South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-03-11
Won't Let ne Love
IyOWnHASband!"
BY Barbara Craydon

nICTURE girl a beautiful girl, with 100000
eyes and the trade mark most beautiful
woman in all the world" upon her white
brow kneeling az the door Of an artists studio,
tearfuly imporing admission, while hrst mans
Rruf voice, then two womens shrill voices, say:
go wayl"
Listen as she means:
But he IS my husband. He Is mine IN the
sight Of man and God You have right 20 take
him from me- I want him / need him. Didn't
I make him. Wasn't I the inspiration for his
painting, The Goddess Of Happiness, for which
he got $500 600? Are not its famous eyes my
eyes my eyes that l loaned 70 him because
loved him Did not permit the impression to
90 abroad that I model so that it would
help him by giving him PUBLICITY What right
hav1 you to keep him from me? Let me In, sayl'
go 'wayl"
"Why2 / demand to know"
Because his art is too important TO permit
you 70 interfere with it." comes the answer
through the closed door. Genius needs solitude
for proper culture. You disturb him. Art must
triumph. Go 'wayP
Figuratively the above faithfully describes
the latter weeks Of the married life Of Mime.
Claudia Windsor-Roth- Busch-Tartoue, before she
left her painter husband, Pierre Tartoue, whose
friends hail him as a second Sargent, portrait
painter Of genius And it explains why the
couple are estranged and why two legal actions
have been begun and third is under considera-
ton For when the wonderfully beautiful girl
began TO lose the control Of her husbands
divided affection and attention to those friends
who lent sympathetic ear she tearfully confided:
They won't let me love my own husband. All
my life have longed for a home and love, long
ing that began when I first played with dolls.
Twice | tried marriage and found it failure
But when I welded Pierre I believed had finally
won a man with whom / would find ideal COM
partnership and a home But they won't let me-"
Then dramatically, she would tell how, time
after time, they would put her out-actually
eject her-from her husbands studio in West
Fifty-seventh street, near Selenth avenue, New
York City humiliatng and intimidatng her with
all sorts Of threats and actions until they finally
succeeded in sealing to her the door Of the studio
in which she and Tartous had been so happy.
II was so happy in That studio" she said
when interviewed in the Hotel Plaza, New York
City, where she is living with her mother Mrs
Just wonderful when Pierre and l were alone
before they broke it up. l would cook him meals
with my own hand, that he would not have to
go out to dinner when fatigued at the close OF
trying days work We happy there
night after night all alone-unth they interfered
and spoiled my perfect dream
"They say that they want to save him for
arts sake. But that is not They want TO
put him Up in busness-just imagine ia French
artist in business. But they have the idea firmly
placed in his head that he would make a success
ful inancier and they didn't want me around be-
cause I wanted TO save him from such life and
wanted to help him rise to the top rank Of
painters"
The "they" referred to so often in the pretty
woman's story Of her troubles with her husband
are pretty mysterious persons. None of the per-
sonael was known for many days after the break