New-York tribune., 1911-12-20
NINE. RAPPOLD AND
HUSBAND LIVE APART
Brooklyn Physician Says Singers
Rise Has Placed Her in
"AnOther Sphere"
HIS INCOME "TOO SMALL"
Saws It Is the Price That Has To
Be Paid for Fame and That He
Is Not Selfish Enough to Ask
Her to Give Up Her Career.

Explaining that his wife's rise as an
opera singer had placed her in a sphere
far removed from his own. DR.. ]. G.
Rappold, jr., of Brooklyn, yesterday ad-
mitted that he and Nine. Marie Rappold,
of the Metropolitan company, were liv-
ing apart
DR.. Rappold said that the success OF
his wife as a prima donna had COM
pletelv upset all their earlier domestic
plans. and that the great discrepancy
between their modes Of life, friends and
incomes made their living together i'm
possible.
Nine. Rappold is now living with her
daughter Lillian, who is nineteen years
old. at the Hendrix Hudson apartments
al Riverside Drive and 10th street,
Manhattan. Or. Rappold is living with
his mother and family at No. 40 Flush
ing avenue. Brooklyn, where he mas
modest. plainly furnished office The nus
band says he has too much pride 70
live on Riverside Drive on an income
which would compare but poorly with
that of his wife. He also says that he
does not understand her friends ana
has little in common with them, and ad-
mits freely that his wife is In the same
predicament when she tries TO adapt her
self 10 circumstances in their old home
IfYs~a ~ m D
influences for many years. That they
live In different spheres is the all-
sufficing dictum of the physician. They
were married twenty years ago.
Nine. Eappold the Elsa and Eliza
beth of Metropolitan fame, got an un-
exrected introduction TO the powers OF
the operate world in 1906. Prior TO
,ha, time she mad sung i'm entertain
ments and festivals given by the Arion
co,ietv and had had her voice trained.
Few had realized its magnificent quail
itv however. and it remained for Helm
rich Conried. the late director Of the
,r.tropolitan. 10 discover Mime. Rap
old at q celebration Of the centennial
Of the birth of Schiller given at the
Erooklyn AcaGcrn. of Music.
The following fall upon his return
for Europe. the impresario sent for the
prool,,vn singer: she Immediately went
,,rder the tut,iage Of Otto Saenger, and
. few weeks later appeared in Cold
marks "Oueen o. Sheba." During the
remainder oC that season she sang Elsa
in .I.ohencrin" and Elizabeth in Tam
touser" soon after this Or Rappold
,,o,.ed IN Manhattan with his wife, but
later gave it all up and returned 10
Rronltlvn. where he has since remained
"I, is the jIico that has to be paid
for fame" said Dr Rappold last night
",ot If we h,d f. To do all over again
I would not allow myself 10 be selfish
.rough 10 ask Nine. Rappold 10 give up
bo,. career We have seen the futility
If attempting to live together, for my
,vife's income is many times greater
,h,, mine qnd we cannot remain on the
o,r,o footing without the sacrifice OF
,ride on my part or career on hers.
"a. soc each other occasionally, but that
is all and | can expect nothing more.
II ia one Of The sacrifices one has To
make"
pr. Rappold said he had not seen his
WIFI. 90 talk To her for several months.
She visited him last spring, just before
leaving for Europe. at the end Of the
o,,era season. and he saw her once after
her return this fall.