Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-22

as fine as the Potocki palace in the Avenue
Friedland.
THE upset price is 100000 francs (sG0o-
0O)," they told Vladimir. 1t was to be sold
at auction. Then rumor had it that it had
been sold to Vladimir for 100000 francs,
the upset price being deemed heavy one
for public sale in the present uncertainty
Of capitalists in Paris What kind of a
'krach'' is finally to come to French in
vestors If the Russian empire goes to pieces
in anarchy is something that is already
causing imaginative Frenchmen to SILVER.
Is It for the Czarp
Here, in the palace of the Avenue Kleber,
surrounded by its beautiful grounds-or
elsewhere. as may turn out-the grand
dukeism of Vladimir promises to terminate
In the sporty ambition of the present King
OF SPANS father the late Alfonso XII who
declared the most enviable of all situations
to be that of "a deoosed king, living in
Paris and having London bankers" His
FAMILY Is large and growing one and
with Fladimr-as with most Russians
family Joys have never been Incompatible
with high-rolling. The air OF court still
hangs about the late domicile of Isabella
everything Is grand and seemly and adapt
ed to Nladimrs role of king in exile. For
that matter, still wilder rumor has been
rife In this latter version Vladimir is act
palace-not for himself, but his nephew-do
you understand? The car in person should
he be obliged in time to flee his throne and
land
All this is very high and different from
the hearty whooping of Alexis who is no
more afraid to stand and drink a Martini
cocktail at the Elysee Palace Hotel bar
than to take an operate star to tea at the
RITZ The bar mentioned is lust around
the corner from the house in the Rue Ras-
sano, in which Lima Cavalier is so comfort
ably installed; and on his way back and
forth the Grand Duke Alexis passes the lit
yphi tha l. ~
lets himself into the hotel apartments with
his own latch key.
AS to Lima Cavalieri, she has certainly
become a meritorious artistic admitted as
such by fastidious French critics who were
the last to hold out against ner after Italy
Russia, Austria and even England had lis
tened to her with pleasure; nevertheless her
rise to grand ducal throne lin exile, does
not come as a surprise to any one.
Story of Lima Cavaliere.
Her story is a romantic one She is one
Of two sisters. Lima and Ada. whose wild
owed mother died in Rome in 1889. Friends
of the family put them into a correct con-
vent school: but Linas time was short
therein. She had a beautiful voice-and a
still more beautiful person. In 1sa3 she
was known as the most beautiful woman
in Vienna"
In 1884 she was drawing all Paris to the
Folies-Bergere. She had discovered the
i
Palx, and was soon to make acuuaintances
with the jewellers. The photographers sent
her pictures to the four corners of the
earth, and she was called the most beau
tiful woman in Europe
1t was at this time she gained the friend
ship of Prince Alexander Bariatinski. the
second son of a Russian noble house. very
much at home in Paris.
you must cultivate that voice" he told
Lima. And she began obedien;iy. Indeed. at
this time II was generally thought that the
two young people would marry, a SUPPOSE
ton made the less unreasonable by the
well-known fact that Prince Alexander's
elder brother and heir to the family estates
had married., a few years ago, celebrated
Russian actress. with whom he has been
happy. But they parted once and forever
after a tremendous quarrel behind the
scenes at the Theater Royal at Lisbon
Prince Alexander then let his Paris apart
ment be sold out by the Sheriff. and the last
heard of him was his recent marriage with
young Russian heiress connected with the
Romanofrs themselves.
So we come round to the Romanoff Grand
Duke Alexis by way of Cavaiieri's operate
studies After working some time with
Madame Marianl-Masi. she was allowed to
make the debut already referred to at the
Theater Royal at Lisbon. It was the part