The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-27
KING HELD BY BEAUTY.
EDWARD VII CAPTIyATED BY
LANE DIE PoUGY.

ing Actress-Arouses Ire of British
Nobility by New InfatuatiOn-so-
ciety RidicuIes Sovereign's Pre-
tense of observation-disclosures
Career of Woman who Has Many
Conquests.
From the Chicago Chronicle.
London, June hiking Edward VII is
infatuated with the most beautiful woman
of France, Mime. Lame De Pougy, who
won in the famous Partisan beauty con-
test last year. This new fancy of the
monarch and decree which those on
the social pinnacle of society pronounce
mean. pretty tyranny has aroused the
nobility and the autoeracy of Britain to
furious Indignation.
His majesty's extraordinary devotion to
Lame De Pougy is considered the more
remarkable since she has little reputation
to spare. The favorite in the past of the
king of the Belgians, Prince Napoleon
Bonaparte, General BouEanger, the duke
of Cambridge, Prince Henry of Orleans,
Lord Onslow, Jean Lorraine, the poet,
and of many other men of eminence, has
DS~AA AOAC wv AAOilltlS lTOIi GdTlS pre-
pairing for an appearance at the Palace
theater.
King Her Devoted Slave.
The King of England seems to be her
devoted slave. He has lunched and slEpped
with her several times and has other
wise paid her most fiattering attentions.
Inc gosslps are talking it over with
nluch aVidity and are laughing at the So
cslIeu pretense of the monarch when he
hrst assembled the throne that he would
insist on the prophecies and would give
the cold shoulder at court to those with
shady records or those who did not walk
the narrow way.
Lame De Pougy is a slender, splendid
inquire OF the Greek type a perfect bru-
nette, with a languorous expression and
the finest hands in the world. She was
the wife of a French naval officer from
wnom she had a stormy separation when
ne discovered her in the apartment of one
OF MS friends. Then she launched upon
the gay world of Paris, where for years
she had led many men to deeds of pro-
digality and some to death.
Career on the Stage.
From having taken small part at one
OF the theaters she called herself an
actress, and later spurred on nv tha
N"N''SS u ONSiOb LHt opdnicn dancer. who
actually was on the stage and pretended
TO regard her with disdain because Of her
eqmVocal position, she studied and uuali-
NED herself in way for the music hall
stage.
Two years ago young San Franciscan
named Merritt spent a few hours NAV
ing poker with Lame De Pougy and quit
loser by $4,000. This was no new robe
Tor the famous actress, who for years
heOn fxytK hxrt L IA nj
men OF sporting inclinations Lame was
first heard OF prominently when the late
Marshal Mcmahon was the most con-
spicuous man in France. At that time
the infatuatton of the marshal's cousin
Marquis De MacMahon, for tine coun-
tess" the woman called herself. was
made public through a lawsuit.
Sued by Her Secretary.
Lanes former secretary, Suzanne Junca,
sued for 10000 francs which she asserted
her mistress had improperly used The
secretary summoned the marquis as a
witness to the confidential relations ex-
listing between her and Lame. II was
said at tho time that Lame had served
term in prison and had played a prom
inent part in many political intrigues
General Boulanger was accused Of spend
Ing public money upon her. II was also
said that Boulanger borrowed heavily
from the woman to bolster up his de-
clining political fortunes.
Lane was olso a favorite Of the no
torious spendthrifts Maxine Gail and Max
Lebaudy. Cali Is said to have paid $780,
900 francs for a necklace for Lane De
Pougy. Lebaudy also spent hundreds Of
thousands of francs upon her.
The Pougy has for associate stars in
the ropid life Of the French capital such
widely known characters as Cleo DE
Merode, Otero. Nellie Neustretter, Yvonne
De Treville and Nanette Stanley. and she
may be regarded as the chief of this
galaxy Of feminine loneliness. She is the
undlsputed queen OF Monte Carlo. where
she goes every year and where the sea
son cannot be said to have begun until
the newspapers have chronicled her ar
rival al the beautiful villa provided
for her by a fabulously rich German
banker. with whom she long ago quar-
relied and from whom she fed.
ptero "A Real Rival.
For long time Pougy had for rival
Otero whose rich. dark beauty and sin
uous grace had captvated almost as
many men OF many kinds as had De
Pougy herself The two women met often
at the great restaurants and resorts Of
Paris and elsewhere and there one sought
10 dim the luster OF the others triumph.
They hated each other as bitterly a.
woman can hate. and now and then at
Paris. al Nice. az ST. Petersburg or some
whore else they scoWled az each other
blackly and said ugly things until nnal-
- there was a personal encounter. Then
they stripped themselves ~ their Jewels
and ~ even their clothing and used
the gems and garments for weapons OF
defense They tore the things OF and
threw them az each other IN q wild rage
once when De PouEy felt that her star
was waning she said che Nss tired of the
NE rhe le1 end would de Soc swallowed
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