The sun., 1919-04-20
Mneterlinck Married Again.

Maeterlinck Married Again.
Very little has been heard OF the
celebrated author OF 'lOiseau Bleu"
and the "Tresors des Humble" since
the war began. He has been living
quietly at his Villa des Abeilles near
Nice, and people have said that he Is
taking the sorrow and suffering of his
native country. Belgium, very much 70
heart. That may be. and probably Is
very true. but also the evidence Is now
to hand to prove that heart affections
concerning his native land are not the
only ones that the eminent Belgian has
been suffering. Maeterlinck Ia married
again. His noble spouse. the well
known actress Georgette Leblanc, has
evidently quietly given him his liberty,
and after a lifetime of collaboration
has stepped aside to give her place to
a young girl of Nice. % years Of age.
Mile. Renee Bahon.
The young lady is not without artis-
tic experience; she studied at the Paris
Conservatory and made her debut at
the Comedy Franchise, where she was
classed as one of the promising ones.
Well, she appears to be making good.
But what will Maeterlinck do without
Georgette Leblanc when II comes to
producing another Blue Bird" and to
dealing with the managers. the press
and the public? Every ono knows that
when "TOiseau Bleu" was produced
! Georgette Leblanc Colored those mar
| vellous rainbow stuffs for the little blue
! birds with her own hands She is not
saying anything, and of course no one
else has any right to. But all the same
one cannot help remarking: man is a
strange animal sometimes, especially
when he arrives on the shady side of
so, He so often, probably feeling
his own youth slipping away from him.
| takes a mad fancy to-eXcuse the en-
pression-Change his woman. He is
generally the sufferer in the end. but
in the meantime Everybody
wishes for the continued happiness of
the author of the Life of the Bee"
and the Intelligence of the Flowers, -
and. who knows. perhaps he may give
us a wonderful new volume on the in
telligence OF man, the man over So
who has caught his blue bird. In the
meantime they say Georgette Leblanc
/ has written a book, too.
! For the first time in Ave years, since
before the war, Paris will have a salon.
! or, TO be more correct, salons. Every
one knows what the salons are-they
are held annually in the Grand Petit
Palais on the Champs Elysees
throughout the months OF May and
June. when are exposed a representa-
tive collection of all the paintings and
statuary done by French artists and
students during the year past.
These salons, with the futurists, the
cubists, the independents and few
others. usually comprise something
! like $4,000 paintings and statues
Multiply this by Ave. Heavens!
There will not be building or a COM
bination OF buildings In Paris large
enough to hold them; for let it not be
supposed that artists have stopped
painting because of the war. They
have been at 1t harder than ever, II
will he a veritahle legion OF Canvases
like q pest of the loCusts OF Egypt
Besides, Spain has EraCiously consented
TO send a collection of representative
Spanish paintings this year, courtesy
which could be ruthlessly shuntet
aside, most certainly not: and beside.
every one wants 70 see the collection
of Velasquez. the Goyas and the othel