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Our Highly Romantic and Emotionally
and Prima Donnas
Unrestrained Tenors
Cruelly Worried by the Sentencing of
Carl Burrian to One Month’s Imprison
ment for Stealing Another Man’s Wife
stock, was married to Julian Story, the artist. The
voice of Emilio di Gogorza, who sings sentimental songs
with marvellous feeling, appealed to her strongly, and,
of course, she could not live without him. ^he eritics
observed that the great soprano in whose voice a cer
tain coldness was a defect, sang with more feeling
after meeting Gogorza.
She obtained a divorce from her husband. Gogorza
had a wife, and it Is understood that she received
$100,000 to give him up. That Madame Eames intended
to marry Gogorza was known long before he was free
It seems that a law like the one they have in Saxony
would have been a hindrance to this highly emotional
artistic couple.
Madame Marie Rappold, the brilliant prima donna
of the Metropolitan Opera House, has just given herself
the luxury of a new husband. She was previously mar
ried to Dr. Julius C. Rappold, an estimable physician,
with a modest practice in 'Williamsburg, which is rather
a long way from the fashionable quarter of New York.
For eighteen years they lived together.
As Madame Rappold rose in the musical world Will
iamsburg seemed more and more distasteful to her
cultivated senses. Then a night came when she sang
Elsa to the Lohengrin of Rudolf Berger, a romantic,
handsome tenor. She went to
Colorado, where divorces are
obtained easily, and the modest
Dr. Rappold was cut adrift.
“Our wedded life was a rosy
dream until my wife had oper
atic aspirations,” said Dr. Rap
pold. “It is better to go to war
than marry a female genius.” • I
Madame Rappold and Rudolf
Berger were married in the
course of an automobile trip Mjm
into New Jersey. The prima f M
donna described how she came f W
to fall in love: g JF
politan Opera House. He had broken his contract to
sing at the Royal Opera House in Dresden.
With him was a beautiful young woman, the wife of
Adolf Dingels, of Dresden. When questioned about his
companion, Burrian replied:
"She is my beautiful secretary and always travels
with me. She cannot sing at all, but her beauty makes
up for everything else she may lack.
“We are not married. We are companions in love.
I love my secretary blindly, madly, passionately, but
we are not to be wed. I have been married and have
a son ten years old. Mrs. Dingels and I will travel to
gether forever."
An ordinary unmusical foreigner under these cir
cumstances would have been held up and sent to Ellis
Island, but Burrian and his beautiful secretary got
through.
The most admirable of Burrian’s performances is his
singing of the “liebestod" song in “Tristan and Isolde,”
which is probably the most moving piece of love music
ever composed. Young Mrs. Dingels s determination to
leave her prosaic husband dated from the first moment
she heard that song. Burrian saw her and recipro
cated her feelings. They began domestic life at once.
Mr. Dingels threatened to kill Burrian and actually
prevented him from singing at Prague and other places
by this threat. Later he obtained a divorce.
Burrian had a wife at the time, a singer known as
Madame Jellinek. She obtained $3,000 a year alimony
from him, to his great indignation, for artists, though
liberal with their emotions, are not always so with
their money. His wife proved that his income was at
least $58,000 a year.
Burrian was deprived of all his official honors in
Saxony as a result of his conduct. Later a law was
passed making abduction of a married woman a crime,
and under this he was convicted. Burrian now says
that the King of Saxony had this law passed out of
spite because he had left the King’s opera house.
Burrian has been the central figure, if not the hero
of many exciting episodes. He was arrested for debt
at Marienbad, where he was going to sing “Siegfried”
before King Edward, and his property and costumes
seized.
Five years ago one of his previous wives died while
he was singing in New York. She died suddenly of •
ptomaine poisoning. The news was taken to him while
he was singing at the opera. He burst into tears and
was unable to finish this performance. It is said that
he eloped with this wife when she was nineteen.
In February of this year his beautiful companion,
Mrs. Dingels, died suddenly in New York. He wept
co’piously over her bier and then passed on to fill en
gagements in Europe. “How many wives has Burrian
had?” now becomes an interesting puzzle.
The amatory and emotional troubles of Enrico
Caruso, the world’s greatest tenor, have become very
familiar. Caruso says he has never been married. It
appears to be his little weakness to promise marriage.
Five years ago a comely young Italian woman arrived
at his hotel in New York with a trunk and announced
that she was his wife. He strongly denied it. Two
years ago a young assistant in a Milan flower store sued
him for breach of promise of marriage. He had cer
tainly made some very flowery promises to her.
Still more recently Madame Trentini, the singer, an
nounced that he had promised to he hers. Once more
he denied it, and she replied that he was a monkey.
The disregard of legal ties and the unrestrained in
dulgence of emotion are by no means confined to the
men on the operatic stage. Madame Eames, the gifted
dramatic soprano, a woman of New England Puritan
“Madame Eames, the brilliant soprano of New
England Puritan stock, whose Marguerite is unsur
passed, was thrilled by the voice of Emilio di Go
gorza, and though she had a husband and he a
wife, that did not prevent her from making him
hers.”
The Great Enrico Caruso, Who Say*
He Waa Never Married, but
Appear* to Be Always
Promising to Be.
“From the very first moment we met we were in
love—genuinely, beautifully, earnestly in love. I
wasted no time in telling my husband of my new-found
happiness. We had already found our lives uncon
genial, and my life was empty, save in the love I had
for my little daughter Lillian.”
The law- they have in Saxony would have done much
to spoil that romance.
Orville Harrold, one of the most brilliant young
tenors ever born in America, has divorced his young
wife in order to marry the beautiful prima donna Lydia
Locke. He had three young children.
“When Orville was just a plain country boy, driving
a coffin wagon in Munice, Ind., he was the best hus
band a woman could wish, but luxury, fame and the
society of these artists have spoiled him,” said the
young wife tearfully.
“If a woman cannot grow with her husband it is
better that they should part,” was Mr. Harrold’s ex
planation of the matter.
It is only fair to say that the artist’s unconvention
ality does not always consist in taking some other
body’s wife or husband. Carl Jorn, who is also a
heart-moving Lohengrin, learned that his wife was
deeply in love with a handsome young military dentist
in Berlin named Dr. Mlederer.
Tenor Jorn gave her a small fortune, told her to get
a divorce, marry her dentist and be happy. It may be
recalled, however, that a young chorus artist named
Gilda Grachetti bad previously made a claim on his
affections.
The property which Tenor Jorn handed over to his
wife consisted of:
Twenty-five thousand dollars in cash.
A $10,000 life Insurance policy.
A home in Berlin valued $20,000.
The furnishings of the home, valued at $7,500.
An annuity to each of the four children of $1,000 a
year .for life.
' by.
KlisbKm
Madame Marie Rappold, Whose First
Husband Says Their Life Was
a Rosy Dream Until She
Won Operatic Success.