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» Y \ Copyright, 1913, by the ritar Company. Great Britain Rights Reeerved. 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.