Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-07
LOVE FOR GABY DES[YS
UND0|NG Of BOY RULER
Dancer Boasts of Her Con-
quest of King Manuel.
Throngs See Her Act.

LISBON, October 7.-Women good and
women bad are prominent figures in Por-
tugals revolution.
One of them, stage dancer, who IN
fatuated the boy king, was a contributing
cause of the monarchy's overthrow. Two
others, the charitable, though unpopular,
queen mother, Amelie, is now an exile
with the naughty dowager, Maria Pia,
Manuers grandmother.
infatuated With Dancer.
To the dancer, Mile. Gaby Des!ys. beau
tiful and brazen, the deposed king may
Law the blame for the revolution. Manuel
has long been infatuated with her. and
the crafty republican politicians spread
scandalous stories, based on this love af-
fair, to infame the rural populace against
the ruler. In this they succeeded.
For years Gaby Deslys has been one
of the most prominent women in the
bohemian set of Paris. She is strikingly
beautiful, with baby blue eyes. and is
renowned in all the capitals of Europe
for the beauty and cost of her gowns
and Jewels and the righteousness of her
life.
She made her first bow to the public
few years ago in a musical comedy, but
she has since abandoned that to devote
herself to the characteristic modern prose
comedies OF the Paris boulevard theaterS
and for dancing at the FOlies Bergeres.
In victoria, eXquisitely decorated with
lilies and white roses to match her
blond complexion and dress Of white
satin or linen, as the whim may take her,
she has won honOrS at the annual "F'ete
des Fleurs'' in the Bots de Boulogne for
the last three years. Her name in Eng
lish means Gabrielle of the Lilies
He Met Her in London.
| The King of Portugal first saw her
when she was filing an engagement this
summer at one of the music halls in
London during his visit to London in
search of a bride. Her act transcribed
| in. daring anything that London had ever
seen.
The kaiser was not at one time entire
ly averse to the idea of a marriage be-
tween Manuel and his favorite child and
only daughter. the Princess Victoria. But
the princess herself, when approached,
| fatty refused to consider the matter on
| account of Manuers friendship with Gaby
| Deslys.
A proposed match for Manuel with
| Princess Dagma, daughter of the late
King Of Denmark, also fell fiat when
| stories of the young kings escapade
| reached the Danish court.
Manuel has bestowed many rich jewels
| on Mile. DeSlys, the money coming from
| Portugafs depleted purse. Neither the
nations politicians nor the humber citi-
| zens liked to see the country's money
squandered that way, although for diff
| ferent reasons.
.Amelie a Pathetic Figure.
Queen Amelie has been pathetic figure
since the assassination of King Carlos
and her oldest son, the crown prince,
in 1908. Now she is doubly So She and
the dowager queen are refugees
Queen Amelie has never been able to
make herself popular. The aristOcrats
say she is too free in her manner. They
prefer the old Queen Maria Pia. The
populace say she is clerical, and has a
cold heart
depots for pasteurized milk in the cities.
She paid back all the money the royal
family owed the state.
Dancer Boasts of Conquest.
VIENNA, October 7.-Gaby Deslys the
pretty music hall dancer, is the sensa-
ton of the hour here Great throngs
last night packed the little theater
where she is appearing, anxious for a
glimpse of the laughing face and twink
ling toes of the woman who has been
advertised the world over as aiding in
pulling young King Manuel of Portugal
from his throne and turning the mon
archy into a republic.
Summing herself in the fierce light OF
notoriety she has achieved, the little
French danSeuse fluttered about the stage
and fairly won by her spirit and grace
the plaudits of the curious and admirine
spectators, and responded to encore after
encore until She was exhausted and com,
PEELED to seek rest in her dressing room
There. with sparkling eyes and a frank
ness peculiar to some of the stage womer
of Europe, she discussed and even boosted