Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1901 — Cousin to a King. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Cousin to a King.

That an operatic singer should be called upon to enter the magic door that leads to the footlights, through a test of eye, agility and nerve as a bull fighter, is an amazing conception" far beyond the average American. Yet such was the strange debut of the Marquis de Souza, a cousin of the king of Portugal, who began a concert tour of this country in the Columbia theater, in Washington, the other night. The fact that he is of noble birth forced upon him first to prove his skill and bravery as a toreador before he would be received in Portugal as an opera singer. In that country all noblemen,

including the king, must prove 1 themselves men in the bull ring before they can win popular recognition.

MARQUIS DE LOUZA