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r Vivid Views of Muratcre by Lina, His Ex-wife, and the Dancer Who ^ v Won and ^ Lost 3^ Him BALLERINA Mile. Marcel'nfl Rourier, of the Pari* Opera, Who Tcii* on Thi* Page of Her Romance with Muratore and D'icbies Details of How He Was ‘Won by Cavaiieri. PARIS. LUCIEN MURATORE, famous tenor, is writing his memoirs, in which his love-life with various beautiful women doubtless will be de scribed. Lina Cavaiieri, Venus-like soprano, lad formerly Mme. Muratore, is writ ng her memoirs. , Marceline Rouvier, first ballet dancer at the Paris Opermjand self avowed sweetheart of Muratore, is writing her memoirs. And now, if the current Mine. Mura tore will only kindly oblige by writing hers, the world will be in possession of four very piquant and undeniably different sorts of books. It is, however, upon the volumes of Lina and Marceline that attention is principally focused, for the excellent reason that these two beauties have been openly at swords’ points over Muratore, and the publication of their autobiographies is bound to provide Parisians with lots of chuckles and net a few thrills. It i?, pernaps, signinc.anc tout » dedication reads: “To My Women Friends," with the seeming implication that these ladies can find instrS.Vlon, and perhaps a warning, in the ensuing pages. The book is not yet out, but a glance at the table of contents gives a good idea of what to expect. Chapter headings include: “Roman tic!, m,” “I Become a Princess,” “An American for a Week——Bob ( iianler, “The Psychology of Marriage,” and “Hope”—a collection of titles not nearlv so unrelated as might seem at first blush. Marceline Rouvicr, in an interview, became much more explicit than Mine. Cavalier!. While confessing that she was torn between “The Sweetest Joy” and “The Wildest Woe,” as possible titles, she left no doubt that her mem oirs would teem with surprises and revelations. “My story,” she said, “is that of a dancing girl who believed in the hon esty of wom«n—and men 1 wish to explain, trulv and completely, as 1 ex plained it *o the president of the French tribunal, h»w my daughter. Ariane, belonging to me and Muratore, went > ' away with Cavalieri, arid f how Muratorc, after di vorcing Cavalieri, married Mme. Tournon, saleswoman in the Cavalieri beauty shop, while my Ariane. who was expected to marry Cava lieri’a son, married an Italian journalist instead, and even tually returned to Cavalieri. "Complicated? Ves But 1 shall make all these tangled factors clear to my readers. When 1 first met Muratore he was singing at the Opera Comique and 1 was dancing leading roles at the Opera. We met at a dinner, and when he made love to me in his fas cinating way, 1 lost my head and yielded to his ardor He i was married to Mme. Beritza, I also of the Opera Comique, at the time, but they were very unhappy, lie tnld me. and . contemplated divorce. “Two years later, when Ariane was born, we were overjoyed. Lucien was an ideal laver, and the moment he was free we started housekeeping. ‘Our love union will be legal ized,' Muratore told me. Then came Cavalieri. She dined with us at our little flat, telling us marvelous stories ■of her success in Russia, where Prince Dolgouruki had given her wonderful jewels and furs. “The Prince had bought her a little chateau near Paris, and when she asked us to be her guests we accepted gladly At the chateau lived M and Mine, Tournon Tournon accom panied Muratore and Cavalieri on the piano when they, sang duets. . . 1 soon found out that Muratore was meeting Cavalieri secretly One night I came upon them together 1 had my baby in my arms, but they simply laughed at me. ‘Yes, we love one another.’ “1 was stunned. Automatically, 1 packed a few things and, with my baby, left the house at dawn. Lucien had told me frankly that he was through with me. And I was too crushed even to attempt to fight for my rights, which, after all, were only those of a girl-mother and discarded sweetheart. , “Muratore and Cavalieri ofien sang in the same opera in which I danced, and their attitude toward me was un bearable. They passed me in the win~s without a look Somet'mes Lina would smile at me cruelly. Well they were married and sailed for America’ Cavalier! and (Curator* in the Cardan of Their Villa at tha Tima Whan Lova'a d'ui'rhter. In self-defense I got an annulment of Muratore’s legal recog nition of my daughter.” Mile. Rouvier went on to give de tails, familiar now to the public, of the opening of the Cavalieri beauty .hop, of Muratore’s determination to be divorced from Cavalieri and marry lime. Tournon—which he did—and of Marceline’s determination to get back her little girl from Cavalieri, a plan frustrated by Ariane’s determination to remain with the famous songbird, instead of her own mother. Just what Cavalieri will have to say to all this when she publishes bet au tobiography one can only guess, of course. But it seems a good bet that, point for point, she will an swer Mile Rouvier completely— and then a fresh battle, piapped on the lines that “My Truth Is THE k Truth.” will follow, perhaps with Muratore contributing a few explosions from the side line*. Explosions, as a matter of fact, have frequently punctuated the romances of Lina Cavalieri. Par ticularly TNT was her married life with the cele brated—and justly so— k ritmf Dumpu Brightest, later They Were Divorced, the Tenor Marrying a Mme. Tournon. Pbotu or chat lull* Fslrobiid. days as an honorary dignitary of West chester County, N Y., comes of patri cian stock. When, some fifteen year? ago, he calmly announced his intention of marrying lovely Lina, newspaper readers were astonished to find that this amiable, slightly picturesque, portrait-painting dweller in Gram ercy Park was related to John Jaeob Astor. Indeed, among the relatives who protested that such a marriago would be "impossime were Mrs. Rk-hard AM rtf h, Uwi* Stuyvesant Chanter, Win* throp Chanter. William Astor Chanter and others of the eight grandchildren of John Jacob. But “Sheriff Bob” was not to be dissuaded from hia marital aim* am} h« merely smiled benevolently when the aristocratic clan raised its collective voieo against Cavalieri. The details of the match were sensational. Obsessed by Lina’s lithe form, exquisitely classic SATIRIZED Caricature of Cavalierl, Printed Abroad. Alta Widely Circulated in the United States When She and “Sheriff Bob" Chenier Were Divorced. peaceful personality with the flamini one of Oride Lina struck sparks that only the divorce court could extinguish. Chanter accused the singer of having married him for his money, and she countered with the contention that shs h d married him for no such sordid thing, but solely because hs was a “dear, sweet boy " Despite this idyllic assertion. Chan ter. it turned out. had actually deeded Lina a large fortune before their marriage. Eventually he made her • flat cash settlement of fhO.OOO. bat himself retained the ownership of his investments and huge property hold ings in New York. It seems that when he deeded his riches to Cavalieri, Bob Chanter found himself facing a suit begun by his first wife which demanded that he live up to his agreement to pay her $10,000 annually, with an additional $10,000 for the education and maintenance of their two daughters. The legal action* IN OPERA Lucien Muratore at He Appeared in ‘'Fervaal,” During HCa Career a» a Tenor. He Wu Much Idolized by Matin*' Cirla of Two Continents. Her marriage to Robert Chanler had been dissolved, I was told. The Paris newspapers said it had lasted only a few weeks and had cost the big American $200,000. “Upon Mura tore’*, return to Paris he legally recognized Cavalieri’s son, Alexander now thirty-six years old. This prompted me to bring suit for the support of my child The court granted me $3K • month This sum was paid me regularly, and finally raised to $40 by Murat ore, on con dition that he be permitted to take out Ariane three time* a week for a prom enade v “This was a mistake, foi Muratore and I.ina won over her affection, and he legally recognized *riane as his ;vi.v,«4 DAUGHTER Pretty Ariane Rouvier, Child of Muratore and Mile. Rouvier. Later Went to Live with Cevalieri. Arieune “Sheriff Bob" Chanler, an epic of in fatuation and unhappiness about which New York City’s artistic set has never ceased to gossip and speculate upon. While not outwardly so imposing a figure as Murafore. the singring cava lier, the impetuous wooer and pursuer, “Sheriff Bob” is in reality, beneath hi* somewhat pudjrv and benign exterior, a much more sensitive and easily wounded person Mr Chanler, whose liprht title of “Sheriff Boh" is a reminiscence of his features and silvery voice, Chanlei went to Paris and wedded her She was then at the highest peak of her operatic fame The marriage prompted the now-immortal cablegram from Bob Chanler’8 brother. It read simply, “Who’s loony now?’ The wallop in that terse question lay in the fact that this brother had been considered as a ootential inmate of a refined rest cure Bob t’.hanler must indeed have won dered. n few months later, just who had been loony For the clash of his Oopyrutiu llttft international Keaiur* Seme* im- Great briiain KtgbU Baservea 1 r Cavalieri and Mura torn. Whan Tkajr Ware Co-Star, of tha Paris Opera, with Mila. Rouviar Often an the Sama Bill. was settled in favor of the first Mrs. Chanler, and Bob was forced to pay her the amount of which he was in arrears. He retired, for solace and aesthetic ^ratification, into the boqpm of his .ohemian circle—that group of tal ented good fellows and girls who had made his Oramercy Park home a spirit ual and artistic retreat. Not a little of this warm comradeship was due to the fad that Chanler. himself, was and is a gifted paiter. Several of bis canvases were given the honor of being hung in the Luxem bourg. and his depictions of giraffes, peacocks, monkeys and parrots with which he adorned a set of decorative screens achieved international fame. It is presumed that in this refresh ing scene he was able to forget tem porarily the lovely Lina with whom he had quarreled. But it is an open ques tion whether Lina’s memoirs, as they spurt from the printing presses, may not re-open old wounds and cause them to bleed afresh. On the other hand it may be that "Sheriff Bob” will re ceive her “revelations” with a tolerant, if blase, amusement. 1
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