The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-12-17
Titled Italian Girl Hopes to Be
One of the Winners Under
Managers Offer.
FORTUNE is DWINDLlNG
Still Holds Her Ancestral Home
of the BartolucciS, but
"Must Earn Money"
By Ethel Lloyd Patterson.

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A real live countess is the hero
Inc of this story; countess who is
young. beautiful and just at pres
ent in distress.
Only one year ago the Countess Can
dida Bartolucci was wandering through
the grounds of her own ancestral castle
In Cantiano, Italy. To-day she YEARLY
gazes out at the changing trolley cars
from the windows OF a simple little five
room fiat at No, West one Hundred
and Ninth street. AS a matter OF fact
scarcely six months have passed since
she was girlishly coquetting with the
aristocratic eligibles of fashionable
Nice. Now she has entered her photo
graph to compete for one of the stage
scholarships offered by Mr.. Charles
Frohman through The Evening World.
And she has done so not as the within
of moment but because of stern
necessity.
Drops Title for Stage.
In the stting-room of their artistic
ally plain little home the Countess, her
mother, and a younger sister sat and
told OF the older daughters aspiration
and the facts that made their realiza-
ton urgent.
My name is to be Cleo Dundas on
the stage" announced the Countess,
for will not use my title. I will drop
7 In,.
TO lose my social position. Do you
think that one loses caste by going
on the stage in this country" she in
quired anxiously.
In her earnestness the cheeks of the
Countess flushed a deeper red, and over
the wave of color her eyes seemed to
darken and widen. very girlish
countess she looked; she is only eigh-
teen. and far far more lovely than her
photographs.
ours is an old family" broke In the
mother Madame la Contessa Dundas-
Bartolucci.
Napoleon !. gave US our title. We
have been very close to royalty for
generations. See"-and she arose and
took down a framed card from the
affair from the King of Italy to one
of our family. 1t is dated Nov. TO- lsos.
Lady Candida Tweeddale Of England
Is my Candida's aunt and godmother.
Bulk of Fortune Lost.
I'VE were so happy until six months
ago" INTERRUPTED the soft accented
voice of the older daughter. How i
loved my beautiful home in Cantiano.
It was the open air, the riding ana
driving and wandering around beneath
the beautiful trees that have made me
60 healthy. Now l anne here in America
I feel a little ashamed of my red
cheeks. On the boat coming ever there
were some American girls. and at hrst
they would not speak to me because
they thought i put paint on my lace
and on my eyes. Fancy that! j am
too young TO do such things" and the
Countess gave a disguised little shrug
six months ago our money went-so
much of IT," the Countess Dundas-Bar-
tolucci said. once more taking up the
story of their misfortunes. Il have
not one-third of all that ! had left But
have not sold our home. That l am
Keeping anu Oli 4i-tlt CSNSNS
twelve servants. people that are at
tached to me and have served me for
over twenty years. These do not know
of our difficulties. They live on there
In Cantiano, and l am sharing the little
] have with them. That l will do as
long as possibly can. Cor Cantiano is
almost as much their home as ii is
ours.
Concert Route Too Slow.
but you see ii is necessary now that
should do something to help" eH-
planned the Countess Candida, AT first
We decided that ] should sing in con-
cert. My voice is a cultivated soprano.
But when / inquired l found 1t would
be a long while before ! really arrived
anywhere by this road Then I saw
must go on the stage al once. 1t was
Just as | had made this decision that /
saw Mr.. Frohman's Uiter In The Even
ing World. A society lazy here in the
city. a friend, advised me to compete
But / don't know and the countess
Candida Bartolucci looked detected for
q moment-'the American glrl, are 81
pretty am atralG that ! nave not much
OF chance"
Then and there the Countess Was as
Iured that SHE was al least one nj tie
hfty 10 witch the contest has s.mmeyeo
Gown.