South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-03-10
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By Barbara Craydon

nICTURE GIRL beautiful girl, with 100000
r eyes and the trade mark most beautiful
i woman in ali the world" upon her white
brow kneeling at the door Of an artists studio
tearfuly imporing admission, while frs mans
gruf voice. then two womens shrill voices, say:
Go way!"
Listen as she means:
But he is my husband. re is mine in the
sight Of man and God. You Rave no right to take
him from me- I want him. ! need him Didn't
] make him Wasn't ] che inspiration for his
painting The Goddess Of Happiness for which
he got 100000? Are not its famous eyes my
ewes nv eyes that l loaned TO him because L
loved him? Did / not permit the impression 70
20 abroad that I was model so that 1t would
help him by giving him publicity? What right
have you to keep him from me? Let me In, / sayl"
go 'wayi"
"Why7 I demand 10 know"
Because his art is too important 20 permit
YOU TO interfere with it, comes the answer
through the closed door. Genius needs solitude
for proper culture. You disturb him. Art must
triumph. Go way"
Figuratively the above faithfully describes
the latter weeks Of the married life Of Nine.
Claudia Windsor Roth Busch TartOue, before she
left her painter husband, Pierre Tartoue, whose
friends hail him as a second Sargent, a portrait
painter Of rare genius And il 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 un-
divided affection and attention those friends
who lent sympathetic ear she tearfully conhded:
"They won't let me love my husband. All
my life have longed for a home and love, long
ing that began when | first played with dolls
Twice / tried marriage and found il a failure.
But when welded Pierre believed had finally
won a man with whom I would find ideal COM
partnership and 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, Seventh 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 Tartoue had been so happy
81 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
r. Bengue Barnett of Pendeton, Ore. at was
Just wonderful when Pierre and were alone.
before they broke it up. I would cook him meals
with my own hand, so that he would not have to
90 out to dinner when fatigued at the close of a
trying days work. We happy there
night after night all alone-untl they interfe=ed
and spoiled my perfect dream.
They say that they want to save him for
arts sake But that is not so. They want TO
pat him up in business-just imagine ia French
artist in business But they have the idea firmly
placed in his head that he would make a success
ful fnancier and they didn't want me around be-
cause l wanted to him from such lie and
wanted to help him rise to the top rank Of
painters"
The they" referred 70 so often in the pretty
womans story Of her troubles with her husband
are pretty mysterious persons None of the per-
sonael was known for many days after the break