New-York tribune., 1911-12-30
MAETERL|NCK IN BOSTON
BeIuian Author Steals Into the
Hub UnnotiCed.
WINS A WAGER OF S40O
Arrives Undisguised and Is Rec
ognized in Hotel by Guest
Who Had Seen Him Abroad.
fBv telegraph 10 The tribune ]

Boston, Dec. 29.-Maurice Maeterinck
the author of The Blue Bird" and The
Life of the Bee"-to quote two works
widely variant enough to give the scope
of his genius-arrived in Boston o-nigh'
to attend the performance of Nine
Maeterlinck In "Pelleas and Melisande,'
an operatic version of another Of his
works at the Boston Opera House two
weeks hence.
| The stay Of Maeterlinck in Boston VIII
be made more pleasant by the payment
of little wager he made Paris last
summer with Mr.. Russell, director Of the
Boston opera House. 1t amounts to
1000 francs-s400 in real money-ano
had to do with NJ Maeterlincks chances
OF success i'm getting into America un-
photographed and uninterviewed
| Maeterinck arrived in Boston at S;3C
and went to the Westminster Hotel
Nine Maeterlinclk is at the Lenox. After
a time Nine. Maeterlinck came to the
Westminster and spent the CIening with
| her husband.
NJ. Maeterlinck would have been per-
mitted to be as exclusive as he pleased
had it not been for the fact that he
chose to stroll across the Westminster
foyer soon after his arrival at that
hotel A guest who had seen the poet,
| philosopher and playwright abroad rec
| ognized him in the tall, athletic, clean
shaven man with whom chance had sud-
denly placed him vis-a-vis.
Monsieur Maeterlinck, l believer
ventured the latter.
But Monsieur Maeterlinck only smiled
and shrugged his shoulders.
The question was repeated in French.
NJ. Maeterlinck smiled, shrugged his
shoulders and hurriedly withdrew. The
ouestioner walked across to the regis
ter. and, seeing that Maurice Maeter-
linck and secretary" were registered
there. then, in revenge, tipped off the
newspapers.
NJ. Maeterlinck began to get angry as
requests for interviews began to pour in.
A newspaper man bribed belboy TO
go to the Maeterlinck suite with a mes
sage. The bellboy came back. fright
ened and disconnected.
Gee" said he; never again for me-"
An attempt was made TO reach NJ.
Maeterlincli over the telephone. The
authors secretary, a little bit of a man.
who scurried across the corridor as if
he were afraid the newspaper men would
kidnap him, answered the call
Monsieur Maeterinck is not at home"
he said. and hung up the receiver.
Nine. Maeterlinck characterized Bos-
ton to-day as the city of silence and of
work" New York has the most won
derful vitality of all cities" she said.
Madame does not believe in man-made
law and would have woman absolutely
free. On this subject she said:
Woman should he free I'm all things
free from mans regulations. free from
the critical regulations of woman. No
one should judge her at all. for who has
right TO Judge? Woman should love
whom she chooses-one man, perhaps. or
hundreds. No law should hold her to
unhappy life. Divorce, for those who are
so unhappy as to need it, is a godsend
even more important than marriage it
self
"'Tis n waste of time. this foolishness
of the ballot. Woman is not made to
usurp mems ways. Let her be free in
love and In life. but let. oh. let her be a
woman" ..