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Show WHY MINE LOSTTHE DUKE Abruzzrs Mother Wants "No Daughter of Coal Merchant" in Her Family. MATCH HAD APPROVAL OF KING, AND . QUEEN Romance Is Made Theme of Sa-I Sa-I tirical Musical Comedy, Causing Sensation. KOME, Oct. 'J3. "Thc daughter of an American coal merchant , could aspiro to no position at our court and would only expose herself and" us to scorn and. diflieultios." Tt was in thoso words that Dowager-Queen Dowager-Queen Margherita of Italy, voicod her unconquorable opposition to the mar-rjago mar-rjago of tho Duke of Abruzzi to Miss Kathoriiie F.lkins. Her opposition was uaefcea by tho whole of high Roman society ' who agreed that it was impossible to rocoive Kathcrino filkins as a royal princess and oqually impossible to make a distinction dis-tinction between her rank nnd her bus-hand bus-hand '8. This information comas from a high person connected with tho court. Tho king and queen, who greatly like and admire Abruzzi, offered no objection when they found him serious about marrying mar-rying the American girl. Moreover tho king did everything in his power to influence his mother favorably, but she finally refused to hear any more of it. The personage was asked why if tho Duko of Abruzzi was really attached to her, ns he must have been, he did not marr3' her despite Margherita's opposition, op-position, seeing that he had tho assent of the king aud queen. Might Have Faced Storm. "That also has astonished me," was the reply. "As ho docs not caro for society so-ciety and likes only sport, travel and a life of adventure, bosides which he is a sailor, often on long voyages, so why should he havo cared for tho court and their opinions? confess that ono timo T expected to read in the, newspapers news-papers some fine morning that he had married her and'dofied everybody. Moreover, More-over, I believe that ho would have married her but for tho stand taken by the Elkins family, who wanted all or nothing. They refused to concede anything any-thing to make his family and court position po-sition easier, and as tho king had acted very considerately to him, Abruzzi did not like to do anything that might react on tho king. It was an interesting romance, ro-mance, but now it. is ended. Theme of Comedy. The ro3'nl family are intensely annoyed an-noyed at the news that, a now musical comedy just finished has its story based on the Abruzzi Elkins affair. It is de scribed as "a satirical caricature concerning con-cerning a prince of the royal blood and a million-dollar princess." The music has been composed by a woll-kuown and successful -writer of operettas, -who on this occasion hides his idontity uu-der uu-der tho pseudonym of Max Singer. 'The libretto has been written by a .journalist .journal-ist called Leopold Corta. The chief characters char-acters in the operetta, which is called "Labella Miss" are II Duca di Monto-fioro Monto-fioro and Miss Elkins. It is in throo acts. Tho first takes place in Now York, thc second in Paris and tho third on the summit of an imaginary mountain staled "II Cook." It abounds in comic situations. Prominent characters aro a band of journalists who feverish!' pursuo t ho lovers everywhere, who ure in perpetual flight from their tormentors. tormen-tors. The court is quite powerless to prevent pre-vent its production here, and it is wondered won-dered whether Senator Elkins will be moro successful in America. |