The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-05-21
A Morganatlc Songster.

made her debut Oh the boards OF the
Italian Opera House in the Traviata.
Of which she was the incarnation.
Naturally the fashionable world flocked
to see her, and ROYAL adorer sat in a
dark box on the ground floor, writhing
through the four acts in parOxysms OF
jealousy. Mdlle. ANDRE has a town
house which is a perfect palace. a
marine villa which is a museum of
Batavian curiosities. and a country
house in the Bots de Mudon, furnished
with rarities collected by generations
of Princes and Princesses of Orange
in their palaces. Her jewel caskets
are rich as favorite Sultanas. Why
should they not be. for the Countess is
all but Queen Of Holland? She goes
on the stage to force the King to ask
the States of his realm to hail her as
his wife. He shrinks from the noise
and political ferment compliance with
her demand inevitably would bring
about. His Majesty has offered to
retire to private life. and to devote
himself to her. But this does not
suit her. He must sacrifice caste
preiudices, and his own and his peoples
honor, to crafty her vanity. If he
shrinks from investing her in the regal
dignity, it is because he is not, she
chooses to tell him, more than half
devoted to her.
"Mdile. ANDRE Is the daughter Of a
French father and a demi-Arab mother
and was born in Algeria. She studied
for q governess' diploma and obtained
one. Finding that teaching afforded
but poor resource she went upon the
stage. Her peculiar yellow cs@plexi0n
won for her the nickname of 'HAbre.'
Or the amber one. from the garrison Of
algeria. Cora Pearl brazened out
her red locks by allowing them to float
down her hack when riding in the
Bots. The future lefthanded Queen
Of Holland thought it fine fun to
render name which was given her in
lerision, famous. Finding she had a
sweet voice she came to France. She
did as well rs she could in she garrison
towns in which she PLAYED, and was,
after hacking about in the provinces
as an actress, engaged to sing in the
Rouen Theater. Luckily for her, and
for Dutch royalty. NJ.
Janvier de Ia Motto introduced her
there to NJ. Target, who told her Of
the King of the Netherlands passion
for songstresses ard of the conserva-
tories he had founded for their artistic
This induced her to go to
the Hague. An American lady of
shady reputation kept guard so we'll
on the monarch as to paralyze the
efforts Of Md'le. ANDRE and her
diplomatic friend to obtain Williams
patronage for her. NJ. Target is
brother-in-law of NJ. Buffet and SON.
in-law of NJ. Duvergier de Hauranne.
His desertion of NJ. Theirs an the oath
Of May insured the victory of the De
Broglie faction. who. t. reward his
sent him to represent
France at the Hague. In his journeys
between Holland and mis- Trouville
he had occasion to pass
Rouen. of which NJ. Power
Quertier is tine manufacturing king.
Target often was the guest of the
cotton monarch, who was a friend of
NJ. .Janvier de la Motto, the favOrite Of
the Empress and her ladies, and a
adorer of the fair. You see
by what road Mdlle. ANDRE went to
the Low Countries. The opportunity
to conquer their head was patiently
watched for by her. / have spoken
Of the transatlantic guard at the royal
door. Independently of this restraint
On His Majesty's liberty, Queen Sophia
was known to be dying Of lingering
and painful disease. Her accomplish
ments won her the admiration, her
sound judgment, the esteem and affec-
ton. and her unhappy married life
the sympathy, of her sluggish subjects.
The King, who had some excellent
qualities, and who can not help being
! grandson of Catherine the Great Of
Russia, felt he had sinned against his
wife, and was keeping aloof from scenic
md lyric artists of the softer sex. The
opportunity for which Mdlle. Andre
came at last. She was asked
70 sing a national air at a patriotic
of the shaking-otf by the
Low Countries of the Spanish yoke in
he sixteenth century. William was
fascinated BY the yeilow-faced
Orange and andre were
we'll met. In q few weeks the latter
vas the dominant hue in the palace,
n which there is a private opera
house. L'Ambre was portrayed as
St. Cecilia for the infatuated King. in
,ils, water colors and fresco. On the
Queens death she (the singer present.
ID William an ultimatum. He made
her Countesse dAmboise. and was
wiling to lay down his crown for the
owe of her. To raise her to the
hrone on which Sophia had sat
would, he felt, be an outrage on his
,eople and family. But the amber
vitch did not care a straw for the
ceilings of the Dutch or Of the House
f Nassau, and, shaking the dust of
100 from off her little feet, come to
Paris to play-of all parts in the
world for an aspirant to throne-La
rraviata. Before she risked appear
ng on the boards of the Sale Venta-
lour she went to practice her role at
he Nancy Theater. ''Society" was
urious to see how she would dress.
sabulously expensive toilets were
and to have been ordered at Worthis.
Ieonide Leblanc's jewels were going
0 be eclipsed, and a veritable regalia
a rodnH IN, tho cfona ~ tho vtoI,o, 4