of
what a wife should pe, and neither he
nor the Princess is the least hit wor
ried because of their disgrace.
G.B. Shaw Will Head
Jury in Mock Trial
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, Dec. 27.—George Bernard
Shaw will appear in January in an un
accustomed role—that of a foreman of
a jury, but the trial will be a mock
one.
It Is to be given under the auspices of
the Dickens Fellowship. The prisoner
will be John Jasper, indicted for the
murder of Edwin Drood.
Shaw r will be empaneled with W. L.
Courtney. \V. W. Jacobs, Hilarie Be Iocs,
Tom Gallon and William DeM organ
Pett-Ridge. G. K. Chesterton will be
the judge and his brother, Cecil, will
appear for the defense.
King Alfonso Meets
Lively Princess Marie
Special Cable to The American.
PARIS, Dec. 27.—It has just leaked
out that King Alfonso, recently in Paris,
took lunch with the Princess Marie of
Sweden, who fled from the Swedish
court because life was too humdrum,
and whose husband, Prince William, is
about to sue for a divorce.
Alfonso expressed a desire to meet
the vivacious young Russian Princess,
wl»o always dances with the handsom
est men and plays school pranks at the
expense of dignified diplomats. The
Grand Duke and Grand Duchess Cyrh
thereupon gave a luncheon at their
Paris mansion for the Spanish mon
arch. to which the Grand Duke Dmitri
brought the unconventional young Prin
cess.
Precautions were taken to keep from
the press the names of the guests, who
also included the Grand Duke Paul,
the Countess Hohenrfelsen, the Prince
and Princess Nicholas of Greece and
Princess Helen of Greece.
Baltimore Girl Now
Has Historic Mansion
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, Dec. 27.—The former
Mildred Carter, of Baltimore, now
entertains in the historic mansion of
the Lord Falmouth, which her hus
band. Viscount Aeheson, has just
bought.
There i» some criticism because
Lord Falmouth has not taken away
the cannon along the front which
were captured by his ancestor, Ad-
rniril BosCawen, from the French in
1737 »»;t*u«utly warn* sold with
the hc*j^s
Insults to Flag by Prussians at
Zabern Bring an Apology
Front Wilhelm.
By GEORGE DUFRESNE.
Special Cable to The American.
PARIS. Dec. 27. it is not my habit
to talk politics, a task we Parisians
as a rule leave to the professionals,
but there are moments when even
the most frivolous among us is forced
to think of politics, and we are just
now passing through one of these pe
riods, when you must lay aside the
thought of the lighter side of life.
There are two sets of people re
sponsible for this deplorable fact—
one is our own radical and socialistic
Deputies, who from motives of •mere
personal animosity and jealousy
against too popular President Poin
care defeated the Government of M.
Barthou, at the very moment when
the Chamber was about lo adopt the
bill providing for a loan of 1,300,000,-
000 francs for patriotic purposes.
Germans Can Not Bear Burdens.
This would have crushed the Kai
ser and forced him to give up this
mad race for military and naval su
premacy. simply because his subjects
are unable to bear the burdens any
longer. The other set of people are
the German officers in Zabern —or, as
we call it and as it ought to he call
ed, being an old French town, Saverne
—in Alsace.
The insults these Prussian officers
have heaped on the. French flag
neither French npr German papers
have dared to print, for they would
have been followed by such a clamor
for revenge on the part of the people
of France that no Government would
have been able to resist it As it is,
war was only avoided because the
Kaiser, in the eleventh hour, changed
his mind and made a most abject
apology to France.
As it is, the position is far more
serious than it appears on the sur
face, for the anger of the masses of
the French people against the op
pressors of their brethren in Alsace-
Lorraine is thoroughly aroused, and
the danger is increased by the weak
ness of the present French Govern
ment, a mere stop-gap Cabinet, hur
riedly got together to tide us over
the holidays and hound to be defeat
ed at the first blow.
Strong Man Needed.
All France wants a strong man at
the helm of the republic now, and it
is safe to predict that after the gen
eral election, if not before, the Cab
inet Doumergue will go down and
M. Caillaux, the strongest man since
the time of Leon Gamhetta, will take
command and carry out the patriotic
desires of the Frepch people, with or
without a war with Germany.
Until this happens, nobody in
France feels safe, and so great is
the trust in M. Caillaux. that, should
he decide that the time had come
for a war with Germany, nobody
w'ould doubt that he would carry such
a war to a successful end. The peo-
. pie of France have no mad desire
i for war, but they would far rather
risk everything on one card than go
on suffering with the feeling that
France is too weak to put an end to
the Prussian rule of horror in Alsace.
Gerards to Receive
About January 15
| Special Cable to The Amerlcarj.
i BERLIN. Dec. 27 Ambassador Ge-
• rard will give his first reception to the
* members of the diplomatic corps about
the middle of January. It will he fol
lowed by the official reception to the
members of the German Foreign < >fflce.
This function is obligatory under the
rules of German etiquette. The regu
lations for cor.ducting It are prescribed
by the 'ourt marshal, who issues the
Invitation*.
‘Not Personal/ Shaw
Says of Soulful Kiss
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON. Dec. 27 About all the
great George Bernard Shaw, iconoclast,
is doing these days is trying to explain
away that kiss. To-day ho claims it
was “purely Impersonal.”
It seems Shaw made a speech in
which ho declared the guest of honor,
Anatole France, to !>»• the onl\ living
Frenchman, all the rest having becoino
Europeans
Quite a Shavianism! lie of the beard
/expected it to he appreciated. But the
French Academician went too far. much
too far. He rushed forward, and catch
ing Shaw iti the arms, kissed him fondly
on both cheeks. He was. Indeed, a
Frenchman Everybody presently loudly
applauded Driven to desperation, Shaw
finally declared:
“There was nothing personal In it it
was merely symbolic.”
“Mona Lisa Smile"
Is Revived in Paris
Special Cable to The American.
PARIS Dec. 27 Following the re
covery of PgYlnci’s masterpiece, the
“Mona Lieu look” has made Its reap
pearance In the Grand Tier of the, Paris
opera, and the sickly consumptive smile
which is the distinctive feature of To*-
Gioconda >s again all the rage among
society women, just as it was after the
picture was stolen. _ , .
The effect of the Mona Lisa look Is
enhanced by yellow powder applied to
the face, hair and bust, and the fash
ion of wearing pearl necklaces, the pale
splendor of which lends Itself admirably
to the new' facial twist.
Beauty specialists recommend it ex
clusively to thin-faced women Plump
women must avoid the experiment at
all costs.
France Strengthens
Army Near Border
Special Cable to The American.
BERLIN, Dec. 27 The fact that
France hue added a new' army corps
to her army and stationed it at Eni-
nal, near the eastern frontier, has
caused much uneasiness in German
military circles.
At present the French military
forces along the frontier, consisting
of the Seventh Armv Corps at Be-
sancon and Belfort, the new Eleventh
Army Corps at Laneres, Chammoni
and Epinal. the Tenth Army corns at
Luneville, Nancy and Toul, and tho
Sixth Army Corps at Reims. Verdun
and Pont a Houwon, are superior to
the German forces opposite.
The formation of the new army
corps has added immensely to the
striking power of the French army.
Allison V. Armour
Dines With Kaiser
Special Cable to The American.
BERLIN, Dec 27 Allison V. Armour,
the Kaiser’s friend and fellow-yachts
man. arrived at the Hotel Bristol sev
eral days ago. He was invited to dine
with the Ka»ser in Potsdam Castle
On the following evening he was en
tertained at dinner by Ambassador Ge
rard.
J. Shannon White of Chicago, who
has had n hand in the management of
Bryan’s lecture tours, arrived at the
Hotel Cumberland to remain several
day* before continuing his Journey to
South Germany, where he Is going for
rest and recuperation.
Ferrari’s New Opera
Is a Great Success
Special Cable to The American.
BERLIN. Dec 27 Wolf Ferrari’s
new two-act opera. “IY Arnour Mcdiein.”
founded on Moliere’N play, achieved an
extraordinary success on it* first pro
duction at the Munich Court Theater
this week, the composer receiving an
ovafion.
According to critic*, the work marks
a distinct advance upon Ferrari’s ear
lier production* and bears comparison
well with bis “Jewel's the Madonna.*'
which bad such success in America.
The music *s de*eHb**d as “in rococo
style, genuinely original and charming ”
[Old Fairy Tale Ending, "And They
Lived Happy Ever After," Is
Irony in This Age Among
Those Born to the Purple.
“tfo the J‘riiue and the Prime**
u ere maniml, and they tired haypUu
ever afterwardHan* A ndertoa,
tJrirnm, and all the fairy tale*.
Thut old idea is sadly Knocked in
the head this year of grace 1D18. No
leas than six royal princesses have
gone on the rocka in their Vu\1iges
toward a haqjpy union. Some of the
matrimonial craft have been patched
up and again are navigating hut, all
in a|l, tlie proportion of rifted beaus
and blighted romances in circles d
the purple just at present makes the
lot of the throne tenant*; far from
enviable. The modest newlyweds in
a cottage, with their baby, their vine-
clad porch and their humble pleas
ures, may well look with pity upon
the high places of wealth, pomp and
splendor.
First, there is the uramatic story of
the princess who burned her wedding
gown in her bed chamber on the
bridal night a tragic culmination to
what was believed to be a pure love
ma tch.
Little by little the tale of Prin.’e
George of Bavaria and ArehjJuchesb
Isabella Marie of Austria has come
out. He was a dashing officer, deco
rated by the Kaiser, the best middle
weight boxer in Germany. She was
not only a uretty girl, but a great wit,
a jolly good fellow.
And a hag of a gypsy plunged them
into woe!
She Puts Him Off.
Whether the Prince had been a tri
fle wild, as royal youths often are,
doesn't matter. It would have hap
pened just as it did, anyway. Tho
Archduchess, when the Prince, whom
she dearly loved, proposed, fooHah’y
put him off for 24 hours Instead of
falling into his arms with a “yes.”
She consulted the family gypsy.
“Ottille—Dttllie," whispered the
crone, “I see an Ottilie who will come
between you and your husband.”
The next dav the Archduchess ac
cepted her Prince, consulting her
heart. She renounced her Austriin
royal rights to facilitate the mar
riage. Everywhere the urii ui was^ad-
mired. The two were supremely hap
py. It appeared to those arpund them.
Overwrought or the night of h?r
wedding, a vision appealed to her.
Here is the story in her own words
to one of her maids:
“When, upon rny arrival in Munich,
I entered my bed chamber in the
evening. I suddenly remembered the
words of the gypsy. The room ’!-
self looked mysterious. When ,l un-
i dressed myself and" went to bed-—how
can l describe my horror?
“I beheld on the white pillow three
drops of fresh, red b|ood. I jumped
out of b?d, trembling, and rang the'
hell. Nobody came. I began to prav.
Soon I heard a weird nolle, and, look
ing around, l saw distinctly the figure
of a pretty young girl in a night
j gow n, staring at me ironically. How
! she had come in i do nol know . Stic
| just walked to tike bed and occupied
j it without a word. I trembled ill
over.
“'Madame.' she whispered, ‘thjjjr"*
not your it Is mine ‘
“Sho was pretty, with long dark
lashes and black eyes, just as ’tho
! gypsy had told mo. I aaked:
“ ‘Are you Ottilie?’
“She nodded and whispered: ‘Cer
tainly l am. What do you want of
me?’"
He Stammers—of Course.
When the Princess opened her eyes,
the Prince was kneeling over hdr,
keeping a towel with cold water on
her head. She wildly questioned him
Who was Ottilie? He stammered and
A YEAR OF TRIALS
FOR PRINCESSES.
PRINCESS WILLIAM, OF SWE
DEN.
She was too gay for the Swedish
court and her stolid husband,
became Involved with the Am
bassador of her native country,
Russia, and finally deserted her
children to run away to Paris.
PRINCESS SOPHIE OF SAXE-
WEIMAR-EISENACH.
A girl whom tho Kaiser could not
save. A lieutenant shot himself
for her. Five years later she
was,beloved by the young bank
er VonBleichroeder. Pitying her,
the Kaiser would have consent
ed to the union, but the Grand
Duke of Saxony put his foot
down hard. Shortly aftsrward
her maid found her dead, a pis
tol in her hand.
AUGUSTINE VICTORIA, CON
SORT OF MANUEL OF POR
TUGAL.
The young couple were strangely
apart during her serious illness
just after their marriage.
ARCHDUCHESS ISABELLA OF
AUSTRIA
Mysteriously departed from her
husband, Prince George of Ba
varia. after a stormy scene in
which she burned her wedding
gown, on her bridal night. Later
the marriage was annulled.
PRINCESS EITEL OF GER
MANY.
She is much older than her hus
band and travels a much faster
pace. 'Tie said there would be
a divorce if the Kaiser would
consent.
PRINCESS ERNEST AUGUST
OF CUMBERLAND.
The Kaiser's only daughter and
the scion of the royal house of
Hanover were dead in love with
each other, but the historic
quarrel between Hanover and
Hohenzollern threatened to part
them.
< 1
. i
f
stumbled, as he well might, perhaps
never having heard the name before.
"It’s true,” she cried. A wild acene
ensued. A few hours later they had
separated forever
Tho marriage was annulled. Prin- e
George took hia place alongside the
three divorced sovereigns of Europe—
King Frederick August of Saxony,
Grand Duke Ernest Ludwig of Hesse
and Prince Albert l of Monaco.
But to proceed with this fateful
y e a r' s. d e v el o p men t s.
The hateful subterfuge of a mor
g.'vnath'. marriage ia a possible resort
when a Prince falls in love with a
“common*’ girl. But what when a
Princess prefers a commoner to all
tho sickly crowned youth put before
her for her selection?
The latter was the problem of the
heatitlfiYi Sophie of Saxe- Weimar-
Eisenach, and she solved it with—
death.
It is a, dad position w hich the house
•>f Shx -\Vieipiar occupies ancient
and royal as Tho hills, hut so impe
cunious their palace furnishings are
threadbare.
The Princess had been betrothed to
a dissipated, middle-aged cousin, and
had broken the engagement only by
personal appeal to the Kaiser. A
yoqng lieutenant, whom she may have
loved, had shot himself dead for her
ip, Athetw five years before, and the
BERNHARDT WINS LAURELS
IN NEW ROLE AS OLD WOMAN
She Exhibits Genius as Pathetic Newspaper
Vendor, Whose Son Is Accused of Crime.
By LA RA CONTEUSE.
Special Cable to The American.
PARIS, Dec. 27,—Certainly no ac
tress ever had as many admirers
among her own sex as the ever-
youthful Sarah Bernhardt, but no one
ever deserved admiration more. In
her new play she is wonderful, and
simply surpasses herself as a pathetic
old newswoman, whose son has com
mitted a murder.
No one who attends that play and
sees Sarah depicting the emotions of
the old woman when the news of her
son’s crime reaches her ears, as she
is in the act of wrapping up a book
for a customer, will ever forget her
acting, and If you look about you In
the audience you will see tears glis
tening in every eye.
Words fail to describe the dramatic
effect which Sarah’s genius produces
with the smallest of means, and if she
had never done anything besides act
ing this one scene she would be im
mortal.
It was originally Intended that her
own son, Maurice Bernhardt, should
have played the part of the slayer,
but, under the effect of his mother's
wonderful acting, he broke down with
emotion time after time during the
rehearsals and the part had to he
given to young M. Bernard, son of the
famous novelist, Tristan Bernard.
TEACHES PUPILS TO DANCE
BT USE OE WRITTEN 8!GN8
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, Dec*. 27.—At her new
studio in Chelsea, Miss Margaret
Morris Is teaching her pupils to dance
from signs written upon paper, like
music.
"I do not, of course, rely upon this
form of instruction only,” said Miss
Morris to-day. “but a written lan
guage of darn ing is very useful, for
pupils are enabled by It to take their
lessons home with them, and, by
reading their steps oxer, to keep
themselves in touch with their work
Besides, it will now lie possible to
record Jnaces for future use, even to
publish books of dances and ballets,
like opera scores. I mean to do it
myself some day, when there are
enough people capable of reading the
language.’’
To illustrate her method. Miss Mor
ris wrote some new' steps on a black
board, and these were read and
danced immediately by her pupils.
XMAS RATES
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Apply any Agent.
The signs are written in bars, to cor
respond with the music. Curious
heavy signs, like those on a tempera
ture chart, denote the expression of
face required; below' these are lines
which instruct the pupil as to the
movement of the arms, while at the
bottom are little pointed marks from
which the motions of the feet are
read.
Desertions, Suicides, Divorces in
Royal Circles Make Humble
Newlyweds in Vine-Clad Cot
tages Pity Those of High Estate,
Grown Princess of Greece, Bister to
the Kaiser, had wept real tears at his
burial.
The men of the house had In sev
eral cases found happiness outside of
the purple. Her uncle, Duke Ber
nard, found a loving wife, and her
brother, Prince Herrmann, was also
serene in his possession of a life part
ner not born to the palace. Her own
father had lied to America in his
youth, and had even worked as a
waiter In New York for a time. But
what of the women of the family?
Such exits from court restraint were
barred to them. She was now a proud
girl, past 25, ltvlng a life without love.
Comes the Banker.
There appeared the young Von
Bleichroeder, member of the banking
house which Is said to have made
possible the German victory over
France In 1870. The Kaiser, pitying
the melancholy royal girl—he had
even looked with favor on the young
lieutenant—consented, but the Grand
Duke of Saxony, head of the house,
would not listen.
Theu came an Incident in the forest
of Fontainebleau, near Paris. A gyp
sy's child was killed by a magnificent
motor car, and in the car, it came out,
had been the handsome young bank
er and Princess Sophie!
After that Sophie kept to her room
in the ancient, threadbare palace. She
was practically under arrest.
She slept late one morning A maid
knocked long and hard, and finally
dared to push open the door. Across
the bed lay a white form, a pistol
clutched in her hand and an untied
packet of letters half strewn upon the
coverlet.
She had been called the moqt tovely
Princess In the w’orld. but of this
world she was no longer.
Then there is the scandal of the
Princess William. Lacking, perhaps,
the tragic elements of the stories of
Sophie and Isabella, it yet is not with
out its melancholy features. She had
bean a Grand Duchess of Rusisa,
used to the gay and sometimes wan -
ten life of the court of St. Peters
burg. She. is wedded to a cold Swed
ish Prince. Her money buys him a
palace. She is everything and he »•
bathing. The liveliest dancer, the
brightest wit, the most sparkling fig
ure in all Sweden, she is forced lo
endure the companionship of a stu
pid husband and the frowns of an
austere royal father-in-law. Of
course, she should have borne her
trials for the sake of her children, if
for no other reason, but modem hu
man nature is prone to break re
straints.
Patient Griseldas R®re.
Patient Griseldas arc rare to-day.
She ran away to Paris. Ugly rumors
followed It was said she had be
U’a.veJ her husband’s couutvy to U*r
fatherlaud -had sold Swedish military
secrets to Russia. But such tales al
ways arise iri such circumstances.
Perhaps we had better believe the
dashing Princess herself that Stock
holm was too deadly dull for endur
ance.
It is hard for Americana to Under
stand the circumstances which
caused Prince Ernest Augustus of
Cumberland to exclaim: “For me and
my family, honor comes first, then
love!” He was and is dead in love
with the Kaiser s only daughter, now
his wife, when ho said it. We must
remember how the iron hand of Bis
marck closed upon and crushed the
house of Hanover. It was a bitter
Wrong not soon forgotten.
For a time U looked as though a
bit of almost ancient history might
defeat one of the few real royal lovo
matches. But the Kaiser is not $o
eager for crushing hearts—he has
seen too many saddening incidents.
He thought twice before ho took a
step which might have shattered his
pretty daughter’s happiness-- have
made her a second Sophie of Saxe-
Weimar His impetuous and lm
perlaliatlo sons thought differently.
They would have bereft the Han
overian house of its last vestige of
claim to its honors. But the Kaiser's
will prevailed. So it never will bo
known whether tho Prince of Cura
berland would have carried out his
threat of resigning from the German
army and retiring with bis bride to
live a peaceful, secluded life on their
estates in Upper Austria, letting
thrones go hang.
The Kaiser undoubtedly breathed
freer. His sons and his daughters
and his relatives to the nth de
gree are not the least of his troubles.
He was already worrying over his
son, Eitel Frederick. Prince Eitei Ls
a heavy, phlegmatic sort of individ
ual. His wdfe, Sophie of Oldenburg,
is several years older, many times a
millionaire, and a lover of good times,
like Princess William of Sweden.
She's Used to Scandal.
There was even some sensational
gossip about her alleged escapades
before her marriage seven years ago.
'Twas said she had eloped to the
Riviera with Baron von Plettenberg
and a Brunswick editor went to jail
for printing the tale. Now things
have come to the pass where there
would probably be a divorce did not
the Kaiser set his face like adamant
against it.
Lastly, we come to the mysterious
case of Manuel, late King of Portu
gal, and his bride, Auguctine Victoria.
The absence of Manuel during his
bride’s serious illness just after their
marriage is unexplained, but the less
said of It the better.
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