New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-09
Marital Tangle
OF Maeterlinck
Jars Art Circles
Writer'S Marriage of Actress
Immediately Following a
Divorce by Ceorgette lie
Banc Skaters Doctrine

Brief announcements in cables from
Paris that Nine. Georgette lie Blanc
Maeterlinck had divorced her husband
and that he had promptly married
Renee Dahon, q. young actress of Nice,
who played Tyltyl in his "Bluebird."
created widespread interest in literary,
operate and artistic circles through
out the East yesterday
1t is almost seven years since the
Maeterlincks came to the United States
and were feted and lionized here and in
Boston. The Belgian mystic remained
IN the background and announced that
ne would let his wife, who was Railways
right" do the talking
Herself dramatist, novelist, actress
and singer sister of Maurice lie
Blanc, the creator Of "Arsene Lupin"-
she came primarily to sing in her hus-
bands "Pelleas ct Melsande." but she
took her husband at his word, received
lntervlewers free Y and delightedly dis
cussed love, marriage. life, death, Mae
terlinck. already more than a cult, and
her own philos ophy.
Fell in. Love With Writings
The story related of her was that
while playing at the Paris Opera
Comique she fell ir love with the mys-
tic writings of Maeterlinck, and one
day announced to her colleagues that
she was going to Belgium Ito marry
the great Maeterlinck."
When she reached New York, wear
ing the famous leopard cloak and the
blue glinting diamond in the middle of
her forehead.-h talisman of happi-
ness, she said-she spoke of marriage
q q ~ ho OF
will.
woman" she said, SHOULD be free
in all things-free from mans domina-
ton, free from the critical regulations
of women. No one should judge her at
ALL for who has the right to judge ?
Woman should love whom she chooses
one man or one hundred. No law
should hold her to an unhappy life.
Divorce for those who need it is a god
send even more important than mar
riage itself"
The best loved woman, she further
declared, was the one who sought to be
only a woman, and that woman, she
added, would be neither wholly good
nor wholly bad, but both good and bad
human.
Those who have maintained more
than a literary interest in the Maeter-
llncks have known for some time that
Ine DlueDlIu lQyll IN Normandy had
ended
Maeterlnck Wanted to Enlist
The Belgian poet obtained the an
Gent abbey Of st. Wandrille when
France expelled the religious orders.
In 1907 he received a commentator
from the Pope for saving it from pro-
lane hands, but some years later, after
Nine. Maeterlinck had given open
air performances of Macbeth and some
OF her husbands dreamy dramas, his
works were placed upon the Index Ex-
purgatorious.
Maeterlinck, after the outbreak of the
war, made an effort to enlist in the
Belgian army, though he was then
1ifty-two years old Later, when he
had retired to the Villa of the Bees. at
Nice, leaving madame at st. Wandrille.
he was found in the fields helping the
women and old men bring in the har
vests.
Early in 1917 Paris knew that the
break between the poet and Nine.
Maeterlinck was permanent. His as
ISOLATION with Mile. Dahon was known.
But he maintained the closest rela-
tions with Maurice LIE Blanc, his wife's
brother.