The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-25
GOTHAM GOSSIP

! GOTHAM GOSSIP (Ry Francis Phillips. Copyright 1910. by the National News Service. N. Y.) New York, Nov. 25.-The very prop
 CT directors of the Metropolitan Opera
 House have been deeply perturbed by
 the interviews given to the newspapers
 by Carl Burrian, the Bohemian tenor,
 protesting his love for Emily Leffier Dinges, 9 beautiful young grass widow who recently arrived here from the other side with the singer As a re- suit of his indiscreet chaff, there is
 talk among the directors, who say they are much shocked by the situ-
 ation of disciplining Burrain. For
 love of the woman, Burrian volunta-
 rily gave up his position at the Royal
 Opera House at Dresden, which car-
 ried with it certain court honors, and
 fled to Bohemia with her, pursued by
 her husband and the police, who vain-
 1y sought to intercept them at the in
 ternational boundary line.. In his
 hurried exit, the tenor, who was called
 "the idol of Dresden left behind him
 wife and family of his own. She
 has refused to divorce him, so that he
 may marry his soul mate, and he is
 now paying her $3,000 year alimony.
 On his arrival here to fill an engage
 ment at the Metropolitan, the ship
 news reporters who boarded his ship
 at Quarantine, bombarded the singer
 with questions concerning himself and
 the young woman.
 Had they been married? Did they
 intend to wed? Both questions came
 to the front as logical queries. Mar
 ried?'' asked the tenor, repeating the
 question. "NO, we are not married
 We will not be married. She is my
 beautiful secretary and always travels
 with me. It is her beauty that is so
 great She cannot sing at all, but
 her beauty makes up for everything
 she may lack. We are companions in
 love. Madly, blindly, passionately. love my secretary. She loves me but we are not to be married. I have a son ten years of age and have been married twice. Mrs. Dinges The singer and his beautiful secre- tary went to the Hotel Navarro, where they took a suite on the sev- enth floor. When an effort was made to talk with Frau Dinges after the first chat with the tenor, she replied f'I no splick English" "Sprechen sic Deutsche?" asked the reporter. "Ja, ia, ia, ja!" replied Frau Din ges. Whereupon, the interviewer ex-
 man. that he would fain, hold speech fwith her, and she replied in pretty ac- cent: Herr Burrian is by the re- | hearsal gone. Maybe when he re- turns to the hotel he will you see.
 It is not possible you for me to see
 now"
 twin you give me your picture for the paper" asked the reporter. Why
 my picture?" she answered. T am
 not a genius; I am noz singer"
 Burrian met his lovely secretary while singing in Dresden. She was in the audience and he made eyes at her. Then icame telepathic vibra- | tions that bring such souls together.
 She came every day he sang and met
 him every day away from the opera
 house. Herr Dinges made his dis covery. The wife stormed and ray- ed. The German penal law gives q husband criminal redress. He sought ! it. Taking the woman the tener fled to Bohemia where he has a hop es- tate.
 The police followed and his wife
 heard the story of their love with bitter hatred. Would she step aside with a divorce decree and let love command the situation Not she!
 She would make him support her
 and stand as a living barrier to the
 Dresden. The police still pursued
 the pair. They jumped from place to place. By royal edict his title of Royal Chamber Singer was taken from Burrian and he turned toward l America as his haven.
 The "gentlemeen's agreement" by which householders in the aristo- cratic Murray Hill section of the city have for more than one-hundred
 years combined to keep business from
 invading its precincts has at last I brother of F. Augustus Heintze, the one time copper king and Mrs. Gii- | bert E.. Jones, who own the houses at 1 220 and 222 Madison Avenue, direct ] ly across the street from the home and palatial art gallery and library posted signs on their dwellings offer | ing them on long leases for business uses This is believed to mark the beginning of the end of Murray Hill as an exclusive residential section and 1 to presage the early retirement from | the neighborhood of MT. Morgan and the host of famous Multi Millionaires who have lived there. Ultimately it
 is believed the whole hill will be
 surrendered to business What will 1 lection which MT. Morgan is declar- ed to have in his gallery adjoining his home is giving connoisseurs and art lovers generally much concern. It is regarded as more than likely that | the financier will turn over the col- lection in it's entirety to the Metro l politan Museum of Art of which he | is a trustee s.nd give the public an I opportunity to feast their senses upon 1 it.
 To the Morgan family the breach made by business in it's patrician walls is disturbing more from sen ] timental standpoint than any other, since it has been their home for more than half a century The hill 1 gets it's name from one Murray, and l is historically famous. Following the defeat of George Washington and | the minute men by King. Georges ar my under General Howe at the Bat | tie of Long Island, the head. of the colonial army crossed the East River and retreated toward Harlem in what | is now the north end of the city. The poorly nourished, half clothed troops depressed by their defeat and the subsequent hanging as a spy of Ma 1 than Hale, who had been sent back to