Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-08
ACTRESSES WITH TITLES.
Famous Beauties of the Stage Who Have Cap
tnred NobIemen for Husbands

Famous Beauties OF the Stage Who Have Cap
tured NobIemen for Husbands.
Paris Letter to Philadelphia Telegraph.
1t is a fact to be noted that many cele-
brated prima dome, actresses and dan
GERS have become by legitimate marriage
members of the nobility of Europe. At
the head of those still living is to be
placed Nine. Ristori, the Marchesa del
Grille, and Nine. de Lagrange, who is
the widowed Countess de Stankovitch q.
Grisi : second husband Mario being the
third was the Comte de Melcy. The IA
NOUS contralto AIbini was the Countess
Pepoli, though she exchanged her title
after her husband s death some years
ago, for the less euphonious name of
Nine Zidler. The great dancer, Tag
noni, married Count Gilbert des VOisins.
The RaTonne de Carriers was the daugh-
ter of the famous basSO, Lablache, and
was originally educated for the stage,
Nine Marie Hebron, the French prima
donna who created Massenet's Manon,
became the VicOmteSse de Ia Panouse.
Henrietta Sontag was the Countess Rossi.
Pauline Lucca is the Baroness Won Wall
hofen The charming Adele Dumilatre,
the leading danSGuse some fifty years ago
at the Grand opera, married in 1913 the
Count del Castillo Mile. CODY of the
Vaudeville is the COmtesse de Louvieres.
Virginie RoiSset, the accomplished circus
rider, is now the Princess de Reuss.
The ViComtesse Vigier of Nice was orr
ginally Mile. Sophie Cruveli, the prima
donna of the grand opera. AliX Bres-
SAINT, daughter of the famous actor Of the
s5sa1
Kotchubey. The favorite tragic actress
of Vienna, Charlotte Wolters is the wife
of Count Sollivau. The present March
ioness of AlleSbury was Miss Dolly Tester
of the London opera boufre stage. Miss
Elise Hensler, the American prima
donna. married the late king consOTt of
Portugal, the father of the present king.
TheTese ElSsIer, the sister of the eele-
brated danseuse Fanny ElsSler, became
the wife Of the Archduke Adelbert of
Bavaria
And no one viii have forgotten, 1
think, that Nine. Adelina Patti was once
the Marquse de CauX, and that Nine.
Christine Nilsson is now the Countesse de
Casa Miranda On the Partisan stage,
moreover, ladies and gentlemen of noble
birth are occasionally TO be met with who
hide under their stage names their real
and genuinely aristocratie appellations.
Thus the beautiful Nine. Prelly. who at
one time was the star of the Opera
Bouffe company at the Folies Dramati-
Ques, was born De Pommeyrac, and
was the wife of the Baron de Presles.
The still lovelier Mile. Clery of
the Vaudeville, who created the
role of the Countess Olga in
- Fedora, - rejoiced in private life in the
name OF Julia de Pistorine de Clery.
Mile. Marie Laurent was born a De
Luguet Ann NJ Feraudl of the Come
die Franchise is really the Vicomte de
Feraudy.
have omitted the majority of the best
known cases of ennobled English
actresses, as most of these belong to a
period too far remote from the present
day (as for instance, Miss Polly Bolton,
Miss Kitty stephens, etc TO possess any
special interest. Not TO be forgotten,
however, is Miss o Neal, the finest
Juliet ever known TO the British stage,
who becams Lady Beeher, and Miss
Victoria Balfe, afterward Lady Thorn
ton