The Washington herald., 1911-01-08

achieved the supreme ambition Of an
English horse owner. He won the Derby
three dmes-with Ledas in 1894, with Sir
Visto in 1885. and with Cicero in 1906.
For some yeays the earl has displayed.
In decorous. blase English fashion. the
symptoms Of Alexander the Great, who
wept because there were no more worlds
to conquer. But at last he has discov-
cred another ambition, and that, accord
ing to all accounts, is to win the hand of
Mile. Sorel.
Lord Rosebery has taken a new inter
est in life since he INDUCED in this last
ambition. He has been carrying on a
most ardent. desperate. and picturesque
courtship.
Mile Sorel is a woman Of remarkable
distinction of manner and appearance.
She incarnateS in a most surprising way
the type Of woman who adorned the
French court in the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries. Dressed IN court
costume of those times, she looks as II
she had stepped miraculously from them
into our own days. II she could step
shine the Duchesse de Longueville of the
Marquise de Montespan or the most
graceful and witty beauties Of the court
Of Louis XIV.
She has had most romantic career.
It has been widely stated that the late
President Faure was making an after
noon call on her when he died suddenly.
She has denied this with tears in her
eyes, and perhaps with reason, for a lit
tie later everybody said he was calling
on Mime. Steinhefl.
Best-dressed Woman. in France.
Mile. Sorel is called the best-dressed
woman in France. She sleeps on a bed
that cost $4,000, and all her surroundings
are Of proportionate magntncence.
Her new play 'TAventuriere," at the
famous Coincide Franchise. has just
proved a great success. Just after its pro-
duction the brilliant actress admitted
that she was ardently courted by Lord
Rosebery.
Il know they are whispering about 1t
in London, and they will soon be talking
about II in Paris" she said. 1T Is USE
less for me to deny it any longer. A
British earl Of the highest nobility, one
who seems to me the quintessence of the
highest qualities Of the Anglo-Saxon
race. a man who is great by rank and
still greater by his achievements, asks
my hand. He offers me his titles. his
dignities, q position at court I do not
1T is q year since he first showed his
feelings. He was kind and gentle. He
won my friendship at once. He soon be-
came something more than mere psy-
Geological curiosity, an aspirant among
a host of others. The character Of the
man. his rectitude. his fine, rare qualities
insensibly drew me to him.
'And yet I hesitated. I hesitate still.
I must leave the theater and change my
faith to marry him. At the moment
when life seems to me most beautiful
and happy, the day after two thousand
pairs Of hands have applauded me. am
asked to renounce all that. TO end my
career that love- to refuse the contract
that would at once make me rich II I
only consent to go to Buen0s Ayres for
three months; to give up all this, and to
be star that is extinguished at the
height Of its brilliance. to sink into .
night-superb and peaceful. but yet .
night.
'sTo voyage in a sumptuous yacht to
the Indies. to linger amid exquisite tropi-
cal scenes, 10 live IN splendot-6ut yet to
live in exile, far from everything that
has made my artistic happiness there
you have . conflict horrible. fascinating.
exaspefating. magnificent. and terrible.
This inner conflict carry with me to
the tAeatsr. 1 feel the fever Of tt mount
ine to my throat and my lips.
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played TAtenturiere' with % mYeh .tee)-
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