Note 1 — Chapter XIII · Ludwig and the Artistes of the Stage—Josephine Schefzky

Ludwig’s indifference did not, however, prevent him from feeling friendship for several women.1 His artistic interests, moreover, brought him into contact with others of them; and in his youth he often summoned actresses and women-singers to his palaces in order that they might recite and sing to him. He astonished them by his remarkable memory, for if they left out but a single word he would immediately supply it. Not infrequently he would himself take a part in a dialogue, and his gifts of elocution are said to have been charming.