Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-05-15
PARTED FROM PERUGINI
Lillian Russell and Her New
 Husband Separated.
SHE SAYS IT'S FOREVER AND AYE.

The Lately Mated Opera Singers Are Said
 ade1phia Hote1-LegaI Proceedings May
 FolIow-Married but Four Months.
 NEW YORK, May 15-The Herald today says: Lillian Russell and her husband, Signor Perugini, who is known in private life as John Chatterton, have separated forever and aye.
 This announcement will be a big surprise to the public, as the memory of her mar riage to her fellow singer, not quite four months ago, is not yet faded, and the gen eral opinion was that the honeymoon was hardly ended.
 But to those intimate with Miss Russell and her husband it will come only as the logical result of difference in tempera- ment, which became pronounced a few weeks after the strange Sunday morning ceremony performed by a Hoboken justice of the peace in his modest little parlor. To their relatives and others close to them the songbirds made no secret of the sad discovery that their hearts, unlike their voices, were not attuned, and they never could be.
 To Take Legal Action.
 However, no one who knew them appre- hended that they were to part so soon. But such is the fact, and the separation will undou btedly be followed by legal pro ceedings undertaken by Miss Russell, when the reasons which have prompted her to take this decided step will become known. At present few can do other than specu- late as to what these reasons are, and these few will not reveal them. Neither will Miss Russell nor her husband.
 Drifting apart as they were, it could be 1or ,I,o,, T., t1i1 yer line" would be snapped. The fated day came last week while the company, which is singing "Girofe Girof1a,' was in Philadelphia. Miss Russell and her hus band had a suit of rooms at the Hotel Stentor, at Broad and Spruce streets, and adjoining the Broad Street theater, where the company was playing.
 There was serious quarrel, it is said, and as result there was such a marked coolness between the two that it was no ticed by few members of the company. Then when the company was on its way to this city on Sunday it was remarked that Signor Perugini did not speak to his wife once and sat at the end of the car farthest from her.
 Did Not Go to Her Home.
 They pacted when they reached this city. The husband did not accompany his wife to their residence, SIS West Seventy-sev- enth street, nor has he been there since He has taken up his residence in some ho- tel, it is believed, but just where could not be learned. He has not sent to the house for any of his personal belongings, but this will be done in a few days. No one in the audience at the Columb bia theater, Brooklyn, where the company opened last night, had any cause to sus- pect that they were not just as loving a fhou bod The cio Marasquin was just as tender and caress- ing as of yore, while the fair Lillian, as Girofe, firted with him in manner that must have been exceedingly tantalizing to him.
 Miss Russell authorized the reporter to make the following statement: Miss Russell and her husband have permanent ly separated. They will never live together again."
 'Was it legal separation?" was asked of her representative.
 "Oh, mo-. They have agreed that it is best for them to go on in different ways" "Will there be any legal proceedingsP" "I should not be surprised if there would be, but as to that have no personal knowl- edge.P
 ''Signor Perugini will remain in the com pany iphtil the season .closesf" .-F...,-- T suppose he will, as We have only three weeks more of work" "
 "What was the immediate cause for the separation?"
 ''That Miss Russell will not allow me to say. She will not speak of the matter fur ther than to admit the separation, and if she will not I cannot"
 A note asking for statement from Sig nor Perugini was then sent to that gentle. mans dressing room. The reply came on the back of the note. It was:
 II have nothing whatever to say"