The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-03-23

| only countries open TO the strangely as
sorted couple. who. TO make matters
worse. are reduced to the dire necessity
Of augmenting their income.
The courts, it viii be remembered
placed the former great Clara wards
great fortune under an administrator
who cut down her weekly allowance tc
$3.50 week. a mere pittance. scarcely
enough to pay Tor the manicuriug ana the
lordly RIGGS cigarettes Thereupon the
gypsy consented 10 work once more at
his trade, a formality he had omitted for
some three or four years.
In the present extremity it is said that
the pair have revived the plan OF playing
their life drama on the stage.
An American literary man living here
is just putting the finishing touches II
this realistic effort, dramatized police
and court report in three acts. and which
the United States may be afflicted. It
runs about as follows:
First Act-A Paris music hall. full of
smoke, gay women and the smell uf alb
sinthe and paper cigarettes. RiSo on
the stage playing his violin In the Aud
ience Prince and Princess Chimav. the
latter evidently very much interested
ir the swarthy iddler, whose monkey
Ike visage is half-obscured ty the smoke.
Scene between husband and wife. Prin-
cess Clara demands that the gypsy be in
troduced 10 her. The Pdrince storms and
raves and makes himself as ridiculous
IS an excited Frenchman Cor Belgian
can be behind the footlghts
Second Act-The Chimays at home in
their grand palace. Clara shouting about
individual rights, her devotion to music
and disdain for paltry pride, her children
her friends etc. Clara delivers a speech
in which she warns all women never TO
give up the highest ideals of life for the
sake Of social position" and announces
Ter determination to risk everything for
love
Third Act-The lady who did. She is
visiting her RIGGS parents in the Hun
sarian village Of Pagoza, with MIN, OF
course. and tell of the pleasure il gives
Eer to be iE the house where Rigo was
born The Princess throws off her COR
geous gown ana appears in gypsy.s rags.
Then variety. Then Clara sings and
canoes. A telegram announces that the
Prince has divorced her. More couplets
and gyrations. Rigo performs On the
violin. Curtain
Nine. de Chimay says that if she ap-
peaers in this play she viii rely less on
the subject Of the play than on the way
she intends to dress in her part Her
gowns viii be dreams" and revelations
and in the scenes at her ex-husband's
castle she will wear the great family
o. nF
probable, limitations of them. AMI she
viii be real in eveIything-a freedom
American girl, and doesn't care a rap
Tor royal folks; a real princess, with a
,rown on her head and as good as any
queen 50 far as descent of lineage is con
,erned, and a real lover, returned to the
sweet bosom of nature after she turned
he vanities OF society life.
She thinks that she knows America I
md that her play ought to go" when /
he is once more rich, independent of /
he paltry allowance her sequestercd es-
ates yield her now, she viii return to |
hungary and viii buy a great landed es-
ate and be a mother to the poor gypsies. /
This sounds as # the romance of FIVE
ears ago. when the Detroit girl deser-
ed her prince and her position in
curt to wed bliss at the side of a wan
ering. cOpper-colored minstrel. hadn't |!
'orn in the least-as is the infatuation
hat separated her from her children
nd family still continued. Yet people in !
position to know claim that the erst-
lille lovers have come to quarrel violent
T, Quite recently the Princess screams
f rage and the gypsy's forciblc Ian
uage alarmed and disturbed the resi-
ents in the hotel where they were liv-
g, and it sometimes happens that the
rincess leaves a hosiery in the middle
the night, paying her bills ana van
hing, after giving orders that her
'unks be kept until sent for.
Mex day. when Rigo is confronted with
is own bill there is howling and gnash-
g of teeth by the gentlemen, who
wears that he will have the Princess
fe. But such spats rarely last longer
ian few days. it is said, and the Prin-
sss is always the first TO give IL.
There are Parisians unchar.tabIe ]
lough to attribute the kissing and cat
ais which Rigo got to the machina-
ons of Leopold. King of the Belgians
eopolds Queen. it viii be remembered, :
as the first to take exception TO Prin- {
IS Chimay's conduct as MEMBER of
he greater and more boisterous world Of
aris and the Rivera. and caused hint {
be conveyed to the young lady that
IT presence would be no longer welcome Z
the palace.
Then Leopold became her champion,
zen going so far as to persuade Prince {
himay that there was nothing ia the
lmors affecting his wife's character. /
ater on Leopold deigned 10 show some
urtesy TO Rigo himself. but the gypsy
owed too small a person for a kings {
iendship. He wanted al the world 10 c
low that Leopold was his chum, and !
en- proposed 10 cite him as Wit q
IS at the divorce proceedings his wife G
ID instituted against him. That was '
o much FOR Leopold and he told Rigo I
at he would have him publicly thrash f
by one OF his grooms if he ever 7
red again to boast OF his acquaint- Z
ice
As Rigo was then in Hungary, pretty |
r removed from royal chastisement he
ade light OF the threat but now. Just Y
convince him that ne meant business. Z
'Opold is said 10 have arranged the =
)uble at the Folies L
The Princess two children by Prince !
imay-namely. Countess Marie de RI u
ct and Prince Joseph de Caraman- 5
imay. ten and six years old rcspec-
ely. live with their father in Belgium. o
e mother is prohibited by the cecree u
the court from ever attempting 20 $
, them again while they are under age. q
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