Evening journal., 1920-09-21
BOSTON SHOCKED
BY love REBEL
Tagore Pupil Says Her Mar
riage in u. S. "A
Sham"
BIRONTI CAUSES
STIR IN ORIENT
N. 2. A. stan sneclal.

BOSTON, Sept. 2i.--Where Is Gerve
Barontl. playwright and "love REBEL
and 10 whom is she married?"
Literary Boston Is asking this ques-
ton following receipt Of news from
Shanghai Of the latest ENHANCEMENT
Of the youlg woman who three years
ago attracted WIDESPREAD attent on in
the New England metropolis with her
verses, philosophy OF life and vibrtnt
personality.
The Shanghai foreign colony read
with interest n its newspapers OF
July 20 the following formal an
nOuncement:
"A marriage has been arranged
between G. A Bena, president Of the
Italian Chamber of Commerce, and
Gerve Baronti, writer Of verse and
drama, who has been staying in
Shanghai sometime"
Gerye Baronti. lately from India,
wher s.he studied at the feet of
Rabindranath Tagore, the Indian poet
and philosopher, has been a bright
! figure in the most colOrful city Of the
Far East; Bena, equally prominent
| for his globe trOtt ng and public ca
reer. lie is reputcd TO be very
wealthy.
With the announcement was a for
nal notice that the ceremony would
| be performed at the Italian consulate
as soon as papers establishing Miss
/ BarOntis Italian citlzenhip could be
forwarded from Rome.
The foreign colony was given a real
| sensation the following day when
Paul r. Danner, a young American
business man OF Shanghai, declared
publ ely that he was Miss Baronti'.
husband.
we had little domestic differ.
ence," Danner said. "She went tC
The AstOr House. / took quarter.
ing incident and expected to take
house soon. | am utterly at loss Il
explain this new situation"
Danner said that he and his wifi
had come to Shanghai in October
1919, after two years stay in India
He SAID they were married in Town
send. Mass, in 1917.
But Gerve Baronti Utterly dis
credits banners story.
, There never was such a wedding,
she declared. 1t is all a sham-al
a sham."
Reverend Alfred A. Struthers, pas
tor Of the Congressional Church a
. Townsend, and George A. Wilder
y NUMM AAEA n EnNH0AN AhnANA aAoAN
ment that he Is Miss BarontVs hus
band
Q Rev. Struthers says. He has the rec
] ords to prove 1t.
Boston literary folk were not sur
! prised Gerve BarOnti has furnishe
them with studio gossip from IN
e moment she flashed across the liter
% ary horizon Just previous 10 Amer
e icas entrance into the World War.
II Miss Baroniis first book OF verst
}. THE Red Laugh" aroused storr
e Of disapproyal from patriotic per
r. sons.
- At the Fabian Club, where Boston
liberals gather she was known to
4 opposed to conventional marriage q
+ In her play. "a Modern Phenix,
c the nent OF her published works. on
e If her characters says: Il thin
# duty IS the terrible thing" And
another place: 'I hate 10 think {
h growing up to be z nice person.
i am thinking OF all the nice person
know. They don't seem to
- happy. I hate the word duty
e STILES me and makes me want
Al scream"
e soon It became known that Nj.
p; BarOnti had eloped with Danner
Townsend. banners family bitterl
i opposed the match.
The severe winter and her literar
work broke down Mrs. Danner
health. Doctors told her that 81
y must seek a warmer climate an
y cease all work.
n Danner was discharged from N
A army because OF his wife's depen'
l. ency, given a job in India by a
al American typewriter company an