The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-31
ENGLAND'S FUTURE KING.
The Prince of Walps-IIis Tastes, His Talents,
and the Scandal About Him.

the stalls of the Royal Italian Opera, Covent
Garden, London. Let us suppose-it may be
essential to our present purpose-that Mad'lle
Pauline Lucca is the principal songstress of the
occasion. Look at that large box on your right
and, of course, on the left of the stage. 1t
is full of people. In the front are two or three
young women, in very, very low-necked
dresses. In front also is one young man. He
has a large, fair fat face, with heavy features.
His fair hair is already trimmings there is even
n suggestion of badness about it. He is u very
dull-looking young man. If he were of your
class or mine, people would say he was a stupid,
vulgar-loOkng parsonage He displays an i'm
mense shirt front, on which presently (and
when Mile. Lucca is not singing) his heavy chin
descends. Is he lost in reverie! Has the music
borne away on its wings his enraptured soul?
No! The heavy young man is asleep. One of
the young women by his side gives him gentle,
pleasant push and laughs: and he opens his
eyes raises his head off the vast shirtfront, and
being like most fat persons rathergO gOod-humored,
he laughs also. But if the principal singer
does not come on soon again, he presently
falls into another dOze. He is great admrer
of some singing, hOwcvcr-cCSt Je ton qiLj ferd
la nluSique He is enthusiastic about Lucca,
claps for her. waits to the very last to see her as
she is called before the curtain, and has evil
IDENTIFY very high appreciation of her gifts and
genius. The lady with the bright eyes who sits
next him very pretty once; but n long
attack of illness has, truth to say, made sad
work of her beauty. The other girls have
nothing to boast of. | think the lowness of
them. But the young man-did you ever
seeing anything heavier and stupider than that
fat rather handsome face! Well, he is Englands
future King; he will one day, if unkind fate does
not interfere, be Albert Edward the First. He
is the Prince of Wales, and has come with his
wife and sisters to hear the singing of the saucy
spoiled, gifted little lady from Berlin, who once
had the honor of being photographed in one
carte with the great Count Won BIsmark himself,
to the immense and utterly groundless alarm
and Indignation of some OF the Counts most
pious admirers
'God bless the Prince of Wales!" is popular
song in England. Well, God bless him, surely.
Indeed, he has one would think, as many
worldly blessings already as mortal man could
well desire. Meanwhile, he wants more money
from the English people; and it seems that the
English Government do not much like to ask
the people for it, and so the Princes royal
mother has agreed to make him an extra allow
ancc out of her own rather liberal means. /
confess thatI do not think the country has much
reason to be proud of the Prince of Wales. He
is remarkably dull young man. When he has
| to make anything of public speech it is gene
| rally understood chat Arthur Helps, author of
"Friends in Council" (and who has well-paid
Office clerk of the COunciD, does up the little
| oratons for him, and that the duteous Prince
gets them off by heart.
| No, the Prince of Wales is certainly not man
| of genius. Nor is he a man of very refined
| tastes. He is fond OF the comic singing common
| to places which are in London called "Music
| Halls" and that, take It, is conclusive with
regard to his artistic tastes Not finding it con-
venient to visit music halls frequently in person,
| where a loyal and grateful people would proba-
| bly, recognize and applaud their future king, he
| once took to having the principal comic singers
| (dreary and vulgar buffoons as ever afflicted
earth with their presence) brought to Marlbo-
| rough House. his own residence, to delight him
| with their melody. There is nothing particularly
| Objectionable in moral sense about the singing
of these people, low silly stupid vulgar to
the last degree-and the Prince of Wales likes
it. OF course he is no worse than other great
| personages in this way. 1t is not long since a
| coarse woman named Theresa, with the voice of
fish-fag and the grace of gorilla, was delight
| ing imperial ears with suggestive strains. When
| the Due de Morny CwhO, If not prince, was at
least the son OF queen and half-brother of an
| EMPEROR, was on his dying bed, Mile.
Theresa was summoned to sing for him,
and did thus appropriately and tenderly
| prepare him for eternity. So that the
| Prince of Wales, after all, is no worse
in matters of taste than some of his neghbors
| The Prince is very fond of the theatre-not the
| dull, solemn stage where high classic tragedy
| Shakespeare and that sort of thing, may be seen,
| but the bright small theatres, whose audiences
| consist much more of men than women, while
| the performers, on the other hand, number far
| more women than men. These are the places
which the Prince of Wales most frequents-ant
| where, of course, the Princess never goes. There
he does not drop asleep. His mind is not over
taxed. His eyes are pleased The actresses are
| generally dressed as pages or else wear clothing
so scant that it hardly amounts to anything
and an edited public reads every other day tha
the Prince of Wales last night visited this OF
that little theatre, and saw Miss Godva OF
| Mad'le Toutenue in some of her favorite parts
| While the Princess of Wales was suffering il
her long, long illness, the Prince went very
often to these pleasant places of entertainment
| That constant watching and nursing wearies
man very much; and, of course, he needs little
relaxation. MOHSigHeur S'G1nuSe while
Madame is too ill to amuse him. Is not tina
| just the thing good wife would desire j?
the Prince of Wales which it would be out O
the question to mention here certainly dC
not believe half or quarter of what is said about
him, Things are told which, If they were true
would make him out far worse man than ever
| George the Fourth. When the Prince is in Paris
| this sort of scandal follows him there. His nam
is jeeringly mentioned in connection with tina
| of some notorious actress or audaclous woman
of fashion. Both in London and Paris, tn
admiration perhaps an entirely harm
less and merely tasteless admiration
for the performances OF the too ia
} nous Madlle Schneider gave rise to no en-
| of hlnt and sneer and story When the Duke c
Edinburgh prince Alfred) returned to England
Just after he had received the bullet OF the assas
, | sin in Australia, he went with ms brother, tn
| Prince of Wales, the very frst nlght OF his arr
! | val in London to see one OF the most audactou
Y | of Mad'lle Schneder's performances at the
(, James Theatre. This was probably the best M
= tion the royal brothers could form OF thank
q | giving performance for the act OF mercy Whic
b | had preserved the life of the younger.
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