Show t 0 0 G 0 0 0 0 h P 0 f lOo lOon n BY ALBERT ALBE lAt E EtI 1 r l t I ill O u C j ay ELEANOR y R 1 t. t 1912 by The m. Pre l rg Co Cite en N crew Task World t ADRIENNE the ther r I Actress Queen of or Hearts I HIS Is tho star story of at a tragedienne y THIS whoso whose life lite wa was Mas one long Jons tragedy tragedy trag trap edy edyl the story of ot a heartbreaker whose own heart was broken She was Adrienne greatest actress Kot ot of her day and heroine of 01 several plays plas rand Kand and an opera that bears her name Adrienne began life as ns a 3 laundress tin In Paris Her father was a poor hat- hat ter As n n. little girl she learned to act net and at fourteen Joined a road coman com com- piny an It was at Lille France that she had her first recorded love lo af- af ti III i fr fri 1 i 1 i r 1 pr fi fr I r 1 l t tS S I i p f ij x t i 1 V k r r rk iJ If fv P iI-P 4 i. i nr 1 r r fair fail A young baron officer In a n. regiment regIment reg- reg I garrisoned there fell CeU In love J with her They became engaged engas Ho He Hoi i died And In tho the first wildness of her 4 grief grid AdrIenne tried to kill herself fa-ater fa Later ater sho she won the heart of ot Philippe Le LeRay Ray a nobleman but she dropped him for fot an obscure actor named C Clavel avel She and Clavel were engaged and were soon to be he marrI married d. d She wrote to him hint g I swear wear to you ou a constan y proof against all things But your our Interests are dearer to me than m my y own Follow Follow Fol- Fol low the tho course that Is to you you Clavel Claval ColI followed owed It It led him to Jilt jUt her for Cor another woman For months r Adrienne was almost beside herself y with grief brief Then she met mot the Count de He proposed ed to her and was 4 accepted But on the eve of ot the weds wedding wed- wed s f ding day he threw her love over for an heiress This latest blow closed Adri- Adri tt 1 ennes enne's heart for years ears against love She i came to Paris Pails In 1 1717 when she was twenty five and Joined the Comedic company compan Her lIer real career now began She was hailed as the tho thee e f most wonderful tragedienne that had S ever lived h e Until her death she ref re- re f the foremost actress on the stage Paris went wild over her The highest society welcomed her Duchesses Duchesses Duch Duch- 1 esses vied for the honor of her ac acif ac- ac if Scores o of noblemen were madl madly in tn love with her But to he her suitors suitors' views Adrienne had but one ono reply Love Is a toll folly which I detest Bitter experience nce had wrecked her happiness and none of or her countless admirers could win a smile mUe from her har Voltaire loved her So did and man many of ot the greatest men of ot the age age But to all she was cold She Sho ruled as the actress queen of hearts but her own heart seemed dead i Then In 1721 Maurice Maurlee Compte do Saxe came to Paris He came fresh from spectacular war triumphs triumphs-a a giant gl- gl gl ant rant In stature handsome mag- mag magnificent He laid af ofie e to Adrienne and her r heart awoke She adored Saxe fa r H He e was the real love of ot her life lite UnI Un- Un I 1 der ider her Influence ho he changed from a 1 mere dashing soldier into a horo hero It J WM as Adrienne who advised and helped I him In n a thousand ways was as h ho he mounted mount mount- ed higher her and higher on fames tames ladder lad- lad der oer er Once to finance an enterprise of ot hi she sold all her Jewels and plate Saxe rf repaid her devotion by Infidelity I 1 and by brutal Jealousy After Arter on one o of ot f his Jealous fits she wrote a I am worn out by grief I have o wept t. t ail this livelong H elon night I am suspect suspect- ed cd edI I am accused How can T i endure cruelty that Is so little deserved I Yet for tor all aJl his unfaithfulness Saxe Sax loved her When rhen the powerful DuchI Duchess Duchess Duch Duch- ess do de Bouillon sought to win him him I from Adrienne he laughed In the dUchess dUchess' duchess duchess' dUch- dUch ess' ess face tace I 1 She then plotted to polson Adrienne The plot was discovered B B- B t soon afterwards In 1730 Adrienne fell fel victim to l a mortal illness And the Duchess do Bouillon was suspected o ot of having at last succeeded ed In n her crimInal crim crim- criminal inal plans ans Adrienne Lecou was dying According According Ac Ac- cording to the laws of or those days no actor nor actress netress could receive Christian Christian Chris Chris- tian burial The only way to get g-et around this law was for Adrienne to renounce her profession Just before death But I when she was urged to repent and to testify as lIS to her hope in heaven and In God she stretched out her arms to Saxe who stood weeping at her hor bed bed- side Pointing to him she murmured with her last breath There stands my heaven my hope my god For which blasphemy she was de denied dented do- do riled nied burial in consecrated ground and was interred in n quicklime In an unmarked unmarked unmarked un un- un- un marked grave Cheated b by love cheated cheat cheat- ed by life lifo she was thus at the tho end cheated of ot religions religion's last rites |