The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-24
Husband Really Buys and Pays
for Present With Own
Money.
NOVEL ExPERlEN NICE
Heretofore She Has Paid for
Own Presents and Hus-
band Got Commission.
by VANCE THOMPSON.


de sagan. has experienced the surprise
of her matrimonial life, for her hus-
band has bought. paid for and pre-
scented her with enormous portraits
of two of his distinguished relatives.
Hitherto her experiences have been
that she not only paid for what her
husbands bought, but discovered later
that they came in for commissions on
the sales as well at least this waa
no uncommon happening as regards
her first husband.
One of tho portraits is that OF Al
pl1onso de Berghes, Archbishop OF
Halnes, who was born in 1925 and
died in 1883: the other is that OF his
of state to his Most Catholic Majesty
Philip ]. of France. captain general
and grand master of artillery. The
last Count de Berghes died two years
ago. His mother was De Sollieres,
sister of 'nelie's mother. the old
Princess de Sagan Hence, the princes
interest in the picture is a compliment
to his mother. although she did her
best to disinherjt him In favor Of her
favorite SON the Duke of Naiencay.
These pictures found their way to
Paris through a gambling debt. One
night Count de Berghes lost to Prince
Ypsilanti the sum of s250.000. 1t was
at Vienna. where the count was mill
tary attache to the French embassy.
This debt. though gambling one.
was sustained by the Austrian courts,
and so the estate was sold to pay It,.
Among other things. the family pic
lures went, and those just mentioned
found their way TO one of the nu-
merous money lenders who had &C
coulmodated Prince de Sagan In the
day of his pecuniary distress. He was
glad TO be able TO render tho old
Shylock a good turn and at the same
time pay tribute to the memory OF
his mother. SO good-natured Heiie
bought the pictures and presented
them to his wife.
They are by the painter. Rigo, and
now hang at the top of the famous
rose staircase in the pink palace. tmi-
tation Trianon, or monument or
folly as the Parisians designate Anna
Gould's mansion on the corner of the
Avenue de Malakoff.
II. Addison Alexander Sued.
Alfred Thomas. a we'll known Eng
lish money-lender. of 81 Rue Monthaber
who befriended Prince de sagan. Prince
Miguel de Braganza and other notables
in DAYS gore by, is now suing Henry
Addison Alexander. former counsel to
the American embassy in Paris, and
now senior partner in the law firm of
Alexander &: Guoraud. Whitehall, Lon
don.
Thomas lent Mr.. Alexander money
when the latter's divorce from Jessie
torrance Ma goon-Alexander. daughter
of the late General Torrance, of Chi
cago, and now Mrs. Blakiston of Lon
don. was pending.
Alexander has been frequently in
Paris. but invariably fought shy of
the money lender. In the heyday of
his glory. when Alexander was legal
adviser to Ambassador Eustis, he did
many favors for the money lender in
the way of sending stranded friends
to seek his help in momentary money
difficulties. and they never failed to
find it, though. OF course, they had to
pay the Shylock's pound OF flesh when
the reckoning day came
Among those whom Alexander acted
as Good Samaritan to were Miss Glib
son. the heiress, when she was strand
ed in Paris. Thomas Ross Winans,
whose father disinherited him for
marrying a Spanish dancer, and Lame
de Pougy, when her very bed was auc-
toned off for 8 francs at the Hotel
Drouot.
Humor of American Managers.
Next season Al. Woods will put on
comedy by Mars. the French play
| wright. called Girl With the Whoop-
! ing Cough" Mars says he can find
material for six comedies In tho way
American managers do business.
| When Woods first wanted the
| " hooping Cough Girl he found Mars
| had sid 1t ten years ago to George
Lederer, with the proviso that If the
| play was not produced In one years
I n n INF hp
| Then he cabled to New York to find
| out If the play ever had been pre-
| sented. Meanwhile. Woods had the play
| translated and put in rehearsal. Then
| he sent out dozen different people
| to obtain the right OF the piece Each
| one was anxious to get It, and each
worked against the other. with the
| result that the transaction was
dragged out for months.
The author. Mars. wondered at the
sudden demand for the play, which
was twelve years old. until he was
notified by the French Authors So.
ciety that all the parties were work
ing for one man. He says he laughed
for one solid hour when he heard the
explanation
"Frohman had Just such eNtraordi.
nary IDEAS" Mars said yesterday, He
once bought play OF mine for 10000
1 francs and guarantee sum, lie palC
/ $500 francs then changed his mind
and rather than pay the remaining
/ 1880 francs returned the play and lost
all the money he had already paid
am content, for the play Is in demand
now, and will probably make big
sum of money out of it. But the play
should really belong to, Mr., Froh-
| man"
This. to the French mind is a very
bad way OF doing business
IN Roosevelt's Cousin.
For the last ten years Lionel Wal
den has claimed relationship to Mrs.
Theodore Roosevelt The Latin Quar-
ter has way Of jeering all such PRO-
| tensions, Walden was enraged more
than once by the scathing words and
soothing disbelief of his friends. Last
| week no addressed the Following char
acteristic letter to the eX- President.
Am or am 7 not your wIfe's
cousin? LIONEL. WALDEN.'
On Thursday he received this an
swer: }.
Il hope SO, Come and seq me.
''ROOSEvELT.'' &
Walden Is jubilnnt, The Legion Of
ETornr auou1d not have Dlaocad hin, SO