Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-07-29
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music halls frequently. in person, where
loyal and grateful people would pro-
badly 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 MARI
borough House, his own residence, to
delight him with their melody. There
is nothing particularly Objectionable in
moral sense, about the singing of
these people; but it is l6w, silly,
stupid, vulgar to the last degree--and
the Prince of Wales likes it.s Ofeourse
he is no worse than other great person
ages in this way: 1t is not long since
coarse woman, named Theresa, with
voice of fish-hag and the grace of n
gorilla, was delighting imperial ears
with her suggestive strains. When the
Due de Morny who, if not prince,
was at least the son of queen and
half-brother of an emperor), was on his
dying bed, Mile. Theresa was sum-
mond 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 neighbors.
The Prince is very fond of the theatre
not the dull, solemn stage where
high classic tragedy, Shakespeare and
q, that sort of thing, may be seen, but
the bright, small theatres, whose audi
ances 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 f,equents-
and where, ofcourse, the Princess never
goes. There he does not drop to sleep.
His mind is not overtaXed. His eyes
are pleased. The actresses are general
ly dressed Us pages, or else wear cloth
ing so scant that it hardly amounts to
anything and an edited public reads
every other day that the Prince of
Wales last night visited this or that
little theatre, and saw Miss Godiva or
Mile Toutenue i'll some of her favorite
part. While the Princess of Wales was
suffering in her long illness, the
Prince went very often to these pleas
, ant places of entertainment. That
constant watching and nursing wcaries
q man very much and, of course, he
needs little relaxation. Moasigaeu
e'amuse while Madam is too i'll to amuse
him. Is that just the thing a good wife
would desire.
Scandal, of course, says many things
about the Prince of Wales which it
would be out of the question to- men,
ton here. l certainly do not believe
half or quarter of what is said about
him. Things are told which if they
were true, would make him out a far
worse man than was ever George the
Fourth. When the Prince is in Paris,
this sort of scandal follows him there
His name is jeeringly mentioned in
connection with that of some notorious
actress or audacious woman of fashion.
Both in London and Paris, the admira-
tion-pcrhaps an entirely harmless and
morely tasteless admiration-for the
performances of the too famous Mile.
Schneider, gave rise to no end of hint
and sheer and story. When the Duke
of Edinburgh prince Alfred) returned
to England, just after he had received
the bullet of the assassin in Australia.
he went with his brother, the Prince Of
Wales, the very first night of his ar-
rival in London, to see one of the most
audacious of Mile. Schneider's per-
formances at the st. James Theatre
This was probably the best notion the
royal brothers could form of a thanks
giving performance for the act OF mercy
which had preserved the life of the
younger. ...
When such things are done, it il
obvious that scandal becomes invitable.
1t is not necessary to attach any i'm
portance to the vast majority of the
abominable stories which are eagerly
told and greedily listended 10 in Eng
land about the Prince of Wales. Many
of these stories must be false most Of
them, probably, arc nero conjecture
and scandalous gossip. But it would
be hardly possible to convince any one
living in London that the future king
of England is not man Of coarse,
gross, sensuous and stupid nature
People say that his ways are Il serious
source of trouble to his royal mother,
who has quick temper of her owr.
During the Hyde Park Exhibition of
1851, she publicly boxed the ears OF
the Prince of Wales, when little boy,
in one of the courts of the Crystal Pal
nee. Poor woman she has had a sad
life of it, and has herself been pelted
with mean and malignant scandals,
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