New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-06
Telleg GEL and
Farrar Call
Romance Off
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doorbell, and that even if it was a new
one 1T ought to ring all the better. He
pressed the button. He pressed it
again after about two minutes. Then
ne put his thumb against it and leaned
there for several minutes.
Teliegen could hear it ringing. It
rang and rang. Not q footstep sounded
from within, however; although once
or twice Mr.. Tellegen thought he de-
tected another such movement of the
curtains as had caught his eve when
ne bounded up the steps.
He gave up the doorbell as an &C.
tlvity that might be entertaining to
the servants but was distinctly un-
profitable SO far as he was concerned.
He withdrew with as much dignity as
ne could muster and sought the nearest
telephone booth. He called his home
and got an immediate response.
The servant who answered said that
she was sorry, madame was out. No.
she did not know where she had gone.
AS to when she would return, she
could not say.
That was the best Mr.. Tellegen could
do by telephone. He is said to have
maintained his siege of the house for
several days, making the Ritz Carlton
ms base and moving against the dwell
night. His assaults were all unsuc-
cessful. He has not set foot within
its threshold, nor has he heard his
wife's voice.
Although it was suggested in the
letter that he received that arrange
ments could be made for him to obtain
his clothing and other belongings if
he would call at the office of Guggen-
| heimer, Untermyer & Marshall, Mr..
Tellegen has not called there. When
| he decided to abandon the siege, he
called on his own lawyer and Mr..
Steinfeld assured him that it was de-
sertion whether his wife ran away and
left him or whether she stayed home
and left him.
The house from which Lou Tellegen
| is barred is leased in his wife's name
1t was sold last February and the new
owner, whose name was not divulged
| is said to intend to make alterations
and occupy it himself. The lease does
not expire, however, until October,
'Obey" Omitted at Marriage
Mr.. Te1legen is a French actor. He
came to this country with Sarah Bern
hardt in 1910. He married Miss Far
rar, who frequently and frankly had
expressed her opinion that marriage
and art did not agree, February g.
1915. the word "obey" being omitted
| from the service.
Only few months before that the
opera singer had said that an artist
could not afford to marry, adding: 81
have long ago closed the gates of mat
rimony, locked them and thrown away
the key"
That phrase may have REQUIRED tc
Lou Tellegen as he tried vainly to fl
| his own KEY into strange lock on his
own door few days ago.
Marriage a Problem, Diva Says
Only about year ago, in an article
inspired by lola Forrester's The Dan
gerous Inheritance, Miss Farrar had
reiterated her doubts concerning the
ACCESSIBILITY of marriage for an artistic
This time she was of the opinion that
the career of the artistic who married
inevitably must be shattered, as hel
natural love and regard for her hus
band would triumph over the more OF
less artificial characteristics born Of
her art.
"A great singer who has been married
but once has said" Miss Farrar wrote
Marriage is a very serious problem
and doubly SO for the woman artistic
Too often masculine domination in
fiuences the complete artistic indie
pendence. The woman acquiesces tt
save her emotional strength and from
the sense of her own necessity fo,
masculine understanding and protec
ton, though she may not acknowledge
her capitulation as SUCH
Il venture this to be true"