Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1869-11-03
The Prince and the Actress.
.[Fromthe Court Journal,]


The announcement of the Imperial
family. of Austria of the marriage Of
Duke Louis of Bavaria with the beautiful
Mile. Mendel the actress, of Augsburg,
has given a new aim to the theatrical
ambitionsof the ladies of the Paris
boards. The visit made by the En-
press Elizabeth. to the beautiful >castle
of Lake Stahnberg, where thesnewly-
married couple residesshas become the
talk of every foyers d dd55eistes in Europe.
They say in the. .coalisscs here that Her
Austrian Majesty was the great promo
ter of the marriage, the story connected
with her brothers love and.- courtship
being romantic enough to excite the
strongest interest in her kind womanly
heart, and making it forgetful OF all
distinction of rank where an equal share
of love and delicacy had been displayed
by both the lovers. Mile. Mendel, who
had preserved her reputationsunsullied
amid all the perils and temptations of
a theatrical life, is considered as the
most lovely woman III Germany, her
beauty being of the true German
type, of the peculiar fairness beheld in
no other cou try-golden hair in soft
silky masses, without the smallest tinge
of auburn-pure gold-unburnished /;
complexion delicate as the inner pc
tails of the Bengal rose-pale pink,
scarcely ever seen in nature, and almost
impossible toproduce by byartfcialmeans
lips of the. deepest carnation; teeth
small and exquisitely white. and eye
brows Of the darkest brown, with eyes
Of the deepest blue All this made
such an impression on the heart of Duke
Louis that from the moment he first be-
held her at the Munich Theatre, he
vowed himself to the worship of this
one idol.
But Mile Mendel was valiant in de-
fence of her reputation, and aware of
the responsibility incurred by the pos
session of great talent, she resisted
every overture, even that Of marriage,
on the part of the Duke, we'll knowing
that it was out of his power to contract
anv alliance Of the kind, as much was
expected of him by his family. At that
time Mile. Mendel was in. the habit Of
8earing velvet collar with clasp or
aamsnted by single pearl of great
value, which had been presented. to her
by the King of Saxony, and in order to
quell all hope of success in the bosom
OF her royal admirer, she declared to
him one day that she had made a vow
to bestow her heart and hand on him
alone. who could match this single pearl
with as many others as would form the
whole necklace. The declaration was
made laughingly, for the fair creature
knew well enough the Duke, liv-
ing fully up to his income, which was
but mediocre for his rank, could never
accomplish this herculean task, and she
laughed more merrily still when she
beheld the disconsolate expression of
his countenance at the announcement
she had made. But soon afterward she
heard that the Duke had sold his horses
and broken up his establishment gone
to live in the strictest retirement in a
small cottage belonging to his brothers
aork.
That very night, when about to place
tie velvet band upon her neck, she
foind, to her great surprise, that sec
ond esarl had been added to the clasp.
She kneS we'll enough y,l;.-iit VII. II game,
and s1nlsd sadly at ruv v@.5sTEge fgEE or q iabcr
.salt sre that Duke Louis was in
Ccufrlng FIR .ove's sake.
By deg:ees the velvet band became
covered with pearls. all of them as fine
as the one oestwowed by the King OF
Saxo6y, until one evening great was
the rumor in Augsburg The fair Men
del had been robbed while on the
stage, divested of all ornament, in the
prison scene as Bettina Won Armstedt,
her dr. sing-loon had been entered,
and the selYet collar, with its row Of
priceless pearls had disappeared from
the toilet-table. The event wag so ter
rible, her nerves SO shaken, that in spite
.-ee--the assurance Of the chief Police
Magistrate, who happened to be in the
theatre at the moment, that he was
sure to find tie thief in a very short
&ime, for he had the clue already, poor
Mile Mepdel fwas so overcome with
grief that her memory failed her en-
tirely, so that OIL returning t. the stage
not a word could she remember Of her
part. The audience waited for some
SINE in astonishment at the silence
,nalntained by tie actress; the actress
sazed 81 the audience inpiteou; embar-
F;lssment. pnt.l, By spdden inspiration,
and almost mech chanicaily ia9aod. she
remembered that she had the rehearsal
copy Of the play in the pocket Of her
sapfon. She drewit forth without hest
Sltion, 4gd began to read from it with
Che greatest salf-possession imaginable.
At first the audience knew not whether
to laugh or be angry, d4t presently
IN ,mory, pathos, forgetfulness Of all hui
her art Lad returned to Mile. Mendel,
and in the uttsranceo of one Of the most
impassiope9 sentiments OF her speech
she flung the rehearsal copy into the
orchestra, and went Oh with her part
without pause or hesitation. The ap-
planse Of the audience was SO tremen-
dous that one of the witnesses to the
scene has told us that'the great monster
chandelier in the centre of the goof
swung to and fro with the vibration.
But or her. return to her dressing-room
the excitement' proved too much, and
she tainted away, On coming back to
consciousness it was to find Duke Louis