The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-21
THEY WERE OFF COLOR.
SOME OF THE CHARACTERS BET
TER KNOWN THAN RESPECTED.

From the New York Journal.
How much more indulgent Queen Vic
toria is to foreigners than to her own sub
jects in a case of moral shortcomings.
past or present, was once more strikingIy
shown during her recent stay in the south
of France. where 1 noticed among those
who were honored by her majesty with
invitations to dinner the Viscountess
Vigier.
Now the viscountess is no other than the
great prima donna, Sophie Cruveni, who,
in the latter part of the '40s, took Paris
and London by storm with her voice, with
her dramatic talent and with her beauty.
Like so many others Of her sisterhood, she
could not abstain from seeking to intro
| duce into her private life the romance and
the drama OF the stage. and her affaires
| scription, furnishing material for constant
gossip, alike on the banks Of the Seine
and on those Of the Thames.
A German by birth (she hailed from
Bielefeldt, in Westphalia), she manifested
| that tendency to sentimentality which
| seems inherent to the Teuton character,
softening much of it's native ruggedness,
| but counterbalanced this failing-if failing
| it can be called-by very strong dose of
common sense in all financial matters.
/ taking good care of her pocuniary interests
and putting by for a rainy day.
All these love affairs finally eliminated
in a terrific scene with Napoleon, the
Thirds minister of state, NJ. Fould, who,
| received a singing box on the ear in pub
lie from the actress, and a couple of days
| later she ran away from Paris with the
young Nicomte Nigier, whom she subse-
quently married. She retains now only
| few traces of her f rmer beauty. the raw
| ages made by time being rendered all the
more apparent by the efforts made to con-
| ceal them by artificial means. Indeed, she
| is the least attractive septuagenarian that
| it has ever been my lot to see and her
aspect is calculated to excite ridicule on
| the part of those who happen to be un-
aware of her identity.
| However, she has managed to retain her
money, and is spending the eventide OF a
very stormy existence undimmed by finan-
| cial cares, differing therein from the Com
| Jesse des Voisius, better known as La
| Taglione The latter, spurninS immeasur-
ably moro advantageous offers Of mar
Wages, allied her name and fortunes TO
| that ignominious creature who was for
| so many years the youthful lover of the
| aged Duchess of Ragusa the Comte de
| squandered her entire fortune at cards. So
| complete was her ruin that she was COM
PEELED to return for a time to the stage, and
| subsequently settled down in London as
a teacher of dancing. having among her
pupils the Duchess of York and the daugh-
| tiers of the Princess of Wales.
More of the kind. These are by no
means the only two continental ladies of
! title who are indebted for their name and
| rank to the admiration which they excited
| while on the stage. Thus, there is the
! Princess Solkowski, Duchess of Bieitz,
| and the possessor of a number of great
| dignities and titles in Germany, Austria
| and Hungary, who was prior to her mar
| riage the actress Ida Jaeger. The Com
| tess Edla, the morganatic wife and now
| the widow of the late King Ferdinand OF
| Portugal, was formerly a circus rider in
| the United States, having made her head
| quarters at Boston, whore she was known
| as Sophie Hensler.
| Another ex-circus rider is now Princess
| Henry Reuss, married to a prince of that
| sovereign house. Princess Wndisch-
! graetz, wife of the great Austrian cavalry
| general of that name, and aunt of the
! present prime minister of Austria, was
! formerly known on the stage as Marie
| Taglione, a cousin of the Comtesse des
! Voisns. The Countess O'Sullivan, at Vi
emma, is no other than the tragedienne
! Wolter.
a
| county touring as professional violniste,
is the wife of Prince Dolgorouki, from
whom she is separated, and the widow of
the late Count Arco, who for several years
was German ambassador at Washing
| ton, is no other than the popular Austrian
| actress Janisch.
The Countess Wesley holds forth at Der
lin music hall and variety show as a
| cymbal player, and there are Countesscs
| Itchy, Karolyi, Festiticz and Perponcher,
who have all spent portion of their ca
reer behind the footlights.
| The Countess Strachwitz is no other
| than Bertha Linda the once beautiful
danseuse of Vienna, who quilted the stage
| to become the wife of Makart, the great
| painter, and who is regarded by most
| of his friends and admirers as respon 81
| BILE for his premature and lamented death
| Countess Hartenau, the widow of Prince
| Alexander of Bulgaria and Battenbers
who, with her children, was received by
| Queen Victoria at SimieZ the other law
| was an actress of the court theater at
Darmstadt when the prince fell in love
with her TO the extent of jiltng EN-
peror Williams sister, Victoria in order
TO marry her.
The Baroness Bartolf was formerly
known on the stage by the name OF An
tOnia Barth ana is now the morganatic
wife of Duke Louis of Bavaria and a
sister-in-law, therefore, of the Empress
u AuSIId anu OF tne eN-tQueen OF Ma
pies.
Princess Pascal de Bourbon formerly fig
ured-and by no means very reputably-
on some of the minor Partisan stages
and in music halls, under the name Of
Blanch Marcolay, and 1t is about her son
a now grown-up lad of unknown paterni-
~. that there have been so many lawsuits
between Prince Pascal and the Due d Au-
male. the ex-King of Naples and other
leading members of the house of Bour-
hon, who all bitterly resented that Prince
Pascal should have attempted to con-
fer on this illeGitimate youth his own
name by recognizing him as his son-an
absurd act since the prince himself is
only 10 years older than the youth. who
was born before he made Blanche's &C.
quaintance