Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-26
EAMES STORY CASE
Divorce Proceedings in Nature
of a Friendly Suit.
NO ENMITY between PAIR
Parties to Action Not Temperament
tally Suited to Each Other.
BOTH DESIRE TO BE FREE
Singers Husband Does Not Seek Rec
onciliation, but Does Not Want
Suit Filed in New York.

NEW YORK, March 26-The announce
ment that Nine. Emma Games is seeking
divorce from her husband, Julian Story
caused hut little surprise among the sing
er's friends in this city. No papers In the
case have yet been filed.
Nine. Eames remained secluded at the
Hotel Aston nearly all day. She left word
at the hotel office that she would see no one
and although many intimate friends called
she refused to see them.
Mr.. Story did not call at the hotel al
though he had hurried here on Sunday from
Philadelphia. He went back to PhiIadel-
phia yesterday.
AS far as is known by those willing to
discuss the case there is little bitterness
between Mr.. and Mrs. Story. Both under
stand. 1t is said, that they are not tempera-
mentally suited to each other.
1t was said the object of Mr. Story's
hurried visit to this city was not for the
purpose of seeking a reconciliation, but to
endeavor to have the divorce brought In
another state than New York friend of
Mr. Story said yesterday:
Mr.. Story Not Bitter.
L have seen and talked with Mr. Story
who was here at one of his clubs. He has
no bitter feeling in the matter at all, but
Is here to see If the case cannot be tried in
another state, where adultery will not be
factor. Whether or not Mr. Story will con-
test the suit depends on the outcome of
Mr. Story's visit"
A year ago Mr. Story gave masked ha II
at the Bellevue-Stratford in Philadelphia
The night of the ball the artist was taken
Ill, and Nine Eames, on receipt of a tele-
gram hurried to Philadelphia to act as
host In place of her husband. 1t is said by
some that at this ball Nine Eames heard
some reports about her husband which did
not please her. An intimate friend of the
Storys said yesterday that whether Nine
Eames did or did not hear displeasing Cos
sip at the hall, a young Philadelphia So
clety woman who was present at the ball
was being much criticised at the time for
her constant appearances in public places
with the artist and that this was told to
Nine. EameS while in PHILADELPHIA
I do not know whether this young wom-
an has been named as correspondent or
not, said this friend. but it is more than
probable that Mr. Story may fear 1t and
that the object of his visit here is to per
suade his wife to drop her divorce here and
seek II elsewhere in place where it will
emit"
Nine. Eames made her farewell appear
ance at the metropolitan on Saturday. She
Will accompany the Conried Opera Com
pany to Baltimore for a three DAYS en-
gagement and will sing in La Tosca" on
Wednesday night.
After luncheon yesterday Nine Games
accompanied by her secretary, went for a
drive and made a short call on her mother
who lives at 1O4 West 62d street On her
return to the hotel Nine. Eames wired the
Hotel Belvidere in Baltimore for accommo-
dations, and will leave for that city some
time today.
Have Long Lived Apart.
Nine. Eames and Julian Story have prac-
tically lived apart for the past five years,
and for much of that time Mr. Story has
He ha at
from abroad with his wife, and some times
in advance of her, and has always gone i'm
mediately to Philadelphia, where he has
spent the last five winters. When Nine.
Eames went there to sing she never
stopped in the same hotel with her hus-
band, and they rarely met in this city,
Nine. -Eames always said that 1t made
her nervous to have her husband come into
her dressing room during performance of
opera, SO Mr.. Story was one of the operate
husbands who was never seen on the stage
of the Metropolitan.
Nine. Eames sprained her knee a few
weeks ago in her room at the Hotel Astor,
and Mr.. Story came over to New York to
See her, but it was said yesterday at the
hotel that 1t was understood that Nine.
Games had refused to see him.
Several years ago Nine. Games leased
the home at Place des Etats Unis in
Paris, in which she had always lived with
her husband. Their other home in Europe
is at Vallombrosa in Italy. Nine. Eames
is likely to go to Paris only this summer
and will remain here until June. 1t has all
ways been intimated by both Nine Eames
and her husband that their earnings were
kept separate and that each used whatever
his or her professional labors brought Mr.
Story has been very successful for some
years as portrait painter. In PHILADELPHIA
he lives at the Philadelphia Club, and is
very popular there in society. At the time
OF his marriage to the prima donna the
Story family was bitterly opposed to the
match, but were afterward reconciled to
the singer. Mrs. Emma Hayden Games
mother of the singer, was estranged from
her daughter for several years after the
wedding, opposed had she been to the
marriage, which was a runaway match.