A Lively Sultan.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 301, 30 December 1901, Page 1

A Lively Sultan.

NOTED FOR HIS CRAZY REVELS. Paris, Nov. D. Milo. Cleo de Merode eatertainod the Sultan of Johoro in a wholly impromptu style. The dancer made her debut at the Fulies Bergere in a grand new ballet called “ Loronza.” The Sultan’s party, all men, occupied four boxes. From Mile. Cloo’s first appearance the party was conspicuously enthusiastic, applauding, cheering wildly and ransacking the flower booth in the theatre for bouquets to throw. At length tko Sultan leaned over and shouted to tho pooplo sitting in the parquet: “ Applaud, you chumps ! Why do you look at us liko impotent oxen ?” The audience thereupon took tho cuo good-humoredly, and tho rosult was that Mile. Cleo scored her greatest triumph, there being at least ten recalls.

Finally the Sultan roso and shouted : “I challengo any man to dare to say this is not the most lovable croature in the world This the audience resented, hissing and shouting, “ Put tho inebriate out!” Milo. Cleo had never met the Sultan, but she sent him a card thanking him for championing her and inviting him and his party to an informal supper at her home at midnight. Cleo also invited eight of the leading members of her ballet, and entertained her guests under the chaperonage of hor two aunts.

Despite the irregular circumstances, the feast provod to be a reasonably decorous affair. The young Eastern potentate is good-looking and English bred, and has lately dovolopod a disposition to outdo everything known in Paris in the way of wild lavishness and crazy revels. Two years ago lie was a modest, sentimental prince, but siuco Fauchon Thompson scornfully refusod to become his Sultana ho has been going faster and faster, till now ho easily sets the pace. It was this same Sultan whom Spartacus Best, tho American reformer, recently attacked at the Moulin Rouge. Speucer Pratt, formerly United States Minister to Persia, ontertained tho Sultan of Johore to-day at tea in the Elyseo Palace Hotel. Some womon of the smart sot wero guosta, and all eagerly sought an introduction.