Evening star., 1923-10-25
"Alpinist" Pope to Preside
At St. Bernard Anniversary

ical culture in London. yet that he
belonged to a Swedish family which
was founded by the Rev DR.. Carl
Carlson. whom King Charles XI of
Sweden appointed Bishop OF Vest
erss in 1880. The bishops children
were ennobled with the additional
name of Cederstrom. and his son
Olaf shared the Imprisonment of
King Charles XII by the Turks. and
when he returned to Sweden with
his sovereign he was elevated by the
latter TO the rank of baron. He is
ara said bdss,har 70 De tne Eressst-great-great-
himself in London as the head of q
gymnasium. was an offieer rifi@ the
Swedish Royal Horse Guards and
married to Marta Lejonhufvud of
the petty Swedish nobility.
PATHS Welsh castle of Craig-y-
/ Noos, where she spent the last thirty
or more years of her life stands in
the midst Of wonderfully picturesque
mountain scenery and is full of art
treasures. 1t has been on the. market
for considerable time. But, al
though the famous diva spent a
quantity of money on the place.
amounting, II is said. 60 over 1000
oee.. and it is equipped with a beau
tiful private theater, yet Cederstrom
has never been able to obtain any
offer that in the slightest degree APP
preached the value of the property.
which still remains on his hands.
the best offer that he could get for
auction, was s125,0o0. which he de-
ciined to consider, Rolf Cederstrosn.
who has thus made his way from his
fathers physical culture establish :
meht In ST. Panoras into the British
peerage through his marriage with
Lady Esme Gordon-Lennox is good :
looking and agreeable and went far
to bring happiness into the eventide
or the, life of the great songstress,
TO "hom ne owes his present fortune.
PATHS first husband. it may be re-
called, was the Marquis de Caux. who
had been the favorite chamberlain of
Empress Eugehie, and the leader of
all the cstiltions at her private
dances, as we'll as at the state balls
at the Tuilleries. Adelina Patti fond
~ imagined that her marriage 20 this
very brilliant, handsome but spend
thrift and impecunious dignitary of
the Imperial court would secure her
admission thereto and that as Mar
qutse de Caux she would become part
and parcel of the intimate encourage
OF the, the smprssa Instead Of this. the
angry with the marquis for what
they described as his terrible mesaI-
lance that they deprived him of all
his offices ana banished him from
court. Adelina Patti found il bad
enough to be excluded from the Tuiller-
les. where 80 many shady adventures
and women of doubtful reputation
were received that foreign royal and
imperial persohages, when they Wis
tied Paris. refrained as general
rule from bringing their eonsorts
with them, .preferring to leave them
at home. But that the Marquis de
his dienities ana expelled from court
than she could bear, and she ex-
pressed her opinion OF Empress Eu-
genie, OF the emperor. of the court,
French people. in manner which
the nation for long time neither
forgot nor fersave. For once. the
duct Of Napoleon and Eugenie In re-
fusinE to oeuntenahee the marriage.
The marquis was SO entirely penni-
less when he. welded Adelina Patti,
ruined entirely by his o@n, ektravs
aganee, that 1t was naturally taken
for granted that. in becoming the
husband OF the prima donna, he had
been prompted not so much by ad-
niratioh OF her beauty and her
talent, as BY the prospect of living on
her money; that is to say, on her
earnings. "
This was considered intolerable by
the masses as well as by the classes.
Nor were matters ffiehded when, after
brief period Of retirement from the
stage, che was compelled by his ex~
travagahee TO resume her operate ca
reer, with her husband acting as her
agent in making contracts and as her
somewhat extortienate receiver Of the
great fees paid to her. and which had
always to be settled in advance OF,
instead of after her singing.
The marriage was brought to grief
through, PATHS infatuation for her secs
ond husband, an operatic singer OF the
name of Nicolini. Not until legislation
provided the French code with law OF
divorce was she able to obtain a. disso-
luton Of her bonds from the Marquis
de Caux, having lived meanwhile quite
openly with Nicolini, who, married
man with a whole tribe of children, was
then enabled by his own divorce to
legalize his relations with her, rela-
tions that had brought upon her the III
will of Queen Victoria and OF several
other European rulers az whose courts
she had previously been the most popa-
Lar and admired of songbirts. Nicolini
died some thirtyafi years ago, deeply
fs7ourned bS. Patti, whose affection and
generosity did noe extend to his chill
dren, and after some lonely years she
finally .cousoled herself by marrying the
tH en- quite young RnH. Cederstrons. .g