Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-12
Compelled to Stop at Municipal
Lodging House.
STRANDED IN NEW YORK
Lost Her Money as Result of Mis-
adventure in Genoa.
SANG FOR DETHRoNED SULTAN
Cousin of Mrs. Sterling Postley
Says Newest Style Skirt Is Not
Worn in Harem.
Special Dispatch 10 The Star.

Speciai DisPatch 20 Ine star
NEW YORK. March 1.-THE Baroness
de L'Obel, having run out of money
Through a misadventure in Genoa has
had to put up for a week at the municipal
lodging house. The baroness. cousin of
Mrs. Sterling Postley, is native of San
Francisco, where her relatives. Miss
Ethel and Mrs. Fl. n. Cook. brought her
up, and sent her to Denman School,
where she was the classmate of Virginia
Fair NOW Mrs. W. X. Vanderbilt, jr)
Afterward they sent her to French
convent for finishing. and then to Mar
ouise Rosine la Borde and to Busini for
voice cultivation
Three weeks ago ! sang for the de-
throned sultan at the villa where he is
held prisoner by guard of 300 soldiers.
said the baroness today. My husband
the baron. having died. 1 started for
America. At Genoa 1 had a misadven-
ture regarding money, and in order not
to lose my ticket had to come away be-
fore getting 1T back. I arrived at the
Duca d'Abruzzi with S34 and went to the
Hoffman House. That money didn't last
long. and after ten years absence L
could not at once locate relatives or
friends-and here I am, waiting.
Finds Many Changes.
"Only ten years. yet what changes 1
telephoned my friend. Franklin Bartlett.
and they said he had been dead a. year.
Mrs. Postley 1 could not find, and the
Cooks of San Francisco have not had
time to answer my letter. Miss Ida
Scoffey, my aunt, used to live in this
city, but she is gone abroad.
why not sing here? But I am so fat!
Living in Turkey makes one indolent-
streets are so bad one doesn't walk. and
there is no exercise. There it is the thing
to be plump; here it is the thing to be
slender. Yes, might be admissible to
the light opera, which has the heavy
weight singers. I have sung only at
afternoon teas in Paris and Berlin. and
In the Yildiz Palace at Constantinople.
Just az 1 met the Baron de L'Obel in
Paris 1 was offered an engagement in
the opera comique. We married-al my
aims went UP in marriage. Strange what
a girl will do in love!
I'VE went to Constantinople. He was
a division general. although a Belgian, in
the Yildiz Palace. There I only sang
now and then. My voice grew changed
stronger-what is called demi-character.
What Sybil Sanderson did in That's dad
and was greatly commended.
The sultan-he had all the money OF
the country. My husband would say,
Ny wife and I are going to Europe for
a holiday Abdul Hamid would hand
him $4,000 francs. Great presents he
gave to the ambassadors.
A Pathetic Figure.
Now Abdul Hamid is fast going daft
To have been a king and to become a
prisoner is such fall. He is allowed
$1,000 a month to support his dignity. He
is a pathetic ruin of fallen grandeur"
The baronee was asked if she had
brought to New York harem skirt.
Deed. no. They don't wear them
there" she exclaimed. II have been to
visit the sultan's harem in the palace and
found them all costumed in the latest
Partisan creations. Doubtless the fash
ionakle harem women now will wear the
harem skirt If 1t comes with the cachet of
Paris. That is the way with women"
The baroness ia awaiting word from her
friends and relatives. and especially from
her betrothed, Nerzes Khedin Bey, an
Armenian, who will arrive in America
March is to marry her.